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Pine dryer sheets. It's very clean and fresh, I'll give it that, but I cannot imagine wearing this as perfume.

It'll smell GREAT with my laundry though!

There is a lot going on in this blend--first, sweet roasted chestnuts and spicy pear and plum with a little greenery (that does NOT turn into pine overload--that may be a first for me!). It's very warm and foody and...hectic. Makes you think of a busy holiday party with smells coming at you from every angle. The drydown, though, is simpler--buttery chestnut pastry with only a little fruit remaining, and the green notes have long since vanished. It's delicious and comforting! This might be a keeper.

A really bright, shrieking white musk and a really sweet vanilla. This just screams WHITE to me. As it dries I get the herbs and flowers; they tame the overly sweet vanilla and that loud musk a bit but this is still just too cloying.

I love Sloth and at first this is basically Sloth plus currant--heavy, a little smoky, a little fruity. As it dries it takes on an herbal note that makes me think the vetiver here is a different variety than the one in Sloth, though. It's almost an evergreen sort of smell. Nice but I think I preferred the early stages.

A simple blend and one vetiver fans should certainly try!

Starts out quite sweet but the red tea quickly steps forward; this note is very sour and strong. After a while it softens and the vanilla/carnation really smooth this out into a creamier floral tea, but there's still a sour tinge to it that doesn't work for me. Not picking up any sandalwood from this.

This has what may be the sharpest, strongest lavender top note ever. Whew!! When it fades I'm left with a very bitter patchouli/opoponax blend with a tiny smidge of the myrtle/olive leaf. No cognac, and maybe the merest breath of blackberry--overall it's just very bitter and dirty-smelling. Pass.

Seriously sweet grapes that knock you over with their strength when this is wet. After a while I get the olive leaf, calming down the grape a bit, and a little myrrh to give this some depth. But the grape and pomegranate make this soooo sweet; it's almost a bit much. Will retry at some point to see if this mellows with a little aging.

WOW. How have I not tried this before? It's amazingly sexy. Smooth beeswax warmed by olive oil with tart fig and pomegranate--but this doesn't scream FOOD, although I do get a nice pastry-ness in there too. So balanced--those notes all blend together beautifully. I love this!

I'm surprised at how much I like this--I was a little worried that the holly would be way too green on me, but it's only the merest hint of greenery here. This is a rich, dense fig pastry, a bit spicy. Yum!! Nice throw too. Making me hungry.

2010 version: almost entirely mossy soapy ozone/snow. Maybe a faint whiff of orchid/buttercup, but zero pastry. Not for me.

This is just beautiful! Creamy, smooth French vanilla with a blend of zingy fruits, with the lemon peel dominating them. I tend to amp cedar like CRAZY, but the wood notes are soft here and very much in the background behind all those fruits and the vanilla. I do pick up a little sage, just barely. Very zippy and perky!

The rice porridge/fruits combination here immediately reminds me of Joulumuori from last year, with an added gingerbready (and it is a very *bready* gingerbread!) note. This isn't overly spicy like Gingerbread Poppet, though. The clove note is soft, but very present. I'm not getting anything making me think of cream from this either.

I like this but I'll need to give it a full day's test to know if I love it. It's not particularly sweet for such a foody blend, and I like that aspect of it very much.

Honey with delicate, powdery florals underneath. I agree that this is very Alice-like! The carnation is a little too strong for my tastes (as it is in Alice too) but it's perfect if you love the BPAL carnation note.

This has very little throw, though, and fades quickly.

The winter wind nearly drowns out the leaves and currant here and it's a horrible aftershavey ozoney blast. I do pick up the dry leaves more as this dries but it is not worth getting past that ozone stage.

So does anyone else keep imagining Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter saying "I shall lick it--VIGOROUSLY!" when they think of this blend?
OK, background--I've tried the past three iterations of Lick It, and I *love* the minty freshness of all of them. They feel so cooling and invigorating on the skin and really perk you up in the morning. The problem's always been that they are gone in 10 minutes, leaving NO trace behind. I always thought I should have a bottle for aromatherapeutic purposes but never got around to it, and this year, I didn't want Beaver Moon to travel alone, so I bit the bullet and bought this unsniffed.
Wet, it's that same wonderful peppermint--I'm instantly wide awake! Love it. As it dries, the sugary, candy note comes out more and this really does smell like a candy cane. Never goes toothpaste on me. AND this year--I've had this one for over an hour now and I CAN STILL SMELL IT. A new record! I'm very pleased. This will be great for dark winter mornings (and hot summer afternoons, for that matter).

I started to dread the emergence of the Plastic of Doom before I even dabbed this on, once I'd read the previous reviews. In the bottle this is gooey-sweet strawberry and peach jam! On the skin...it took about 10 seconds for that plastic to jump out at me. Dammit!! However, after about 10 minutes, it faded and I was left with what I'd certainly call strawberry glaze...sticky, sweet, with just a bit of peach and I can also detect a cheesecakey note waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the background. That plastic keeps threatening to come back, though, and I'm nervous.

I'm going to let this age and see if the plasticness ages out of it--I hope so! This has the potential to be a really fun blend if it would behave.

I LOVE THIS! Smells just like roasted, slightly candied nuts--there is a bit of maple/caramelized sugaryness going on but not so much that it takes over the nutty goodness. It's a very chilly evening here and spraying this around has made my apartment feel so warm and smell so tasty! Thumbs up!

The apple note when this is wet is SO good--crisp and tart!
BUT about 10 minutes in that plastic note of doom that so plagues me lately started to emerge. I don't know what is doing that on my skin but it's so annoying to have yet another blend ruined by it. It lasted for about 30 minutes--the final stage here is buttery candy corn, a lot like Trick or Treat was on me.
And to think I was worried about the cinnamon! I don't even get a hint of it.

In the decant, I smelled lots of that fresh BPAL ginger--beautiful! Once this dried on me though I got nothing but quince and the faintest, faintest breath of the remaining ginger. The quince is tart but it's also a bit...watery? It just smells like something's missing. It's not bad but it's a bit boring.

I was expecting total root beer from Slaugh, and it IS very very root-beer-y when wet, but the drydown brings out the champaca and tonka and it's much more subtle and soft. Very pretty! Unfortunately it did a pretty quick fade, but it was nice while it lasted.

Mmm, yes, this is anise/licorice and cocoa (which separates out like crazy) all right--straightforward and delicious! Doesn't seem to have great staying power but I'm going to shake it up a little more since it was so separated and try again. ITA that it's a bit like a Tootsie Roll!

I wonder if the lab's thought about using the new blog for posting info about backorders...they're updating it frequently; it seems like it would be easy to do.

Dark, spicy musk--the pepper is really prominent here. It's sweetened by the tonka and opoponax but that pepper really gives this blend a kick. I don't think it's really *me*, but it's good stuff, and probably will age fantastically. Would smell great on a guy, too.

I'm intrigued by the indigo musk in this--it's very light and pretty and I don't think I've smelled this in anything else before. Unfortunately the rose geranium and the jasmine in here are quite strong and doing that powdery ick thing on my skin. I do get a bit of plum and benzoin, but those flowers, they do not like me.

I'd love to see this musk used in another blend, though!

A miss. The lily turns to old funky powder on me almost instantly and that plus the heavy opoponax makes this smell really off.