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Lurid I think I might have some bad nose days these days. Just wanted to state that first. To me Lurid is strangely similar to Bewitched considering the quality of the berry scent in both of the oils. It's weird, as even the berry notes in Bewitched seem to be different to those in Lurid, but somehow I perceive them both as subdued and rather low pitched as compared to other, brighter berry scents. Connected with that goes a common dark purple-violet colour in my mind. So much. Other than that, Lurid has a mory airy, wild . The lavender, ozone and white musk combine for a feeling of clean and wild, but the scent is not ozoney-fresh or harsh or overwhelmingly musky. I suppose the resins are somewhere down with the berries, keeping their sweet to the ground and anchoring the whole scent. I can't really smell them, though. Someone mentioned amber or patchouli, and while I'm not in the position to differentiate any resins in here myself, I'd say that they are not molassey resins, rather light textured and smooth. Back to my colour associations. The berries here are a little fainter than those in Bewitched, so their colour is fainter, of course, but also has some more red pigments. Like a faded red. The lavender seems to add some muted green note. Like a storm over a wet meadow, slate grey dynamic sky. Underneath the grass some wild berries, but the meadow itself dancing with the storm. It’s nice. I don’t usually like ozone-y perfumes, but Lurid is a winner. Probably because I like berries and the light musk and lavender in this and the ozone is an atypical, soft one. Or there’s just very little of it inside. However, the scent is very light, I hardly ever get a whiff of it and I have to pull my wrist close to merely catch a tiny hint of a trace of berries and something slightly musty, which isn’t unpleasant to smell, just very faint. I think I’ll keep the imp and see if Lurid grows on me with time or change of season, and whether it ever gets a chance to rival Bewitched in my bottle collection.

I get a lot of white musk from Midnight. Quite similar to the one in Psyche and maybe slightly to sth in Endymion. It lends a dusky sugary waft to the scent shortly after I apply it. The florals seem to be a translucent white. They breathe the way flowers would in a crisp humid night with dewdrops and moonlight and everything already been said in that regard. Reconsidering, there might be some florals adding to the sugariness this develops, similar to the sweetness of orchid or sweet pea. The dewy cool night I could feel in this in the beginning sadly keeps vanishing in sugar dunes the longer I wear Midnight. It's still nice, though. Like the aura of those translucent white sugary florals I can't name bundled and mixed up fairly well with that velvety white musk. It's Midnight with a star clad sky rather than a big moon, if I think about it. This is a creamy sweet and soft white musk scent that isn't unpleasant at all but somehow doesn't quite convince me at the time being. I'll definitely keep the imp, and see whether I can live without it once I run out. It is sweet and soft and quite a happy scent. I think it's nice to wear to bed, too. This reminded me a little bit of BNever's Cocktail fragrance, Midnight being a bit more sparkly and a little greenish and Cocktail a little more pastelle pink and purple velvety.

I applied this twice today and wore it throughout the day. First I feared it would turn soapy or old ladyish, but I have to say, I really like Les Fleurs du Mal. To me it's a creamy and very slightly spicy deep floral. Wilting flowers, warm purple, pale pink or dark violet colours. It has an antique, Victorian feel and I think it is quite sinister in that way. It's warm though and has a heart. I can see how this is rather not the scent of a young woman. Now, there are some old lady scents for me that i absolutely cannot stand on my skin, but somehow I feel alright with LFdM. I like the creaminess of it, and that underneath there's this delicate flowery sweetness. This feels very intimate and second skin to me.

This is fizzy and sweet and warm, and I like it, though I don't usually like very sweet scents. It's somehow airy at the same time. Not molassy. Above all, though, this is pretty much that one scene in the beginning of the movie "Legend" when Mia Sara and Tom Cruise (who wasn't all that bad at that time in that role) are hopping around in that enchanted meadow ground with all the glittering pollen and little insects floating in the air. Honey-textured green golden morning sun rays.

Queen Mab was very picturesque, but it didn't feel quite me in the end. Prickly sweet, slightly floralish, similar in texture to Aeval in my eyes. Aeval being the little sister. It reminded me of the pollen clinging to humming bees' hair. In the sunshine. I also almost immediately got the picture of a red haired woman. Very soft skinned with tiny hands and feet. Fact is, I have a friend who's red haired, soft skinned and who has tiny hands and feet. Mind you, I didn't think of her first way. The woman in my imagination had quite brighter hair and her face was that of a woman depicted in a chagall print I once received as a present. However, it intrigues me, that this my friend really digs Queen Mab - I had given her an imp after realizing that she resembled my association. She says it's come just in time as she was looking for an alternative to her all time favourite Jil Sander Sun which she thought wouldn't fit her all so well anymore.

It's been some time since I tried Black Cat which to me was a very soapy floral & voodoo herbish scent. After reading the reviews I tried again and I wasn't quite sure but thought, that, as all I perceived was a soapy chaos, there might be rose and may be dill in it. However, some weeks ago a friend of mine tried Black Cat from my imp, sniffed her wrist and said "Hmm, lilac!". Though I know what lilacs are and have seen many, their scent never caught my attention, and I wouldn't be able to tell if, what it smelled like on her, was lilacs. It sure was a pretty floral, though. Fresh, pure and glowing the way that sometimes floral scents, when turning beautiful, can feel like drops of water look.

Very nice, a lot more complex than Cathedral or Penitence, and a lot more syrupy resinous than Aureus. Altogether a mixture of those. Add a little Magus and a tiny bit Anubis, yes. I like Cathedral and don't mind Penitence, but both are a bit boring to me, whereas I'm really fond of Aureus. This leans a bit more to the dark syrupy side but is similarly multifacetted as Aureus is to me. From the bottle and when first applied I get a little bit of a peppery note and I don't know how come, but I swear I can smell booze. More exactly (when I get close to my wrist): Vodka. Just when I inhale deeply nose to wrist, what I perceive in the background when exhaling again, is just like the taste of vodka in my mouth. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this decant has been diluted or anything. It's very syrupy and thick in the imp and cannot possibly have alcohol mixed into it. Whatever, that vodka effect is almost gone now as it's dried a little. Must have been something about the frankincense, I guess. Now, wafting around me it's a sweet deep complex church resin with a higher pitched reddish/fuchsia kick that adds a complexity which I missed in the above mentioned church incense blends. I really like this and will order a bottle when placing my final Yule blends order. ETA: I have the feeling that what I perceive as a trace of vodka might be the same thing ChupaChups perceived as nail polish remover. However, on me that's just a light effect when smelling my wrist close and the other components last and waft and make me feel happy.

Yes, I get the cinnamon, too. I agree that it's probably cardamom combining with something else, but on me it's cinnamon dead on. It's more cinnamoney than anything I've tried that had cinnamon listed as an ingredient. More than pure cinnamon, it's cinnamon sugar, I'm thinking milk rice with cinnamon sugar on top. It's sort of making my stomach turn actually, but that's happening with quite some scents lately to me, especially fiery/spicy ones. It's taking some time to dry and the scent doesn't seem too change so far. I'm not positive that this will change to something I'd want to wear. Guess, I'm not a spice girl. I like spicy food, but I don't really want to smell of it. It seems to lose some of the strong cinnamoney spiciness, but not quite enough for me to enjoy it. I'll just give up on the really spicy scents. That said, it is a nice scent, I can even see how it fits the concept. What somebody said about hot angry tears above seems to catch the scent well. However, it is not watery at all! Very much like angry tears seem to be rather vaporized than liquid sometimes. It feels despaired. You want to look for something fresh, something bright and uplifting with all that heat around, but there's nothing. Just plain dry suffocating dusty heat, blinding. Being lost in the middle of nowhere, eyes blinded by tears, mind confused and scattered, feeling angry and torn and desperate for a sign of hope, but you won't see any, there's just you alone and those hot tears. Something like that. It's quite depressing really. Anybody who lacks the experience of major emotional crisis in their lives should probably try this. ETA: Having re-read the other posts, I can't really find the post that said that thing about hot tears, maybe I haven't looked well. As for the scent: I must have a similarly sharp skin chemistry as MShcherbatskaya has, because this is really quite one-dimensionally pure spice (cardamom that smells like cinnamon) on my skin. I can imagine there being patchouli and sandalwood mixed into that encompassing spicy fiery dryness, but flowers!? fruit!? No way. Not on me, at least.

This was a decant I received from the lovely paperdoll! Thank you!!! Hmmm. Dust. Ooooh! Nice dust! This is so weird. It's real dust, but it somehow manages to smell delicious. Something warm, sweet and bright underneath. There's almost a green something with it. Some grass or wood that I know. This dries pretty fast. Wow, it's really got some depth and complexity. A little bit like Graveyard Dirt with some almost almondy wood underneath. A sweet wood. A little fizzy. Maybe there's ivy, too. I like this. Really do. I like this a lot. I don't get what this reminds me of. Something. Hm...ginger? Just as I see my Ginger soap in the bathroom. There could be ginger in this. A little bit. Birch could very well be there, too. Maybe it reminds me of Talvikuu which I was wearing in the morning. Pine? Maybe, yes. Probably yes. Don't know about the mosses other people seemed to perceive. Maybe. I can see the similarity with Geek, too. Something about the musk or the woods or the maybe-moss. I agree that the musk in here is probably civet, as I usually get along with civet well, it's light and sweet on me, whereas some other heavy musks tend to be overpowering and give me a headache. It's probably the civet that reminds me of things, not sure. I keep thinking that there's something resiny in here as well. Because of the comparisons with Geek, I almost (!) can smell something vaguely resembling opoponax? But that might be me hallucinating out of sheer despair as I can't really find out what this reminds me of. Whatever, this is lovely. Will have to wear it a little more to know if I need a bottle of this or might be ok with just an imp.

This is very pretty. First on it's rather soapy and perfumey, which I think must be the lilies. Then it turns softer and sweeter. The sweet pea comes out really strong on me. Then there's something completely pretty-girly-angel-like in this, very very pretty scent. Some depth, too. Abysses, yes. I really think this is quite a goth scent. I like it though, there's enough fuzzy sweetness to catch the initial soapiness and make it wearable. The white sage is great in this. Hmmm. In the final stage of wearing I notice the moss predominantly. Very nice. Almost warm. Deep. Delicious. I think, I can smell the cucumber, too, now. Considering buying a bottle, but want to check out some more current LEs first before I decide. From all that I've tested so far, Annabel Lee turns out to be among the two or three favourites, though... Which surprises me! I don't really like aquatics at all and I usually try to avoid lilies, as they seem to turn soapy on me. But this is so really nice, I especially like the traces left in my clothes. It's actually rather difficult to test anything else, as I feel that urge to wear Annabel Lee all the time.

I tried this first quite some time ago, liked it, but wore it only about twice and then forgot about it. Here's what I wrote then: very sweet, pinkish-red sweet. Red candy. Yes, like candy. red cherry candy or sth like that. Slightly fizzy, the thyme gives this some smokiness. Very girly and sweet. But nice. Maybe even a bottle. on another occasion shortly after that: When wearing this the last time, I found the tangy sweet fruit smell to be somehow too sharp and almost pee-like, but maybe that's body chemistry. I guess, I shouldn't wear this while having my menstruation. So far. Later I never really felt myself drawn to check it out any more. I didn't dislike it, but guess, I didn't like it neither. I just dabbed some on about half an hour ago. Here's what came to mind: Haven't worn Lady Macbeth in such a long time. Considering, whether I should swap it away. Out of the bottle it does indeed somehow smell pee-like. Or even like a carnivore's cage at the zoo. Sharp and pungent. Ubersweet. Maybe I should apply to make sure before giving it away. Right then, a drop on the spot between thumb and whatever you call it in English: the neighbouring finger. Veeeeeerrryy pink-violet-red-black berries. Very many of them in a very small place. Somewhere there is something soft underneath. Vanilla? Strawberry?. But that's really far away. Fullbodied. No, it's not bad. Quite tasty but really strong. You have to get over that first, then it's ok. Maybe I shouldn't swap this. Although, if I go close with my nose, I get that animal smell again. That's a specific animal. Not a rat, in spite of thyme (rats' fur, especially of male rats, does smell extremely like thyme to me, am so curious about the rat king!!). Any way, it makes me think of the zoo, that zoo in that city in our vicinity where I was taking care for some of the horses when still a kid. The scent doesn't really convince me as a scent anymore, though. On one hand there's something ever so slightly off smelling to me, on the other, there are definitely way too many red fruit inside. There might be Brombeeren (bramble/european blackberry) interacting, I think. To me Bewitched or Gomorrah are just so much more beautiful and multi-layered, more subtle, more interesting, that I don't see any need for Lady Macbeth with me. Somehow I'm getting images of the circus. The circus round with smells of wild animals (big cats) still hanging in the air, and more than anything else a sinistre, plotting clown. Makes me think of the clown in the comic book/graphic novel "Herzfresser" ("heart eater"?). Bright red colours, but false. The animal smell has faded completely when dry. What I still smell is the slightly artificial candy berry from before. The evil clown's still here. I didn't really smell wine at no point. That tanginess I get is probably part of the wine, but it doesn't turn more distinctively wine to me. No, to put an end to this damned indecisiveness, I don't think this was made for me. Alas, I'm not that kind of person anyway. I love truth. Truth is my one and only principle even when everything else comes down. I love truth to the extent of dumbness. ("Sorry, I think you gave me too much change there!" oops, done it again! ) This was made for a different type of lady.

Ha! I got it! Noone's found out so far, I'm so proud of myself right now!!! Whatever, I'll post the translation of the whole of my notes for you: "The oil really is green (colour). My first green BPAL! Smells green as well. I'm wondering what this reminds me of.... Eucalyptus, yes, but not in first row. Juniper berry might well be. Some sort of evergreen, too. But then there's something more even, something shiny and rounded. The scent turns a bit fizzy on my skin, not having been like that first. Must be due to eucalyptus or juniper or both. Underneath that a flower. Already sniffing from the bottle I got that flower. Probably a white one. Maybe a wood flower. Hmmm. Melissa/Lemon balm? Or am I influenced by the comparisons drawn to Lush's Tramp shower gel? Something sweet, so, given my experience with pine, maybe there's pine in this, too? There's a texture like marzibain/almonds around that sweet smell. May well be pine. Ha! Waldmeister!!! Now I got it. That's what the green colour stems from for sure. Waldmeistersirup! That was the memory, I couldn't trace. It's woodruff in English. This is such a strong childhood memory. I used to love woodruff ice cream and woodruff sirup drinks. That lovely green colour of both!! As to those who don't know what woodruff smells like: It's a very youthful green scent to me. This is what great part of the sweetness in Belladonna probably comes from. It's an even/smooth and shiny scent. Like a drop of green sweet water would smell like. It's still a tiny bit fizzy, though. Very tiny bit. Rather rounded than fizzy really. Back to Belladonna: I did at no point of time wearing it find this in the least harsh or sharp. It has a slightly bitter feel to it, but rather a vibe than a real bitterness in scent. Now, after maybe 1 and a half hour it still smells fresh and green and rounded. I get pine and a faint woodruff still.

In the bottle and freshly applied this smells like nothing really. Maybe a slight warm amber. Makes me think of O a little, but not sweet and cloying like that one was to me. I certainly don't get anything sharp or crisp, nor anything green from it at first. Having read the other reviews: Yes, there might be olive in this, but it's not sharp smelling to me. The whole scent is buttery soft without smelling like butter, which I loathe. A herbal, ambery, creamy softness. There's frankincense? Or olibanum? I find olibanum to be a bit sharper smelling than frankincense. Like more high pitched. There could be a hint of that in here. Still, the overall effect is soft and warm. Slightly burnt woods, yes. Soft resins. Velvety smoke. On me it develops some faint sweetness after a while. There is a herbal vibe, but I wouldn't call Succor a green scent. To me it's rather smoky, maybe pale green like salvia leaves are. Now, I get strong olives, but to me they are not offputting or overly foody at all. I actually think this smells rather elegant. I guess, I'm the complete scent weirdo here, but I really like the way Succor smells and would wear it as a perfume as well as for therapeutical use. I have now only worn this for about 20 minutes, so might update later. ETA: about 30 minutes later: This takes a looooong time drying. The spot on my wrist where I put it is still shiny and all. However, just as I took another sniff, I've noticed two things: 1) It has developed a similar vibe to the strange sweetness I've found in Brimstone now. 2) I do get something like fresh mushrooms? Freshly picked shroomsies, yes, with some wet earth still clinging to them. Quite humid. No further comment for the time being. ETA (again): That mushroom impression might be connected with pine, as I did get mushrooms from Burial, too. I thought it was the combination of earthy things with rose in Burial, then, but now as I'm thinking about it, it might well be the pine scent mixed with something else, maybe a floral, that I perceive as mushroomey. Maybe there's olive in Burial, too.

Oh, I love the review herongale wrote! I can absolutely see all that she wrote being true for this beautiful scent. Myself, I tested Himerus some time ago, and though it's far from as lovely as herongale's review, I'll translate what I put down in my bpal testing file. "Fresh, floral. Anne Bonny on my other arm in contrast with this. Very fresh and very floral, without drifting into something soapy-sharpish so far. Mmmhhh... powdery, too, yes. But light. Airy. Somehow sweet, but in a flowery way. I'd have imagined this to be warmer, but it's very bright, light and airy. A little bit of something sweet underneath, texture like marzibain somehow. This is flowery-sweet. No sugar or honey or anything like that. Somewhere underneath now a warmth is showing up. Must be from the musk, this should eventually develop. A fine scent. Reminds of very classic lady perfume as well. Maybe the orchid. Old fashioned, elegant, but somehow almost a candy smell underneath. Something that you'd want to catch with your tongue tip. Huh, maybe this could inspire oral sex? Wow. It's fairly strong now, but seems to hold the balance. Something is a little off/overloaded smelling, but that might be Anne Bonny or the combination of smells. Himerus reminds me of something Lush. Butterball or Sex Bomb. The Soft Touch! This 70es feel. Himerus without smelling like some aunt or neighbour lady. Gets very warm. Still floral. White florals. Intensive, to be applied carefully. 2nd test: without Anne Bonny in contrast this doesn't really come across as a floral. Rather herby-woodsy with a floral vibe to it, as predictable from the ingredient listing. The orchid almost fruity, but the whole of the scent light and airy. Delicious." Reconsidering what I wrote then, I don't quite see how I connected this with the Soft Touch anymore, but can confirm the butterball impression. That must be the orchid, I suppose, though I'm not aware of orchid being a butterball component. I have to add that I'm completely untrained as far as commercial perfumes are concerned and might forward this as an excuse for drawing a line towards classic lady scents that might never have existed anywhere else but my imagination.

Moxie Tried this yesterday on a strand of my fringe and on neck. Citrussy, yes. First thought was Grapefruit. But then my sinuses adapted and I sort of concluded that what I was smelling was mainly Neroli. Strong Neroli. Bittersweet strong Neroli, layered over some unidentifiable herbal base. I'm astonished no one else has mentioned Neroli so far. Somebody saw a connection to Succubus, though. Maybe there are grapefruit or tangerines in here as well, maybe some citrus-scented herbs, too. I didn't recognize anything specific other than Neroli but there were more components in my perception, too, with probably other citrus notes involved. Moxie lasted long in my hair, the spot on my neck I didn't quite notice later on. It didn't change much and stayed a creamy, slightly bitter citrus-alike with those herbs. As for the effects: On my way to uni I had the feeling that I was reacting less sensitive to passers by giving me the strange look. It was like not being trapped by having looked at them once. Like a little more self-assured and self-sufficient than usual. Later on, I kept being quite nervous throughout the day, biting my nails in class, not being able to sit quiet for a long time. I felt a little bit impatient with some rather slow people, too, and stood up when that girl kept interrupting me again and again. I usually try not to care, because it's no use really, natural born controlfreak that one, christian with a missionary drive. Yesterday, however, I couldn't take it and told her firmly that I hadn't quite finished my sentence. She immediately drew back and looked like a puppy that you've been angry with, but didn't say a word for..well... 5 minutes or so. So, there was a certain kind of energy and speed to it, but maybe I chose the wrong situation and Moxie should rather be worn to a party or maybe when you are working with your hands or anything, not when going to class. This nervosity isn't really helpful there. Also, I'm really a rather speedy and quick thinking person naturally and maybe should go for the tranqui-blends instead of the upper ones.

Psyche I think I like this, but it's very very light. First it's all lavender and not much else. I get a weird sour smell in the beginning when wet, but that vanishes within a couple of minutes. Drying this turns sort of powdery-diffuse. There are no sharp contours whatsoever in this scent. I do catch something sweet every once in a while behind all those powdery mists which must be the two florals. I especially like the orchid sweetness and think I can trace it in here. The rose in Psyche is a fresh and juicy one, but it's not quite detectable most of the time. At least not to me. I'll have to test this again at day-time. ETA: This does have immense staying power despite it being so light, I just woke up and I can still smell a faint but definite trace of white musk with something sweet behind it on my wrist and arm where I put the oil. That's a good 10 hours ago now.

Rose Cross I officially love this and want to bathe in it. Here's what I put down in my bpal testing excel list: Det hätt ich niiiiieeee bestellt. Ist aber grandios. Die Rose überhaupt nicht Omi-mäßig. Total schön und rein und frisch und saftig. Dann mit dem Weihrauch. "holy oil". Ist echt schön. Wie ne Madonna fühlt man sich damit. Sowas hätte ich mir von Ave Maria Gratia Plena erhofft. That's German. I'll translate: I'd neeeeever have ordered this. But it's gorgious. The rose in this isn't the least bit granny-like. It's absolutely beautiful and pure and fresh and juicy. Then there's the frankincense. "holy oil". Really beautiful. I feel like a madonna. This catches about the feeling that I had hoped for when ordering Ave Maria Gratia Plena. Further: I don't find this, as others have said, soapy at all. It's very very juicy but intermingling with the soft frankincense smokiness. Plain lovely. And it lasts a lot longer than 4 hours on me. Maybe eight or so, haven't counted.

This to me was the perfect image of a sweating, smoldering, steel-nippled 3-meter-woman, infernal sulfuric flames raging from her eyes. An impersonification of violence and evil. It really made me be scared to have nightmares and I had to wash it off. Something in that vanilla syrup gardenia mix made it feel like sulfuric sweat or something. Very much not my thing, though I like smokey and heady scents generally.

this is the second bpal oil I felt I'd have to wash off immediately (the first one was sacred whore). I usually dig smokey scents but this didn't smell of nice smoke like you get from a fire or something, it smelt like the tips of my fingers or my sweat after two weeks of chain smoking cigarettes. It made me feel sick at once. I really should quit smoking but don't think I'd like this oil better if I finally managed to do so.

wet: yes to the nail polish remover and lacqueur associations. drying: dry, grassy, woodsy, masculine, cologney, dusty, slightly sweet... I now know what that smell was, that I was smelling yesterday evening sitting hunched over my keyboard. I kept getting whiffs of something without being able to neither localize its source nor origin. I never would have thought it could have been the Scarecrow that I had accidentally spilled on my keyboard after a quick first sniff a week ago. But what I smelled yesterday is exactly what I am smelling now as Scarecrow has dried down a bit. (note: staying power on keyboard is amazingly good) There is a strange sweet dusty note in it, which I think to recognize from Brimstone and The Coiled Serpent, and it does remember me of some shampoo or soap as well. I have been constantly re-sniffing my wrists ever since I applied this, so I could say, I'm pretty much intrigued by it. This is a truely fascinating scent. And yes, my boy lover will have to try this, I'll insist.

I like this a lot. And I get the florals as well, as somebody else above said. I guess it's some trick my nose is playing on the dragon's blood. I was going out just after I applied a little of this on my right arm only, and got this lovely scent wafting up to my nose. I kept thinking it's the spring blossoms that are showing up all around, when I realized it was me, which made me quite a happy girl. Back home I virtually slathered this on, wrists, neck, ears. It's a gorgeous scent. I'm not in my most creative writing mood, so you'll have to content yourselves with that.

I seem to remember that somebody mentioned the caterpillar smelled like flying fox Edited to correct myself: Somebody said The Caterpillar was good for layering with Flying Fox... I have a record of what ppl considered similar: Oneroi, Love Me, Midnight, Vixen, Phantasm, Delight, Twilight and New Orleans is what I put down for Flying Fox similarity... I haven't smelled any of them but ordered New Orleans, as somehow I imagine this to be most on the heavy jasmine side of all...

tried this last night before going to bed.... and yes... it is sexy.. whoever said they should enclose a guy on sending scents like that out, was darn right.

Bought an imp of this from somebody on the lush forums, and I'm so sad it has been discontinued. This and Kweku Anansi are my favourite bpal oils so far. I had a lot of people asking for the name of my perfume wearing Allegory especially. It's very deep, complex and just beautiful. I'll go learn some more English words now before writing more reviews.

this kept me feeling happy the whole night while playing pool and getting drunk in my favourite bar which is actually a nicotin-infested-chilly-little-box-thing with a pool table in it.. Any time I did the slightest move, this lovely, warm, uplifting scent was wafting to my nose, all of my bloke friends there were extremely friendly and offered so much beer, I got a bad hangover today and slept till 7 pm. A drunk girl who apparently suffers from alcohol induced schizophrenia sort of turned obsessive on competing with me in any way possible, but I won her without a doubt... all areas i.e. I felt like trusting Anansi to trixt0r for me and I felt him at work for sure, you should have seen some of the moves and shots on the pool table. As far as the scent.. I know this is not a voodoo blend or anything like that....sorry if my review turned a little inappropriately voodoo-ish...as far as the scent is concerned, I don't find it very dark actually... nor masculine.. it's a rather neutral, very warm and conforting scent with a breezy, dry feel to it that keeps it light and playful. (my first review!!!! :-)))