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This was a frimp, so I wasn't sure what exactly to expect. Right off the bat I get burnt woods, a little bitter, and then as it dries I smell the cocoa behind it. The two strongest notes seem to be fighting it out instead of melding together, which is interesting. After it's dried a while the fig starts making lots of noise, not fresh juicy fig but very ripe, maybe dried fig. I'm not sure how I feel about this, it's smelling very familiar but I can't put a name to it. The sweet notes aren't really tempering the sharp woody notes so much as coexisting with and/or trying to bury them. I think this one is going in the swap pile.

Couldn't really smell the rose in the vial, so I thought I'd give it a try on my skin, and WOAH CHERRY. Not sweet candied cherry, but a kind of meaty, musky scent with something slightly bitter behind it. I find it slightly disturbing. It gets a little more floral as time goes on, but the lavender and cherry together really aren't working for me at all.

I'm very slightly stuffed up today, so I may come back and edit this later because I think I may be missing something. This is a subtle scent, moreso than I expected reading the reviews before I bought it. I might call it unisex, but not masculine; definitely a lot of resin, but the honey is louder than I thought it would be, and it balances out the smoky incense-y sharpness of the rest of it nicely. Something about it makes me think "clean", but fortunately it's not soapy, which sandalwood sometimes does to me. I can't really say it smells "like" any one thing but I like it and I'm keeping the bottle.

This is exactly what I was looking for in all the other green scents I've tried, squirting cucumber especially. Sharp, fresh-cut grass when it goes on (the clover, probably), then as it dries I get a little bit of very familiar common field flowers. The rose doesn't show up, thank god- BPAL rose always turns everything into soap for me. I don't like florals, so I was taking a chance on a bottle of this but it really paid off; I'm so sad this is a limited edition scent.

I wanted to like Ozymandias since I've always loved the poem, but it doesn't do much for me. Light, a little incense-y but mostly reminds me of a very common store-bought perfume that I don't know the name of. This one's going up for swap.

It took me three applications to figure out whether or not I liked this. Smells like a wine cooler when wet, or a sticky fruit punch, something very sweet. I started getting a little of the chocolate when it dried down, but not enough to make it worth my while. The florals come out when it's dry too, I can really smell the hibiscus, and the wine got drier and less sickly sweet. Nice scent, but it's a little too rich for me.

Huh, I'm not sure what I'm smelling in this one. When it's wet the incense is what I get the most of, but there's kind of an unexpected dry sweetness to it, something fruity. Dry I get lime, only a little bit of incense and another fruity smell that I can't place. usually I don't like ozone but it seems to be working with the citrus here. Completely not what I was expecting from the description, but I like it. Edited to add: About fifteen minutes in it turned to citrus/lemon bathroom spray, the kind that dissolves the can it's in. I'm disappointed, was hoping the first scent would stick around but most ozone scents turn to air freshener on me eventually so maybe I should have expected it. I've been looking for a good lime scent but this apparently isn't it. Edited again: It's still sticking with me a few hours later, and now I see where the "darkest incense" in the description comes in. It's very dark and musty, with the fruity scents all buried. Wow, did not expect this to change on me as much as it did.

Started out sweeter than I thought it'd be, but pleasant. When it dried, though, it lost the green smell I liked and the sweet turned to powdery grape candy. I guess this one just doesn't work on me.

I don't know the notes mentioned in the official description well enough to pick them out, but something about this scent is very familiar and I'm not sure why. It's kind of like that acrid, musty smell you get when leafing through old books or newspapers that have been badly stored and maybe had a little mildew in them at one time that has since dried. On top of that it's a little sweet, a little burnt, a little leathery. Vaguely unpleasant, but interesting. Definitely not something I'd want to wear, though.

Pungent almond and spice, very strong. This is okay on my wrist, but burns more sensitive areas of skin. It's a very heavy scent on me, sweet in a kind of foody way when wet (honey?) and spicy almond almond almond when dry. It's got more throw than I'm used to and a real peppery kick to it that I think I like (literally, sniffing too close to the skin actually burns my nose), but it's kind of overpowering. I think I'll keep this imp around, it's a nice "warm" spicy scent maybe to wear a little of on a cool summer night, but it's not something I'd use more of. This is one of the first I've tried that smells really, really different in the imp. I got some kind of heavy, cloying floral undertone from it before I put it on that just disappeared when it hit skin.

In the bottle, this smelled like lime to me for some reason. Definitely a hard citrusy edge, not quite the sharp artificial lemon associated with cleaning products but stronger than I expected. On wet: I was hoping for a little more green tea out of this, I'm still getting the bitter fresh-scratched-lemon-rind citrus with green in the background. Not what I usually think of as green-tea green, more of a snapped-woody-stem green, I'm not sure which ingredient that is. It could be just the way green tea usually comes out in oils, this is the first one with the note I've tried. Maybe a tiny bit soapy now, but not overwhelmingly so. Dry: There's the tea and honeysuckle. Sweeter and a little more mellow, but still primarily lemon on me. I might give this one another chance later, but I'm not that crazy about it and it doesn't have a lot of throw.

I liked this in the imp, but as soon as I put some on my wrist it just smelled like nice soap. Very sharp, almost overpowering. It calmed down after an hour or so into just sandalwood with a little sweet undertone I could smell with my nose pressed against my skin, but that's a little too long for me. I don't think I'll be keeping it.

I didn't really smell anything mushroom-y in this one, more of a kind of sweet warm earth. On me wet it just smells like patchouli, but as it dries it gets more and more woody and warm, and the sweetness really comes out, though the dirt stays a little sharp. Reminds me of... damp garden dirt in the late summer, after the dying flower petals have been on the ground for a day or two and fermented a bit. It lasted for quite a long time too, which is good because my skin just eats a lot of scents. I really like it, this may be my first 5ml. Edit: The second and third times I wore this, I noticed almost a kind of candied sweetness that I'd associate with vanilla before I'd think of florals. Really rich, and I can still smell the earthy undertone but it kind of dominates. I think that's what first made me think specifically of fermented flower petals: sweet + earth = the kind of sugary smell flowers and fruits get when they just start to decay. Not that it smells like actual rot, it just has a similar kind of... heavy sweetness.

On me, this smells soapy and salty and faded quickly. I could barely detect any traces of it on my skin in an hour. It reminds me much less of a pirate ship than it does of one of the many little boutiques lining the american coasts that peddle massive quantities of cheap incense and hermit crabs within walking distance of the beach. There was definitely a floral scent, especially in the bottle, not so much leather or rum. It didn't strike me as particularly masculine.

For some reason, when it was wet the scent reminded me of animals. Kind of a musk over a sharp maybe ceder-y scent that makes me think of litter? It went away in a little over a minute, though, and now all it smells like is anise. I can't smell the lavender at all; though it did start to smell a little sweeter after the first fifteen minutes it's not so much a floral sweet as a candy sweet that makes it smell even more like licorice. I washed it off after about half an hour, it was giving me a headache.