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Underbed smells like one of those chocolate-coconut candies...Mounds? For a while I smelled something minty but now that's gone and I smell plastic. This is too foody for me...

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I have a 1/2 decant of this now (1st test was a drop from a soaked qtip) so I can do a better review. The cassia is very intense upon application, but after 3 minutes it starts to fade and I smell a lovely chocolate-coconut cake. I love that it's not too sweet and foody and I'm thrilled I can wear it because cinnamon oil irritates my skin and cassia doesn't.

Mmmmmm! Smells like patchouli and dark madagascar vanilla syrup. I would almost expect to see vanilla bean specks in the oil. On the dry down I smelled a little earthy-mustiness which is obviously hemp, but it faded away pretty quickly. Right now my wrist smells like pure vanilla and I'm in love. THEY NEED TO GET MORE OF THIS STUFF IN STOCK!!

ETA. After some time aging, this perfume loses the hemp note (imo). The result is a smooth blend of patchouli and vanilla that almost smells chocolatey. I've bought a couple of fresh bottles and they still have the musty hemp note...nothing that a few months in a dark box won't fix.

I love patchouli with an unholy passion. It's the same patchouli as Goblin, with some frankincense and a drop of cedar (which is the same stuff I smell in Mme. Moriarty). I really like this oil and I can't wait to try it out in my next yoga class.

Fruit punch! I love fruity-sweet scents so this is perfect. It reminds me of Loli.Goth without the musk.

ETA: I sniffed this again today and I noticed a distinct orange note. It still smells like fruit-punch, but with thick, syrupy orange juice...or is that a big splash of Grand Marnier?

This is a green, crystalline musk floral (aka sexy!) I felt a minty cooling sensation on my forearm when I applied the oil, which must be the mugwort. I can pick out black orchid, cucumber, green grass (?) and massoia. There is a general fruitiness to this blend but I can't tell if it's pear because it doesn't smell like pear to me.

I just put this on my full bottle wish list. It's one of my favorite Lunacies next to FRM and Panther Moon.

^^I have Ondine's unwanted mini roll-on now.

I've always wanted to try one of these "ethereal florals" I keep reading about. In the bottle it smells sweetly floral. On my skin it's a cool, succulent white floral with a touch of fruitiness like a young white peach and honeydew melon. I had a vision of a moonlit garden. It dries down to a soft, sweet floral. I've never smelled Herbal Essences but now it smells like it could be a shampoo scent.

This is very pretty but I wish I could smell more musk and sandalwood.

I have no idea what year mine is...it's in a cobalt bottle so it's old aged.

Bottle: Boring florals. I didn't test this for a week because I wanted to "write it off" as a floral scent.

Wet: Night-blooming floral which smells like jasmine. A little incense. Brown sugar.

Dry: Brown sugar and creamy white floral. I rubbed my inner elbow a little and sniffed again and now I'm smelling bitter dark chocolate.

I'm one of the few who loves jasmine and other night-blooming white flowers, especially when combined with incense and sugar. This smells so velvety, luxurious, and delicious. I'd love to roll myself in a puddle of this. It's that good.

Bottle: Smells yucky

Wet: I don't smell vetiver in this at all. As a matter of fact, this smells like Goblin's weaker younger brother. I smell black coconut and something like the patchouli in Goblin but it's nowhere near as delicious.

Dry: All that's left after 4 hrs is a sugary skin scent.

I had high hopes for this with coconut + currant, but I was underwhelmed.

Rawrrrr! I bought this because I love black cats and the notes made me think it would be amazing.

Bottle: HEAVY musk.

Wet: It's the color of dirty motor oil. Smells like dark, luscious, resiny musk. It reminded me of a more masculine Smut. I didn't slather but I put a few dabs around like I usually do and it was too much.

Dry: Nag Champa incense <angels singing>. The heavy musk phase has calmed down and I notice it really does have a Snake Charmer vibe. I love this phase!

3 hrs later: It still smells like Snake Charmer but very close to the skin.

So glad I bought this slinky black Panther bottle.

I have a new Holy Grail quest out for Underpants. I was gifted a sample and it's as good as I thought it would be.

First sniff was scary. I smelled the same sweet cream note from MB: Closet which smelled a little funny on my skin upon initial application. After a few seconds, this exploded with saffron, vanilla, and butter rum. My skin loves this. It's soft and sexy and it made me want to cuddle with my kitty cat and just sniff my arm all night. I've had this on for about 4 hours now and I can still smell it lingering, but now it's a lovely caramel. There was a very short plasticky phase when I sniffed up close, but it's worth enduring.

I love hard-candy scents. This smells like a fluorescent glittering rainbow...or a lemon, pineapple, strawberry, and cherry Blow-Pop, and marshmallows. And it lasts! Drool.

ETA: I found a bottle of this on eBay and it's more marshmallow than the decant I have. It's still delicious.

I debated on buying a bottle of this after reading the reviews, since they were all over the place. Since I'm a sucker for blackberry and I lovvvve Red Velvet, I went for it.

Upon initial application, I get a buttery cupcake smell that scared me for a few seconds. Then the blackberry intensified and I was in love. The blackberry was sweet with just the right amount of tartness, as if the foody notes kept it from turning it cough-syrupy.

The bottle art is super cute too. I'd give this a 3/5.

This is everything I hoped it would be after reading the description. Lush, creamy vanilla, sandalwood and oak...sweet, citrusy apricot (not a foody apricot but more like Burt's Bee's apricot baby oil). It had decent lasting power, too.

This scent feels like it casts a hazy golden aura all over me. A truly spectacular experience!

Smut 2006

This is a muskier version of Snake Oil. I loved the intense but smooth musk and dark boozy notes when it was wet, and the final dry down of chocolatety goodness. It's competing with Snake Oil for my #1 scent. Super sexy and delicious.

2008 version

Smut lite. It seems watered-down. I'll use it in the Summer when I feel naughty but can't have a super-heavy perfume on.

2010 version

This is similar to 2006 Smut, but with a vanilla ice cream note. I guess this is what newer Smut smells like or there's a different component...I'm guessing the latter because the oil color is considerably lighter than my motor oil thick '06 bottle.

(ETA descriptions of different Smut vintages)

I have a hard time picking out all of the notes but it's generally resiny, woody, sweet, and spicy. I smell a faint ginger spiciness that reminds me of the same ginger in Flesh Eating Reindeer, champaca, benzoin, musk and myrrh. I also get a "dusty" feel from this. I live in the desert and whenever I wear perfume I could still smell it hours later under a dusty film. This smells like that..

I'm so glad I bought a bottle of this, it's a very alluring and complex blend. Too bad it doesn't have better throw and lasting power.

So - Coconut is my holy grail/never fail/can be relied on to get a man (and several women) to stick his nose in my cleavage, fabled note of deliciousness. For some reason, even the cheapest and shabbiest of vaguely coconut scented things smell wonderful on me (must be my polynesian blood lines), so you can imagine the awesomeness that is coconut BPAL.

 

I plan to order a bottle of Tiki Princess this week and I thought I'd compliment that purchase with a 6-pack of coconut imps. I've found 9 impable scents with coconut mentioned in the ingredients and I need help to eliminate three of them.

 

Coconut Death Match!!

 

The contestants are:

 

Brown Jenkin

Blood Pearl

Black Pearl

Goblin

Elegba

Obatala

Shango

Roses, Pearls and diamonds

Eden

 

I have Black Pearl (love) already but my imp is running low and Obatala is definitely looking like a strong contender.

 

Round one. Fight!

I didn't think Blood Pearl was a good coconut scent. I can barely smell coconut over the orris and it ends up just smelling perfumey. I still need to try Black Pearl but I can say that Obatala (fresh watery coconut) and Goblin (black coconut) are winners. Goblin is on my to-order list when we get the update.

Huh...I haven't reviewed this yet.

This has two of my favorite scents in the whole world: Snake Oil and honey. The honey is sweet and delicious, like orange blossom honey; and I can't say anything bad about Snake Oil. This is a true winner and well worth tracking down more bottles in the future.

This barely smelled like anything in the bottle, and on my skin it was nothing spectacular. Wet, it's floral and pear and drydown is floral and light musk. I really wanted to love this. Maybe I'll mix it with something else. The art-deco label is gorgeous though.

In the vial: Lemon and spices

Wet on skin: Lemon, beeswax and saffron

Dry: Beeswax, hyssop, honey, saffron, balsam, cedar, nutmeg, ginger and sage

It's a sweet, masculine scent and I love to wear those. This is going on my must-have bottle list.

I also smell dark berries in this blend. It's beautiful, just the right amount of musk, vanilla, and honeysuckle. I don't even smell rose.

Obnoxiously almond/cherry. I'm reminded a little of Bastet, but this doesn't hold a candle to her. It's too sweet and cloying. Must. Wash. Off.

"Gnarly Patchouli" indeed! The oil leaked out of the imp all over my fingers for a second I was a little overwhelmed. Now, a few minutes later, the coconut and benzoin are doing their magic and making this incredibly delicious. I like that eventually, the intensity dies down but the notes stay true. Another one going on the "bottle list".

Hippie rating: 5 bongs

This *almost* smells like my beloved YSL In Love Again. It just needs a little grapefruit and currant. It's very fresh and vibrant, and I can almost taste the suspiciously yellow and super-sugary "fresh lemonade" I get served at my favorite Thai restaurant.

Woo, this is strong. Frankincense is definitely the front runner here, violet next. I don't smell cinnamon and the oil isn't burning my skin. Initially this had some promise but it ended up smelling like generic perfume.

This is very perfume-y in the imp. I put a dab on my forearm and smudged it a little and sniffed. Amber and musk blend perfectly and I feel so delicious. It's not so heavy that I'd classify this as an evening scent, but I wouldn't wear this in the middle of Summer in LV.

Hmm...on further dry down it gets a little powdery, then I'm reminded of Snake Oil.