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    Dragon's Heart

    I was a bit disappinted with Dragon's Hide but Dragon's Heart is a whole different story! Imp: the first impression is very flowery, with a metallic and resinous background - slightly verging on Chinese soap! Wet: oh hello musks and fig, where where you hiding? Now the spiceness is comung out without the actual spices. The Chinese soap has luckily gone!! Dry: sweet, powdery and sticky. Very musky, but not aggressve. I really liked this one, it's yummy and sexy and it LASTED nearly 5 hours!!! It's a record for me!!!
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    Hellfire

    As per Ouch's review, I'm not sure on which kind of Hellfire my imp is, since it feels like none of the two!! Imp: as I open the imp I smell a very warm honey, with a slight hint of metallic in the background Wet: on, it reminds me of old, humid and rundown houses and mossy stones. It's somewhat green and wet but still resinous and honey. Dry: it's still green and wet with a resinous and powedry note. It smells like antique furniture's wax and beeswax. Could it have an amber element? Overall: I like it and it's quite lasting on me. It kind of remindes me of something pleasant and warm. I would like a bottle. Again, I cannot detect leather. Must be my veganness rebelling agains it !!
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    The Robotic Scarab

    When I recieved the imp, I went to read the description and was really curious to try such a strange mix of ingredients. In the imp: I smell a very green perfume, something like pine, but with something metallic in the background. I assume this must be the anise. Wet: still very green but the metallic has morphed into cinnamon and spices, becoming warmer. Dry: Frankincense comes up to make it more warmer. After a while all I can smell is rubber and smoke, very pleasant. Now I know that my skin kills leather tones, because I couldn't detect them and the same thing happened to me with Dragon Hide. I like this smell, even if it's slightly masculine, but I think it's very sexy. As usual it's not very long lasting (I have still to find a perfume that lasts on me more than 2 hours - the only exceptions are Avignone by Comme de Garcons and Eau Lente by Dyptique). Have to have a bottle - NOW!!!!
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    Hymn to Proserpine

    This is a new imp I got and, after reading the description, I was really curious to try it. In the imp: the first sniff is very sweet and fruity, with something dark lurking behind. I guess it's the amber. Wet: the amber is really recognizable now but there's something more powedery, like orrisroot, that comes up and makes it become more complex and less fruity. Dry: amber is sweetened by a new vanilla-ish note; the powder is gone - now it's only a sweet amber. It's a loveley scent, very "adult", but unfortunately, my skin (as always) makes it disappear after 1 hour!!! I also think that the name is quite appropriate: you have the fruits and the darkness, the neverending circle of nature.
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    Dragon's Hide

    This is an imp I've recieved. I haven't smelled Dragon Blood (I have another imp of Dragon's Heart that I have yet to test) so I cannot refer to it. In the imp: it smells veeeeeery sweet and flowery, with a hint of warm and metallic tones Wet: very, very flowery with a vey light touch of spice. Dry: still flowery. No leather and smoke detected. On me, it's just a flowery perfume. It did't last very long - after a couple of hours it was completely gone. From the smell I couldn't relate it to a dragon. I think my skin kills everything tha's interesting in this oil and so it's not my kind. I'm curious to try Dragon's Heart and see if it reacts like this!
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    Maenad

    This is the first imp that I recieved and I had to try it on, since i know that all scents change once on the skin and you can have some pleasant surprises. Opened imp: I got a horrible whiff of almond (I hate almond...) but after a second sniff I realized it was a very twisted strawberry. Wet: it felt like a strange and juicy strawberry but with a darker background note, which could be the poppy or the carnation. Dry:I could only smell the strawberry, all the other notes were gone. I cannot associate this scent with the name; it's a very young perfume to me, something that a teenager might wear. I cannot feel the madness, extasy and wilderness. It's not bad but it's definetly not a perfume for me.
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