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BLUE MOON
6/18/04

Mugwort and bay, for psychic sensitivity…Juniper, for divination through dreams…Orchid and galbanum, for complexity, wisdom and noscere…with a potent lunar-charged blend of poppy, calamus, orris, wood aloes, moonflower, cucumber, and pale creeping buttercup.      
RED MOON
7/2/04, 7/31/04
Our blend for this Moon mixes traditional lunar oils with the warmth of amber and heliotrope, the russet haze of dragon's blood resin and crushed orange peel, and a swirl of summertime herbs: chamomile, rue, elder flower and marigold.   <5mL     

HARVEST MOON
8/29/04

The autumnal blooms of clematis, chrysanthemum, narcissus, sunflower, sage and lily twined with Dionysus’ sacred grapes and ivy, a bounty of apple, pumpkin, and ripe berries, and the amaranth and lingum aloes of Janus, all touched by a gentle breath of festival woodsmoke and sweet wine.   <10mL    
HUNTER MOON
9/28/04
A blend of traditional lunar oils touched with dry leaves, autumn bonfires, warm mulled wine, feral, animalistic notes and the chill of approaching winter.   5mL    

FROST MOON
10/27/04

A blend of traditional lunar oils frozen with winter mints, shivering eucalyptus, clear lotus, a gust of wind, and a midnight aquatic note. review   10mL     
COLD MOON
11/26/04
Traditional lunar oils combined with glittering snow flowers, soft breezes and frozen ferns.   5mL   
WOLF MOON
12/26/04
This is the dead of winter, the year’s dark hibernation, the crystalline silence of the depths of the world’s darkness. It bears echoes of the time before time, of primordial gloom. This Moon harbors memories of man’s life before fire.   10mL  
STORM MOON
1/25/05
The Storm Moon marks the darkest portion of the year. A season of long, impenetrable nights and turbulent tempests. A raging, electric and wet scent: slashing rain notes, rolling thunder, and sharp, cold winds layered by a breath of softly wafting lunar incense, a hint of Luna’s blooms, and the brittle herbs of winter.   5mL  
CHASTE MOON
2/24/05
Though March marks the end of the desolation and chill of winter, it is not yet Spring, the time of rebirth, fertility and the Earth’s fecundity. March’s Full Moon is a Virgin’s Moon, pure, youthful, unsullied and innocent. This is the Moon of the Child, and the scent is as soft and gentle as a baby’s breath: milky blossoms and soft cream touch the last buds of winter, coupled with crystalline, bright traditional Lunar oils. (butterscotch liquer)   10mL    
PINK MOON
3/25/05
This Lunar blend is soft with phlox, tulip, daffodil, dogwood and muscari, dusted with pink sugar, carnation and honey, and a touch of the first strawberries of the season.   4 x 5mL    
FLOWER MOON
4/24/05
Flower Moon embodies the unrestrained bliss, energy and color of the season: a bouquet of vivid, sexy blooms… tulip, daffodil, violet, dewdrop, rhododendron, iris, daisy, and a mix of California wildflowers. (not as cloying as i'd think it would be)   10mL    
MILK MOON (bonus!)
4/24/05
Milk Moon is its warmer, gentler cousin; it is a scent that emulates the closeness of child and mother. In it, cream and warm honey soften our traditional blend of lunar oils. (similar to chaste moon... more milky, less pineapple)   10mL    
STRAWBERRY MOON
5/23/05

Strawberry moon is a blending of strawberries and cream with light, dry lotus and soft ylang ylang and a touch of green tea and sage to bring it closer to Earth. review

This smells like liquid candy strawberries.
After a few hours wear, I can detect the cream note, but it's mostly on my wrists. In my shirt it smells very sweet strawberry with a touch of a tang to it, maybe the herbs that are in the mix.
This is very cute & girly and slightly silly. I enjoy the youthful happy quality of it, and smelling edible is just a bonus.;)

  10mL    
HONEY MOON
5/23/05
Honey Moon contains five different honeys, ranging from pale and sweet to deep and heady, with hints of jasmine, white gardenia, Hawaiian white ginger and thyme. review   10mL    
BUCK MOON
6/22/05
This Full Moon marks the time of the year when the new antlers of buck deer emerge from their foreheads, coated in soft velvet. This is a time of masculine vigor, thunder, balmy nights, glorious sunlight and hot winds. Buck Moon is an animalistic, deep scent: an amplification of one’s natural musk coupled with forest herbs, a hint of clear, warm evening air and a crystalline spark of lunar oil.   10mL    
FRUIT MOON
7/21/05

The bountiful, bright and vivacious prelude to the Harvest. A horde of wet, ripe fruits: green apple, apricot, blackberry, black cherry, black and red currants, cantaloupe, English pear, guava, lemon and lime, orange, mandarin orange, kiwi and mango, passion fruit, papaya, Georgia peach, raspberry, plum, tangerine, pomegranate and strawberry over a luminous blend of lunar oils. review

Wet, this is mostly a cacophony of melons. Cantaloupe is strongest, and there is just the teensiest hint that there are other fruits in this.
As it wears, the other fruits come out to play. This is so sweet and juicy and fun and cute that it's like rolling around in a vat of Tropical Fruit Skittles. Smell the rainbow of fruit flavor!
YUM.

  10mL    
HARVEST MOON
8/19/05
The autumnal scents of gladiola, chrysanthemum, aster, dahlia, anemone, bergamot, marigold, sage and verbena dust a blend of wine-soaked apples, plums, and red pears, mulling spices and brown sugar, the ivy leaves of Dionysus and Janus’ amaranth and lingum aloe.   10mL    
BLOOD MOON
9/18/05
The feral scent of the heat of the chase, deep woods, undulating musks, brushed by forest herbs, crushed grains, and touched by blood-dimmed lunar oils. review   10mL    
BEAVER MOON
10/17/5

Traditionally, Beaver Moon is named thus for a very obvious reason: during this time of year, beavers are hard at work building their dams and preparing for the onset of winter. Because it was too hard to resist, BPAL’s Beaver Moon is sillier, sleazier, and full of camp. This scent is of cheesecake and cupcakes, more in line with it’s cheekier connotations, and really hasn’t a damn thing to do with Luna at all! review

In the bottle it smells exactly like cream cheese frosting. YUM.
On, it smells like angelfood cake, sugar, frosting and more YUM. My sister asked who sprayed vanilla when I was at my parents' house yesterday. My brother said I smelled like cream soda. YUM.
Either way, this is light, sweet, foody heaven. Definitely in my top 3 of Lunacies. YUM.
IF YOU HATED IT, SEND YOUR BOTTLES MY WAY, KTHX.

  4 x 5mL    
SNOW MOON
11/15-16/05

In December, the skeletal, ice-rimmed fingers of winter take hold, and the nights are long, chill and dark. The first flurries of snow touch the land, and the earth itself becomes quiet. A scent of purity and silence, soft with falling snow, as dark as Midwinter: an icy flurry over the winter blooms of narcissus, pansy crocus, dahlia, tulip, chrysanthemum and white rose, with a hint of fir and birch. review

Bottle: Fir/pine
Wet: Fir/pine
Drydown: Fir/pine.
Well then.
To be a bit more loquacious, it smells a lot like Skadi or Snow Bunny, but without any of the berry/fruity/citrus notes. I don't ever get any of the floral notes, nor can I pick out any birch. It's just a chilly wintery fir tree smell.
It's nice enough, but I rather like this with the added notes in other bottles I already have.

  10mL    
HOLIDAY MOON
12/15/05
Before my bed/There is bright-lit moonlight/ So that it seems/ Like frost on the ground:/ Lifting my head/ I watch the bright moon/ Lowering my head
I dream that I'm home./ When the moon is full, mankind is one.

Bamboo pulp and oude with green and white tea. review

On the skin, it is bright and zesty, but there's almost something bitter in the background. I wonder if this is the Oude? I don't even know what it is. I saw it in the description and thought "oude? huh? whatever. *click*." It's almost like the pithy part of a lemon rind.
Initial drydown: wow. OZONE. I tend to shy away from ozone notes because they often smell like airfreshners to me. The scent overall is a greenish yellow cacophony.
More dry: The ozone is actually nice at this stage. It's like fresh air rather than artificial room spray. The citrus notes have died down significantly. I wonder if the green note I'm getting now is the bamboo or green tea. It doesn't smell like TEA tea like Severin. This is very clean & fresh & spring-like.
Not my typical choice of scent, but I like it. =)

  10mL    
BUDDING MOON
1/14/06
Budding Moon shines as Spring moves with its first breath, and this scent expresses that burst of life-affirming joy through an olfactory interpretation of Huang Quan's flower-and-bird paintings. Plum blossom, peony, lotus root, Chinese musk and a hint of white ginger.   10mL    
SLEEPY MOON
2/13/06
A nearly-narcotic blend of opiate-touched bark and blossom reflective of the bleakness and solitude of winter, the quietest point of the year : black opium poppy, bamboo pulp, ylang ylang, lavender, chamomile and white sandalwood.   10mL    
PEONY MOON
3/14/06
The year is ended, and it only adds to my age;
Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.
Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden,
Without me, will still bear flowers.
Peony, plum blossom, water reeds and soft Asian woods.
  10mL    
DRAGON MOON
4/13/05
The Dragon Moon celebrates the glory and vigor of Springtime: dragon’s blood resin, tea leaf, bamboo reed, sandalwood and cherry blossom.
  10mL    
LOTUS MOON
5/13/06
Soporose and lenitive: opium-laced golden lotus with rich amber, pine resin, and rose otto.   4 x 5mL    
HUNGRY GHOST MOON
6/11/06
Offerings of ginger candy, sugar cane, smoky vanilla and rice wine mingle with a ghost’s perfume of white sandalwood, ho wood, ti, white grapefruit, crystalline musk and aloe. This scent is tapered by the presence of seven herbs, woods and resins used in the purification of the spirit and the purging of earthly concerns from the soul.   10mL    
HARVEST MOON
7/10/06
This Harvest Moon oil is a merging of autumnal scents from all over the globe: chrysanthemum, pomegranate, cane sugar and dusty wheat, sorghum, green tea leaf, rice flower and rice milk, Russian sage, bamboo shoot, elderberry, black cherry, wild plum, red haw, hazelnut, red apple and shagbark hickory.   10mL    

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