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Ah, my lovely Marie, you are what I have been searching for. A pure and true violet scent sweetened and made youthful. Poor Marie, locked away in the Diabolus section -- to me you smell like springtime and innocent young ladies.

Wow, this is so beautiful! It's not what I was expecting at all. My mind caught hold of the name and the mints, so I thought this would be something sharp and electric, but the moss is really key here. It's very soft and green with just the tiniest hint of mint if I really look for it. If it's electricity, it's not the static shock kind. Here's an image: a roadside transformer humming beneath an encroaching mass of vegitation still damp with early morning dew. As a weird little sidebar, I completely hated the way this smelled in the vial, so much that I wasn't sure I wanted to put it on my skin. It was very sharp and strange, all I could get was a nasty mint. But as soon as it started to dry the moss rose up gloriously and the mint faded almost completely. I love it more and more the longer I wear it, and it LASTS all day. I might need a bottle.

I'm having a strange sort of co-dependant relationship with this oil. I sniffed it, and immediatly despised it, so, of course, it was the only imp I took with me on a weekend trip. Maybe I was just being perverse. Maybe I was hoping it would grow on me. But I wore it all weekend. I still dont like it. Not at all. But I keep wearing it. I'm not familiar with the notes in this except for the vanilla, so I don't know what it is that's putting me off. It's a sweet blend with something very strange underneath. I've been trying to think what it reminds me of all weekend, and the best I can come up with is that it's vaguely medicinal. Like flowers in a sick room - that's an off-putting description, I know. Really, I do think this would smell good to a lot of people, but it's doing something strange to me. And, as luck would have it, this blend lasts for hours and hours on my skin. I think I'd better swap this away or else I'll end up smelling like this strange, sweet, poisonous girl for the rest of my life.

This is my first reveiw, and I think I picked a hard one. I don't know where to start with this blend. I expected to hate it (received in a lot off ebay) but it turned out to be my favorite of the bunch. I'm still not sure I would recommend it to anyone. I think many people would smell this and right away thing "ew, burning plastic," but, boy, do I love it. That's LOVE with a capital LU. Burning plastic is only the very first impression when I open the bottle - as soon as I apply this to my skin the chemical smell dissapears and it becomes all camp-firey goodness. When I was a kid, we used to have bonfires out in the woods, and that is exactly what this smells like to me - a couple of kids on a warm summer night sitting around a bonfire telling ghost stories. It's wood fire and smoke and warmth - very comforting to me, but at the same time, I know it's going to be something that just doesn't work for a good number of people. I sit here sniffing my wrists absolutely in awe of the lab. Brimstone is the most unique perfume I've ever tried. (yes, I know, "most unique" is rotten grammer. Oh well...)