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Wow this is a real kick-you-in-the-nuts smell. It's a salty slightly incense-y wood. Almost sandalwood-y. Not too dry, thank goodness. It's got a tinge of floral, but it's barely there. This is almost a single note, this wood. It's interesting, but I won't be wearing it. This is same in the vial as wet, has an incredible throw, and lasts forever.

Wet: Seems like a very wet single white floral.

 

Dry: Doesn't morph at all for me, it's very much a sweet aquatic single white floral. It's pretty and feminine and still and gentle.

Wet: Lipton Lemon Iced tea powder mix.

 

Dry: Lipton Lemon Iced Tea powder mix, with a breath of floral. Nicer than it sounds. Medium throw, but lasted only a half hour before it faded for good.

Wet: A sort of bourbony smell, with a tad of fruit and flower.

 

Dry: Well, I might as well have been alone, because Alone was no company whatsoever. I didn't smell one thing at all, from the time it dried. Seriously. No scent whatsoever.

Sugar Skull 2005.

 

Wet: Yummy sweet syrupy sugar! Warm and sticky.

 

Dry: Delicious, a peice of sugared fruit (can't tell WHAT fruit, orange?) swimming in a bowl of slightly carmelized sugar syrup. It has a nice throw. I can see where some get maple, but I think it's the fruit tinge, because this has no true maple for my nose. I will be happy with the one bottle I bought, but not need another, I think.

This is for 2005.

 

Wet: Cherry cough drops.

 

Dry: Unspeakably horrible. Synthetic smoke over a cherry or orange cough drop smell, sharp, fakely sweet, but mostly just a very fake smelling smoke. Oh well.

In the Bottle: Juicy spicy orange, smells a lot like Red Moon does in the bottle, so I was excited.

 

Dry: Unfortunately this dries down to a giant rose sitting on top of the merest breath of orange and spice. It smells somehow like one single gigantic rose.

 

I like it, but am disappointed.

In the Bottle: A LOT of dried herbs and some heather.

 

Dry: Smells a lot like a very natural upscale version of the "Heather and Hyacinth" soap scent, with the inclusion of some gentle dried herbs. Since I like that scent very much, I really do like this. I can't wait for a windy Fall day to slather it on!

In the Bottle: Men's cologne again. It seems like many of the CN scents are male, to me.

 

Dry: This is a weak, watered down scent, on me. I get a very wimpy tobacco and floral. It's just wimpy. I don't like it.

In the Bottle: Men's cologne. I smell spice, cedar, cinnamon, well balanced. It's sweet smelling.

 

Dry: Pretty much the same as in the bottle. I get no pine, just warm sweet spices and patchouli well, well mixed as a base note. This is very male. It is a gorgeous scent.

In the Bottle: fruity medicine, cough syrup, vitamins.

 

Dry: Like a freshly cut but somewhat overripe orange. Definitely smell the pepper in the background, making it spicy. This is clever and fruity and fun, but not truly my style.

In the Bottle: Musky men's cologne and alcohol.

 

Dry: A very musky floral, I personally would put this on a man despite the florals. or a VERY strong woman. It's very sexy!!

In the Bottle: Sweet chocolate and a whiff of pomegranate every now and then, and vanilla.

 

Dry: Whiffs of pomegranate over a subdued vanilla, and every so often a hint of chocolate. This is barely there, and has only little to medium throw. It's really delicious and I'd love to have a big bottle. It's kinda like chocolate covered cherries, the kind with the syrup middle.

I am not at all sure I have House of Mirrors, but I think I do because in the bottle this literally smells like broken glass. It's fascinating that an idea of broken glass can be translated that way!

 

Dry this is sweet with amber and spice and a peppery background. There is the slightest background of citrus. Very nice!

In the Bottle: A delicious lightly juicy fruity floral, and powder.

 

Dry: This is, for me, what some people call an "old lady perfume". This veritably SCREAMS grandma at me. It's powdery, light, fresh, and feminine, totally. Very sedate. Bearded lady is kind, and she will give you cookies and rest you on her plump, comfy lap and sing to you. Bearded Lady lives in a home with crocheted arm covers on the chairs. It's very comforting, and I will never wear it. It has little throw for me except in the powder part of the scent.

In the Bottle: Wow. It smells like rusty metal nails in wood. IT REALLY DOES. There's also citrus and floral and...tea?

 

Dry: Only the light tea citrus and floral remain with the TEENSIEST touch of a sharp bite. I like it! It's very light and fresh and airy on me. Nice!

In the Bottle: A light juicy (fruity?) gently floral musk. Lovely and fresh and full of light.

 

Dry: Just this lovely floral musk, but mostly musk. It's warm and sensual and mysterious and smells of candles and the warmth of a beautiful woman giving you bedroom eyes. This. is. Gorgeous.

In the Bottle: Airy, wet flowers. Very light and fresh.

 

Dry: this is saved from the dryer sheet smell by being well mixed with some scent that IS air. It's wild. The flowers are there, but so is a bitterness. The bitterness, on me, ultimately wins out.

In the Bottle: Amber and soft, sweet spice. Smells like a deeper Snake Oil to me.

 

Dry: A very spicy warm cinnamony amber. A golden brown scent. It's very low key though, I get little throw. It's a wonderful scent.

In the Bottle: Smells like a limey, spicy men's cologne.

 

Dry: Kind of like a very expensive cigar, unlit, being held by a man wearing a very mellow spice cologne. This is sweet and like an older man wearing a smoking jacket kind of feeling. This is a languid, worldly men's scent.

Smells like delicious salty buttered popcorn. Spot on.

How unutterably vile a perfume! LOL!!! I really have to love the whole idea of being so bold as to make a buttered popcorn perfume! I hate it though.

In the Bottle: That delicious peach, which I always interpret as peach bellinis, and a bit of floral and spice.

 

Dry: Almost nothing, a light peach, a hint of spice and the barest breath of floral. Hmmm. Where'd it go? This vanished on me.

In the Bottle: Amber and wood, a very dry arid wood.

 

Dry: Sandalwood? Just wood pretty much, very dry wood. A very incensy wood, but on me it takes on that nasty bitterness myrrh does. It goes very flat and cold on me. So this is a no-go though I see this being lovely on the right man.

In the Bottle: Anise and a slight cherry blossom.

 

Dry: Anise. Anise, anise, anise. Um, I hate anise. So good for anise lovers, but not for me.

In the Bottle: Jasmine and alcohol and pear like the pear in Endymion. There may not be pear in there but I smell it.

 

Dry: Basically the same, but a light fresh powdery musk comes out. VERY powderlike, more powdery than wearing powder, a very lovely powder Mom might put on when you are a child and she is preparing to go out for the evening. I also get a ton of that pear. Sweet, gentle, old fashioned smelling.