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    By Silvertree

    Please be aware that we do not permit swap-related content on profiles or in blogs. Please post this content only in the For Sale, Swaps, and Wanted forums, or in the Wishlists topic. ~from Swapping 101  Thanks!
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My Askew View
 

Lady Una

"Why, you are crying."   She said nothing. Dunstan pulled her toward him, wiping ineffectually at her face with his big hand; and then he leaned into her sobbing face, and, tentatively, uncertain of whether or not he was doing the correct thing given the circumstances, he kissed her, full upon the burning lips.   There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he was, under the strange stars, utterly, irrevocably, lost.   Honey musk, green tea leaf, blackberry leaf, vanilla bean, and fae spices.   I love how this smells in the bottle, honey, vanilla and spice! On me it changes a bit though, it actually smells almost identical to Milk Moon. It's like Milk Moon without the grape note. I like MM but wasn't expecting it. After it sits on my skin for a few hours it morphs more into it's own scent and is lovely. Very pretty scent overall! I think I will try it out in a locket to see how it smells then, I have a feeling it will be heaven!   ETA: Nope never mind today it's all honey and not very similar to MM! This scent is great!
lectriceye

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my scent ramblings
 

imp order and frustration

My recent experience with La Petit Mort (actually, I'm still experiencing it) has me back in the old "I can't wear perfume" mindset. I've resolved to order a dozen imps instead of just six, consisting of those scents I consider the most promising from my own research, plus a few taken willy-nilly out of the favorites of a few people who seem to have the same scent preferences as me.   Today I'm ordering (as imps):   Shub-Niggurath Embalming Fluid Dracul No. 93 Engine Antikythera Mechanism Centzon Totochtin Perversion The Apothecary Dragon's Hide Mary Read Les Infortunes De La Vertu Lightning   Let's see if I have more luck with any of these.
Graphica

Graphica

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Video Game Excitement

I realized yesterday that I've reached the point where upcoming video games are more exciting to me now than upcoming movies. I guess a lot of people crossed that line a long time ago, but for me it's pretty amazing that I reached it at all.   I am still excited about the Dark Crystal sequel, and the Dawn Treader movie from the Narnia series. However, I am much, much more excited about the Last Guardian. In fact, I just preordered it. Woo Hoo!! I can't wait.
forspecial_plate

forspecial_plate

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Halloween

I'm excited, of course, about the Halloween update coming up. It's my absolute favorite of all the special updates we get to see, and that's including Carnaval Diabolique. There's just something so special and cozy about fall for me. It makes me think of sleepovers, watching horror movies (good ones and bad ones), spicy and sweet goodies, brisk walks in chilly night air......the list goes on......   My only complaint is that I don't take full advantage of all the fun things I could do in the fall season. This is due to my own laziness, and too much focus on work. But I do manage to make some fun goodies at home like mulled apple cider, or some kind of spicy baked goods. It's a great feeling to fire up the oven when it's actually cool outside. So warm and cozy!   So obviously I'm really happy that the Halloween update will be coming along soon. Usually I buy one or two bottles unsniffed based on the descriptions, which is always fun because it adds an element of chance. Then I go nuts with decants. I think the one series that held the most favorites for me was the Order Of The Dragon. I just love Quncey Morris, Dr. John Seward, and of course Count Dracula. And then there are the old favorites like Samhain, Devil's Night, and now Death Of Autumn. It's funny.....Samhain is something I don't wear very often, probably less than 10 times during the whole year, but it's something that I just don't want to be without. When I want to smell it, nothing else will do. I think 2007 is the only year that I didn't at least try the new one, and I have a nearly full bottle from 2004.   I just can't wait to see what autumn brings us this year! :love!:
forspecial_plate

forspecial_plate

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DjarumCloves' Blog
 

Wishlist

Constant wears/Holy Grails: Pumpkin I 2005 Elegba Poisoned Apple (good for now) Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener (need bottle with BPAL art) Beaver'versary Pumpkin II 2009 (good for now) Head of Holofernes (good for now) The Haunted Palace (good for now) Old Moon (good for now) Fearsome Pleasure (almost gone!) Arcana's Ganesh (the only cocoa I can wear!)     To bring my collection up to speed: #20 Love Oil - pending A Countenance Forboding Evil Aelopile Aeval Aglaea aizen-Myoo All in the Golden Afternoon Antique Lace - yeah right Antony Anubis Aperotos Eros Baku - pending Bastet Bathsheba Belladonna Belle Vinu Bensiabel Bien Loin D'Ici Black Lily- pending Black Opal Black Pearl Black Phoenix Bliss Block Buster Blood Amber Bordello Brisingamen Brusque Violet Burial Cairo Calico Jack Casanova Centzon Totochtlin Chimera Cockaigne Coyote Crossroads Czernobog Darkness De Sade Deep in Earth Depraved Dirty Dorian - need more imps Dracul Dragon's Milk Eat Me Eden El Dorado Embalming Fluid Eris Fae Fenris Wolf Fire for Thy Stepmother's Daughters Follow Me Boy Forbidden Fruit Gaueko- pending Goblin Godfather Death Hellfire High John the Conqueror High-Strung Daisies Hi'Laka Horn of Plenty How Doth the Little Crocodile Hymn to Proserpine Incantation Incubus Intrigue Jezebel Juliet Kabuki Kali Katharina Kitsune Tsuki Kuang Shi- pending Kuman Kandam Kyoto La Bella Dame Sans Merci Lady Macbeth Laudanum Le Serpent Qui Danse Leanan Sidhe L'Ecole des Filles Lilium Inter Spinas Loralei Love-In-Idleness Machu Picchu Magus Maiden manhattan Mania Marquise de Merteuil - pending Masquerade Mata Hari Miskatonic University Morocco Mouse's Long and Sad Tale Muse Namaste No. 93 Engine O Oberon - pending Oblata Oblivion Ogygia Omen Pele Prurience Queen of Sheba Rakshasa Rapture Ravenous Red Devil Rosalind Saint Germain Salome - pending Santa Eularia des Riu Scherezade Séance - pending Serpents with Glittering Eyes Severin Shanghai Sheol Sin Snooty Rose Sri Lanka Succubus Swank Thanatopsis - pending The Black Tower The Chicken-Legged Hut The Lights of Men's Lives The Little Sparrow The Little Wooden Doll The Pool of Tears The Sea Foams Milk The Sluggard The Temptation The Unicorn The White Rider The Witch's Garden The Witch's Repast Thy Godfather's Present Titania Tushanamay Tweedledum Undertow Utrennyaya Vixen Windward Passage Wrath Xiuhtecuhti     Other:Red are pending, green are most wanted Spare Change Last Squished Jellybean Any Tarted Imps - doubles are absolutely okay. :love!:   I also need a bottle for my Mircalla 09 decants, would prefer the label art from BPAL.
DjarumCloves

DjarumCloves

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Velvet Dogs Playing Poker

Category: Limited Editions -- The Salon -- April Fools   This...smells so familiar. And delicious. I think...I think it might be reminding me of that one magical time when I was wearing Fearful Pleasure, and it had that woody sarsparilla smell with just a hint of vanilla beans and other stuff...so hey, if cigars, coffee, and Irish creme is what makes it smell like that, FINE! There is definitely a smooth, woody tone pervading the sweetness throughout. As one reviewer noted, it does smell more like the mess left in the room afterward, as opposed to the actual doggy poker party itself...but that's fine by me. I think I need a bottle now.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Loup Garou

Category: Diabolus   I really wanted to like this one, both for the name and ingredients! All I get is pine trees and eucalyptus, though, and it's not even that awesome. It could have been the heat and sweat, but even with trying to slather it, the scent just disappears. So sad.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Desdemona

Category: Illyria   This is another pretty sort of 'bouquet of flowers' smell. The florals all just kind of bunch together and I really don't get any defining characteristic out of it. It seemed to fade fairly quickly and did not throw much.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Kabuki

Category: Ars Amatoria   Initially, I got lots of syrupy cherry with a hint of cinnamon; subsequent uses brought out the licorice. Now, it's blended (in that very mysterious way that a lot of scents seem to have gotten their shit together a month after I originally tested them) into a nice mix of cherry and anise, with the licorice smell diabolically present and tempting. I was on the fence about getting rid of it, but now that I've read the reviews again, I think I'll hang onto it. :love!: It stays and throws decently.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Come To Me

Category: Bewitching Brews -- The Conjure Bag   Why do you want me to come to you? Because you just cleaned and disinfected the room? That's sort of what it smells like. Oh, okay, well, there is something that smells pretty nice, here...jasmine, maybe, or a lily. It's pretty enough, I suppose, but as far as being amorous, let alone sexually commanding...I just don't get it. Fire Of Love fills that niche for me.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Cathedral

Category: Sin and Salvation   Another woody, sort of piney scent (to me), but it's clean and full of light, too...like sunlight spreading across curved rafters and pillars of polished wood. If anything, it makes me think of sitting in a church, perhaps before a big ritual or holiday, in the hour or so before everyone else starts arriving; you're alone and you have time to savor the quietness and intimacy. Even though it's not a keeper for me, it's a beautiful image to evoke.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Burial

Category: Bewitching Brews   Piney dirt, mostly. Not a rose (or any other flower for that matter) in sight. Not bad, but it doesn't linger long, and I don't think it would be a 'me' scent, anyway.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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BuxomM's Blog
 

Swap Help

I tend to lurk more than post.   don't want/allergies: cat fur, pollen, base metal earrings, and incense     DRINKS   big mugs (thick clear glass are my fave and/or soup size)   fillable tea bags   hot chocolate   tea: green, black, herbal/fruit, flavored,   celestial seasoning tea: sugar cookie, nutcracker sweet   adagio tea: (love) HOJICHA (like)black flavored cream, black flavored valentine, black flavored caramel, black flavored tiger's eye, black flavored hazelnut   teavana:(like) sakura allure, caramel almond amaretti, (want to try): mudslide rooibos, chocolate bananas foster herbal, cococaramel seasalt herbal, amandine rose black, wonderberry choco truffle, toasted nut brulee, matcha powder   alcohol (anything ridiculously sweet or cordial): tequila rose, baileys, patron, sake, moscato     FOOD     snacks: chewy granola bars, dried fruit, beef jerky   candy: airheads, fruit snacks, pear jelly belly jelly beans, caramel apple pops, lychee candy, tea or coffee flavored candies, ginger candy, dulce de leche flavored   chocolate: reeces (or any peanut butter stuffed chocolate), white choco is my fave, love trying new kinds and combos   cookie: soft white choco macadamia & pizzelles   popcorn from the popcorn factory :turtle (chocolate & caramel)       SMELLIES   if you find a perfect chocolate scent (deep, sweet) send it my way   wax tarts & candles that smell sweet and like baked goods/foodie, especially from lolcandles.com   I like trying new scents and companies   general scents: chocolate, caramel, coffee, sweet creamy scents, baked goods (or anything sweet and foody)       other perfumes I like: nocturne alchemy: bastet's raspberry choco moon***   nocturne alchemy(NA)/vampire apothecary(VA)*** I love their raspberry, cheesecake and chocolate note (want to try)Princess Amber, malban, bassima, zahr om ali, Egyptian black raspberry, egyptian vanilla and passionfruit, apricot kobalt, strawberry crystalline, rasberry kobalt, blueberry crystal, choco cake moon, egyptian peach blossom, pomegranate aurora, Bastet's Warm Buttered Choco Rum, Egyptian Palace Bread, Hathor's, Hathor's Spiced Coffee Cake, Pharaoh Dreams, RA's Honey-Vanille Au Lait, Ta-Seti:, dia de los muertos (VA), choco pumpkin spice (scentaddict exclusive), Hathor's Strawberry Cheesecake Vanille, , Bastet's Choco Cherries, Bastet’s chocolate covered raspberries, Bastet’s chocolate covered black cherries, Bastet’s chocolate covered acai berries, Ra’s hazelnut cocoa, revenge of the flesh eating scarabs, French Egypt: Orange Sanguine Karnak, Eternal Luxor: NAliday Blend,     Blooddrop***(want to try) at the dinner after rocky, bisou, buche de noel, café oblique, zazao café, lshana tova, les madeleines, pumpkin, starlight star bright, Madame Pompidou’s Elixir Secret pour les Maladies et Crises du Coeur, Frau Von Schtinklestein’s Partially Completed Barvarian Love Essence, coffee, butterscotch, rice milk, midseason orange,     villainess: (love their scrubs and perfumes) rough cuts-banana crème soap, Whack, blood, blood sugar, candy floss cupcake, cherry chocolate*, cocoa berry cream cheese*, copacobana, crushed, decadence, exhumation, exsanguination, fresh market, ginger snapped*, gloop, grenade, hoar frost, jack.O, krakatoa, lavender berry, mall santa, mango spice cake*, moral decay, mudslide*, paradise misplace, pieman, raspberry swirl, scintillating, silk and cyanide, sparkling lemonade, sugarbuzz, supervillainess, wasabi     arcana: ambrosia,angel clare, breakfast in hollywood, caffeinated death, derby lollies, devlish, ganesh, ghost pumpkin, goat god, layering note: Citrus Creme*, little ghoulie*, namaka, philtre 2 :adoration, philtre 4 :consumed*, song of songs: honey and milk, song of songs: comfort me with apples, spirit and shadow, sweet box, emotions duo: love, heart duo:venus return, velvet underpinnings,   I smell good (etsy):berry, cake, caramel*, cherry, chocolate*, circus peanuts, coffee*, currants, lemonade, lime, mango, marshmallow, orange pumpkin*, yellow pear*   conjure: aged leather, unicorn leather, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, asphalt, august, September, the light queen, the light crone, heaven shiner, shining flame, attract, la cafeteria, la calavera, el diablito, el melon, la pera, four leaf clover, guardian angel, jade dragon, pirate's breakfast, tempus fugit torte, the pernicious parasol, jezebel, loki, all around the mulberry bush, curly locks, little miss muffet, what are little girls made of, achocolypse*, arsenic ambrosia, cyanide crumpets and nightshade jam, man's ruin, o caffeine,eleggua, obatala, yemaya, oshun, lammas, samhain, api moradad para pachamama, bruja zarates agua dulce, honrar a los muertos, stegare bicerin, mlle c d villers, mlle whiard,   ZOMG: beyond blueberry, Brownian motion, chocolate orange cordial, root beer float, lassi come home, marmalade tabby, tasse de la reine, the last gros Michel, xocolatl   The garden bath (etsy): caramel chocolate, chocolate passion, angel food, hazelnut café, lemon chiffon, pecan pie, sugar cookie, apricot melon, blackberry seeds, fresh orange, macintosh apple, mango juice, coconut lemongrass, pineapple teak, umbrella drinks, peach iced tea, tropical delights,   I've given up on possets, violette market and solstice scents (choco note doesn't play nice and/or my skin tends to eat them) ...   BATH AND BODY   love soap, lotion, bodywash, bar soap, and sugar scrubs   I love sugar scrubs   Paintbox soap works: (like their scrubs)Lavender truffle, sweet cheeks,little paper umbrellas, orange crush, candy floss, gingermilk, big in Japan, the queen is dead, lady linden, avast, bramble & apple, kid a, gold frankincense and myhrr, second breakfast, bleeding heart, the Englishman, poinsettia, punkie night     BEAUTY   hair accessories (black, colorful, flowers, bows, sequins) like clips , barretes, elastics, head bands (metal/plastic)   flavored lip balms (love balms)   haircare: shine serum, leave in conditioner   waterproof/colored eye liner pencil (love eyeliner), any color   eyeshadow (love eyeshadow), any color, especially shimmery wine/burgundy deep reddish purples   nail polish (love nail polish), any color, especially light pinks, deep reds, reddish purples, black     CLOTHING   unisex l tee   love camis & tank tops xl (43 inch around bust)   socks that have crazy colorful patterns or pictures (especially no show socks)   flipflop sandals size 8     ENTERTAINMENT like stitch from lilo & stitch, anytime I go to Disneyland I try to get a landyard pin with him and the year on it, but haven't been in years   I love movies and TV shows. I keep my DVR busy. true blood, dexter, psych, and NCIS are some of my favorite shows.   Jim carrey is my favorite actor. I am also fond of Vin Diesel & Jason statham. I like Sandra bullock, Doris day, carry grant, rock Hudson, and elvis. I watch a lot of old movies.   Characters I love are Gambit from Xmen, Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, Vincent & sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7, minions (from despicable me), and stitch from lilo and stitch,   I have a PS2 I use as a dvd player. Final Fantasy 7 is my favorite game. My brother gave our copy away when we were younger *weep*   I have a fondness for vampires and tend to enjoy most movies and shows that involve them. I love vampires in all their incarnations, even the sparkly variety, I love the different stories people come up with in their strengths, limitations, how they came to be, and how other are made or born.   used books in good condition (list is in another blog) mainly romance and paranormal romance   books I want list link     CRAFTY STUFF tooled leather   woodburned art/boxes   interesting stationary (matching envelopes and paper),   fabric:brocade, lace   gem/stone:mother of pearl, abalone shell, hematite, tigers eye   scrapbooking paper & embellishments   stickers, especially 3D, glittery, holographic, or gems   patterns: colorful, rainbow, tiedye, sugar skulls, paisley   crafty stuff: fabric, ribbon, lace, acrylic paint, modgepodge, glitter, sequins, confetti, rubber stamps and multi colored inkpads   felted sugar skull/skeleton animals/characters as ornaments   stained glass/ window/wall hangings     ART art by Michael Parkes.   starry night by van gogh   art: erotic, sugar skull/ day of the dead   art with texture, mixed media, collage of smaller pictures forming a larger one, name/letter art (glue some big pretty flowers to a canvas, use some rhinestones and ribbon, make a collage from magazine cutout pictures and words )   avatars/icons (if ur good with graphics art/photoshop programs)     music Music: top 40, mainly pop, oldies, holiday music, R&b, country, rock, and alternative,   Last.fm music link   favorite musicians: michael buble, boys II men, the beatles, dean martin, elvis, lone star,   mix cds     OTHER RANDOM FACTS /LIKES   stores: LOLcandles.com, itunes, amazon, etsy   colors black and deep red/ burgandy (not orangey reds)   earrings, stainless steel or sterling silver, preferably fishhook inserts   flowers:peonies, tulips, ranunculus & dahlias   colorful day of the dead/ sugar skull/ calavera/skeleton [art/ figurines/ decorations ... anything shaped like or decorated with]   I collect geodes and pretty slabs of rock, smooth rounded river rocks are nice too   interesting keychains   valentines   costumes/ accesories   jellyfish   yoga   skelanimals (carrie the pony, diego the bat, mary the moth, timmy the spider)   refrigerator magnets   I have 4 sugar skull/day of the dead tattoos       wishlists   ETSY WISHLIST link   wishlist on amazon link   http://www.sockdreams.com/_users/wishlists/67a4163c8de3f87
BuxomM

BuxomM

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Brown Jenkins

Category: Picnic In Arkham   This is another one I really wanted to like, and I do...I just don't know how well. It has a really nice, coconutty air to it, along with what smells like hints of chocolate...I think that sandalwood smells like that to me sometimes. I think it ultimately must bow down to Death Cap.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Brisingamen

Category: Ars Amatoria   I really wanted to like this one -- and it was pleasant, no doubt about it. I get amber, pretty much, with the apple blossom and myrtle adding something sweet around the edges...and then it goes away. Just doesn't stand out enough for me, alas.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Brimstone

Category: Bewitching Brews   Oh, wow! It took me a while to figure out just *what* this smelled like, but once I did I was in love. It smells *exactly* like those little round pieces of charcoal that you buy in rolls of six, wrapped up in white paper like Ho-Hos. (LOL) One can practically hear the gunpowdery crackle of it as it lights and gets red-hot. It's just the charcoal -- right before you drop the incense in. Absolutely fantastic
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bow And Crown Of Conquest

Category: Sin and Salvation   Well-worn leather is predominant, though I can also smell cedar and some sage in there. After a while it went all Generic Boy Cologne on me, but it was sure nice for a while. It stays and throws very decently.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bordello

Category: Ars Amatoria   I had a hard time envisioning plum as an appropriate scent, but this fits the bill entirely. It really does seem like the sort of perfume that a five-dollar whore would wear (in 1880 dollars). It's sweet and feminine but definitely not innocent; it's one of those ladies that makes a point of putting a roll in her hips to make sure you keep following her up the stairs. Lasts all day, like a working girl should. Another winner!
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bon Vivant

Category: Bewitching Brews   Slightly-sour champagne, with candy-like strawberry. It's not bad, but it never really steps up and asserts itself much, and drifts away.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bluebeard

Category: Diabolus   At first it smelled like funky vase water after you've just dumped out a rotting bouquet. But it gets better. It works its way upward from ugly rottenness to a twisted, vetivery musk tinged with violets, and eventually becomes a clean scent, floral but not quite unmanly...as if the murderer has washed his hands after his crimes and is ready to lay on the charm with a new victim. Conceptually this makes it *very* interesting, and as a scent it's a winner. Lasts most of the day with enough wafts throughout its transformation to mind you of how interesting it is.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Blood Rose

Category -- Rappacini's Garden   A rather innocuous rose. The dragon's blood gives it a sweetness that threatens to send it into the same icky rose territory that I amped like crazy in Rose Cross, but it stays okay for the most part. It actually ends up smelling soapy more than anything. Decent throw and staying power, just not for me.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Review Round-up!
 

Zombie Apocalypse

In the bottle: Caramelized sugar - almost maple-y.   On wet: Maple sugar and something decidedly RED n' FRUITY! Quite a jarring combination.   Drydown: Sweet, red berry jam. Thick and gloppy. Caramel sugar is glowing underneath. The entire effect is almost...hazy, if that makes sense - like there's this vapour trail of heavy, goo-ified, sugar-berry NOMness wafting up from my skin. It's absolutely *incredible*.   Overall: I all but cried when I heard the preliminary reports on this scent - that one of my all-time favourite concepts was going to be a *gasp* FOODIE blend! - not quite what an anti-foodie like me had been hoping for. With much trepidation and little optimism, I ordered ZA anyway...and I am SO glad I did! YES, it's a foodie scent, and YES, it's super sweet, but holy smokes, does it ever smell GOOD! And it actually works on my skin! I don't forsee slathering it on *every day* or anything, but it's definitely wearable, it's totally fun, and my nose can't seem to get enough of it! DELICIOUS! 4.5/5
furygrrl

furygrrl

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Review Round-up!
 

Psychological Horror

In the bottle: Mmm...candied violets that've been smooshed into a delectable powder.   On wet: YUM! Still getting that sweet musk/candied violet - which is actually going more candied rose the longer I sniff - combo. Absolutely delicious!   Drydown: Loving this. Smells like a bolder Tushnamatay that's been dusted with sweet candy powder. What an amazing blend. As others have mentioned, there definitely is something *else* underneath all those good notes, something I can't quite put my finger on, and it does indeed smell "off". Not in an icky way, mind, just something...sharp? biting? metallic?...that kind of peeps out from beneath that powder puff of yumness every now and then - especially when I get in close for a good whiff. I quite like it.   Overall: I'm a fan of sweet powdery-musky stuff, so this scent definitely works for me - it's got great throw, too. An easy 4/5.
furygrrl

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