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Red Rose is quite masculine on me, as I feared. Too heady and resinous to wear alone. Coupled with White Rose, however, it is a lovely, sexy scent.

Mmmm. I get very little rose in White Rose. Instead I get a creamy, vanilla-y scent that is identifiable as a floral, but isn't In Your Face Rose. Alone, it turns slightly soapy on the dry-down, but paired with Red Rose this seems to stay truer to itself. Lovely.

Hmm. I was expecting sweet, fruity goodness. What I got was a cold white floral. How did that happen?

Oh, man. I am shocked by how much I like this, since it is full of deal-breaker notes for me but I'd had waaaay too much wine before deciding which decants I wanted. And thank goodness for wine! "Divine and shining," indeed! Dia is actually borderline-soapy on my skin, which is usually a very bad thing, but here it works. The scent is sort of airy; I can see how some people might think "dryer sheets" and man if I could find some that smell like this I'd buy them in bulk! I can't describe it much more than that, only to say that this is unlike any other amber or musk or tobacco scent I've ever used. I need a bottle!

This is lovely: Soft vanilla and resins which aren't too dark or thick, with the lightness of orange blossoms. But it literally lasts three minutes on my skin. SO sad.

Wet, this is straight up sweet pear on my skin. What the heck happened to the other notes?!? Dry, it turns too soapy and perfumey, and unpleasantly reminiscent of a cleanser we use at the hospital. *gag* Very sad about this one.

GET IT OFF! This lavender is beating me to DEATH. I love bergamot, and I wanted soft lavender and gorgeous bergamot, but all I get is ZOMG LAVENDER.

This smells the way I wanted Prunella to smell: Deep and heady and plummy. I think I may need a bottle of this one.

Hmm. Not sure about this one. On my skin, it is half wonderfully dark, wonderfully boozy cherry cordial; and half sick medicinal. Sniff now, sniff again, it changes every time. I hoped this was a factor of my weirdo skin chemistry, but it smells the same on a fabric swatch. Boo.

I am striking out with the white chocolate notes. To me, this is identical to Obatala... if Obatala were thin and watered down and didn't last very long on the skin.

This is lovely, though a bit lighter and more delicate than I'd imagined. The gardenia is a true floral, and the combination of rice paper and honey scents are rather creamy to my nose. Not too sweet.

Hello lovely, realistic strawberry! So far the white chocolate scents baffle me: WC & Sugared Violets gives me straight up violet. Faith cloned. But this WC Strawberry gives me all strawberry and no chocolate! Okay, if I put my wrist right to my nose I get a tiny whiff of cream, which I assume is the WC. Maybe as it ages I'll get more of this note? Whatever happens, the strawberry is a true note and I'm very pleased with that!

Right now, this smells identical to Faith to me. I am hoping the white chocolate comes out more as this wears on my skin and ages in the bottle.

PEACH! Hello juicy lovely peach! In the bottle and wet on my skin all I get is that peach note. The drydown is much more complex, and my skin really seems to amp the tuberose because this is very much a white floral at close sniff. I'm not sure what "wood violet" is supposed to smell like, but in this case I assume it's more woody as that note reminds me of the wood note in Glowing Vulva. Very nice overall. Will be great for Spring.

This is really complex! I think every time I sniff my wrist I smell something different... and I am sniffing way too often. This is very soft rose, not the ZOMG ROSE! you get in so many other blends. I also get a vanilla-y sort of note that is very creamy, and I assume that is the caramel which is not the "burnt sugar" note I sometimes get from caramel. I love the pink pepper in it, as it sharpens the other soft and creamy notes. The drydown is quite powdery. I suck at descriptions when scents are like this, but I can say for sure that I like this. It feels sophisticated. EDIT 2/6: I had to follow up because this gets even more lovely each time I wear it. Slightly powdery but sharp and peppery at the same time, it is very, very sexy.

Mmmm, just as described: Tart pomegranate and the sharp smell of clear alcohol. A bit sweet, a bit tart, and with that cold booze scent underneath. Nice.

Man, the Lab is on FIRE with my freebies this order! Obatala is another scent that I'd never looked twice at, but upon first sniff ZOMG love! One of my favorite go-to products lately is Lilypad's Quench spray in Creamy Coconut, and this is the perfect perfume compliment: Heavy on the coconut but a bit musky and buttery, too. Almost foody, but without that "you smell like cake/pancakes/whatever" reaction I get from most foody blends. Lovely and dark in cold weather, but this will be wonderfully summery when it gets warm as well! I think I need a bottle!

Another freebie from the Lab that I am *so* grateful for! I never would have looked twice at Shango, but on my skin right now it is glorious! Wet it is all red, red apples, bright and summery, though as it dries I smell more like a tropical drink, with the pineapple and something wonderfully coconutty peeking out behind the red. This will be a phenomenal scent to wear in the Springtime!

Wow, I had no idea! Hermia is bright and fun and sharp; methinks that is likely the pepper. It softens on the skin into something floral and wonderfully spicy. This was a freebie from the lab and I am so glad the sent it! I need a bottle!

I almost hate to post this, but ah, well: This is the only BPAL scent so far that has literally made my bile rise upon first whiff. I don't know what scent note made me react that way, or if it is the specific combination here, but my reaction was highly unusual and incredibly unpleasant.

I opened this imp before reading the scent description, and I knew immediately that this was lemon verbena. That's all I smell. It is lovely when wet, but unfortunately the lemon turns into Pledge when it dries. *sigh* I continue to hunt a wonderful lemon blend that doesn't do that.

The "gentlemen's cologne" makes this completely unwearable for me, which is sad because the other notes lingering underneath are quite lovely. Luckily, this smelled A-MAZ-ING on my boyfriend; not too cologne-y on him!

Three words: Lush's Rock Star. Fantabulous! I need more!

On first whiff this is very much like Sticky Pillowcase poured over sour cream pound cake. Delish. I don't get much of the grapefruit note, but the strawberry and carnation are both lovely: Sweet one sniff, sharp the next. All over spongy cake.

I admit that I have a strong dislike for musk. So much so that I almost passed this by despite reviews. But I figured what the hell, and am SO glad I did. This is delicious! Gingerbread-y without too much cinnamon, heady and sexy but not too HELLO, MUSK-y, a bit boozy and foody without the Oh, You Smell Like FOOD! factor. Shockingly lovely!