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2007 version. This decant is even more aged, but there's more in it, so I think it aged better. The booze is still the star here -- more rum than brandy in this case -- but the cream is more noticeable in this one. Sadly, I still get the bubblegum-like aspect from this version, so I'm thinking I'm just not a fan of the Lab's rendition of eggnog.

This is just like the bath oil, which perhaps a bit more marshmallow. But it's mostly just the evergreen-and-possibly-benzoin-infused snow note from scents like Snow Bunny and NYC Snowball Fight, with just a bit of creamy marshmallow in the background. I so wish there were more marshmallow in this, or the marshmallow had been paired with the sweet Snow White snow note. I think this is nice, but I have enough scents with this snow note already and don't need more.

This is nicer than I expected it to be. I get a nice leather and some dust at first, with the leather being the dominant note throughout wear (and may be the one from De Sade Res? but it's been a while since I've sniffed it to confirm). But the cologne-y and somewhat citrus-y (is that you, white tea?) and sharp metal note ends up dominating the scent by the end of the day with just a trace of the sexy leather. Alas, if only the steel note hadn't won out.

At first, I get something kind of like cherry Twizzlers? And then it gets more atmospheric and less-candy like as I get some incense and what I think must be the grass and ozone others have mentioned. I wish the candy continued to dominate the scent and not the other notes, but this was fun to get to try.

Smoky vetiver and cumin. It's like a cousin to Abandoned Car Atmo, but a little less scary, oddly enough. Those notes never go away, but a strong plastic and a sharp and musky metal join in and end up becoming stronger than the vetiver and cumin notes. This one is not for me, but if you want a smoky industrial type of scent, here's one for you to try!

I mainly got the Lab's slushy snow note from this with some juniper berries, and for some reason, there's a bit of soapiness to the scent on me after a while, which is not a problem I usually have with the Lab's snow notes. The dragon's blood isn't distinct on me in this scent (it's usually an iffy note for me), and the berries in this are super subdued on me. I prefer Skadi for a slushy snow scent with a bit of berry, but I'm glad I got a chance to try this!

On me, this is mostly sweet and boozy. I think I'm smelling rum and whiskey? There's a hint of chocolate and some light spices. The cake part of the scent doesn't manifest on me unless the cake part is like the sticky part of a sticky bun, sadly. It smells like a sweet butterscotch-y rum. I'm glad I got to try this, but I wish I had gotten some cake along with the booze!

This is a review from a drop in a testable empty. Spicy carnation and tobacco are the first notes that leap out at me, followed by the leather. Then it becomes all spiced carnation and a smooth, sweet leather on me. The good stuff. I don't get any coffee from this at all, but perhaps that's because it's only a drop! I never knew spicy red carnation and leather would be a combination that I'd enjoy, but this one is niiiice.

In the vial, I mostly smell the grape vine (with some grape), grass, and lavender. On me, it's a very herbal, green scent, touched with fig and a bit of grape from the grape vine note. It starts off more alive and green at first and then smells like a dry green scent by the end of the day. The dried pansy leaves aren't like the Lab's usual dead leaves accord, if that is worrisome to you. It does go soapy on me for some time as the thyme asserts itself with wear, but it veers out of that territory when the coffee final emerges after several hours (I was really thinking I wasn't going to get any coffee from this during the first few hours!). The lavender buds in this are very tame and not a main player on me, but I can pick them out in the background if I go looking for them. This one didn't work for me -- at first, it was fruitier than I'd like, then it was too soapy for me, and then it got a bit too sharp in the end with the thyme and the dried leaves, but it was fun to get to try this morpher!

I am so glad that this one ended up getting notes listed the day after the Yules went live, because I almost passed it up, and then I ended up being able to grab a decant once the notes were updated. It would have been a shame to have passed this one up, because it ended up being my favorite scent from the Yule 2021 update! This goes on as a gorgeous lavender and skin musk on me. At that point, it is soft and close to the skin. Then the vanilla husk and myrrh emerge, and during that phase, it seems like a cousin to one of my favorite atmos, The First Love Fades Too, but with myrrh instead of sandalwood. The ylang ylang joins in and becomes more prominent as the vanilla husk does, and then it's a cousin to one of my favorite massage oils: Formula 57 with its ylang ylang and vanilla. Wisteria is usually a note that is high-pitched and screechy on me, tending to stomp all over other notes, but in this scent, it is incredibly well-behaved. It does add a high-pitched perfume-y aspect to the scent by the end of the day, but it is kept in check and even complemented by this absolutely stunning floofy, billowy, vanilla musk. I'm in love. Multiple bottle worthy.

This smells like the most wonderful dark red mulled wine (lightly spiced) backed by a touch of non-acrid hearth smoke and the same cotton-y tobacco musk type of note from Cafe au Lait and a Wool Blanket and You are Not Alone. Over time, that aspect of the scent gains strength and ends up dominating, with only a hint of the mulled wine. Wild, because I usually amp the Lab's wine note. I want this wine but without the wool blanket.

On me, the raspberry jam is the star, and it's even more jam-like than the raspberry apricot jam from Raspberry Apricot Sufganiyot. It's backed by some tangerine, spun sugar, and what seems to be a creamy amber... there's this creamy softness to it that kind of makes me think of Starburst, even though there are no raspberry Starburst, or perhaps a raspberry Mamba if it had the softer texture of a Starburst. It ends up being mostly raspberry cotton candy on me with hints of orange and amber. I almost didn't grab a decant of this one, but I'm glad I did. I'm not sure I need a whole bottle, but I think I'll hang on to my decant to pair it with Pa-Pow HG. ETA: I decided this one was bottle worthy after all!

Pine, stone, and that unlisted oudh mentioned in 15 Minutes of Fume are the first notes that leap out at me, followed by some sage and a bit of fog. Then I get a dark variety of musk... not black musk, but maybe something like the pine and musk in Thanatopsis? It's been a while since I've tried that one, so I don't know for sure. But this ends up being a mostly musky resinous pine and stone scent on me accompanied by some flowers and ozonic mist. I was really hoping to like this one with the pine and stone notes, but sadly, this ended up being too musky for me.

On me, this one opens strong on the pastry, and the fried dough has something in common with the fried dough note in Please Scream Inside Your Heart, but they aren't completely similar, and without the spice. The other sufganiyot scents I've tried (Blackcurrant Sufganiyot, Raspberry Sufganiyot, and Snake Oil Jelly Doughnut) don't seem to have this dough note. I get more apricot in the jam than the raspberry at first, although the raspberry is definitely there -- but it is nowhere as near as strong as it is in just straight-up Raspberry Sufganiyot. Over time, the raspberry jam does gain strength and ends up becoming stronger than the apricot as the dough note takes on the powdered sugar-covered doughnut scent that I enjoy from the sufs. The apricot jam is still around, though -- just not nearly as strong as it was before (and the raspberry is still not as strong as it is in Raspberry Suf). And I get more pastry from this one than its raspberry counterpart. I enjoy the end result of this one, although it was a bit wonky in the beginning on me, with that similarity to the soggy, fried dough from the Please Scream scents. I think I'll hold onto the decant and retest this before it goes down, but at the moment, I'm thinking, like Raspberry Suf, just a decant will be enough.

This smells like a sweet blueberry lollipop throughout wear. I get some saltiness if I sniff up close, but it is more like a few flecks of salt on the outside of a salted lolly. I ended up frimping my decant of Blue Lollipops away, so I haven't smelled it in years, but I do think they could be similar, only this one is a little more sophisticated thanks to the bit of salt. It is NOT as salty as scents like Lavender, Sea Salt, and Rain and Urban Undine, if you're worried about the salt! This is actually less salty than I thought it would be. I like it, but I think just the decant will suffice.

To me, this is all Please Scream Inside Your Heart's funnel cake soggy dough at first, accompanied by some extra spice from the gingerbread. But mostly it's just Please Scream Inside Your Heart on me for the first few hours before it mostly becomes about the spicy gingerbread, which made me feel like I was experiencing both parts of the scent individually instead of together, but eventually, by the end of the day, it does become more balanced and there's a nice cake-y gingerbread overlaying the fried dough note. I was really hoping this wouldn't be a cousin to Please Scream Inside Your Heart, as I have enough of that note, but I do appreciate the gingerbread in this one. If only it didn't take so long to appear!

This is a whole lot of lemon, backed by a bit of grain representing the gingerbread, but it's not registering as gingerbread to me. The lemon combined with the hint of the gingerbread note makes me think this is a very intensely lemony version of a LÖÖP. But it isn't sugary enough to be cereal -- it just teeters on that. And this is how it remains for a while, until the lemon calms down and there's just a teeny bit of gingerbread spices, and then, by the end of the day, it morphs again and is lemon-tinged booze. I think I'm reminded of the alcohol note in 21, but without any juniper. I'll have to slather this on for a full day of wear to determine if I need more of this, but I can definitely say Gingerbread Limoncello >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gingerbread and Lemon Sugar (neither are particularly gingerbread-y, but the limoncello note is a nicer lemon to my nose). ETA: It morphed again after that and became more lemon than alcohol! And the lemon was giving me Trumpet Honeysuckle and Lemon Bee Balm vibes!

This started off as super cinnamon-y cinnamon buns swirled with ginger on me and remained that way for a while. You can tell the ginger is there, but it is more of a sexy ginger than a foodie one and the cinnamon doesn't want it to be the star. By the end of the day, it smells musky and spicy, like some other reviewers have mentioned -- it's not particularly foodie anymore and I feel like there may be a floral tinge to the musk? There's a smear of icing sweetening the spiced musk at this point, and maaaaybe a bit of breadiness, but it is still more about the spices than the buns on me. I know this is called Gingerbread Sticky Buns, but I could see this scent fitting in right along with the Conjure Bag scents.

This is a really nice, honeyed and toasted grain scent accompanied by lots of spice. I get more clove than nutmeg, but the spices are pretty intense at first and irritated the back of my hand where I applied this... not enough to need to wash it off, but they did create a burning feeling and leave a little red area. Over time, the spices do calm down and it becomes mostly about that toasty grain note with just a smattering of honey for sweetness and some much more subdued spices. This isn't particularly cake-y, but that's fine with me, as the toasty spelt note is so lovely, and so is the clove (even if my skin did get irritated during the wet phase). I'll have to give this a full day of wear to see if my sensitive skin can handle it, because the scent is lovely, but if I can't slather, then I'll have to be content with the decant.

I get deep black cherry, lightly spiced, and backed by some bourbon, which is kind of giving me cherry NyQuil vibes as well. However, that phase is short-lived, and for a while, it's a nice cherry-infused bourbon. But the bourbon does take over by the end of the day. The cherry still lingers, but it is much fainter than before, sadly. But the spices in this remain tame throughout wear and never dominate or burn the skin! I want more of this cherry, but not accompanied by booze.

I almost blind bottled this one, and then I decided to play it safe and grab a decant. Out of the gate, I get creamy marshmallow, like the kind in Cabbage White Caterpillar and Apple Marshmallow hair glosses, accompanied by lemon and peppermint. The lemon and cool peppermint increase in strength as it sits on the skin, at one point becoming a little reminiscent of a cough drop, but then those notes settle down again and it's this floofy marshmallow scent accompanied by the zing of the lemon and the bracing peppermint. I'll need to slather this on and wear it as a scent of the day to be sure, but I may end up grabbing a bottle after all. I think it would be a great scent to wear when you're feeling ill or during the warm summer months. I know for sure I'll be pairing this with Cabbage White Caterpillar HG!

On application, I mostly get the honeyed cacao and a chewy vetiver. The cacao in this is a bitter type of chocolate (the honey isn't adding much sweetness at the moment), and the vetiver in this is very tame. I thought, from the vial sniff, that it might be the same one from Two Sheep and Two Goats. Now I'm not so sure once applied, since that one was more grassy, so I can't say for sure without deathmatching the two scents -- but I can say it isn't smoky and doesn't go BBQ on me like some vetiver notes do. The toasted part of the amber kind of makes me think of toasted hazelnut, like in O the Joy of My Spirit! The caramelized musk note ends up gaining strength after a few minutes. It's not a red, brown, or black musk, but I'm not able to identify which type it is. I can only quote Wilfred Mott and say that it's cleaner than I thought it would be. It goes from cacao and vetiver to toasty musk, and then the honey becomes more prominent over time and makes it a honeyed musk and toasted amber with a dab of cacao. Curiously enough, the vetiver, although prominent in the beginning, didn't end up being a main player on me throughout wear. At the moment, I don't feel like I need a bottle, but I'm going to let this rest for a few weeks and retest it again to be sure. I like that the vetiver in this one is tame, but I kind of wish that I got less musk and more cacao. In any case, I'll be hanging onto my decant!

It's orchid and freesia out of the gate, a bit of of licorice bark that's not full-on licorice, and some brightness from the elemi. The jasmine ends up joining the party, but it's not a bully here (at least not from the amount in this tester). On me, the orchid and freesia dominate throughout wear, with the freesia becoming more high-pitched over time, accompanied by the bright elemi. This one isn't in my wheelhouse, but it was still fun to try it. I wouldn't have expected a scent with a first note of licorice bark to not be particularly licorice-y!

This one wasn't on my radar, but I ordered a decant from someone because I figured my boyfriend would be interested in this (Red is his favorite scent, and this one also has a cranberry note). On me, this is mostly CRANBERRY with touches of watery orange behind it (is that the carrot pulp???) and a bit of a sharpness that must be the orange blossom, even though it's not contributing anything obviously orange-y or blossom-like to this scent. On my boyfriend, he got a blast of cranberry at first, and while the cranberry stuck around, it wasn't nearly as strong on him as it remained on me, and he also got more of the orange notes from it (I could smell the pumpkin on him). He liked it enough to keep the decant, but he does not love it as much as Red.

Full disclosure: I have no idea what hydrangea smells like and I don't know what chichi is. But what I get from this at first is something like chewy SweeTarts candy, ginger, and a bit of mentholated smoke? I didn't get much rose or cocoa from this one, and eventually, the smoke wins out, although without the touch of menthol that was infused with the smoke in the beginning. It doesn't smell like oh god, get it off me cigarette smoke, though. I was thinking this might be a cacao-tinged floral scent, but that's not how it ended up on me. The candy phase in the beginning was nice, though!