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I LOVEEEEEE this scent. This smells like toasted white bread slathered with heaps of sweet butter cream and a little sprinkle of cinnamon with a cup of sweetened weak black tea. Then there is an underlying edge of baby powder and white bar soap. Seriously all those things. Incredibly foodie and and bit cloyingly delicious.

It's been a long time since I smelled B&B, but from what I remember Dana O'Shee has a similar sweet, milky, foody feel (Offerings of milk, honey and sweet grains were made to placate these creatures, and it is that the basis of the scent created in their name). Too sweet for me but you may like it.

 

The best sweet cake/bread I've smelled is Delight and Consternation (Bourbon vanilla, custard accord, white rose, cocoa absolute, oudh, lemon blossom, and skin musk) which is like the most delicious lemon tart ever. And for a more incense-y cake All Souls is amazing. Definitely has a buttery, lip-licking vibe to it.

 

Sprinkle Cake and Very Pink Surprise Cake are the others I can think of. Surprise Cake was a truer cake to me while Sprinkle was a little too candy sweet, though of course your experience might be different.

Thank you so much! It was hard to for me to "properly" search, I think, because there are so many LE scents! This gives me a great list to research.

I have two imps of Mouse's Long and Sad Tale. One is a color that looks like pale yellow with a drop of red mixed in. The other is a medium red. The one that is pale smells like sugary sandalwood and is stronger. The red one smells more like very muted amber with vanilla and a little sandalwood. I have to put my wrist to nose to smell it.

Mhhhh, this is delicious. Honey is one of those notes that can very easily go wrong, but when it's right, it's sooo good. Are white bees supposed to make white honey? I don't know but this definitely smells more like white honey than deeper, darker honey. It's light and warm and not too sweet. It's clear, cool honey. Definitely reminds me more of spring than winter. I smell the frost note in the very first few minutes but it disappears very quickly afterward. There is some sort of... lemony? note as well. I want to say lemon, but it's not quite lemon. It makes it smell brighter and lighter.

Unfortunately the scent doesn't linger for me. It's pretty much completely gone after half an hour.

I'm looking for a scent that has that same butter/sweet cream note as Bread & Butterfly. Or a similar creamy feel. I love it. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

I thought maybe Boo would, but it doesn't on me. Also thought Detestable Putrescence doesn't either.

The closest I've found is the creaminess of Miskatonic University (which I love also).

I do have a decant of Ivory Vulva coming... but I am very weary of coconut. Though I couldn't pass it up because of the cream accord listed.

Also just sweet milky, or sweet cakey recs.

I tried out Eat Me, which I don't get any cake from. Strangely enough I get cake from Mermaid, a lot more than in Eat Me.

I'm allergic to Against Idleness and Mischief. It must be the hyssop since that is the only thing I'm unsure about. Watery eyes and sneezing both times I tested it.

Imp bought from another person. Don't know the year.

This one definitely takes me for a ride.

I was curious as to how books could be captured in a fragrance.

When I put it on I was immediately floored. It literally smells like your drinking sweet milk coffee and reading an old, slightly musty book. It is crazy accurate.

Then it starts to dry and my skin amps the sugar up at this point. A lot. It's almost cloying for me, and I love sweet scents. The wood starts to show up. At first, I get a wood similar to the wooden desk I had to sit in throughout grade school/high school. Then the oak starts to come out. The dusty, musty paper smell also gets stronger. The coffee takes a back seat and becomes more like a regular cup of coffee with just one cream and but still tons of sugar.

This is the type of scent that I would buy for myself, but I wouldn't wear it out. I can distinctly smell that musty paper note. I grew up owning a ton of used library books and went there all the time so I am very familiar with it. Therefore this is pretty comforting to me. But if someone isn't use to it, I can easily see how it would smell off to their nose. It does smell stale and dusty and musty, literally. That's exactly how old library books smell.

Very strong projection.

I loveeee it. I'm going to order another imp of it fresh, and maybe procure some others, and see if I can find one that has that butter note some reviews mention. Sounds delicious.

I have two imps from two different forumites, so I don't know the specific years. I'm going to call them version 1 and version 2.

They start out smelling very similar. Version 1 smelled a little more fruity. Version 2 smelled sweeter but lighter.

Then the differences really show up.

Version 1 has a deep berry note that takes over the other notes. It's a sweet, rich, mellow berry, not sickly sweet like berry syrup or anything. Very mellow, but at the same time very deep and almost... quiet? I find it soothing, it's like smelling almost over ripe, very mellow (no tartness) blackberries and blueberries sitting over a thin layer of sugar and musk. There is bit of green that smells like deep, green leaves. It's a very level, grounding scent.

Version 2 smells more like the description, I get green tea, berry, sugar, and musk. The green tea note is definitely the forerunner, so it almost has a faint whisper of astringency to it. It has a lighter, brighter, greener, airier feel to it and the sweetness smells like it comes from sugar crystals rather than being primarily from the berry note.

As time goes on Version 1 stays constant and continues to smell deep, while Version 2 starts getting even airier and lighter (hence, harder to smell).

Both have low sillage, this is definitely a skin scent.

Neither of them give me any sage, though maybe it's just so well blended it stands as an underlying accent.

Luckily I really find both versions super delicious. I definitely recommend if you aren't into foodie/sweet gourmand, but still want a scent that is primarily gourmand.

2012 version.

I've read over all the reviews because I was so startled over what I smelled. After reading them it makes sense. It seems people either smell one version with linens/vanilla cream, or one version with buttery sweet burnt/smoky vanilla.

I experienced the latter.

Started out very sugary sweet with a smoky note.

Dried down to smelling like the top crust of a creme brulee. Definitely not what I was expecting. Very sugary, very foody, deep overcooked caramel scent. I love gourmand scents so it's not hard for me to like, but I can definitely see this being way too much for someone who isn't into them.

ETA: Something I missed the first times wearing it. Hours later, when it is barely the faintest whisper on my skin I get a lovely vanilla cream scent. Would be beautiful if that was what showed up in the beginning.

Not sure what year the one I'm testing is.

Very straightforward scent.

Literally smells like apricot brandy. Fresh, fuzzy, realistic apricot, but dang the brandy is strong. Very boozy. Like a drunkard at the local tavern spilled a whole bottle of booze onto a crate of apricots. Too much for me, personally, but definitely a spot on scent!

This smells like aquatic seaweed over fresh white cake in breezy ocean air. Every so often a light whiff of lotus appears. A bizarre, yet delicious mix. It has a soft, innocent, fresh feel to it.