stellamaris

Before I sadly drained the bottle I used to love Stormclouds Over the Midway. It smelled just like rain.

I like the "aquatics" and watery things, Halloween at Innsmuth (sp?) with it's fishy incense is a good one.

Ooh this is gorgeous. And very fancy.

It's patchouli, but not the dirty hippie kind, the fancy perfumed kind. And the vetiver behaves. It's lush. And gorgeous.

Wow. This is lovely. I thought it would be more aggressive and "resin-y" but it's actually a cuddly beautiful thing. Lovely cozy sandalwood. Beautiful and totally unisex.

Well, this is 100 percent Boy Juice, no unisex here. I deemed it Awful, and gave it to my son. Smells very good on him. Pass for me.

this is sweet, rainsiny, and delicious, I love it. Definitely a deep winter comfort scent, so much more beautiful than I had imagined.

This is so incredibly evocative and beautiful, and the incense is that perfect incense, I can hardly imagine a scent more lovely.

Not for me. Nasty. Smells like red pickles. No no no.

 

and I'm back, three months later. Now it smells really nice, like red wine and wood. I like it. How strange.

It's even mouth watering, sort of like Obsidian Widow or Mason and Jenkins Port Wine Jelly.

OK I may be way off the mark here, but this to me is like a cousin of Tombeur. So very lovely. Unisex. Buying it.

I dunno, clearly I am not living in the same world with the above posters, but then again, Black Phoenix is one of my favorites. Cherry and I get along famously.

I like this version better than the previous incarnation, the verbena is more of a back note whereas in the older version it was more up front.

This is dark and gorgeous. It's reminding me of Bat of Wealth, and is going right to the top of the Short List.

Beautiful beautiful, jasmine, with violets. It's like Beth was inside my head...

157 stars.

It's like a classic BPAL jasmine turned up to eleven.

 

omgosh this is so beautiful...I had to stop myself from running to the machine and ordering 57 bottles but oh my. Lovely. Starts out candy and morphs into something smokey and dark, but still lovely.

This is really good. Really lush. Sort of yes, delicate as the above poster put it, but still very lush. And strangely comforting.

Yes. Very leathery. And like a book.

I love the idea of this, love having the imp. It's not a "me" perfume, considering 9 out of 10 are...

The leather is really all I can smell here, but it is lovely "soft" leather.

Just absolutely gorgeous. Dark incense lovers, get it. Now.

Snow White has strangely the same vibe to me, it's like a winter Leanan Sidhe, which is one of my favorite summer perfumes.

If you are looking for more "outdoors" you might try Skadi, or any of the "snowy" moons. The Garden in Winter also has that "outdoors " thing going on.

A really good readily available one is Neil Gaman's The Snowglobe.

I was so excited that the goblins picked this one for me!
The lemon is super juicy, the whole of it is nice and light. Yes, being always the right answer...
I thought it would remind me of Lemon Scented Sticky Bat, but it's fresher and juicier, less candy like.

I expected this one to be super light and summer but was quite pleased to find the patchouli is glorious. This is beautiful.

 

In the bottle this smells very much like wine, sort of like the red wine in Obsidian Widow, but on the skin the sweetness of everything else blooms. I love this one.

 

This is freaking delicious. I think I gained a couple pounds just breathing it in...

Lovely strawberry and sweetness.

so pretty pretty pretty...chilly, floral, glorious. Love it.

Clown White! So fun! Very cakey, sweet, adorable. I love this.

My uncle was a huge theatrical makeup manufacturer, at one point every theatrical school program used his makeup kits, and I used to go to schools with him to demonstrate makeup application, so this one is very nostalgic for me, even just the idea of it brings back memories.

Thank you for this one!

Freaking LOVE this...love it. I don't find it as "fadey" as you do DevilsCandyCane, maybe when your bottle sits a while you won't have that experience, or maybe layer it with something else? Maybe with Bonfire? Or something else heavy like The Apparition? I'm trying to think of something smokey that you might want to temper a bit. For me, I love the smokey but I hate to just have that.

Also I have to add that I amp amber like crazy, and love it in all forms, so this one works a charm for me.

The note that hits me the strongest is a sort of caramel thing that I absolutely remember from a Salon, Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil which I absolutely love. It's not an actual caramel, just that sort of sweet richness which smells like that to me.

 

Strangely, I also don't get much smoke from it. Hmm, I will test it again today. I found it very complex and less powdery than I expected. Going off to retest...

I love this because all though there is leaf, there is less leaf, more Other Stuff. Very delicious...

Well it is a Magic Circle after all annemathematics...

When I first sniffed this I had a rush of scent memories of what I think of as Black Phoenix...sort of like my memories of amazing classics like The Caterpillar and Spellbound...

sort of like the perfect conjuring of these memories for me, but it's like those scents to Eleven. Strong. With backbone.

This is beautiful.

I don't really get specific lavender in the wet stage, it's more of a "green" thing, which gives way to a beautiful lush floral, but not a round white floral like say Avenger, but a slightly sharp dark thing. I love the heck out of this one, I can see wearing this day, night, it's really good. The musk and the frankincense make it more dark, sophisticated. That said it's not like a department store perfume at all. Dreamy.