tarotgirl99

In bottle: this is Beaver Moon 05's real emergence. No strawberry, just the exact scent Wet: Beaver Moon 05, how I love you still Dry: This must be Doc Constantine coming to visit. He has taken over the room (my arm). He has eaten all the cream cheese frosting off the cake. He has eaten all the cake!! And I am left with the smell of teak wood, with barely a whispered memory of the frosting. I want my icing back! I want my cake! I would take Dorian or Snake Oil, but not...this.

I think this will be my favorite of the three most recent Lilith selections. In the bottle and wet, it smells like pure orange creamsicle--mmmmmmm. Then it morphs into an aquatic (we are talking about a visit to the Aquarium, after all), but the orange cream plays quietly in the background. It is very unique and delicious...just like Lilith. Minimal throw and wear length.

I was sure I would love this. I mean, who can reject darkly spiced plum incense? Certainly not me. Now I will acknowledge my skin can be very odd. But on me, while I smell plum and wine, I also smell violet. Distinctly. Violet is not my friend. I am so glad I don't have to track a bottle of this down. I far prefer Hellion.

A dear friend sent me a tester of Parker Lily. One sniff and it was total love. The only way I can describe this is it's like a golden lily. There is a wisp of ambery honey and some straight vanilla and the combination is sophisticated without being sterile. It lasts for hours. I took a nap and it's still going strong. This is a scent I'd wear when I wanted to feel devastatingly, intoxicatingly female...which fortunately doesn't happen very often. Still, I'd love an imp of it just so I could know I could feel devastatingly, intoxicatingly female any time I wanted.

I must echo angelicruin's Welch's Grape Soda diagnosis. I love to drink it, but not to wear it, so it won't be a purchase for me.

In the imp and wet, this smells like Beaver Moon 05 to me. But sweeter and not in a good way (I love Beaver Moon 05). On my skin, Detestable Putrescence sadly turns to plastic and makes me kinda sick. All day and often, because the throw and scent longevity are phenomenal. I dealt it with it for one day for scientific reasons, but there won't be a second testing.

Short review: OMG, YUM! Wet, this goes on as very coffee and pumpkin. But the chocolate sweetens it and makes it a very tasty perfume indeed...kinda like Jonathan's Coffee House at Halloween time (if you ordered pumpkin pie). This stays true for several hours and eventually morphs into a beautiful chocolate on me. Good throw, and amazing long-lastingness. This is a multi-bottle scent right here.

I amp the almond on this one. It's very sweet and croquembouche-like, but not cakey. Sadly, Bite Me does nothing for me or my skin. I could sniff almond extract in the bottle.

It may be because I use TKO so often, but I recognize Boo not as a relative of the sticky-sweet Marshmallow Poof but as the pure mallow from TKO. It is sweet, but not too sweet for me...in fact, it is soft and calming and relaxing. I may need two bottles of this--one for sleep when I don't want to be comatose all day and one for daily wear when I'm feeling stressed. Great throw, btw. I absolutely love this!!!!

In the bottle: Very strong lime alcohol. Uncut and unappealing. But. Sweet, creamy lime pie on my skin. Lickable. Enticing. I want to ingest my arm. Perfect for summer. I love this.

My experience was Spooky in the imp and wet (yummmmmm, thin mint cookies) to burnt pencil shavings when dry (not so savory).

On me, seltzer and tobacco must morph into menthol. Aqua Velva-menthol. This is SUCH a masculine scent, imo, and not necessarily in a good way. In the way of a freshly shaved guy who has slathered himself in cologne before putting on a gold chain and a sansabelt and going to a disco kind of way. If I sniff closely, I can detect pineapple but then the menthol pushes itself into my sense of smell. I feel...somehow violated. Just remember--my skin is STRANGE.

In the bottle, this is very scone-y. I smell flaky baked yeast. Wet, it is much more scone than jam on my skin. I tend to use a lot of jam when I eat scones, too...always want more, and it's true for this scent, too. The drydown really morphs on me. The blackberry jam keeps appearing and disappearing. The scone warms up my skin, too. This is very pretty, but on me (and my skin is weird)--not enough blackberry jam.

Lemony sparkling ginger ale, in the bottle and wet. It's pretty but it's so faint on me!!! And it fades so quickly.

In the bottle: Rose and ferns Wet: Rose and ferns, the sequel. While I don't normally like green in my rose (Rose Red broke my heart), this smells so vivid I can see (and smell) the red roses and greens in a vase in my kitchen, when I'm first arranging them. You know, when they give off their strongest scent. Drydown: This does get sweeter, pinker, a bit more candylike. It's beautiful--hardly any throw and short wearlength. In some ways like Thanatos, but I like it more...it's beautiful and mysterious and compelling. I could not stop inhaling my wrist.

Peat and rolling grass-covered hills, with wine-dappled heather, white clover, cloudberry, juniper berry, bluebell, dandelion, and cross-leaved heath. In the imp: Oh hai Heather! Your friend Dandelion is very nice, she shouldn't stand so far back. It's like she's hiding in the grass. Wet: Heather and grass and with a peep of other florals and the tiniest speck of peat. Dry: Mostly heather and greenness. VERY sweet and green, with lots of throw. This is very pleasant at first, but the longer I wear it, the less I like it, even though it's very cleverly blended. Prolly my dislike of green in general.

I didn't really like the original Litha and traded it away. But I was assured by a friend that this one was more pure honey and, as I'm a honey fanatic, I was intrigued. In the imp: Mostly golden honey with persistent, sharp and snippy parsley Wet: Mostly golden honey, but that sharpness sounds an annoying note to my sweet haze Drydown: The more it dries and the more time goes by, the sweeter Litha gets. After an hour or two, it's all good. Make that great. This scent reminds me of L'Estate. That's a good thing.

In the imp, red musk and little else. On me, this is nothing like the note description...which is a good thing, since red musk and I aren't buds. The pomegranate amps in a big way, mixing with the melon (and the red part of the musk) to create a juicy plumy plum scent. It's the holy and healthy spawn of Dionysia and Queen of Spades, with great throw and wear length. I love Orange Blossom but there's none to be found here. Not on my (admittedly strange) skin.

This is, as others have pointed out, a combination of Misk U and Egg Nog. Unlike Egg Nog, which can go plastic on me, this one does not. It stays the same on my skin for a very long time, but after a few hours, I get a very slight, funny bitter note. If a waitress asked, I'd add a smidge more coffee, but it's lovely, has great throw and lasts for ages. And the bottle is just beautiful--one of my faves.

In the imp, this smells a little tinny, like baby throw up. Wet, it turns into a warm, creamy fig, a little more complex than Strangler Fig (which I gave up because I prefer a little complexity). It's sweet, but not too sweet--the goat's milk takes care of that. In the dry-down it goes through various phases. It mellows a bit and then gets a bit spicy and sweet at the end, like dried fruit. ALL of the phases are wonderful, despite the imp smell. I think I need a bottle, but I'll try it at least once more to be sure.

In the imp, this is a sweet, watery blast of my youth in the summer, swimming til nightfall. There's almost something chlorine-like about it, in that it makes my throat ache, but it's not an unattractive or sharp smell. It's a very young and light scent--it doesn't have a lot of throw and lasts for a very short time (much like youth and summer). This is a very pretty, but very jeune fille, aquatic. Celebratory, but not for me. I'll keep the imp, but I probably won't wear it again.

This is a disappointment on me. I was hoping for a rich fruity blend in combination with my favorite essential oil, Spikenard. I can't smell the Spikenard and The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is not very full-bodied on me. The fig from Carnal (which I love) is up front, but there are no backup scents to make it intriguing. I will try it again because I'm about to take a shower, so I won't know how it morphs....but I suspect this is swap-pile bound.

Very lemon-woodsy in the imp, but wet it's much more lemon. Eventually it dries down to a sickly lemon with wood-tones. It's kind of nasty.

In the imp this is dark, intoxicating peach wine. But on the skin, it lightens up immediately and is more open and inviting. A public party instead of the private one indicated in the bottle. Simple and sweet. I went back and forth deciding if I needed a bottle of this--there were so many beautiful Lupercalia scents this year that I went a little crazy (for me). But I ultimately decided I did need it and I'm so glad I made that decision--I've worn it quite a bit already and keep an imp in my pocketbook traveling case. Very bright and peachy and a perfect summer scent. Sadly, it fades quicker than most BPALs that I love.

I get the buttery cake everyone else does, but little to no lemon...and it's a thin batter to my nostrils. I know everyone's loving this one...but it doesn't do it for me. I tried it twice to make sure.