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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.

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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!

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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.

Still working on my 8 oz bottle, and still as lovely as the day it arrived! I never got any clear notes from this; no moments of "I smell this" to "It smells like that." No, instead this is a wonderfully blended dessert in a bottle, even if it is a scent made for cold weather and holidays. And I'm so glad that candy cane doesn't go full-on mint!

... the label featured an original portait of Elizabeth Bathory and considering I've had an obsession with her since I was about 11 I am more than pleased with just that!

Seriously, though, Virgin's Blood is heavenly. I fear cream, in general, but there is no plastic or salt here. Just a creamy but identifiably red rose scent. The only way this could be better: If it turned your bath water red. Can someone PLEASE make that a thing??

This is the 2014 version:

Strong autumn leaves, and I agree that with the assessment of "peppery" that is mentioned above. Identifiably fall-like, but way too masculine on my skin. It makes me smell like my dad.

Those for the faint of heart should be protected from my honest (but pretty gross) review:

Just ordered a bottle of Goofballs because I love its simplicity and its loved, happy feeling. This is clean fresh springtime grass on me, no more, no less, and yet still so much. Damn it's good!

My reaction on first whiff: Oh holy lord that's good yes I need a bottle! This instantly made me happy and I started to think about buying MULTIPLE bottles, which would be a first for me in all my years of BPAL. For a while I couldn't recall what it reminded me of, then it came to me: There was an e-tailer I was really into a few years ago who had a signature scent called "Sweet Vanilla Rose," and this is the fancy BPAL version of that. So, yeah, it's a bit sweet, a bit floral, and all gorgeous and sophisticated. Oh, man. Love love love.

Pile of Fallen Leaves is blowing my mind. It's one of those "HOW DOES BETH DO IT?" blends because I'll be damned if it doesn't smell like a pile of mixed leaves, some still greening but some red and orange and gold. It's quite refreshing.

This is goooood. I tend to amp honey notes and this is still true for Pumpkin IV, but it's glorious. The pumpkin on the label was created by Mellifluous, and I know champaca is one of his things; IIRC he's described it as "chewy" and I think that's a great description of this scent. I want to tuck it up in my cheek and gnaw on it a bit. The pumpkin here manages to be milky, spicy, honey-sweet, and "chewy" all at once. Love.