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for me, the experience seems a bit different. this opens with slightly spicy lilies with a hint of the jasmine incense in the background. after 1-2 minutes i get a bit of a green lilac while the jasmine incense gets quite smoky. it's primarily that smoky jasmine with lilac for me. i find the incense to be quite strong, and while i like incense, it sort of takes over the scent for me, and i wish it was a bit subtler. it's not bad though, it is a nice perfume.

wow this starts off beautifully! i get a soft, somewhat powdery wisteria with a subtle musk that thankfully doesn't go too sharp. i also get a slightly subtle greenness. this is a gorgeous soft spring floral and i personally find it very comforting. i need to upgrade my decant to a full size.

for me this starts with honey, vanilla and lemon. honey/lemon are the most prominent at first, then after a few minutes i notice the musky amber a bit more. the musk seems to be sort of amping up the lemon a bit, making it slightly effervescent. several minutes later i get a lot more vanilla. i struggle a bit with it for the first hour, the notes aren't mixing great on me, though i love them all. it improves after 1 hour +. i get less lemon and more honey/musk.

for me this is a slightly dirty, spicy jasmine. at first it leans sliiiightly mothball, but then that goes away. i guess the spiciness is coming from champaca? i am unsure, but this is a pretty, heady jasmine. maybe it's incensey as the reviewer above said. it just adds a bit of depth to the jasmine.

this opens with rice and smoked vanilla. its very toasted smelling, i guess others read it as buttery? i can see that as well. i get a slight hint of yuzu after maybe 5 minutes, then i get jasmine tea a few minutes after that. it dries down to primarily jasmine tea and vanilla. thankfully, the rice fades more to the background over time. this is very pretty, i am loving the jasmine lupercalia perfumes this year.

this opens with orris root and dewy lilac, so it's very springy. after about 10 minutes i get a hint of magnolia which grows over time, but still the lilac is a bit stronger on my skin. it seems like a lilac soliflore almost, which has happened with other BPAL lilacs, so i think maybe my skin amps this note (?) which i am not complaining about because i love lilac. finally, deep into the drydown, i get more magnolia, which adds a bit of creaminess to the lilac though the lilac is still quite prominent. this is so pretty for springtime.

at first i get mostly green tea and mint with a hint of a mildly indolic jasmine, followed shortly by some sweetness from the lotus. after awhile it's a creamy jasmine with hints of lotus and violets. this is gorgeous and i think i need a bottle.

this opens so soft, just musk with honey dust. the honey dust smells kind of like maple as another reviewer mentioned. after a couple of minutes the amber starts to peek through, and the scent seems to get more golden. i find this to be warm and cozy but close to the skin, definitely. overall this is mostly honey dust on me, which really doesn't smell much like honey, but more like a soft maple scent. i have tried other scents with honey dust and it's the same. with these other notes being so soft it's fairly strong on that note. i prefer regular honey/beeswax i think, but i could see a lot of people liking this one. it's very cozy and sweet.

at first i get a lot of strawberries and marshmallow on a backdrop of cherry blossom cream. tbh i am not a fan of wearing strawberry notes, though i do think it's pretty, it's just too sweet for me. the other notes pulled me in though and i was hoping against hope that the strawberries would be subtle. but they are not. they are the strongest note here for me (which i figured, but i also wanted to go a bit out of my comfort zone.) anyway, it's a joyful scent-sweet juicy strawberries and cream primarily. i could see myself wearing something like this once in a great while but overall it feels too sweet for me. in a nutshell this is strawberry candy and fluffy marshmallow.

this opens with primarily lemon and a hint of soft incense smoke. something in here goes slightly sour on me (not just the sourness of lemon) but more how flower notes can go sour-sort of off. hard to describe. after maybe five minutes, i get a hint of the candle wax but it's kind of odd and almost medicinal smelling...i think it's what may be causing the slight sourness. the incense smoke gets stronger over time which helps a bit. overall, i think the wax in this is turning odd on my skin unfortunately, and my skin amps the lemon so it's extremely lemony and that tends to drown out the other notes.

i think i get vinyl and lipstick at first...it definitely smells like textiles and unnatural sorts of things. there is a hint of chalky sweetness along with something like a mild turpentine...this must be the lipstick and vinyl respectively. like the above reviewer mentioned, it does have a slight effervescence and is a bit mentholated. i don't personally seem to get much leather and overall the scent isn't all that sweet on me. it's more of a realistic vinyl scent. it's a really interesting one-i haven't smelled anything quite like it.

i get mostly cherry and frothed cream at first...it's a little toasty/cakey, which i can only handle in small amounts. after a bit i get the rose and marshmallow, the cake/crumb note has died down thankfully. i find it to be pretty sweet...reminds me of a strawberry shortcake doll, but with cherry (i can't recall if there was a cherry themed doll?) anyway, on me it's a plasticky doll-head sweet cherry marshmallow. i sense a bit of tea in the background but it's pretty subtle.

this opens with lemon blossom and a ton of sharp frankincense which smells like pencil shavings...this is one of BPAL's notes that sometimes goes wonky on me. after a few seconds i get some neroli and honey, then later the ylang ylang. it ends up being mostly lemon and honey, and this is not one of my favorite honeys i've smelled...it's a little weird on me-has a bit of a pee thing going on. between that and the frankincense, this one just isn't working for me, unfortunately.

i get a lot of sandalwood incense with some violet, frankincense, ti leaf and a hint of jasmine which grows stronger over time. on me this is primarily a dry, unsweet incense with a hint of unsweet florals. it's nice but i wish i got more of the other notes. the sandalwood incense is definitely the strongest note on me. the jasmine never overpowers and then deep into the drydown i get a bit more violet-it's a this point that i like it the best.

I usually have a bottle vs. decant wishlist as seen below but I might be flexible on that. i also have a huge wishlist of OCYL and mainstream, etc brands but didn't feel like putting it all here. I can share that if need be. Bottles Divinities Implacable, Doom-Laden Inside the Golden Amber of Her Eyeballs (partial or empty) Love Me Luceat Porcelain Krampus (partial) The Top (partial or empty) Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace LE decants/unimpables (possibly bottles or partials too, depending-try me) the avenging vase awake (lupercalia 2020) The Bath of Venus (may '24) Bringer of Evil champagne and roses Concert (may '24) dawn: mother Die Wunderblume Douglas Iris Easter Egging (Lilith 22) epistrophia Exclamations of Delight and Surprise faster kittycat First Class Upgrade (Lilith 22) The First Veil (Lupercalia 25) formula 54 (i know, i know ) Fortuna Redux The Fox Spirit’s Jest (Lupercalia 25) Golden Tobacco and Beeswax Honey, Black Lilies & Gardenia Petals The Hound and the White Milk Doe Imayo Irokumi No It Inspecting the Lantern Kiss of the Sphinx (Oct 24 lunacy) La Femme de Satan Lemon Peel, Jasmine Tea, and Honeycomb Lesbian Maidservants Cavorting with a Tortoiseshell Dildo (Lupercalia 25) liz (just a tester would be fine. i need to re-try this.) Lorrainna lucille's room Marble Wreath Mars and Venus (Lupercalia 25) Mallow Flower, Honeysuckle, & Vanilla Bean noir (discontinued GC) Nymph in a Goldfish Pond (may '24) nyx, night goddess (apr 24) A Pause in One’s Studies (Lupercalia 25) Plume of Incense (Lupercalia 25) Rapturous Couple With Harigata reflected vulva The Second Veil (Lupercalia 25) telling the bees treasure (apr 24) une folle enterprise victoriana goth White Chocolate Rabbit Wisteria Blossoms (Lupercalia 22) White Chocolate Rabbit (Lupercalia 25) GC Imps Aasimar (RPG) The Chariot (disc. Tarot, not Neil Gaiman) The Magician (disc. Tarot, not Neil Gaiman) Atmosphere Sprays candlelight edith awakes the golden hour halloween in new orleans lucille's room lucy's room phallus festival the tigress Hair Gloss Chorion (nts: tried this but i think it had gone off) Fleur de Citronnier three couples With Stars Surrounded (Haute Macabre) Twilight Alchemy Lab (prefer decants unless noted) catalyst FOWYB (any amount) hymn to pan