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This one goes on very orangy at first. Then as the oil dries on my skin it morphs and is mostly the wood fire and chimney smoke with a hint of cider in the background. After 10 minutes or so it is starting to fade on my skin, though now the orange and cider is totally gone and I am getting more of a smoky cinnamon from it.

 

15 minutes later- my skin must really like this one because it is eating it all up and I can hardly smell it anymore.

 

20 minutes later- gone. Nada. Zip.

 

I am very sad because for 15 minutes this was a gorgeous fall spicy/smoky scent. But my skin eated it and refuses to give it back.

Miss Clémence is like diving head first into a giant cup of Chai tea, with triple tea bags and seeping it for crazy long while piping hot. While smoking a clove cigarette and wearing patchouli oil. I agree with waternight that this is a great spicy kick in the nose and a SLAMBAM HOT SPICE slap in the face. Miss Clémence, you are the one for this spicy scent fetish girl.

Upa Upa, how I love you so! This one was love at first sniff. Love! In the bottle this is warm and creamy spiced coconut cream PIE. Once on my skin the pineapple comes out and mingles with the coconut and the rum. It stays a gorgeous spicy coconut rum on me for hours and fades slowly into a pina colada-custard. For me this is the only of the Tiki bar scents that had staying power. I can still smell this on my skin after 24 hours. OMG I can't get enough of this. Must order more!

I so wanted to love this. It sounded like a perfect scent for me...cream? Yes! Pink pepper? Oh boy yea. Grapefruit, pear and ginger? *Fans self* But once again my skin chemistry wrecked havoc on a perfectly dreamy blend.

 

On me this smelled like a mango smoothie from Jamba Juice. I didn't get any of the cream, none of the ginger and none of that wonderful pink pepper. Just very sweet and fruity mango smoothie. It may be my brain translates grapefruit and pear as mango....but yea. On my skin wet and even dry after an hour I am only getting mango smoothie.

Sugar Skull 2007

 

Omg, right out of the bottle this is amazing. Brown sugar, a hint of spice and some sort of dark boozy candied fruit. (Fig maybe?) On my skin it smells the same as it did in the bottle. Scent stays the same for hours and fades out sweet sugar. Another Halloween winner!

Huh...straight out of the bottle I smell- nothing. No matter how much I huff I am getting nuthin'.

 

On my skin I am getting a very, very faint hint of somthing like fig pudding, a little foody but not at all spicy. Then after 15 or so minutes it fades into olive oil and beeswax. (Just like a burning beeswax candle.)

 

After an hour or so it fades into soapy sugar on me. Not sure what note made this go wonky on me but I am sad it didn't work out. This was the one holiday scent I was the most excited about.

Gingerbread Poppet 2007

 

 

This years version of the Poppet is by far the best imo. It smells a lot like GBP '04 did, like gingersnap cookies or fresh out of the oven gingerbread. It is very similar to the 'evil gingersnaps' that some people get from the old Shub. Omg SO GOOD. I'll be stocking up on this one for sure.

 

Right out of the bottle this pretty much smells like hot cocoa to me. It's a milky chocolate. On my skin I can only detect a faint whiff of coffee. The cinnamon does not come out to play til it starts to fade out and it is very, very mellow. I hoped this would be more of a cinnamon coffee scent but on me it is more of a really chocolatey cafe mocha. Chocolate scent lovers will adore this.

Samhain 2007

 

Wow, this is *a lot* different than Samhain '04 version. The '04 was ALL patchouli on me, but '07 is super pumpkiny with yummy spices and a hint of apple. When I first applied it the patchouli note was strong and I admit I almost washed it off...but 10 seconds later the patchouli melted away and there was only warm pumpkin apples and spice. Nice! I really love this version!

Straight out of the bottle this smells like cinnamon brooms. You know, the cinnamon scented brooms/pine cones they sell at Halloween and Christmas time?

 

On the skin I get Cinnamon! (like woah) and yummy spices all mixed in. There is clove and nutmeg in there fer sure but it is blended in so well it just smells like Cinnamon tea to me like someone else mentioned.

 

As it dries I get more of the sandalwood and tobacco coming out giving it somewhat of a smoky texture. I know some people have Sandalwood turn to total wood on them, but this does not. It is more of a wood and chai tea had a baby smell. I applied this about 4 hours ago and it is still going strong on me. The more it fades the more it smells like Chai tea on my skin. I have to say this has to be one of my all time favorite Bpal GC scents ever. It is super spicy and lasts for a long, long time. The scent is gender neurtal and would work on anyone. I love it!

Wow, this Bonfire Night is totally amazing. This smell just like my husband does after he BBQ's using mesquite wood chips in the the smoker. The smell of sweet mesquite smoke and the tangy smell of the honey bbq sauce with a little bit of beer...hot damn, now I am hungry! The smell sticks to his clothes and his hair for hours and it smells just like this. Yummy!

Woo! At first this smells like the inside of a cave. A dark, dank and very damp cave. Then the woody sweetness of mahogany comes out and takes over. As it fades it becomes more of the smell of an old pub. Like aged wood and soft boozyness like whisky was spilled and dryed up on the floor that was never cleaned up. This is the most interesting morpher of all the Haunted House scents. I like it!

At first this is musty old wine. Like a bottle you forgot to cork and left out for a long time. Then I get that tang of blood like the 'blood musk' note used in some other blends. I do get the wet clay/musty damp earth wafting through along with the blood musk. As it fades is becomes all baby powder on me with a hint of wine.

Wet on my skin this smells like a Christmas tree. After a few minutes the earthy dirt comes out. I want to say this has that plant smell to it like a nursery/plant store. :sniff: yep, smells like a nursery. Musty dirt, green plants and..more green plants. As it fades the dirt goes away and I can detect a hint of a faint soft floral.

This is what a babies room should smell like. This is so soft and sweet and innocent. Like French violet candies and vanilla with just a soft hint of clean fresh laundry right out of the dryer. It's not as vanilla as Hope and Faith, it's more the violet candy smell I am getting. This is not a strong smelling floral at all, it is very soft and faint. It fades out lavender talcum powder with a hint of faded tea rose. Yep, a babies room all the way (minus the poopy diapers thank goodness ).

Whoa, this smells a lot like Embalming Fluid. But with a lime instead of lemon. No wait, I think it is bergamot. I do detect that chloraphil/aloe plant smell but this is mosly citrusy to me. After it sits on my skin for a while a very soft white flowers comes out. I want to say this smells like Mums or lilies. It's very similar to the flowers in House of Night. So to me this is Embalming Fluid + House of Night. Very soft and pretty!

When I was little my Grandmother used to use this shampoo that was called 'Mountain Fresh Forrest' or something like that. I swear this smells just like it! It doesn't smell as much like trees, but more so like 'spring fresh' scented things. There is something sort of aquatic about it as well so I agree with the wet TP comment above, lol. As this fades this smells JUST LIKE Mr. Bubble bubble bath on me, the powder kind in the box, hehehhe.

Wooo this is super dooper apple-y! I agree this is a lot like Creepy but without the coconut. On my skin it warms up and becomes sweet caramel apples. This one has great staying power and wafts caramel for hours. Another Halloween winner!

Wow! Vanilla cake frosting? There is something else though I can't put my finger on, something sort of ozoney like in Antique Lace? As it fades it becomes vanilla sugar like in Sugar Skull. Yummy!

At first this is all warm and spicy pumpkin pie. Then it morphs into something much like Roadhouse. After about 20 minutes it fades into pumpkin pulp and beeswax. This is totally unique!

This is such a unique smell. At first sniff I get the sweet egg sushi smell. Then it is a rush of a childhood memory of Halloween. Like candy and Halloween make up and carved pumpkins all rolled up into one. As it sits on my skin I am getting the smell of a freshly carved pumpkin with a waxy candle inside. It stays waxy pumpkin til it fades on me. I love it!

Omg.

 

Omg, omg, omg! This is the Bpal I have been dreaming of since I discovered Bpal. A dream come true. True pumpkin pie smell without any fruit and not too buttery. For any of you who read my reviews, pumpkin is my favorite note (I call myself the 'Pumpkin Queen' and for good reason. I am obsessed with pumpkins. The taste, the smell, everything. I have jack o' lanterns tattood all over me and pumpkins all over my house. My hair is dyed 'pumpkin' orange and I have a pumpkin orange PT Cruiser I call the 'Pumpkin-mobile'. Obsessed? You betcha) and a true pumpkin pie scent minus any fruit or too much butter is my dream scent. Well kids, this it it.

 

Jack was good but too peachy and too much butter. Pumpkin Queen was nice but too fruity. As was Pumpkin Patch #5 2007. (Too much orange/neroli). THIS on the other hand is true Pumpkin pie. Not too much butter, NO extra fruit. Just the pie, crust and all.

 

I have died and gone to heaven and require at least 5 more bottles of this, lol. This is my new holy grail of all holy grails. I put this on around 6pm and it was wafting strong on me well until 3pm the next day. Talk about staying power! The cheesecake note in this is the same as Beaver Moon. In fact this is just like Beaver Moon, just with pumpkin spice instead of what ever fruit was in BM. This is pumpkin perfection!

Right out of the bottle this has the same exact crisp and bitter dead leaf smell as Death of Autumn but stronger. I admit at first it was a sharp shock of something that also reminded me of the mens cologne department at Macys as others have mentioned.

 

Once on my skin it warms up and mellows out after 10 minutes or so. Now I am getting smoke with a whisper of the bitter dead leaf smell. Smoke always tends to go powdery on me so now it is 'dead leaves with smoke and baby powder and mens cologne' smell to me as it fades.

Ooh la la. At first sniff this is all warm and cozy pumpkin. There is maybe a weee baby hint of butter in there but it is well behaved. The pumpkin note sticks around for a long time but after about 20 minutes I am getting a hint of the carnation. It's very sweet and almost candy smelling, almost like sweet tarts. I'm not getting any of the tobacco which I am happy about because tobacco blends usually set off headaches on me. To me this is mostly warm pumpkin + carnation that smells like sweet tarts. After an hours it fades out and I am getting a vanillaish hint of the tonka left on my skin. Gorgeous and super girly!

Right out of the bottle this is pure pumpkin. It's not a buttery pumpkin, it's more like I just opened a can of Libbys pumpkin puree, the raw kind with no spices. Once on my skin I am getting a green wet scent coming out that smells like a wet aloe vera plant, or sorta like cucumber. I bet this is the cactus talking. After 15 minutes or so the pumpkin and the cactus have mixed together and mellowed and the sage is peeking through. It's not a musty sage, it's very sweet and it blends perfectly with the raw pumpkin and cactus.

 

Conclusion? Pumpkin 4 smells like a refreshing wet veggie garden to me. Almost like a salad. It is a very unique Bpal scent and unlike anything else I have sniffed. It's very clean and refreshing.