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In bottle/imp: Quickly, I get the scent of something creamy and pink. Then as I smell more I get an initial blast of grapefruit, then florals, and then the tonka rounding it out.

Immediately on skin: This is a very complex scent. First, I smell the grapefruit and something that smells rather green. Below that comes the loveliest pink, slightly creamy floral scent with a touch of rich frankincense.

After a little while: This blend comes together nicely after just a little while. The grapefruit and yuzu die down a lot, and the sweet pink florals come out, along with a bit more of the resin and tonka. The tuberose adds a little bit of a darker floral tone, while the peony and pikaki are very sweet. It’s almost like a bright, sugared floral blend with a touch of resin and creaminess. Very pretty.

Overall Impressions: This blend is just lovely, from start to finish. It has a lot of grapefruit at first, then the florals, then resins underneath. After it dries down though it’s this pink sugared fruity floral blend with a bit of depth from the frankincense and tonka. I think this one may be bottle worthy.

In bottle/imp: This smells like mint, cold air, and eucalyptus.

Immediately on skin: I used to have a bottle of Snow-Flakes from 2006 and this reminds me a lot of that scent only colder. Whereas that scent was the green, cold part of Snow White, Hypothermia is that scent plus a lot of mint and herbal eucalyptus, and maybe some ozone and pine as well.

After a little while: This still smells like cold air, eucalyptus and ozone with pine and perhaps a llittle less mint. It’s very chilly, slightly herbal, and a bit on the unisex side.

Overall Impressions: To me, this smells like a colder, more masculine version version of Snow-Flakes. It’s all cold air, ozone, pine, eucalyptus and, at first, a bit of mint. It’s almost salty in it’s crispness, and would be great on a hot day.

In bottle/imp: I get a bit of wood mixed with warm florals, then a little dry musk and a hint of grapefruit right at the end.

Immediately on skin: This smells spicy, herbal and green, with dry musks and a hint of grapefruit. The musk is so dry it’s almost powdery smelling.

After a little while: This smells of lightly warm, spiced musks with some smooth, dry flower petals. It’s a very smooth scent and is just short of creamy. There is also a bit of a cold note overlying it, almost like ozone but much smoother.

Overall Impressions: This scent is so hard to pinpoint and explain since it’s so complex, well blended, and unique. It manages to be dry and musky, lightly spiced, and cool all at the same time. It almost has the scent of something you’d find out in nature, a plant with dry, flaky bark, crackling flowers, bright leaves, and touches of frost. I don’t know if I like this or not, which is interesting.

ETA: I did a full wear of this scent and decided I absolutely love it

In bottle/imp: Herbs and moss, with an almost creamy cologne scent over the top of it.

Immediately on skin: This scent is very herbal and slightly woody with a bit of snow wafting behind and crystalline amber. It’s a lot of herbs, but there’s also this almost shattered, snowy sweetness to it. The teak is quite cologne-like through this scent as well.

After a little while: The herbal quality to this settles down quite a bit, and this becomes a very amber-heavy blend with cologne-like teak and a little moss and snow.

Overall Impressions: This scent is very herbal at first, but it settles down nicely into a glowing dry amber blend with little bits of teak and snow. It’s a bit unisex, and a touch sweet, but nice. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s for me however

In bottle/imp: Lots of apple blossom, with juicy fruit blending into it.

Immediately on skin: This smells like apple blossom, but super fruity. Fortunately the other fruits are drowning out the apple part of the note, so it’s a bit more floral, plus those other fruits. There’s a topnote to this scent that’s very perfume-y. The calla lily maybe? The musk is lingering softly at the base of this scent, filling out the fruity notes.

After a little while: This settles down to a very fruity, bright scent with a hint of sweet apple blossom and orchid.

Overall Impressions: I was hoping that this scent would be a little more complex, but it dried down to a pretty but simple fruit and floral scent. It’s nice, but orchid tends to get a little cloying on me, so I wouldn’t enjoy smelling it for long periods of time. For some reason, this blend reminds me a lot of War.

I also recommend Sybaris, and Ashlultum, as well.

My favorite vanilla bpal scents are Dorian (like lightly lemony vanilla musky cookies) and Black Opal (smells like vanilla rocks, but in a good way! Totally unique). IMO, just plain vanilla can get a bit overpowering and boring, so other notes really bring it out. The ones I listed have other things in them, but they're not really super sexy scents. They're also impable since they're GC.

In bottle/imp: Citrusy floral plum.

Immediately on skin: This smells of slightly spiced citrus, plum and rose. The plum is the strongest note with the rose making it smoother and the bergamot adding a high citrus note. There’s something slightly cloying to this that I’m not loving at the end however.

After a little while: This smooths down into a softer plum, rose and dry sandalwood scent. It’s a very close-to-the-skin type of scent for sure, and manages to be a sexy little floral plum scent.

Overall Impressions: This is a nice scent, but it didn’t take my breath away. Mostly plum, citrus, and rose at first, but it dries down to a quite pretty blend of plum, rose and sandalwood. Feminine with a fruity kick.

In bottle/imp: Chocolate mint. Rather powdery, but still creamy.

Immediately on skin: This smells of those soft, pillowy mints with a little cocoa powder sprinkled over. Behind those notes is a little dry bit of cedar and the cologne-like cedar.

After a little while: The chocolate in this becomes that musky B.O. chocolate I can’t stand after a while, mixed with powdery, creamy vanilla-mint and a finish of light fresh moss.

Overall Impressions: This blend is interesting, but it doesn’t come together on my skin. The chocolate is rather dry, and with the vanilla-mint it becomes a little powdery. The oakmoss and touch of cedar at the end are interesting, but I just don’t know how to make sense of this.

In bottle/imp: Resinous musk with just a hint of fir.

Immediately on skin: This scent is deep, resinous and slightly medicinal musk. There’s a woodiness to this blend, and it feels very dry to me. It has some nice complexity to it, but overall it’s a very dark blend.

After a little while: Dry, woody, resinous, musky, and slightly nutty: that’s what this scent is. It’s very deep and smells kinda brown, but still very rich. There’s just a touch of powder to it too though unfortunately.

Overall Impressions: This scent is quite deep and rich, and a little bit much of both of those for me. It’s musky and resinous with a dry, woody, nutty feel to it. More of a unisex blend, but edging towards the feminine side of that I think.

In bottle/imp: Straight up baby powder.

Immediately on skin: This scent smells like baby powder on me… with a little bit of dry wood. That’s about it.

After a little while: This stays mainly a baby powder scent, but now I also get a little bit of moss to go with the dry woodiness. Just a touch though. A light touch of dry cologne to go over the baby powder.

Overall Impressions: This scent is just not good on me at all. It’s mostly baby powder, which I think is the brown musk. This scent is dry, and has just a touch of wood and moss to go with the baby powder. I’m disappointed that this smells so wrong to me.

In bottle/imp: Fruity and fizzy with a base of juniper and grape.

Immediately on skin: This smells fizzy and slightly alcoholic, but very fruity. The juniper and grape are what give this blend that fizzy, alcoholic quality while the other notes flit around. All the other fruits really blend together, and this has a definite citrus overtone.

After a little while: The juniper dies down a little after drying and the fruits come out a bit more, though this is still a very fizzy, citrus-dominated fruit scent. I smell hints of the berries and grape but the mandarin seems to be the strongest note of all. This scent is very focused and doesn’t waft about; it just strikes your nose with its fizzy fruitiness.

Overall Impressions: This is like a super fizzy, super fruity drink with just a bit of alcohol from the juniper and grape. It’s very much a warm weather scent when you want to smell something refreshing and bright. The citrus comes out quite a bit, but there’s enough of the other fruits to keep it interesting. Nice, but not quite me unfortunately.

In bottle/imp: Dirt with a lot of spiced resin in the background and some rather woody and herbal notes.

Immediately on skin: This scent is very unisex smelling with a lot of different things going on. It’s rather deep and very resinous, but then it has a herbal, woody high note and some salty, cologney aquatic finishing it off. It’s very thick smelling, and quite complex. It’s a little bitter, herbal, and woody as well and has a rich sweetness from the myrrh.

After a little while: This has become rather warm and resinous. It just heats up in my nose as I smell it. It’s very smooth, though, and not gritty with a light bit of herbal spiciness. The base of this is rather dry and woody.

Overall Impressions: This scent is very complex, warm, dry, rich, and resinous. It’s a bit on the unisex side, as well. This is sweet but not overly so, and has a wonderful dark quality to it. It’s not my type of scent, but it’s an interesting one to smell.

In bottle/imp: Cherry-like fruit and spicy orchid.

Immediately on skin: I get a juicy, reddish scent, but it also smells kind of watered down. There’s definitely a lot of cherry, and what seems to be a bit of currant and some dry but spiced orchid lingering behind. The mimosa is evident, sort of wafting around but not really blending in.

After a little while: This scent smells loud and sharp, but also floral and fruity at the same time. It’s mostly a fruit/floral concoction, and I don’t get much spice. The cherry is juicy but not very sweet, and the floral notes are dry and sharp.

Overall Impressions: Disjointed is a good word for this scent; it never manages to fully blend on my skin. The fruits are bright but sharp, and the florals are smooth, dry, and rather strong. This scent smells red, but it’s not a sweet, juicy scent.

In bottle/imp: Spiced orangey corn chips and light neroli.

Immediately on skin: This is lightly fruity, with a slight undertone of corn chips and sweet clove. For some reason my nose smells orange blossom as corn chips, so that’s why I get that note. The mimosa in this is very smooth, but with the neroli it has almost a plastic scent.

After a little while: The corn chip scent has mostly gone away, but there’s still something vaguely resembling Fritos here. Otherwise, though, this scent is a very smooth floral blend with hints of orange and then a finish of sweet spice.

Overall Impressions: Orange blossom doesn’t work on my skin, and this blend is no exception. I get something vaguely like corn chips, plus some pretty florals and light citrus with a touch of clove. This scent could be gorgeous… I have no doubt. But it does not work on me.

In bottle/imp: Melon, softened by mint, and followed by light herbs.

Immediately on skin: This is powdery, soft minty melon with an herbal finish. It’s very soft and powdery in an almost creamy way.

After a little while: Huh? Where did it go? After only an hour I can barely smell this anymore. When I lean in really close I get something rather pretty though: a barely there mix of green tea, melon, and the smallest hint of mint. Oh, wait… and some gooey champagne grapes and herbs over the top.

Overall Impressions: This was quite fun at first… mostly, melon and mint with an herbal note finishing off the scent. This scent disappeared SO quick on me, though. And what I could smell after that was just a hint of green tea, melon and mint with an overtone of cloying white grapes and some herbs. This was a bit disappointing.

In bottle/imp: SO odd. Gardenia, watermelon, berries, citrus… all mashed together.

Immediately on skin: This smells just so weird. It’s a mish-mashed, complex scent. The watermelon and gardenia are the most evident notes to me, followed by citrus and berries. This blend is bright and fruity with an equal amount of gummy gardenia.

After a little while: This has gotten even sweeter on my skin. It’s like watermelon, gardenia, and berry candy. The higher citrus note has all but faded however. This scent is VERY sweet.

Overall Impressions: Super fruity and sweet, this blend is a mix of watermelon, gardenia, berry, and (at first) citrus. Very fun, childlike, and happy. Odd, but nice.

In bottle/imp: This smells of candy… flower flavored candy. Specifically, carnation Smarties.

Immediately on skin: This is a sweet, slightly powdery floral blend that’s just on the border of smelling like floral bubble gum. The carnation and daisy are very sugary and as I sniff, I get a little green stem at the end. I don’t really get any of the pepper out of this.

After a little while: This smells basically the same, minus the stem note. Now, it’s all powdery, fruity, sugary carnation and daisies.

Overall Impressions: For those of you that love Hope and Faith, TRY THIS. It’s in the same family as those two, just with a different floral tone. It’s a sugary, fruity floral scent and quite girly. Unfortunately I get no pink pepper however. So if you are thinking of buying a bottle of this just for that note, I recommend that you get an imp instead to make sure you like it.

In bottle/imp: Medicinal, strong, and spiced with ginger. This almost smells like prune-ginger cough syrup. You know, the kind that burns as it goes down.

Immediately on skin: This smells much the same on my skin as it did in the imp. It’s a very sharp alcoholic scent much like cough syrup with some prune and ginger. It’s spicy, gooey, and very alcoholic.

After a little while: The alcoholic note really seems to have faded and this scent has lost it’s cough syrup quality. Now it’s more of smooth, sweet dried syrupy fruit scent with kick of ginger. Very interesting.

Overall Impressions: I have to admit… this scent kind of scared me at first. But after just a few minutes it smoothed out into this rather nice spicy prune scent. Unfortunately it’s still not something I would wear much, but it’s an interesting scent nonetheless. Ginger and prunes. Yeah.

Most of my favorites are a bit sweet. Black Opal, Dorian, Hermia, Pink Moon 07, Pickled Imp, Jingu, Inez... all those aren't really candy-like but they have a definite sweetness to them that's made complex by other notes. You might also like Sugar Skull which will probably be released with the Halloweenies sometime in August. Are you looking for mainly fruity, creamy...?

I do live pickled imp yum

 

I do like sweet and fruity with a bit of cream the only problem is a few scents I have tried that have cream in can be very buttery.

 

I had a bottle of sugar skull when I first got into bpal it was an old one and to me it smells like rum rich brownsugary rum it was nice but a bit boozy maybe a fresh bottle would be less boozy?

One of the Sugar Skull years (I think it was 2006?) was quite caramelly... but 2007 and 2008 IMO were quite a bit more sugary fruit than brown sugar or caramel.

Most of my favorites are a bit sweet. Black Opal, Dorian, Hermia, Pink Moon 07, Pickled Imp, Jingu, Inez... all those aren't really candy-like but they have a definite sweetness to them that's made complex by other notes. You might also like Sugar Skull which will probably be released with the Halloweenies sometime in August. Are you looking for mainly fruity, creamy...?

June Gloom 2009 reminds me of that type of feeling. It's an aquatic floral type of scent with a little citrus and a slight herbal quality. It has a lightly melancholy feel, so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for. You can find reviews for it here. It was an LE and is no longer up, but it was recent enough that you might be able to find a bottle or decant of it in the Swaps section for sale.

As for how to order, I'm pretty sure there's info on the FAQ page of the lab's website.

In bottle/imp: Very sharp, citrus-like herbs matched with very smooth saffron and amber. A biting scent.

Immediately on skin: This has a very herbal tone to it, and smells almost medicinal at first when I sniff it. The chamomile comes through, and smells a bit smoother but still herbal. Then I sniff the amber, heliotrope and saffron and that warm, smooth, and slightly spiced combination almost takes over my nose. Now it makes up the entire base of the scent with the cool herbs wafting above and finishing off the end of the scent. There’s also this very dry woodiness that flits about and keeps tickling my nose.

After a little while: This is definitely more of a calm, smooth scent after a while. The stronger herbal notes go away, and the chamomile really comes out and makes a nice base for the rest of the scent. The saffron, amber and heliotrope really blend into it nicely and create with this calm, smooth, warm scent.

Overall Impressions: This is a very nice blend with a bit of warmth, and some interesting herbal notes. It doesn’t feel dark, but it does have this odd sunlight/nighttime feel because of the balance of amber and saffron which I associate with drier “sunny” blends, and chamomile which I always see as a soothing nighttime note. It’s nicely balanced however, and has a very dry, soothing feel to it overall.

In bottle/imp: Thick, rich molasses with a berry note coming through right at the end.

Immediately on skin: At first I smell the molasses and the red currant blending into this thick, rich, sweet syrup. It’s not really foody because the grittiness of the patchouli is coming through loud and clear, though it doesn’t smell particularly like dirt (the dirt thing is what happens with me and a lot of patchouli notes). Instead, it makes this scent rather musky and gritty. The moss also peeks through a bit and adds a touch of freshness.

After a little while: The molasses calms down a bit and this scent becomes a little more balanced after some time. It settles into my skin and the currant peeks out playfully while the molasses, patchouli, and a hint on the vanilla cream make up the bulk of the scent. This is slightly gritty, musky, and rich with a non-foody but still sweetened feel to it.

Overall Impressions: What is that you say? A patchouli blend that actually WORKS on me? I’m amazed. This scent is mostly molasses made gritty by the patchouli, but the red currant comes out enough to temper those thicker notes with a playful sweet bite. The vanilla cream comes out as it settles on me, and adds just a touch of creaminess to help settle down the rough patchouli. The moss is just a hint at first, but seems to either disappear after a while, or blend in so completely that I can’t pick it out any longer. Quite a nice scent though, and eerily fitting for its namesake with it’s sweet, playful, and still dirty feel.

Here's a picture of the three bottles I got from the last update: Plastic Pink Flamingo, Festival of Anuket, and Smoky Moon. Enjoy!