Frills

When I first got this the peach was almost floral on me and I wore it with my favorite sundress all summer long. Now that it's aged it's more marshmallow and vanilla and cream, and the peaches kind of disappear. Still lovely but it's changed more with age than I think any other perfume I've had.

Frankincense and vanilla and something floral... It's beautiful but so faint I have to get up close to my wrist to smell it. If it had a bigger throw I'd probably spring for a bottle.

This one does remind me of Hope, but it never goes dusty on me like Hope does. The cotton candy isn't very prominent until it's been dried for a few hours but then I can sniff it up close. I love this one, the Lab does such beautiful sugared flower scents.

OH man this smells good. It's not a foodie perfume like I thought it would be, instead it's earthy and tobacco-y and comforting. After it dries I smell the bourbon cream with a dusting of cocoa on top and it's just so good.

The white musk makes this perfumey instead of gourmand but the fruity chocolate is so so good.

This is such a soft lavender with such a rich honey note. I agree it turns a little bit skin musky after a while but never loses that softness. So, so, so good.

It's the same sugar note as in Faith and Hope and I love it. I get a little iris underneath it. This one has some staying power, I put it on yesterday and woke up this morning with it still going strong.

I guess cashmere is kind of cinnamon-y? Spicy? Because at first that's all I smell. Then it becomes such a pretty vanilla with a touch of white chocolate. I love this scent after the cinnamon goes away. Glad I got a bottle and glad I stuck it out past the spicy smell.

As Baudelaire once wrote, We revel in the laxness of the path we take. As such, we werent convinced anyone would bother entering the Sloth edition of our #BPAL7wordstory contest. Somehow, hundreds of you summoned the strength to string seven words together plus the dozens who cheekily declined to muster more than six. The winning entry by Amy DeNies epitomizes that (lack of) effort with aplomb. Congrats to our winner, and keep those heavy eyelids propped open #BPAL7wordstory could strike again at any time. cant commit to finishing a whole banana The effort is too much: banana weighed down by blackened cacao, bourbon vetiver, and tobacco absolute. Oh man, this one is so much cocoa and tobacco. The banana is like a yellow-gold backdrop to it but on my skin it's a very deep tobacco absolute. Which I love, so rock on, Banana Sloth.

Every time I wear this to the gym, someone near me asks "what smells so good". It's the cow cologne, friends. It smells so dang good. It's so well blended that I can't pick out any one note over the others--maybe a little hay at first, but after that it's just light and semi-masculine and clean and sunny. And it smells great even when you've been sweating.

This is a perfect late summer scent that I've been wearing all year since I bought it last autumn. It's sweet and dark and spicy, my favorite Snake Oil blend hands down.

Such a pretty vanilla! The champagne grape isn't juicy, it's very dry, very clean, almost dusty. Vanilla sometimes goes a little plastic on me but this stays "floral" with just a touch of sugar on top. I like it.

Delicious. It's incredibly warm, soft, and creamy. It reminds me a lot of cheesecake.

Oh. Ohh. I am so glad I got this. Lime tends not to last long on me but the sage holds it on, making this a bright but dusty scent. Like a day in the desert, drinking a limeaid to keep the heat at bay.

Orange blossom, vanilla, black narcissus? Yesss On my skin it's super smoky with a little pop of orange. Like having an orange around a campfire. I was not expecting a smoke scent but it fits what I'm wearing today (flannel! fall weather clothes!) that I'm enjoying it.

WOW this one is so much brighter than the Snake Oil Peach Brandy. It's the peaches you canned in summer being opened in the dead of winter so you can make a dessert that reminds you of sunshine. PS if it mixes with Snake Oil it's still pretty darn bright and sweet and good.

This is everything I hoped it would be. Perfect late-summer scent, with just a hint of the warm colors of fall. I could bathe in this scent. Snake Oil sometimes swallows up other scents on me when it's blended with something else but this? This is perfect.

First on, this smells like cream. Like a bowl of cream with a touch of vanilla in it. I've never smelled any perfume that smelled so spot-on creamy. I like it a lot, but I'm wondering where the Snake Oil is! After it's been on a little while, there's just a hint of Snake Oil's spices but it's still bowl of whipping cream waiting to be made into a dessert.

I bought mine in 2007 when it first came out, and it smelled so much like Snake Oil on me that I shrugged and set it aside and mostly forgot I even had it. I put it on last night after pruning my stash and HOLY HELL it is good. I tend to like fresh Snake Oil over aged but this? This has aged into something sweet and comforting and sexy and it lasts. Most older oils vanish pretty fast after being applied but this one goes all day and smells so warm and perfect. First applied it's spicy and I can really smell the teakwood and milk and spices. But after a couple of hours it's dark chocolate and the spices and incense from Snake Oil; a few more hours and it's vanilla and warm skin. When I first bought it, I didn't think it would become one of my top three favorites but I'm so glad I didn't sell it.

This is such a unique scent. In the bottle it's chocolate chip cookies, very similar to Chips Ahoy. Then I put it on and there's a little bit of engine grease, like I'm a kid again snacking on a crunchy chocolate chip cookie while my dad works on our car. It's my bedtime scent because it's so comforting.

Oh. Oh. I love this. It's bright, it's fresh, it's semi-masculine, and it has a cow on it! It's a really sexy cologne, like what you might wear when you're baling hay and still want to smell amazing. I can't even pick out specific notes (besides the hay absolute which is divine), it's so well blended. My new favorite.

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Oh. Just like that, a scent that I love as much as I loved Minotaur from eons ago. I didn't think that would ever happen. Wow. Wow. I'm in love with this concept and this scent. Okay, so: it very much reminds me of a wolf. The warmth of it, the great outdoors feel of it, takes me back to working with these incredible animals. There's something in this perfume that hits exactly the feel of being around a canine who is very, very much not like your dog. Notewise: I get musk and incense front and center, but every few whiffs I smell pine and a hint of tobacco, and it's all warmed up and rounded out by the vanilla. Now, I would never actually guess that there is vanilla in it; it's not prominent on me. But I've noticed this same "softening" in other blends with this vanilla. After it warms up on my skin it's lighter--the rose, I think. But man, this still reminds me of the feel of warm wolf fur. So gorgeous. I'm so glad I was able to snag a bottle.

This is a spot on banana cream scent. I actually tried this on shortly before I ate a slice of banana cream pie, and figured I was mistaking the perfume for the food. Nope! The oil is just that accurate. Bottle: Pie, delicious pie On: Warm pie! With a little bit of tang, like you get with homemade banana cream pies when you've dipped the bananas in lemon to keep them from browning. Over time: it becomes sweet cream instead of banana. Still delicious. Low throw, very comforting. Love it.

This is FANTASTIC! Sweet and dirt-y and there's a hint of something more, like you're smelling tarts at the end of the rabbit hole.