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2007 If you have ever purchased Frontgate tree spray (or got one free with a tree, or been over someone's house who used it), then you know what this smells like! I'm not saying it's bad, it's just what it smells like. It's a perfectly nice evergreen scent, very pleasant. I'm not sure it's a scent that I would wear though. This also had very little lasting power on me.

2007 This is the first bpal scent that smelled dead on to the description - sugared plums over winter flowers. I don't even know what winter flowers are but that is totally a spot on description of what it smells like wet and dry. I also think this smells a lot like the Spencers store in the mall but without the patchouli.

Peppermint candy canes, dries to candies.....gone in an hour. It's not complex, it's perfectly a nice scent...not complex, nice to layer with or when you need something clean and easy to digest.

Candy charcoal, winter lilies, parma violet, a sprig of cypress, a poof of chimney dust, and holiday sweets. wine, then grape juice wet. Sweet incense as it dries. It's carmely…faint violet..the "charcoal" in it reads as incense to me. Dry down: annoying wine scent. Reminds me of being at a party and you are trapped by a close talker who has been drinking waaaay too much merlot. It's funky red wine breath. Ick.

Green woods...very yummy wet. The lemon keeps it light and bright. The scent is much like a clean man out of a shower. This is a masculine scent on me and smells very familiar. I want to say Drakkar Noir, without quite remembering what that used to smell like! The sandalwood is long lasting as well. I'm not sure I'd personally wear this but I'd want my husband to wear it. It's a really great scent.

Jasmine's are brutal on me. Wet, this one was kind of cloying and weird. Not boding well. On the skin: chocolate. yes, chocolate. Not a hint of chocolate....not a wafting of chocolate...chocolate chocolate! Dry down: The chocolate goes away a bit and the jasmine comes underneath it a bit. I get a wee bit of a cookie smell too. Dry down much later: The residue is beautiful. I was extremely surprised that something so strange to begin with could end so beautifully!!! Shockingly, a winner bottle!

Pine sap. This one stays clean and clear on me and doesn't get very complex or muddy. It's stay bright and kind of boring with the green, pine sap smell. It's perfectly wearable for a pine scent and if you want a crisp scent that is not overpowering, this is a nice choice. And the color is pretty too.

Generic rose scent on me with very little lasting power. My skin totally ate this up and I didn't get any cinammon at all. Lucy's Kiss worked much better for me as a rose scent.

On the skin: Smells like gingerbread. Definitely kind of foodie from wet to dry. It then actually gets stronger as it dries and gets less foodie. This is the perfect incense scent on me. It lingers to something warm, earthy and pleasant. Reminds me a bit of what elegba would be during the holiday season! If you like the notes of elegba, you can cross over to this more incensey scent. Also I notice that this is a wine grapes scent which is interesting because other wine scents are bad on me. This one works though. LOVE!

Born in the shadows of a Temple to Set, this corrupted Egyptian scent evokes images of black pyramids, river demons, and bleak, deadly desert sands. Black lotus flower, amber, myrrh and sandalwood. First on the skin: Bubblegum with an even higher sweetness to it. Dry down: Eau de Charmin...maybe with a hint of Pampers. ugh.

I generally don't like floral scents and lilies are not a favorite flower for me. That being said, I really like this! How?? It's definitely lilies with a dark undertone. That undertone is what keeps this from being "floral yuck" and makes it wearable for me. Not even wearable, I really like it. It turns ever so slightly powdery on my skin....just the smallest bit as it keeps it soft and lovely. I would also recommend this to fans of florals and noobs who might want to try florals.

Devilish temptation, as sweet as sin: blood orange, neroli, and raspberry. Wet: hmmm...fruit. On the skin: harsh. astringent fruit, much darker than I thought and not at all pure and cheery on me. Dry down: complex fermenting fruit salad. A little fakey smelling. Not a fan. This one is a pass on me.

Wet: coconut On the skin: lots of coconut and then the tobacco comes through and makes it less foodie and much more complex. Dry Down: perfectly lovely...a lot like carmel with a complex undertone from the tobacco; this doesn't smell like a pipe tobacco store to me. It's a warm blanket in a library full of books with a fire going. *swoon* This was my first bpal love! This is also a perfect example of why you test every imp because I did not like "tobacco" in any previous scent of other etailers/retailers. I was positive I was going to hate this as well. Turns out that this works great with my chemistry

Obatala: Wet: suntan lotion and coconut milk. On the skin: sweet, kind of milky...then turns into something resembling old oil. Dry down: remains musky, almost like Snow White I was searching for a pure coconut note that didn't turn so this wasn't what I was looking for. I wanted foodie...this went morphing and complex on me. Bottle was adopted by a lovely person with perfect luck at scents! Obatala didn't work on me either