BPAL Fraggle Rock and Lemon Scented Sticky Bat

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I recently received a couple oils from the Fraggle Rock collection at BPAL. When my daughter was little she would watch this show constantly so it brings up fond memories for me. The collection features 8 new scents from the brilliant Beth of Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs.

I had a hard time deciding which one of these cute little bottles to pick ($26) but finally settled on Gobo and Boober.


Gobo: 
Gobo is the natural leader of the Fraggle Five. He is an explorer, spending his days charting the unexplored (and explored-but-forgotten) regions of Fraggle Rock. Gobo is following, often quite literally, in the footsteps of his Uncle Travelling Matt Fraggle, the greatest living Fraggle explorer. 

Tangerine, lemon peel, sugared pink grapefruit, and vanilla cream. 

 I love this. It's so bright and playful and is surprisingly complex. It smells childlike without being unwearable. A clean lemony cloud scent that goes perfectly with a pair of jeans and a tshirt. I love creamy lemon scents especially mixed with vanilla and this doesn't dissapoint. 




Boober:
According to Boober Fraggle, there are only two things certain in this world: death and laundry. Boober is terrified by the former and fascinated by the latter. He is also paranoid and superstitious. According to Boober, anything that can go wrong surely will, and when it does, it will inevitably happen to him. 

A fretfully clean scent: freshly-washed laundry, linden blossom, soap suds, and a sprinkle of vanilla. 



I'm addicted to the perfumes in the Clean series just for their fresh laundry like scents. They have almost no lasting power but their Shower Fresh and Clean Cotton mists are constantly being sprayed on my sweatshirts or towels etc. Boober reminds me of these but *better*. It is longer lasting and I can pop it in my purse (and have). It is a definitely a fresh laundry scent but the smell of the linden blossom mixes so very well that it is just a pretty little song of a scent. 

I *love* both of these and if you have a chance definitely make sure to test or buy a bottle. 



I also had the chance to try a couple more scents: 


Lemon Scented Sticky Bat 
Sticky-sweet iced lemon sugar!

This oil is a limited edition based on a blog post by Neil Gaiman. It is a beautiful lemony mess. It shares a lot of the same feeling of Gobo but the lemon is brighter and sharper. I enjoy it alot. This reminds me of Fresh's Sugar Lemon which is another long time standby for me. An invigorating, fresh sugary lemon scent that is very pretty in it's simplicity. 



Mouse Circus 
A toodle oodle of pink cotton candy noses, vanilla spun sugar fur, scattered kernels of popcorn, and a touch of polished golden wood. 

Wow! This smells a lot like what BPAL's Midway smells to me. It reminds me of the smell of popcorn balls with the melty sugary caramel covering the salty buttery popcorn. It's salty sweet. Some people smell watermelon (I don't) and it dries down to a very pretty vanilla musk.

 I think it's very wearable and has good throw and sillage thou it faded on me after an hour or so (which seems to be normal for.. well, everything! drat!)