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i've been hearing about the caramel in this one and it was a bit of a selling point for me. i was hoping for not sticky overbearing like in creepy, but something would be nice. in the vial i can smell it a bit. it is sweet and delicately foody without being sickening at all. however, once it hits my skin ... BOOM! i get NONE. nothing. not a DROP. instead it is my mortal enemy - sandalwood. it's all about the sandalwood. it's only made bearable by the sweetness of the currant. wtf. how disappointing. sandalwood... you win again. i hate you.

oh my! this one had been on my wishlist since day one years and years ago where i was still timid and terrified by the idea of purchasing unsniffed fragrances online. finally, FINALLY she made it to me. i've been waiting too long for sure. this one really is hard to describe. especially after reading all the other reviews. to borrow some phrases from others, "aristocratic" "manipulative" "southern" "moss" etc etc. those were some of the first images in my head when i smelled my wrist. i could envision some musty old plantation building in the south with trees full of moss and barely any light getting in. masabakes has that sort of side to it. but on the other side, there is a sweetness which counters the earthy quality. i don't get quite the juiciness some have mentioned. to me it's a dry, sweet fruit smell. somewhat on the perfumey side which makes me envision this as something a sinister woman of high standing would wear. i keep envisioning maleficent here too. in addition it somewhat reminds me of the dusty stale air of art museums - a scent that i swear if anyone could bottle i would buy out the lot. [omg seriously! i keep getting more and more of this! heeeeaven!!!] this one is so unlike what i've been purchasing and so unlike what i normally wear and yet it is so wonderful. it's like another side of me wants to come out and just smile and be playfully wicked. straight to the 5ml wishlist!!

i was sort of nervous about what to expect with this one what with all the buttercream mentions. seemed like it might be too nauseating for me, but OMG BLACKCURRANTS! so i had to have it. unsniffed in a 5ml, yes yes yes. so i caved in and did just that. and this is all i have to say... HOLY GRAIL!!! DRY CAKE! SWEET ICING! JUICY CURRANTS!! OMG OMG OMG!!!!! no really, this somehow is sitting perfectly on my skin with each component balanced so very well. it isn't nauseatingly sticky sweet and in your face. instead i smell a sweet slice of layered white cake with the cream frosting on top and blackcurrant jam in between that someone has just cut into somewhere nearby. HEAVEN. PURE HEAVEN. i would offer anything in the world to beth and the labbies for a lifetime supply of this.

oh heaven! a frimp i looooooove!! i'm thinking my skin just loves red musk. it does such wonderful things. this one is no exception. it is sweet on me without being too in your face. it is a natural sweet as opposed to something like ... icing or something. it's all well blended but when trying to describe it the words become quite polar opposite. it's bright and cheery yet there is a sort of thick darkness to it. the strawberry leaf (as has been said before) is not leafy or green - it's straight up realistic strawberries! fresh and perfect off the vine. the grapefruit adds a little brightness and sparkle but doesn't take over for me. this is a great scent for that first day after winter when temperatures warm up enough to get out and enjoy the sunshine and blue skies. thanks labbies for making me add yet another to my "must have in 5ml bottle" list!!

i should have a bottle arriving in my mailbox any day now. but i have a feeling it is eat me that i am going to go crazy for. come on 12/7 orders!!! i love that this thread is still going. yessss.... enable my obsession!

unfortunately i think i was quite correct in my guessing after a few reviews that this would not be a scent for me. in the bottle it is the most amazing chocolate orange scent ever. juicy and sweet. not overly foody chocolate, but anyone blindly smelling it could tell what it is. wet on skin: not bad. it's less foody and something else is peeking out that i cannot pinpoint. 15 min dry on skin: "HELLO! I'M FLORAL!" wtf!?! seriously... it's like crazy floral. no foody chocolate or orange. no sweet vanilla. no tea. FLORAL. my worst nightmare. 30 minutes: the OMG FLORAL backs down but there is still no hint of vanilla, chocolate or orange going on. at least not in the sense of "hey! i smell it!". it's all just a sort of soft smoosh of stuff. i'm still not sure yet. must give more time but i have a feeling little 13 is going to end up being up for swap. i'm amazingly disappointed.

i got a frimp w/ cedar in it w/ my last lab order and now another. i think i can safely say that cedar and my skin do some intense stuff as all i can smell is the exact same thing i smelled with the last - cedar wood chips. i now have a sworn scent enemy. i do not dig the cedar. and sadly i already knew sandalwood was right there too.

in the bottle: i DEFINATELY get the comparison to jack but it's a little different. jack is a sort of cloying butter scent. this is thinner and not so in your face. wet on skin: this is MILES better than jack. this is buttery pumpkin pastry whereas jack is just all butter. this has a bit of the pie crust smell. hints of spice. i can definitely pick out the orange but it suits it just fine. oh god this is goooooood. so very very much worth the wait. she's available until WHEN again? i need more. more more more!!! drydown: less pastry. more orange. but not totally orange b/c the pumpkin IS there. the others hang in the background. so very comforting. i'd say it's more orange than pumpkin at this point but that is PLENTY fine by me as i haven't been able to find an "orangey" type scent that works on me until now. *bows before the queen*

i'm in the same camp with the no apple kids. in the bottle i smell caramel, on my skin it's butterscotch gone insane. in about ten minutes it seems to fade, at least to my nose. coworkers still wanted to know where the caramel or "candied pecans" were but i couldn't even smell it next to my wrist. i get no apples though. none. *sigh* it's sweet. real sweet. and i do love it. just no apples.

hrm. i wanted to like this one. i really, really did. i am having AWFUL luck trying to find a cherry scent. i'm thinking that my skin likes it too much and doesn't want to share. in the imp i can ALMOST smell cherries, but once on my skin all i smell is woodshop and freshly waxed furniture. NOT something i want to smell like AT ALL. oh pooh. another one for the swap pile.

all i smell in this is the cedar. nothing else. no incense. no calmness to it. it makes me think of the inside of a drawer with cedar chips or mothballs. definately not for me.

oh i wanted to like this one. i really really did. i'm searching forever for a nice dark cherry scent. unfortunately... this isn't it. the cherry is there, but the spices drag it into dr pepper territory and ... i really dislike that soda. however, i can also smell the verbena which, for me, just kills it. it's NICE together, don't get me wrong. it's real balanced and i think the verbena should be there. it's just not what i was looking for. also, my skin is BRIGHT RED and on fire. and it hurts a whole bunch. sorry, calliope. i cannot justify keeping you if you're going to burn me.

oh thank goodness! a frimp that i don't hate! (seriously... 5 out of 6 were just so-so or just horrid. i hope i can find good homes for them where they'll be loved.) i have to second, third or whatever all the previous comments about some sort of spiced apple. to me, it in no way resembles potpourri or air freshener cinnamon apple scents. it's much softer. much gentler. the cinnamonesque scent is a lovely and i mean LOVELY background note to me. a supporting player. there, but not overwhelming or burning. the apple is just the idea of it. it's not quite baked apples, but it makes me think of them if that makes ANY sense. and yes, there could definately be some pear with the apple. i really really like this. i will update later in regards to effects. (ps labbies... thank you. i've been eyeing this one for a while and too timid to try more voodoo blends. it pretty much epidomizes what i need to break through whatever it is weighing on me. so i have good hopes for this.)

this one was actually on my wishlist as i was intrigued by saffron and spices. WET: some sort of foody spice and wood shavings. I'm guessing the cedar. I almost get that sort of vicks menthol feel to it. It opens up my breathing passages almost. DRY: not much different. More cedar and less spice. no thank you. i guess i missed this one on my wishlist. ah well. at least i didn't have to buy it. this will definately be a swap. ooh. yeah. this is one of the first i've actually had to go wash off as it was bothering me that much.

could have sworn i reviewed this one. i'm perplexed by this one. the first time i smelled it in the imp i smelled something green and wet mixed with a dark thick alcohol. the first time i tried it on my skin it got that and a bit of dirt which was nice actually - dark wet earthy nature and booze. i thought i really liked jazz funeral! now.... now i get nothing, absolutely NOTHING, but white floral. that kind of cloying headache inducing white florals that i hate so much. why? where'd the booze go? where did the dirtiness go? thankfully it doesn't give me a headache like the real flowers do, but ... it's not me. it's perfumey now. too bad.

i was pretty sad when i got this cracked cap frimpy in my last package as i saw the label and knew this was one i had seen mentioned a lot. luckily none leaked and i salvaged a cap elsewhere. i tried it for the first time last night and didn't think much at first. i could distinctly smell all the notes separately and it was a bit ... odd. sure they didn't clash, but ... generally i'm horrible at picking out notes. i could smell the lime hiding back there. mostly was woodsy, but kind of a sharp woodsiness. i'm not big on real sharpness in my sniffies. i like some wood and spice, but in general i like things to be a bit darker and fuller. i forgot it for about an hour or two and then sniffed. holy... where did this amazing incense smell come from?!? the sharpness went away and it was a nice mellow, smooth incense-like woody smell. ALMOST reminds me of how nag champa smells. that sort of strong, but smooth quality. THAT. it's amazing. the next morning i'm smelling it in my blankets. this is definately going on the list for eventual bottle buys!!

question... so far every orange one i've tried has been really bright and just ... i dunno ... not right to me. i love citrus typically, but ... what gives? are there any darker more fuller and deeper orange scents? for instance, i got an imp of akuma with my last order and i tried it again last night. despite having an obsession with blood oranges ... it's just stinging kinda brightness. and kuang shi was all potpourri!! of the ones that were recommended, does there tend to be much variance?

horrid! horrid florals! off off off! i cannot even give this one a chance on my skin! horrid florals in the imp is enough for me! florals! ew! that's all i smell! very very stong perfume-like floral. gave this one to my mother who wasn't crazed about it either. i just don't want it near me i dislike florals that much!

wow. this one changed fast! in the bottle: it is definitely alcoholic. wine indeed! it has that dry slightly bitter/acrid smell of wine that i really dislike. wet on skin: it goes sour very fast. so sour I was about to immediately write it off. within about 5 minutes, the sourness is gone completely as is the alcoholic smell. in its place, i get something red and fruity. the clove is just BARELY there to add something though there really isn't any spice to it. and i've no clue what mimosa is or smells like. needs more spice, but i'm liking it so far!

i wouldn't know red musk if it came up and smacked me in the face. i was hoping i'd figure it out since one of the CD blends has it and i'm most interested, but ... alas! in bottle: cherry cherry cherry! thankfully it's juicy cherries and not medicinal syrup cherries. wet on skin: whoa. the cherries disappeared and it's all anise/licorice. completely. hrm. while i've grown not the hate the smell, i'm not sure i want to smell JUST like it. dry down: the cherry comes back out again and the anise is still there. a little more balanced on the anise side but still not bad. this is VERY VERY close to what i'm aiming for. i'll probably come back to amend this later as i tried it on before bed and am not sure about staying power or throw. plus i'm on the peak of that time of the month, so ...

look mommy! i'm getting to review something when it comes out! in the bottle: hmm... how can i be sure that beth didn't just sell me a bottle of the cider i've been guzzling all summer? fizzy alcoholic kinda cider with a slight berry splash. THIS promises to be interesting! on my skin: yup. apples. the fizzy cider kinda of goes away and now it's fresh apples w/ a bit of something else. dusty. must be the wheat? i can't pick out much anything else specifically. those apples are stealing the show. dry down: the apples back off a bit but are still there in the overall picture. the dry scents kinda step forward to balance it out. i'm still unable to pick anything out specifically (plum, pomegranate, hazelnut, sage, etc). so i'm thinking that on my skin they all sort of meld together. and THANKFULLY i can't detect even the SLIGHTEST touch of floral. the mention in all these reviews has had me scared silly and nearly ready to sell off the bottle before i got it! luckily i'm in absolute LURVE over this one. i think i need a backup!!!

hrm. i'm still indifferent to this one right now. smelling it from the bottle - nice, no grapefruit, but soft and lovely. immediately upon hitting my skin i get a typhoon of wet juicy grapefruit and i LOVE it. my mouth literally starts watering! shortly thereafter, the fruitiness disappears and the smell dries out a bit. the ginger isn't real out there. it's just soft and dry. subtle fruit, subtle woodsy, subtle ginger. not even an hour later and i'm struggling to smell anything at all outside of this barely there dryness. ho hum. [edit] oh me oh my. the staying power has increased a bit. at work i kept noticing ... something. unsure what notes it is b/c it is all so balanced, but it's there. very faint, but there. hrmmm..... more fitting for summer, yes, so i'll just obsess on this one a while since i've got 5ml to go through. which should last me a good while.

my first new sniff in well over half a year. (what can i say, i took a break. heh!) first whiff... LOVE. oh wow. i'm absolutely AWFUL with picking notes. and i'm highly influenced by reading other reviews. i tend to associate smells with memories or ideas. my first thought was "wow this is indeed golden." soft light. i don't know why, but the vision of photographs of the house i was born into came into my mind. i've no recollection of the place, but all the photos have soft golden light in them. it reminds me of that. after reading some reviews, i can definately pick out the vanilla and some sort of woodsy scent. how it works together, i've no idea but it does blend so beautifully. i guess it is the amber? i've little history with amber so i'm only taking a stab at it. it is soft while being really strong. of the other imps i've tried and applied the same, this one has a lot more oomph to it comparitively. as for throw... no idea. i'll have to ask the boy in a bit. heh. this one is a keeper. and i'm sad (well, my bank account is) to say that it will definately be going on my wishlist as a 5ml in the future!!

current pending orders/items: 2006-07-10: (from the lab) • 5ml harvest moon 2006 • 5ml bewitched • imp pack of: akuma, blood, kabuki, madrid, swank + obatala (for the mum) 2006-07-22: (from astrid) • 5ml hungry ghost moon i am a wee bit nervous about the lust i'm feeling for oils right now. i cannot justify getting more when i have two body shop oils i never use in my medicine cabinet. i feel the need to be rid of them since i don't use them but who and how? i'm petrified of swapping and suches b/c, well ... my mind thinks, "who the heck would want those? this is bpal we're talking here!" plus i've got like two bottles of samhain 2005. true - i LOVE the scent. it's something much like i've always dreamed of, but my god! i just NOW got a tiny fraction below the label on the first bottle! the second will probably rot to the smell of death before i finish the first. should i sell the second? why keep it? and all the 8 or so imps i have. there's some i don't like to much. why keep them? b/c they're not nearly full enough to draw interest? i'm so damn ridiculous! why must i be so practical? why can i not just give in and allow myself pleasure in one of the few things in life i draw it from? i also cannot justify the price of the oils right now as i've got the monster electricity bill coming up (w/ deposit) plus my auto insurance. basically half a month's pay sucked out of the account right there! oh but i want more. more more more. at least two chaos theory bottles b/c i'm feeling risky (at least today) and all this talk of a big update. then again ... i've sat through big updates before and thought "eh. nothing sounds good." i'm hard to entice. sometimes. why why why? on a retarded note ... i'm going to start putting all the oils in splashshopper on the pda so i can track what i like, what i want and what i have on order while i'm away from my computer. lame! and on a random note ... i need some final fantasy gaming fantasy to escape into for the day. too bad i no longer have such access to things.

his reaction to a lot of bath products - "it's okay." i don't think he's much of a scent kind of guy... whereas i'm very much into smells. thus i just tend to ignore his opinion (unless it gives him a headache which is sometimes the case) and purchase whatever i like. i keep hoping that one day i'll run across something that will interest him though. mostly i think i'm just a little jealous as i've never had one "oh hey you smell nice" reaction from anyone.