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Wow does this scent hate me. It sounded so good in the description! On my skin, I swear it turns into rose-scented fantastik. Really. The cleaning spray with a hint of rose. It gets less bad over time, but *man*. Some note or combination of notes in this just does NOT work for me.

Oh wow. Oh wow wow wow. I have really got to learn to not trade away duplicate imps before sniffing my first one. (I just got inundated with imps and well...) First sniff in imp: oooooh, pine & red berry. Wet: all pine. Waaaah! My skin eats berries curse strikes again! Later: Oh my god, it's an exception! I can still smell the berry and I don't even have to go hunting for it! And the pine is the soft scent now, not medicinal/pine sol or anything like that, just nice. HOW COOL!!!!!! My skin usually just sucks up all berry flavor in anything I tried. (Jester was big time depressing for me for that reason.) I think there's the slightest hint of floral behind it too, but it's hard to tell as all the notes blend well. It's a very yuletide scent. WOOHOO! THE CURSE IS BROKEN! LONG LIVE SKADI!!!!

First reaction: apples! complicated apples! Like several kinds of apples mixed with a hint of wine. Later: Okay, mostly apple & rose. With a hint of "perfume" which I guess is the Ylang Ylang. Nice enough. I think it was more interesting while wet, even though I like it better dry. If that makes any sense.

Oh wow. So *this* is what all the fuss is about. I bought this imp at acution out of curiousity (everyone was talking about it), and oh my! Rich Cinnamon + other spices. (Since I'm reading Dune at the moment, it made me think of Spice.) I didn't realize the other notes were primarily clove until I read the description. So rich and strong in spiciness that I'm surprised my skin didn't burn. Smells stays consistant, just fading a little bit over time. Very very nice! I hope this is one of the discontinued scents that we'll get back some day!!

Pretty. At first, light florals with a hint of sharp (I assume that's the lemon.) Then the floral becomes more distinctly light rose. I don't smell the apple in this, but maybe that's what my nose has decided is light rose. Nice.

Recieved this imp as a freebie... and you get what you pay for. First impression: all over OVERWHELMING patchouli A minute later: oooooooh BAD. badbad bad. Sweet and spicey, which is normally good but somehow this one really isn't. The spicy component reminds me of curry (tumeric almost) while the sweet is just turning my stomach. An hour later: okay, all the notes that hate me have finally faded. There's a mild patchouli left and a mild sweetness and the combination reminds me a bit of a lighter Corazon, mostly in that both smells remind me of the inside of a magickal/new age shop. But this one is lighter. It's nice now, but the first hour or so works so badly on me that this goes straight to the swap pile. I know other people like this one more than I do!

Okay, this was confusing. This is gorgeous sure. But it smells almost exactly like Dragon's Eye to me, and wears pretty much the same way. (Largely lilac, some rose/dragon's blood underneath, good throw, and lasts for hours, same as the Eye.) I really wonder if my imp was mislabeled. There's a hint of a clean, light, ocean air scent to it, but it's light enough that I could be imagining it. This will definitely require a second testing.

Interesting: in the bottle, very floral. On me: floral with that same hint of food in the wet stage from all saints. (The hint of foodiness disappears quicky.) Later: *Very* well blended florals, very smooth, difficult to pick out the notes. Very pretty. No spices or musk for me though. Looking forward to testing it again in a few days to see what my body chemistry does with it.

First impression: Green grass and apples? With a floral touch. Hmm, maybe the apples are actually the berries. Berries usually dissappear on my skin. A few minutes later: The grass is gone, but maybe a hint of spice has come to join it. Later, a perfume-y, floral note is entering A couple hours later: much stronger floral, perfume scent. The "apple" is more of a background scent. A bit of muskiness underneath it all has come out. This is nice... but... by comparison to some other bpal blends, this seems to be simply ordinary. I'll try it again in a week and see what my body chemistry has to say then. 'cause other things have been off on me in the last 36 hours.

Oh wow. This lives up to its name. First impression: yum plus a pinch of daffodil (fresh, green, floral) After five mintes the daffodil goes away. But it's still gorgeous, and then stays gorgeous for a good while. At least a couple of hours, and the scent is fairly consistant and unwavering. Sweet in a way that makes me feel like a long-haired cat has curled up in my belly and is purring loudly. No, not like I have hairballs. But delicious. *snicker* It's a relatively feminine scent, but I've got to try this on my boy. It smells so good on me that I practically want to nibble on my own wrist, and *not* in the food way. Overall impression: *swoon* Edit: Okay, this blend is proving to me how much skin chemistry affects these scents. The day I wrote this review, it was the nectar of the gods. I tried it again, 2 days later, the day I got my period, and it went to pure baby powder. I wanted to cry. Tried it again today, end of my period, and it was babypowder for an hour, and then morphed into something near to the original gorgeous. It's gorgeous now, but not the live-up-to-its-name curl up in your belly and PURR gorgeous of the first time. I now have to try Black Phoenix again because who knows where in my cycle I tried it the first time? From now on I'll have to try things like 4 times throughout the month befor I make a decision on any oil from now on. Sheesh. This is going to make swapping tougher.

Huh. This is different. As someone else said, this is very much single-note leather on me. It starts out very light on me which had me confused as I was expecting something more overpowering. So I put on bunches more and still light. 10 minutes later it was much stronger. Oops. I looooove playing poker, so had to try this, but I'm not so sure it's me. It has, however, made me much less nervous about trying other scents with a leather note.

In the bottle: OMG freakin' love at first sniff. This actually smells like sunshine! Like brightness and heat and slightly scorched/dried grass and something slightly spicy and just amazing. On me: sadly, some of that amazingness is lost. Still very pretty. Very. But no longer amazing. It's still hard to describe. There's something herbal, (I think?) but not much. Something soft-spicy like maybe a very mild patchouli meets a light cinnamon. Later: the complexity that I couldn't describe anyway tones down a bit, leaving a bit of light cinnamon and a bit of lightly sweet... maybe frankincense? Hmm. Maybe not. Loves this, but might loves this more as a room scent. Or as a magical scent. This really has some oomph to it!

Initially: Pure roses, and lovely fresh ones. 20 min later: 2/3 Rose to 1/3 lilac. And with those notes, it should remind me of Dragon's Eye, but it doesn't. It's softer, warmer. Dragon's eye is definitely more "piercing," as described. Love both of them. Overall: very nice! Lovely! To my nose, it's very similar to some others though... maybe Endymion is the one I'm thinking of? I know the notes aren't the same, but the fragrance seems similar to my nose. I sometimes wonder how smart my nose is though.

First impression: ooooh, light roses, with a drop of lemon. *minemineminemine* A few minutes later: This has become alot richer, gorgeous, but the lemon is largely gone. No currant though. Darnit. My skin sucks up the berries in every single scent I've tried. And I think maybe a touch of the violet is peeking through on its own. The florals blend really well here and it's hard to pick out the notes. Later: the rose has relaxed slightly, and something bright is peeking through. This is a keeper. Yum.

Hoo does this one not agree with me. First impression: overwhelming strong something. A few mintues later it's sorted itself out into a cross between deorderant and diaper cream with a hint of shampoo. I'm guessing this is the neroli. I tried a friend's Neroli EO from bath & body works the other day and was smacked with the smell of diaper cream. Later: Now it smells of aftershave. Less obnoxious, but still, *so* not for me.

Wow. This is seriously true to its name! This is sugar cookie, and it's immediate sugar cookie. After about 10-15 minutes, it becomes slightly more Snickerdoodle, as more cinnamon comes out. And a few minutes after that, it becomes rather gingersnapish. Really nifty. Very very interesting, very yummy. I fear this will kill my diet though. On the other hand, if I were to see my home, I'd *so* use this as a room scent when buyers came to look. *applause* to Beth. On sheer artistry, I'm impressed. Yum!

Interesting. Sadly, no frankincense for me. Very fruity. Reminds me a great deal of Chango, only a bit richer, and a bit less life-savers. A slight undertone of civet, but not strong. Oddly though, fades quickly on me. It seems like it would be a substantial scent with that ingredient list.

First impression: mixed scent, something floral, something dark/warm, all squished by a pound of vertivert. 5 min later: A hint of baby powder is added to the mix, but still mostly vertiver. Vertiver is okay, but it seems to dominate and blends I try with it. Later: This seems like it would be a good men's scent. It's still mostly vertiver, but also has that sharpness that I associate with men's aftershave. Time to trade.

Hmm. First response: generic perfume, get it away! 5 min later: Ok, this is nicer. Still perfume-y. Mostly magnolia now. Am wondering where the amber is. Heeeeeeeeeere amberamberamber.... nope, won't come when called. Later: Nicer, but still has that floral-so-strong-becomes-soap note. Not me. Off to the swap pile.

First impression: sharp, sweet in a way I don't like. Reminds me of either anise, bitter almond or Dana O'Shea. That note fades within 2 minutes fortunately. 5 minutes later: Soft, lightly sweet, something warm & diffuse below. No clue what. 15 minutes late: Huh. This is odd. One minute it's completely gone, the next it's back and relatively strong. Something sweet/floral. Not quite jasmine, slightly sharper. Either this scent or my nose is very, very confused. It's a little like someone has created a bizarre mutant crossbreed of a strobe light and Lex Talionis. In conclusion: I'm just confused.

First impression: Cherry bubblegum, but not in a bad way. I don't usually like cherry scent (outside of fresh cherries) but this isn't bad. Much less obnoxious than I was expecting. Also unexpected: it's made me smile right away. I wasn't in a particularly bad mood before, but this made an immediate difference. A kind of soft joy. Later: The scent is pretty stable. Effective stuff. Good mojo in this! Not my first choice in perfume, but as a voodoo blend it has my respect!

First thought: ick! Smells like car! 5 min later: okay, cedarwood and vanilla are pretty distinct, no longer a confusing pile of smell. But I'm just not diging it. Later: Nope. Boy does this disagree with my skin!! Swap pile. I'm thankful this one washes off!

First impression: slightly sweet + something pine but not pine. Maybe it's Patchouli? 2 minutes later: all patchouli. 15 minutes later: The patchouli is toned down a bit, and the slight hint of something sweet is back. Later: Still primarily Patchouli, but smells clean somehow. Maybe that's the forest-like description that others have mentioned. Interesting and intriguing. (minor edit made for poetic purposes.)

I think we do that. We have a lovely blue glass bowl half-filled with water. Of course, it also has whimsical little frogs that my mom hung around the edges. Mom's sense of humor is.... special. Let's just call it special. Funny, they forgot the orange this year. Especially amusing in light of the link you posted -- we have 2 extremely Out members of the family. But I've always heard the more common story about it. And now that I'm completely off topic... let's make a vague attempt to reel it in. As to the charoses scent that someone suggested -- apples, red wine, cinnamon & a hint of herbs -- that sounds a bit like the description of Tintagel. A bit.

Bottle/wet on me: Pretty. Slightly "perfume-y", but pretty. Is that a melon note I sniff? 5 minutes in: one of the spruce-like notes comes to the foreground. Still a whiff of... I think it's cantaloupe. That would be a winter fruit alright. 10minutes: Florals are peeking out again. Later: Light, pretty, a nice round base beneath (light musks?) but I'm not sure sure about the melon bit. Same reaction I had when trying it on the first time. It's pretty, but ambivalent about melon. Hmm. Well, the duplicate goes to the swap pile. The first one I may keep.