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In the bottle: Definitely pancakes, but with a lot of the boysenberry overtaking it. Wet: BOYSENBERRY. On wrist: The boysenberry has settled down a bit and let the pancakes come out. This is fortuitous, because after the Eat Me comparisons, I was scared this was going to go like Bloody Mary on my wrist, incredibly sweet and fruity. If I sniff my wrist directly, it's strong, but if I just sit here and let it waft naturally, I get more of the pancake scent, so it seems like the boysenberry is strong, but doesn't have a lot of throw. The resulting scent is very pleasant and breakfasty, although I think waffles more than pancakes, just because I'm a waffle person. It's definitely one I'm going to hold on to.
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A very spicy floral, and not flowery enough to turn me (a big foodie and generally a flower hater) off. Really great. This one could be an eventual bottle. I'll see how much of the imp I go through.
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I don't know if this will make sense to anyone else, but Pumpkin III smells like Starbuzz Pumpkin Pie Shisha Tobacco. Almost exactly. And that stuff tastes awesome, so it's a great association to have. I guess the best way to describe it is pumpkin and spices with a hint of fruity tobacco. The chocolate is definitely there and quite nice. This one's a bottle for me.
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I'm really sad about this one, because I do really like it, and it has a lot of notes I'm really fond of in it, but my skin just eats it within an hour, so I can't justify picking up a whole bottle. Aww. At first, it's very Jack-- pumpkin and butter, hardcore. Then, as others have said, it backs down after a while and moves on to the pear and tea scents. I don't get much grape. This is a very nice scent, but it lasts no time on me. Sad.
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I got this as a frimp with my 'Holy Crap, Fall Scents' order, and was quite happy about it. I've always kind of wanted to try one of the Dragon scents, but had stayed away from buying, since I had no idea what the Dragon's Blood Resin ingredient was supposed to smell like. This one is kind of like a deeper Eat Me-- the currentey sweet smell is there, but the musks kind of make it a bit more like a Snake Oil type smell on me. I kind of like it, but my fiancee thinks it smells like bathroom air freshener.
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Oh, October. I wish I could have loved you. One of my favorite things in the world is the smell of fall, and this does have some of that going for it, and is pretty nice when it does, but most of the time it strikes me as astringent and manly, and then, after about an hour, it completely vanishes altogether. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to pass on this one, but maybe I can trade it for something else from this update when I get the decants I signed up for, so perhaps it's all for the best.
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(This is for the '07 Samhain) In Bottle: I have no idea what to say this smells like. I couldn't tell if I'd like it or not. Wet (stage 1): Kind of incensey and woody. Dry (stage 2): Spicy mulled cider. After Doing Sweaty Yoga (stage 3): Chocolate? Having Dried Off and Become Less Sweaty (stage 4): Honey A Few Hours Later (stage 5): Still going, morphing between the cider, chocolate, and honey smells alternately. This lasted forever and morphed more than any BPAL I have ever tried. I'm definitely keeping this-- it's way too interesting to try and figure out what it's going to do next to sell or swap it.
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This is for the new Sugar Skull (07). I haven't tried any of the previous years', so unfortunately I can't contrast and compare. I really like this, though. In the bottle: very much a baking-type smell, with a faint undercurrent of fruit. Sugar cookies, burnt just a little on the bottom. On my skin, wet: The sugar smell is at the forefront, but the berries come out a little more, and so does a smell that's almost herbal (like the herbal baking spices type smell of Verdandi, sort of) or cinnamony. The herbal smell rounds it out nicely. On my skin, dry: After a half hour or so, the berry has backed off some, and the maple and cinnamon smells took over. A bit like a plate of apple cinnamon waffles. Verdict: Tasty and good.
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Frimp from the lab. Uh... sharp cologne and vicks vap-o-rub. Not pleasant on me at all. Bye bye, Devil's Claw.
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It's been a while since I tried Severin, but I forgot to post a review, so I'll put up what I remember. I bought Severin off of someone on the forum because I have had generally good luck with BPAL's tea-related scents thus far. However, the leather note in this one unfortunately spoiled my track record there. It smelled like someone spilled a cup of tea on someone's new leather couch. While that isn't necessarily a bad smell, I don't particularly want to smell like furniture.
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A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms. I got Bayou as a frimp from the lab, and, in the gender debate here, I have to go with thinking it smelled pretty masculine. It's woodsy and just a little bit aquatic, and I barely get any florals at all. It's nice, but I don't think I'd keep it-- strikes me as too manly.
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I got this as a Frimp from the lab, and tried it on without knowing what was in it. My immediate reaction was "it smells like white... but purple. So light purple." So apparently I'm pretty much exclusively picking up on the lavender and white musk-- which is actually pretty nice! It's very feminine without being childish. I'm not a fan of floral in general, but I'll probably keep this.
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Unused - I think it's the amber that I primarily smell in the imp. Wet - Oooh, cherry-almond! With a slight floral edge, but not floral enough to bother me. It sort of reminds me of the floral in Euterpe, although the two share no notes in common that I can tell. Later - amber and almond, soft and spicy. This isn't going to be a bottle, just because it's not really something I could see myself going through a whole bottle of, but it's very nice and I'm keeping the imp.
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In the bottle, it has a somewhat soapy smell, which means that I knew that it would probably be pretty unisex. I don't tend to go for oceanic sorts of scents, so I didn't anticipate liking this one much. On me, it's a very light scent (the floral, but it's not too floral) with an aquatic, soapy note right along side of it. None of the notes overpower the other, it's very balanced. It's a nice blend, and my compliments to Beth on it, but it's not really my style, so I'll probably trade it off.
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In the bottle, it's very minty and snakey and quite nice. Wet, the snake oil is in charge here, with an undercurrent of mint. It's a smooth mint, and doesn't go plasticky like some do on me. Later on, the snake oil backs down a bit and the mint keeps going. The whole effect is very light, for a snake oil blend, but it does last pretty much all day. I'm kind of sad that I never get the bergamot in this really. But I know the snakes age well, so maybe if I give it some time, it'll give me my bergamot.