Usagi Report post Posted February 26, 2015 A new year's blessing! Peony, China's national flower, with bamboo for flexibility, plum blossom for perseverance, courage, and hope, tangerine for wealth, orange for happiness, lychee for household peace, pine resin for constancy, golden kumquat for prosperity, King mandarin for good fortune, cypress for longevity, and peach fruit to represent the fourth phase of Wu Xing. This year's Lunar New Year blend has an extra dollop of blazing red of dragon's blood give you fortitude and strength, and, of course, to assist in scaring away the rampaging Nian. In the bottle(after about an hour's rest from mailing): I smell very sweet jasmine, and very bright citrus. wet: The jasmine turns itself to support for the citrus note, making this a creamy-fizzy-sweet kind of deal. It's bright and happy and...prosperous? drying: As it plays with my skin chemistry, I'm getting bits of another, slightly watery, delicate floral underneath the citrus, which has a little bit of a tang to it when you inhale deeply enough. If I had to guess, I'd say an interplay between bamboo, peony and pine, maybe? I'm not really smelling anything discernibly Dragon's Blood, yet-- which is surprising. Yet, the whole thing dances so beautifully on the skin and in my senses. It's like sitting in the shade of a late spring garden, with a cool rock pool next to your feet, watching rays of sunlight play across the stones. drydown(little over an hour later): It's dried down to a soft, creamy floral. There was a short phase where it veered a teensy bit towards a slightly soapy(albeit really nice, quality soap) phase. But now, it's just a cool, close to the skin, soft green floral, with a lingering hint of the gorgeous citrus. Wooden Goat is absolutely beautiful, and I am so very enamoured of this incarnation of my zodiac animal. It will be getting a lot of wear. Out of the seven Lunar New Year scents I have tried, this one is probably my second favorite(right behind Water Dragon). It's happy and vibrant, but not overpowering-- with a close throw, and pretty decent lasting power(showing now signs of fading here at the one and a half hour mark).Unless you absolutely loathe flowers or citrus, I would recommend you give this a shot. You may just fall head over heels in love(says the girl who can't stop sniffing her wrist). And, no, it does not smell the same as the Lunar creatures that have come before. The closest comparison I might make would be the lovechild of Water Dragon and Water Snake. It isn't as 'WOO, citrus!' as Water Dragon is at the outset-- and the citrus has a different quality to it(more like citron in Water Dragon),nor is the drydown that beautiful mystery musk. But it isn't anywhere near as jasmine-floral as Water Snake. Wooden Goat seems to bridge somewhere in between, and adds its own glimmering coolness, for a unique scent of its own. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Auspicious Q Report post Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) Wet in bottle - flowers, citrus, mints Wet on skin - I can really smell the warmth of the wood here and a minty note comes out first too. Interesting. Dry down. Over the course of an hour this changes a into a floral scent with peony in the foreground, and then settles into a soft complex floral scent with the underpinnings of wood and with a tiny zing of mint and citrus over top. It is dimensional and gorgeous. Edit to add: I'm not sure what note is coming across as mint to me. Hm! Edited March 4, 2015 by Auspicious Q Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zankoku_zen Report post Posted March 24, 2015 Super amped up sweetness. A ton of golden fruit (lychee, mandarin, orange, peach), with bamboo, plum blossoms, and peony. It's got the throw of Fire Pig but amped up on fruity sweetness and peony. It's actually got huge throw, and huge wear length. It's too much for me. Everything got dialed up to 11. EVERYTHING. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kpaige Report post Posted September 15, 2016 This is my first time posting a review, and I don't know why i chose a scent that I have a hard time describing... But I ADORE this one so much I needed to comment. I have an especially hard time picking up specific notes on this particular fragrance. It's a creamy fruity floral with just a touch of that dragon's blood essence in the background. It has the teeniest tiniest hint of the soapiness quality but is it NOT soapy. It's almost like it has whatever positive element of soap there is without everything else that goes along with it. It's just soft and beautiful. It's like floral without being floral and fruity without being fruity...and that bamboo and dragoon's blood - they just give this complexity. Good throw and longevity. Definitely a winning scent. My current favorite BPAL scent!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crystaltongue Report post Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) I was so sad when there was no lunar new year scent this year. But then a few bottles of Wooden Goat came available on the etsy shop, now I at least have this to enjoy! Maybe it is just that it has aged differently, but I don't get the huge throw and high fruitiness that folks have described from when it was new. Instead, it is a beautiful balance of fruit, flower, and wood. In the bottle, the pine and cyprus are surprisingly forward, though the citrus fruits and lychee do come forward more once it has dried down on the skin. On the whole, an utter delight. So glad I got the opportunity to add this to my collection! Edited February 14, 2023 by crystaltongue Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShadowEtienne Report post Posted March 18, 2023 I was also able to get one of the bottles of Wooden Goat from the etsy shop when they listed a few of them, and I'm very glad that I've gotten a hold of it. While it's not my favorite of the Lunar New Year scents I've gotten to try, it's lovely and still in my bracket of very favorite scents. While I like Water Dragon a little bit more personally, I also feel like Wooden Goat is the more generally accessible scent of the two of them. In the bottle and when first applied to my skin, I get so many peaches from this. Peaches are a note that can do good things or bad things on me, and I wasn't sure if this would end up being the Lunar New Year scent that went a little too sweet on me at first application. Fortunately, as it dries down and soaks in, the citrus, florals, and resins come forward and balance out the peach. Like all of the Lunar New Year scents that I've tried, Wooden Goat strongly brings to mind the scent of the lacquered trays of dried and candied fruits that my foster family would put out during Lunar New Year, and this is a delightful scent memory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Little Bird Report post Posted May 30, 2023 Lots of pulpy, green, clean bamboo and sweet, juicy, tropical fruits. I also feel like I can smell the plum blossom more than usual in this lunar new year blend, and it has more of an actual plum fruit scent to it as well. The fruits are all syrupy sweet and juicy, but the fresh bamboo and creamy blossom notes help to cut through all of the sweetness. Definitely one of my favorites of the lunar new year series. This one isn't soapy like many of the others are on my skin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
