I smell the roses too. I'm new to bpal and was lucky enough to get a few scents in a swap. I had sniffed the top of the vial and thought, nope, need to get rid of this one, but then decided to give it a teeny swipe. All I smelled was roses. Then I had to give it a bigger swipe to be sure and now i know the complexity of smelling a mix of things and smelling them change.
Wet - wow, zing, a very green lemony scent to my nose. Kind of like the lemon scented geranium leaf smell - it's the only thing i can think of that smells like that. A lemon scented leaf.
Next a bit of the peppery/sharp spice mixed with the lemon. Still very green, but very interesting and not really rosy.
Then the rose comes out very strong. I'm not a fan of roses so I was thinking "no way". As it continued to dry, the rose seemed to be mellowing and the lemony spice was back a bit. It is continuing to evolve into something that is definately rosy w/a teeny bit of citrusy green and pepper for me.
While I don't love roses, this may be a keeper - it is turning into a nice, curious scent that I really like.
I guess I would say it's like walking through a green, wet field up to an old abandoned house with trees out front that still have some softening overripe fruit falling from them. Then you enter the house, it's a little musty and cobwebby but in the windowsill is a vase of really deep red roses, droopy and warmed by a ray of sunlight and releasing their rosy scent throughout the house. Does that make sense?
Karin
