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On the skin: Blackberry jam, honey, and.....? VERY foodie. Pretty nice though! The SO isn't around to give his opinion, but as a foody lover, I think it would be near the top of his list. Doesn't change much to dry down. Thankfully, I never get any of the almond.

This one is just... amazing! Sweet, creamy, lovely!

It is so soft on my skin, and I don't think that it gives off much of a throw. I think of it as more of a personal comfort scent. I think the SO will love this one because of its vanillaness.

Wow! This one smelled so.... foody?

Very strange. On the drydown it becomes kind of bitter. Must be the chestnuts... The wet phase is yummy, but the drydown stage? Not so much.

Oh, my! This blend is AMAZING!

On the skin: There is something in here that is also in Osiris v4..... Something smooth and woodsyish. This blend to my nose is gorgeous and drop dead sexy! Would be perfect on my SO (I hope!)

In the bottle: Resiney cake!! Soooooo nice!

Immediately on the skin: This blend turns into buttered popcorn. Strange. If I take my nose away from my wrist and just let the scent waft, I get more of the yummy resiney cake smell.

Drying: Popcorn goes away!! Whoooo! Again, it is resiney/incensey cake. Sooooo good!

Wow! Cologne and leather! It is different than Sacrifice, but kinda the same idea in my opinion. This scent has more of the cologne smell than Sacrifice though.

This isn't half bad and could smell excellent on the right SO.

On the skin: This is supposed to smell like rotting fabric and mold? It smells very... green to me. Kinda smokey as well. I don't really like green scents, but this actually doesn't smell anything like the description. I agree with Forspecial Plate!

On the skin: Incense, ozone, and ..... ? Reminds me of Countess Dolingen with a bit of incense.... I am afraid that the aquatic ozoneness doesn't really work for me.

Oh, my! This scent is a beautiful, sophisticated rose. I really like this one! The strong floral does give me a bit of a headache at the beginning. Might just be because I am sniffing it too much. It doesn't change much on the dry down.

Skin musk is one of my favorite notes, but sadly I could barely discern it in this blend.

Whoa! Aquatic overload! I don't normally like aquatics, so bear this in mind...

On the skin: At first there is just too much aquaticness. When it starts drying, I get more of the wintery notes that I was hoping for. Underneath the aquatic note that I still smell, there is a lovely blend of what I guess is cypress and cold snow.

In the end, this one just doesn't entirely work on me...

I don't normally like blends with red musk, so we shall see....

On the skin: Definitely getting lots of red musk and clove. Kinda also smell some pine? Not really my thing..... It turns kind of sharp on me.

Oh, wow! This scent is amazing!!

On the skin: sweet, subtle goodness! It is such an innocent scent. This doesn't smell like floral scents normally do... So nice!

Hmmmm, smells very candyish. In fact, on my skin it smells like the Strawberry Bubbilicious (sp?) gum. Not really what I was hoping for. Definitely interesting though.

Okay, I received a decant of this awhile ago, tried it on, and put it into the swap pile. Well, now I just received a partial bottle and decided to give it another chance and

Wow! A lovely honey musky amber. It is amazing and I have no idea why it didn't smell so good before!

-EDIT- The only drawback is that this scent stays very close to the skin...

This one is quite strange...

I put it on my skin and could barely smell a thing! Now, I get wafts of a marvelous sweet resiny scent, but every time I sniff close to my write, I can't smell anything! Really strange, but quite lovely.

In the bottle: Smoky pumpkin. I don't normally like smoky scents, but this is pretty good!

On the skin: Smoke fades really quickly. Now it is pumpkin and clove. So good! Wow!!

This one might actually have beaten out Pumpkin V for my favorites of the pumpkins this year. Sooooooo good!

In the bottle: Pumpkin and tea rose....

On the skin: Pumpkin and a sweet floral wood. I don't normally like rosewood.

This is interesting, but definitely not me. Pumpkin and sweet floral? Definitely..... different.

-EDIT- Uh, oh. There is something in this blend that is making me feel really nauseous..... Ick!

In the bottle: Pumpkin and almond! Wow! I don't really like the smell of almonds, but this smells yummy!

On the skin: No more pumpkin. *sigh* Now it smells slightly like..... cherries? What?? Almond cherries?? This is very strange. Dry down.... musky cherries? This doesn't seem right.

Fades pretty quickly on me.

Overall: Interestingly good, but I am not sure if it is my thing...

Whoa! On my skin, this smells like orange honey..... I don't see any honey listed in the notes though!! Wow!

There is no throw to this scent whatsoever, but up close it smells so yummy!

'09 Version:

This one is all orange and citrus! I don't get any smooth honey in this one.

Let's see... I would suggest:

Snake Oil

Shub-Niggurath

Bordello! (sweet yummy goodness!)

Phantom Queen (good floral one to start out with-black orchid!!)

I Died for Beauty

Bengal (vanilla chai!)

I tried this one on at DD, and I remember it being more..... floral and lovely!

I just received a decant of the original Emathides, and it just doesn't smell as lovely as I remember.

On my skin: Amber, cedar, and a small hint of floral. This scent is quite faint and doesn't last very long. Ah, well....

I love the idea behind this one! It brings me back to the time I studied in Italy. I always found it interesting that the mystery genre in Italy was called Yellow..... Anyways...

On the skin: This scent is perfumey and lovely. I think I can mostly smell orange blossom. Quite nice, but I am not sure if it is me.

On the skin: Can't actually smell any mint..... Mostly getting red currant, possibly thyme, and some of the other florals. Pleasant, but not my kind of thing.

Wow! On my skin, this smells like the boysenberry jam that is sitting in my fridge. Strange, must be the currants? There is also something.... that is threatening to go a little smokey sour? Maybe the mushroom or myrrh.

Overall, pretty good, but the smokey something or other doesn't agree with me entirely.

CCCXL

Oh, my! May this bottle never leave my sight!!

On me, this smells like a love child between Velvet Nudie and Dorian!! From Dorian, I am getting a light tea scent which is in the background of the lovely lemon sugar tart scent I get from Velvet Nudie! Of course, there may be skin musk in it (I think this is where I get the lemon smell from Velvet Nudie), but there is also actual lemon in here! This isn't a sour or candy lemon though. It smells like yummy lemon tart/pudding! So nice, comforting and yummy!