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The Tiger label: AHHHHHH SO CUTE!!! Honorable mentions to Elephant and Goat.

LP White sounds amazing, love the label too. The Trouble with Truffles is pretty tempting as well! Too bad effervescent notes rarely work on me, because mmmmm, Peach Sparkle...

Mmm, a nice dark pumpkin blend, a little spicy but without the sweet dessert quality you usually see with foodie pumpkins. Getting a little of that vanilla/marshmallow root on my skin—less dark now. Also, less pumpkin, more spice. Booze creeps into the background, then a few minutes later the dragon’s blood. A surprisingly quiet scent for all that resiny incense stuff going on! Eventually it does go a bit plastic + incense... hmm, I just don't know. I love it in the sample, but I'm not sure how I feel about it on me.

Man I need a scent locket.

Have fun with your first order!! I actually still haven't gotten around to ordering the newbie set, myself, but I'll have to soon. Welcome to the forum!

This is a beautiful set, great job.

There is going to be a major willpower struggle this month, let me tell you.

You guys just aren't allowed any good scents this month. I can't buy anything. This month i predict Mara utilises notes such as: old banana peel, turnip, french fry grease, fish, boiled egg. It will be a genuine horror collection.

 

 

Yes i know, that's really selfish!

I'm right there with you; my perfume budget is locked up until December.

Ohhhhhh just lovely. So cool and refreshing and pretty, the perfect hot summer day scent, girly but not childish. And, to me at least, it definitely smells like strawberry lemonade! A strong contender for a bottle purchase.

My order arrived today, thank you so much!

Well I feel slightly less noobish now.

I just retested it again, the smell of old man's sweaty feet fades in 20 minutes, and I start getting more pumpkin. At that stage it is wearable even with my wonky skin chemistry. Does not feel like my type of scent, but worth testing more.

I can definitely say this about ISFH: the longer you have it on, the better it gets. Just a matter of deciding whether waiting for that stage is worth it!

he thinks the cops are harvested or something, theres no convincing him

Bahahaha. Oh my. That would be quite the industry.

I got my shipping notice yesterday for my 8/18 order! YAY!!!!

YOU GUYS IT'S HERE IN MY TOWN

AND IN A FEW SHORT HOURS IT WILL BE IN MY MAILBOX

OMGOMGOMG

These look great!!

I got my shipping notice yesterday for my 8/18 order! YAY!!!!

I'll back up the other reviewers on this one; I do get a "lozenge" scent. A specific one, actually: Bach Rescue Pastilles in Black Currant, although it's a juicier scent in Plum Dandy. It's not a bad smell by any means, but not a favorite LP, I think.

Out of the vial, plum is obvious, but there's a noticeable touch of cinnamon too. Distinctly fruity, but a subtle, starchy sort of fruit rather than a big bubbly fruit smoothie scent.

Have you ever tested something over and over and over and you still don't know what to make of it? Yeah, that's ISFH for me.

Right out of the vial, I get butter with some pumpkin-y spices. It smells a little odd: a bit fake, almost like a candle smell. On my skin, though, the spice really blooms. Apple-pumpkin at the front, vanilla-cream in the background. I asked my brother to sniff this for me because I wasn't really sure what to think. He was surprised when I said this was a dessert foodie; he said he smelled more of an "herbs and spices" perfume. I agree that it might not be obvious-- when I was sniffing this without looking at the notes, it took me several tries before I identified the butter for what it was. Before that I was just getting pumpkin candle.

Happy ending, after a few hours ISFH smooths out to a really lovely vanilla/cream scent. Very tasty! I love it, but I wish it didn't take me several hours to get there.

Soie et Fourriere and I do not work well together. To me, this smells a bit like hugging your wealthy grandmother-- soft old skin and cold cream and eighty years of class. A woman you'd probably be quite fond of (and impressed by), but I'm not sure I want to smell like her. So I guess the scent is pretty true to the description: old-fashioned luxury. Just can't see myself in it!

Spell oils aren't really my jam, so I can afford to hold off on the NRs until next month when some reviews have rolled in. Definitely a good thing; now I can knock some items off my wishlist!

10 Samples:

1. ...and I feel fine

2. Double O

3. Glass Slipper

4. Gitana

5. Mango Tango

6. Raspberry Chiffon

7. Tasty Tease

8. A Treasure of Copper

9. Unreasonable Pumpkin

10. Wicked

And a bottle of Upstairs, Downstairs as the prize in my cereal box! So much happiness.

Candy Apple Cutie is a wonderfully true scent, all apple and sweetness! Goes on wet with a bright apple snap, then settles down into cozy caramel. Magnificent and very snuggly! I'm sad to only have a sample vial of this, I loooooooove it.

This isn't a perfume that would ever have caught my eye, so I'm thrilled to have a freebie of it! A cloud of peppermint and linens and soft sweetness. Absolutely lovely and comforting, though the peppermint also gives it a cool bite. Once it dries, peppermint backs down and lavender and amber take hold. I have to reiterate, it's very cloud-like, light and powdery and... POOFY.

Very true to description, a nice airy ginger-orange-peach, quite light and pretty. Effervescent, almost, though it doesn't smell carbonated. My mother, who is normally pretty reserved about my perfume oils, complimented this one as soon as I sat down next to her. A big win in my book!

I am so shocked that there are only two reviews for this glorious LP! I'm glad someone was nice enough to pass along a sample.

Sugared Nag Champa brings a heavy-duty incense smell-- I should probably never wear this in public, as it is full-on headshoplicious, but my god it's delicious! Somehow it's incredibly sexy without actually being sexual, if that makes sense. This is one of my favorite sleep blends, such a thick and comforting scent. I basically just want to roll around in it.

Welcome, Bellumed!

And, breathe a deep, relaxing breath; allowing for the calming assurance that 19 bottles of Upstairs Downstairs remain in stock!

Thank you for the reassurance! And I'm glad you could pick some up after all, MissHazel.