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In the bottle, this smells like a coffee shop. Yay! On my arm, wet, like a coffee shop (happy and relaxing scent for me!) As it dries, I can smell a candle burning in the coffee shop. Huh. That's...interesting. And not in the list of notes. For a few minutes, it is nothing but candle wax. Now, fully dry, I can smell the coffee again, and there's an underlying spice (cinnamon), and the curling scent of a candle recently blown out. Absolutely no funnel cake in sight, and never was. Body chemistry is super-weird.

This is...not at all what I thought this would smell like. Wet, it smelled....grey? Like slightly damp cotton? No lavender at all, no vanilla, just a soft grey smell that was kind of shapeless. Drying down, I can smell the lavender and just a tiny hint of vanilla, but it's almost like someone spilled a little perfume on some linen. It has MASSIVE throw on me, and the throw is much more vanilla-forward than the scent close to my wrist, which is mostly fabric, and a ghosting of lavender. Very complex. Not the scent for me, but very intricately made.

I expected to love this scent - coffee, chocolate, vanilla? What's not to love? In the bottle, it was heavy on the coffee, but like a mocha scent. Dry, it's like dusty chocolate and a slightly artificial scent which I think is the cream note. Coffee note was short-lived, and I smell no vanilla. It smells really familiar, and I want to say that it kind of smells like a commercial chocolate pudding? Not much throw after the coffee burned off. I think I'll have to wear it several times to decide whether I truly like it because of the cream note. (After further consideration, I think the cream note is the same on as "Candy Butcher"; which was a little sour on me. For comparison, my daughter tried this, and on her, it smelled of sweet coffee, with no sourness at all.)

This is my new favorite fragrance! I'm so glad I decided to buy it! In the bottle: Overwhelming roast pumpkin. Bright and almost sharp(?) Wet: PUMPKINY WUMPKINY Dry: OH MY GOODNESS. The pumpkin merges back into the whole of the scent, which reminds me of a library? That must be the oak note. It's really so complex I can't pick out any single note, but the whole of it is the cosiest, homiest scent I've ever worn. Warm and subtle and just soothing. It doesn't have much of a throw; but I catch whiffs of it when reaching for things, and it makes me smile. Just a brilliant blend. (My two daughters tried this on, and they could not have had more different scents. One smelled immediately of fresh-baked bread, with no pumpkin at all. The other got a blast of sweetened - honeyed- pumpkin, which dried down to cinnamon.)

This blend smelled very sugary in the bottle, but on my skin it immediately settled into a subtle, complex, warm scent, with a faint herbal note underneath. Just beautiful. Doesn't smell specifically of oak or brown sugar, just a mild, comforting scent that would be perfect for everyday wear.

In the bottle: Tuberose! Wet, on my skin: Jasmine!!!! Dry, on my skin: JasmineJAsmineJASmineJASMineJASMIneJASMINeJASMINEJASMINEJASMINEJASMINE :explodes into choking cloud of jasmine stink: In conclusion: If your skin amps jasmine, stay away.

In the bottle: buttery pumpkin, yum! Initial Application: Buttery pumpkin, OMG I SMELL DELICIOUS Drydown: Pumpkin w/the faintest ghost of spices, like a pie that you can smell cooking in a neighbor's house, mixed w/clean hay from the pumpkin patch you're standing in. It smells FANTASTIC. 3 Hours Later: Funnel Cake! OMG I SMELL DELICIOUS In conclusion: Medium throw, well-balanced, lasts about 4-5 hours, effing DELICIOUS.

In the bottle, like a florist's cooler. (That's a good smell!) Wet: Cold white blossoms that are like sticking my nose in a bouquet, without being overpowering. Dry: Daffodils! There are other flowers underneath the daffodils, but they're minor notes in a field of buttercups. I LOVE this fragrance. I don't get any amber notes, but every once in a while I get a bit of the tulips. Just gorgeous! Dry, an hour later: NOW I get the amber. At this stage, I can't pick out any single floral notes - it's just a harmonious whole with a soft amber base note. I love every stage of this scent.

When I opened the imp, it smelled like...WTF FLOWERS?? But no pumpkin. Wet, on my skin: Sharp and spicy almost-floral (WHAT), but no pumpkin. Dry: STILL NO PUMPKIN. Also, sharp and unpleasant. No sugar, no custard, no pumpkin. It only brings headaches to the party. I am SO disappointed, as in the past, BPAL's pumpkin note was always beautiful on my skin, no matter what. This? Oh, no. No, no, no. Off to swap! 2nd Try: There was a bit of spillage on the label, and I noticed a day or two later that it smelled more of sugar, so I thought perhaps I'd give it another try. In the imp: Sugar? No floral smell, so hurrah! Wet, on my skin: Cinnamon brooms. BUT NO PUMPKIN. Dry: CINNAMON BROOMS TO INFINITY And. NO. PUMPKIN. WHATSOEVER. Hours later: A whisper of sugary sweetness when I stick my wrist against my nose. Conclusion: BAH.

SOAP. Sharp, hideous soap. And cinnamon brooms? It's just awful. I'm so disappointed, because their pumpkin scents are almost always gorgeous on me....but not this one. No, not this one.

In the imp, this mild and dry, with just a hint of amber. Wet, it was...like stepping into a summer day, with warm breezes bringing you just a hint of grasses and tiny summer flowers. Dry, the amber has warmed up, and for once, it does not powder out on my skin. I LOVE this. It's so warm and beautiful. It's like a breath of summer in the midst of fall. Edit: I have been wearing this daily for weeks, and it continues to be a favorite. A warm, well-blended amber scent.

In the imp: fresh and green. Wet: A complicated rush of green smells, very herbal, but with a soothing note that softens it. Drydown: Suddenly becomes extremely masculine, an herbal blend where I can't detect any of the individual notes, but which smells very manly to my nose. Verdict: Might try it on my husband, but it's not really for me.

In the imp: Ooo, this smells gorgeous! Not sharp or unpleasant as I feared! Wet, on my wrist: WHOA, what the hell? This smells like...furniture polish. Cheap furniture polish, the kind that comes in a spray can. UGH. Drydown: It's gotten more complex, and the (must be lemon) polish note is finally fading, but now it just smells like some sort of potpourri. No citrus whatsoever. Completely dry: It's not unpleasant, but it smells vaguely peppery, with a faint generic 'potpourri' scent. Clearly not the scent for me. Verdict: I'm so disappointed! The imp smelled so lovely, and my skin made a right hash of it. Maybe I'll try it in a scent locket?

The description sounded lovely, and it smelled ok in the imp, so I slathered. This was an error in judgment. A terrible error in judgment. From the initial blast of musk came this sour smell that got stronger and stronger and STRONGER. It eventually identified itself as the roses. Sour, musky, horrible roses that choked me until I had to run and scrub it from my skin. It's still there. So...huge throw, long-lasting, and utterly horrible on my skin.

In the bottle, it wasn't very fruity - just like a wash of some sugary syrup. Wet: I'll be damned. It does smell like Fruit Stripe gum. Dry: Smells like sugary fruit-flavored candies, heavy on the raspberry. It's just a really cheerful scent. I don't know that it'll get heavy rotation on my end, but I think my youngest daughter is going to absolutely LOVE this. EDIT: My youngest daughter tried it on, very excited to smell like Skittles. The minute it hit her skin, it smelled of nothing but vanilla. Slightly musky vanilla. WHAT. It never changed, either. Wet, dry, hours later: vanilla. The heck?