Ramen

I get vetiver and honey, which somehow combines to smell like sweet poison. I'm not sure how I feel about this just yet.

I finally have a favorite nail polish again, and this is it! The intensity and duration of the glow appear to depend at least as much on the brightness of the light my nails were last exposed to as to how much I put on and it definitely needs to be sandwiched between base and top coats unless you want chipping to start the next day, but since these rules have been established the fun has yet to stop. I feel a little radioactive every night when I turn off my touch lamp before bed.

I smelled myrrh just a little bit while this was wet, but otherwise it was rose and therefore barely registered to my nose until it got properly dry and turned soapy. Fortunately this was a frimp and not a scent I was too invested in.

I can rarely smell rose in the first place, but I can actually smell it as well as the grass in here, and I like it a lot. A great "yay warm seasons!" scent and worth grabbing at least a goblin squirt to try for yourself.

Well, it certainly has an attitude. In the imp, it's mostly mint fighting through something to taunt me with its presence, but the mint fades in favor of medicine when I put it on. Dry, I get an underwhelming combination of violet and orris like it decided I was no longer worth the effort. I'll probably let this age a while to see if our relationship improves, but I don't see Brusque Violet being part of my collection long-term.

The Butterfly is completely beyond my experience, but I'm so not complaining. It starts out light and citrus-sweet over something warm and dark, drying to what I assume is the tonka bean based on my inability to describe it as anything other than warm and fuzzy. I can see this becoming a bedtime favorite if I can find the spare funds for a bottle while it's still available.

In the imp and wet, I get sweet red apple and a hint of lemon, like someone squeezed lemon juice on apple slices to keep them from browning. The roses are there too, actually stronger than the lemon, but the lemon and apple are irrevocably paired in my mind. Dry, lemony apple slices have gone away and left me with roses, which has always been a weak scent for me. I want to like it, but right now there just isn't enough to like.

One of my birthday order frimps! This was sour and unfamiliar in the imp and I didn't think I'd like it, but I put it on anyway and got a complete 180 to dry powdered incense mixed with that fine dusty dirt you mostly find on baseball diamonds and isolated back roads when the weather's dry. Not bad at all.

I don't have enough sniffing experience to identify most of what I smell in 51, but it stays light and bright as it shifts from fruity and green when wet to a big ol' mystery dry. I really like it!

My nose wasn't exactly in peak condition when I put this on yesterday, but The Malignant Dreams of Cthulhu in Love goes, for me, from chocolates with a side of Ocean Funk and incense in the bottle through mostly chocolate and then mostly Ocean Funk before finally settling (for hours on a pretty even balance of everything. It's lots of fun and I'm glad I snagged this as a Geek Points freebie before it got discontinued last year, but it's definitely something I have to be in the mood for.

I snapped this up last year with Wildfire 2010 and Harvest Moon, eager for all the fall LEs I could afford. Turns out it was a good idea! Mabon '10 goes all over the place but in a good way: in the bottle it's herbs and a hint of fruit. When I put it on it starts out smoky, which is weird, but it dries down to something a lot like fresh baked apples with some of those herbs from earlier slipped in. After a while the herbs are still around but the apples have been replaced by the promised blackberries, which are possibly my favorite berry anyway. Such a keeper!

From start to finish this is a hint of plum behind a mess of pale flowers: rather pretty and delicate but with something else lurking just out of sight. Unfortunately it only lasts a few hours at best, so I'm going to have to obtain a whole bottle before my imp runs out.

The closest I could get to sorting out what this smells like on me is it reminds me of this cedarwood incense I bought a while ago. There's something kind of sour and something darkly herbal, but mostly it's woody incense. Not a bad smell, but definitely one best saved for the right occasion.

In the imp, I have to join the people who found this scent unfortunately generic. The myrrh stepped in pretty much as soon as I put it on and now I've been wearing it a while there's something faintly sweet I don't recognize, but it's still not anything thrilling. I'll probably give it another shot sometime to see if body chemistry can save it, but I'm not optimistic.

In the bottle, I get spices and fruit and a sharpness I can't identify. When I put it on I still smell spices and fruit, but the leaves and herbs come out to play so it's more like walking down a tree-lined street on the way to an autumn bonfire. A great scent for fall or anytime I want it to feel like fall.

When I first put this on earlier, it was kind of faint and indescribable but definitely warm. The oleander and magnolia dug their way out after a little while, but then everything went to flower powder pretty quickly. Even though I'm pretty sure I never smelled anything like it at her house, it sort of reminds me of my paternal grandmother: an old Southern woman who may have left behind the full wildness of her youth but who still has the personality it sprang from. Hell's Belle will work as a stopgap while I look for floral scents more suited to me, but after that I'll probably pass this little imp on to a more appreciative home.

In the imp, this was sweet! Cakes! Pow! When I put it on it immediately settled into something spicier, but still sweet and warm, and dry I want to say it smells almost like vanilla chai and Anna's Ginger Thins--mostly warm and spicy, but with just enough creamy sweetness to make it dessert-friendly. I see this going in my apparently soon to be vast collection of Autumn scents.

In the week leading up to my period, The Lilac Wood is the same dry or wet: equal parts flowery and green. The rest of the month, the flowers dry up and leave me with a sharp, almost spicy greenery. Unless I'm in the mood for smelling like yard work I'll probably save this one for my body's pollinating days.