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So this began as rather buttery cake batter, but as it dries, I get more of the 'beer' - and it smells like stale beer and stale cake. Like the remains of an adult birthday party - half drunk beer bottles, and a cake that people forgot to cover, and has dried out.

On wet, this scent is incredible. I get a TON of wild lettuce. It's cool, fresh and lovely. As it dries however, I get a mildly dirty/soapy note.... like as if my lettuce had been covered in dust. BOO.

This one is a smooth, soapy perfume. It's a white floral - and I know I've smelled this before. It has something creamy and maybe a hint of melon.

Yum yum yum! For me, I get this giant blast of green. I really get the tomato out of this, and hints of rosemary and perhaps a touch of fir, but overall this is green green green. I would not have pegged this for a pumpkin blend. By far the best Weenie I've tried this year.

Claylike sandalwood. It smells dank, damp and a bit powdery. Meh.

Pumpkin, black musk, tobacco, myrrh, and clove Bah. Buttery pumpkin, myrrh... and the clove is bitter I think, and not sweet. I don't get along well with bitter clove. On dry, its definitely less buttery and all the other components balance out the pumpkin. It's a kinda masculine blend, albeit a bit sour on my skin.

I got a testable sniffie of this... thanks babe! You know who you are! Okay, on wet, the patchouli/wood combination is actually kind of offputting. Combined with the airiness, it smells like woodsmoke... but like rotted wood kinda woodsmoke. Perhaps it is the gunpowder? If I recall correctly, that tends to be a note that is somewhat acrid on me. It dries to hay/patchouli blend which is fairly masculine, screams autumn, and in general smells like a pretty good looking guy. You know the type - the kind that has blue blood, rides horses like he was born to it, has wonderful steady hands AND has whisked you away to his centuries old country manor for a fall weekend. I am not putting this on mr. zee_zee for FEAR of it smelling fabulous on him, and then we're both up $h!t creek.

YUM! This has the same bright green grass note that Host of Air and Green Party does (and now that I think of it, was a minor bit player in Dog Days of Summer if my olfactory memory serves, which sometimes it does not). Where as GP and HoA have other components to it, this is more of a straight up 'grass' blend. Bright, green, sort of clean laundry smelling. I think in general the BPAL 'grass' blend may contain lilies, as mr. zee_zee says he smells them every time I wear GP and HoA.

This definitely has vetiver in it as I get that smoky bacon bit from it, as well as something that smells truly unpleasant on me. Like rotting gardenias/wet wool sort of unpleasant (which might just be the gardenia!) EW.

The Thunderbolt of Indra, The Hand of Brahma The Four-Petaled Lotus. Security, stability, courage, manifestation, survival. Muladhara is the root of all matter, the basis of physical existence. Through this chakra, you draw down spiritual energy and cause it to take physical form. In this chakra, the three primary psychic channels materialize. Within Muladhara, sleeps the Coiled Snake, your spiritual potential, and here it remains, sleeping, until you arouse and it work to bring it back to Brahman. All of your samskaras take physical form in this chakra. Hmmm. The strongest notes are vetiver, patchouli, hint of cedar, and I get some pretty strong ginger from this. The only problem - there is nothing sweet in this blend to balance all of these elements on me, so I end up getting something sharp and savory smelling. Probably good for meditation, but not as a perfume!

Okay, for you gals that are missing DeSade, this might be a good substitute for it if you can handle vetiver. Despite the smoky (slightly baconny, but that happens if a blend has copious amounts of vetiver) vetiver, the leather here takes the forefront. Black, shiny, sleek (although slightly chemically on me). This is the black leather note from DeSade, tempered by vetiver and a hint of metal. Too masculine for me, and leather notes are an even worse evil for mr. zee_zee, so pass...

Clean white floral - on me, it kinda smells like soap. I get hints of grass/grenness, but it pretty much smells like fresh linen. I think given the semi-aquatic fresh feel of this, that it has cucumber as a component. I don't do well with BPAL's linen note, so I'll have to pass.

Whoo. This is a softer version of Tempest. Which means, I get a decent dollop of ozone, and soft white floral, which I am assuming is the olibanum. Pretty, in a clean, fresh sort of way.

Slightly more aquatic Samhain - it's got many of the same components. It's less smoky, but its got the dried leaves, slightly dirty, and I swear the sweetness actually makes me think of raisins. Something in this blend reminds me to raisins. ETA: In the prototype, it is much more foodie. I get a big caramel hit from it, and when it dries, it goes powdery. I am thinking more sandalwood.

Yup, yup. I can see this being like the Emathides, it's got that dusty (why hello clean patchouli), musky kinda purple blend. I get a faint whiff of red chili on the drydown. The benzoin makes it warm, the vanilla adds a touch of sweetness. Not my kind of blend, but very well crafted indeed.

Okay, this has hints of aquatic, green musk, and motor oil in it. Actually, the motor oil may be a hint of leather, since it just smells chemically and noxious to me. Utter fail with my skin chemistry.

Okay, so this one starts as a pretty resinous/sandy blend, and dries down to the same sandalwood as in Jingo Kogo. Whereas JK had that citrus bit going on, this one is the sweet, powdery, sandalwood underneath. There's also another note in there I can detect, slightly herbalish and masculine, but I can't quite place it. This is the JK for guys.

I agree with the barn assessment - it smells like leather and hay and a touch of resin.

I get mostly clean musk and dusty sandalwood. If there's leather in this, I don't get any. Which is a small miracle.

Yum! This one has a strong lemongrass on wet, and dries to a pleasant lemony floral. Tasty.

Gah. Lotus, and cedar. And hints of ylang ylang, patchouli, and maybe jasmine So mainly bubblegum and pencil shavings, which a whole bunch of florals that I don't like. UGH.

Three Jacks on me wet is delicious. It's got a strong apple/apple blossom note to it, and it kinda makes me think of Lamb's Wool, minus the milk. As it dries however, there's an almost 'motor oil' tinge to it. Despite it all, the only offputting thing I find about this blend is its rarity.

This floral def. has some sweetness to it. It's light, sweet and girly.

Okay so at the beginning there was a fruity vibe to it - but the lotus pretty much takes over and its this sticky sweet bubblegum mess of a blend. It actually makes me feel kinda ill...

On wet, this has the hard slap of mint (perhaps peppermint), and dries almost entirely to anise. It's slightly herbal, slightly sweet, and reminds me to the old horehound candies actually, in that it has almost a root beer vibe to it.... except loads of anise in it.