Coldfire

Imp: jasmine and sandalwood Wet on Me: more sandalwood than Jasmine. Slight hints of the rose. Drying Down: buhbye sandalwood, buhbye jasmine. The rose woke up and tromped all over this. My body turns it to air freshener rose on me. Dry: baby powder and rose now. At least the rose is not so sharp. I’ve tried it, but this is not for me.

Bottle: Oh. My. Gods! Dark. Deliciously Dark. Dark burgundy. Dark wine and plum and a trickle of sandalwood running underneath. I want to crawl in this bottle right now and live there. Wet on Me: Sweet sweet love. Glory this is fabu! More plum over that dark wine. The sweet of the sandalwood mixed with the champaca. This is the deepest darkest most luxe head shop I have ever walked into. Drying Down: STILL loving this. Nose has welded itself to my wrist. I look odd walking around work this way. I am drunk with the scent of this. Dry: I am in love. Although I tend to clean crisp or herbal scents, this is simply amazing. Beth you have outdone yourself on this. I want to hug it and pet it and squeeze it and call it MINE!

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Imp: violet and red currant Wet on Me: violet, less red currant but add patchouli and the moss Drying Down: the violet is going bye-bye now. Just a mossy patchouli now with flashes of faint red currant Dry: a nice soft patchouli with mossy undertones. Not bad….I guess the Violet was so bruised it went home.

Imp: Moss and mint Wet on Me: more moss and mint. Clean but not too sharp Drying Down: less minty and more woody with the moss. Softening now. Dry: The mint is a mere ghost now. Mostly a woody mossy scent. Pleasant.

Bottle: musk, sandalwood and leather Wet on Me: Musk, sandalwood, leather, and tobacco. Dear geds I love this already Drying Down: Wowie wow wow! This is such a fabulous blend already. Musk and sandalwood and wee bits o balsam, and the leather and more woods. Smells like the Captain’s cabin. FAB U LUST! Dry: Dayum! Just Dayum! This is awesome. It blended soooo beautifully. Woods and leather and sandalwood OH MY!

Bottle: Blueberry! Almost a blueberry pie but really mostly a good solid picked from the bush blueberry Wet on Me: totally blueberry….blueberry syrup almost sweet but the tartness keeps it from going totally sugar sweet on me. Really good homemade blueberry pie. Drying down: Still Blueberry…which is a good thing. Lovely blueberry Dry: pale sweet blueberry love. Gentle. Like a summer memory. Lovely.

First whif this smells like....... MAN! Like really good hot distinguished intelligent sophisticated man. Puddin? Is this you? I'm such the sucker for a man scent. So I sprayed some at work today...and it's totally distracting me from work (like that is a bad thing on a Monday) And each time I leave my office and come back...MAN scent hits me again and I swoon! It's All of the above during a winter....it's that good hot distinguished intelligent sophisticated man in a warm yule sweater by the fire drinking something.....distinguished and intelligent and sohpisticated. OOOOF DA!

This be coffee heaven! For Realz and srsly and stuph. It's a cross between deep dark roasted coffee beans and the scent of frew brewed coffee....with a touch..a mere whisper and teasing hint of mocha. But mostly it is a full bag of coffee beans I want to dive into and roll around in. The fiance who worships coffee and believes there is no life without it....is plotting ways to steal my bottle of the precious. Beth? Ted? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release this up for sale (insert song melody here) This is fabulous and wondermous and made of win and awesome sauce. It is beyond heavenly and fabulous if there was such a thing..it is!

Bottle: first blast: sugar and cream. Deeper inhale: APPLE! Wet on Me: sugar vanilla cream over apples. Drying Down: less sugar and cream now…mostly tart apple. Dry: apple has mellowed a bit and now I smell the passionfruit(YUM) and the tonka and the taunting tease of carnation. Such a happy scent…for a happy forum!

Bottle: grapefruit, ginger, jasmine and the green tea Wet on Me: ginger, grapefruit, honeysuckle, tea and fabulous Drying Down: the ginger and wisteria are really trying to take everything over and the grapefruit and jasmine and green tea seem to be cowering in fear of them. Dry: aaahhhh the takeover was averted and now I get jasmine, and neroli and honeysuckle but the grapefruit went away. But this is a haunted scent. It’s haunted by something un-nameable but no less lovely.

Bottle: Smut 08 is sweet boozy musk Wet on Me: The color is dark..the color of a booze..a sweet booze. A Man’s booze. Drying Down: This is strong but not overpowering. But it sure let’s you know its there. I get more musk now. Why do I get a total speakeasy vibe out of this. Or a slightly tipsy nooner vibe? Dry: This is still a boozy nooner and it is total love. It’s sex in the backseat after a drunken party…it’s fabulous!

Bottle: ozone. Totally get the crisp wind Wet on Me: Wind and the wood is rising beneath it. Drying Down: Wind and ozone and wood..but not a piney wood..a drier wood and the smoke. Dry: ‘almost’ masculine. This is a dry crisp windy fall evening with a bonfire ritual in the woods. This is just calling to the autumn witch in me.

Bottle: astringent herbs. Sharp Wet on Me: still astringent herbs and sharp with a faint spiciness and whispers of green Drying Down: less astringent, less sharp still faint green and spiciness/dragon’s blood and now incense joins the circle. Dry: the sharp has all mellowed…everything blended nicely, a little of this and a little of that and all playing together in harmony on the playground of musk. So glad I got this!

Bottle: melon Wet on Me: Melon. Drying Down: Floral Melon now. Dry: mostly floral with melon. Never got any citrus, or anything else. I think this will go on the re-home pile.

Decant: mmmmberry and cognac Wet on Me: now I get cream added to the berry and cognac Drying Down: creamy berry leather. And heck I even smell brown paper bag! Dry: wow..thisis a sweet creamy berry scent that I just LOVE. The leather and cognac keep it from being a total foodie over sweet thing for me. This is Hef in a smoking jacket whilst surrounded by Playmates. Suave, Debonaire, but a total gentleman and playboy with the cute of the playmates thrown in. Man, am I glad I got to try this!

Imp: Fruity, green and wet! Wet on Me: now more green then fruity..and wet! Getting some banana! Drying down: this is fruit and flowers and green and wet and oooooo lovely Dry: Less green now, but still wet fruit and flowers. Total summery scent.

Imp: Flowers and something…dark and not flowers. Civet maybe? Wet on Me: mmm miris and orris…with faint sage traces…. Drying Down: the floral all blends and it’s soft with a powdery base note Dry: This gets very faint, very quick. Then it’s just a ghost of light floral powder that haunts your nose if it gets too close. Not bad.

Decant: I get the flowers. Wet on Me: I get the flowers and light berries and leather…mmmmmm Drying Down: Mostly still the flowers with leather under it. So far no amber or honey overpowering anything. Dry: flowers and leather…hot dayum this is nose to wrist worthy! Keeper!

Imp: mostly the nutmeg and poppy with slight underhaunts of sassafras Wet on Me: the nutmeg and sassafras are strong now. Drying Down: Woody. Very woody mostly now. Dry: the nutmeg and sassafras have disappeared into the shadows and it is mostly woody vibe with the black poppy underneath. Not bad.

Decant: Violet! And Orchid! Wet on me: Still violet and Orchid, but also the iris is wanting to say Oh Hai! Drying Down: this thing throws HARD from the get go. If I move my arm it wafts EVERYWHERE! Dry: Mostly Violet and Orchid with some of the Iris and YlangYlang all doing a dosey-do hoedown on my arm…to the strains of a faint amber baby powder fiddle in the background. I guess Frankincense never got the invite to this party. I am glad I got to try it but I might re-home it. Serious heavy purple floral

Imp: TEA! Tea squee! Wet on Me: Loving the tea scents. No leather yet Drying Down: Lovely tea with faint leather undertones. Refined and understated but quietly waiting Dry: This makes me feel like I’m having tea with Saetan Daemon SaDiablo from the Blood Jewels series of books. T his is a comfort scent. I could curl up with this, a soft blanket, a good book, some Ocean Machine and tea on a rainy day. TO KEEP!

Imp: very heavy. Neroli and Oleander which I have not smelled since the Miami Years. Wet on Me: Mostly the flowers and not the patchouli so far. Just the Oleander and Neroli with the YlangYlang wanting to play along Drying Down: Still heavy flowers. It smells like old heavy flowers. Dry: flowery powder. Or powdery flowers…to re-home

The Dark Side of Earth: deep, brooding forest scents, including juniper and patchouli. The scent of upturned cemetery loam mingling with floral offerings to the dead. Imp: Soil and pine-sol Wet on Me: Total soil and pine..but stale soil that has turned and heavy heavy pine sap Drying Down: now the patchouli begins to join the group, taking some of the piney sap notes down to a dull whisper and pushing the sour/stale soil smell away but bringing up a wood note in the mix. Dry: Wood mostly now. Pale whiffs of patchouli and the juniper. The soil took a hike and that is a good thing in this case. I like.