Imbrium

In the bottle: Rose! On: Wet, this smells very much like Rose Red to me; it's a purely bright rose scent. Drying, however, I smell something else in the background. I know it has to be the leather note, but it doesn' treally smell like leather per se - it's more a warm skin scent. Overall: This is absolutely beautiful, and this is coming from someone who generally doesn't like rose blends. I'm glad I took a gamble and ordered a bottle, because I love this.

I knew I'd love this as soon as I saw it on the site, and ordered a bottle unsniffed. Yay! In the Bottle: Though the linen note is a bit strong, this is very well blended - I don't distinguish a lot of different notes in the bottle. On: Wet, this is a very lineny scent; for a moment I thought I'd put on Dirty by mistake. As it dries, the milk, honey and pepper, and a hint of tea come out on my skin; it's a very lovely creamy, slightly spicy scent. It has a great deal of throw, as well - I couldn't smell it much, as it had dried down to a sort of creamy skin scent, but a Bpaler I was having dinner with asked who smelled like milk and honey. Overall: I absolutely love this scent. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever smelled - creamy, soft, and slightly sweet - and I reach for my bottle all the time.

In the bottle: Vanilla and something light - possibly the citrus note a few others have mentioned, though it does smell a bit like the single note white musk to me. On: This doesn't change much from wet to dry, which makes me happy, because it's delicious. It's straight vanilla tea on me, with a ton of throw - my boyfriend kept asking what smelled so damn good. It has lots of staying power, too. Overall: Dorian has been one of my favorite blends for months now; for me, it's a nighttime version of White Rabbit: sweet, but not sickeningly so, a bit sharp, with the tea, and the initial citrus/musk note, and really, really sexy.

Oh my god, yummy! 'Fraid this will be a short review, as I don't have it in front of me anymore. Initially, The Living Flame smells floral, and there's definately musk. As it dries, I get much less floral - it's pretty much nonexistant - and instead, it's this wonderful sweet vanilla and musk smell. Oh this is so nice! The boy loves it too... hee. I'm willing my bottle to get here as quickly as it can.

In the bottle: I smell musk more than amber, which is unfortuante, because I love amber scents so very much. On: It's pretty much all musk on me, and unfortunately, black musk seems to really disagree with my body chemistry. This is the first scent that I've had to wash off because I couldn't take the forming headache. How sad - I was excited to try this one, too.

In the bottle: Grapefruit! Wet: Still very grapefruit, very sharp. It's almost headache inducing at first, because the grapefruit is so very strong. It's not sweet. There's also something powdery in the background, but I can't identify it. Dry: Wonderful! The grapefruit mellows out a lot, and I smell what is most definately tea and ginger, though I don't pick up any apple blossoms. As this dries, I find that this blends to the point where it's difficult to distinguish individual notes; it's beautiful. This has tons of throw, and is one of my favorites, though it's more of a summer scent than I want to wear right now. Unfortunately, the cap on my imp cracked, and most of the oil leaked out. Woe!

Whoa, baby, this is boozy. In the bottle: Almonds ... buttercream ... something boozy, but I can't distinguish whether it's rum, mead, or both. On: It's still boozy, but in more of a rum desserty way than an 'I've spent the last 10 hours in a bar' sort of way. It's very buttery, and I smell rum more than mead and absolutely no almonds - my skin must eat up almond scents, because I don't get any almond out of Dana O'Shee, either. I also get a hint of something spicy out of this, it's almost cinnamon-esque, and I'm not sure where it comes from. This lasts forever, too. Yay!

In the bottle: Almond. Oh man, almond. On: First on, it's still very almond, unsurprisingly. The sweet almondy scent disappears relatively quickly, though. Dry, it's a beautiful, sweet creamy scent - no almonds, just an oatmeal cookie smell. I can certainly see why the 2004 Snow White was so often compared to this one; they're almost identical on my skin, though with Dana I don't pick up that coconutty, cold smell.

Oh, yum. Dirty is so nice. In the bottle: It smells clean and fresh - I'm reminded of the cotton scent at Bath and Body Works - but htis is much, much nicer. On skin: This doesn't change much from the bottle to me, wet or dry, but as it's drying, I can detect a hint of something sweet and floral, which I assume is the note that others have identified as plumeria. It's not very strong, though, and once Dirty is dry, it smells like nothing but clean linens to me. Overall: I love this. It's so light and clean, plus it lasts forever and has great throw. I'm so glad I have a big bottle coming.

I was lucky enough to get to try Pumpkin King at Quantum Spice's house the other night, and it's absolutely divine. In the Bottle: I smell pumpkin, unsurprisingly, and a sort of indistinct blend of spices. Wet: This is very, very cinnamony. I can smell a teeny bit of pumpkin in the background, but the cinnamon is most definately dominant. Dry: The cinnamon mellows out, and I can smell pumpkin again, along with a few other spices. There's clove, and after comparing the back of my hand with the contents of Quantum Spice's spice cabinet, I smelled something like nutmeg and maybe ginger as well. I didn't smell any of the apples that others have smelled. Impressions: This is one of the most fantastic blends I've ever smelled. I really wanted to never have to wash my hand again, so that I'd always smell like Pumpkin King. I so hope this becomes available for sale, because I need a bottle of it. A really big one. Okay, several really big ones.

In the bottle: This is sweet, very sweet. I smell plum, and something a bit berry like. On: It's still a sweet, almost headache inducing plum on me, for about an hour. Then it's almost completely gone. How sad - I really thought I'd love this one, but it just doesn't work on me.

In the bottle: It smells sweet and foody, like butter and coconut. On: On me, this smells identical, be it wet or dry. I can smell the coconut still, with some kind of light floral underneath, but mostly I smell like a cookie. I want to eat my wrist. Mm, if this is truly anything like Dana O'Shee, I'll be ordering a big bottle of that soon.

In the bottle: Pine, and something I can't put my finger on. It's not berris, so I'll assume it's the "snowy notes." Wet: Still very pine, and snow; it's almost a little too sweet for me. Dry: Now it's absolutely perfect. I still smell the pine, but it's not overpowering, and now I can smell the berries too. This scent is absolutely delicious - it's winter and Christmas in a bottle, and I'm so glad I ordered it. Now I just have to make it last..