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I was worried that either the scent would be SN: Salt or the iron would make the scent too metallic, but this is a lovely room spray. Simple, but refreshing. If you're bothered by anything that smells the slightest bit soapy that might be a problem, but the ozone in this is only subtly detergent like. Inoffensive to my nose.

This reminds me of Autumn Grove, except it has oak instead of dirt, making it more airy than earthy. There's the usual lab's dead leaf note, which smells like a somewhat pungent dry cologne. Although I can't wear that scent well, I like it in an atmo. It's the dry essence of fall. Cozy.

 

EDIT: It becomes less pungent quickly turning to toasted wood. Still cozy.

The beeswax is a lot more like honey than other beeswax scents in the Halloweenies this year. It is white without smelling like a white floral. On the drydown, I think the incense is a light Nag Champa? I may be wrong. It smells a little less white when dried. But still lovely.

This starts off very tart and a little like a berry candle, but on the drydown the leaves come out, just enough to give some depth to the scent. It's a little candy-ish but not too sweet. I'm getting a strong impression of fuscia? magenta? whichever one of those colors is more purple than pink.

Beeswax (not honey), soft dirt, wood, and the faint very slight scent of ivy. Very much an outdoors scent, it reminds me of Druid in a way.

The vetiver isn't too strong here, it's really well blended actually. This makes me think of taking a warm shower with fancy expensive man soap after a day of exploring the cold gray outdoors or swimming in the ocean in winter.

Salty, clean wood

I'm getting a delicate, pale purple from this scent. A berry/grape incense store kind of scent with occasional rare flashes of what I'm guessing is belladonna or nightshade berry accord. Something that smells dark purple and toxic anyway. It's glorious.

 

Too bad it does a fading act.

Dead leaves by themselves can be a disaster on me. October certainly was. This starts out as leaf cologne, green a little bitter, but not too bad. Then after a while it starts heating up and sweetens a good bit. It's astringent and never quite foody-sweet but it's a really lovely cold outdoors scent like a blustery and dark fall night.

 

On the late drydown there's a faint waxy note I can pick out but the scent is still nice. I'm on the fence.

 

EDIT: No longer on the fence, this smells better the longer I wear it and is also good layered with Tumbling Over a Ghost.

Dark or Brown musk? This musk also smells kind of burgundy to my nose. It certainly isn't red musk, it might not be blood musk but there it is.

and...pine? There's a faintly camphorus element here. Does it have burgandy pine pitch? This is interesting and I'd wear it but I don't think I'll need a bottle.

Amber and moss. I'm strongly reminded of Lyonesse, except Gambols has a floral element and no sandalwood. It's warmer than that scent, golden, and a bit like scented tissues, which must be the olive blossom.

The pulpy coconut mixes with the white musk and white florals like it does in Snow White, but the florals are more tropical and there's a generous amount of ginger. The whole thing has a lemony cast to it.

 

This would be a delicious drink.

It is pretty faint, but then I guess even hardened black musk lovers like me don't want to smell like they've been dipped in the stuff. Cedar can be overwhelming too but it's well behaved here and gently rounded by the incense. As it is, this is exactly what I want my hair to smell like, when I can smell anything at all.

 

If only there was a perfume version. I'm sad I don't have long hair.

Dandelions! Faintly soapy but not offensive, I smell like I rolled around in springtime. I'm also reminded of Galbanum SN. Is there a resin here?

As this dries down the cypress and moss become more prominent and it begins to smell more like a fall scent.

 

Damp grass indeed, well blended with the heavier slightly medicinal cypress and moss.

Deep rich burgundy with a lighter carnation element. The spices aren't strong enough to trigger sneezing. The patchouli is present. It almost smells like red patchouli. Cozy scent, but might not be for people who dislike patchouli as a room scent.

Just as promised, slightly smoky beeswax, vanilla cake and leather (the leather fades after the initial spray, becoming less prominent.) I also get paper, but I sprayed it in a room with a lot of books, so it's hard to tell what is the room and what is the spray. Some of it is certainly the spray though.

Cozy!

 

Editing to say this smells like a thick slice of faintly lemony vanilla cake mixed with Candlelight atmosphere spray and old books. It's good.

 

 

Edit: Apparently long after I quit smelling it, I still get the occasional sniff of candle smoke.

Sweet snow and fungus-y graveyard dirt. The labdanum and opoponax almost smell like root beer. Almost, but not quite. Then they subside and I mostly get a faintly smoky mint (which is the birch).

 

I also get almost! tobacco. The wood and birch may be contributing to that. It's too clean to be tobacco really, but that's what I'm reminded of.

First applied, this is straight-up strawberry candy. Nothing but. It makes my teeth hurt. After a while it becomes more juicy and I can detect some subtle woods beneath. The white musk occasionally makes it smell clean, like a fancy fruit shampoo but it never turns to straight up soap.

 

The woods here are really giving the scent some much-needed balance and sophistication though they stay subtle and in the background. The throw is fairly low on me.

Opening I get the sense that there's lavender in this, but that disappears when I apply it. Are those crushed narcissiuses along with the grass? They disappear quickly too.

 

It is cold and chilly and gray as promised and I do smell stone and plenty of crushed grass. Ozony and near aquatic.

 

Similar to Amsterdam.

Green, melon-y, probably has green tea, maybe bamboo, but it doesn't smell woody at all. The best comparison would probably be Embalming Fluid. This is less lemony though.

I get cocoa. Like very dry chocolate cookies. There's a strong floral perfume component that clashes, but the scent settles down pretty quickly.

 

It's odd. The over the top old fashioned floral should scream old lady, but instead it seems kind of young, not subtle, like a child dressed up in her grandmother's clothes. Or a little girl's bonnibel cosmetics mixed with old fashioned perfume. It morphs between cocoa and straight up florals. Also I get the sense of orange somewhere. Like those orange circus peanut candies.

 

I imagine this as pink, white, and brown. It's safe to say I've never smelled anything quite like this.

A blast of banana candy and yellow cake quickly turns to almost a SN Vanilla with bananas and sweet cream.

Smells like autumn. The nuts and leather and red musk are the most noticeable to me though there's vanilla in here. Not nearly as strong as expected and there's a disturbing white bread note that turns things to peanut butter sandwiches. It goes pretty light.

Cozy.

 

Patchouli comes out more on the drydown.

Big lemony florals, reminding me of Devil's Trumpet SN. There are some dark green tropical leaves like those in Isle of Demons and maybe black musk? This is a warm, close, sweet scent. Very sultry.

 

Maybe good for winter if you want to pretend to be in a sweltering jungle or hothouse. Rawr.

 

Edit: on drydown becomes more intensely green and dark. It's not a pine or other conifer but it has that feel to it. There may be patchouli somewhere.

Delicious in an El Dia Los Reyes sort of way. It does have a vanilla powder element and sometimes is not as deep or rich as I'd like but overall a really good coffee scent. Maybe there's cinnamon sprinkled on top of the tiramisu? Because I get just a tiny bit of that.

Sadly the reed pings my scent memory as window cleaner. It's green and the most prominent part before the drydown. As it dries, I get more dusty papyrus and that smear of vanilla cake frosting.

 

It's as though someone smeared an old papyrus scroll with cake and used windex to get it off. A memorable scent story, but not something I need a bottle of.

 

For those who don't have the same scent associations this might smell like vanilla frosting, dust and green cologne.