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Wow, I was ready to wash this off immediately when I first put it on; when it was wet, all I could smell was patchouli, which I HATE. But I kept it on, and after a couple of hours and a walk through a soapy, faintly ginger phase, it bloomed into the most gorgeous, alluring scent--the patchouli fades into the background to give it a skin-richness: it is to the mixture of scents what umami is to a mixture of flavors. I don't get ginger in this at all, but a sweet, intensely appealing, creamy orange blossom, with almost a vanilla note to it. Intoxicating.

I already know the answer to this - no. Etsy and regular stock are handled completely separately. If the GC bottle you want isn't on Etsy, then you have to order them individually and have them shipped individually. Too bad... thanks for the quick answer, GypsyRoseRed!

Is it possible to combine an Etsy overstock order with a GC Paypal order so I don't have to pay shipping twice? (Not combining two already placed orders after the fact, but let's say I already know now I want 1 GC bottle and 1 Etsy bottle and I'd like them shipped together)

I haven't tried too many BPAL oils yet and I don't know Happy, but Night-Gaunt and Aizen-Myoo are two I have that she might like, based on the description. They both start out with strong citrus (grapefruit or yuzu) and fade to a floral: more of a pure floral (I smell gardenia) for Night-Gaunt, a mixed fruity one for Aizen-Myoo.

Anything to recommend similar to Fresh's Brown Sugar? I particularly love the tangerine top note in this one. Brown Sugar: Sparkling citruses of Sicilian lemon, tangerine, and acai berry are sprinkled with sheer caramel and sugared magnolia for an invigorating fragrance reminiscent of the iconic scent of Fresh's original, all-natural Brown Sugar Body Polish. Notes: Sicilian Lemon, Tangerine, Acai Berries, Sugared Magnolia, Honeysuckle, Peach Nectar Caramel, Warm Amber, Cypress. Style: Invigorating. Effervescent. Sugar-like.

Wet: a very juicy, yummy grapefruit! As it dries down: something weirdly plasticky starts to come out, possibly the ginger note, which doesn't seem to work well on my skin. On me, the final drydown is disappointingly acrid, sour, and chemical--the initial complexity of the grapefruit vanishes in favor of some kind of generic citrus cleaning product. On the plus side (?) the grapefruit note is VERY long-lasting, much more than any other citrus-based perfume I've tried. This meant I had to go wash it off eventually, but if it works well on you, it seems like it would have great staying power.

God, this smells amazing! Warm, but still refreshing. Comforting, but sexy. Yum yum yum. The whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts, so describing the phases of this makes it sound more simplistic than the actual perfume reads. It starts out with sweet but sharp lemon and clean but light black tea notes. A buttery, faintly musky vanilla comes out as it dries, so it starts to smell a bit like lemon cookies, but still with the fresh-bitter underpinning of the tea keeping it from smelling saccharine. The lemon seems to strengthen again later (or maybe it's just that my nose gets used to the vanilla after the initial novelty of it): the rich, fresh, lemon-tea-vanilla-musk scent is still balanced and going strong a few hours after application. Hours and hours later, the lemon fades out and it eventually winds up on my skin as a sweet, sugary, comforting, long-lasting vanilla. Although all the components I can identify are foody, this definitely smells of a real perfume to me, not a bunch of food slathered on the skin. I guess that's the fougere/musk keeping it from smelling like a tea party. On my bottle list for sure.

The essence of toilet bowl cleaner.

The imp smells kind of terrible to me: very strong, sharp, almost bitter lemon verbena drowning out everything else. This too-strong note lingers for a moment when the scent is wet, then almost immediately fades into something much more beautiful and light as the flowers emerge. The citrus keeps the blend gossamer and airy while it lasts. It fades into a sweet white bouquet, very soft, feminine, not too strong or artificial. It's kind of a generic (but extremely pretty) floral once the fresh note of the lemon verbena wanes; more interesting while it has that lemony, herbal note to balance the creaminess of the heliotrope and orange blossom. It's lovely, if not unusual or sophisticated.

I got whiffs of a strong alcohol scent upon applying this. I ignored that until I realized this was an oil and shouldn't have that alcohol note at all. I guess it's the smell of super-strong rose essence? The alcohol smell burned off after a while and this just ended up smelling like ROSE ROSE ROSE, drying down to a powdery faint floral. I didn't really smell narcissus in this at all, so I guess I'd say it was pretty, but a bit boring since it read like a single and not very unusual note to me.

This didn't smell red to me at all, but green through and through. Wet: dust, dirt and a heavy layer of green apples. I felt like I smelled patchouli (the dusty notes) and green bell pepper (grassy green notes). As it dried, the apple and grassy stem-greenness lingered, and a dusty-powdery floral smell emerged, which must have been poppy but it smelled like rose to me. There was a bit of peppery spiciness as well. The drydown on me is dusty grass, a little bit bitter, a little powdery, with a hint of the flowers still peeking through. Green grass seemed like the core note, with apples (or acai berries, I guess) and poppy flower seeming almost like an afterthought. I didn't pick up the honey note at all on this one.

All the individual notes sounded fantastic, but it was a little disappointing when I tried it on. It fades really fast, to a faint soap smell, and it's almost all ginger to me. I can't detect the milk note at all, even hours later, which is too bad since I love the milky smell of White Rabbit after it dries down, but don't like the wet phases that much. To sum up: a generic pleasant smell like hotel soap when sniffed from a distance, but when you get closer, it's all ginger, no cream/honey. Not fresh ginger, though; on me, it's a dried, musty, spicy ginger, so it smells a bit like the incense area in a head shop to me.

Glorious! I bought a full bottle of this from someone in the forums unsniffed, on someone else's recommendation of it being similar to Night-Gaunt, and the gamble paid off. I like this even better than Night-Gaunt, as it seems more complex and has more fruity notes in the drydown. Aizen-Myoo has tons of grapefruit/yuzu in the imp and when wet: clean, fresh citrus, a little bitter. As it begins to dry, it turns to an almost fizzy, carbonated tangerine smell mixed with florals. It smells incredibly good at this stage on me, like jasmine flowers and orange soda. I kept catching wafts of it and being pleasantly surprised to realize it was me that smelled so good. It eventually dries down from the initial interesting bittersweet to a uniformly sweet, mellow scent, a soft floral that I guess is the cherry blossom, with fresh tea and the round fruitiness of persimmon mixed in. Vanilla isn't listed as a note, but the drydown is so creamy, I smell hints of vanilla mixed in as well. The citrus pretty much goes away completely on me once it's dry. It's quite a strong and long-lasting scent on me. Although I liked it, I overapplied and it gave me a headache at first. I wish the fruity/citrus phase lasted longer, but the final cherry-blossom smell is very pretty.

This is not anything I would have picked out for myself, since I don’t like musky scents much, but it’s not bad. The peach and musk are pretty evident to me, but I don’t smell the bergamot, heliotrope, and oakmoss at all. The peach note is sweet, fruity, and powerful, and goes strong for a long time, then fades out, and the lingering soft white musk has fantastic staying power on my skin, lasting at least a full day and night. Because of the musk, it reminds me of either teenage drugstore perfumes or very expensive old-lady perfumes… nothing I would pick out for a signature fragrance, as I prefer fresh green or citrus smells, but it seems like a sweet and romantic smell good for certain occasions: garden weddings, or a stroll in the park on a warm summer night?

I hated this initially, really thought it smelled disappointingly strong, bitter, and disgusting, but re-applied just a tiny drop of it when thinking about what to write about it and couldn't stop smelling my arm. The citrus is intensely strong and bitter at first, more like peel than like juice, but it fades a bit and the flowers grow stronger and stronger. It winds up smelling to me like a balanced mixture of grapefruit and fragrant white gardenias--brings back memories of family vacations to Hawaii. Lovely, if you don't apply too much.

I love this! On me, it starts out with a somewhat spicy, green layer over a strong honey smell, and eventually dries down to just plain honey, but not too cloyingly sweet for my tastes. Actually, the entire time I tried it, I would have said it just smelled like plain honey, nothing more complicated than that, but comparing the dried version of the perfume to the freshly applied version made the green notes much more evident, and I think whatever the “deadly nightshade” smell is helps tone down the honey a little. Just delicious.

Intensely sweet, almost overpoweringly so when wet. At first, the red currants give it a strong, rather artificial berry smell, like Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, mixed with the smell of vanilla cake frosting. I wasn't sure at first if I could wear this at all because it was so cloying, but once it dries, the strongest, most sugary cake note fades and the more subtly sweet vanilla and blackcurrant become more prominent. It's still very sweet, girlish, feminine, but smells more natural than the initial scented-plastic phases. Edited a couple of weeks later to add: this becomes a really rich, wonderful, addictive vanilla on drydown. I didn't really like this at first because it came across as too sweet, but I found myself going back to the imp again and again for that intense vanilla creaminess. Now I'm thinking of even getting a bottle at some point...

I thought I’d like this because I expected it to be more of a toasty, nutty, wheat-bready smell, but it smelled just vile to me: a weird, sickly sweet, strong mixture of baby powder and fake buttered popcorn. Just awful. Hours later, it dries down to something much nicer, with gentle vanilla and sugar notes, but I don’t think I could handle going through the earlier stages of reeking like an accident at the movie theater concession stand just to get to that softer base note. I don’t smell bread in this at all, which I think would have made the butter smell more acceptable. I don't get anise or lemon from this at all, just sickly strong butter and powder.

I adore this smell! This smells ridiculously good to me–-fresh and green-appley and tea-leafy, with light floral notes that come out more in the drydown but don't overpower the green, leafy tea notes. Cut grass, green tea, apples, with the peony adding a sweet, light flowery underpinning.

I like Tweedledee, but only applied with a very light hand. I over-applied this morning and had to wash it off with rubbing alcohol an hour later due to the overpowering smell of orange gel car air freshener that enveloped me, seemingly growing stronger and stronger with every passing minute. It doesn't smell particularly fresh or juicy to me--I wish it were a more pure, bright citrus; the kumquat seems quite bitter, particularly blended with the pepper note, and the orange blossom seems to soften the citrus sharpness so it smells a bit blunt and muted to me.

Based on the description and my love of all the component smells, I thought this would be my favorite out of the batch of imps I ordered. Unfortunately, I initially thought it smelled just terrible out of the bottle, with an overpowering baby powder/dryer-sheet aroma that I thought was probably the “clean linen.” A few days later, though, I realized I just love it once it dries down. Initially, on my skin, the powdery linen, ginger, and sharp pepper come out strong; I don't particularly like the initial blend of scents, it just seems like a chaotic jumble of smells all fighting with each other, rather unpleasant and headache-inducing. However, as the pepper fades, the honey, tea and milk start to come out stronger. Hours later, all that's left is a sweet, clean, incredibly comforting creamy milk smell with just a hint of vanilla and tea. I've been putting this on before bed so I can sniff the milky goodness as I fall asleep. I used to eat these chewy "White Rabbit" milk-based candies when I was a kid, and the final drydown of White Rabbit smells like the candies taste.