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In the imp- hello vetiver

Wet- the vetiver would like you to know that the rumors are true, it can in fact smell like bbq and creosote

Dry down-I like vet blends enough to know to ride it out. Eventually the vet calms down to a murky greeness in the background and the blend becomes surprisingly light. It's very vegetal and I suspect a black resin in there somewhere.

Heavily masculine and probably would do well in a body product. I honestly don't hate it but I'm not sure I'm ever going to want to smell like this straight up but I'm in a 'try layering everything with amber' stage and this might be fun to dirty up blends.

I get nothing of the apple or even the rum.

It's straight up pastry, maybe oatmeal cookies. Something very close to skin is going plasticy. At least this cookie is baked, unlike my issues with gingerbread notes reading as raw on my skin.

It's actually very comforting though I will try layering it with an apple dominate blend.

Overbearing pink gum and something that smells like that pink antibiotic they gave kids in the 80s.

Almost single note citrus, straight through. The longer on skin, it warms up a little. It's a wet, juicy orange, not like cleaner.

This is another blend that goes a little flat on me alone but will be nice for layering to boost other orange blends.

In the imp-perfumy apple. Not fall candle apple, but closer to that than orchard apples

Wet: apples and water. Definitely smells like the bobbing tub

Dry: it keeps alternating between a pure sweet aquatic and the wet stage

I wish there were slightly more apple with this, but apple is currently one of the notes I'm hoarding so I'm sure I could layer it

I've been out of the loop for awhile now.

If I like Eve, which is rose, apple blossom, honey, and something else I don't remember off the top of my head, is there something I should be keeping an eye out for?

In the imp-I get apple and something woody

Wet-all apple

Dry-apple and vanilla with something like a wood, but may not be a wood, in the background.

It's not terribly complex on me, but I've bought three or four blends like this since Yule so this is definitely the type of oil in into right now. It's actually very pretty.

In the imp: honey with a floral I don't recognize

Wet: it smells like honey cough syrup. The floral is still there but it smells like an herbal, like herbal tea

Dry down: the longer it's on the more complexity it picks up. The honey gets very rich and sticky, and I can see the candy comparison. There's something in this that reads as red fruit but I suspect is actually a flower interacting with the honey.

This is the best of the plant + honey blends I've tried. Sensual though I wouldn't necessarily call it sexy.

I worried a little about this one, metal often turns to screaming and headaches on me

In the imp: high pitched citrus

Wet: sage, citrus, and amber. Not navel orange, maybe orange and lemon?

Dry: the amber pulls back and is just the citrus and the sage. The sage starts fading and I get a nice sweet citrus.

I rather like it.

I bought a bottle when first released and it was a very dry honey dominant blend.

It has aged into a lovely, creamy orange and strawberry blend. I don't necessarily get Creamsicle from it, the honey is still fairly dry and keeps it from going that foodie on me.

In the imp I get a vaguely sweet sharpness [i'm still getting my note awareness back]

Wet on the skin: ...nothing. Absolutely nothing. It's actually disconcerting.

Dry: I eventually I get something like the long dry down of a floral incense with a smoke note. If I try I get the maple note, but it's the way sap smells when being boiled.

Either I'm completely nose blind to this one or my meds are doing it no favors.

This one will require another testing but I think I like it?

Something in this is trying to go sour on my skin but woods as a whole tend to work well on my skin and are keeping this fairly stable. The vanilla and the peach push this to the sweet side.

The longer it's on skin the sweeter and warmer it becomes. It had been slightly powdery, but both the softness and the powdery feel are burning off.

I don't know if I'm going to want this to wear alone but as a layering blend it has space in my box.

Hmmm...another white floral that smells slightly off on me that turns to soap.

-However- this is a ritual oil of a type [i'm sure there's a better word, the coffee hasn't kicked in yet] so I'm interested to see if it works as intended.

I'm retesting and re-reviewing everything I own due to medical/medicine changes.

In the imp-I would have pegged this as a white floral, but I sometimes get that from lilac

Wet: Oh gods what have I done. Something in this does not like me at all. I would have definitely put money on there being white musk in this blend.

Dry: Meat. It smells like meat. And hairspray. Sometimes violet on me is great, and sometimes it's meat. This is a meat blend.

into the frimp box you go.

I get a blast of the lab's almond note, which goes to syrupy fake cherry on my skin, then it's layered with stale coffee cake. As it settles that combo burns off until I'm left with a sort of generic Halloween candle vibe. The longer it's on skin, the more it settles and the more I like it, but I don't see myself reaching for it either.

Occasionally I run into a blend that gives me a really intense mental image of theme-and this is one of them; this is October in a vial. I get a blast of pumpkin right away, then the candle wax which makes this smell like a jack o lantern. The peach starts coming forward. Unfortunately the peach is a little too strong for me and makes this more of a 'thematic' blend than a wearable one for me, but this is such a cool oil. Even with the peach this conjures up October to my nose.

this is an exceptionally rare bpal. this got the 'midnight stamp of approval'-and my bf doesn't like bpal pretty much across the board.

it's is definitely in the scent family that people call masculine-on me this is a slightly less sweet/spicy take on the way that cloved cigerrettes used to leave me smelling. if nothing else i do like it for nostalgia reasons. if this had a booze note this is what clubbing used to smell like for me.

all I get out of this is bright red, sweet fruits and a hint of grass-which I'm guessing is the holly. this is very pretty, and fluffy. this is going to be very nice for spring, and i think that is one i would actually use of a bottle of-so it's staying.

it does feel vaguely like a middle ground between the second of the two spirits and midwinter's eve.

This is so much lighter and cleaner than I thought it would be-and it's amazing.

Bordering on an aquatic, this is a graveyard during spring thaw. I grew up on a flood plain, and this was what mid-March smelled with-fresh, clean, WET soil, early flowers, and fresh air. There's something sort of fizzy about this scent that makes it kind of playful. The longer it's on, the more the fruits and roses come out. The fizz wears off and the mud/dirt note recedes (which makes me sort of sad, I loved that note when it was forward) and I swear I start reading tobacco.

This is amazing all the way around. This is officially the second lunacy I've liked and that's actually worked on my skin.

Hellfire. I love the way that it smells on me, but not the blisters it leaves.

Dorian. I don't really like the way that it smells on me and it makes me sneeze.

I don't know if it's an allergy, but the lab's snow notes are almost always instant headache triggers for me.

And there will always be the blend that will break all the rules.

The lab's snow note is horrible on me, to the point of being pain inducing. If there's a snow note in there that other people are picking up on, I'm not getting it at all. Or any white florals, but a lot more of the white florals that normally hate me seem to be playing nice on my skin lately.

I agree that I'm not getting plum out of this blend-it's candied strawberries. It reminds me a lot of the sugared berries I leave in the fridge to break down before I make jam. I like this note more in Mania, but this is nice too. If I try hard I can get the florals muttering in the background but the throw is entirely berries and sugar.

Very young, and very early to midsummer, not midwinter.

Very pretty, and one of few 'pretty' blends I feel like keeping in my collection. White florals almost never work on me, going too floral or too intense. But this is a fairly close to skin, light, early spring/easter feeling. It reminds me a lot of vampire tears, which is my default white floral blend but this almost simple enough to stand out. Not quite a single note but still a very pared down blend on my skin-which I prefer for my florals.

It seems that I've missed reviewing this one.

This is pretty much straight musk on my skin, and I'm guessing at least one of them is brown. This is slightly fuzzy and quite warm. It goes kind of sweet after awhile.

This is a pretty laid musk blend on my skin and I do enjoy it.

gingerbread poppet. this is pretty much a (very slightly) spicier gingerbread poppet on my skin. then it takes a hard sharp turn into ivory soap, which makes no sense but shrug.

Hi. I'm a pine tree. Don't you wish you could smell like me? Did I mention I'm a giant, demonic pine tree that's going to destroy not only the other notes in the blend but slowly creep up and wipe up any other scent in the room?

How about waking you up? Didn't I warn you that I was going to wake you up in the middle of the night?

...Yep STRONG single note pine. As much as I love pine this proves to me I never need a SN.