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Ooh, pretty! Tobacco, vanilla, myrrh and orange blossom come together nicely. The cinnamon blends seamlessly into the other scents. I know it's there but I can only detect it by the very slight burning on the skin where I applied the scent. The scent reminds me of tiger stripes. If you like tobacco and orange blossom you'll probably like this.

Beautiful. Licorice bark and freesia are strong on the first application and it's a bit soapy at first, but the soapiness disappears, leaving a clean, pretty scent that is dark and sheer, fluttery almost. The jasmine behaves itself. The scent on the whole is quite sweet.

(Note: can't believe I haven't reviewed this yet. My bottle is from '09.) Lots of jungle leaves and florals, dark, slinky, animalistic (must be the honey, jasmine and blackberry), sweet and juicy with a dry finish from the sandalwood. Basically what everyone else said. On certain chemistries I could see this turning too sour. It almost does that with me, but even though I don't normally do well with citrus, the orange pulp behaves. I consider this a summer scent.

Schwarzer mond - heavy on the patchouli and resins The Final Darkness- It's a bit sweet and candy like but I love the black amber Panther Moon - if you don't mind a slight anise smell, this is an incredibly smooth dark musk. Destructive Vagina of the Fox Spirit- coffee, vanilla orchid, dark musk, black amber. And stuff. Count Dracula- Nice clove, patchouli, oak scent On Darkness- weirdly the lavender reminds me of blueberry waffles. Resins turn sweet on me, though. Creature Feature- dark musks that smell a bit like some classical perfume. Very fifties. German Expressionist Horror- If you don't mind pine, this is a very dark, musky scent that reminds me of the smell of old velvet theater curtains. Blood (GC)- Myrrh, cherries, clove, dragon's blood. This smells delicious to me. Ship of Hel- The scent has myrrh and ice notes. The spruce does smell a bit like pineapple though. I still love it. Eldrich Dark Witch's Dance- the red musk and leaves smell dry and a little woody. I think there might be some smoke here, so be cautious. Halloween Los Vegas- cake and a dribble of snake oil yes, just a little smoke, but it's delicious and amazing. Totentanz- another good clovy dark scent

I get syrupy, super sweet dark resins and dust. This is actually not bad, though there's a faint medicinal tinge. There's a faint bit of coolness, a hint of ice and black ocean. The sweet resins are the most prominent thing though. I get a good throw. I love this one, although I am a dark resin fanatic and I don't mind the syrupiness.

Spruce does the weirdly fruity, fizzy thing it usually does. It almost smells a little like pineapple at first! However, it soon calms down and the resins and oak come out, making it smell a like cold, murky root beer. I like root beer, so this is awesome. The scent is fresh, dark, cold and perfect for summer. It reminds me of a less light and muddy Kumari Kandam.

On me this is very ozony, almost cold. Rubbery too. There may even be a spearmint note here somewhere. I detect a murky green scent like cucumber underneath the ozone. The comparison to aquarium funk is pretty acurate, but it goes away on the dry-down. The aquatic doesn't turn completely to dryer sheets which is rare for me. This would be a perfect hot weather scent, but sadly it disappears very quickly on me.

Ooh, forgot Plague of Frogs from the Hellboy series. It smells mostly ozony and clean (maybe a little minty) but there's a definite unwashed aquarium/ bitter green undertone that isn't exactly unpleasant. No plants and it doesn't last long at all on me, but it's got the green murky water thing down.

shanghai? Is that you? It also smells a bit like one of the atmo sprays, minus the cherryblossoms. Mostly bright green tea, but with something in the background keeping it down a little bit. Probably the agarwood. Maybe some tobacco, but I can't smell it over the tea. Try it if you like: Shanghai, Evil, Okiya Atmosphere Spray.

Wine! Also roses and frankincense and a little inoffensive honey. The frank is very dry and holds the super-sweetness of the wine in check. Really this is one of the best frankincenses I've smelled. It smells like a little altar. Most likely a bottle purchase, but then again, I like everything here. It gets a little faint on the drydown but that's okay.

The red musk is the strongest note at first, but it's not the spotlight hog that I anticipated. Together with the opoponax there's a strong woody feeling. The rose blends well with the scent, it's very lush. This is a bit of a vampy scent. Scratch that, it's an extremely vampy scent. It vants to suck your blood. This is definitely not as strong as I thought it would be. The opoponax is probably holding it down. Although opoponax gives the impression of syrupy sweetness, it can be hard to actually pick out as a scent. That must be why red musk isn't amping all over creation. I will have to test further and see how long it lasts.

In the vial: Strong nag champa, with coffee bean. It smells a little fruity (as in, it's coffee bean, not brewed coffee) and I can detect a depth that might be coming from the black amber. The vanilla is present as well. Overall, this is weird. I don't know about this combination. Skin testing: Yum, this is sweet, milky coffee (without an actual milk note. It must be the vanilla). There's champa but doesn't clash. As another reviewer said, it's like having a latte in a coffee house where someone's been burning expensive champa. The champa becomes more prominent after a while. Results: Drat. I didn't want to have to explain why one of my perfume bottles has "vagina" in the name. The only problem is that it's a bit on the light side.

Faeu Boulanger (CD) is supposed to represent marsh lights. It has violet and it may be kind of light for what you want. It smells misty and weirdly metallic to me. Bayou is mostly floral and wood to me. The Black Swan (a retail salon) if you can find it, is a dark aquatic. Although it has lotus it's very evocative of a dark pond. All in all it was probably the best swamp scent I've tried. I tried The Gilman House Hotel yule?, but it was a bit more sharp and green than I'd like. Also there's a paint thinner note. Wiley's Swamp from the Sleepy Hollow Halloween series smells strongly like boiled chesnuts. For dank rotting oak, Oborot (lunacy) and The Twisted Oak (Halloween) are two of my favorites. Druid isn't exactly a swamp smell, but it is a realistic forest smell. I suggest looking up scents with oakmoss or Spanish moss too.

I've never tried Schrodinger's Cat, hmm... I do like The Raven and Lilith though.

Okay, I don't think I've ever done this. MBTI: INFP If Hogwarts houses were a thing, Ravenclaw would fit best. Virgo Sun, Sag Moon, Scorpio Asc I have a little bit of social anxiety and I'm easily distracted so I like deep, grounding scents. I like reading and gardening, learning new things about plants. Escapism is a problem, but comedy and fantasy help keep me sane. I like learning about big subjects, but if I'm honest what I really like is style, art, and superficial things. Horror, humor, the surreal, and overblown theatrical stuff are all fun. Maybe I'm a bit of a fantasist and campy goth at heart. I would love to be neat and organized and deadly efficient all the time, but I don't see that happening.

Evil and SkekTek the Scientist both remind me of Maleficent. They're both very purple and green scents to me.

Hermia is my favorite pink scent. Sadly it's discontinued but you might be able to find some imps on the sale page. To me it smells like bubblegum with soft pink pepper.

Really beautiful beeswax. Rather than being almost single note beeswax like The Lights of Men's Lives I can smell some bitter worn wood underneath. This is not as horrible as it sounds- the honeyed sweetness of the wax keeps the bitterness in check. I like this a lot, it reminds me of sitting at an old writing desk by candlelight.

Immediately after applying it smells like cucumbers and an old dank shed. The leather and paper here is very decrepit and dusty. The cucumber goes away quickly, leaving leather and paper. Then the fig and Tonka show up. It's not juicy, more of a dried fig, but it is cozy and comforting. Dusty old books and a little fig and tonka. The drydown is far, far better than the original smell.

I agree with the comparison to Faeu Boulanger. There is a sense of glowing green honeydew melon-yness. I also smell cucumber and mushroom. This would be amazingly lovely for summer, except the "cucumber" part doesn't smell light and fresh, it's really bitter. (I think the lime rind, celeryseed and frankincense are to blame.) This seems to improve on the drydown, but the plastic cucumber smell is offputting. I'll retest it later.

I get butterscotch plus old, dry leather and crumbling paper. There's a more elusive note too. It reminds me of The Fairy Market except these crystalized flowers are dry and there's no grass scent. Pretty, comforting. Very butterscotch dominant but the other scents occasionally poke their heads out.

I get caramel, which must be the black coconut and labdanum. Caramel and salty ocean water with a hint of citron and some moss underneath. This is really nice in a dark oceanic way. It seems like a salt water cousin of Ekhidna. The scent has a huge throw on me and I can occasionally smell some wormwood and maybe mushrooms. Overall it has a salty aquatic toffee cologne feel which is better than it sounds. There's a bit of earthiness too from the moss. A mangrove swamp near the coast on a tropical island is an image that comes to mind. I like this a lot, possibly enough for a bottle.

That is some seriously, seriously delicious vanilla mint cream with pomegranate. Sadly it shifts back and forth between that and butter cookies. Cookies might not sound so bad, but combined with the fruit, there's a vaguely artificial, plasticky sense to the scent. On drydown it's quite a morpher, switching between amazing mint vanilla and cookies. I can't decide on this one.

This is more citrusy than I thought it would be, almost a herbal lemon scent. It's like a warm, herbal honey drink with lemon balm. I also detect lots of soft rose wafting around, some soft white clover blossoms, nuts and maybe some cypress below everything. The honey/lemon is the most prominent part. Paired with the greenery it's a bit like a warm sunny day in the middle of winter. This is very comforting, especially for winter but I don't think I need a bottle.

Starts out as strong, awesome moist gingerbread. It's heavy on the cinnamon and gets a bit plasticy on me after a while. Far less strong than straight Snake Oil (that might be a good thing.) I like cinnamon though it seems to be taking over here, it's almost SN cinnamon with a hint of ginger and snake oil. In general, it's awesome, but probably not so amazing I'd need more than one bottle. On the other hand, I was underwhelmed by regular fresh Snake Oil although I love it aged. Verdict: ???? Will probably get much better.