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This starts out lovely - spiced, honeyed almonds. And then, as soon as it dries - SOAP.

Very strongly scented soap. It smells familiar, though, like a soap my grandmother used, I think? But straigh up soap. I had to wash it off.

You have made a giood choice with Eat Me! It wasn't a huge favorite for me when it was brand new.... but I let my bottle age a bit and it is awesome! Also, check out Drink Me from the same collection.

More lovey foody scents in the general catalog are Shub-Niggurath (evil gingerbread cookies is the consensus, and I agree!), How Doth the Little Crocodile smells like peppermint patties, Bliss is straight up chocolate, Halfling in the RPG line smells of oatmeal cookies, and Vice is mostly chocolate orange.

And really, you are getting into bpal at the PERFECT time for foodie scents - the Halloween scents should be up in a week or so - and that is a foodie lovers paradise!!!!!!!!

Goblin is wonderful patchouli! Also Mme. Moriarty from the Carnival has a great patchouli, but really in the general catalog (i.e., impable) - Goblin is my favorite!

Reviews are here.

ETA; my other favorite is Banshee Beat, discontinued but you can still find it on the sale pages!

This is stunning and beautiful. I get mostly rich velvety red rose, with some sandalwood and mandarin softening it. And it is just the rose, no stems or greenery that I can tell. I really don't get any other notes, only the sandalwood and mandarin - which somehow just enhance the rose instead of standing out as notes.

Lovely and subtle, not an overwhelming fragrance, but potent. Very elegant and feminine.

I love Looking Glass, Looking Glass, and I am so happy that I have some! It is the best rose scent I have ever tried on my skin, and I am sad that there won't be more ....... I understand why, but it still makes me sad!

The Witch Queen from Neil Gaiman's Stardust is a lovely floral/incense blend, although I do get a lot of fruitiness from it as well:

Wild plum, red musk, tuberose, calla lily, heliotrope, pimento, ylang ylang and beeswax beneath a dark haze of sinister purple-hued incense smoke.

Unfortunately it's un-impable, but I do see decants for sale pretty frequently.

In the bottle, lemon and mint with a little vanilla in the background - definitely the bourbon vanilla, I can see the "mojito with lemon" comparison.

On, the mint and lemon sort of duel for dominance, they blend very well, but as I sniff I think "lemon!" "no, mint!" The vanilla is still there in the background, adding a soft sweetness, but this isn't a vanilla dominant scent - at least, not yet - this review is right out of the mailbox. I think that sometimes vanilla scents especially need a little while to "rest" before the vanilla holds its own against the other notes.

So far, the vanilla reminds me of Celeste, I am getting the feeling of a lemon and mint Celeste from this. I am hoping the vanilla comes forward a little more with time, as it did with Celeste......

MUD. Wet, in the bottle and on my skin, I get mud with something sweet. As it begins to dry, the leather starts peeking out, and I think the sweetness is crushed grass - it smells similar to a freshly mowed lawn type of grass. But that gritty mud is still there, and it really smells gritty and like dirt on a wet stone to me.

As it dries, it gets sweeter from the leather and grass, and the mud is receding into the background. No lemon drops yet. Unless that is some of the sweetness in the background? Maybe.

This is fresh out of the mailbox, though. If things change, I'll come back and edit!

ETA: A couple of hours later, soft sweet leather. The stoney/mud/dirt note has vanished. And I do get a hint of lemon around the edges, just a little. Lemony leather, yay!

Also, I remembered what the dirt note reminded me of - Dungeon Crawl.

In the bottle, I get lemon meringue pie and a touch of green tartness from the hemlock.... when it first hits my skin that is exactly what I get.

Then, as it dries, the green recedes and it is yummy lemon meringue pie. It is so pie-like my mouth waters.......This is the kind of pie my mom made when I was a kid, with fresh lemon juice in the homemade pie filling, very tart but sugary at the same time, and homemade meringue broiled in the oven. I also get a little marshmallow type sweetness, but I'm not finding any blueberry (yet).

This is a delicious scent, right out of the mailbox!

ETA: A couple of hours later, blueberry marshmallow it is! But still mixed with the lemon meringue pie. I love this.

Some of my favorites: (Seconding lots of other opinions, really!)

El Dia de Los Reyes: one of my favorites, spicy chocolate yum. Just warm and delicious and smells like you would want to eat it.

Bliss: simply milk chocolate, as others have said, you can layer it easily.

Boomslang: yum. Very chocolatey Snake Oil, gets more chocolatey the more aged it is.

How Doth the Little Crocodile: Chocolate Peppermint, with a little bit of wood in the background.

Vice: on me, orange blossom and chocolate. Light and very much a comfort scent for me.

ETA: I can't forget Wulric the Wolfman! Chocolate Lavender, and just gorgeous.

Upon first application, I get loads of red ginger - it reminds me of my beloved War. But there is something powdery there..... and as this dries it morphs into all powder, all the time. Maybe there is a little bit of leather there? Amber does this to me sometimes. So sad!

I got my bottle so fast! And I am all the way on the other side of the country!

In the bottle and when first applied, I get a lot of the cotton and tobacco that I get from Black Lace. To me. Red Lace has sort of the same background as Black Lace (I have never tried Antique Lace, so can't say if there is a comparison), but RL is definitely "redder" - pomegranate, patchouli and raspberry are all present and blending beautifully. I don't get much red musk or frankinscence, only a touch.

I agree with the reviewers who said that this will age beautifully - I can totally see this as a blend that in a year, it wil be drool worthy. It is absolutely lovely now, but a ittle "perfumey" on me - not that that is a bad thing - I normally wear more foody blends, so to my nose this is a more traditional fragrance. It does morph and settle, becoming a smooth, faintly fruity, but definitely red scent.

ETA: Ok, now that this has had a couple of weeks to settle, it has already aged into gorgeousness! I can pick out the individual notes with my nose against my wrist, but wafting around me, they blend so well and it is just stunning.

This is love, love on my skin. Fresh ginger mixed with honeysuckle, blended with spices and creaminess. I don't get the black pepper, yay! I do get the "sharp" comparisons, but to my nose that is the sharpness of freshly grated ginger, and mixes well with the creamy undertone.

I can see the comparison to Pepper, all grown up - there is the same feel to War. But War is a strong uncompromising scent, definitely red, warm and sweet. Pepper is much more pink.

This perfectly suits the character, to me. A gorgeous woman, that brings war, topples governements, and men lust after and are frightened of at the same time.

This has become one of my top ten, really top five - and absolutely hoard-worthy.

Right out of the mailbox, and this is :love!:

I do get the comparisons to SnakeOil/Charmer, definitely. A little chocolate peppermint, a little juniper berry (but only a little), and a wallop of patchouli over a Snake Oil base is what I am getting.

On, it is very similar to my year old Snake Oil..... instant aging! It has that resiny/musky creaminess, but with a faint freshness too. I can't wait to see how this ages, if it is this good right away.

I will edit this if anything changes after it settles a bit..... but right now, I can see many, many backups in my next order.....

When first applied, this is all OMG WATERMELON JOLLY RANCHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which is great if you like watermelon jolly ranchers, and while I like them as candy, the scent was a little much. But as it starts to dry the "watermelon" fades and morphs into a lovely juicy plummy scent, and I am getting undertones of vanilla and apricot, but no cacao yet. There is a faint earthiness that I assume is the amber musk.

This is a very pretty scent, light and sweet without being too foody. The plum gives it a foody, candy brightness, but the other notes ground it and keeping it from being a completely foody scent. The tiare gives it a floral feel, without making it a floral scent. Just a lovely combination of the notes.

This is really lovely, not a lot of throw but it seems to have lasting power.

Boo is the most vanilla of the vanillas on my skin. I use it a lot to layer when something needs a little more vanilla. I get more vanilla-y sweetness from Boo 2009 than 2010, but I don't know if that is due to aging or formulation.

Banshee Beat is gorgeous. I love the combination, and I was also wary of patchouli until Banshee Beat. (There were bad scent memories there.... )

Tombstone is a sasparilla-y vanilla on me, like a root beer float. With leather.

TKO has wonderful vanilla in it. If you like lavender as well, it's wonderful.

Midway smells like cream soda on me, I get a lot of vanilla from that.

This is just gorgeous. The leather is very much at the front of this, but it is more of a soft, suede scent - that deep rich buttery smell from really good, really thin suede? This is that. There is a hint of coffee and hazelnut, and the tobacco is there in the background as well, and the spiciness. This isn't "sweet' in any way, but rather rich and deep.

Oh, and for the record, not only do I not amp leather, but I have a hard time picking it out in blends. And when I can pick out out, if the blend is fresh it usually is "sharp" on me. This is not.

As it dries, I am getting more of the tobacco, not a burnt tobacco smell, but just the tobacco plant smell mixed with the suede-y leather.

I think as this ages, it will become evne more beautiful.

I also think this will layer really well with Snake Oil.

ETA: As I was looking for a leather comparison, I realized... this is the leather from Bow and Crown of Conquest. In fact, on me, this blend is a non-lavender Bow and Crown of Conquest. No other notes in common, but there you have it.

In the imp: very well blended mixture of all the notes, hard to pick out any one.

On, wet: Inscensy! Lavender-y inscence. I think it's the myrrh that gives it that feel, of smoky evenings outdoors. I get a bit of woodiness, from the teak and agarwood, I think. The lavender isn't overwhelming, but definitely present, mostly giving a "feel" to it instead of an actual lavender scent.

This is really lovely. And I agree that it will age beautifully, deepening and smoothing. It reminds me a bit of Black Death only with lavender. I think this one is bottle-worthy.

In the imp: pure clove! I understand the "dusty" part of it, too.

On, wet: still mainly clove, but a little fruitiness in the background. Mostly the blackcurrant is just warming up the clove, but it still smells old and dusty to me. But as it dries, it is sweetening just a bit, smoothing out and becoming fruitier.

Drying; Something about clove and spiders.... the clove note reminds me a lot of The Smiling Spider from the Salons. Sniffing close to my wrist, I get a huge hit of dusty clove, no blackcurrant at all. But wafting around me as I am typing this, I am getting lovely blackcurrant with an undertone of clove.

I apparently amp clove. Most of the fruitness is gone, leaving dusty clove that reminds me of something from my childhood, I think a cologne my grandmother wore.... I wish I got more blackcurrant from this. But if you love the lab's clove note, then this one is for you!

This is for the Res. version, got it in a swap today and am SO EXCITED

When I first put it on, it smells so familiar. It took me about an hour to place it - CREAM SODA!! The exact vanilla fizz scent of the sweet cream soda I drank as a kid (that kind was Nehi, but I think it pretty much all smells/tastes the same).

Now that I've had it on for a couple hours, if I huff my wrist close, I do get a funnel cake/donut/salty popcorn blend under the cream soda.

This is absolute, pure love.

I'm glad I'm not the only one getting mint in this!

To me, I get a lot of the fruitiness from Jester, sweet and currant-y, with that hint of mint to cool things down. No pastry, though. Just loads of berries, all kinds!

YUM! Chocolate & spices! I don't get any lager either, except maybe to make the chocolate a "deeper" scent. I get a lot of spice, definitely ginger and cinnamon. This is delicious!

Shub Niggurath is one of my favorites, someone described it in one of the reviews as "evil gingerbread cookies" and that is one of the best descriptions!

I love TKO and How Doth the Little Crocodile, and completely agree with bella_delirante ^ ^, but IMHO, the best "sugary" scent is Boo! from the 2009 Halloweenies - I see it come up for sale pretty often, and it is absolute pure vanilla spun sugar - when I wear it not layered with anything, people keep asking "Do you smell cotton candy?" or marshmallows -

I did not like Gluttony either, the lab's caramel note doesn't work on me, so I have just learned to avoid it. I like Vice better than Bliss (Vice is actually less sweet on me), and some of the Butterflies sound awesome but I haven't tried any yet (they are on order).

I will be interested to see what other people recommend, as I also love the "sugary" scents!

My bottle of Boomslang is OPAQUE. Smells fabulous, but looks like used motor oil..... and stains my skin just like you said, like I tried spray on tan, in that one area.

I am trying to figure out what to do to help with that, a little extra lotion where ever I apply it is my next attempt. And the worst part is that I slather like crazy, so I am all brown-spotty after putting on Boomslang!

Wet, this smells identical to Love Me - spicy jasmine. I do love Love Me, and it does lovely things on my skin.

As this dries, it sweetens up a little and there is a little fruitiness. I can tell now that there is ginger in this, not the cinnamon I get from Love Me. It is creamier and there is a hint of fruit in the background. The ginger smells like a freshly cut ginger root, and the vanilla is almost separate, not blending in but hanging around the edge. But I still get mostly jasmine.

Overall, I do like this, but it is just too close to Love Me for me to need a bottle.