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Rotting wisteria. In fact, rotting waterlogged wisteria. I think there's a brush of lilac on this. Epic.Fail.

Spicy, synthetic leather. The leather note has to be a kissing cousin to the BPAL black leather note found in DeSade. In this blend it is less chemically, and all the other components serve to soften and spice up the blend. I don't find the smell of leather particularly sexy nor is it a note that my skin chemistry to handle, so this scent is a no-go for me.

Sweet cologne, beeswax (probably helping with the sweetness) and a touch of paper. It's much lighter and masculine than I expected. As it dries, the combination of beeswax and paper make it smell like some odd sort of band-aid on me. Poo on you, skin chemistry.

Rich, deep vanilla extract. It's warm, slightly spicy, slightly cookie dough on me. Vanilla is always a problematic note for me, but I do agree that this is the same vanilla found in Snake Oil, which is not a scent I can wear. So take this review with a grain of salt.

I think fruit SN tend not to age well. It smelled like pineapple fruit/candy, slightly plasticky, slightly metally. It was more pineapple fruit in syrup than fresh pineapple.There was also a slight floral component to it on me. After about an hour, it was gone.

FRANKINCENSE. This is warm, golden frankincense with a touch of smoke. Not my type, but if you can handle, great!

Clean, slightly manly cologne. But yeah---- super CLEAN! Huge throw.

Gritty vetiver, smells almost sandy and I'd swear there is either cinnamon and/or allspice in this. As it dries, I get a hint of blood. Dark, gritty, debris. This is a city in shambles.

Sky City Before starts out with a blast of green grass and dandelions. But as it dries, it becomes more soapy. The final drydown are the hints of metal and marble. It ends up as a fresh, green slightly masculine cologne on me. Whee! An ultra-rare I don't love.

I can't typically do leather, so this scent totally surprised me. I get lavender, and then something that smells almost exactly like Victoria's Secret Vanilla Sandalwood blend. I think it might be the lavender amber + nicotiana. In other words, it smells deliciously sexy. I love it. I think I need a bottle.

Apparently, I forgot to review this one. From my notes I get lavender and resins. It gets much more incensey on the drydown.

Sharp cologne, with hints of orange blossom and bergamot. As it dries, I get more of the hint of blood and wine. Not my cup of tea. ETA: On a second try, I do smell the cumin and the blood is much more prominent. Ugh.

Very recognizable. It's a fragrant, white/pinkish floral, kinda shrill that I remember from Titania. It doesn't go to hairspray on me, but does end up smelling like some sort of high class shampoo.

Dry roses, frankincense and a hint of saffron. Overall, my skin EATS this blend. Mr. zee_zee thought it was pretty, but unfortunately this has almost no wearlength on me. Subtle, floral, resinous.

On wet, I get a huge blast of bay and then something that I can only describe as 'feathery'. As it dries, I get more of the woods and they are spicy (I am thinking that its the massioa bark + clove here), and there's a certain amount of powderiness that I think is probably coming from the aged sandalwood. It's a little 'hippie stinky' (why hello patchouli), and for me lacks a certain sweetness to balance out all the wood elements. It's probably my skin chemistry not cooperating. Masculine, powdery, spicy.

Incensey, dry, musky. On wet, it is 'sandy' and resinous - amber and a touch of vetiver, and then it dries to something slightly musky, powdery and soapy. I think the orange may come from orange blossom, and this definitely has some ginger in it. Overall, it ends up smelling like some really nice masculine soap.

Salty, herbal lavender, blast of mint on wet. Dries to a nice herbal green sort of blend... actually, it reminds me alot to a Maylee's garden detergent (lavender + bergamot). Yup, it does get slightly soapy on drydown.

Woodsy, spicy, smoke. I think vetiver and cinnamon. As it dries, it does get a bit of bbq sauce which may be a hint of cedar combined with maple syrup. Odd.

Sweet bubblegum and a touch of cinnamon on the drydown. If Lolita, is well, Lolita, the prototype is much more innocent, a girl that isn't aware of sexual manipulation. Yet.

Peach and gardenia. The gardenia is very dominant on the drydown, and again very much like wet wool.

This is if you mix Dorian and TKO - I get the same lavender note in TKO with Dorian's vanilla base with a hint of tea. Tasty, but I'm sure you wouldn't get the same result if you mixed Dorian and TKO, with a slightly heavier hand on the TKO.

I think this has honey, calla lily and gardenia. I get the same wet wool note as BPAL gardenia tends to become. Floral, feminine, heady.

Unreleased prototype, no scent description given. Hmmm... this one was definitely a fresh, airy grassy blend. I would say that the grass note is the same one found in the BPTP Dog Days of Summer, except slightly greener. Like an intersection of that grass note and the one in Host of Air, given the airy qualities. I detect a bit of lemon. Very fresh. That's the best way to describe it. It isn't the mowed lawn blend, but it's a nice grassy one. Airy, light, fresh.

Jasmine, honeysuckle and orange. I find the jasmine in this blend to be more like the whiff I get in Gun Moll as opposed to the cat-pee jasmine you find in some GC blends. The honeysuckle is pretty in this. It's actually a very light, very spring like floral blend. Sort of what you want your skin to smell like - after taking a bath with some really nice soap and slathering some pretty lotion. Sticks pretty close to the skin.

Violets, iris and gardenia. Gardenia is not a note that plays well with me, so it ends up as a sharp, headachingly floral FLORAL.