Coldfire
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imp: heavy floral. white ginger Wet on Me: very heavy floral. Tropical Floral. Reminds me of Fairchild Gardens in FL. Dryin Down: still heavy tropical white floral. at times overpowering on me Dry: stayed a heavy overpowering tropical floral on me. Just too heavy for my tastes.
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Decant: yummy Grapefruit and Yuzu Wet On Me: lovely lovely yuzu and grapefruit and the tuberose joins the act. Drying Down: The grapefruit has disappeared now and it's mostly the yuzu and tuberose Dry: sweet creamy white floral blooms
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Decant: Musk, Tonka and Tobacco Wet On Me: Spicy Masculine vibe right off the bat on this Drying Down: getting the clove adding to the musk and tonka and tobacco. WOW am loving this! Dry: spicy masculine goodness. almost reminds me of the old Cinnabar perfume, but much better.
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Decant: I get the orange blossom and the citrus and hibiscus. Wet on me: Still more of the same. The Hibiscus reminds me of growing up in Miami Drying Down: Warm, Yellow Sunny goodness Dry: And it's dried down to the amber baby powder on me.
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Decant: geranium, ginger and the faintest tinge of the blood orange Wet on Me: definitely geranium. Mostly geranium Drying Down: I'm getting the geranium, and the Frankincense, and the gergamot. Dry: heavy Geranium. Not really for my tastes. Will swap.
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Decant: nighttime evergreen woods and something I can't put my nose on Wet on Me: nighttime Evergreen woods in the snow with faint whispers of musk Drying Down: Almost an aquatic evergreen now Dry: The forest at night by water. not a river water scent. not quite a swamp aquatic note. But soft and lovely for me.
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Decant: evergreen-y resin-y goodness Wet on me: like standing in a forest of evergreens while swinging an incense censer Drying Down: the evergreen woodiness recedes and the incense comes out to play. Dry: It's Christmas eve..and I'm outdoors in the snow in a clearing in a forest with all the stars shinging bright and Mother Moon shining down . THAT is the mood this evokes in me.
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Decant: White Tea and chrysanthemum Wet on Me: Still the Chrysanthemum and white tea more than anything else. Drying Down: this mellows out and gets faint very quickly. mostly just a slight mum-y tea scent Dry: This is like a whisper in the night. Goes quickly and leaves an scent memory that makes you want more.
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Decant: clean white blooms Wet on Me: more Clean white blooms. So far not cloying or overwhelming. Drying Down: Getting the sandalwood and hyacinth with the baby powder of amber Dry: Gentle, sweet, floral without over whelming.
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Decant: Spicy floral Wet on Me: spicy soapy floral? Drying Down: the spicy seems to be the resins of frankincense. The floral has died down a bit. The soap is still in the game. Dry: the spicy has mellowed with the soap now. This is an interesting scent.
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Decant: BREAD! I smell the wheat and Flax and sesame. Wet on Me: Still bread. Drying Down: I'm still getting bread first and foremost. But some juniper wants to sneak into the picture. Dry: This is a harvest-y grain scent. Did not get any of the herbs or veggies in this. Just bread-, grain-y ness
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Decant: green aquatic. like being in the water plants near the shortline Wet on me: still green aquatic but nice. Drying Down: now the more herbal scents some up and play with the aquatic notes. Dry: There is a sweetness almost a resin-y sweetness that comes creeping up to lay amongts the herbs and aquatics. Very nice. Soft.
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Decant: an astringent-y cypress note Wet on Me: more astringent cypress with hints of the tobacco. Drying Down: mostly the cypress and tobacco dancing under my nose. Dry: once dry a light floral scent mellows and dances with the cypress and tobacco and makes this something wonderful.
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Decant: oil and metal. Wet on Me: motor oil and metal and ozone Drying Down: as this dries the motor oil fades and a spicy note shows up. The clove and Ginger blending perhaps? Or the Dragon's blood? Dry: the ozone fades, the metalscales back a bit and I get a strong and heavy spicy dragons blood drying on metal. Need to comapre this against the prototype that I have.
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Decant: lemongrass over ozone. loving so far Wet on Me: now I get a faint metal with the lemongrass and ozone. Spring comes to the foundry! Drying Down: this all seems to blend and morph into a soap scent at this point. Dry: Soap. This starts out so fresh and wonderful and then morphs into a clean soap.
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Decant: almost an ozoney lavender from this. Loving so far Wet on Me: lavender and something I can't quite put my nose on. Drying Down: Still getting a lavender but a masculine lavender if that is possible. Dry: reminds me a bit of an old Men's Colgone — Devin by Aramis. boy did that bring back memories with a smile. keeper and need a bottle!
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Opalescent orris shimmering through a blend of mallow, moonflower, wild pear, iris, starwort, juniper, and mugwort. Decant: white flowers in the evening. Not too sweet not too overpowering or cloying Wet on Me: still lovely evening white flowers. Seductive and heady but not at all overpowering. Drying Down: this lightens out a bit and becomes this petals on the breeze scent. Dry: There but not there but ooo there it is again. lovely. Wonderful. A Winner!
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Decant: verbena and heliotrope Wet on Me: clean, bright and sunny snelling, I get the Heliotrope and verbena and a faint ghosting of the francincense. Drying Down: Going soapy on me. A Sunny soapy scent. Dry: Soap. Nice clean sunny soap.
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Decant: Orange and apricot and honey and amder. Mostly the orange over the other notes. Wet on Me: Mostly Orange/apricot and amber now. Drying Down: The orange and the baby powder of the amder are fighting for scent dominance with my nose. Not really getting any of the other notes at all. Dry: mostly baby powder now. Nice. Not sure I will track down a bottle of it.
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Imp: Jasmine Wet on Me: heavy jasmine with honeysuckle underneath Drying Down: Really heavy heavy jasmine. To the point of making me headach-y Dry: The Jasmine amped hard before drawing back a bit. But it did not draw back enough to let any of the other notes come thru. This is nice but very heavy cloying Jasmine. I may re-home this.
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Decant: Apple Skin. Wet on Me: Lots of apple skin and I think nuts inthe background [b]Drying Down:[/b] Mostly apples. Not much else and the nuts ran away Dry: okay NOW I get some blackberry with the apple. Almost like an apple-blackberry wine I get from Peaks of Otter Winery. Nice. This is actually to be a gift to someone I know whose name is Pomona
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Decant: dark. dank. almost musty Wet on Me: I get the labdanum, blove and black musk Drying Down: the brimstone pushes its way to the front and shoved everyone else away from the party. Dry: Brimstone is an acquired like. I'm jsut glad I got to try this.
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Chestnut trees, juniper berries, violet leaf, labdanum, dazzling, moonlit white musk, and night-blooming summer flowers. Decant: Chestnut and Juniper Wet on Me: more Chestnut less juniper Drying Down: more nut. not getting anything but the nut. Dry: Can't get the nut off of me. It overpowered everything. To re-home
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Decant: Thick and dark and sultry. Ooozing sex Wet on Me: More thick and dark and sultry. This wafts lazily around my nose like a belly dancer around a fire. Drying Down: Almost spicy in the mix now. But sultry Spicy not foodie spicy. Dry: Wearing this I feel like ALL WOMAN. I feel in full control and power of my womanly wiles. I feel sultry and sexy and alive!
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Decant: WOAH! Chocolate. Dark Chocolate Wet on Me: Chocolate with some slight ghosty berries underneath Drying Down: a bit of berry, some dark cocoa is now what I get. a wee touch of floral in the background. But red berries and dark cocoa. Dry: like a cocoa-berries potpurri on my skin. nice!
