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I love this SO MUCH!!!

While the Vanilla Extract perfume was one I knew I would love, I was unsure about this. I do adore a good marshmallow but really don’t have much luck with citrus notes unless it’s just the right lemon or King Manadrin.

Straight sniff from the bottle is primarily sugary grapefruit which smells delightful. On my skin the grapefruit is lively and still sweet but about 10 minutes later the grapefruit is basically gone and instead there is the a shimmering cloud of spun sugar marshmallow, no burnt element here! It’s youthful and uplifting. This would also be a great scent to use for kids just getting into BPAL 💜

This is so stunningly beautiful it almost makes me a little teary eyed. 

In the bottle rich, soft sweet pea with the creaminess of the almond milk note. Upon the skin the white sandalwood appears to give this the dryness reminiscent of the California sunshine in it’s unscarred form. 
 

Those of that love Mouse’s Long & Sad Tale will most likely love this. 

I This is a slow blink of happiness in a bottle.  I wish I could be more descriptive but I’m no longer good at that. 

Wow, no reviews yet! The description for this was too beautiful for me to pass it up plus all the notes are things I like. 

Hazy red beams of light casting over velvet couches and high backed chairs. The warmth of melted beeswax dripping into the cognac and the mineralic essence of the quartz sphere. This is gorgeous in every phase. 

It’s the Ruby Chocolate from Millennial Pink with musky vanilla sweetness! I don’t really detect any clove which is surprising as clove tends to be pretty prominent no matter what it gets used in. 

I agree that there is a bit of a tartness to the ruby chocolate, it’s really interesting and different from anything else that I have! I really love that the label looks like the old style that the Trading Post used to do. The coin is super cool also ❤️

I am surprisingly in love with this. I don’t have a lot of frankincense perfume so this will have a nice spot in my collection. 

The frankincense has a slight lemony undertone which is really nice. Myrrh is always a favorite for me as I find it to be very grounding. The warm wooden note is the same thing that I enjoy with Carved Wooden Bakery. It’s churchy but pretty! 

Fiery cinnamon buttered rum!!! Creamy Snake Oil goodness! I’m obsessed ? 

This is as wonderful as I hoped it would be. Instantly turns my house into a hazy den of blissful Snake Oil & Dorian with just a hint of dirt. It’s barely there though and that’s fine. 

Just starting by saying this is not normally my kind of scent but I love the label and am intrigued…

In the bottle it smells like Yipes Stripes fruit gum to me. When I first apply it it’s a mango papaya explosion tampered down by the green notes of the bamboo and banana leaf. It’s giving Golden Girls interior decorator vibes…

This is bright, refreshing and fun! I think I do detect the hibiscus also. Any time I see the word ectoplasm all I can think about is Slimer from Ghostbusters and how HI-C had the ecto-cooler drink which was also green and honestly might have even kind of smelled like this…Ah the marvel of fragrance! 

Hi, yes I am obsessed with this so I need to tell you why.

Coconut Cake was the cake my mom used to make for my birthday every year when I was little. Probably until I turned 10 I had coconut cake. The smell and taste of that coconut is forever burned into my brain and I treasure that memory. 

Snake Oil being one of my favorite BPAL’s (I know, me and almost everyone else ?), when I saw this listed I immediately bought 2 bottles. I should probably buy 6 more. It’s the rich coconut frosting scent from my childhood birthday memories with the spicy heady vanilla and exotic-ness of Snake Oil. The drydown gets a bit more cakier but there’s not really any deviation from what it is. Just pure, hoarde worthy goodness that also supports an extremely important cause. If you love coconut and you love Snake Oil, your wallet isn’t going to be ok 

At long last, the amber perfume of my dreams!!! 

Warm, rich golden amber with that hazy wafting effect. Very evocative of its name. Slowly drying down into a sweet dreamy stage of amber. Damn, this is wonderful! 

To me, this one is like a puddle of They Shut Me Up in Prose as a warm soft rain mists itself over it . I don’t wear anything with a moss not enough to really pick it out but it’s eleven thousand degrees in Vermont today and this is making me feel better about it. 

Oh my lordt, this is SPECTACULAR!

If you love Behind the Veils, Berry Moon or any juicy/fruity wine types, you will love this. The dried cherries and blackberry wine are the first notes that hit me when I put this on but the drydown is amazing spicy-rose frankincense. It’s a very red scent. I get zero despair but all the lush. 

Honestly, none of the notes listed in here are my usual bag (sometimes lavender and rose separately but never together) except coconut but I really wanted to try it. In the bottle it’s a bomb of blueberry & lavender but on the skin I am getting allll the lavender and rose and not so much blueberry anyone. I feel like the coconut husk helps to “dry it out) so it’s like dried lavender and rose instead of wet medicinal lavender. It reminds me of this little black velvet dream pillow I had when I was a teenager that definitely had dried lavender and some other herbs in it. It’s really pretty and intresting.

Absolutely gorgeous. I agree with the review that compared this to the carnation note of Alice just without the milkyness. Instead it’s mixed with a seductive waft of spicy Snake Oil goodness. If all you smell in the bottle is the spices, put it on and let it bloom on the skin. 

I really didn’t know what poppers actually were other than a drug that used to be popular. I had to google it ?

This smells EXACTLY like the inside of a VCR. Like when you take a videotape out and the tape is warm and you can smell the electric innards of the VCR. I’m so intrigued but also scared to put it on..

Ok on the skin it smells dusty and almost flammable. It’s strong too. I might be getting a leathery vibe to an extent. I don’t know that I would ever wear this on a regular basis but it’s so interesting!

This is a BLAST of honeydew melon that is like eating breakfast in a tropical land (not that I now what that’s like) . It’s so sunny and perfect! I have never been a melon scent person in my life but I guess that changes today. 

The dry down is where the sponge cake and whipped cream come in. This is utterly delightful and I’m shocked there are no other reviews yet.

I did not expect this to be my favorite one from this round of DC Peach exclusives but it turned out to be so! All the elements have melded together so exquisitely over time and it’s impossible for me to put this on and not be in a good mood for the rest of the day. 

I love this! It’s definitely toffee forward and I do smell the white rose as it dries. White rose is much more subtle than most other rose notes and I can see why Beth chose it to be included in this. It actually smells a little bit like a relative of Millennial Pink to me. Gourmand lovers will be happy

Good lordt this is absolutely spectacular. Beautiful sweet fluffy lavender with the coconut cream underneath. This is going onto my night stand with Two Frames, Lavender Buttercream & Santa Doesn’t Need Your Help. 

Also worth noting that if you had told me a decade ago that I would be enjoying lavender perfume I would have laughed in your face! That’s the magic of BPAL. 

If La Befana carried a doll that had a tiny doll, this would be the scent of that doll. I definitely smell the snow in the snowberries at first drying down into the spun sugar. There is a faint singed element which I’m guessing is the chimney soot? It’s hard for me to pick out the carnation as I feel like that and the snowberries combined gives it almost like a strawberry smell. 

My overall gist is that this is really lovely and interesting. Also makes me very nostalgic for my youth when I spent a lot of time alone in my room arranging my little ceramic figurines and listening to books on tape ❤️

Smells like when you open a package of mint oreos and then blissfully eat one after another. Soft mint dreamily melds with chocolate graham cracker and it’s absolutely wonderful.

A literal BLAST of weed and then the fruitcake takes over! Spicy Fruity deliciousness! This one surprised me. I honestly thought it was going to be too weird but it smells amazing. 

Now that I think about it, it kind of reminds of one of the Three Spirit Perfumes from A Christmas Carol, maybe the Second Spirit that was the food and wine one? 

This years Pumpkin Spice Everything is so lovely! I sold out of it at Vermont Lunacy yesterday and the general remarks were that it’s very warm and comforting. My review from 2014 is from the OG version which I had gotten from NYCC at the time and it was very spicey..I don’t know if that one had the allspice element at that time but I feel like this version is like…simmered? that’s what I want to say. All the spices are evenly tempered and it’s a very snuggly perfume

I’m surprised there are no reviews for this yet! In the bottle I get the cranberry brandy as the first note which generally isn’t my thing but I love me some oakmoss so let’s do this…

The dry down is so nice! It is fuzzy with no scuzzy! Reminds me of the smell of a local craft fair with handmade wool socks and scarves. The sweet oakmoss is pretty and there is slight tartness from the cranberry but it all melds together very nicely. 

I love the story behind this and the perfume definitely does not disappoint. I think once more people try it, they will be pleasantly surprised. 

I immediately fawned over this one because of the molasses note. If any of you are obsessed with Big Bertha’s Big Molasses Muffins from Bitch Planet, you will be on my level. 

Elizabeth’s Imps stays close to the skin and the black molasses with the cinnamon has a gorgeous, slightly smoky effect to it. On the drydown I can smell the amber in the background. This does not belong in a scent locket, it needs heat from the skin to really bring it to life.