skyelyric

In the imp this smells just like good marzipan, wet on my skin it turns into the scent of an oats, honey and almond soap that I used to love. Unfortunately this gets sucked into my skin and just leaves a vague sweetness behind. Need to find another use for this because I really enjoy the scent while it's around. edit for undead perfume?: I keep noticing some soft sweetness wafting around a few hours later, so I sniff my wrist and find that Dana O'Shee has resurrected itself into this powdery sweet cream fragrance I can't stop whiffing. definitely have to try wearing this again.

Got this one as a frimp: uncork without looking up the notes, wave the wand around under my nose, stop dead. Burnt patchouli? Being brave, I put a tiny bit on the back of my hand (this was seriously making me dizzy), and after it finally dried I got kind of a spicy woody sweet incense, which reminded me of nothing so much as an old tobacco shop in the mall (yeah, about 2 decades ago) that I loved to go into because they had all the little pewter dragons and interesting chess boards and such. So I dodged a headache and got a very cool memory from it. Later I read the notes and reviews and got even more confused. Yay body chemistry? It's been sitting in the dark settling for a few days now and I got brave enough to be sniffy again, just in the imp, and this time the orange blossom poked up through the incense cloud, so I have hopes that this will age into something really nice if I just leave it alone for a while.

I have a really hard time picking out individual notes in this one, but I love it. In the imp and wet it's like citrus hard candy, tangy and syrupy, but somehow not in a foody way. As it dries the grapefruit fades (citrus...sigh), but what's left is sweet and unusual and very playful. This is a great scent for me at work when my brain just checks out--every time I'd turn I'd get a tiny whiff of a different note...here the appleblossom, there the grapefruit, like it's checking to see if I'm still paying attention. This lasts fairly well on me (5-6 hours) but there's minimal throw so it's a rather private sort of scent. Definitely one of my favorites so far and likely a future bottle.

I know I share your musk woes, so our chemistry might be similar. For summery scents I love Embalming Fluid (this is the only white musk that doesn't go funky on me, there's little enough there that it just adds a hint of sweetness) which is citrusy tea, and Kumiho which is tea and ginger, smells very cool and clean to me. If you want something a little sweeter, but still light, maybe try Baobhan Sith. It's got a light citrusy scent but it's sweetened up really nicely with the apple blossom.

In the imp and wet this is biting, sparkling citrus with just a hint of sweetness underneath. It makes my nose tingle and I'm excited! And it dries, and I pout. White musk goes incredibly sweet on me, and I amp it like nobody's business, so my skin just destroyed this scent.

my first wear-all-day test yesterday In the imp and wet it's lovely, a sweet fruity floral. Oddly, it reminds me of a salon shampoo....Biolage maybe? On the drydown it gets sweeter and sweeter and less fruity. And after a day of 'Oh gods, what have I done?!' I realize this is not a blend for me. After the first hour, maybe hour and a half, none of the apricot or floral remains and I'm left with a cloud of pure perfume-y sweet that lasted all day. I didn't put much on at all, but it was so strong that I kept being afraid my customers were going to get headaches from dealing with me. It finally got faint after about 7 or 8 hours. *** I tried a couple imps at home last night, and after comparing reactions on my skin and note lists, I can safely say white musk is the devil on me. /sigh