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very cloyingly sweet batter and berries. the little bit i got on my skin did stay a pretty true berry scent but i guess i'm just not into foods enough to be all that swayed by this. honestly it reminded me of a scent that would be better suited to bath products. i was impressed by how realistic the berries were though.

in the imp: something really sweet and florals. i love hyacinth though so i really want this to work. i don't know about aquatics, i'm not sure that i've worn anything other than snow notes and those gave me a migraine yesterday so i'm hoping this works out better. wet: more sweet florals and something that reminds me of cool water. not really getting the almost soap of hyacinth that i like so much or the fir. dry:starting to get more of the fir and the water. it's very pretty. it'll be good when it gets warmer.

CCNow's order status changes to "Shipped" when your order is harvested. If you just placed the order very recently, from what I understand, CCNow places a temporary hold on your credit card for the purchase amount. It disappears after a few days, but the charge reappears for good once the Lab harvests the orders. i think what i'm getting confused about is that the order never said shipped until well after i actually received the order (not that it matters much i suppose). that combined with the fact that the hold is in place already was what was throwing me off.

just for the sake of honesty: i love the smell of suntan lotion. this may be biasing my review. in the imp: coconut and suntan lotion. i wear a LOT of suntan lotion. this smells like the good stuff. wet: more coconut and the shea note. the aquatic is sniffing around too. dry: suntan lotion! yay! straight up suntan lotion, i feel like i'm at the beach. this may be my summer scent which means that this may be the first bottle i actually break down and buy. i love this. later the musk comes out and i'm left with this wonderful spiced coconut note.

okay i'm really confused. i know that cns has a thing that changes when your order has been harvested. and i know that something bizarre happens to your credit card- like it doesn't get get charged until you pull your order. so if my order says awaiting shipment and my card gets charged, does that mean that my order's been harvested. or am i just get myself more confused than necessary? my last order never said anything beyond awaiting shipment if that helps.

clxxxi in the imp: something sharp and a sweet fruit wet: it makes me sneeze! and it reminds of the church i went to as a kid for some reason too. tea and pears, and a touch of anise maybe. dry: same just less sneezing. edited to add: okay it turns out that i can't wear this at all. i spent all morning sneezing.

This will be an ongoing and updated list! Bolded entries are what I'm willing to swap away immediately- bad, bad skin chemistry issues. Italics are ones that I am not interested in swapping/selling at this time. absinthe akuma bordello candles moon chimera crossroad-needs to be relabeled, using as a ritual oil dana o'shee danse macabre dee 2x dioble en bote doc constantine* dracul Dragon's Heart dragon's hide egle event horizon farewell to false love faunalia i died for beauty incubus intrigue king of hearts ladon Laudanum Le Père Fouettard mason and jenkins port jelly mother shub's toothsome banketstaaf needlework nefrititi nemesis nephilim 2x obatala octopus and abalone diver perversion plunder prurience (sniff) riding the goat sapphics sleipnir (spelling?) spooky res st. john's eve suck it sugar skull tavern of hell 2x the coil- partial the coiled serpent the great sword of war 2x the jersey devil the music of erich zahn 2x tisiphone torture king vice yew trees *only willing to trade for something in the same scent family tea party- new, sale only NOT FOR TRADE (wedding favors) queen of hearts high strung daisies wishlist: German Expressionist Horror A Bachelor's Dog The Grand Inquisitor's Heretic's Fork -any of the four lick its -any weenies AEVAL Anne Bonny Aperotos Eros Archangel Winter BARON SAMEDI belladonna BELLE ÉPOQUE Bengal BLACK FOREST Block Buster Bonfire Night Brimstone Calico Jack chimera clemence Crowley CZERNOBOG de sade (but only in a sniffie) Death of Autumn dee Devil's Night Djinn fenris wolf GRANDMOTHER OF GHOSTS hades Hellfire Hexxenacht HIGHWAYMAN Himerus holly king Jabberwocky Kali Loup Garou Love and Pain Mama Ji mata hari oak king oberon On Darkness Pais de la Canela Priala Red Devil red lantern Rumpelstilzchen Samhainophobia Sin skadi smut snow moon Spider Strangler Fig THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM THE BLACK RIDER THE BLACK TOWER the catapillar the dodo the Goblin Ride The Great He Goat THE LIGHTS OF MEN'S LIVES the music of erich zahn THE OBSIDIAN WIDOW Tintagel Titus Andronicus torture king Ulalume Van Van White Light wraith YEMAYA

A decadent, deep perfume, lusty and luxuriant. The scent evokes images of velvet-lined Old West cathouses, tightly laced corsets, rustling petticoats and coquettish snarls of pleasure. Bawdy plum with amaretto, burgundy wine and black currant. attempt number four to find a blend that doesn't go bad on my skin today. in the imp: airheads! airheads and grape jolly ranchers wet: strong artificial fizzy grape. dry: sweet sugared fruits with a really slow build up of a faint booze note. looses a lot of intensity.if suck it is cherry kool aide this is grape. i like it. it makes me smile.

all the way through from imp to dry it's sweet and light. it's just very slightly spicy with a hint of something fruity and floral. it takes on a more sandalwood edge as it's on the skin. it is very soothing and reminds of the incense that the store that i buy my oils and herbs from uses.

lab fresh imp in the imp: sharp wood and vetiver. notes aren't listing it but it's fresh vetiver. wet: same. some green wood and smoke. dry: settles and smooths a lot. still sharp though- pine/cypress, a hint of vetiver and a slight touch of something smooth and a touch of tonka. definitely not a strong blend, it's actually rather faint. luckily there's not a lot of rose which is a death note for me.

in the imp: well my hunt for what my nose registers as tea tree oil is narrowing down. this has my normal tea tree oil reaction to a lot of the herbal based blends. now i'm getting impressions of fir,cedar and something else though after the initial blast of tea tree oil. wet: apparently this is blast everything even remotely lemon related into the stratasphere weekend. the lemon note in crib girls again same as when i tested doc constantine yesterday. but if doc was eating lemonheads this is more cuisine based, like a lemon rub you'd use of fish or something. there's something sour in a completely unrelated way sitting just underneath it. dry: lemon with something underneath it that i'm really not a fan of. or maybe not. it's calming down the longer it's on. there's a sharp herbal component to this- i'm thinking that rosemary and me may not be destined for an OTP relationship anytime soon. i'm only getting really faint and random whiffs of neroli and the blend may rank higher in my bpal love list if i got more of it. the lavender is calming down- i'm really beginning to think that as much as i like lavender that i may not be able to wear most of the lab's lavender blends. i'm afraid that's what's going sour here because i got that out of king of hearts and farewell to false love too. honestly after about five or ten minutes it's not bad, i just don't see this being one of those blends that i'm going to miss.

frimped from a forumite. hunted down on my quest for a torture king stand in. in the imp: this is a good sign. same blast of nail polish as torture king gave me (it's citrus, probably cedar and leather. didn't know that a month ago when i got torture king) wet: much more citrus than torture king. it's the lemon from crib girls over something vaguely herbal, a touch of leather and something ... moody. guess that doc's not all that happy of a guy and has a thing for lemonheads. dry: this is better. the lemon fades off slightly and it's all leather and musky masculine, with a hit of herbs. the only thing that gives me pause is that i kept catching whiffs of something that smelled a little too...musky, or rather the musk was a little too spot on, and the only other musked blend i was wearing was the protection blend i had made for me yesterday. none of my friends could smell it on me so maybe it was a just a fluke and honestly i really don't care that much, it was just startling. so. this is like torture king but with a different (but still yummy) leather and heavier citrus. it's related but more cousins than brothers (and that would be one hell of a family reunion, just saying). it's a good enough stand in though. will be eventually getting a bottle when my finances can handle it better.

this one's easy. cherry danish all the way through but heavy on the cherry. it's definitely canned cherry filling too, not fresh cherries or cherry koolaide. it's cute. i may try to snag a decant.

decanted about a month ago and received as a trade. in the imp: wow okay i'm not sure why but i was thinking that this was supposed to be fruit-sweet. it smells like leather and herbs wet: more leather and herbs. where's the fruit? (now that i see the note list there's no fruit because well there's not supposed to be. i'm not sure what it was that i was actually thinking about). dry: sweeter but still leather and incense. i'm getting a patch vibe. slight, very slight, booze note with a touch of vanilla. it smells like the notes underneath the fig in nephilim which is a blend that i love too.

lab fresh imp. someone gave me this thinking it would work better on my skin than on theirs (i'm guessing that it means that neither of us knew about the florals since i amp them into oblivion). in the imp: spiced white florals. not really all that strong though. wet: ...nothing? this is odd. wait now i'm getting a whiff of floral. dry: orange blossom with a touch of something else. just a hint of other florals and the patch. i actually really like this. this is the first floral that didn't send either me or my boy into a frenzy. it's really light on me though. it's going to get used but probably not replaced unless i end up with another frimp.

i'm not sure that i like the scent on the skin but it's definitely changing my mood...i'm not so sure that i'm more relaxed so much as i'm not tense about my appearance or my body (and confidence is a large chunk of attraction). i don't have a particular person in mind and magickally speaking i've been dumped down a rabbit hole so this may not be the best time to be testing this, but it's been jumping out of the imp box so no time like the present i guess? i also don't have a particular individual in mind either so this may come out muddled. update: well. i guess it worked. sort of? i didn't get any male attention but the women around me were nicer than normal. i know that's not the intention of the oil but that's what seemed to work out for me...

frimped with recent purchase, came in yesterday. *it's odd. i've noticed recently that all the frimps/gifted imps that i've gotten lately are either all the same thematically or things that i've been looking for. right now i'm looking for calming/meditative blends and this just came in the mail along with a couple of others of the same type, all randomly. in the imp: lavendar wet: single note lavendar dry: more lavendar with something underneath- my boy's words. i'm guessing mint of some sort or the fennel others are talking about. the boy likes it. that's all i really care about. if this works as a calming bend i may be getting more of it.

in the imp: incense and vetiver/smoke wet: incense and vetiver/smoke dry: incense and vetiver/smoke but increasingly light and sweet. whiffs of something almost fruity. increasingly patchouli and the smoke starts dying down. reminds me of ritual- reminds me of a dragon ritual i went to this summer specifically though i'm not sure why. masculine but i also can't see this on a guy either. huh. don't know how i feel about this one. it sort of sets my teeth on edge, but i like it at the same time. i do have to say though that it's calming in an odd way.

warm leather or something that's registering as leather-like. similarily there's something that's reminding of being smoke like without actually being smoke. definitely masculine.

i knew going into this that this wasn't going to be a blend that wasn't going to be very high on my list. this one though...didn't even make it to skin testing, which is bizarre with me- there's only been three or four scents like that for me. in the imp it's a slam of vanilla- like cheap imitation cooking vanilla. underneath that there's something that reminded me a lot of dirty laundry or the bottom of a mesh laundry cube. honestly it just reminded me too much of dorms near the end of semester when people run out of laundry time so they just douse their laundry piles with stuff to freshen up their rooms a bit.

for whatever reason zarita really smells like marshmallow fluff fudge. it smells like my mom's kitchen at christmas. it wasn't bad but not what i was expecting at all.

i only tested this out of a friend's imp box because i had it ordered and i was afraid that i'd hate it. in the imp: it's...meh. it reminds me of axe a little bit. it smells like something that's a knock of something that wants to smell like the theme. oh no. this doesn't bode well for my imp in the mail. wet: more meh. it smells like a knock off cologne. dry: OH HOLY HELLS THANK THE PERFUME GODS FOR MORPHING. my friend flat out gave me her imp after smelling it on me. this is rich deep sexy and powerful. it's edgy. it takes on this very warm and almost leathery note without it being leather. there's something that smells like it should be boozy but it's not. i don't remember registering floral in it, but at the same time i remember thinking that this wasn't a guy scent at all regardless of what i was getting initially, this is the type of thing that i can see on one of the big name flappers and society girls during the interwar period- this is a great gasby type scent all the way. i adore it for that- i'm totally obsessed with interwar america. so now i have two imps of it and those imps are probably going to spawn a whole clan of tavern of hell imps if i'm not careful.

i didn't do a skin test because i apparently lost my mind for a minute but this is one of the best imp scents that i've come across. it's subdued florals (but not weak. definitely not weak) surrounded by rain and dirt and rum. honestly, this reminds me of what a good alter should smell like. it smells like offerings to santa muerte or hecate or another of the cross roads deities. it's definitely a death scent, but it's the type of scents that reminds you that death shouldn't be feared because it's too powerful and there's no point of fearing it. it's beautiful, and i will be getting my hands on my own imp. edited to add: this is also the first dirt note that i recognized instantly as dirt in the vial. i hadn't found a blend with a dirt note that actually smelled like dirt to me before.

in the imp: candied florals wet: sweet citrus and florals. i'm getting a blood orange or tangello vibe but i have a hard time thinking that it is either (reading the note list i realize that it's the grapefruit). white florals that are behaving behind the citrus. zingingly sweet. dry: same as wet, but it's morphing and loosing its sweetness after another amping of citrus (it went a little sweettart on me for a minute), now i'm getting more tea and ginger. the citrus has moved to the back. honestly this is more what i thought j horror would be like. i do like it, but luckily i don't wear florals enough to see myself ever wanting to replace it.

starbuck's pumpkin coffee syrup. then it goes popcorn on me (supposedly, i didn't really get that vibe but my friend did from my arm). so nope, off of my wishlist...