Madonna Lily

Straight up Jasmine salty limes and margaritas-WOOH you almost get dr*nk off of smelling this out the bottle. It layers super well with a vanilla(must be that Dorian making it quite tea-like herbal on the drydown) it’s herbal/jasmine/salt/limes mainly. Quite interesting, I have to be in the mood to wear it though!

Smells of a delicious slightly nutty dry cocoa powder mixed in well with rich cocoa butter. Underneath there’s something barely barely fruity like the suggestion of something fruity and red… powdery? not sure what to think about it but it smells delicious. Maybe ever so slightly of plastic? But the kind of plastic from a barbie doll package. This is so evocative of the color pink and chocolate at the same time. There’s a delicious red velvet like chocolate note here.

*First sniff*-immediate reaction "I know this smell from somewhere! This smells like those Samoa lipsmackers they had a few years ago. It's a coconutty chocolate with a caramelized toasty base. I love this ❤️

You can actually smell the stale in here! Lol. It's kind of uncanny. Something definitely reads stale or cardboard and marshmallows. At first it was hard to smell in the bottle but I love this one. I actually think this is the perfect layering perfume to make other perfumes more sweet without adding too much. It mellows down to a soft sweet marshmallow with a stale undercurrent. Not too sweet actually

I absolutely love this version of the "Gingerbreads" By BPAL. I received this through a swap as an imp first and had to hunt down a bottle. Luckily after six months I found a bottle. Was worth the extra shipping from the UK. This is a spicy, warm, wonderful fougère. The lavender here perfectly compliments the spices from the gingerbread. I even get the tang of lime from Villain. The lavender reads cool, while the spices read warm. I love this, it's the best gingerbread scent I've smelled.

Rose and labdanum with that earthy deep patchouli making it smell like a commercial perfume. I love this one but it is *quite strong* and can easily be over applied. It has a bit of a musky woody undertone and a little alcoholic note that's very beautiful.

Super super caramel corn mixed with the lab's strawberry-ish cotton candy note. Reminiscent of mouse circus with no peanuts and instead there's the tiniest lime/cola spices note to lift it up. The cola unfortunately fades so fast but I like the delicious caramel note in here.

Reminds me of fruit loops on top of Trix yogurt. The yogurt smell is almost exactly like that colorful children's favorite. The gummy bears smell like you've opened a bag of Haribo bears and took a big sniff. I'm getting lemon, lime, orange, pineapple, and cherry to name a few. The cake batter here is very fluffy confetti cake. Overall very fruity, light. Doesn't last as long as the others but it dries to a creamy vanilla with a hint of orange and lemons.

I can't be the only one to see the similarities between Antique Lace 2017 and Formula Sghan3. This is like they poured out Antique Lace and Formulated a super sugar almost tooth achingly sweet icing and white cake. There's almost no butter note, so the icing reads like canned Pillsbury icing. It kind of has the children's birthday party cake smell. This is specifically white cake which smells light and fluffy, almost like white musk. It's gorgeous, I absolutely love this one.

There is a definite perfumey aspect to this that I missed upon first sniff. It smells ambery(this must be that golden wood note) The most prevalent note upon first inspection is caramel corn. I'm getting buttered rum/buttered popcorn also. But it's a very very sweet pink buttered popcorn and vanilla. This smells lickable like vanilla lip smackers lip gloss. Definitely foody, the wood note is so subtle it really just makes it slightly more interesting. I like this a lot! It's a must for vanilla cotton candy lovers!

This smells like warm condensed milk and icing. It's a bit sour milky at first(can definitely see how this was described as pediasure)almost like a baby formula powder. It's dairy, and caramel, like a cow tail candy with the powder on the outside. Strange, but nice. I like to layer it with super sweet scents to mellow them out.

It smells almost like a dusty shelf and a soft leather gloves. It smells a little woody and sweet. Not particularly masculine or feminine. Unisex, mellow, reverent. Reminds me of church pews or a mature gentleman with a lot of stories to tell.

Sprinklecake is one of my favorite BPALs of all time as of now. It is an absolute sugary joy. Did you know sprinkles have a smell? They absolutely do and I only just learned that after smelling Sprinklecake. It's the exact smell of confetti cake but more specifically the sprinkles. It has something dry and sugary about it but still has a lot of staying power and oomph. I put it on in the morning and can still smell it after a long day. It's gentle and slightly pink sugary. However I suspect the dryness I'm smelling is a cocoa note but definitely not "chocolate" It's like a white chocolate buttercream and a hint of something almond and the smell of sugar sprinkles. Possibly something pink and fruity in the background. Wonderful. I wish I had 100 bottles.

This is SO weird lol. It's fun in the same way that re-discovering your middle school jelly bracelets is fun. It's nostalgic, reminds me of being a preteen(fitting considering it's Lilith's favorite things) It's a jumbled up mishmash of blue cotton candied strawberries and lavender mostly. Then the fruity gives way to a salty honey scent. The honey in here really smells like fresh honey sticks! The background is always present but just not as much? The background notes are salty rice, chocolate musk, and a feral animal fur note. Oddly it also kind of reminds me of being at a fair with the smell of candy on your breath and a slight air of human mustiness lingering. It's cute like a young kid playing with puppies.

Popped in to add Ylang Ylang, Australian Sandalwood, and Vanilla to the thread. It's a creamy ylang ylang, not at all harsh and is basically a different take on vanilla. Slightly tropical

Okay so this is very very cardamom forward. I swapped a high value bottle for two bottles of this so I was very hype to receive this not going to lie I thought this would be my signature scent. It's very cardamom and very dusty at first application. This quickly becomes a gooey pink scent extremely similar to Plastic Pink Flamingo. There's also the cake part reminding me of My Little Grotesque. This is almost a perfect mashup of PPF and MLG. Supringly not as sweet as Perfectly Normal Childhood. Perfectly Normal Childhood is a loooot sweeter and has more of a prominent vanilla cake note. Pink Lovebird is nice and I don't regret getting two bottles but I do wish it was stronger. This is very light cake with a lot of cardamom. Update: Now I'm getting the drydown and it smells so similar to Sprinklecake! THAT is the confetti cake! New favorite perfume for sure, the cardamom lasts for a while until it dries down to a spun sugar Sprinklecake! Sort of almond-y and sprinkle-y.

So Rapture Pig is basically Rose Jam by LUSH to a T, however I actually prefer Rose jam. I used to be soooo into Rosejam, at one point in time it was my favorite scent ever. Rapture Pig is like RJ without the aspect that I love so much. Rose jam has a lovely brightness to it, which I assume is the lemon and geranium. Rapture pig is rosey and jammy but it has a deeper undertone of an almost smoky cotton candy and almost none of the brightness from the lemon. It's like linear rose and red fruits with a hint of cotton candy. Nice, but not for me, I prefer Rose jam but I no longer buy from LUSH for personal reasons.

Okay so right out of the mail(it was hot today) I'm getting the pungency of the milk more and a skanky patchouli. The milk note is incredibly realistic and supringly not sweet! It's like an animalic benzoin milk. You can tell this stuff is rich. I need to let it sit for a while before I give my updated review. Update: now that the oil has settled, I smell the caramelized milk note. The snake oil smell is still incredibly sharp and strong but it has mellowed into a more caramelized slightly bourbon vanilla scent. It is still not sweet but it is comforting, it reminds me of when you heat milk up in the microwave.

When I first opened this, I got a BLAST of leather and honey. I am clearly imagining the leather note but it seems the "stick" is reading "charred woody leather" and it is strong. The honey and chai note are about as noticeable as the stick. The buttercream icing takes a backseat to the entire thing. Unsure of how I feel about it. It definitely smells like burning sticks.

In the very very beginning, you catch a whiff of the most realistic cream cheese buttercream chocolate red velvet cake EVER. This quickly fades and turns into just honey...and a Tootsie roll note. Kind of sad about it but the beginning is awesome.

Okay this is mostly cardamom. The straight up fresh crushed kind (very realistic) I must say I was shocked by how strong it was. The cardamom is sitting on top of a soft vanilla marshmallow. The marshmallow, cake batter, and spun sugar are really just floating in the background like a cloud with the blast of cardamom. If you really enjoy the smell of spicy realistic cardamom and also soft soun sugar and marshmallows (but not as much) this is the one for you.

To be fair, I've never tried it, but On the Death of His Mistress has notes that reminds me of The Comforter by LUSH. Plum musk, ambergris accord, matcha tea, oakmoss, patchouli, violet leaf, and cypress. can anyone confirm or deny?

Okay so...I got a full bottle and a dram from one of my swaps. I personally like overly sweet perfumes. This is one I would describe as overly sweet slightly fake marshmallows. Marshmallow peeps. The sap note is the faintest dandelion stem or grassy note that lingers on the background like a whisper. One of my family members famous for her blunt honesty said "you smell like playdough" ... And well, she is right somewhat. This is marshmallow with a bit of an Elmer's glue or playdough saltiness and grass. It's childish, and cloying but it is sentimental. It is soft and gentle and fluffy. It's simple. I would also relate this to a "flormond" but instead of florals it's grassiness with the food note. This is shamelessly childish and simple but I dig it. My favorite stage it goes through is when it dries down to a faint sugared marshmallow vanilla.

I am very familiar with vetiver, it is one of my favorite notes in perfume starting way back when I was getting into LUSH perfumes. Breath of God has a nice clean vetivert and this does too. This scent is clean yet smoky. The holy water note is what I believe is making this super clean yet interesting. It has a cologne-like aspect, watery, and aldehydes. Yet, underneath there is a sacred incense smoke and sandalwood. Smooth and smoky. I'm also smelling a white musk... something like NAVA Tibetan Crystalline. I would say this rests halfway between TC and BoG. I like this one more than both however.

This smells quite syrupy out of the bottle(sweet and floral with a bite from something fruity and even a little wormwood-like note) So I'm definitely going to go with the wormwood note I'm smelling being the yew sap because I have personally never smelled it before and this is strange to me. I am getting a strong plummy note but it's a lighter plum...sheer? The orris is lifting it up so that it kind of hums and tickles your nose but not enough for you to suspect that. Lily of the valley is brightening up the slurry of fruity floral jasmine and plum. This oddly enough reminds me of Halloween. It smells like the air when the leaves are falling and there's candy in all the children's bags but much fruitier. The sweetness here is candy sweet and the woodiness is like a fresh seasonal wood. Overall it's a fruity plum/jasmine with a hint of Halloween air.