Imps a comin' in:

#20 love oil - A potent, enticing love formula, favored among Louisiana courtesans. Sharp rose and herbs soap. Yeah... I don't need to smell like that. (not bad in the oil burner though...)

Bard - Bay rum, honey, and white musk mingling with the scent of harp wood and lute strings and the twang of horn brass. - Are you kidding me? For a moment I could picture the lute in my mind! Ok... maybe not a lute. Maybe a ukulele, but still. Wood and strings... but not too much of either. I got no brass, though. The other notes combine into a lyric, gentle sweetness with the suggestion of a wood fire without really smelling like one and the barest hint of the smell of the outdoors in someone's hair. Seems to settle down into an echo of O. Arm huffing yummy yum. WANT. Added: It's close to the skin, clean and sexy as hell on my husband. I'll retest, but this may very well be a bottle.

Black Phoenix - Rosey almonds. Nice, not soapy rose and almond creamyness. Someone said cinnnamon but I'm not getting any of that burn. It's quite nice!

Blood Kiss - Lush, creamy vanilla and the honey of the sweetest kiss smeared with the vital throb of husky clove, swollen red cherries, but darkened with the vampiric sensuality of vetiver, soporific poppy and blood red wine, and a skin-light pulse of feral musk. A tiny dab tells me this is all cherries and vetiver. More testing must follow. Possibly followed by arranging to have myself drowned in it. I just heard my wallet cry out in pain. How can so many of these be so delicious?

Cheshire Cat - Grapefruit, red currant, dark musk, Roman chamomile, delphinium, and lavender. Starts beautifully - the grapefruit and lavender is delightful. But the grapefruit and lavender fade leaving something sort of boring.

Darkness - Blackest opium and narcissus deepened by myrrh. Erk. Narcissus not for me!

The Dodo - No wood. Just fruit and sweet. Nope!

Dwarf - Iron filings and chips of stone, Styrian Golding hops, and soot-covered leather. - Oh damn. I like this too. Rock and hops and leather. Yup! I really want to try this on the husband, although it doesn't come across as overly masculine on me. The hops lose their bitterness and a faint sharpness emerges (iron? maybe?). Completely boring on the husband.

Eternal - Stephanotis, cyclamen, heliotrope, white rose and gardenia. White Fleurs. It's not exactly soapy or headachy, it's just not me.

Event Horizon - A disconcerting scent, heavy and oppressive, through which no light, no matter, and no spirit can escape. Black opium, labdanum, opoponax, black orchid, and benzoin. All base notes as far as I can tell! Smoky opium on the first whiff. I haven't as of yet narrowed in on what labdanum, opoponax or orchid actually smell like themselves... but i think I'm getting the benzoin, the deep resin, vanilla-like sweetness. This one is dark, heavy, and quite lovely.

Fire For Thy Stepmother's Daughters - Flaming coals, hellfire, and blackened bone. Strong soapy ashtray faded surprisingly quick to mildly spicy bubblegum. Close to the skin. Weird dry down, there. No thank you!

Fire of Love - No notes listed. Designed to rekindle fire between lovers. At first it's wood and musk, maybe patchouli an musk. Then it's... wood and civet. Then it's civet. Yeah.... civet is not for me. Later: OHMYGOD GET IT OFF!

Galvanic Goggles - Metallic notes with Indian musk, tobacco flower, and African balsam. Metallic notes = nice but ordinary old gentleman cologne. NOOOOOOO.

Hetairae - Golden honey, fiery patchouli, sweet fig and clove, and a blushing touch of ylang ylang. AAAhhh! Ylang ylang, fig and honey. I love the fig and with the ylang ylang it's so freaking pretty. Oh my. This really is gorgeous. Purely and completely gorgeous. I love this. Retest and very likely bottle. Does eventually settle down to powder...

Haunted - Soft golden amber darkened with a touch of murky black musk. - Goddamnit. I can't like all of these imps, can I? I can't even describe this one. It's dark and rich. Black musk is, clearly, quite nice on me and it seems to keep amber from doing that precious play-doh trick it likes to do on my skin. WAIT! I just got a whiff baby powder. Just a whiff, but it might be enough I don't have to buy ALL the perfume.

Iago - Malevolent, dark and shadowy: sinuous black musk, wet leather and vetiver. Dark and bitter. That's not a complaint. I'm going to try to layer this with some sweet perfumes and see what happens.

Jabberwocky - An earthy yet buoyant scent: pine, eucalyptus and orange. Fruity Golden Priapus? The eucalyptus makes it edgier but the orange makes it really loopy. I like it but probably don't want to smell like this. Maybe. I'm thinking this imp is getting used for air freshening.

Le Petite Mort - Warm, damp skin flushed with the glow of passion, touched by ylang ylang and myrrh. At first it was just MYRRH which I like but a single note is not what I'm after. Like, where tha ylang ylang at? So I rolled the imp around and dabbed a bit more on. And it bloomed a bit. I get none of the O that others seem to get but it's sweet, slightly sweaty (in a fresh physical effort sort of way) and stays quite close to the skin. It might be gorgeous. Will test again. I think it went back to all myrrh?

Lilith - Mother of Demons, Vengeful Fury, Darkest Seductress, Queen of the Djinn, Goddess of the Gate. Red wine, myrrh, black musk, and attar of rose. Oh heavens. That is heady! The first wine soaked rush is crazy, made me say "uh oh!" But the wine recedes to the background and then the incensed roses. Yes yes, I have other incensed roses but not these exactly. I wish I still had full goth regalia for this one. Sometimes these perfumes are described as dark and it's like a picnic in the spring but this one really does seem dark to me. And sexy as fuck. Seriously.

The Lotus Tree - This is supposed to be lotus and honey but I'd swear there's opium poppy too. It's a lovely blend of sweet, tart and languid. Geez, I think I like it!!

Maenad - Orgiastic mayhem in the extreme: sweet strawberry and orange blossom distorted by carnation, black poppy and hibiscus. Candy and flowers. Heavy on the candy. I mean, it's delicious and fun. It smells great. It's a hair down, sundress and strappy sandal kind of scent. That being said, I can count on one hand the number of days in my life I would have chosen Maenad and still have fingers to spare.

Neutral - A flawless skin musk. Close to the skin - clean, the tiniest bit fruity smelling. Like a freshly washed person you like, and they have nice soap (though... not really soapy if that makes sense)

No. 93 Engine - Balm of Gilead, benzoin, frankincense, balsam of peru, beeswax, saffron, galbanum, calamus, hyssop, mastic, lemon balm, and white sage. Fast morpher here! From super medicinal smelling woods to slightly smoky, herbal and lightly sweet. Very interesting! I applied a little more to try and get a better sense of it, it was fading so fast. Wet and drying it's very intense. It's kind of amazing that it's so nice dry.

Pink Snowballs - Ridiculous. Pink. Plastic. Candy.

Prurience - This scent smoulders with a lust that singes the edge of your nerves and leaves your soul chilled: red amber and scorched musk with voluptuous carnation, charred vetiver, sensuous tonka, and orris. Huh. Smooth from the amber, musk and tonka. Spicy carnation way in the back. I haven't figured out orris yet. Retest! Retesting says strong smoky vetiver and baby powder. Uhhhhh...retest the retest??

Ravenous - An utterly feral, thoroughly rousing perfume. Red patchouli sweetened by orange blossom. Not complex, really, but a great balance between patchouli woody/grassiness and orange blossom which is more and more seeming to be a floral I can really wear and enjoy. Stays close to the skin but lasts for hours. Wants the precious.

Roadhouse - Truck stop sleaze. Weedy dandelion and hops with a whiff of tobacco and hemp and a swirl of booziness. Oh, man. Dandelions and grass - clean and sunny. Is there sleeze here? I get no sleeze. This is bright and cheerful and I... might like it. That's really freaking surprising. It also gets eaten by my skin almost instantly. Hm.

Shattered - A blend of white champagne notes, grapefruit, lotus, slivered mint and crystalline aquatic blooms. Oookay. I at least appreciate having the idea that "aquatic blooms" is not my thing. Yech. Also, lotus. So sweet AND cologny. MMMM. No.

Shroud - Wood, flowers and then poof! It's gone! It disappeared too quickly to review.

Smokestack - Creosote, coal, and industrial waste. Whoa nelly! That's maybe more intense than good for me.

Spellbound - Incense and roses - nice if I ever run out of Mircalla

The Grave Pig - Fig, oakmoss, mushroom caps, and patchouli. Earthy fig. Really great earthy fig with low throw but crazy staying power. *sigh* I really like this one too.

The Raven - Violet and neroli mingled with iris, white sandalwood and dark musk. Imp looks aged. Very light and close to the skin. I have to put my nose right on it. Not dark at all - pretty violets. But I think I have other pretty violets.​

Wanton - Rose! and then my skin ate most of it. I have nice rose but this is nice.

Wicked - Jasmine, rose and myrrh. It's really lovely. But I'm wearing Ysabel and it covers the same bases but is more complex.

Yemaya - Her ofrrenda is a bounty of melons and grapes, strewn with the petals of the flowers of motherhood, draped with sea mosses. Lovely sweet melon with a background of flowers... that I may or may not be amping. It's sticky sweet.