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This is such an unusual scent that I can't stop sniffing. The main scent is a tart, fruity hibiscus (like hibiscus tea), but it also has a creamy, juicy pollen sweetness. It's very compelling. 

ETA: after about 5 hours it goes soapy 

Magnolia and lilac tussling for supremacy. The lilac keeps the magnolia from going funky, indolic, or baby wipe, allowing it to be creamy and more true to the blossom. 

This is like a strawberry creamsaver hard candy. 

First it's a young, pliable, sticky pine bough, right where the needles meet the wood, then an herbal lavender starts trying to emerge, at one point the two notes are balanced and it's perfect. Then the clean lavender sits down and it's a sweet, almost fruity scent. The smell is familiar, but I can't put my finger on what it is. It's almost like a fruity amber. Maybe hardened pine resin? 

ETA: about 1.5 weeks later the final stage is just incense - smells a little like fruity nag champa 

White florals held back from being overpowering with clove. It's not spicy or medicinal, just grounding, warm, and a little tingly. Then some soft, gentle, quiet lavender with a bit of floral honey and small peck of plum. 

It's mainly a tempered white floral with clove on me. 

This is a toasted, caramelized scent when I first apply it, heavy on grapefruit. It's almost like bruleed red grapefruit. Then it mingles with my skin chemistry to be a high quality cardboard. 

Whomp whomp

I have no idea how to describe this. It mainly smells like sassafras/sarsparilla with a smooth powderiness from iris and sandalwood. I don't get any fruits, just a strange herbal note with an undercurrent of a light floral and a hint of powdery wood. 

Rest time: 9 days

This is yummy. It's very fruity but there's a little green leaf and tartness that keeps it from being too sweat and fruity. At one point, I can feel the texture of biting into a piece of ripe mango, the scent is so realistic. It's also kind of fresh and clean, not humid like a tropical place would be. I feel like this is what tropical laundry detergent would smell like if it was realistic. 

Rest time: 9 days

Transparency: I don't like Antique Lace or any lace derivatives. They smell like cheap vanilla soap on me.

Dahlia is in the same vein except it's got a warm syrupy back ground so it's like a cheap knockoff of BBW warm vanilla sugar soap. I guess that's the sugared amber and cardamom? 

ETA: tested 8 days after receipt

I just tested lilac and lily of the valley after 6 resting days. It's flowers like whoa. I'd say lilac is more dominant, but the lily is there keeping it sweet. Sometimes lilac goes a little sweaty green stem on me so I think the lily is tempering it. It ends up being a beautiful, smooth, well-rounded lilac with soft, sweet lotv hanging out in the background. It's got good throw and staying power on me. 

I wish incense didn't usually mean nag champa. I despise it. It's the godmother of soap notes on me. This is all nag champa in the bottle and on the small dab on my wrist. Such a disappointment. 

Just Before Penetration: pink fig smells like it sounds, fig, but make it Barbie pink. This is a sweet scent, but not candied. The sweetness comes from the ripe fruit and vanilla kissing. The cream isn't lactonic, but more like a soft fuzziness. This is Awake after she's taken off her slinky dress and make up and is fresh faced and sweet, wrapped up in her fuzzy pink robe.

Fierce Midnights and Famishing Morrows: I smell all three notes when I put this on. The lily is well-behaved, the plum is sweet and purple, and the tobacco is rich and brown. Then, honestly, I have no idea what's happening. They all blend together to make a new note. It's like a tobacco colored plum blossom SN that melds with my skin. This isn't as loud as I thought it was going to be. This is another scent I keep sniffing to understand.

Irises in a Vase: first, SUGAR! A really glorious sugar, I'd say simple syrup. Then the floral notes start stepping forward. This is a really pretty iris. It's like an iris infused simple syrup or candied iris petals. There's a little spiciness that keeps this from being cloying and a little teeny bit of green leaf.

Green Fig & Cedar: there are no hamster shavings here. This gives an impression of both young fruit and a young tree. The cedar here isn't cut wood, but what I think a tree must smell like on the inside. There's bark and fresh wood. It's a little earthy but not dirty. The cedar isn't the dominant note. It's what the fig hangs out on. The fig is slightly powdery and has a hint of the figgy sweetness waiting in the future, but it's distinctly unripe and green. I don't know if I like this scent, but I keep sniffing it to reveal more of the story it wants to tell.

Collapsing Mosquito Netting is green, it's wet, juicy vine with a suggestion of spring florals. There's a period of savoriness that could read as French fry. It doesn't last thankfully. Overall, I'm disappointed because I wanted more morning glory, but it's strangled, appropriately, by the vine.

This is all about the warm, nutty hazelnut. The nut dominates the blend for most of the wear with a really nice vanilla stepping up lightly in the background. It never fully balances out the hazelnut. If you want a cozy hazelnut blend, this is for you. 

sweet, syrupy rum and tobacco with sandalwood incense and powdery oud

Starts off spicy, dry, dusty white sandalwood, then the ghost lily joins and adds a floral soapy note. I don't think I'm getting much ambergris. This is mainly a very nice, expensive, sandalwood/lily soap on me. 

Mmmm, this is BPAL's chewy honey note with some light florals. It reminds me of the honey in O. 

Tangy guava - like guava paste or a guava fruit roll up

This starts off banana runts. It has that strong, artificial banana smell that's so sweet it's almost tangy (I think that's the grenadine). It settles into a sweetened rum scent with tangy grenadine wafting in and out. 

This is a strong, chewy, dirty patch sweetened up by earthy fig. 

tart sweet cranberry, grassy vanillic tonka, golden, lightly powdery amber - the amber is a supporting note with the tonka and cranberry being most forward. It's a cranberry tonka scent.

greeeeeeen, it's like absinthe without the anise, it's very green but not in a grassy, forest way.