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In the bottle: the resins are scenting a piney woods that have new tomato plants growing on the verge

Wet: some sweetness floats over the pine trees--it's probably from the lovely blue musk

The Dry-down: still very much the herbal (now a dried tomato leaf) pine forest with hints of the resins and some sweet blue musk like a night sky with dimmed stars

Note: skin-test.

An interesting combination of the foresty snow note (one I've decided on as neither sweet nor minty, but closer to the icy/ozone snow note) and marshmallow. The snow note is obviously dominant on cold sniff, but the marshmallow moves forward when the bath oil is wet on my arm. The dry-down is an interesting combination of the two notes that in the end is pleasant and not so by turns. I just prefer my marshmallow scents to be sweeter.

Note: skin-test.

A slightly sweet snow note floating on top of white roses. Very elegant, but a light and gentle scent. It would go well with White Rose from the BPTP Unity set, or Hope from the CD, two of my white rose faves.

This was absolutely what I had hoped for on the first sniff: a yummy blending of all four notes. Wet, it was the same delicious blend, however somewhat dominated by the chocolate. But as the evening wore on, after it had dried, this lovely scent slowly turned powdery on my admittedly dryish skin. The only notes that I know for sure that become powdery on me are dark roses and most ambers, alas. I've never that issue w/ any of the four notes listed. Perhaps there was something about the combination that caused this on me. I'm still tempted because it was so gorgeous at first, but it would be for the scent locket.

Not sure why I've never tested this, as I like the milk chocolate note in the Lupers' Box of Chocolates subsets. But w/ Bliss in the Snowdrift subset, I thought I'd better look into the matter. Luckily, I have a fresh imp from the Lab.

In the imp, wet on my wrist, and through the dry-down, this is lovely milk chocolate. Not a morpher.

In the bottle: Very much the sweet patch, but there are hints of the hay and tobacco.

In the bottle: Water (more fresh than salty) haunted by resins.

Wet: This just blooms on my wrist. Lovely resins floating in the ocean, but near the land.

The dry-down: Slowly the perfume softens on my wrist into a lovely combo of all the notes. A perfect blend for fall or any rainy day.

Let me take the opportunity of this evocative poem's presence to just express my amazement for Beth's knowledge of poetry, as has been shown throughout BPAL's existence! I majored in English literature at uni and had an excellent grounding in American literature in high school by a great teacher who challenged his students every day. And yet, there are a number of poems that Beth has introduced me to, that I had never read nor studied. Thank you so much for broadening my literary as well as perfume knowledge.

In the bottle: An earthy leaves and patch scent overlayed with a fruity sweetness.

Wet: A more muted version of the cold sniff.

The dry-down: Not a morpher--much the same scent throughout. I like it, but it's not as vivid a scent as the tester at DSWC. This may mean a batch variation, or it may mean that aging will improve this scent.

In the bottle: Tart pomegranate, with only a passing touch of the sweet cotton candy.

Wet: More of the sweet cotton candy.

The dry-down: The pome and the cotton candy are joining back together into a nice blend, not too tart, not too sweet.

In the bottle: Sweet mint, with a little hint of vanilla ice.

Wet: Lot more mint, perhaps a wintergreen mint.

The dry-down: The mint calms down slowly. The sweet note of the vanilla ice/snow also slowly breaks through the wintergreen.

This was the Bpal Lilith I was looking forward the most to. It's beautiful in the bottle, but not quite as lovely on my dry, acidic skin, alas. I want it to be more sweet than minty. Perhaps it's time to try the scent locket again. It seems to be moving towards the sweetness, albeit not as fast as I would like. Still, it's my fav of this years' scents in honour of Lilith.

ETA: Aging has allowed the sweetness in the dry-down to show up faster.

In the bottle: The 2 notes!

Wet: The loud pink peppercorns are right on top of the dead leaves.

The dry-down: The dead leaves aren't crunchy and brown; they've just detached from a branch and floated to earth. Then someone spilt pink pepper everywhere, so it's sweet in a somewhat fresh fashion. I could see wearing this in the spring as well.

Not having tried Fake News, I can compare this to the pink pepper note in the Good Omens series of Pepper, the one girl in the gang called Them. I like that note, but the pink peppercorn note here is sweeter and fresher.

This scent needs more love!

I sniffed the 2017 version at the DSWC. There's been only one yr that I really liked it enough to purchase a bottle; all other yrs' were faint and fleeting, alas. This yr's had a strong banana note, something that I have never experienced w/ Sugar Skull before. I'm afraid that I didn't even skin test. But that's just me, since I don't care for banana scents.

In the bottle: It's Snake Oil, but with those pumpkin pie spices added.

Wet: All the sweet spices mingle, floating on top.

The dry-down: Now more Snake Oil than not. Some aging should help. Or adding a drop of Pumpkin Spice Everything. I should note that I'm one of those who prefers aged Snake Oil--it just does better on me.

In the bottle: With each whiff, I get a different, lovely note.

Wet: All the notes, in a gorgeous, slowly-blending combo. *whuffles her wrist*

The dry-down: This is just *amazing* and *wonderful*. It really doesn't morph, and is a sweet but gothy scent.

I get the comparisons to Goth Queen. When I was Lilith's age I wanted to dress like Wednesday Addams.

This is for the 2017 version.

In the bottle: A gentle mint, some ozone, and hints of those ferns. At this pt. it reminds me of the BPTP Yule imp, Fern Frost, somewhat.

Wet: The sweet florals come forward, and there's something underneath that must be the lunar oils.

The dry-down: In the end,the notes all blend together so that's hard to determine anything but the mint and the lunar oils. I'd like to death match this w/th the previous versions. It's a nice scent for winter.

In the bottle: Pumpkin cotton candy w/ blackberry hints and something spicy.

Wet: That spicy note is strong with the "force".

The dry-down: The spices calm down and allow the sweetness of the blackberry and the spun sugar to make themselves. Nonetheless, this is not a huge morpher, as the pumpkin note is always dominant. It's a baked pumpkin note, but not buttery as the pumpkin note in Jack. This has aged well.

For the 2016 version.

_{In the bottle: Spicey woods!}

_{Wet: Not so spicey now; mellowed out and comfortable.}

_{The dry-down: This is like crunching through the woods in late autumn, with just a hint of those spices. Not much patch or fruit to be found. Each year, Samhain presents a different sensory experience. Try a decant each yr if you can--it's never the same twice.}

_{ETA: this lasted over 12 hrs w/ 3 good huge drops, and the apple came back after a few hrs--delightful!}

In the bottle: Wow, just what it says on the tin!

Wet: Lots of dark cherries in a little cream. The cherry tartness is sweetened by the juicy blackberries.

The dry-down: Just yummy and gorgeous! Not really a morpher. Warning: a little goes a long ways. I can see using this more this autumn. I heart both fruits.

This bottle has been sitting for months--the cacao was sitting on the bottom, so it needed shaking!

In the bottle: Bourbon vetiver that's been drizzled over chocolate-coated fresh red apples.

Wet on skin: Much the same as on cold sniff.

The dry-down:: This loses the apples after a while, and I am left w/ a chocolaty scent w/ the sweetness undercut by the vetiver, slightly. Layering this w/ some sort of SN Red Apple note would mitigate its failings. The fact that the cacao keeps precipitating out is disconcerting. I really like the wet stage the best.