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All sweetness and warmth. Yep—this one does what it says on the tin. Creamy, rich coffee with a hint of hazelnut (not too hazelnutty, but just enough to give a hint of rich nuttiness), cinnamon sugar, and a bit of burnt cookie. Snag this one if you love foodie coffee blends.

Believed to be the first pornographic film, Le Coucher de la Mariée was first screened in Paris in 1896. Billowing white clouds of sugared vanilla chypre. Vanilla wood smoke! A cloud indeed!

Velvet red roses, bourbon tobacco, and smoked tonka. Sweet tobacco and smoky Tonka, with a hint of dark red Peacock Queen-esque roses in the background. Vampy and fancy, like a traditional perfume.

Lilith put on my boots to run out into the snow this morning in her pajamas. Ich wünsche dir einen guten morgen! Pink cotton candy snow, tuberose, plumeria, melon blossom, green tea, lavender, and a shiver of white musk.  This is lighthearted and happy! It's tough to describe, and I would love it fiercely and buy all of the bottles if I couldn't smell the melon (I'm a weirdo and hate the smell of melon). The melon note is not prominent, but it's there. This is a fruity floral (creamy tropical florals) with a hint of green tea and a hint of cold musk. The pink cotton candy snow sweetens it up a bit.

While we were at Versailles, there was a bomb threat on the premises, and we were unable to see the garden due to the evacuation. It’s difficult to convey how challenging and heartbreaking it has been to explain things like this to Lilith, from shooter drills at school to bomb threats in palaces. We live in difficult times. A perfume of hope for a brighter tomorrow: sun-dappled amber, yesterday’s rain, and fresh-cut grass.  This is truly beautiful and one of my favorites from this collection. It smells like sun on damp grass after a rain. Sometimes grass notes tend to take over a scent for me, but it's really nice here. The rain note is a gentle aquatic--not sharp at all.

I love this one! Fragrant, cooked rice and honey—like rice pudding, but with some Champaca incense smoking slowly nearby. I feel like this should get more love!!

Lots of orris and something fruity (maybe the lavender and immortelle?)??

At first, this is pine resin heavy with a hint of white floral, but the floral notes come out more as it dries and it is gorrrrgeous. Oh my. I agree with zee zee that the final effect of this one is that of a real magnolia, wet with a little dew. The pine resin in the end is really more of a suggestion, like a scent on a breeze.

A large cup of white tea, with a sprinkling of cherry blossom and a polished wooden spoon to the side.

This is a nice blend! It’s very smooth and gentle resins + woods. I swear I’m smelling a bit of honey, but I think that just may be the vanilla, clove, and amber playing with my noee.

Coconut and lilac! I agree that this is clean and beachy. I like this a lot. It’s a unicorn lounging on the beach and airing his bits.

Pretty!!! Wildflower honey and amber is what I’m getting. I don’t specifically smell the blossoms or the marshmallow, but I think they’re rounding the scent out with some creaminess. This would pair nicely with the honey bath oils!

The same amber note used in Elle Est Heureuse is here! It is sparkly and perfumey. I’m getting heavy sparkly amber and a bit of peach musk. It’s a very pretty scent, but I think it may be a bit too intense for me.

Huh! I’m getting a lot of creamy lemon (from the white tea and amber combo maybe?), with a good lashing of fragrant rice and ethereal orris. This is weird, but I feel like I’m smelling unicorn cereal. Fruity, creamy, definitely shimmering, opalescent, and glittering.

Lick It is back, as minty and sweet as ever, and now you can lick it for a good cause: proceeds from every sale of Lick It With Consent will be donated to RAINN. Candy cane! This candy cane to me smells shiny and lacquered, unlike the Candy Canes HG, which reminds me of those tasty little soft peppermint candies. Lick It is a sweet vanilla peppermint delight.

I’m really not sure what I’m smelling here. It’s really hard to describe. It smells kinda smoky? Like floral and honey incense? I think I’m smelling the iris concrete and wildflower honey. I’m not getting any gardenia.

Green tea with a squeeze of lemon, and a side of snow (the minty eucalyptus kind, but it's gentle and lovely, not sharp and overwhelming). This is a beautiful snowy spa blend.

A delightful, invigorating winter breeze. This really does smell breezy! I was expecting a eucalyptus blast, but the eucalyptus note here is pretty gentle, lending a chill to the balsam fir instead of clearing my sinuses. It’s cheerful and refreshing! It’s mostly fir with a touch of frosty eucalyptus.

This is a very pretty woody coconut scent, like a less intense (less creamy, less sweet, less robust/rich) version of Ivory Vulva. It's not dissimilar to Giljagaur.

The cookies take over this scent for me, but the lavender and Florida Water in the background are lovely.

I get more raspberry from this than anything else. It's a nice, cheerful, candy-like, tart, fruity scent. The French vanilla isn't super noticeable for me. It's like ripe, smushed raspberries sitting on a little dollop of whipped cream.

This smells expensive! Sparkling amber indeed--a bit sharp, which I think may be the iron note. This is the Eiffel Tower in perfume form!

In dramatic contrast to the soft innocence of Snow White and the dew-kissed freshness of her sister, Rose Red, this is a blood red, voluptuous rose, velvet-petaled, at the height of bloom. Haughty and imperious, vain, yet incomparably lovely to the eye, but thick with thorns of jealousy, pride and hatred. This is the Peacock Queen we all know and love, in hair gloss form! It’s a dark, lush, and velvety red rose. Simple, classy, and elegant. I was in need of a rose-y gloss, and this fits the bill perfectly.

The smoke from compounded frankincense, myrrh, pine resin, juniper berry, bayberry, and cinnamon swirling around a pile of sweet black figs. This one is interesting! It smells like the most Christmas-like of incenses indeed! I get the pine resin and bayberry, and I think the black fig is fooling my brain into smelling holly berry, if that’s even a real thing. It’s lightly smoky, and very festive, but not basic.

A shimmering icicle, the exhalation of winter’s crystalline breath. This hair gloss takes the prize for BPTP Yule 2018, in my humble opinion. It’s a beautiful sweet, pillowy-soft snow, with a hint of ozone. It smells like gentle vanilla with a hint of fresh laundry, like a sweeter and fluffier Boober. My review notes are sprinkled with hearts. 💕