Little Bird

So spicy. Cinnamon heavy pumpkin pie spice with an undertone of something like burnt brown sugar. Way too much spice for me.

I'm not getting cream or blackberries just cherry flavored cough syrup and sugary almond extract.

Yum. A buttery, sugary, vanilla and butterscotch type scent with a hint of leather. The sweetness + leather does smell rather bookish. I love scents like this, where sweetness is paired with a darker note. It's in the same family as Butterscotch & Black Beetles for me.

This is strange on me. I don't like the cinnamon and ginger spice mixed with the citrus cologne and buttery, sweet lilac.

My decant is old now, but I don't get any fruit from this. Just warm, powdery, dry woods and a soft, sweet incense... very light and doesn't have much throw or staying power on me.

Powdery, warm, perfumey musk with green leaves and hints of honey and earthy patchouli (but I was definitely hoping for more honey and patchouli than I get from this blend). I don't like this much musk, and the leaves smell strangely green and watery rather than dead, earthy and spicy.

You can kinda smell everything at once in a chaotic jumble, over a base of baby powdery sandalwood. Fresh rose, lemony bergamot, and strange, honeyed greenery over baby powder.

Iris and jasmine are hateful on my skin, and that's all I really get from this blend. A sharp, white, cutting, generic white floral iris and a sour, yellowy jasmine...

This scent fascinates me and reminds me of the smutty pirate romance novels that I used to read (I was big on romance novels back in the day). The dark, sweet rose and beeswax candles smell so romantic to me, and the hint of salty aquatic and old wood make me think of pirate ships, with the patchouli and oudh giving an earthy, masculine touch. So, yeah, seduced by a pirate on his ship on the sea, in a room full of woods, roses and candles... Received a frottle of this from the Lab in a recent order and it is soft, powdery woods, a smoky scent like torched notebook paper, and hints of sweet, honeyed wax and sweet, red roses. Warm and perfumey and goes baby powdery.

Powdery sandalwood, a mentholic and sharp pine note, and a very sour citrus note that turns slightly soapy on me in the drydown. I find it all very sharp and sort of clean, but also strangely soured and just unpleasant...

All of the intense woodsmoke and burning pine trees of Troll, with some gingerbread spice added in. It does smell very Christmassy, in a way, like roaring fireplaces, freshly cut Christmas trees, and the cinnamon potpourri that shows up around the holidays. I just don't find this to be wearable at all. The harsh smoke, pine, and cinnamon gives me a headache.

So much cassia, which smells like an aggressive, woody cinnamon on my skin. I can smell hints of what I think is honey and dusty/powdery incense and sandalwood underneath the spice, but it's mostly spice... very warm, dry fragrance.

Starts off strangely green and herbal smelling, but dries down to a dusty, warm, amber-y labdanum incense. A bit powdery on me, and smells like old incense in a stuffy room where everything is dusty and dry.

Kind of a dry, biscuit-y cookie with cinnamon and a hint of cherry almond.

Soapy, sweet floral and tart, sour red wine. I was excited for whiskey and bread, but neither of them show up to the party.

I wanted to love this for the name, but between the golden musk, white sandalwood and orris, this is bone dry and super baby powdery smelling on me.

I love Dorian, so I like this blend (though I do prefer Dorian on its own, I think). It's the smooth, cool vanilla musk of Dorian with a calming, cool lavender and a touch of a sharper, white floral that goes a bit soapy on my skin (the snowdrops?). Pretty, clean, floral, lavender touched Dorian. Delicately vanilla sweet.

Overall, this smells like a spring floral scented laundry soap on my skin. I can smell hints of green grass and sweet lavender, but mostly it's wrapped up in a clean, musky, soapy fragrance. Clean laundry.

Sweet, sugary berries (like blue raspberry snow cone syrup) and a powdery bubblegum scent. Fun and super-sweet, but only lasts about a half hour on my skin.

Strange how different this seems to be on everyone. I love tobacco, especially French Tobacco, but I'm not really getting that note here. Tag is mostly a sharp, cold, astringent black tea on me with hints of medicinal, sharp clove and a drydown that has a smokiness sort of like burning leaves. It has a harsh quality on my skin.

I'm mainly getting powdery amber, sweet frankincense, sharp and perfumey gardenia-ylang and a hint of dry, woody patchouli in the drydown. Powdery, perfumey, nondescript sweetness. This is like one of those blends that has so many notes in it, it just fades into a jumbled 'perfume' scent, if that makes sense.

Baby powdery amber and a sharp, clean, herbal sort of lavender. Most of bpal's ambers turn to baby powder on me, and I don't like it, and I prefer my lavenders to be sweeter and creamier. This winds up being like baby powder and herbal lavender scented soap. I just don't like that powderiness at all.

I was afraid to try this, because I'm sensitive to spice notes. It is a loud, intense cassia that raises red welts on my skin where applied. Smells like cinnamon, but a dry and woody sort of variety. Sharp. The honey isn't enough to soften it for me.

Dry wood, incense smoke and a touch of very sour, red rose. Dusty and light on me, and I don't like the rose in this blend.

Much like the Motherhood fragrance, the bubblegum overwhelms any other notes on my skin. It's sweet, pink bubblegum with that powdery film around it. Fun, but I don't see myself wearing it, really. I'm more into cake, cocoa, and caramel as gourmands.