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Wet: Bright, juicy peach musk.

 

Dry: Oh, this is a beautiful scent! The peach is rich and juicy, lacking the sharpness that fruit notes can have. It blends wonderfully with the amber and musk for a warm scent that isn't sugary or very foodie. Kind of a grown up peach jam scent.

Wet: I smell tea and something sweet and fruity.

 

Dry: The clean linen note comes on strong, and the yummy tea disappears on me. This has the sharp type of perfume smell that irritates my sinuses, sadly.

I tried this solely for the honey, which is absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately, I hate ylang-ylang, and there is plenty of it in this blend. I think this would be amazing for someone who actually likes ylang-ylang.

Wet: The coconut, hazelnut and very soapy iris are coming on strong as three distinct notes. Not sure if I can smell the musk yet.

 

Dry Down: I think the musk is coming out, and the scents are starting to merge and not be so harsh. The Iris is not quite as soapy.

 

Black Pearl is turning into a powdery floral on my skin. While the other notes help make it sweeter and more mellow, I don't think I could wear this scent. The iris is giving me a slight headache.

Wet, this smells like dish soap, maybe the original Palmolive scent? As it dries, the violet comes out and I get violet candy drenched in dish soap. Eventually a little vanilla comes out to even things out, but the dish soap smell never goes away for me.

Wet, I can smell mostly the honeyed almond milk with juicy fig fruit and green fig leaf. It's interesting and sweet without being foodie. After about half an hour, this morphs into a gorgeous woody oriental perfume blend, and I can no longer discern any individual notes, (I never do smell the coconut.) I never thought this was a class of perfumes I would like, but it's so amazing with my skin chemistry that I just ordered a whole bottle. The smell is very grown up and sensual, sweet and woody and a little spicy.

 

I love actual foodie scents, but they are terrible with my skin chemistry. I think I will try more sandalwood based oriental blends similar to this one. I get the sweetness and warmth I wanted from foodie blends without the dust or play-doh smell.

 

Eden doesn't have much throw at all and doesn't last on my skin more than an hour or two.

This scent is so delicious! It actually reminds me a lot of Miskatonic U, but without the dusty book and autumn leaves smell. Butterscotch is the predominant note, with a cakey creaminess that mellows it out. I don't really get the rum smell, but my bf said he could smell it on me, but that it's subtle.

 

This actually turned into a very strong, unpleasant dusty scent on me after a while. It became more noticeable each time I wore it, and I finally had to find the bottle a new home. The true foodie scents all seem to go dusty on me.

I get the buttery rum notes from this, but the almond is very sharp, almost too sharp. This is definitely not a bakery type scent, as the description might lead one to believe. I go back and forth between loving this and thinking it is too strong, but I always get lots of compliments when I wear it.

Snake Oil smells like incense in the bottle, but it turns into pure baby powder on my skin. The smell is so strong and long lasting that I am nervous to try it again. I'm more of a foodie scent person, so maybe this one just isn't for me.

Eat Me hits me over the head with fruitiness when wet. After a few minutes, I can smell the sweet vanilla, but the current is still so strong that I'm not sure how often I could wear this, (fruity scents tend to give me headaches.) I really wish I could smell the cake, but it's just not there for me. I could see how this would work for someone wanting a food scent that isn't too foodie, but for me I like warm, buttery, sugary foodie scents all the way.

 

Edited A Year Later: It's funny how skin chemistry and perception change. Now I absolutely smell cake, and it is definitely white cake, not any other flavor. A lot of cake smells go wonky on my skin, but this stays pretty true. I have a couple of very well aged imps of this, and I have to say that I prefer it fairly fresh from the lab. This is one of the few foodie scents that works well enough for me that I have not traded it away.

I had two imps of Gluttony that I made last forever, and now I am kicking myself for not buying the bottle when I had the chance! I didn't find out it was discontinued until I went to BPAL's site to purchase one.

 

I don't get coffee or chocolate at all with Gluttony. On me it is pure, sugary buttery goodness. People would literally stop in their tracks when I wore this out.

This is my favorite BPAL scent, and the one that got me into BPAL in the first place. A friend of mine was wearing it and smelled divine. I immediately had to buy a full sized bottle.

In the bottle, this smells a bit like artificial hazelnut coffee creamer to me, but after it has dried on my skin, the hazelnut mellows out and I definitely smell slightly musty library books and autumn leaves, along with a creamy Irish coffee scent. MU has staying power, but it's not so strong that I can't wear it to work, and when people are close, (like when greeting me with hugs,) I always receive compliments. A friend said it smells like vanilla on me, which I don't get, but it is cozy and warm like vanilla.