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In the decant: Sweet (from the honey) water with a squeezed lemon being dripped into it. Wet: More lemon in the cool water now. The dry-down:Still very much a cool aquatic, but with less lemon and now a touch of the lily of the valley and the pale rose. I don't have a fave aquatic, but this could be a nice and light and refreshing spring/summer scent, as long as the lemon note stays deep in the mix.

In the decant: A sweet scent, but with something like camphour piercing through. Odd. Not sure what to think. Wet: Still mostly what I've ID'ed as the cabreuva, the sort of balsam of Peru note. The dry-down: Well, learn something everyday. I seem to amp cabreuva. As I have no desire to smell like a sweetish mothball, this gets washed off asap. I had such high hopes for this, as I like all the other notes. Not a morpher.

Dried pumpkin rind and tobacco absolute. Sniffing the unlit tealight: Very much fresh pumpkin from the rind and sweetish tobacco. Because of the later, this seems more masculine to me. Lit: Much as on cold sniff. The pumpkin and tobacco intermingle beautifully. Perhaps a tad bit sweeter than on cold sniff. This is a nice pipe tobacco, and the pumpkin is not buttery like Jack, nor is it a pumpkin pie scent. No crafts store autumn scent here. I like this, it's yummy, but not in a foodie way. Unisex. ETA: As the tealight burns down, I would say that this is a blond tobacco, sweetened by the fresh pumpkin. ETA2: I ordered the full-sized candle. That's how much I like the scent.

Belgian chocolate filled with pumpkin butter. On cold sniff: It's like chocolate syrup drizzled all over a pumpkin pie that has no crust. Lit: Slowly it morphed into hot cocoa, not very sweet, that has a dollop of pumpkin butter floated on top. Not sure what to think. I don't dislike it, but it seems that the tealight will be enough. I love those pumpkin spice Hershey's Kisses and other chocolate & pumpkin things, so was somewhat surprised that I wasn't more bowled over by this scent.

White chocolate, black raspberry, and apricot cordial truffle. Another Chocolate Box winner for me. Again, this is pretty much as advertised. However, the white chocolate and the apricot take a back seat to the black raspberry, from first sniff of the bottle to a long-time dry-down. If you wanted to like Berry Moon and didn't care for the musk that was the base note, you might like WC,BP&ACT. Btw, if the cordial was indicating a boozy note, I didn't pick that up, for which I'm grateful.

Spiced apple cider livened up with a splash of apple brandy. I've just blown out this candle. It's a very lovely scent, and made the living room have just a hint of mulled apple cider, nothing too over-powering. There's a gentle touch of mulling spices as well. Not sure about any apple brandy, but when I blew out the candle, the scent of the candle close-up was rich and warm, like apple vanilla (not that such exists, it's just what I imagined it could smell like). This candle caught my eye right away when I first read the update (I adore apples), so ordering it was a no-brainer. Certainly a winner in my book. ETA: only to correct spelling.

A barren grove, silent. Dry, crumbling oak leaves dance through the skeletal, grasping arms of ancient trees. I sniffed the candle wax first before I lit the wick. This reminds me a bit of the recent Oak Moon and a bit of Falling Leaf Moon, but sweeter and more aquatic than either of those two. Once lit, the candle is still reminding of those two lunar scents, but there's a mixture of fresh leaves, still on the tree, and leaves that have just fallen to the ground, perhaps dashed there by an autumn storm. There's still that sweet coolness in the air. No dirt, not really woodsy in feeling, just lots of leaves, freshly-fallen and still clinging to the branches. I do like it a lot.

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You're welcome! And CaudaPavonis' list (that I quoted) is super, but I just saw that Snow White is not on there. There's also snowy notes at the Post.

An amazing list! Thank you very much!

More meta on snowy scents! Winter Heavens has the ozone note. Dust of Snow is mostly icy ozone. The Shivering Boy has a hint of ozone ice. Woods in Winter is icy. Pale Student of Unhallowed Arts is sweet ozone. The Country of Eternal Light has ozone, but it's overshadowed by the lichen. Snowball Fracas has the minty snow note that doesn't combine well w/ dirt. Talvikuu is minty snow, but I did like that version of the snow note in this. Hpothermia is cool mint all the way. Snow-Flakes is a sweet mint. A Torrent of Light has both ozone and mint. Evening Cicadas and Red Peppers has the sweet snow note. And that's the end of the snowy Yules that I can find my reviews for. More meta later!

There's three snow notes that the Lab seems to use. There's the minty note, the sweetish note, and the icy/ozone note. These ideas are based on not only my own experience w/ the snowy notes, but much that I have read here on the forum. This is a WiP. The sweetish snow note for sure shows up in Snow White--to me, it's almost like a sweet coconut scent. Others say that it's like vanilla, as in The Waltz of the Flowers (which also has lot of mint). Go To Sleep, Darlings is in this category and Pink Snowballs. Skadi, Ice Queen, and Onoduris all have some of the minty note in them to various degrees, but not hugely so. Nuclear Winter has always been a blast of the minty snow note, for me, but w/ some ozone as well. Cloister Graveyard in the Snow is also very minty and so is Braving the Ice. Like Brooms of Steel is very minty to start with. The Garden in Winter and Colder and Colder are minty as well. The Lick It series is always peppermint and vanilla, so it's like two of the snow notes in one bottle. I love this series, and so does the bf. I get the icy ozone note in Countess Dolingen of Gratz, one of my fav snow scents ever, even if it's a Halloweenie. Also in Purple Snowballs, Autumn and Winter (very sharp), Black Ice, A Cold, Clear Day, and the 2010 version of Midwinter's Eve. There's scents where the ozone and mint notes seem to combine: Moon of Ice, Death-Fires Dancing Over the Tombs, Cloth of Gold, Numb, and Yellow Snowballs. The 2010 version of Winter-Time was a morpher and had all 3 snow notes! Almond Blossom has a little of the ozone note and a tiny bit of the sweet snow note.

Even though it will be a while before my yule decants arrive, I'm still anixous to test them. I've been "burned" by the minty snow note appearing in blends where I didn't expect it, so I have learned not to blind-buy bottles until I can read reviews and/or test decants. I'll look back through the lists and pick out my faves amongst the non-mints.

When I spray this on my hair, I get tobacco, then clove, then dirt. Bit strange, but then the three notes start to blend together. There might also be a touch of ozone in here. Perfect to wear w/ Graveyard Dirt.

In the decant bottle: What it says on the tin--very nice. Wet: Much as on cold sniff--this isn't as fruity sweet as this yr's Sugar Skull perfume oil is, though. The dry-down:This turns to dusty cacao, which saddens me. But not half an hour later, or so, I noticed the most wonderful scent wafting up from the back of my hand--a Sugar Skull scent from a past year mixed with cacao. Chocolate scents usually work on me, and all I had to do was give this a little more time. I can see this as a year-round bath oil. Note: my skin is dry and I use bath oils like a lotion.

In the decant bottle: Pumpkin and chocolate that's not too sweet. Wet: Now more chocolate than pumpkin, and sweeter, too. The dry-down: The pumpkin and the chocolate have melded into a lovely delicious scent that makes me want to lick my arm! Good stuff--may be on my order list. No other notes present to interfere in this yummy goodness. NOTE: I use the bath oils as after the bath moisturizer on damp skin, or on dry skin like a lotion. In any case, a few drops can cover a leg, a couple of drops will cover an arm.

To start w/, here are my notes from DSWC: Magnificent Autumn CS: green leaves starting to turn W: leaves getting seared and crisp D: sweet leaves; I like this! Now for a more in-depth review. In the bottle: Sweet green leaves that are just starting to redress themselves in their autumn array. I suspect that maple leaves and sweetgum leaves are part of the mix. Wet: The leaves are really fresh, crisp, green and sharp! That's unexpected. The dry-down: As this dries down, the sharp green scent softens into a sweeter scent, but with a touch of pepper, yes, pepper abt it. I've sniffed that peppery note on the air in autumn, but have yet to ID the tree's leaves from whence it came. Again, the maple leaves and the sweetgum leaves are part of the mix. This scent is a morpher, and rightly so, as Beth has captured some of the wonderful scent of the autumn air and the leaves scenting it, from early autumn to late. There just may be a hint of ozone in this as well. An amazing scent!

In the bottle: Fresh pumpkins and their vines, sage, vanilla, and sweetgrass. Wet: The sage and sweetgrass move to the foreground. The vines seem to be drying out. The dry-down: Dried pumpkin vines, sage, sweetgrass, a hint of the vanilla, and also a touch of the wild mushroom as well. Not like inside a crafts store, but outside, in the warm sunshine, as the pumpkin dries amongst drying sage plants, drying sweetgrass, drying mushrooms, all sprinkled w/ a bit of vanilla. No cade that I could detect, which is good, as juniper and its relatives usually amp on me. The rosewood might account for the drying feeling. I do like this very much.

In the bottle: Vanilla, patch, and honey. Yummy, but not in a foodie way, exactly. Wet: Beautifully melding together! A tiny hint of spice that must be from the cinnamon. I could huff my wrist forever. Not a grtty patch, btw. The dry-down: A glorious mix of non-foodie honey and vanilla, tempered by the gentle patch, and given a slight spiciness by the cinnamon, which is not obvious as such.

1st off, my notes from DSWC: CS: as it says W: nasty D: not only did I not like this, I had to go and spill some on my chinos Giving it one more try! In the decant: As the label says. Wet: Maybe a littler sweeter and not so stale. The dry-down: More like sweet butter mixed with candy, yet someway dusty, so not as bad as I thought, but nothing special. Luckily it fades fast.

In the bottle: Cedar and fig medling together, sweetened by the other notes, floating over the fresh pumpkin. Wet: Much as on cold sniff, but much spicier! The dry-down: This is a wonderful scent. Every note just blends together perfectly. It's a not-overly-sweet pumpkin that is cedar-woody and dark fig fruity. And the spice aspect did calm down. Please note that cedar usually doesn't go to pencil shavings or small animals cage litter/bedding on me.

In the bottle: I'm getting all the notes, delightfully blending together and well balanced. Wet: Much as on cold sniff: blackened pumpkin that's been covered with clove, tobacco, patch, and oakmoss. I smell yummy, but not foodie. The dry-down: The pumpkin comes more forward, and the other notes are now fainter. Still a rather exquisite scent. Unisex.

1st, my brief meta from DSWC: CS: smells like wood fire W: very much a wood fire D: smokey wood fire--not for me Now for a more in-depth review: In the decant: This smells very much like a forest fire that is dying down. There's green plant/tree notes and dried woods/leaves notes faintly mixed in and amongst the dominant smoke note. Wet: Much as on cold sniff, but there's less smoke as the fire burns down, and more of the dead wood smell. The dry-down: The scent is now reminiscent of dried firewood, but with a smokey note still floating over all. There's a hint of the ashes left behind from a bonfire, also. As I suspected from the will call testing, this is too associated with my own scent memories of having been in a house fire. It doesn't remind me of St. John's Eve, as that's a different smoke note.

1st, my mini-review from DSWC: Cold Sniff: ivy, ivy, ivy Wet: fig is coming out and maple leaf, too Dry: mostly ivy and dry leaves; would like to re-test, as I think I like it, but am not sure Now for a more in-depth review: In the bottle: There's the crisp ivy note, rather akin to the ivy that I cut & tear down from Mr. Kat's house's brick walls (it's trying to sneak in through the windows), but slightly gentled by what must be the honeyed fig. Wet: The ivy calms down as the maple leaf moves into the foreground. The dry-down: Quite the morpher, as I'm now getting a hint of the dirt and the cypress, and a slight whiff of something (can't imagine what note is causing this) slightly soapy and aquatic. But the longer I wear it the more the crisp green bitterness of the fresh ivy returns. Not sure that I like it on me. It's a very masculine scent. ETA: I should note that my skin usually loves all these notes, all but the ivy and the cypress. Of course, the 2 notes that I am sure of, end up dominating the scent, sadly.

Cold sniff of the tealight: All the spices found in pumpkin spice, well blended. Lit: The spices now feel warm in the air, as though they have been toating gently by a small fire in the hearth. Very pleasant, and nothing at all like a crafts store.