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This is primarily about the angel food cake on me: lightly sweet, airy, white cake! There's a little buttercream that's adding some sweetness and creaminess, and just a whisper of slightly artificial strawberry - not artificial in a bad way, more like, well, exactly when you have a scented lip gloss or chapstick, and it's got that hint of wax/solidity to it. But, again, that part's very light; on me it really is mostly light white cake and some buttercream. Which is actually very nice, if you want an uncomplicated fluffy white cake scent! This seems like it'll be good for layering with other scents, too. 

Oh, first! Let's see...

Very pink, sweet, sugary strawberry, indeed! I don't really get the sufganiyot part; it's very much about the strawberry preserves with extra sugar and the addition of marshmallow: a distinctly fluffy airy creamy marshmallow.

Fun and sweet - if you think you'll like this one, and you like candied strawberries, you'll probably like it! Good throw so far, though I've only put a little on, as I'm testing a few.

2025 version! I couldn't find any other thread, even the older ones.

Very similar to 2024, I think - sweet vanilla peppermint. Not as loud as some of the other years have been, and pretty much exactly what it says!

Delicious! Exactly as listed: creamy hazelnut chocolate, with an added marshmallow note. Low throw, but it does linger on my skin. I like it!

My husband and his whole family are Filipino, and we couldn't resist getting this one! (Though he says he'd spell it differently...maybe dialect variation...?)

Big tropical flowers + sticky sweet desserts! This is a loud cheerful scent with a lot going on. I'm not typically a florals person but I was hoping the desserts would balance it out, and they kind of do, though it seems like everything's shouting! It's hard to pick out individual gourmand notes, but I do get banana (the cooked caramelized turon kind) and a sweet sticky rice like when my mother-in-law is making bibingka. It actually really does smell like we walked into her kitchen while she was making desserts for a party, and we happened to bring a big bouquet of tropical flowers with us. So if that sounds good to you, this is exactly that!

Agreed that it's similar to PS Hot Buttered Rum, except this version is lighter on the spice and more about brandy butter and creamy pumpkin. Not too boozy, just warm and golden. Good throw, and long-lasting! 

Fried dough (just like at a fair!), cinnamon sugar, buttery pumpkin! Good throw, too. Perfect late-summer-carnival-into-autumn vibes!

Warm pumpkin bread - definitely a bread, not a cake! Plus, as everyone says above, a very clearly chocolate sprinkles note - super-realistic, down to the not-very-sweet kind of powdery quality! It's so nostalgic - childhood treats. This is a warm cozy domestic autumn scent, not too spiced or too sweet.

Malty, cozy, crumbly shortbread, cocoa (not super-sweet), and coffee, in that order. Good for cool weather!

Sweet caramelized butterscotch + syrupy peaches! A dark orange-brown-sugar sort of scent, dripping and molten. I like it!

White mint, the Lab's icy slush note, and citrus! I don't get the vanilla cream at all - I wish I did, because that would add some sweetness. But I do like it - it's crisp and refreshing, and wintry in a snow-and-citrus way (you know how oranges are associated with Christmas, and also lemon drops, and maybe citrus-y gumdrops? it's like that, with snow-slush) - so it's kind of a nice change from the usual peppermint or cinnamon or gourmand types.

My bottle label has a misprint, just fyi for any others out there - the art and name on the front is right, and the scent is right, for Yellow Snowballs, but the description section on the side talks about a blood-red voluptuous rose! (Might be Peacock Queen?)

I was hoping someone else would pop in, as this is actually my first BPAL lotion!

Scent: I really don't get pumpkin at all, which - as an autumn lover - I'm a wee bit sad about! I do get sweetness + red berries, which I'm not at all mad about because I like those notes as well. The currant adds a bit of tartness, which helps balance out the candyfloss / sugar note. I don't get much cream, though I do get the kind of sweet strawberry that's in other Lab blends (more a sugared syrupy berry than a pure straight-up berry). 

It's a lovely thickness that melts into my skin without being greasy or anything like that; I do think I see that the pump bottle is not the most efficient at getting the lotion out, perhaps. But the lotion itself is a luscious texture!

This is exactly what it promises!

It's primarily a root beer - a kind of candy root beer, like those little barrel candies, which I think is because of the extra sweetness from the ice cream. I don't get a lot of pumpkin (and it's definitely not pumpkin spice!) - just a murmur of something warm and gourd-adjacent and creamy. 

Very fun, and I like it!

The Husband: "you smell like...root beer candy? I like those candies!"

2025 version!

I also don't get much pumpkin - it's primarily a honeyed sweet cream, which I'm not mad at! There's just a little whisper of something smoky in the background, along with a little whisper of pumpkin - not really pumpkin spice, but creamier. The reviewer above who mentioned condensed milk or dulce de leche - I think that's pretty close. Cozy, warm, a little caramelized, thick. 

I honestly really love it and want to snuggle up in it at home! Having said that...for some reason the Husband really dislikes this one! I think maybe it's the honey or else just the thickness of it? Both times I've put it on with him sitting next to me, he's gone, "oh, I don't like that one!" without even seeing the label! But *I* really like it, so I'm going to slather it on myself when he's not home.  

I had been super-curious about this when it was an atmo, and didn't get around to ordering it then, and then it showed up in perfume form! So I had to, this time.

I was worried the coffee would be too strong, but it really isn't - it's more pancakes and syrup but not too sweet, just a sort of...warm richness, if that makes sense? Almost more like dark brown sugar, where it's more about the flavor and less about the sweetness. There's a murmur of coffee that smells exactly the way good coffee should make the kitchen smell, and the whole thing is cozy and kitchen-in-sunlight-on-a-lazy-morning deliciousness. 

My husband, with a perplexed but happy face , said, "peanut butter pancakes?" (I also had Halloween Hagelslag on the other arm for testing, so, make of that what you will...)

Green, herbal, bright, and very clean, as everyone else is saying! I get the lime while it's wet, and I do really like BPAL lime notes in general, so that's nice. It fades to green grass in the fresh air, sunny and summer-drenched. I don't really get rocks or moss, unless the latter is contributing to the 'green' medley overall! 

Oh, ice's post above reminded me that I never reviewed this (2024 version) - and I actually just put some on last week while reorganizing the stash!

It's absolutely delightful - bright, sweet citrus + herbal lavender! It really does feel like an orange-lavender candy, as someone said above. I don't really get anise - wouldn't be mad about it as a note, but I can't pick it out - maybe mingling with the lavender? I love sweet citrus, so this is exactly my wheelhouse. I would've bought a backup but I have waaaaay too many bottles by now and need to finish some or rehome some!

Got this as a frottle in a recent order! And the bottle very definitely says TALVIKUV, with a V - seems to be not a common one!

I get very 'cold citrus' - I can see it being slightly cleaner-ish. I think it's a lemon-herbal note + the Lab's snow or ice - the one that's chillier and icier, like slush. I actually kind of like it, though I might like it more as a 'clean kitchen' house scent versus on me!

This is almost all coffee on me, all the time! Coffee + a hint of spices. I do wish it were sweeter - I don't mind it as such, but I wish I got more ice cream and more funnel cake!

Sweet red wine, red apples, rich dark-brown sticky dates! It does indeed smell like autumn; my husband took a sniff and said, "apple cider? but, like, dark?" So I think this is a win!

Mmm, this is nice! Coffee is sometimes way too strong on me, but this is a creamy, milky, foamy lattte, swirled with lavender syrup. Just a purely *nice* scent to wear!

(still catching up on reviews, as I re-organize the stash!)

This is exactly what it says, and I don't know how else to describe it! It's like...those little strawberry-wrapped hard candies (the ones that have the wrappers that look like strawberries) - which I have a weird nostalgic love for, courtesy of great-great-grandparents and their candy dish - plus some literally indefinably *gritty* note, something sort of dark and scratchy, like asphalt, but that sounds less pleasant than it is! The strawberry is the loudest note, but it is a *hard* strawberry in all senses, like it's been in a West Side Story style street fight - not all *that* dark but still definitely a street scuffle!

I'm re-organizing my bottle collection, and doing some reviews I missed!

This one is so, so interesting - it's like a...sweet-earthy-dry-wine? I actually quite like it; I might wish it were a tad more sweet, but it's really tasty in a...not super desserty way? I get earthy purple-ish fig, some rich sweet-ish (like a port or sherry) wine, and a grounding of cake, but not super-sweet cake, more like a very English Victoria sponge, which of course makes sense! I really don't get honey at all. I think I like but don't love it; still, I'm glad I tried it!

Oops, never reviewed this! It's very pretty - I love sweet orange scents, and this is a candied orange with a whisper of freesia and a little-little flirty-spicy fleck of pink pepper. It is very springtime to me, and I really like it! It does fade very fast on me, though.

Pink and fun! I get strawberries and spun sugar - it's a noticeably different kind of sweet from the Pink Moon 2024, no cream or milk notes at all. It's a glittery sugar-crystal sugar + ripe strawberries. I do really like it, but it fades super-fast on me; within just a few minutes I have to put my nose right on my arm to smell anything at all. Going to go through this bottle fast!