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Oh lord, this smells like toilet berry airfreshner on me. I am guessing lotus, wisteria, ylang ylang and something else. Perhaps sweet pea. Yeah, this totally doesn't work on my skin.

Okay, this smells like Vic's Vaporub, candy and smoke on me. Meaning I definitely get the camphor and menthol, lotus, a hint of cinnamon, and something that makes me think of incense. Perhaps myrrh? This is one wild scent - and definitely a morpher. On wet, the camphor and menthol were most prominent but that burned out pretty quickly.

Hrm. I do believe there was at least some patchouli in this because on wet, both the Hierophant and Judgement smell like they share commonalities. As it dries, I get the cinnamon, perhaps a drop of dragon's blood and perhaps frankincense? It definitely smells like cinnamon + church incense base. Apropos, I suppose.

This is definitely a deeply resinous blend - it's also a dark brown oil in color. I get patchouli, sandalwood and some amber that definitely sweetens the entire blend, esp. on drydown. The patchouli was much more prominent on wet. I think it might have a hint of red musk, and something slightly fruity. I think the comparison to Scherezade is good, minus the roses.

I vote for Blood Kiss. If you like apple blends, I'd hunt down some Snow Glass Apples.

Anahata starts with a lavender overlay over rosewood. As it dries, the lavender gets replaced by ylang ylang and the jasmine comes to the fore. So I smell of jasmine, ylang ylang AND roses. Erm... PASS!

This one is a creamy rose and jasmine blend. It's prettier than I thought. Definitely darkly evocative, like the perfume of a 50s femme fatale.

Okay, I get the giant blast on lavender when I first apply and on wet. That fades as it dries, and I get this citrusy floral (elemi?) but something that smells sort of like celery. Slightly sour, slightly herbal. I wish the lavender had stuck around.

Musk musk musk! This definitely has black musk, and I wanna say green musk as well. However, I also think it had vanilla musk in it, but now I'm wondering if this isn't amber I'm smelling - in any case, it adds a sweetness to the musk. There's also a very faint trace of jasmine in there. On me, it toggles between the sweaty black musk and the sweeter amber/vanilla musk. If it ended up in the vanilla musk all the time, I think I would quite enjoy this blend.

MCCCX: 1310 Definitely blackberry! It must me in mind of the Oblation, and I do believe there is peach in here, and possibly a touch of oakmoss. Oh man, I am loving this blackberry/peach intersection. LOVING IT. Previous review by fairnymph

Dry dry dry. I definitely get the same, piercingly sharp orris note combined with spicy dragon's blood. Yeah. Not my type of blend at all.

This one definitely I can smell the fig and and the sassafras. I would call this a dark, fruity musky blend. It's got a slight medicinal tinge to it.

Hrm... I got a whiff of coconut, some sharp orris screeching, but really this is a WOOD scent. I get cedar and resin. Hrm.

Out of all the movie blends, this one is the one that nabbed my eye. Unfortunately for me, the lily turns to soap. I get this soapy lily with a hint of sandalwood. It's not unpleasant - but it definitely smells very clean and watery (apropos). Not scary at all. More like Dirty's big sister.

This kinda reminds me to the wet stage of June Gloom 2009 -- it's got the YELLOW flowers (I'm guessing lemon blossom, and some honeysuckle and sweet pea) and citrusy thing going on. Except it lingers and almost goes into the aftershave/men's cologne route. Kinda soapy. ETA: Nihil v2, DD blend This one definitely has jasmine. It's still a yellow flower perfume, but it stinks to jasmine to high heaven. Oddly enough, I think there's some honeysuckle in it as well, and it makes me think of Unseelie.

Yum! This is definitely kiwi + spearmint, a hint of honeydew melon and I'm guessing cassia or cinnamon in it. It's just slightly musky on me, I definitely get more of the fruit (kiwi + melon) with the cassia-like base underneath. It definitely turns slightly masculine in the drydown. Hrm. I kinda enjoy this.

This blend was very much a fruity + juicy floral on wet. I got the berries and a hint of rose + violet. As it dries however, the berries recede and I get more of the rose + star anise. It ends up as a spicy rose blend that is just a teensy bit powdery. I blame the violet for that. GRRR.

Oh Blue Phoenix. You are one odd blend. You start off as blueberry sweet tarts - blueberries, candy powder and sweetness. But as you dry, you get spicier and spicier. Definitely clove and cinnamon. In fact, the drydown evokes Mabon-like comparisons to me. In that spicy + fruit intersection.

Okay, the rose note I get in this blend on wet is almost an apple + rose, very green, a la Red Rose 2005. As it dries, it gets a mildly spicy edge to it, which I do think might be the carnation. Unfortunately, the drydown is almost entirely rose soap on me, very creamy though. I however, after about two hours, detect something else and I swear it smells almost like a Lush bathbomb, but I can't place my finger on it. In fact, I know I've smelt it before. I am also beginning to think it might have some clary sage in this blend.

On me, this is definitely primarily a red musk + patchouli base. There might be a hint of vanilla to sweeten this entire deal, but pretty much red musk + patchouli - from on wet, to drydown. Yes, this is a surprisingly clean musk sort of smell. Sexy in the not obvious, overtly sexual way.

Lilac does such strange things to me. It smelled oddly like celery + dragon's blood. Now on the drydown, it just smells like... SOAP.

DCCCXXXVIII (837): Dunno if this has ever been reviewed. This smells like amber, something floral, and slightly sweet. I even want to say that there's a trace of chocolate in there, but I see no dark oil. I also get a whiff of cardamom, possibly cassia. I swear I've smelled this before.. ETA: I got it! This smells like Lush's Karma. Yup. Definitely Lush's Karma.

Ohh... AHHH. GAH. I mean, this smells like hot smoky leather. The kind of leather that has recently been set on fire. Debauchery my foot. This smells like arson.

This makes me sad, it started as a great lavender blend with some verbena thrown in. Nice and herbal. And it dries down to CYPRESS. Just this woodsy powder. GRRR.

I kinda enjoy this one. I agree that this patchouli has a hard edge, but I find the pomegranate + blackberry combo is quite nice. I get a little more of the heliotrope on the drydown. But yeah, definitely fruit, with a warm, hard dirty patchouli as a base. If the patchouli were just a teensy bit softer on me, I think I could swing this.