Lycanthrope

Bottle: Caramel vanilla.

Wet: Buttery, rich vanilla, gourmand (not floral).

Drying: Turning even more buttery, if that's possible. This phase rocks! This scent is very richly caramel and sticky, almost toffee-like. It reminds me a lot of Shill but with less pure butter. This is more scorched sugar, like caramel.

Dry: It's pretty much sitting at the single note Caramel stage for me. I'm not getting a great deal of peanut, which is all for the best I suppose. No other nutty notes. This has really captured that whole brittle butter scent, which is that 'back of the throat' salt taste. The caramel rises up but it's not burnt, it's laden with sugar, which gives it that extra kick.

10 m: Is that a little nutmeat I detect? *snorf* Maybe. Still wonderful toffee-caramel.

 

Overall: OMG, if this were GC.

 

Thank you Ma Shub!

 

ETA: Man, now I have to get some Garrett's popcorn.

 

NOM NOM NOM - NOM NOM NOM *nibbles back of hand*

Sparkly, is what I get. Very almond-y, that fizzy/cyanide-y topnote. The lime and cherry make this smell very close to a cherry cola. Dries down to a faint, slightly sugary almond after-aroma.

 

It's nice. I dunno if I'll get another bottle though. Very light.

Hm. Interesting, verrry interesting.

 

This has similarities to Kingsport, but mostly in the drydown. From the imp it's an airy, misty, bubbly ocean aroma with definite sweet flower (that would be the awapuhi). None of the real seaweed scent of Windward Passage. It's not as aquatic as I thought it would be, but it has an almost translucent, ethereal quality to it that still says 'bright tropical sea!' as opposed to Kingsport's 'gray Atlantic seaboard' aroma. My sniffer must be off because I really don't get any seaweed from this.

 

I'd say... pleasant white tropical flower and sea spray, no lemons, no lemongrass.

 

I do like it. I'm not sure I will invest in another bottle but it's pleasant.

Am I crazy?

 

For this smells of pine, apples, and seven-up.

 

Dries down to nearly nothing on my skin but a whisper of something sharp, an ozone remnant.

 

Have you tried Villainess's Frostbite soap? 'cause this is similar.

Here's my brief two thoughts on this scent, as I managed to hit it right desc-wise on the LUSH forums:

 

Initially it's burnt sugar with some kinda dark fruits, blueberries or blackberries, and eventually it dries down to something akin to a sweeter, deep fruit leather.

Athens smells to me like the honey syrup I make while making baklava (cinnamon, orange zest, rosewater, water and honey)...

 

I say Bengal reminds me of it because it's a spicy dough foody scent.

I may or may not have KO'd a guy next to me (he moved) wearing Love's Philosophy that reactivated with cardio.

 

Oops.

It's so... seaweed!

 

The vial almost made me go arrrrrr in a different sort of way, because I could really smell the wet-rotty-squishiness of the seaweed, but the drydown is marvelously aquatic and it makes me want to swash some buckles and yo ho a few bottles of rum.

 

It also brings to mind the New England coast, so that's very nice. I wish I lived by a real ocean, and not a gigantic lake, heh heh.

So, echoing what people have said about this being woodsmoke and charred logs.

 

I haven't written a review for a while as I'm usually overwhelmed with scents that I have come out of hiding to remark on what is truly, really, very accurately one of the weirdest, quirkiest and most non-Lycanthrope-wearable and not-sure-to-use-as-room-scent aromas I've experienced this year.

 

It's a brief description, but each element is there. Brimstone to me is powerful smoke + vetiver + cinnamon. Inferno was tons of cinnamon and smoke. Djinn? Myrrh + smoke.

 

Agnes makes me think of:

1) Black peppery, crackled air after a gunshot. It smells warm, your body is tingling from the discharge, you're not sure if you can relax.

2) You've doused the campfire. Because you're weird like me, you sniff the burnt logs. They smell like Agnes Nutter.

3) See 2, except you were silly enough to sniff too early, you got a snootful of wet smoke. You cough. It pervades. Cough. Ow, my lungs, they burn with hydrocarbons.

4) After a few very disconcerting minutes of wearing Agnes and going 'Whoa...' it dries a bit down to something like Bed of Nails. Sharp, metallic. Tangy. I don't know, on me, this sort of metal-aquatic always smells clean. The 1-3 elements do make it seem dirtier though.

 

Agnes is sitting on my shelf next to Aziraphale and the two could not be more opposite, I want to slather Aziraphale and I'm not sure I want to wear nor diffuse Agnes, as I think my neighbors would come running to see if I set the place on fire with my newfangled candles and japanese incense...

Tombstone... nggggggrrrhhrhrmrmm.

 

I'm biased though, srsly.

 

I also love Casanova but it has a more urbane hit to it, and I detect the airy muskiness and the tonka to me is sweet rather than vanilla-y.

In the vial - spicy, warm, gingery chocolate. Mmm.

 

On me... sadly... this turns into apple rinds and dry, dusty cocoa. There is an overall clovey spiciness and less 'depth' or 'cream' to this one than the prior incarnation of 13 I have...

ARGH!

 

This is so much apricot and date on me + supah-grape that it's one giant fruity raisinoid scent.

 

My skin chemistry must have destroyed this one - I don't get any cream at all, it's all fruit compote.

Wet, it smells a little sweet and herby. On me, it changes from that generic sweet herbiness to something... maybe a little fruity? I don't know why but I get pear and apricot, those dried ones that taste great if you eat a few and then get sorta bland and squooshy. Ya know, those flat ones. Underneath it all there are very subtle florals. Hm. On me, this is definitely NOT what I expected! Heh. Although... for me, it's quite apropos for me, since I am always bitter in the realm of love!

 

ETA: Oh... my sniffer must be so broke! Where'd I get that impression?!

In the bottle, it wafts up a little like candy, a touch like chewing on a candied violet off of a piece of fancy white cake. There's a touch of wet, gooshy fruit, definitely plum. Juicy. Dab... On me, egads, it's floral! Oh, wait... this reminds me of that nice floral in Morgause. Given a little time, it's definitely very well blended, and though I can pick out a few notes, it shifts and moves. I'd say the drydown is definitely floral, maybe to the point where I can't really pull this one off, but of course I love all things violet. I got a few (a few!) of these, since purple/violet is among my favorite colors, and I may be biased but this does smell violet, maybe like some kind of night flower that is a striking, unnatural cobalt blue.

Fenris Wolf!!!

I'm a spicy, fruity thing!

 

b..b...ut seriously... Malkuth is kinda berryish and with a stroke of cinnamon or spices.

 

May be worth a shot...

I love this. It's not what I expected at all...

 

Mostly it starts off with a subtle, understated creamy almond note that is blended really nicely with a bright pine. Given time to dry down, I can start detecting a brush of leather, smoke and masculine tang. It's ... wow. Mmm hmm.

 

I'll probably get another bouteille of this while CD is in town.

Chrysanthemum Moon!

 

I got a bunch of these, because of the description... let's see how it plays on my skin.

 

In the bottle, it smells a little resiny, a touch like... sassafras? Woods? It's sweet and a little spicy. Wet, it's a little like lotus, a sweeter flower essence over a musky base. It dries down to a relatively inobtrusive, soft incense powder with a little bit of twang which I assume is a touch of tobacco smoke.

 

It's nice, but not a 'me!' scent. Maybe I'll give it a few more tries

It smells kind of like... bananas? Oh, wait, that's frankincense and resins! And copal, too. Oh, after a bit of time this glows. I guess it's the combination of the herbal flowers. This really reminds me of that glowing, crackled gold patina of the painting. It kind of reminds me of Midnight Mass, as well. Such beautiful light.

Whorf! It smells... interesting in the vial. On skin, it's a whomp of strangely sour grassy floral, and then it smells kinda... peppery, but not. This is really, really spicy. Not sweet at all. Oh, that's cassia! Egads, it's kinda reminding me of the spiciness of Three Witches (revisited). In fact... it seems that is all that is amping up on me.

 

... where are the other notes?

 

 

 

 

... boo cassia...

Wet, this is a bright tea note. It's slightly watery and citrussy, and then I get a hint of benzoin, sweet resins. The tea's acrid note then rises again to the forefront. Underneath it all there is a bit of smokiness, a darkness. Must be the vetiver. It's not too prominent, however.

 

Over time, it stays tea-bright. Interesting and sharp, but it's not playing quite so well on my skin after a touch of time.

Sweet, juicy, cedar-kissed, soaring frankincense with that beautiful fiery bite of black pepper. It is sweeter and brighter than I would have expected but yeah, this stuff is pure heaven.

Whoa! Peppery! Spicy!

 

Leather... musk... *slap!* it's racy! Raunchy!

 

Now it's rich and heady, with a wicked fang. Oh my. Musky leather and smoky patchouli. Not much ginger though... I love the white pepper freshness.

 

This is a bottle consideration.

Definitely a beautiful, sticky golden resin in the imp (decant). I'm getting a whiff of freshness, too. This is a viscous oil! It definitely has a citrus-marine note base, a similar sweetness as R'Lyeh and Nyarlathotep. The cypress emerges slowly under the sweet benzoin. There's a wispy floral. Chilly, a touch of cold on this warm ocean.

 

Still... it doesn't scream out to me, but it's quite beautiful.

Again, just a dab test for scent purposes. If favorable (or unfavorable!) effects come out of this I'll update it. I suppose by posting this I'm outing myself, but it wasn't really a big secret anyways

So... long story short, I've always felt abnormally inconspicuous and mundane in the gay world. I've never dated anyone, nor has anyone shown interest in me, I've fallen for a guy or two who have given me the 'just friends' talk, and I am inordinately shy and lonely. Perhaps a little oomph would be what I need.

Bottle: Sweeter than I thought it would be. I'm getting notes of some kind of floral, rose maybe? There's also a hint of honey and amber over the top. Sugary, this definitely is. Maybe a brush of ylang-ylang, too.

Dab: Whoa, interesting. I think I got a touch of mint, leading to a sort of smoky, fir-touched aroma. It's slightly fiery and warm, with an insinuation of ginger and pepper, but it heads back towards a musk with a bite. No more mint. Maybe it was hallucination.

Dry: A musk that kicks you in the balls and says 'I'm here and I smell really good!' I don't know what it is, but I keep sniffing my wrist and Q5 gets nicer and nicer as it dries on my skin. I even think my heart rate is a touch quicker now.

I don't know what it is in Q5, but it's making my fingers and feet kinda tingly in a weird way, I think that sorta feeling when you're catching your breath and someone you think you're interested in is looking right at you.

Maybe this time, he won't look away?