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    Dragon's Musk

    wet: dragon's blood dry: the dragon's blood is gone and this is pure deep musk. sigh: but I bought it for the dragon's blood I would like this much more on a man.
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    Different smells/colors, same perfume

    Anyone gotten a fresh wanda lately? Is it different from older imps bottles you have smelled? I'm dealing with a big scent change on this one and wondering if this is characteristic of Wanda to age change dramatically or If this is just the end of our love affair?
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    Ode on Melancholy

    this one is sheer genius! In the bottle: I can't really smell much, a faint whiff of soft herbs perhaps. Wet: soft lavender, a tiny touch of something lemony Dry: it's blooming! Wisteria and rose are stepping forward and it's the soft almost watery rose that I so love in Despair! 30 minutes, It's continued to grow, adding a soft musk in the background and a drift of sandalwood. It is barely there with nose to wrist contact but it had a presence above the wrist and I got complimented ALL night at work. & hours, still there but soft and faint. Now I can smell it with my nose on my wrist, but not otherwise. My only beef? I wouldn't call this melancholy Poignant, yes. Truly a fabulous scent, soft, inviting, ladylike but not at all stiff. This is high praise from someone who generally favors spicy and resinous scents!! twice now I have fallen for herbal florals, OH MY!!! 5/5!!
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    Three Witches

    This is a first for me Three Witches revisited smells like a wet dog on me. I'm off to the corner to sulk and cry!
  5. Sin, Lovitar, Bloodlust, bloodamber, Wrath all come to mind; but I would add something like ouija to the mix just because of how you described your friend.
  6. to me it is like a blend of desdemona and Lady of shallot so one of them might work well for you
  7. I gotta jump in here and say as well, the customer service from the lab has ALWAYS been awesome. I've had two screw ups, one mine, one a leaking bottle and both were fixed PRONTO. I feel spoiled, especially compared to other etailers I had to deal with over xmas...
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    Despair

    Probably my most favorite to date. Soft herbed rose, clean, earthy and gentle all at once!
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    Jacob's Ladder

    Funny, Jacob's ladder on me is a spot on dupe of the lion! I love the lion, but this Is EXACTLY the same. edited to add: must have been a hormonal day. I've since tried it and can discern many NOT subtle differences. In the end this reminds me very much of shalimar. It's lovely and suprisingly lingers on my skin 18 hours after application!
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    Vice

    Darn This one goes from intense sweet lovely chocolate to bathoom cherry air freshener in like 4 minutes. I loved the chocolatee and slight orange scent and then the cherry ruined it all!
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    Annabel Lee

    light sweet and green initially on it makes my nose tickle,( like sniffing a bar of soap!) not sure who is the culprit, but the drydown isr apid and becomes soft and elegant without going a bit powdery. It is a light and bright scent, girlish and springlike and an easy one to love. I'l agree that it is simliar to desdemona, but desdemona is more straightforward, this is softer and has a slightly more herbal lilt to it. I'll keep this bottle just for fresh spring days or for when I want to smell like spring
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    Safari

    This is lavender all right, with, I suspect a touch of camomille? Calming, soothing, quite nice. I will give this a whirl at bedtime tonite and can imagine dribbling a bit in the boys bathwater before bad as well. There is nothing perfumy about it at all, it is a theraputic lavender at it's best, simple and gentle and lovely.
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    Samhain

    I got lovely fir and apples and light spices out of the bottle. first on my skin the leaves and pumpkin came out to play but then I got...vinegar! apple cider vinegar , but vinegar nonetheless I'm pleased to say though, that I had planned to use this as a room scent, and for that it will do just fine.
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    Blood Moon 2005

    Spices, musk, dragons blood and grain. It is the darkest smelling of the moons and is similar to bloodlust or sin,cathedral, bengal or anne bonny. I'm ovulating right now and smells like this are offfputting to me atm, but I like these at all other times and suspect I'll like this one as well. With all the resinous and woody notes in it I expect this will age spectacularly! I got two bottles but doubt I will keep both as I already have quite a collection of dark smeling oils. I'll have to give this a proper review in a couple of days when my hormones change.
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    Old Scratch

    This is dorian's older more elegant cousin! Dorian went TOO sweet on me, this one stays dryer without being puwdery. Initially is smells of lavender and chocolate, of all things! But shortly thereafter it mellows and rounds out to something more than the sum of it's parts, it is warm, clean, sexy and enveloping without being smothering, definitely a hit!
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    What scents are masculine? Gender-neutral?

    I have to add that dublin is amazing on my husband!
  17. Hae you tried envy? On me it was mint and citrus, with a light herbal backing rather than champagne
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    The Lion

    The lion is just heavenly! It is another scent that I have earmarked as just perfect on my skin. Wet, the spices DO smell like spice cake batter, but very quickly this settles into a scent of skin soaked amber and stays sexy yet comforting and personal. It lasts all day but never really wafts any distance from my body, you MUST lean in to get a whiff. This is a scent I have had people ask about in tight quarters, and they ask in awe Not a one of the wonderland blends has gone wrong for me and I am sad I waited so long to try this one. Obviously there are some I like better than others but if I had to pick a bpal category of hits, this very well might be it!
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    Bengal

    this one reminds me very much of hamadyad. Where hamadryad is cool to me, though, this one is hot. I get dry hot cinnamon, pepper and clove, but the honey or musk never seem to arrive, or they are in such low supporting roles that i never smell them. It's a very lovely spicey scent with amazingly close to the body wear, not lots of throw which I would have expected from the strength of the scent close up. Lovely scent, no skin reaction btw.. If you like silk road, this is a good next try as well, it leaves a similar memory, but is more direct.
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    Katharina

    I wanted to love Dorian, but the white musk was TOO much. I even have bought and traded bottles two times out of want to love it. That said Katherina does it! It takes the white musk and offsets it with sharp apricot in a way that is just divine! I just adore it and am soo happy about it especially since my nake is kathryn and Catherine was awful on me... So,,, I can see wearing this at work and in the home when i want to smell delicious but not necessarily sexay! Great smells! Similar to : Dorian and white rabbit
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    Wanda

    wet and fresh on: Gah Yuck, chocolate and wine and something foetid. woh, wait, this is gettint stronger in the chocolate smell, reminding me of 13, which I also really didn't like. Oh NO drying: WOW! roses and warmth, wow what happened, this is lush edible rose dribbled over skin, YUMMY! and so it stays. Lesson in morphing seriously on this one, intitally it is just gawdawful, wash it off sick yuck and then it blooms into an incredible wonderful scent, LOVE IT!!
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    Recommmendations for Green Scents

    Oh, and Dublin!
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    Recommmendations for Green Scents

    Jabberwockey, envy and The World
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    When your favorite GC blends are discontinued

    chiroptera and midnight are sililar to my nose, with the midnight not being lemon balm dominant.
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    The Perfect Lavender

    Baku, soothing lavender lovliness. It's the most lavender BPAL I've tried to date. I love lavender too
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