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This is one of those scents where I'm glad I had the chance to smell it without knowing what the notes are. I sniffed it at Dragon*Con and immediately wanted it. It was a lovey, light aquatic with some floral/herb thing I couldn't identify going on in the background. I came home, bought it without more than a cursory glance at the notes and then promptly forgot about it until the box showed up this weekend. I wore it today for the first time, and kept smelling my wrists trying to figure out what I was smelling. It was lovely, but I couldn't place it. I just looked at the notes and WOW. That's jasmine??? my cursed, hated jasmine? The scent that usually sends a blinding haze of floral stench and headache if it comes anywhere near my skin? And cucumber? The scent that smells so good on everyone else, but horrible on me? and ambergris, which I can't resist, but which I have t dab on a jacket, so it doesn't make me smell vaguely of kelp? Yep, it's jasmine. And cucumber. And ambergris. The jasmine and the lavender are giving this a lovely floral note. The ambergris has nestled into the terebinth pine. The cucumber is probably adding to the pine/ambergris cuddle pile, adding a nice aquatic note. And everything is playing nicely. Amazingly nicely. I almost don't trust it. This is a surprisingly lovely scent full of notes of doom for me. Wet: The pine and the flowers combine in an almost herbal scent. It dries into an almost skin scent aquatic. Very well rounded and soft. Hours later: Sage is one of those notes that is always barely discernable initially, but dries into a pretty basenote. This whole blend is doing that. You can tell that I smell good, but not necessarily that it's from perfume. It's not my normal style, but I'm rather enjoying it.

This becomes super-feminine on me. I can pick out the bits and pieces that *should* make it masculine, but somehow they all come together to make something light and girly, like a frilly white and blue Victorian riding outfit that you know at some point was inspired by a man's uniform, but that "some point" was far in the past and possibly created from the mind of a teenage girl. Wet: This is very, very green. The blackberry leaf comes out immediately, as the Lab's blackberry leaf note always does on me. The sweetness and a bit of citrus are lurking there behind it, but they're shading the scent rather than adding their own distinctive notes. Dry: The lilac and the tonka have come out to play with the blackberry leaf. There's a slight hint of the baby doll plastic smell that tonka sometimes adds on my skin, but it's not strong. It mostly just reinforces my mental image of it being a girly scent. The Lilac and the blackberry notes work particularly well together. It's reminiscent of an old fashioned perfume, but brighter and not so heavy. Later on: It smells the same as it did dry, but lighter and a little more musky. It's actually a very lovely scent. I will use the imp on days that I'm in the mood for sunshine, cotton dresses and tea parties, but those days are few and far between, so I'm not sure I'll ever need a bottle.