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HI PB! I don't remember Emeraude personally, but when in a fit of joy over my first experience with Snake Oil, I shoved it under my mom's nose and was told that it smelled just like Emeraude. Don't know if you've gotten to Snake Oil yet, is just what my mom said. Pax, Hes

Belladonna has a crispness to it on first application. Being from The Great North Woods part of the country, my first thought was opening the front door on a chilly winter morning, to be greeted by the smell of the Giftmas/Yule wreath on the front door. Balsam, cedar, holly complete with berries, and cold 'Scansin air. It doesn't smell mentholated per se, but it does have a sharpish edge to it. I like it, and the color of the oil makes me happy. Will see if it grows on me enough to go for the bottle.

Flowers and dirt. Specifically, jasmine and gardenia and dirt. I like it, and I am not a floral person in the leastaways. I was hoping for lemon and jasmine and clove, the impossible reincarnation of a fave discontinued scent from the body shop, but no such luck. Can't smell anything remotely like a lemon in this bad boy. Still and all, I am finding that the Conjure bag scents do have their own mojo. I went out wearing this oil and within a few minutes I was feeling like sex on a stick, not something that happens everyday, and sure enough had some serious interest from the opposite sex going on. Again, as with Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo I'm not sure if its the design of the blend or if its a placebo effect with me believing it works, and to be frank I don't care. Either way it works, I'm just glad it does!

Holy Strawberry Pink Bubble Gum, Batman! This is Bazooka Joe all over, complete with dusty outside and comic strips on the wrapper. One of the essentials of under age ten happiness. There are other smells too, vanilla and a mild floral, maybe a touch of citrus. Hard to tell as it all meshes. I think a friend of mine had a packet of flavored shisha that tasted like this smells, so maybe there is a teensy bit of sweet tobacco, too? Hard to tell, and I'm no aromatherapist. That said, it does what it says it will do. My job is stressful on the best days, grinding and horrible on its worst. I wore this to work today and felt an incredible lightness, like nothing was so bad that a little yummy candy smell couldn't make it better. And it lasts! I can still smell creamy strawberry pinkness on my wrists twelve hours later. I ordered a 5ml before the day was out.

Cockaigne smells heavenly, like buttery waffles and syrup with a glass of milk. Not the real maple kind, but the sticky kind that lives in the 'fridge wearing an old-lady shaped bottle. The kind that you know is bad for you because it has about eight bazillion different chemicals but you don't care because it is decadent and yummy. I can see why this blend is named for the Land of Plenty, because it smells like a perfect breakfast feast!

Coral Snake. The one I've really been waiting to try ever since I fell hard for Snake Oil. I love apples, see, and the smell of apples is one of my favorites. Blood orange is a friend too. We'll ignore the florals for now, as I can hardly smell them and they don't really enter the story. So I wanted to try apple-flavored Snake Oil, big time. And even as I'm sitting here smelling it, I can't stop smiling. Its a happy scent all around for me, one that evokes good vibes, and makes me want to sit outside around a bonfire drinking bottles of Strongbow with friends. I am in love with this scent, and may stage a wake when I can no longer get it.

I'll preface this by saying that any scent with a cocoa or chocolate note in it promptly turns to Tootsie-Roll on my skin, without passing Go or giving me $200. That said, I was most anxious to try Boomslang since it apparently moves people to rapturous states as a general rule. I was hoping that this would be the chocolate scent that didn't leave me smelling like the sticky brown goo that invariably collects in my niece's trick or treat bag. No such luck. It is lovely in the imp to smell, being very dustysweet cocoa, reminiscent of the Special Dark chocolate bars which see me through the five darkest days of the month. But I see potential here, as a oil-burner ambiance scent for inducing the Bow-chika-boom-bow atmosphere. Not sorry I got the imp at all. 10/19 ETA: So I revisited this today, after enjoying the lava-lamp effect before I swished it up so it was blended back together. Where before it had a tootsie-roll smell, I dotted it on and sniffed...and instead smelled Hershey's Syrup and Snake Oil. No tootsie roll in sight! Huzzah! After awhile it fades to just Snake Oil with a little extra milky sweetness, but that's no bad thing. Heaven! Maybe the first day I tried it my skin chemistry was all wonked, or maybe it was today. But now I can't get enough, so Boomslang may work out better than expected! Will finish up the imp and make a decision then.

Hello, Habu. Nice to meet you. I have to be honest, you were at the back of the line for Snakes I wanted to meet. Just nothing that seemed very exciting. Not bad, just not anything that screamed OMGWANT. This, girls and boys, is why we buy imps and decants. Habu was a pleasure. It was a very green, very cool scent still with the undercurrent of "Rrowr" from the Snake Oil. However, the Rrowr is mellow and understated, like leather underwear beneath a cool, elegant business suit, rather than the kind of Rrowr that leaves lipstick on your collar or humps your leg in front of company. The bamboo really gives this an Asian edge, very classy. This is bottle worthy. Its likely to become my work friendly daytime at work Spring-and-Summer scent.

Snake Oil. Hmmmm, Snake Oil, I says to myself. Someone is selling a half bottle of Snake Oil, something that on my mad tear through Ebay and swaps I have not yet bothered to try. What the hell, says I. Its aged and everything. And the consensus is, aged is better. So I buy. And it shows up. Now mind you, I have the mindset of, "Oh, everyone loves it. I want something different...maybe with apple. And anyway, how good can it be?" Oh, foolish foolish Hes. I open the bottle. Sniff. Sniff again. Hold bottle out for Mom to sniff. Mom's second comment (the first being, "You got more of that perfume stuff?!?") is "It smells just like Shalimar!" This is high praise indeed from my mom, who wore Shalimar the whole time I was growing up. It was mom-smell, and I even bought a bottle when I was living in Minnesota and homesick. Anyway, I don't know that I agree with her. It has some notes in common, but Snake Oil is like...well, like the darker, wickeder, more modern daughter of Shalimar. I love everything about it, from the vanilla to the spices to the heady richness that just sort of wraps around you. I want to roll around in it like a cat with catnip, then stare off into infinity with unfocused eyes and purr. This is a keeper. There will be bottles ordered and stuck into drawer to mellow. I have seen the mountain, and it is good.

I do quite like this, surprisingly enough. I'm not normally much of a floral girl, especially not white floral. But something in this really does it for me--the blend of ivy and lily and CHILL. I have heard a lot about the 'cold' notes on the review forum and this is my first direct experience with it. Boy, does it work! Mostly what I get is the ivy and the chill, with some lily thrown in. I don't know that its going to be something for regular wear, but will be good to have around for when in a certain mindset...I tend to base perfume choices around my moods, and this would be perfect for channeling ice-queen precision.

When I first get a snootful of L'Heure Vert in the bottle, the absinthe and rose clap me over the head with the olfactory equivalent of a large hammer made of silly putty, bringing back memories of my last birthday when my ex showed up with a bottle of Czech absinthe. Things didn't end well, or ended too well depending on your point of view. Then it settles back and lays down decently on my skin. Even wet, the rose doesn't overpower. Which is brilliant, as I am most decidedly not a rose-a-holic. I am not rose-negative, but I am mostly rose-neutral. Mostly what I get is the opium-incensy, with lilac and absinthe a respectful half-step behind, and rosewater bringing up the rear. This is a good scent, a very good scent indeed. I am glad I got this, was a worthy bit of ebaying!

Hellcat is, hands down (or should I say paws down?) my favorite out of my first fistful of impage which just arrived today. I have been wearing the Hellcat for about six hours now, and I love it to pieces...makes me want to go find a nice tall guy and climb him like a scratching post... This lovely kitten starts out in the imp as that most delicious of candies, the Butter Rum Lifesaver. Wet on the skin, it maintains that and adds a sweet nuttiness akin to fumes from a bottle of Frangelico. After drying, an oddly spicy note comes out that I have to assume is the alcoholic bit of the rum, as the description doesn't list any spice notes. Spicy-sweet nuttiness with a creamy note is pretty much then where it stays. The upshot of all this is Big Bottle Want, big time.