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In the imp, this is the best butter rum jellybean salty-sweet gourmet candy shoppe delight. As soon as it starts to dry down, it turns towards cinnamon stick and dried rose petal potpourri that has been sitting in the bowl too long and has started to turn strange. WHY? Maybe I'm just being spared the temptation. I amp cinnamon, so maybe this is just a fluke....Pumpkin cheesecake cupcake went very cinnamon stick craft store too.

THIS! I love how clean, sexy, feminine and creamy this is. My hair is always heavily bleached and dyed, and the lavender shampoo I use can strip the oils, while heavy conditioners leave me stringy. This leaves my hair manageable and smells like the word billowing should

This is so pretty and gentle. A warm tangerine musk and cushiony white suede over a hint of faded tobacco. This makes me feel sleepy, safe, and treasured.

This is the most evocative of the Carnivale that I've tried. This is sweet, sad, dusty, and haunting, like a dirty street at twilight recently abandoned. The almond rounds out any raspy edges root beer normally has, while the smoke and high john the conquerer make this a long winding scent. The pine is a wisps through and blends everything.

This is very refined and more blended and elegant to me, than Dorian. This is a knowing, slick, and swift scent without being at all smarmy or flashy. There are no snags or tells to this magic trick, just fluid grace. Sexy is a way that's not accessable. This is my favorite BPAL Earl Grey thus far, as the tea note is very subdued, the citrus is not too aggressive, and the musk lends a depth that's both comforting and elusive.

This is even more amazing than I'd hoped. Fruity honey and soft patchouli in a tropical sexiness cloud of yum. I think it's turning me on.

For me this starts out as an aggressive grape jolly rancher which morphs into cinnamon an d spices and then swirls into a just extinguished incense stick. Really complex and intrigueing.

For me this starts off as a warm shot of cotton candy that expands into amber and then turns into a shivery cold scent that evokes a quite cold long mirrored hallway.

Plasticky powdery grape candy

This is the good stuff. There's something so quintessentially BPAL about the scent. It's comforting as well as slightly dark, and I love the vanilla and patchouli in this blend as they complement each other so well, and add a depth and woodenness. The smoky leather adds a nice gruff edge and sexes up the dry warm honey and saffron. The Labdanum adds an interesting roundness. This is going on my wish list

This is a fruity floral, but the tea softens the bite of the plum and makes this more of a misty scent. The tea is very light and adds depth, keeping this away from the commercial perfume category. This isn't very me, I prefer darker scents, generally, but this is lovely and I'll probably use my half imp when I feel like being in disguise

I usually love BPAL coconut, obatala and goblin especially. This reads more as fruity tropical, but not particularly coconut. There is a slight suntan lotion warm note peaking around the generic tropical perfume, and I like the heat of this, so I may see how it ages especially as i am intrigued by saffron

The amber kind of escalate the florals and pitches them into my headache zone. There is something rather sparkling peach effervescence which may be the diamond, but on me it smells somewhat commercial, often the way alcohol will pitch a blend. I can only pick out the blend but it doesn't read very gardenia or honeysuckle to me, just rather perfumey

This is so amazing. I like the dark vetiver and patchouli main note, which reminds me of rainbow obsidian gazing balls with a corona of crunchy salt black crust. This is super strong and is definitely one of my favorites. I wish I had more than an imp. This is so perfect.

I find the sassafras and balsam to be really sexy, in a kind of Joshua tree vanilla way. There's something so evocative of the California desert about this scent. This is going to be a go to favorite for summer. It wears for a long time and doesn't get cloying like most vanilla blends for me. There's a dry richness here rather than a creamy one. This is going to be in heavy rotation.

This smells like a tart, sparkly grass and clover. I love the tanginess of the fresh grass and how I feel like I should check for ants. This is also one of the coolest looking BPAL oils I've seen.

So Sad This smells amazing in the imp and just applied, like a meadow of dandelions, sour grass, and black medick. I love this scent, but unfortunately, my skin kills it and turns it into a musky playdoh. I am so bummed because I would probably hoard this otherwise. Oh, well at least my moneys are safe.

This is an intense molasses and spices scent grounded in sexy resins. It's pretty intense out of the bottle, but subdues into a comforting oatmeal cookie and gingerbread whisper that fades away midday. I really lie this for layering with other spicy food scents, and can see this going into heavy rotation with Pumpkin Patch and Autumn scents next fall. There's something a bit cozy and sleepy in this too.

This keeps getting better and better as it ages. At first, this smelled just like a very good conditioner, but it seems to be growing on me by the day and I know I will be buying another bottle when this one runs out. The crisp astringent scent is bright, lovely, refreshing and clean. The sage grounds the top notes, and blends really well with other scents I wear. This is extremely versatile and layers well with the perfume oils. I highlight my extremely dense baby-fne hair, and this is great at smoothing out frizz and tangles. There's something humid and jungle-y that I don't get from any other hair glosses.

This is a quite soapy, watery floral, not quite to my taste and somewhat dusty in a way I don't like. My boyfriend, however, thinks its soapy, sweet, sugary and nice.

In the bottle, smells a bit like Calandre by Paco Rabane

Wet it's a warm, breathy, feminine bergamot, quite evanescent as one reviewer noted. There is something light and slightly vanilla musk at the edges. The slightly chewy black tea note grounds the blend and keeps it from becoming too musky. There is a slight licorice note to the tea. This is a warm, amber colored scent that in not quite as strong earl grey tea as I would have liked, but is nonetheless quite comforting and gorgeous; it will get a lot of wear. It reminds me a bit of Bewildered in a Dream without the lavender, and the Phoenix having burst her Shell with less Tobacco.

Sweet vanilla initially reminds me of a body shop lotion, but has an extra spicy quality that hurts my nose slightly but which I quite enjoy. I like getting rootbeery whafts of this which pop up intermittently. I'm usually not a huge vanilla fan, but I got a sniff of this in a swap with Clockwork Mom, and I'm kinda loving' it. I'm now taking a harder look at blends I thought wouldn't work, like Ava and Tombstone. Very enabling...

In the imp--the same crisp notes I love i White tea and Sage HG and Kumiho

Wet--This is so beautiful. A perfect green tea and lemon. Verbena tends to be too strong on me, and lemon can go cleanser, but this is extremely fresh, bright, and natural smelling.

Dry--I wish this was stronger, but after slathering this is a light could of beautiful, gentle, very feminine light honeydew colored waves of scent staying close to the body.

This is so friggin' good. Going into the regular rotation and slathering hard. I've noticed that some of my favorite BPALs are extremely light, so I've become more bold in my application recently.

This is a bit like YSL Opium, but more effervescent and multi layered. I feel a tightening excitement in my chest when I put this on and syteshetically get deep monarch butterfly orange, golden lights from high in a room and shadows dancing in soft browns. Love

This is wow HONEY. I'm so glad honey likes me! I only use 2 squirts, as it's strong, but I love it. There's both a floral and a more dark and syrupy honey with a bit of the diet lemon ice tea note which I believe is BPAL frost, but that fades into a cool and complex honey.