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In the bottle this is a super creamy sweet sugar patch, and dry I get beautiful whiffs of sweet dusty and soft well blended clouds of cocoa-y yum fluff. But...When this hits my hair, and in the wet phase the lemon turns into a weird sour cat pee smell I'm hoping this is just a time of month thing, but I'm kinda worried. I'll probably swap cos I don't wanna smell like pee, but I love the dry phase so I'm torn.

Honeyed strawberry headshop incense. Very sweet fruit musk

This is indeed an expensive perfume note. Very elegant and perhaps a bit intimidating. I often am pretty dismissive of perfumy blends, but I'm going to come back to this one a few more times as it has anntrigueing complexity and interesting throw. It is a reedy type of high pitched blend similar in timbre to YSL Opium in it's shape if not in promary scents.

I was worried after having a few bad musk/amber experiences, but this was so warm and lovely. Strong orange with spicy (not headshoppy but fine) incense smoking through and rounded by a raspy deep patchouli. I needs more!!!

I love this. Autumn leaves in a pile near some dark cinnamon sticks. This is a dark and somewhat bitter scent that calls up mounds of red and orange leaves rustling in the wing. Love!

This is warm and nutty like a pumpkin curry. It's butter without being fatty and has the basmati rice steam scent I love! This is so cozy I think I finally found my BPAL foodie niche, not sugar, chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon or pastries but pumpkins apparently.

A warm woody vetiver with a burnt sienna feel. This tangles well with my synesthesia and reminds me of sunny October afternoons. There's something both sleepy and slightly foreboding, and the cedar has a school room feel. I love how evocative this scent is, and can definitely see it going into the night-time rotation.

Ooh, and a bit of pomegranate pith in the wet phase

I think musk and sandalwood may combine as a death note. This is mostly baby powder with a bit of dry soapy sandalwood. I actually like sandalwood soap, but, there's something a bit acrid in this-- a very high pitched baby powder that makes the back of my throat feel dry and a slight headache glimmer on the horizon.

Wet: Mmm. This is awesome. It starts out as honeyed basmati rice with fruits and a wafting curry note. Now it's a cinnamon basmati jaggery saffron raisin pudding. I am drooling and huffing. I'm kinda gross right now but this scent is amazing.

Dry Down: The cinnamon tries to swarm a little, but it doesn't get to cheap candle this into a bad place.

Dry: I bit of a bowl of Cinnamon potpourri with rice floating through and hints of the earlier yum.

I hope this settles down and turns into initial application all the time.

I agree; this is very headshop fruit incense or early 90's pier 1 imports on me. It's a little bit nauseating. Hopefully it will dry down nice or will settle with age.

On me this is a soft powdered sugar dusted lemon, a bit like a lemon filled jelly donut. There's also something a bit dry and feathery about this.

This started off really good, kinda like Mommy Fortuna meets Goblin with husky vetiver and black pepper goodness. In the dry down it morphed into an old lady perfume sour fruit tea which I believe was the currant taking over. Dry it's a sharp almost metallic currant overlaying a distressing hand cream scent (which reminds me of my mean step grandmother) with a hint of pepper that's smelling a bit like what my friend calls chicken salt. I really wanted this to work.

This started out as very beautiful citrus and herbs carried by a grapefruit top note and some sour fresh notes. It dryed down to a humid but delightful shampoo- sorta ALBA organics-like. Then the thyme starts coming out more. This is really fresh, brisk, and lovely and is my favorite fruity BPAL by far. I'm not counting the citrus or coconut favorites here. This is perfect for hot weather and is not too sweet as many fruit/herb/florals have been. I may have to break down and get a bottle despite severely limited funds.

On me this started out as a sharp herbal lemon verbena, and then slowly morphed into lemon ice tea. This felt a bit aggressively tart and flat and wasn't as complex as I was expecting. Not headache inducing, but I wish I'd gotten just a half decant of this one and more goat weed leafwing.

On me this is a beautiful fresh sunny orange blossom. I wish I had a bottle. Not a low of throw but perfect for work.

I love this. It's like a forest filled with beeswax candles. Sexy comforting and very earthy. This is my type of patchouli and is going to be perfect for autumn.

This smelled good wet, but morphed on the dry down into pure soapiness. Like a more astringent "No more tears" shampoo. Skin Chemistry.

I'm a bit of a newb, but the obsession is building.

My current Top 5, order depending on mood

1. Mommy Fortuna

2. Eve (OLLA)

3. Kumiho

4. Chuparosa

5. Goblin

There was a beautiful moment when this was wet, when the carrot seed and spices came out and did a little dance, and as I was testing it with Eve on the other arm, I thought it was amazing. Unfortunately, I apparently amp rose like mad, which overwhelmed everything else. Sad to swap as I loved this story point, but fortunately June 23 is playing nice

I agree with posters above. This starts out as a nice pine sap, lemon, and patchouli and thien the rose overtakes it. Just a little bit more patchouli and oakmoss would have been lovely. My stepgrandmother is apparently haunting another rose perfume.

I'm fascinated by this scent as it completely transform from a scent very much like Midnight Carnival to a more complex version of Molly Grue. Super cool.

I wanted to like this so much because Molly Grue is a personal heroine. This smells just like a candle as mentioned by previous poster. It's even waxy. I wish the BPAL fruits didn't go so waxy and cheap candle wrong on me but they do. This is also extremely sweet in in contrast to the Molly Grue of the book who is far more complex, bitter, ironic, clever, and finally soft rather than sweet. I would have loved some dark woodsyness for a character who ran away from being a lady to live in the woods with outlaws and who makes a rat soup thinner than sweat.

This on me goes from an interesting metal to an opressive, high-pitched, assaultive department store cologne ambush,in seconds. If I could signal an immediate red light stop code word for perfumes I would use it on this. Instead I scrub repeatedly and take ibuprofen.

This is far more GOT Verys to me than an ancient Unicorn who knows regret. On me this is a cloying melted white chocolate truffle oozing overly sweetened milk fat solids punctuated my violet pastilles. This smell lingers and is very hard to remove. I wish it was green, woodsy, even sinister like King Haggard in same series. I'm very dissapointed.

This is one of my favorite smells. Honey laden with a musky pollen, dry sandalwood, and a bit of acrid high notes which mellow into a dusky twighlit raspy honey. I only wich some of the other Last Unicorn scents were so evocative or true to the book