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Ooh this is good. So beautiful in its simplicity. Many years ago, I had a holiday set of shower gel and body lotion from Philosophy in "Marshmallow." Stekkjarstaur smells like that, if you remove the processed, perfume-y undertone in the Philosophy mix. This is a little earthier somehow; maybe that's the "fuzzy" part. Love it!

Holy cricket this is awesome. In a blind sniff of my new decants, I knew that "this one must be the bread." It was that on the nose. (Ha, pun!) There is also a buttery, fruity note which lends a warm and sweet edge. I don't get any Pez, or any identifiable orange, really, but there is something like a (non-cherry) almond in there. This is really comforting! eta: There is another BPAL scent a lot like this one but I can't put my finger on it...

YAKSH Multimedia: construction paper, shaving cream, glue, and food coloring, 2013 Neptune is a misty planet and you can't see there for fog. Mom says fungus people live there. I haven't seen them. They're probably in the fog. Misty blue musk and morning glory petals with night-blooming jasmine, iris root, chamomile, white sandalwood, tuberose, and white moss. Yaksh I hate that this is the first review for Yaksh, because all I can say is: Damn you white sandalwood, you eat everything.

As it turns out, apple and goat's milk accord play together beautifully: The apple is kept from becoming too astringent and the goat's milk doesn't get too buttery or salty-smelling. Very nice.

Oh my goodness. For a blend that only identified three notes this is surprisingly complex. Apple can sometimes seem ALL APPLE, but the other notes ground this quite nicely and there is a cool tropical feel here. It reminds me a lot of Pumpkin Princess if you replace the pumpkin with apple!

I have mixed feelings on Muse of Fire. The drydown is absolutely gorgeous, a sugary-sweet blend of flowers that is neither too foody nor too floral. However, the first 10 minutes or so, as it settles in on the skin, are pretty rough: All I get is that high-pitched scent that comes when you first spray cheap commercial perfume and are waiting for the alcohol to burn itself off. That part is painful, a headache waiting to happen, and I don't know if the end results are worth it.

My Baby and a Baby Goat is a beautiful skin scent on me. It's soft and sorta fuzzy, a kind of buttery, nutty, creamy, dollop-of-sweet note; almond without the cherry bite, fresh cream without the saltiness, honey without the strong herbal head it sometimes gets. In fact, it blends so seamlessly with my skin that I'm wondering if I need to invest in a bottle at all, and this is the first time that has ever happened! When I'm wearing it I can't stop smelling myself, so maybe that's a sign...

I am not really a fan of Eat Me but I took a chance on Little Lady Macbeth and I'm so glad I did! Even though they have nothing (and I mean NOTHING) in common note-wise, this reminds me quite a lot of Diary of a Lovestruck Teenage Cannibal. Maybe the honey cake is reading as a sweet cream, and the currants are reading as that deliciously sweet pink-red note I love so much. It's also worth noting that this is clearly "honey cake," and NOT "honey and cake." I tend to amp honey, but I don't in this blend. It's just a nice sweet blend with a twang of saltiness to it close to the skin. I like it. eta after two hours' wear: Yep, there is definitely some kind of cream note in there, because this has turned into nothing but salty boiled peanuts on my skin. Bummer.

Got a bottle of this via Etsy and I'm so glad I took a chance. I agree with many of the other reviews above: Very similar to Snow White but with an extra dab of straight, heady honey.

To me, this is a melon-y floral with just a hint of peach, quite light, which makes it easy to wear to work without overwhelming anyone else.

This smells exactly like Strawberry Moon to me, and while I love Strawberry Moon, that is not what I was expecting from Peach XIV. I'm bummed.

I love Rose Red oil on my skin and in a scent locket, but something about the HG blend seems super concentrated to me. While I can slather on the oil, all it takes is one spritz of HG in my hair and the scent is nearly overwhelming. I've taken to mixing a squirt with a small dollop of generic hair oil and applying them to my ends like a gel. I still get plenty of scent that lasts all day (and into the next!) without offending people sitting next to me. It is absolutely true to the RR scent, just MORE.

I started with a sample of Eldritch Dark bath oil, just a small sniffie because two of the four listed notes are typically wretched on my skin but the other two are my favorites. Well, something about the combination just WORKS for me because now I'm buying it all up in any interation. It is super sly musky rose leather sex on a stick. Also, the HG lasts and lasts, though it isn't too in-your-face either which means I can wear it to work.

Alice oil on my skin was always heavy spicy carnation with the softest hint of something like sweet cream, and the HG is no different. Just lovely. I'm so glad the TP put this together!

Peach IX is really lovely. When I first applied it I couldn't remember the notes, but I could tell this wasn't a fruity kind of peach. Rather, this is a very gentle floral musk, and it definitely hugs the skin. It's almost a baby skin type of scent, not in a baby powder-ish kind of way, but just in the way that makes you think someone isn't wearing any identifiable perfume but you still think, "Wow, that person smells nice." Very well-blended so that individual notes aren't discernable. Glad I was able to get a bottle!

The vanilla cream forms a really nice base note here and it almost translates like a shortbread cookie, a straight-up (non-cherry) almond note. I don't get "orange creamsicle" like some others, but I do smell a pink citrus-y candy with a bite. As time passes, the pink pepper cotton candy begins to smell somewhat like mildly spicy carnation. Very nice. It takes a good slather to make it last, but it is a lovely summer scent. eta for typo

This is such an interesting scent! When I open the bottle and take a whiff, I get lots of incense and something in this reminds me of the "opium smoke" in Carnaval Diabolique. That's a nice association to start! On my skin, this is much more almond-y and in my brain that starts to read like cherry, but not as overtly cherry as some almond scents (if that makes sense!). It's got moderate throw and moderate staying power so far, though I've also noticed that the smell I get when I huff my wrists is quite different from the smell I get when I fluff my hair and get a whiff of the oil coming off my neck. It's not that it's morphing, really... it's just awesome! eta for bad grammar

In the imp: WTF, mint? There isn't mint in this, is there? Wet on the skin: Whoa buttery fluff, but with a generous sniff there's still that hint of spearmint right at the base of the scent. I get a little creamy 'mallow root, but no coconut. On Drydown: Less buttery and overtly foodie, but I totally get the "buttered popcorn" comparisons. And still that damned mint, but only right at the end of a big whiff; it hits me right between the eyes, literally at the top of my nose. So weird. Never did get any coconut from this. Luckily the cream doesn't turn salty, but that isn't enough to save this.

I'm so grateful to a recent group order for the tried and true TP BOs that I never got around to testing! I finally got my hands on Humanitas, and it is lovely. So far I've used it in the bath, applied directly to my skin before soaking not drizzled into the bathwater. Like some earlier posters, I find the fruit really noticable at first, but what hangs around is the carnation. It hangs close to the skin (or at least it did the way I applied it) so it is quite a subtle warm bloom right above the surface of the skin. After drydown it really reminded me of Alice, and I've found that they layer beautifully!

Venus Callipyge broke my heart. All of the notes work on me historically, but something about this combination reads as "high white floral" on my skin. There's just nothing in there to ground it so in the end, the effect is mostly a headache. It is really overwhelming for about 20 minutes...and then it burns away to nothing.

I love looking at this in my decanted imp, because you can tell what you are about to smell by the color of the oil. Like zankoku_zen posted above, this baby is TEAL. I squee! So, okay, it looks a bit like Listerine in the vial. And on immediate application to my skin, there's a scary moment of tangy Irish Spring-yness. But then it settles into something gloriously fresh and a little bit musky, with a drop of sweetness behind it. And it lasts FOREVER. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I love this!

I think this is my favorite 2015 Luper. Lovers and a Fan is what I WANTED all of the vulva scents to be: Warm and close to the skin without any overt notes. Knowing what this includes, my brain can identify the coconut, but it is really warm and subtle and it plays beautifully with the other notes. I often amp honey, but not here; the honey is not overtly sweet, just thick and grounding. And that little thread of saffron? Oh, man. The notes blend together so seamlessly! I had a few friends take a whiff, and nobody screamed "coconut!" or "honey!" The consensus was that this just "smells soooo good." eta: I figured it out. If you removed the super buttery note from Obatala and mixed it with Love's Philosophy, you'd get Lovers and a Fan.

At first, this is glorious on my skin. Mostly rosewater on top but with a deep cherry note and a hint of booze underneath. But then, the cream accord. Damn you. Cream notes turn salty on my skin, and this scent is no different. Then some of the other notes turn to powder. After about 30 minutes I get a baby powder-ish salty boiled peanut.

Every time I use this I kick myself for not getting more, and get angry at others for not paying more attention! This BO was wildly underrated because it sneaks up on you. I can smell each note in the description. In fact, if there were orchards full of big gnarled trees that produced gooey caramel apples, I wouldn't be surprised to find them harvested here. You smell the blossoms and a hint of leaves and tree while you pluck that caramel goodness, and that helps cut the sweetness. SO nice!

I'm finishing up my decants of this one and wish I had more. Most overtly I get a citrus zing, so this is a good warm weather scent, but there's also plump berries/redfruit and cool melon in there too. Kind of sugary sweet sometimes so I'm shocked this is JUST a fruit blend.