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Strangely reminiscent of Tissue. Has something similar in there. But I like Tissue a whole lot better than Phantom Cow. I get lots of sour milk, blegh.

I am so confused... I have this goblin squirt of Cathouse. And it is the most delicious thing ever. Caramel and sweetness and absolutely f*cking delicious - I want to eat and bathe in this stuff. I just ordered a 4oz bottle... and it smells like alcohol and faint florals. And I don't mean booze - I mean like ALCOHOL. Perfume alcohol. Please please help me! I adore my squirt, but this is hideous. Aging can't change it THAT much...?

Oh, I am getting a LOT of cherry and chocolate! I think this is what Dark Chocolate & Cherry should be (very similar, SC&C has a bit of a plastic-y feel to it, though) Very nommy, for cherry and chocolate fans. All the other notes kind of band together to keep it from being obvious.

I have some Panacea labels on my BPAL flickr gallery under General Catalog. Quietude, Seduction (not shown on flickr), and Bitch are all the triple dagger/heart, but GRR is different. Bitch and GRR were both somewhat recent purchases. Aha! Thanks so much (I lost this thread and only just came back) Mine is actually like the ones shown in your gallery with the triple dagger/heart... but SIDEWAYS! Like, exactly the same but the label is reversed to go around the bottle, instead of up/down (if you see what I mean) I'm curious why...

? Baby powder! I mean, very very nice baby powder but still... baby powder. Okay, maybe more lightly fragranced body powder than plain old baby powder. But very strange, considering there's meant to be dirt and blood. I... do not know what to do with this. It's a nice smell but really, really not what I was expecting.

A swarm of chittering greens, smooshy kiwi, and wasabi. I sniff this with a comparison to Velvet Cthulhu because that's one of my favourite green scents and they have wasabi in common! It's much sweeter, the kiwi is bouncing around going haaaaaaaaaai, look at meeeeeeeee. Not like The Carpathian Mountains does (seriously, to me that smells JUST like kiwi) but still quite yped up. But the wasabi keeps it in check and amps up slowly but surely so they're really vying for attention. I like the idea of this as a 'palate cleanser' - an olfactory palate cleanser! Quite the nom.

Hm... 2009 seems different to the one other Samhain I've tried (not sure, maybe '07?) It is ALL about the woods, fir and black patchouli. I don't get any of the nommy stuff. Doesn't mean this isn't an interesting scent. But it reminds me of Samhainophobia a lot, which seems strange! I get a strangely chloriney note in the middle of all this. Makes me think of a proper deep, dark forest on Halloween night. Your settlement is close, with shining lights in the windows of the log cabins and the big wooden houses, but you're in the woods and it's dark and there are unspeakable, unknowable things around, maybe just behind you. So close to safety... but close doesn't count when there's a ghouly or a ghosty within whispering distance. (Might be getting a little of the nommy stuff now, maybe some pumpkin, but this weird chlorine smell is really bashing them into submission... they definitely come out after ten or fifteen minutes, but seems the whole package just doesn't work on me this year - boo!)

Oh. My. God. YUM. I am not a fan of candy corn. I think it's hilarious and very Halloweenie and if I was in a country where it was more readily available and that celebrated Halloween, I would have at least one huge bowl of it in the house come October. But I'm not in love with the taste or smell or texture when eaten. This is NOTHING like that. MAPLE SYRUP!! Delicious, sugary maple syrup!!!! With a hint of something I can't guess, perhaps cinnamon.... but soooo good. Think I'm going to have to get me a bottle of this bad boy.

A return of 2006's Ridiculous Scent! As creepy as Spooky was spooky, this is the scent of butterscotch-kissed, caramel-smothered red apples spiked with a blast of coconut rum. Creepy 09 Oooh! An apple scent that doesn't just scream apples at me! YAY! Yummy and sugary and delicious. Not much for throw or lasting long, but that could be because it's on my left wrist which touched the computer more often. I believe this might be a slatherer.

Getting a lot of green. Grass, mostly. But it's more complex than that - I can sense some spice in the background. Like a very very very low burning heat, the memory of a flame. Green, green grassy top note, with something warmer hiding underneath. A cool flame, though. Just a touch spicier than grass.

Okay, in the decant and on me, I get a BLAST of milk. But it can't be milk, because it's not doing the nasty thing milk does on my skin - how odd! Can't decide if this is the beer or the cakes or the meeting of the two. I very light foody scent. Not that it fades quickly (only had it on for a mo) but not a GRAAAAAAR FOODY kind of scent. The type that sticks to your clothes after you've been in a kitchen for twenty minutes. Reminds me of that cinema scent - popcorn, carpets, anticipation, air-con, darkness. A very nice scent, but I think I'll be happy with my lil' decant.

Hi! Could I ask what the Panacea labels look like, or if they've changed a lot since they were first released? I have a cobalt bottle of Succor and it has the strangest label - the triple dagger heart, sideways, with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Succor also written sideways. I am teh curious.

I got some citrus and the idea of something green but BAM - my skin ate this in a matter of minutes. I mean, completely. There is not even a HINT that it was there. That's never happened before o.0

Reminds me of Sacred Whore of Babylon. Which I feel like I should like, like I KNOW it's a lovely scent, but I hate it. Same here. It starts out so nice but it just morphs into this faintly icky smell... and when you get hints of it from they great throw, it makes you think you've left some food out or a little milk in the bottom of the glass... something rotten. Which is a SHAME, because I was really looking forward to this one! Nyaaaa.

Coriander. Or, more accurately, coriander inside a cold Thai rice paper roll. Um, yum? Then it backs off into a very light woodsy/green smell.

Oooh... Nuclear Wintery. Menthol, Eucalyptus, maybe tea tree. Very sinus clearing. I think it suits the name well, without being bitching ozoney. Great throw at first, then mellows down and warms to the skin. Relaxing. (I can't wait for the Phobes to be released! Quite exciting.)

Everyone says cherry and almond. So I'm guessing that bitter licorice anise type scent I was getting is almond. Very, very strong wet. Like BAH! When it dries down, it becomes light and almost acceptable. But you know almond... arsenic... scary. It has that tint of poison.

Mmmm cakey. I'm definitely behind the buttercream frosting, here. And a *hint* of citrus. A bland lemon cake. It's yummy and pretty, just not the type of thing I'd wear (needs moar vanilla!) But I would definitely eat this cake! Edit: After a couple of hours sniffing this in the car.... I WANT IT, I WANT IT NOW!!!

Nutty. Like Enraged Groundhog Musk. Cheap coffee, maybe. AIRPORT COFFEE. That's it, smells like airport coffee. The smell around airport coffee bars and little deli type places. Not a terrible smell. But I think I'd save it for my holidays. (it's not as strong on the coffee, though, in case you were wondering - it's heavier on the hazelnut/cinnamon than the bitterness)

Oooh, honey! Spiced honey! Delicious honey syrup with a sprinkle of cinnamon! This would be nommy on French toast. Actually, it kind of smells like French toast with maple syrup and cinnamon. There's actual food below the sweetness. Delicious! Edit: Basically turned into Honey SN on me after 10 minutes. I must amp. Still yummy.

Uh oh... getting the Ketchup Note of DOOOM a lá one of the 13s (purple, orange number). Woodsy. With ketchup. Yep, I'm not going to be able to review any further because of this ketchup thing. I wonder what it is... it's kind of like a heavily incense infused wood. It's actually getting nicer as I get used to it but I don't think I could ever wear anything that makes me think ketchup.

Mmm... sweet and yummy, with an edge of mint? Something encircling all the sweetness, something manly. I'm not really a fan of Dorian but this is nice. A little girlier than I remember the original.

I got some incense at first, now it seems more sweet and fruity. Actually feels like a cross between White Rabbit and The Head of Holofernes but that probably has more to do with me wearing those two scents than anything else. A subtle scent, like a cup of black tea with the scent of cold fruitcake wafting in from the kitchen on a breeze.

Bah. Ozone/aquatics = soap on me. And this is ozone to the shiz. The problem is that ozone is a common scent used in laundry and bath products in Australia, not sure about everywhere else. And so is the "beach smell" ie aquatics. And being someone who lives by the beach and knows the difference between these two scents very well means that anything with aquatics or ozone means soap and detergent on me. Reminds me of Thunder Moon. If you like ozone, go for it. VERY good ozone.

Plummy plum. That is all. Nice if you like that sort of thing. A very nice scent, I wouldn't object to wearing it at all.... just kinda straight forward.