Trying imps at Alice's. Harlot: wouldn't even put it on my skin. Too much rose. Half-Elf: light light incense, a little papery, a little rain, without being typically aquatic. dries down to almost nothing right away. La serpent qui danse: not my cups. perfumey, a little light fruit, strong vanilla and a little floral. Not old lady, really, but a little bit plasticy with time. Black Phoenix: cherry-almond all right at first. Dries down sharp and soapy. No way, not for me.
The ones I've loved. Many of these are not available. Those I have are marked with an asterix. (House fire wiped out my collection in 2007, man with a chemical sensitivity kept me from getting more.) Bluebeard, Brimstone, Devil's Night, Death Adder, Djinn, Dorian, The Great He-Goat, Green Tree Viper, Haunted, Hemlock*, Krampus, Love Me*, Mad Hatter, Osun, Masquerade*, Morocco, No. 93 Engine*, Schwarzer Mond, Snake Charmer, Sloth, the Tell-Tale Heart, Tezcatlipoca, The Caterpillar, winter of our discontent
The ones I've liked, but didn't (or wouldn't) keep (or would try again): Alice, Anne Bonny, Azathoth, Bewitched, Blood, Blood Moon, Bow & Crown of Conquest, Brisingamen, Cairo, Cathedral, Cheshire Cat, Chrysanthemum Moon, Czernobog, Dee, Death on a Pale Horse, Devil's Claw, Dragon's Hide, Drink Me, Grog, Half-Elf, Hecate, Hurricane, King Cobra, Laudanum, Lear, Lolita, Lucretia, Medicine Show, Midnight Mass 2006, Mme. Moriarty, Omen, Polyhymnia, Scarecrow, Snake Oil, Tanin'iver, The Lion, Torture King, Typhon, Umbra, Urd, White Rabbit
The ones I didn't care for or flat out didn't like (star indicates extreme): Absinthe, Aeval, Annabel Lee, Antique Lace*, Arcana, Arkham Revisited, Bat-Woman, Bed of Nails, Belle Epoque, Black Lotus, Black Phoenix, Blood Amber, Bordello, Centzon Totochtin, Coyote, Debauchery*, Dove's Heart, Dragon's Tears*, Eclipse, Fallen, Faustus, Gamaliel, Glasgow, Harlot, Has No Hanna, Hellfire, Herr Drosselmeyer*, Highwayman, Inferno, the Jersey Devil, Kathmandu, Kingsport*, Lampades, Les Fleurs du Mal, London, Loviatar, Mag Mell, Malice, the Masque, Mata Hari*, Megaera, Montresor, Muse, the Music of Erich Zahn, Nefertiti, Nephilim, Nosferatu, New Orleans, Nuit, Oberon, Ouija, Pain, Penny Dreadful, Pele, Red Devil, Samhain, Santa Eularia Des Rui, Saturnalia, Scherezade, Sea of Glass*, Seance, Silk Road, Suspiro, The Death of Sardanapal*, The Unicorn, Titus Andronicus, Tombstone, Twilight, Typhon, Veil, Vinland, Voodoo, Wanton, Western Diamondback, Whippoorwill, Whitechapel, Utrennyaya, Yggdrasil, Zombi
11/8/17 source: Lab Order: imps of tombstone, brimstone, aelopile, arcana. bottle of Samhain 2017 CnS: 11/9, received
11/11 source: Herb Girl order: imps of Bloodlust, Czernobog, the Caterpillar, decant of Samhainophobia 2016. bottle of Laura Belle McDaniel paid, received
11/16, Ajevie decants all. The Blood Must Flow, Brangwy, Jaawi, Vampire Princess, Spinning on Graves, You Fancy Me Mad, The Mournful Influence if the Unperceived Shadow paid
Not sure if this is at all accurate anymore, so I am starting my wishlist post from scratch, and adding scents from here in as time as allows.
5 ml: Bastet Morocco Dorian Snake Charmer Tell-Tale Heart
want to try:
salon great he-goat Les Anges Dechus the smiling spider Lot and his daughters three gorgons mad meg
LE/Discontinued: Formula 54 (dream on) Chaste Moon Selkie Bloody Mary Trick #2 Minotaur Count Dracula The Castle Tell Tale Heart
Carnaval Noir: Midway Freak Show Snake charmer
Carnaval Diabolique: Antonio, the Carny Talker Phantom Calliope Wulric, the Wolfman Western Diamondback
GC:
The Wild Men of Jezirat al Tennyn Akuma (for O.pal) Ogun Calico jack Lust Queen Alice Brown Jenkins The deep ones Mad Sweeney Morocco (I just want more) Prague Manhattan Port Royal The Isles of Demons Mouses Sad & long tail hemlock The Red Queen Bluebeard Black Annis Fenris Wolf Hades Obatala Calliope Clio Malediction Roadhouse Anathema Vixen Haunted Dragon's Milk Y'ha-nthlei Bewitched Velvet
