Phades

In the imp: clean, coming close to being cleaning-products smelling, but not there yet. On the skin: much less of a cleaning-products vibe, the crisp "whiteness" definitely comes across more than the citrus. Smells fresh, faintly moist - but in the manner of dew, not humidity, if that makes any sense. It's a cool, self-contained moisture, not a hanging, pervasive moisture. It makes me think of a cool breeze on a warm day, one that raises goosebumps but they vanish momentarily under the gentle warmth of the sun. I can't detect the vanilla at all, though it is becoming sweeter as time goes on. 1/2 hour later: Hmm... now completely dry it smells a bit like laundry-clean - not the smell of actual clean laundry, but the smell of laundry products, dryer sheets in particular maybe? Too bad, I think this one is not the clean scent for me.

The Ridiculously Overlong Wishlist/Potential Interest List Bottle Candidates - GC Jack Bottle Candidates - LE/Discontinued But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light Frau Holle Imp Wishlist - GC (stuff I just want to try sometime that wasn't high enough priority to get from the lab) Aelopile Against Idleness and Mischief Aglaea Alice The Antikythera Mechanism Arcana Baghdad Belle Epoque Belle Vinu Bengal Bien Loin D'Ici Black Cat Black Lily Black Phoenix Black Rose Blood Blood Rose Burial Cairo Chimera Desire The Dodo Dorian Dragon's Musk Eclipse Eternal (out of sheer curiosity, since I have no familiarity with the first three notes mentioned) Fae Fascinum Faustus Fenris Wolf (maybe) Forbidden Fruit *Glasgow (pending) Helena Hemlock Hermia The Hesperides Hollywood Babylon (maybe... probably way too sweet for my taste) Hunger I Died For Beauty La Petite Mort Lady Macbeth The Lady of Shalott Lampades Leanan Sidhe Les Bijoux Love-Lies-Bleeding Love's Torments Lysander Malediction Masquerade Mouse's Long and Sad Tale Niflheim Nyx Old Scratch Phantom Pride Prunella Prurience The Raven The Red Queen Robin Goodfellow Saturnalia Shub-Niggurath Spellbound Sundew Tamora Thorns Tintagel Tombstone Wanda (maybe, not sure about the merlot) Wicked Decant Wishlist LE/Discontinued/Unimpable Stuff I'd like to try Bruja Loviatar Vinland Hod 2009 Purple Phoenix Snake Charmer Gypsy Queen House of Mirrors Pirate Moon The Gladdener of All Hearts [Luper] Signior Dildo Smut Womb Furie Love's Philosophy [Lunacy] Blood Moon Candles Moon Chaste Moon Cold Moon The Emathides Falling Leaf Moon Honey Moon [Yules] The First Soft Snow Snowball Fracas Skadi [Neil Gaiman] The Lady on the Grey Lady Una War [Carnival Diabolique] The Phantom Calliope Mme. Moriarty Melisande Arachnina Faiza Death Adder (possibly other snake pit ones too) The Wild Men of Jezirat Al Tennyn Cytherea *Inez The Illustrated Woman The Torture Queen The Maltese Cross of Sanctus Germanus [Panaceas] Elixir II: Succor Elixir IV: Quietude Elixir V: Moxie Elixir IX: TKO Elixir X: Grr Elixir XI: Oof [salon] And There Was A Great Cry In Egypt Cloister Graveyard in the Snow Lucretia Orpheus Silence Three Brides The Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun Love and Pain Philosopher in Meditation Schlafende Baigneuse [The District] Crib Girls Emma BPTP LE/Discontinued things L'Estate Other Etailers (samples desired, unless otherwise noted) Blooddrop Bisou Devonshire Cottage Diabolique Mourning Dove [LE] C'est Fini Tainted Love Conjure Oils Bastet Bat's Blood Brigid El Corazon El Sol *Eriskegal Imbolc Joan of Arc La Corona La Luna Lammas Leo Love Eternal Morrigan Nephthys Persephone Radio Bastet Saggitarius Shapeshifter The Shadowy Shawl Haus of Gloi Honey Tree Poison Apple Apothecary Fortuna Gwyllion Lady Victoria Madagascar Pumpkin Coach Possets BBC - Big Black Cat Cerulean Blue Dark Lady Hayden Huile of Fortune Les Girls - Helen Bedd Madame X Penelope Silver Bells The Girls Love Chai The Girls Love India Ultramarine Blue Vernal Sun Villainess Blush soap Canaan perfume oil Villainess perfume oil Violette Market Along The Silk Road Dark Moon Kiss Library of Alexandria October Remorse Vintage Beekeeper Wiggle Anjali Black No 1 Buxom Nicosia Odessa Sakura Theda Woobie Bete Noir Fruit Loopy Midnight Storm Raspberry Fluff Red Lace Vanilla Tea Wales Witchy Karma Blissful Wylde Ivy African Vanilla Bean Black Cat Crystal Amber He Loves Me Not In The Shadows Pale Vanilla Wood Nymph Wylde Vanilla ZOMG Smells Barbaric Splendor Spacebat

This list is more up to date: Ratings/reviews at my ScentBase page Imps/Decants Anactoria Athens Aureus Bat Belladonna Bilquis Black Opal Black Pearl (frimp) Blood Kiss Bloodlust Black Tower Blood Amber Blood Countess Boadicea Brisingamen But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light (partial) The Caterpillar Centzon Totochtin (frimp) The Chapel Crossroads Darkness Death Cap Ded Moroz 2009 Dee The Deep Ones (frimp) Dirty Dragon's Blood Dragon's Claw Dragon's Heart Dragon's Milk Doodad Eos Eros Evening Cicadas and Red Peppers Fallen Florence (frimp) French Love Gaueko Hades Haunted Hetairae Hymn to Proserpine In Winter My Room Incantation Iron Phoenix (partial) Jack Khrysee (frimp, pretty much empty) The King of Hearts La Belle Dame Sans Merci Labores Solis Languor Lead Phoenix Les Infortunes De La Vertu (partial) The Light of Men's Lives Lilium Inter Spina (frimp) Longing Loralei Lust Lyonesse The Magi Mead Moon Midnight Kiss The Miller's Daughter Moon of the Terrible The Music of Erich Zahn Nephilim Now Winter Nights Enlarge Nuit O Obatala Odin Peitho Persephone Phantom Queen (partial) Pumpkin II 09 Quicksilver Phoenix Red Moon (partial) Sacred Whore of Babylon Sed Non Satiata Sin Sloth Skuld Snake Oil Snow Flakes 2009 Snow White 2009 Sol Invictus 2009 Somnus (frimp) Summer's Last Will Tempest Temple of Dreams Tezcatlipoca (partial) Tin Phoenix Tiresias Two Loves Water of Notre Dame Under the Harvest Moon Urd Vasilissa Vechernyaya Velvet Voodoo Whoso List To Hunt Windward Passage (frimp) Yggdrasil Zephyr Arcana Ganesh (sample) The Ulda 5ml Winternights 5ml Four Seasons Fragrance August: Sultry Summer sample Auric Blends 1/3 oz Egyptian Goddess Vanilla

This is one of the first imps whose bottle-smell isn't objectionable to me. In the imp it smells wet, clean, natural, a bit watery. On the skin - I definitely agree with the greenness other reviews have mentioned. An aquatic green, definitely, rather than a foresty leafy green or a grassy field green. Water that is still, but clean, comes to mind - bordered with cattails and floating with lilypads, but not stagnant at all. Is it my imagination, or is there an element of tea to it? There're floral elements (I gather that's the violet?) but they're not overly strong; they fit well. I agree the scent is pretty strong - I think I may dilute it when using it in the future. Not sure I'll get more than my current imp, but I'll definitely be keeping the imp at least.

I got this one as a mostly-empty freebie with a forum order, and it's quite a pleasant surprise! A bit incensey, maybe a bit fruity? (I'm terrible at picking out notes, hopefully I'll get better at it with time and practice!) Not one I would have tried of my own volition, but I'm glad I got the sample. I did get a sinus headache after wearing this for a few hours, though. Hopefully it's unrelated - I'll have to test it again later to see for sure.