Little Bird

Boo was the Halloweenie that I was most excited about, and it does not disappoint at all. In the bottle, it sort of smells like cheesecake and buttercream frosting. It's cool, creamy, sweet, and slightly buttery. On my skin, it reminds me of Midway's soft cotton candy swirled into a cheesecake, and it doesn't smell buttery at all. The cool, creamy, slightly clean smelling vanilla just conjures up an image of a slice of vanilla bean cheesecake for me. There's nothing too sweet about this scent; it has the perfect amount of sweetness. My only complaint is that this doesn't have much throw on me, but it does last a good while and it's one that I wouldn't mind reapplying. Boo is easily one of my favorite bpal scents. It's a wonderful, creamy, cool vanilla with little touches of cotton candy and clean linen. A vanilla that's clean, smooth and not too sweet.

This goes on smelling sort of medicinal on me, with a pine and menthol feel. The drydown is really lovely and soothing, though. I smell something like herbal lavender over powdery sandalwood and sweet, bright resins. Over time it's less medicinal and more of a lavender incense scent that goes soft and slightly powdery on me. I love lavender and resins. I'd buy a full bottle of this if I had the chance .

St. Lucia is sharp, red hots cinnamon candies on my skin . I amp up spice notes, so this smells like pure cinnamon on me. It's strong and headache inducing, and it makes my skin red and itchy. The blend gets a little sweeter smelling and loses its sharpness after about a half hour, but it's still too heavy on the cinnamon for me.

In the decant vial, Pediophobia smells sharp, cheap, perfumey, and slightly soapy. It smells like drugstore floral perfume, but I'm not good with floral notes. If I had to guess, I would have said it reminds me of iris's perfumey sharpness. On my skin at first, this is clean, sharp, perfumey floral with a hint of sweetness (smells like lotus's bubblegummy sweetness to me). I worried that it would go soapy for a while, but it stays smelling clean without morphing to dish soap. It's like a fresh, clean smelling floral with a drop of lotus and a musky-sweet drydown on me. This is better on my skin than it is in the bottle, but it's still very much a not-me fragrance. Too much perfumey floral and musky-sharpness for me...

I think that Tweedledum and Fruit Moon layer really well with Sol Bacio.

In the bottle, this reminds me of Marshmallow Poof. I get that same fruit punch & creamy marshmallow candy smell. I don't smell any dandelion in the bottle. On my skin, I was disappointed at first, because this smells exactly like Marshmallow Poof. It smells like a cold, fruity sugar. Then, after letting this settle on my skin for five minutes, the dandelion comes bursting briefly into the scene. I always like how realistic bpal's dandelion note is. It really smells like bitter, weedy dandelions <3. Plastic Pink Flamingo is a lovely, sugared dandelion for a brief stage on my skin. I'm surprised at how wearable the dandelion is when paired with some sweet notes. This is like a dandelion dipped in sugar with just a hint of fruity syrup. The sugar softens the dandelion's bitter edges and adds a hint of fruitiness, and the dandelion keeps the sugar from being sickly sweet. And then, unfortunately, this morphs back into Marshmallow Poof after about a half hour and it stays there. It smells like loads of sugar, banana laffy taffy (??), and a splash of fruit punch. Way too sweet... I adore the label for this and wish that the dandelion would stick around. I think I'm going to try layering this with other dandelion blends...

In the bottle, this smells powdery, fresh, and almost citrussy. It smells summery and powdery. I think that I can smell the honey, but it's like a fresh, flowery honey... On my skin, the only note that I can really pick out is the baby powder. It's a soft fluff of powder and an extra hint of sweetness... creamy, white and soft smelling. I feel like I dusted myself with baby powder and dabbed on the tiniest bit of sweet floral perfume (or Castitas bath oil) - very innocent, proper and ladylike. I keep smelling something like a hint of Castitas bath oil underneath the powder. I imagine that this would be nice to wear when I just want to smell clean, but I'm not sure if I've ever really had the urge to smell clean and powdery. I think not. I don't find this unpleasant, but it's very not-me.

In the bottle, this smells like cherry chapstick and a hint of earthy moss. The fruity aspect smells cheap and artificial to me. I usually amp up red currant and it goes all tart and sour on my skin, but the fruitiness here smells cloying, cheap, and waxy. Perhaps it's the red currant smothered underneath the molasses and vanilla cream, but it's definitely cloying and not good on me. I can smell hints of the moss and patchouli drowning underneath the sweetness. Cherry chapstick, way too much syrupy sweetness, and a hint of earth. Lawn Gnome smells pretty awful on me. It's just way too sweet and smells cheap and off on my skin. Bleh.

I managed to get a full bottle of this one and am glad that I did. I usually hate bpal's milk scents (they smell sour and cloying on me), but I really like this one. Phantom Cow actually smells a lot like Ochosi & Buck Moon do on my skin. It's like a sunny, sweet, soft green smell. It smells like an enchanted meadow, fresh and uplifting. I don't smell any milk notes until this has been on my skin for about an hour and then it's a cool, smooth cream fragrance underneath the greenery. It doesn't smell like any of the other milk blends that I've tried. It's actually quite nice and wearable for me.

In the bottle, this smells just like black cherry kool-aid powder. Tart and scary. On my skin, the cinnamon comes rushing in to terrorize everyone. Sharp, aggressive cinnamon. It eats the cherry alive and leaves no traces left behind. Every once in a while, I think I smell something licorice-like underneath the cinnamon, but it just smells strange. I'm not sure why I bought a bottle of this, because I know that bpal's cinnamon amps up and goes all sharp and overwhelming on my skin. It makes me smell like cheap, obnoxious potpourri . Hideous Heart is not a keeper for me. I have to wash off this cinnamon-fest before it starts to give me a splitting headache...

In the bottle, this reminded me of Gluhwein and my heart skipped a beat (I just adore Gluhwein <3). It's like sweet, sexy, dark fruitiness and a bit of bubblegum. Gluhwein without the spice. On my skin, this has a brief moment of smelling like sexy wine and then quickly dissolves into smelling of grape juice and grape bubble tape gum. It's sweet, strong, happy, artificial purple grape. It softens after a while and becomes less in-your-face sweet, but it's still sweet and smells like grape bubblegum. I find this oddly appealing. Soothing System is a sweet, cheery fragrance. I'm going to use this for layering & mixing with other scents, as I can imagine it adding a fun touch to a lot of different things.

In the bottle, this smells like a crisp men's cologne. Aquatic, salty, and with a bit of woods. There's also a chill here that makes me think of pine and menthol, though that doesn't transfer over on to my skin. On my skin, I'm delighted that this doesn't instantly morph into laundry soap, as most aquatics do. It actually smells like a complex cologne on me. It's masculine and clean (and definitely has that salty-ocean smell), but also cool and has a slightly spicy feel that I get from a lot of men's colognes, with a hint of dry wood. Cold, salty ocean spray, dry wood, and that generic men's cologne base smell that makes me think of menfolk. I'm surprised at how much I like this. I don't know if I'd wear this much myself, but I'll love this on my husband. A Fit of Artistic Enthusiasm makes me fantasize about being on a ship in the middle of the ocean with my man. Not too shabby .

In the bottle, this smells like a very warm, buttery, cloying vanilla. It's a bit like butterscotch. On my skin, this smells odd and boozy. It's like some sort of warm, creamy, butterscotch & booze drink. It smells like there's a hint of almond on my skin too (the closest thing it reminds me of is Dana O'Shee). As it dries down, this is less butterscotch and more of an odd, warm, sweet, grainy sort of vanilla. It still smells slightly of almond on my skin. It's a simple and high pitched sort of sweetness. Doesn't have much throw and only lasts about an hour. To call it vanilla ice cream would be a bit of a stretch, in my opinion. It's a sugary, buttery mess. Eta: I recently pulled this out to try again, to see if 2 1/2 years of aging made any difference with this scent, and now it smells oddly like banana candy and circus peanuts on me

In the vial, this smells like creamy cinnamon and a sweet syrup. On my skin, this kinda smells like burnt snickerdoodles. It reminds me of Sugar Cookie, which also smelled oddly like burnt cookies and play-doh on my skin. I definitely smell the cinnamon, but it isn't amping up & going crazy like it usually does. Smells like burnt-on-the-edges sugar cookies dusted with cinnamon and a hint of creamy play-doh. It sounds great, but it doesn't smell so great on me. At least I won't have to try to find more of this rarity.

Awww. I think that's the best label ever...

In the imp, this smells pink and sweet. It actually reminds me of cotton candy. I can see why people have mentioned bubblegum. On my skin, this is so girly and lovely. It's like pink cotton candy and a hint of sweet, innocent, slightly clean floral. High-Strung Daisies is cotton candy, a clean sundress, and a handful of pink, sugared flowers - very pretty. I really like High-Strung Daisies, and I find that I like it more and more as it sits on my skin. It's a very charming little scent . It's not an aggressive fragrance, but it does have good staying power; it just sort of dances around me in a light, pink cloud... I kinda love it.

In the bottle and on my skin at first, I can definitely smell the fir note. It smells very bitter, green, woodsy and slightly medicinal. As it dries down, I get more of a dark musk and sweet, smooth resinous myrrh & benzoin. I sometimes have trouble wearing musk notes (they tend to turn sharp on my skin), but the benzoin and myrrh really round out and calm the musk here. Overall it has a dark brown, warmed, sensual feel.

In the bottle... this smells like a hint of blueberry drowning in a sea of sharp, clean, perfumey musk. This seems like it's going to be way too musky for me. It's not a good sort of musky either. It's harsh and chemical smelling. On my skin... umm... berries? Hello? There are no berries anywhere to be found. I get nothing but bad musk from this, from start to finish. I normally amp up honey, berries, and fig notes, but the musk has apparently killed them off in this blend. Yup. This is nothing but a sharp, clean, gross musk on me. It's a little bit like hairspray on my skin. Blech. I'm really sorry that I bought two bottles of this, because it's pretty awful. It smells nothing like any of the listed notes.

Smelling this in the imp, my first thought was "craft store." It's an overwhelming mishmash of sweet, fakey fruit notes with something oddly perfumey and artificial laying over the whole thing. Not good. I think that I'm hating the "musky-weird base." On my skin, this is a sharp, perfumey musk, a fresh spray of orange citrus, and watermelon candy. I love how juicy and realistic the mandarin smells; it's like peeling a fresh orange. The mandarin isn't enough to save this blend for me, though. As this dries down, I'm just getting an overall impression of too many cheap home fragrances crammed into one area. It's all perfumey and artificial smelling on me . Voice of the Lobster started to give me a headache after I had it on for about fifteen minutes, so I had to scrub it off. I had really high hopes for this scent, but it's too perfumey, sickly sweet, and artificial smelling. It smells more like a potpourri scent to me than a personal perfume...

:love!: This smells like a mix of a lot of my favorite scents. It's like someone crammed Spooky, Tokyo Stomp, Lump of Coal, and Tombstone together in a bottle with a drop of oakmoss. I get a really rich chocolate brownie, vanilla mint cookies, and an edge of dry cedar and oakmoss. I love foodie scents and I love them even more when they have a unique, earthier side. All of the notes in this blend together sooo well. I love this Little Crocodile. My only complaint is that it fades rather quickly on me (lasts an hour on my skin), but it's definitely full bottle worthy and worth reapplying.

In the imp, this smells like a soft, slightly herbal-earthy honey. It's a gentle, golden sweetness. On my skin, the honey amps up and freaks out, as it often does on my skin. It instantly becomes cloying, sickly sweet honey with a sharp, almost green grass smell in the background. Thankfully, Against Idleness calms down a lot after about fifteen minutes. This dries down into a soft honeyed vanilla powder with a hint of freshly cut lawn (I'm not sure what note is doing that on my skin, but it's a fresh, slightly green smell). Surprisingly, I'll probably keep my imp of this. I like the gentle, slightly powdery drydown a lot.

In the imp, this smells like it has a lot going on. It smells sweet and softly fruity, but also herbal and floral. It's a dark, muddy sort of smell, if that makes sense (doesn't smell like dirt, but just seems dark and muddled). It's weird. On my skin, this reminds me of Eternal, which must be the gardenia. It has that ultra-creamy 'flower milkshake' smell. Gardenia is one of the few floral notes that I actually like, because it goes all creamy and sweet. And it isn't sharp like most florals are on my skin. The Sluggard is tons of creamy, sweet gardenia with a little hint of pear (and it isn't going sickly sweet like most pear notes do on my skin, it actually smells like real pear), with the sweetness calmed down by an awesome, resinous frankincense note. The frankincense comes out more in the drydown, as does the prickly thistle. It really smells like a prickly plant. I kinda love this blend. Creamy gardenia, sweet pear, prickly thistle, and resins make for a really unusual, unique fragrance, but it somehow works for me. I might have to get a full bottle of this.

In the bottle, this smells like a sexy, woodsy cologne. There's something that smells like pine, juniper, or cypress in here, making me think of Golden Priapus and The Isle of the Dead. Slightly sharp, piney green, dark, and wooden. I also smell a warm, masculine musk. Of course, there are none of those notes actually listed :/. In any case, it smells manly, outdoorsy, heated, and sensual. On my skin... this smells like a man in a leather saddle, riding his horse through a dry evergreen forest on a hot day, with pine needles crunching underneath him. I also smell a hint of the woodsmoke, but it's not enough to ruin the blend for me at all. As it dries down, the smokiness smells just like gunpowder on me. So, Sacrifice smells like hot, dry pine forest, worn leather, gunpowder, and an overall feel of rugged, manly goodness on me. I like this blend, but I *love* it on my husband, and he loves wearing this type of fragrance. I'm very glad that I took a chance and bought a bottle of this when it was available .

I've never smelled Cool Water Game, so I'm not sure if it's mainly fruity, woodsy, clean, citrussy, or what it might smell like on your fiance... but just based on the listed notes, you might want to look at: *Bruised Violet Compound - violet, red currant, patchouli root, and spanish moss. *Cheshire Cat - grapefruit, red currant, dark musk, roman chamomile, delphinium, and lavender. *Death on a Pale Horse - white musk, mint, lavender, patchouli, vetiver, yuzu, lime, geranium bourbon, sandalwood, and lily. *Lurid - black currant, lavender, white musk, resins, and ozone. *Lysander - lilac musk, tonka, wood violet, lime, myrtle, blackberry leaf, and benzoin. *Oberon - orchid, white musk, bergamot, juniper berry, and patchouli. *Old Scratch - lavender fougere, tonka, amber, rosewood, and patchouli. *Pontarlier - swiss ferns, lilac, black currant, rose, lavender, sugar, and absinthe. *Wilde - gentleman's cologne, patchouli, tonka bean, bergamot, moss, lavender, jasmine, and thyme.

My poor little Sunbirds got eaten up in the postal system, but they survived. I received the bpal box totally mangled, ripped apart, and crammed into a post office plastic bag with a "sorry we ruined your package" note. Miraculously, the perfume and books were only a bit dusty and no worse off for the wear. Very appropriate. *pets little Sunbird bottles* To me, Sunbird smells similar to The High Priest Not to be Described, both in the bottle and on my skin, though it's less spicy and has less throw. Sunbird is like a warm, glowing, spicy, exotic incense. If I had to guess at the notes, I'd say this has red sandalwood, some spice (cinnamon leaf? I don't get a heavy cinnamon feel from this at all though, maybe nutmeg), sweet, dark incense, a touch of herbs, and a curl of smoke. It's a warm, golden scent on me. It's smoky and a bit ashy without being overwhelming or smelling gross on my skin, and I tend to dislike smoky notes. I think that I wanted this scent to be darker and heavier than it actually is. It's pale, soft, and golden on me. I don't get any patchouli or vetiver from this at all. I'm not wowed by the scent right now, but I love the artwork and the story, and I love anything bird-themed. Still, I'll wear this, and I'm hoping that it gets better for me with age.