Invidiana
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This is a dusky and deliciously woody pumpkin, like a pumpkin pie sitting in the corner of a log cabin in the woods, complete with an ashy fireplace. The galangal adds this lovely creepy-forest feeling to it, kind of like Hansel and Gretel stumbling upon a house made out of pumpkin sweets instead of gingerbread in the forest. The tangle of woods is really at the forefront here, with the pumpkin adding just a hint of sweet spiciness in the background. A great mysterious autumn scent for sure!
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Bourbon vanilla, red musk, galbanum, ambergris, sweet clove, petitgrain, and golden amber. Unabashedly sexy and unbridled, just like passion should be Sensual red musk takes the forefront with a supporting splash of intoxicating vanilla booze, deep sticky resins, earthy and sweet clove...what's not to love? Irresistable for an insatiable scent-ual appetite
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This is one that ends up being one fierce and deliciously feral scent It starts out as what I'd call a diabolical Christmas tree; I had to wait for it to dry down to really get the full spectrum of this complex blend. The evergreen forest is still there (with the juniper berry realy adding a nice touch), but it's been challenged by musky and bloody (dragon's blood, which turns into this delicious dark bloody berry on me) overtones that are just blatantly and unapolagetically sexy. It's also strong enough that just a couple dabs will bring out the werewolf in you. I've developed an unquenchable lust for this that only grows the more I keep smelling it
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Not "bitter" in the literal sense but rather evocative of the feeling of bitterness, this is a tart and shadowy scent which brings to mind the sting of jealousy when everyone else but me seems to have a date on Valentine's day. The blackberry makes itself prominent on the bed of florals--this is not a super-sweet blackberry but again, a mostly tart one with a hint of sweetness that is proabably contributed to in some part by the florals. I love how the vetiver and sage darken this blend and the tonka adds a bit of sexiness. This is bitterness I don't mind wallowing in
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I was a little nervous about the honeysuckle in this (go here to see why), but it far exceeded all my expectations. The honeysuckle is really a background note, slightly discernible but not in-your-face. What really takes the stage in this are the rich golden honeys and the delicious earthy sweetness of the fig. There's a little more honeysuckle when this is wet, but as it dries down the honeys and fig become more and more prominent until it makes me think of some sort of honeyed fig concotion I really wish I could have a bite of right about now. I'll be honeymooning with this!
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Oh yes...this scent is just so evil ...seriously, that was the first thing that came to mind, "essence of evil"! Deep dark woods sweetened slightly by wild berries with a bite of tart pomegranate are shrouded in a hazy, bewitching smoke of patchouli, and I think it's the pepper that, along with the pomegranate, gives this one some extra "zing". Definitely seeking out more to fill my partial bottle!
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Wow, just....wow. I need to be alone with this. To me it's coming out as sweet caramelized figs with ooey gooey burnt-sugar syrup (guess that's what "candy charcoal" tastes like). If you love burnt sugar as much as I do, you HAVE to try this. As for the fig impression, though figs aren't listed in the notes the reference to "holiday sweets" probably does include them because dried figs are holiday sweets over in Greece, where my family is from, so I'm pretty sure they also are in Italy next door. Maybe the candy charcoal really is made of burnt sugar, because burnt-sugar candy is popular in Greece as well and I have a feeling the Italians are equally fond of it. I know there are people terrified of violet out there, but it's not particularly noticeable. There's just the barest hint of evergreen and smoke in the background. Absolutely gorgeous--hunting down more!
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Very icy at first sniff, but as it dries down all the lovely wintry notes come shining through Jolasveinar smells like snow-laden pines and candied orange peels with just a slight hint of buttery pastry aroma wafting from someone's window. I was a bit worried about the dirt note, but I'm not getting anything screaming "dirt" at all; it probably blends too well with the pine to be noticeable. I have no idea where my impression of candied orange peels comes from, but that might be the florals tricking my nose.
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Wow. Just...wow. I was actually able to take the quiz long after the Inquisition went down, and cute little goblin said I was Autumny...was he ever right! I need to be alone with this *deeeep sniff*. It's just this gorgeous spiced honeyed fig with a beautiful smoky, earthy support base and just a breath of cool autumn wind. If I could bathe in this bottle, I would!
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This really is a Victorian Halloween! Don't be scared off by the rose; it isn't a jarring front-and-center or old-lady rose, just a whisper in the background; it's really the red sandalwood (love!) and gorgeous rosewood. It's a sexy, feminine pumpkin that makes me think of those antique Halloween cards with girls in frilly dresses holding grinning Jack-O-Lanterns and "Halloween" still spelled "Hallowe'en". Beautiful and antique without being dated!
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First of all, the howling goblin on the label just makes me laugh, because you'd think goblins had the power to break others' hearts rather than suffer from one themselves, oh the irony I love the combination lavender and sensual woods with the smoke in this! Forget agony, it's really more like the intoxication of sitting in front of a crackling fire during a February thunderstrom with gorgeous polished bookcases brimming with books and a bowl fo lavender potpourri on the coffee table. I keep sniffing it to unravel the delicious mystery
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Ghostly, exotic and mysterious, Clarimonde is definitely a "come-hither" scent. The skin musk makes it very alluring and touchable, and neither the roses nor the Oriental perfume are overpowering but rather meld harmoniously into the background. Great for a date with a sexy stranger
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Delicious and complex Not exactly foody, but delicious nevertheless. I definitely get the warm base of dry leaves and incense; a whiff of exotic florals and the sweetness of the candies--maybe there's a tinge of chocolate there, I can't be exactly sure, but there's definitely redcurrant and what seems to be candied orange peel, both of which I love.
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The bountiful, bright and vivacious prelude to the Harvest. A horde of wet, ripe fruits: green apple, apricot, blackberry, black cherry, black and red currants, cantaloupe, English pear, guava, lemon and lime, orange, mandarin orange, kiwi and mango, passion fruit, papaya, Georgia peach, raspberry, plum, tangerine, pomegranate and strawberry over a luminous blend of lunar oils. I wanted to love this so badly...and in the bottle it was all ripe oozing reddish-purplish fruits, but unfortunately on me it goes mostly cantaloupe, and the mango isn't helping. I have the type of skin that amps sweet stuff, and since cantaloupe and honeydew are the two most sugary-smelling fruits in there, you can kind of guess the rest. *sigh*
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This really is sexy and suckable, so much so that I had to keep from sucking the spot on my wrist that I put it on It's a gorgeous, deep, juicy black cherry, not overly boozy at all. It's sweet with the right amount of tartness to keep it from getting cloying. Reminds me of Celestial Seasonings' Black Cherry Berry tea. Love!
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YUM After losing Marshmallow Poof on Ebay by a hair, I had to snag a botte of this both to tide me over until I found Marshmallow Poof and before it, too, ended up with skyrocketing bids on that evil institution called Ebay. And then I sniffed Boo and totally fell in love. It isn't linen on me at all, but this lovely spun sugar with caramelized overtones that I desperately wanted to lick. The linen notes must be there somewhere keeping it from going into cloying territory, but it's just the loveliest slightly caramelized vanilla spun sugar scent on me...I want an edible version of this!!!
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A dark, sinister thicket full of gnarly rogue things entwintining themselves around the tree trunks. Though evergreen isn't listed in the notes, it's probably the combination of a few or all of the actual notes that gives it an evergreen-y feel, making Carlin great straight through the holdiay season (not like I care, becasue I wish it was Halloween every day). The anise--anise of which does wonderful things on my skin--isn't too prominent but gives it just a tad of sweetness to keep it from crossing over into hyper-masculine territory. This is my type of green scent, not a fresh-cut grass green but a deep, dark blackened green. If I could describe it in three words it would be...evil Christmas tree!
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Wow. Flat-out gorgeous and a perfect winter blend. I'm getting that same delicious sugarplum note in Midwinter's Eve, except in a warmer blend with the come-hither touchability of white musk and just a hint of a lighted Christmas tree glowing softly in the background with the added sweet warmth of the benzoin. This isn't a frosty winter blend, but rather the warmth of a Christmas party with candles flickering in the windows and heaps of sugarplums on the table. Delicious!
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Essence of a violent winter strom striking the depths of a pine forest? It's in the bag. As a huge fan of raging storms, anything that can capture one in a bottle has my vote entirely. I definitely get the cypress, in both the sense of being frozen by hail and subzero temperatures and singed by lightining. There is a wildly alluring play of heat on cold in this--the frozen hail, ozone and deep cypress vs. the warm olibanum and the electric shock of lighting. Yes!!!
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This is what I'd call a "delicious woody" scent, if that category even exists. It's the rich piney darkness of a Christmas tree with fresh sap still oozing and candied orange peels in the background; definitely reminds me of tree shopping at that time of year with a keg of hot cider to warm up freezing customers. The wood moss and vetiver only make the whole Christmas-tree experience richer, and the orangewood is probably what contributes to the pleasantly sweet orange-peel tinge without being too overbearing. Makes me want to curl up by the fire!
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Mmmmmm...the sleeper hit of my Halloweenie haul! Yummy and foody and a tad buttery with a whiff of incense. I love the golden malty depth beer notes give to foody and/or wheaty blends (think John Barleycorn) and the beer in this makes it even more delicious. Why can't they just feed these to the living instead?
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Mmmmmmm, a bunch of yummy things stuffed into one bottle Like enjoying pumpkin pie and pumpkin ale around some honeyed candlelight outside on the asphalt in the shadows of Mischief Night! Delicious pumpkin, honey and malt beer with the right amount of spooky darkness overhead. Like kerikeri said, great smoky autumn scent, and I'm a sucker for smoky autumn scents. LOVE!
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I definitely get the rose, but it's not overpowering; rather, it blends beautifully with the other notes to really encapsulate the feeling of longing. In relation to the poem's title and theme, the cinnamon in this is perfectly appropriate, like that spark of passion not quite extinguished but still drowned in too much sorrow to blaze fully. The frankincense and musk contribute to this blend's ghostly quality of lost love, and I do get the trace of bay rum that might be the last drop in a bottle that had been drunk down all the way out of misery the night before. Beth certainly has a way with scenting literature, and this is no exception
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Not moldy at all, but more of an "antique" white fabric scent that isn't your great-aunt's mothball-filled closet. Julia Stone is delicate but still manages to be eerie (eerieness being my personal prerequisite for florals as without that element they just get way too girly) just like, say, a rotting once-white antique wedding dress that has been exposed to the elements for a long stretch of time. This isn't the stench of rotting fabric, but rather the evocation of such an image, and definitely deserves some attention!
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I was a little worried about the rosemary and tomato--I can't stand rosemary in food--but since my skin amps sweet stuff and the pumpkin is the sweetest note in here, turns out I didn't have to worry after all It's like sitting outdoors in a pumpkin patch on a crisp fall day eating a slice of pumpkin pie; there's enough foody goodness in here to balance the sharpness of the rosemary and tomato, and the pitch adds nice depth. This one is strong, so unless you want to be a walking human pumpkin patch, just a dab will do ya!
