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Somehow I get roses in Veil. Maybe it's just how I am interpreting the gardenia. But I get roses.


In the Bottle: Big Fat GIANT cabbage roses, about 500. A stink of rose going to high heaven. These roses are all on Hyacinth Bucket's giant huge brimmed white summer hat she is wearing to church, thinking all will be impressed.

Dry: There is a soft Veil of powder, and behind it is a young, lovely lady, wearing a slightly smaller version of Hyacinth Bucket's hat, with half as many roses on it.

1 to 10 scale - 6 and that only cause I love flowers. Buy again: No.

In bottle: Baby formula, made from powder and too little water put in.

 

Dry: Baby formula, made from powder and too little water put in.

 

The first Lunacy oil I have disliked.

In the bottle: a wet floral, a bit overstrong, reminds me of Fae.

 

Dry: Almost gone... little smell. What I do smell is almost the same as wet, a light aquatic floral with little throw, very subtle. It isn't as strong or clashing as when wet.

In the Bottle: Flowery Soap, more soap than flower. Tuberose can be really strong and almost bitter when used in high quantities, I am thinking the tuberose is doing this.

 

Dry: VERY strong Tuberose and Frangipani. Not balanced enough for me, the strength is kinda letting the bitter stem notes of the flowers out.

 

Not for me.

In the Bottle: A lot of dry airy musk. Undertone of violet.

 

Dry: Violet with and undertone of light airy musk. the musk is sort of a flat lifeless one though. For violet I highly prefer Serpent Qui Danse or anything else with violet, really.

In the bottle: tea roses on the bush, I get the bloom and a touch of green, and sweet, true and lovely they are!

 

Dry: Same. Very nice if you love rose.

Apparently White Musk is what is not agreeing with me in many things, much like myrrh.

 

In the Bottle: Faint peach, but a sickly peach. Musk.

 

Dry: The musk has mellowed a lot, but strangely this smells exactly like "Eve" to me, but with a slightly peachy overtone, and Eve is one of the scents I really hate. This is weak and flabby. Swap pile!

In the Bottle: Honey, Wine, fruit and a bright sharp musk.

 

Dry: the musk in this LEAPS out and bites you. The sweetness of the honey and wine is all but gone, and a faint, sweet and really pretty floral is way back there trying to come out. But overall it's a mean biting musk. I could swear I smell hateful bitter myrrh in there.

 

ETA: duh of course I do, it's got it in there. D'OH!! I hate myrrh!!

In the Bottle: Sickeningly sweet Dragonsblood soaked in honey.

 

Dry: The Dragonsblood has subsided a lot. The honey is still there, but creamier. The musk has come out and darkened it, and the vetiver a bit. A sweet, musty scent.

 

Not to my taste at ALL. I vastly prefer Desire for a sweet sexy scent.

In the Bottle: Flowered sugary sweet pear.

 

Dry: the pear is more balanced and equal with the flowers now, and the whole scent is more subtle. The pear has added a bitter note, like the skin of the pear when you bite it.

 

All in all a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.

As usual I'm not getting anything much like the described scent here.

 

In the Bottle: DRIPPING honey, overripe peaches.

 

Dry: Honey, with a lot of astringent walnut smell. Maybe some amber. Some sweet florals. All in all pretty nice but faint and no throw.

In bottle: to me this smells nothing like the description and I can detect sage at 100 paces. I smell amber, light white flowers, and musk.

 

Dry: NOW I smell the sage. A Big smudge stick of sage standing in the middle of a ring of little wildflowers, with some musk floating on the air.

 

Quite nice!!

In the Bottle: Green and fresh and slightly citrusy and tangy, sunny, airy and lightly floral way back there. Really lovely.

 

Dry: Gone. While drying smelled same, until finally.... poof, no more scent at all in 15 minutes, and I SLATHERED. Sadness.

This is a nasty one for me, all of the Funereal Oil florals have a nasty bitter note on my skin, and to my nose.

 

In the Bottle: Flowers, with a nasty hollow myrrh-like note that covers everything.

 

Dry: Exactly the same, bitter and hollow and tangy and weird.

In the Bottle: A light white cold floral with maybe a VERY faint hint of citrus. And yes this is very aquatic, in the way clean laundry scents are. The clean part smells to me a lot like the one in Dirty.

 

Dry: Little change. The fabric softener clean laundry smell has diminished a bit. nice, but not nice enough when compared to scents like Morgause.

In the Bottle: Faint sweet orange with cream and a bit of honey. Not quite as luscious as it sounds, though, more like a Creamsicle, which I am not fond of. The smell is very faint.

 

Dry: Basically the same but much less artificial smelling. The orange was changed into much more a orange blossom smell - not a neroli smell, a real orange blossom smell. It's sweet and very faint. This might be pretty if stronger.

In Bottle: Sweet, like honey and vanilla with a very strange woody hollow incense note... maybe the myrrh.

This rounds out a little but stays pretty much the same as in the bottle. Instant FEH!

In bottle: a touch of light white florals, and that "Clean Linen" fragrance you get in candles and some bath and beauty products.

 

On and Dry: Exactly the same as wet, this is a very clean and light fragrance, but to me I'm sorry - dryer fabric softener sheets.

 

Swap pile, to someone clean and happy!

I, in my opinion, am supremely lucky in what Tamora smells like to me. Tamora gives me an exact dupe of Lush's Honey I Washed the Kids soap, except for some added incense note, which is fine with me.

 

Some Tamora is a bar of HIWTK wearing incense, some is a chunk of incense wearing HIWTK. Either is fine, though I greatly prefer the HIWTK to the incense.

 

I'm not going to explain HIWTK, because it's fairly unexplainable other than being a sweet scent with honey in it, and I think some sweet orange oil and maybe some fruit blossom.

Jasmine and Rose, in bottle and on skin. More jasmine than rose.

 

Since I am a floral nut, I like this a lot.

In bottle: Honeysuckle and tangy pear.

 

On: together the pear and honeysuckle meld into a very violet scent, but not the brash VIOLET of Serpent Qui Danse, a very restrained and perfume-ified violet. It's very subtle and quite nice. I like.

This, for me, is an almost dead ringer for DSH's Lush Honey. Lush Honey smells nothing like Lush's Honey I washed the Kids soap, which it is a dupe of, but smells a lot like Honeycomb cereal with a little extra honey added.

 

Well so does Gluttony... smell like Honeycomb cereal with extra honey added that is. But down at the base, there is a nasty sort of hollow bitter smell that I assume might be nut. I put this in the swap pile, I have a vat of DSH Lush Honey, and it doesn't have the bitter note Gluttony does.

This is VERY nice.

 

In the bottle: Tangy wonderful violet.

 

Wet/DryDown: Tangy wonderful violet.

 

Dry: without wrist held to nose, a beautiful cloud of, yes, tangy wonderful violet. But, if I hold my wrist to my nose, I smell an entire violent PLANT, the flower, the greens, and even the dirt. It's literally as if I have a violet plant growing on my arm. It's quite magnificent.

 

I get absolutely no vanilla or gardenia from this, only violet that morphs very little. I am buying a 10ml of this one.

Ugh. This oil got a very strong visceral reaction from me, and it made me a bit nauseous. What I got from Eve was really faint watered down slightly rotten apple juice and a faint wimpy incense. I really did not like this. I was reminded of "Sideways" when Paul Giamatti calls the wine "flabby"... Eve to me was flabby.

 

Unfortunately I put it on before school, and this oil LASTS!!! If you like it you are in luck, 6 hours later it was still going strong.

Do you mean that you paid via paypal, but used the CCNow check out? 

 

If so, the Lab will still get your order...I believe the reason they ask you to use Paypal directly is because they will get charged twice, from CCNow & Paypal, if you check out the way that you did.

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Yes, I used the CCNow Checkout, and when it asked me payment option I selected PayPal and went through the process of PayPal via CCNow.

 

Later I see and realize I didn't follow their directions.