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Sharply citrus in the bottle, oscillating promptly to musk on my skin, and winding up nicely balanced between floral and citrus and musk. Just about gone three hours later. I like it, I wish it'd stay longer!

For various reasons, the first thing I did with my bottle of Yvaine was use a bit to scent a lotion I was making. In that form, the initial striking lavender stays preserved -- a really pretty note, but bare. I like Yvaine much better on my skin, after it's had a bit of time to mellow. It's still firmly lavender to begin, but given a little time it gains more depth and dimension as the other notes make their appearances. I was actually really pleasantly surprised by this -- put a bit on in the morning, to give it a chance, by the time I got to work it was one of those "what's that gorgeous smell? hey, it's me!" moments -- I almost didn't recognize the dry Yvaine as the same thing that I'd put on just an hour or two earlier. Mmmm.

There was something almost citronella when I smelled straight out of the imp that made me hesitate, but once Aelopile is on my skin and warmed up I really like it. Clean, but not antiseptic. I get a fair amount of lemon but it meshes so nicely with something else (the cedar?) that it took me a long moment to sort the two out and recognize it. It feels to me like an everyday scent -- it's not a sexy dressed up number, but it's practical and happy and bright. If scent were pitch this would be slowly drifting down the scale as it wears, getting a little drier (the amber?) and less bright, summer into fall. Usually I only wear a few small drops of bpal oils, but I found myself having to slather Aelopile on in order to get the scent to stick. But maybe it's just that winter in New England is making my skin dry enough to drink anything right up. Either way, in spite of this it was all but gone two or three hours later. I'm tempted to get a bottle anyways, hm...

I love the description, but sadly, this one didn't work for me. Possibly because it's an old imp (although I *have* kept it cool and dark)? Pretty and bright and floral in the bottle -- salt and playdoh on my skin. Too bad. I haven't played with perfumes enough to know what exactly the component that self-destructs for me is...

Found a box of old imps yesterday, some of which I didn't remember trying or even having, and this was among them. I almost rejected it straightaway when I opened the bottle -- reeked of something almost rubbing alcohol ish -- I'm sure that's not actually what it was, but that's what it smelled like. Put it on anyways, on blind faith, and right away it transformed into the crisp classy masculine scent that everyone's described. To me, it says "distant crush on a black-and-white film star" way more than "cuddling with my boy". Hot, but not the warm-and-fuzzy kind of intimate. I'll keep the imp, because it's a gorgeous scent, but it's a masquerade scent for me: for costume occasions, or for those days when I want to be reminded at work that I can *so* keep up and kick ass as a woman in a male-dominated industry....

Chimera is the very first scent I'm buying a bottle of -- from my first pack of imps I kept coming back to it, and now it's gone and I'm craving more. Starts out bitingly cinnamon (which is fantastic first thing in the morning after being up studying for way too long) and then transitions into a sorta-softer but still dangerous blend with delicious creamy vanilla undertones. I adore it -- count one new lab addict, right here...