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In the bottle this is rich chocolate. Once it hits my skin the chocolate runs away and hides for awhile. It turns into herbs and prune. Not bad a little different though. Dry I want to run around singing the song from Cinderella So This is Love. It is a pruny/plum incense with tobacco and vanilla.

Chocolate and marshmellows. It smells just like the packets of instant cocoa with the marshmellows already included. I get little glue, which I think I am thankful for.

This started as super sweet. then in about two minutes it calmed down. Once calm there was milk, and slightly spicy carnation. It goes a smidge powdery until the rose makes its appearance, and helps the powderiness vanish. This is a very innocent scent. Much like Alice herself.

This is for the 2009 batch: Thanks to Beth and the lav bringing this back for newbs like me to own. When I open the bottle, it is a blast of cognac. Once I get it on though it totally blossoms into something else: It is a sexy sweet vanilla, with tobacco and incense dirtying up the vanilla cream cotton. I think I need another bottle. I've tried it aged. and that is really good too. One for now, and one to look forward to.

This is the bottom of my mom's purse. It's leather, random coins floating at the bottom, tissue, and that mom smell that can only be mom.

i decided to wear Holly King since today is his day to be the conquerer. In the bottle it is very woody and maybe pine or fir. Once wet on my skin, it is very wintery. I smell cool winter crisp air, fir trees, and as it warms more, holly berry. As it dries, it becomes a warm wood scent, with holly berry scent. I rather enjoy this, and would love to see it released.

In the imp I was completely unsure of what I was smelling. Not bad not exactly the best either. But I forged on and put it on. Wet on skin it is a sparkling juicy rose. As it begins to dry it becomes more pomegranate with a rose backing than ROSE.

This starts as pure banana bread on my skin. And lets ask ourselves seriously, "What bake sale doesn't include banan bread?" It is realistic too. Then it slowly turns into butterscotch- caramel type scent. Then pancakes. This is a morpher. It finally seems to settle down at ancakes with maple syrup, and a touch of coffee.

This is what I did when I smelled this as it was an unsniffed bottle. It starts as mint and mums. It's fairly straight forward. I wasn't paying attention, and smelled it later and it was mums and amber. And anything that has amber equals amazing win on my skin.

This was the first Gaiman I tried, and I kind of love it. It is first a honey wine scent. Once the honey and wine settle in there is the greeness of the dandelions, and a slight sweetness from the currants. Dry it is less wine, but it is currants and dandelions dipped in honey.

This is fantastic. It is a light vanilla with incense over the top. It is not a heavy scent, but it does linger all day if I take a sniff. But since I have a bottle I can slather.

Oh me this is amazing. I am glad I never had to worry about trying to commit bank account suicide to get some of this before. This is an amazing carnation scent. So spicy and beautiful. In combination with what seems to be amber to my nose. I'm glad I can buy bottles because this will be amazing aged

At first this is all really strong patchouli. As it begins to dry it begins to change It becomes a sweeter scent. The vanilla gives it a nice sweetness, in combination with the berry. The spices all combine to make it a bit incensey. I like it.

This really is the perfect vanilla mint. It does have a buttery quality to it, which make me feel that the vanilla is a more foody vanilla than is in some blends. The mint blooms once it hits my skin, but in no way overpowers the vanilla. My one sad, is that I wished it stayed longer on my skin.

This is great. It is honey with a slighly tart edge like lemon-berry. the tartness is very apparent when wet, but it dries down to the most delightful honey cardamom citrus. Bottle in my next order.

This is a winner. In the bottle it is peach and jasmine.On my skin the peach mellows with the tea, and the jasmine is kept in check by the mums and the rest of it. It just makes me sad, because it is a fast fader.

When I first sniffed this, I thought this is Snow White. Have to let it age before I can enjoy it. But it wasn't it's better. The vanilla rose apparently gets bored and waanders away to find more interesting things, but leaves a tempered Snow White in its wake.

This keeps flip flopping on my skin... metal- lemon, lemon-metal. No clue where the lemon comes from. It dries down to shiny new toys that were polished with lemon.

This scent reminds me of being a kid, and there was the first like 1 inch snowfall, and everyone decides to have a snowball fight, but the snowballs are just as much dirt as snow. It starts as a cold scent. All mint and ice. Then comes the dirt. later as it dries it is a nice mix of dirt and the cool ice/ snow smell that Beth does so well. Once completely dry it dries down to ice.

I didn't want to like this one. I even asked my friend and he said he loved it and would steal it from me if I decided I hated it. There is a soft aquatic quality to this. Not frost or snow, but a light fall rain... I can totally see the inspiration behind this. The musks do flit in and out like the beating of insect wings. Not loud, but a nice shimmering background. The red peppers are the star however as it is exactly the smell of cutting a fresh red pepper. After I get my bottle I may gift my decant to my friend.

Vanilla, amber, and oak. On deep sniff light ginger and even lighter fruits. This scent is like a warm hug.

My feeling on this one seems to fall between the two previous reviews. I find that I really like this, but then again I like smelling like food. To my nose it is more of a coffee cake with apple cinnamon. It's not overly cakey. I get no egg or cream, but I also don't get the crust note.

In the decant this is bergamot and tobacco flower. Once on there is a general soapiness that takes over. As thye bergamot dries, and more of a soft citrus the gardenia makes its appearance.There is no identifyable tobacco flower. Once dry there is a mix of florals. Not bad but nit my style under noral circumstances.

When this first goes on it is all tobacco and woods. As it dries there is mire and more vanilla that comes out. It dries down to a woodsy vanilla with a hint of tobacco. I love it so much I bought a bottle before I reviewed it.

Amber, honeysuckle and pink pepper. On my skin this is just an odd combination. Where is the passion flower? Oh about 15 minutes later it comes sauntering in behaving like a diva. It adds just enough tartness to balance the sweetness of the amber and honeysuckle.