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Pure brown sugar. SO foody. On my skin the scent is just as it is in the imp -- Yankee Candle Christmas Pudding! No berries to be found

I ended up grabbing an imp of Strawberry Moon as I was running late and needed something portable and it's one something I wear a lot. Didn't last all day but I didn't smell bad when I got home either.

Camera phone picture of 13: July 07 It's so pretty and pink and bright.

I know people wanted a cursory review of this, here's mine.

A little information about massoia bark those who like me had no idea what it was.

Massoialactone has an odour that is described as sweet, coconut meat, lactonic, creamy, milky and waxy and, at a dilution of 20 ppm, a taste described as creamy, coconut, green and slightly fruity.

I've also read it has a nutty scent.

Wet this is the most gorgeous pure cocoa scent that makes me want to eat my arm. I get a hint of vanilla very quickly before it fades to cocoa and ginger. Next clove is added to the mix and I get a very faint fruity smell under everything. No honey yet but it is the BPAL note with the most staying power on me so I'm sure it will poke its head out eventually. I'm really not getting much right now but a cocoa/ginger mix on my left arm and a cocoa, ginger and clove mix on my right. The words I can think of to describe this scent is pleasant fire-y chocolate. I'll update in a week or so when I'm off my monthly 'cause I'm not so sure about it yet and my chemistry might be messing with things.

I'd also like to try this again tomorrow when I'm not half asleep from standing outside in the sun all day I think it will be a good scent for curling up with a copy of Harry Potter and some yummy ice cream.


ETA: half hour later and I can smell the honey not on my skin but in the throw. A beautiful scent. Not something I would normally go for but I'm glad I bought a bottle.

July 22: Put this on again today and it is much more chocolate/fruity. No clove or ginger in sight (or would that be sniff?)

Wet it is deep cherry. But then my beloved red musk has run away (and taken the other notes with it as well) and all I get is lavender. I know now that the that bothers my nose in The Oblation isn't just dianthus, there was some lavender ampage mixing in as well. I think maybe it is the mix with other florals that makes lavender go all funky and strong on me -- it is perfectly beautiful in Lurid and Corazon, my other scents with lavender notes.

An hour later it has dryed to a perfumey, white musk with a hint of rose scent. Rather beautiful, actually, and the first BPAL rose scent I have tried that has worked for me. Still, not my fave scent.

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Black Opal. Lots of reviews say it has a rock or stone smell to it.

What should I wear to the Siren Music Festival this weekend? Besides Siren (har har). Something good for being out in the sun for many hours on Coney Island, listening to good music and dancing. Bright and long lasting. I should also mention that I'm going with a boy who I have been totally in love with for 2 years now so I want to smell gooood. I will probably do my usual wake up in the morning and decide on the spot what BPAL to wear for the day but I would love some suggestions for wearing or layering.

This scent is not agreeing with me at all, which makes me very sad because the combination of lavender, honey and blackberry sounded so good. Instead, the lavender comes screaming from the bottle clubbing me over the head. Wet and drying all I get is bitter lavender (and maybe a bit of dianthus mixed in for extra ack!) that burns the inside of my nostrils. It finally settled down quite a while later into blackberry honey. Which is what I wanted in the first place. However, I'm not sure how to cope with the lavender attack for so long before this lovely honeyed smell finally reaches my nose. Maybe a scent locket.

ETA: I found the culprit: lavender!

This smells so lovely and as it dries it is constantly morphing into something completely different; I can hardly identify the notes between sniffs. When I really stick my nose to my wrist and sniff I get a light dragon's blood right on the skin. The heliotrope is amped on me in a sweet almond and cherry scent mingling with the summertime herbs and amber. The throw is an amalgamation of beautiful smells.

It brings joy to my senses and is absolutely fitting to its description: a month of reflection. It is the month of rest before the harvest, and it holds for us a time between toils, a brief period of relaxation before we take up the burden of our work again.

As beautiful as this is I don't know how often I will wear it, it's not really a "me" scent. I do think it will be a perfect fit for wearing during my cycle, though, there's just something about it (I know others felt this way about Red Moon original recipe). I'll imp some out for myself and give the bottle to my mom in a pretty storage box for her birthday, with the beautiful description inscribed somewhere. She is an August baby after all and I think it will smell magnificent on her. Bonus enabling

Absolutely amazing. 5 stars.

Red Lantern smells exactly like Aroma M's Geisha Noire on me.

The candle is still available at CO Bigelow's website: here, although I'm not sure how the price compares to what you got it on sale for. The scent description is

this vivacious fragrance includes hints of sultry peach, rich floral tones and luminous sandalwood notes

Bigelow themselves make a quince-scented hand lotion but I don't know about specific scent similarities between it and the candle or the candle and other scents. The Lab has a few blends with peach and sandalwood notes:

Silence: White sandalwood, iris, blue musk, lotus root, moonflower, plum blossom, green tea, white mint and white peach

 

Cupid Complaining To Venus: Apple blossom, fig, white peach, honey absolute, red sandalwood, and wild thyme

 

The Cup Of Death: Peach blossom and peach tree leaf, Mysore sandalwood, French lavender, bois du rose, myrtle, and blue yarrow

 

Tamora: Amber, heliotrope, golden sandalwood, peach blossom and vanilla bean

The Unicorn

I finally got around to trying this and I smell like dryer sheets!

Far too clean and powdery for me. It reminds me of Clean Cotton and its ilk. I wish I knew whatever scent I got on my fingers at the beginning of ECWC that I loved and thought was Delousing Powder.

My first review ever!

In the imp it's strong bergamot; "twisting" is a fitting description. Wet this is all musk and orange peel. As it dries my left wrist is green and woody, and my right wrist is herbal with ginger. I don't sense any jasmines but there is a general feel of vanilla on my left.

I wanted this for the blackberry but I just don't smell it (yet). A little while later and my left is warming up the honey; right is a little honey mixed with something hard to place -- almost minty? -- strong ginger. The initial drydown was turning me off the scent but I love the honey its become -- warm on my left and cool on my right. It went from too masculine for me to a perfect scent. It has a similarity to the drydown The Brides of Dracula has on my skin, white and honey -- is the jasmine finally peeking in? I wonder how it will fare on my neck or in my hair.

My first 5ml, bought on an ebay whim, and I am so sad it is not working for me. Wet it was all cough syrup. It's now Lush Rock Star and sweet to the extreme. I feel guilty to wash it off and waste precious but it is just too strong for my nose. Puttin out for swaps.