jehrichardson

Yum! Sage and lemon and lavender - I cook with them all the time, so this smells a bit like dinner to me. Mmm! The sandalwood, frankincense and labdanum seem pretty subtle, adding a touch of deep spicyness. I'm not getting vetiver at all, which is a relief since it usually just turns into Deep Woods Off on me. Bottle time!

Sweet leather and hay and sunshine. Very soothing and pleasant and descending gently into musky softness and a bit of soapy sweetness. I'll hang onto this one - but not certain that I'll make the jump to a big bottle. I'll think about it if I wear it a few times.

Lovely! Smells a bit boozy and soapy. On the grand scale of things, I like.

Resin - perfect incensy resin. I like this very very much! If I start to blow through the imp quickly, then I'll upgrade to a bottle.

Green floral. Pleasant. Meh. I'm not really a florals gal. This is entirely pleasant, but not my cup of tea.

Strong dragon's blood with that richly heady scent like Shalimar (Guerlain). The leather is a lovely and subtle touch - grounding it nicely. It is sweet and floral and thick, with the faint bitter tang of leather and sweat. Very very nice, I'll treasure my frimp, but I'm not certain I'll ever upgrade to a full bottle.

Delicate and floral - quite lovely, and a bit soapy. The musk and the tonka seem to be keeping it sweet without being too heady, like a floral sweetness. I can't say that I'm getting the sage directly, but I'm sure it's that tiny resinous note that's in there, adding a touch of refreshing sharpness. This is lovely, but a bit too floral for me.

Lavender! WOw wow wow. I generally don't like the lab's lavender, but am a huge fan of it in general. This is lavender perfection, with the camphorous sting, and herbal astringency, and floral perfection. This is the smell of cleanliness, wholesomeness, sunshine, and sweet dreams. Most certainly going on the bottle list!!

Bleach. Butter flavoring. Margarine scented Yankee Candle. Sorry team... not a good one for me. It was an interesting experience though, because I do have Pumpkin II - 2008, and it did help me sort of the layers of aroma on that one.

In the imp this smells of nail polish, and is much the same on the skin. After a while I start to get a bit of scorched greenness with no intriguing complexity. Hm, can't say I'm liking this one.

Dark flat patchouli and something of Aveda's Sap Moss. Ah, now I'm getting lots of sweet lemon. It's like it's dark, sharp, and high. I'm a synaesthete with scents, so I hope this makes sense. For all its darkness, it doesn't lack for sweetness or richness. This is completely lovely - I'll add it to the 'maybe I'll grab a bottle someday' list!

Yup. Leather jacket, as others have said before me. The leather is very strong, the other notes add the 'lived in' smell - sweetness, cologne, and soap. Nice! I don't think I'm going to spring for a big bottle though...

Wintery, fragrant, and light. Resiny woods, but very delicate. Musky, but softly so. Just floral enough to smell clean. Very wintery and lovely - but this is like Minnesota winter with clean bright air, crystalline blue sky, sparkling cold, and the faint echoes of woodsy smells kept bright by the cold, and faint by the wind. Mmmm! Keeping this one. Yummmo!

Wow! This is rich and golden! It smells strongly of beeswax with a sweeter overtone of resins. After a while it settles down - amber, beeswax, and resin. Golden and sweet. Then... it sort of disappears into the natural smell of my skin. Hm. Well, it's gorgeous while it lasts.

Oo... bitter and dark. Sweet muskiness, herbal astringency. Complex - non woody, non floral. Whiff of incense. Reminds me of an Aveda shampoo I had called Sap Moss. Dark clean woods, incense, and musk. This is GORGEOUS - I love it.

Wow. In the bottle and freshly applied this is biting and fresh pine. Like sap that you've got stuck on your fingers after pulling those sticky little amber pearls off a pine tree. After a few moments it calms down into a warm and musky and rich melange of delicious. There's a touch of pine, a whiff of floral (so faint!!), musk, the briefest visit of citrus. Mmmm! *thud* Mostly, it is well blended and long lasting. Three times when wearing it lately people (husband, coworker, and random person) have come up to me saying "What smells good??" so this seems to have some universal appeal. I may get another bottle of this when the next lunacy comes around... that would be my first intentional double-up (my other doubles? lab accidentally doubled up my order for Nuclear Winter *yum* and I forgot that I'd won a bottle of Hay Moon and bid on another on ebay *whoops*)

Wet: Winey pomegranate. Strong! As it dries the overt fruitiness fades a touch and the leather notes start to come in a bit with a rich swirl of woody vanilla notes. The pomegranate is a bit much for me, but I like it much better as it dries - less Hello Kitty and more sophisticated.

This is wonderful - a crisp and cool mint that isn't recognizable as "spear"mint or "pepper"mint. Very nicely blended! I almost get a whiff of rosemary in there, some sort of herbal underpinning. Reminds me of Aveda's Rosemary Mint hair conditioner. Incredibly refreshing, a tiny bit soapy, and completely glorious.

In the bottle, this smells like home to me. Not my current home, but my home away from home for many years - a farmhouse on the North Yorkshire Moors filled with the smell of cooking, fireplaces, people, leather, dogs, homebrew, whisky, and books. This is most certainly the Winter of my Contentedness - no discontent here! On the skin its a bit more bitter, a bit more leathery, dustier, sadder, and thinner, but still really nice. Since it does change on the skin, so I may use it as a room scent when this sterile American suburb that I live in now gets to be a bit too much. Mmmm!

Wet, this is an amazingly green and rich rose. Very lovely! On the skin, it morphed a bit and sent off some strange and biting grassy notes, but then calmed down into a lovely herbal rose. This isn't tea rose at all... it's grassy and herbal and a bit astringent like a rose in a garden, but juicy and oh-so-delectably rosy. Definitely a keeper!

Oo, patchouli! I like it fine, but don't generally wear it. This is a sweeter and softer patchouli now - really nice!

Oh no! So far I really dislike this one. When I first got the bottle it was cloying muffin-smell - like a 'muffin' candle from a drugstore. I aged it for a couple of weeks, opening periodically got some of the higher notes evaporated. This worked somewhat, but now it's a cloying butter scent in the bottle. I wore it for a while and after an hour, some lovely dusty musks come through... Gonna have to age this for a while and see what happens.

OO! It starts out smoky and piney. Yum!! If I dig a bit I can get the cumin - that sort of delicious body odor smell. Mmmm! Ack... now the vetiver is surfacing a bit. This usually turns into Deep Woods Off bug spray on me. Wow, there is something so soft and warm about this. I'm really diggin' it. I must be a fan of troll musk. The clove/basil is hard to notice. I never thought I'd describe trolls as sexy, but here ya go. This is sexy body odor (musk and cumin) and campfire (smoke and pine). The vetiver hasn't bug sprayed on me yet, so this one looks like a keeper. Yay!

In the imp this is a strong strong lavender with a floral orchestra behind! Quite nice - especially since I don't often care for the BPAL lavender note, even though I generally adore lavender. On the skin and as it dries down it starts with a antiseptic tinge of clove, which rapidly gives way to a softish sort of jasmine. After a while a longer I'd have to say it settles into a primarily jasmine perfume, with clove and just a teeny bit of musk. Upshot? Nice and pretty, but I'm not really a florals gal so I doubt I'll dig this one out of the stash very often.

Wet: Oranges and woods with a tiny backnote of sassafrass. I intensely dislike sassafrass, but this really isn't bad. Dry: Much the same, it's rich and refreshing. I'm glad that the woods and the citrus dominate, I was worried that there would be to much floral. As it is, there's just a hint. The scent stays fairly close to the skin and I expect the citrus to wane first, then the florals, leaving lovely woods for the long term. We'll see! Upshot? This is one of my favorites, I desperately desperately love it.