Lunameth

I was not sure about this originally, it had a heat note to it that put me off, especially after the opening notes had been pretty and pink and shimmery. A few months later I'm testing again, and whilst that heat is still there at the beginning, it's much softer and fades back. I end up with this beautiful sophisticated 'pink shell' scent, like a mermaid Queen surveying her kingdom. This is warm beaches of an evening, restaurants and fancy drinks along the front.

This is a subtle dry peach rooibos. Very close to the skin on me, but I'm testing alongside things like The Wellerman so that might not be helping! I think this will be lovely on warm days.

Loving this! Put it on wet hair and it's still fairly strong 24 hours later. I get a waft of orange and what reminds me of the Lab's dry booze note (like gin and champagne without the fizz), which I adore. Hint of soft wildflower honey, and this is something I want in perfume form as well!

I tried this after leaving it a day, and there was a distinctive 'green' note that I wasn't expecting. It stayed through most of the dry down and I was disappointed it wasn't sweeter. I decided to try again in a week to see if anything changed, and here I am today with this beautifully sweet, golden, vanilla amber, and it actually reminds me of a lighter Snake Oil.

I have a decant of this, and it has that beautiful snow and fir note that I love! Smells VERY similar to another BPAL with these notes, but I can't remember which. It's a touch vanilla-y, but I don't really get any ice-cream from it. Unsure if this is a good thing or not, as sometimes that kind of scent can just be too much on me. But on me, chilly sweet snow and fir trees.

I think this is my new favourite scent! In the bottle I could smell this quite strong spiced sugar cane note with apple and a bit of apricot. It doesn't change too much on me from wet to dry, which I'm glad about, just blends and becomes this wonderful slightly spiced sugared marshmallow fruit. Ugh I love it. The marshmallow is light and fluffy, the sugar cane is slightly spicy (but not like cinnamon, which I was worried about, just... I don't know, spiced / baked kinda scent, but not?), and it seems to be a fairly even mix of sugared apple and apricot. I don't find this too foody at all, nor candy-sweet.

This is a beautiful fall scent, it reminds me of Bonfire Night and Devil's Night, because on me the incense, bonfire, and tobacco all amp, and it's all rounded off with the beautiful vanilla lace and hint of apple sweetness. Too good! I'm hoping the apple comes out more with rest and age, but honestly it's lovely as it is so I would be happy just layering it with another apple scent

This is sweet, delicious vanilla strawberries with a background of a summer meadow. I've been after a perfect strawberry scent for a while now and this is pretty much there. It could have done with being a little less candy-like and a bit more actual fresh strawberries to be utterly perfect, but as it is I LOVE it! Had it on 11 hours so far and still going strong. So happy I got a bottle!

Wet, this starts off like really spicy Dr Pepper. It goes through a bit of a scent journey, where I get cherry and almond and spices from the Dr P, then peanuts, then it gets smokey, vanilla comes through, goes a little powdery, and then later.... is that vetiver? Usually vetiver is a death note for me, but here it's just grounding. Overally, this is a slightly spicy, slightly woody Dr Pepper. I really like it! (There is something else there that I feel I should know, almost like the Lab's snow note, or their lovely fir note. *Something* that reminds me of Yule blends.)

Even with the leather, I had to get this, I love the idea behind it! It starts off as a gorgeous chocolate with 'something'. It almost reminds me of the thick chocolate and banana milkshakes I (very rarely any more because TOO GOOD) make, and it's not banana but that's the feel I get from it. Then the chocolate fades back and the leather really comes out, and it's quite strong but still very soft and cosy. The beeswax is there, and a hint of musty book pages, and this beautiful soft leather with chocolate.... It really is, as Freyasfae said above, like reading an old leather-bound book whilst eating chocolates. Lovely <3

This started out amazing. Wet, it was every note and was a bit of a jumble, but as it dried it turned to this amazing creamy lavender, with a bright freshness from the bergamot and apple. The apple was more like apple blossom, and it was all lovely. Then about an hour later, if not less, it was just vanilla cake, the musty vanilla cake I get in Eat Me. So very, very sad If it got to this stage after a few hours I wouldn't mind, but within an hour is just too short.

I get an almost anise-type note from this, and I wonder if it's the tea blending with the leather. I had a similar reaction to Tea and Music, which also has black tea and leather in. It starts off quite sharp on me, but does smooth out, and the suede leather isn't overpowering at all. However.... it's anise, pretty much all I can smell :/ Eventually, after an hour or so, I get a faint whiff of coconut.

I loooooove the Lab's snow note, and on me this is a softly-flavoured chocolate snow. The chocolate doesn't dominate, it's just another note alongside whatever makes up the snow note. It's beautiful, cold snow with a soft chocolate scent.

This was a frimp but one I've been wanting to try for a while, so I was really pleased to get it! Bit nervous about the rose because it tends to dominate on me. In the imp and wet this was buttery pastry and tart juicy blackberries. The rose then comes out but it's not a fresh cut rose, it's rose flavouring, like syrup. It's quite discordant at this point with all three notes vying for attention. As it dries down the notes all blend together and the pastry takes a step back, becoming a bit less foody to me. The tart blackberries and rose syrup are at the top and it's lovely. This is dark and juicy and slightly buttery, love it! EDIT: After a while this goes back to smelling how it did when wet, like a Christmas mince pie with added rose flavouring! Still really love it!

I am so sad, this ends up smelling nothing like it does in the bottle, which is all foam banana sweets and cheap vanilla ice-cream. On, the cake note comes out, the banana fades back, and then as zankoku_zen said, it goes to vanilla plastic. Really disappointed, it smelled so fun in the bottle

Gorgeous spicy vanilla bubblegum in the decant. Alas, the sweets fade away and this is just SO with a touch of sweetness and lavender. The whole thing is very close to the skin, too close, sadly.

I am not a foody scent person, but I love this! It was a bit iffy at first, as baking caramel cookies mixed with apple bubble bath. The apple-scented bath product eventually faded down and a slight bitterness came out, almost as if the cookie was slightly overdone. This is how it finished, a slightly overdone chewy caramel cookie with a hint of apple. The almost burnt note (brown sugar as others have mentioned?) is in no way a bad thing, I think it helps to stop this being too sickly sweet. This needs to be layered with a good apple scent to make it even more delicious!

I don't know what happens to this but oh wow it did not like me Starts off as an amazing perfect apple martini. The apple is a bit synthetic but works well as a cocktail scent. And then it just... sours. Really badly. Awful sour bile, I had to scrub it off

The decant I have of this is pretty perfect! Distant but aromatic take-out coffee, and sweet coffee liqueur. The cinnamon is there but doesn't stick around long. There is a soft almost floral sweetness after a while that tempers the bitter coffee, works very well! I hope a bottle of this is going to be just as good, worried about the possible batch variations...

This is fresh grass and clean, soft lavender. The white musk was lovely but didn't last long, and it ended up as a fresh, clean scent.

This on me is Snow White and lavender, and a little something extra that must be Dorian (never had the pleasure, unfortunately!). Utterly beautiful.

This is really lovely, innocent but sophisticated. It started off as a sweet 'sparkling' vanilla floral, and after a few hours the florals really come out on me, but the vanilla is still there. I could smell the apricot a little bit at the beginning but it soon disappeared, which is a shame, I'd like this to have a bit more 'juice'. But it is still a very beautiful and calming scent that just wafts around you in a cloud of soft, warm, vanilla flowers.

I've had the 2016 version for nearly a year and finally testing it today! In the bottle it is thick and dark, strong cocoa and spices. Wet it is dark chocolate and spices and... toilet cleaner. Oh dear :/ Perhaps this is the teakwood and spices mixing? Thankfully it isn't very strong! As it dries the powdery note comes out and then fades back again, and the faint toilet cleaner/incense smell recedes. This is nice but I would prefer more cocoa. Can't smell any rice milk. It's a very warm and comforting scent, though, very cuddly <3 It does make me want to age a bottle of Snake Oil and layer it with El Dia de los Reyes

This is the first time trying the 2015 version, so it's had a few months to age and settle. In the bottle - Soft warm vanilla and babies. So snuggly! Wet - Vanilla marshmallows and... something. It's the snow scent I'm guessing, but it's so hard to describe! Children's scented toys from the 80s, a dash of coconut and almond, and snow. Not cold, but like looking out at the snow falling whilst you're wrapped up in a soft cream jumper inside. And there's something else, possibly the floral, that just gives it this magical quality, almost like you're out in the snow at night, under the light of the moon, but totally untouched by the cold. This barely morphs and has good throw. Hopefully it will last a good while as well, because it's amazingly beautiful. SO happy I decided to get a bottle!

I have just tested Eclipse and was very excited when the first whiff of the imp was mmmmm cherry bakewell (although more like a liqueur!). One of my favourite cakes and two of my favourite food scents (I am not good with food scents normally, things like Miskatonic University, Eat Me/Drink Me, etc, go very heavy on me and it's too much). Eclipse dries down to a beautiful creamy vanilla floral blend on me and it's definitely bottle-worthy, BUT! It does not keep the initial cherry and almond scent that I got so excited about. Does anyone have any recommendations for something that keeps that yummy 'flavour'? Or maybe good layering ideas? Thank you!