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I've been getting a lot of winning roses lately (Kurukulla, Beatrice, Love in the Asylum) so I am oddly hopeful when trying on Netzach. This is an almost fruity rose. Tart fruit and the rose is very sharp and bitter. I'm not liking this at all After about a half hour this starts to go soapy on me. Oh well. I know now that I can wear rose... Netzach just happens to be one of the roses that doesn't work with my skin chemistry.

First on this smells like clove and almonds. The almond is doing that weird boozy cherries smell on my skin. After a few minutes, this starts to smell a bit woodsy, but it's a powdery soft sort of woods. After about an hour this has dried down into a very light, warm smell. It's reminding me of warm milk, if you were to mix the milk with baby powder. I can see how this would be a comforting scent to some people, but it's just not me.

I love Cherry Icees, but I'm worried about the aquatic floral drydown that everyone is mentioning with this one. I don't think that I have ever successfully worn and loved an aquatic floral before in my life. First on - Yup. Cherries. They smell kind of boozy on me though. Maybe a spiked cherry icee. After a half hour or so this starts to smell slightly bubblegummy, so maybe there is lotus in this. Cherry bubblegum. I'm actually liking this so far. 2 hours later. I forgot that I was wearing this for a while. It's gone very very light on me, and now it just smells sort of soapy. The best I can say to describe it it 'some sort of floral soap'. I doubt that I'll wear this one much.

Kumiho is intensely sharp and lemony. Bpal's white tea is really clean, sharp and citrussy on me, and the ginger just gives it even more of a lemony sharpness. It winds up smelling like some sort of harsh lemon cleanser on my skin, turning soapier in the drydown.

First on: Wow. Smelling this makes my eyes water. It smells like fig, honey cough drops, and Vaporub. It's the menthol smell that's making my eyes water, and it has completely devoured the lovely fig. This is horribly medicinal on me. I love frankincense, patchouli, and fig. Why is this doing this to me?? I could cry. 10 minutes later. Hm. This smells interesting now, in a good way. It still has that cooling menthol bite, but it's securely in the background. Now I'm smelling something sweet and sort of fruity. It smells like a yellow/golden fruit. There's also something that smells sort of piney. More of a woods note in the drydown. I kind of like this and I'm not even sure why. I'm not getting any of my favorite notes and I have no clue what it smells like, but it's nice. I'm finding it comforting. The drydown is something like what I'd imagine pine trees to smell like if they had sweet yellow tropical fruits on them. I wish that this had more throw, but I'll definitely be keeping my imp. *Maybe* buying a big bottle.

Something in Snake Oil made me feel rather ill. Vanilla Bean reminds me instantly of Snake Oil, but minus whatever spicy something that was making me sick. It's a very light sweet vanilla scent. But it's so good. Whenever I wear this, I get dizzy from smelling myself. I wish that it had more throw, though it does have considerable staying power. 9 hours later I will catch a whiff of something that smells heavenly and then realize that it is the Vanilla Bean.

Coffee Bean doesn't smell anywhere near as sweet and delicious as Miskatonic University. MU was Starbucks (with all the extra shots of caramel and good stuff to mask the smell of straight up coffee)... Coffee Bean singlenote is my mother making a pot of coffee in the morning. Black and bitter. Very interesting with how accurate it is, but I don't see myself ever wearing this. I don't really like the smell or taste of coffee... and it makes my boy sick. I could see this more as a room scent, but I don't want my house to smell like coffee either .

Sweet Clove is easily my favorite single note. I don't generally review single notes because they're pretty self explanatory as far as smell goes (yes, it *does* smell like clove, lol), but this one is just so lovely. It makes me think of pumpkin pie. I was worried that this would smell too biting and spicy. It's really just sweet and warm. A perfect wintery scent. It smells just like LUSH's lovely Skinny Dip shower gel to me too. I wish that it didn't fade so quickly, but it's just while it lasts. Lately I've been using it to make Jack not so sickeningly sweet. It helps to calm down a lot of super-sweet scents. *love*

If there is anything but jasmine in Yesod, I cannot smell it. This is such an overpowering and headache inducing blend for me. Smoky jasmine. I ended up having to take a bath to get this one off of me and popping some excedrin migraine to make the ache in my brain go away.

I really don't care for almond. It smells like sickeningly boozy cherries to me. Port-Au-Prince is all almond at first. 5 minutes later. This is actually reminding me quite a bit of Cerberus. It has that same lemony-sweet biscuit smell, but with sharp clove in the background. This disappears on me after about 2 hours, but it remains a sort of light version of Cerberus with added clove. I also got a darker sort of chocolatey scent in Cerberus that I don't get in this blend. It's okay... but I like Cerberus a lot more. I'll probably swap my imp of this one.

This is a rather underappreciated BPAL blend. I'm a floral-hater, but I love Kurukulla. First on this smells like rose drenched in pomegranate juice. Very wet and sticky sweet. It doesn't smell like fruit or pomegranate exactly, but that's the impression that I get. Then the light bubblegum sweetness of the lotus comes out and blends perfectly with the rose. It's a powdered sugar sort of sweet. The drydown of Kurukulla is just heavenly. I think of pink icing roses on a cake. It's so pretty. Definitely going to be a 10 ml purchase for me

Hod is my favorite of the Sephiroth oils. This is a very warm, spicy scent. It is also slightly foodie on me. And I foodie scents. It reminds me of cinnamon toast. This is like waking up in the morning when I was little and sitting down to breakfast when I was in my cinnamon toast phase. My mother made it for me every morning that summer. It was warm and sunny and sugary. Now I imagine that there was a vase of spicy carnations sitting at the breakfast table in the sunlight. In the drydown, it loses some of its foodiness and I can't really pick out the carnation anymore. It just dries down into something anonymously sweet and golden. I'm going to get a full bottle of this one

This is another Tarot blend that hates me. When I first put it on, it was sharp medicinal lavender. Underneath the sharpness was that cold menthol eucalyptus smell that I'm not at all fond of. Throughout the next hour or so I smelled mostly the cold lavender with whisps of sandalwood flitting in and out. Then it suddenly turned into a lavender and lemon cleaning solution smell . I cannot wear lemon at all as a perfume. This blend just doesn't work for me.

This is one of the lightest and fastest disappearing scents on my skin. Which is ironic, given its name. First on this is lovely green grasses, dripping with dew. I can imagine the sun dripping golden rays over them and little yellow flowers sprouting up. I was already plotting to get a big bottle at this point, but this stage was short lived. After a few minutes, this turned into odd floral baby powder. Then it was gone before I hit a half hour mark. Perhaps my most disappointing Tarot Oil experience.

Cedar and sweet golden myrrh. It's spicy and slinky, but I don't really seem to work well with woods notes. After about fifteen minutes, this suddenly turns into jasmine on me. The cedar lingers in the background, but mostly I'm getting smoky jasmine. So... as with most things jasmine... Binah just gives me a headache

I'd also definitely recommend Shub-Niggurath if you can find some. Kinda spicy-foodies you might want to try... Dragon's Milk, Dana O'Shee, Eclipse, The Hesperides, Sacred Whore of Babylon, Sin, Jack... You might like Voodoo... it's one of my favorites and it has almond and clove in it. Bengal has ginger and clove (though it smelled like mostly cinnamon on me). There are a lot of good, spicy BPAL blends out there. Good luck

Sugar Cookie is probably my least favorite of the Yule LE blends. First on this is sharply cinnamony and... that's it. In the drydown this smells like burnt cookies and play-doh. I don't like that burnt smell at all, and it's a very strong scent. Most sugar cookie scents don't have a lot of throw or staying power. This one does. Stupid skin chemistry...

First on, this smells like cinnamon and black pepper on me. It's overwhelmingly spicy and I'm disappointed that it doesn't smell more foodie. I was hoping for a warm cookie scent. After an hour, yay, this is starting to smell more like a cookie and less full out spices. This definitely reminds me of Shub & Cerberus with the biscuit smell. It's not as spicy as Shub, but not as light on the spice as Cerberus (Cerberus being my favorite of the three, I'm weird, I know). After about 5 hours this has lightened considerably and has more of a buttery smell to it, which I love. I'll probably get a bottle of this if it is re-released this year. I want to try it as a room scent and use it for layering with some other foodie scents (Gingerbread Poppet and Shill?).

Death is a very strong/evil blend on me. It is VERY woodsy throughout the 2 hours that I wore it, before I scrubbed my wrists raw trying to get it off Smells very much like cedar, maybe with sandalwood. But it's a burning wood. Definitely smoky and ashen. And there's a bit of a soil smell in the background. Burning wood, ash, and dirt. It makes me think of a bonfire in the middle of a muddy plain. Mud as far as the eyes can see. It's dark and desolate. This is pretty dark and unpleasant to me. One of the few Tarot Oils that I don't want to keep around.

Wow. The 'A Demon in My View' labels are gorgeous. Macha's reviews are gorgeous as well. I'm so glad that I have Alone & The City in the Sea on order. Though I already feel the urge to collect all of the bottles now. They're just beautiful.

Wow, this is a very springy fragrance. Herbal and lime green in intensity, like the first delicate buds of spring This is, as has been said, a nice herbal green scent. It goes a bit soapy on me and the male friend that I used as a tester. It smells just like a really clean male. Makes me think of kissing my boy after he gets out of the shower and his skin is clean and damp and he still smells lightly of the zesty guy-soap that he used. This isn't one that I would ever really wear, but I happily gifted it over to my male friend, who ended up loving it.

Hm. Hunter Moon is one of my unremarkable lunar blends. It doesn't smell completely awful on me, but it's also not one that I ever find myself happily wearing. At first it smells like tart, almost sour berries. Sort of like tart grape juice, but with berries thrown in for good measure. Then there's an earthy smell like decaying leaves. I like the smell of leaves, so I'm okay with this. After about ten minutes there's a burst of white floral and I get scared, but that quickly fades away. After an hour or so this gets more musky and smoky. Smells like burning leaf piles with a hint of apple cider in the background. There are a lot of autumn scents that I like a lot more than this one (like Harvest Moon 2005 which I am desperately swooning over)... it seems that whenever I pick out a scent, I never pick this one. Maybe I'll gift this bottle to the boy and see what he thinks of it.

I fell in love with the carnation note in Maiden, so I'm so happy to have finally gotten an imp of this one. It's perfect. Spicy carnation petals and the lush green stems. It's like getting a fresh bouquet of them for Valentine's Day. Lovely.

I feel kind of bad reviewing this one after so many people likened it to the smell of poo, lol. Czernobog is the BPAL that turned to poo-smell on my skin. Disclaimer: I like civet. A lot. First on this was mostly sage. I hate sage, it smells like sweaty, dirty skin to me. Thankfully, the sage fades away quite quickly and I get juniper berry and oakmoss . I love juniper berry. Mixed with the oakmoss this is a wonderfully crisp foresty smell. And then the civet comes out and I am in *heaven*. I realize that is not a commonly heard phrase around here . Civet and grape. I am all over this. I wish that I could get a big bottle of this one. It's hard to explain how well civet works with my skin chemistry. But I don't have to explain it... I'll just sit over here and enjoy it... away from everyone else, lol.

Frost Moon is one of my least favorite lunar blends. That's not surprising... mint, eucalyptus and I don't play well together. On me, this has a very menthol/Vicks Vaporub smell to it. Medicinal mint. I had it on for about an hour before I tried to scrub it off. It was still going strong into that hour and I could still smell it after repeated hand washings. This has a lot of throw. It's just very not me.