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This is... sweeter than I expected. I get a super clean, light sort of scent. More floral than the description makes it sound. Odd.

This is strictly cinnamon and clove at the beginning, with just a hint of vanilla. In fact, it kinda smells like cookie dough. After several hours, close to five, it's less spicy, and the vanilla is more gooey, almost plasticy. But for the first five, my son kept saying, "I smell cookies!" Yeah.

This one does make me think green and boggy. It's very much in the same vein as Faeu Boulanger, but whereas FB is a little mistier, this one remains somewhat thick? It's a very clean sort of smell, and part of me is really attracted to this kind of scent. As a perfume, I'm not sure it works entirely with my skin chemistry though.

This must have cardamom, because it's one of spices I definitely smell. It's golden and warm, and spicy. And less floral than I anticipated. It's a little intense for me, especially in our small apartment, but in a huge house with gorgeous furniture, this would be stellar. You need something luxe for it to really do it justice. Nummy nummy. I'm still glad I was able to try it!

Smoky rocks? I get the smoke, but there is also something 'rocky' about this blend. I guess it must be the palm --- but no, seriously - smoky rocks. I'm impressed, confused and still hella impressed.

Oh man, I definitely get the dragon's blood and currants in this one. It's predominantly a sweet, semi-spicy curranty dragon's blood. A tad too sweet for my taste, but you know.

I was very afraid of the lotus - and at the beginning, in the vial and on wet, it was very sweet, almost like bubblegum. That faded, and I get a slightly sweet herbally lavender. Where's the citrus? ETA: Tried the cobwebs proto, Naiad v4, and I feel like the lotus is more of the lotus flower, as I don't get the bubblegum to it. There might be either ginger/ginger flower in this. Def. can smell the lavender and its sweet and mildly aquatic. I like this one much more than the original! My skin eats this up though!

A wispy, ethereal perfume with a touch of menace. Lilac, tuberose, Lily of the Valley, palmarosa, and white sandalwood. On me, the lilies really bloomed. It was very aggressive on wet. As it dried, the lilies calmed down and went to a wispier, white floral. Unfortunately, something in this combination has an odd trace of nail polish remover on me. Scary indeed.

This scent definitely nails in my mind that I need to stay away from BPAL's cream note. On wet, this is buttercream frosting. Then it gets this weird plasticy edge on me. Now it smells of burnt sugar and buttery plastic. *sigh* Not for me.

This is a very masculine scent on me - it's a metallic musky scent. It sort of makes me think of oiled leather and gleaming polish. The musk is the most prominent aspect. This is the smell of the guy that builds a time machine, wears long and fitted coats and recites a sonnet when he sees you. ETA: Tried a sniffie of the prototype. Much more cologne like, the musk is sharper and perhaps there is a touch of leather to it.

I have to say that the vanilla in this blend turns sweet on me. WTF? In any case, I was hoping for vanilla ginger, and that so didn't work out. Tobacco is a very dominant note for me, and it just went smoky. Sadness. ETA: So, this time around I get the mandarin orange, the hay, the leather accord, and hints of lily, tobacco, sandalwood and amber. Overall, its a much richer and a more complex blend, but it degenerates to an orange/leather with hints of amber and sandalwood blend on me. Sadly, if the leather were less prevalent, I think I'd enjoy it more. I think however, that given the King Mandarin SN release, all GC blends that feature mandarin should be revisited as its a bright citrusy top note that doesn't disappear in the first few minutes.

Oh god, this is like acai and honey having dirty sex on my wrist and leaving a gooey mess. Where is the poppy? I was promised a threesome. Sadly, I think poppy had the bright idea and decided to skip town.

I also got floral soap. Jasmine soap to be precise. It's pretty, but not what I expected.

Wow. This is serious blueberries. It was a fizzy blueberry on wet. And now it's a mix of blueberry and ginger. Mmm. I love this part of it. Although I have to admit I like the smell of blueberries, I'm not entirely sure I want to smell like them. I am keeping my decant, and perhaps thinking of more.

This is a very airy scent. I find that it has a note in common with Szepasszony and I think it's the dandelion. It smells sharp and moving and a bit like Szepasszony. Interesting.

You know, Undine smells to my mind what Undertow should have been. It's dark, masculine water. There is definitely vetiver in it. This is heavy water, deep sea water. Murky and kinda spooky. ETA: Trying Undine now after a few years and its definitely more of a powdery aquatic. There's ambergris, moss and perhaps even violet in this.

This one doesn't work on my skin chemistry - the vanilla goes plasticky, which leads to an odd almost dirty patchouli overlay to the red musk. The rose is the other predominant note - so it smells like a dirty, sexy red rose. Yeah, not my type of scent.

Oh Inez. You must be Spanish, cuz you smell very much like Morocco to me, and Morocco is but a hop and a skip away from Spain. The amber is sweet, very much like Jacob's Ladder. And I do get a bit of the nuttiness from Wezwanie/Hold, and a Haloes reference is also popping into my head. In any case, the carnation works and isn't too sharp (like in Hod). You're like Morocco, but sexier. Mmmm. Tasty.

On wet, I got a big splash of juicy tropical lush flowers - kind of like the bouquet of smells I get from Fire Pig - minus the sharp ginger. This morphs into a rose bouquet as it dries. I really liked this on wet. I'm not thrilled about the rose stomping all over the other flowers.

So I get the pomegranate on wet, but as it dries, more of the florals come out - I get this light iris smell but it isn't precisely iris. It's a green iris floral, if that makes sense. Interesting.

At the beginning, this is like green hay. It's got that green plant smell and it's definitely hay. Makes me think of my in-laws barns and fields. And it dries to this floral like amber. White floral to be precise. Interesting, but not for me.

This is a very earthy fig. It's a fruity schmoopy mess of fig and dates. Very Middle Eastern. You can almost take a bite out of this.

This is definitely raw leather on me. Sleek. Warm. It's very masculine on me. I don't think this is the kind of scent my hubby likes. On the right kind of guy though, it's probably toe-curling. Mmmm....

Hmm, I have to say I did get the herbally menthol smell from this. It doesn't smell like perfume - it smells like it cures things. On my skin, I do get a bit of the peppery blend. I can't say I like the scent, but I think it would be very effective at massaging sore muscles. I think the massage oil is probably fabulous!

In the vial, Eisheth smells like a lemon candy cough drop. On wet, the most dominant note was definitely the peach, with honeyed florals in the background. As it dried, the peach was less dominant and I can smell some of the cocoa powder. It's pretty, but for me the ultimate peach scent is Ebisu. I'm glad that the honey isn't more aggressive.