Aveya

Source: Decant! Note - This is a thiiiick blend that's trying to separate even in my vial. Make sure you roll your bottles. Preconception: MOST excited for this scent. This has every love ticked for me. Vial: Deeeeep red. Rich. Patch and musk. Cocoa sticks out. Skin: I'm in Heaven. deep red musk. Gently sweet. I'd say red musk forward, patch and tobacco are there but are united with the supporting characters. Making one delicious dark smooth blend I could bathe in. Drydown: Wood-notes come out later game and tame the red musk more. As Red musk is tamed, I feel like the other notes can come forward a little more. Stage one for me was decidedly womanly sexy smut. Stage two is leaning more masculine Stage one is fifteen bottles backup, stage two is maybe one. I'll be trying again once I've let this vial sit a tad longer from mailshock. I just couldn't wait any longer. Verdict: Beautiful, red, dark, smooth, woody. Late-game masculine.

Source: Forum Decant Preconception: I actually really super love Nori? Not sure how it works in a scent but I'm too curious to pass it up. Unfamiliar with the other notes; including the musk variants. Vial: Salty! Skin: Weird. Literally like, I got tangled in sea-debris. Salty weedy musky. Not aquatic to me in the usual sense - I'm not feeling any "Ozone" tang in this one which is a little bit of a relief. Drydown: Musky, blue variations. Aquatic but without the usual ozone method - this is pine and salt and sea. It must be chamomile that'd adding a floral-esq clean edge to the blend. Verdict: Musk dominant, engulfing sea storm. Like a rolling cloud embracing you in the most comforting way possible.

Source: Decant circle! Awesome. Preconception: Super excited - love fruity sweet scents. Vial: Dreamy. SUPER PINK. Fruity, sweet, so sweet. Literally pink sugar slime. Skin: First application came across as pure bubblegum for me. Super scared. Drydown: Eases up into a much more beautiful pink pop of fruity fizz. The lime is very notable to me - keeps the scent from being a cloying mess. The orchid seems to add an air to the scent, keeping it light and distinctly feminine. It interestingly has a slight "clean" slant to it. Not sure what's causing it, probably the combo. But the Guava is the star, holding everything together and being pulled in every direction by the others. Verdict: Super Fing Pink. Sweet, feminine, bright, happy, peppy.

Source: Lovely lovely decant circle Preconception: Weary - Cardamon is new to me, cream can go sour, fig has been meh before, whisky can get too boozy tart. Vial Sniff: OMG this is heaven. Slathered on skin right away. Skin: Stays beautiful with cardamon and team - a creamy warm spiced sweet beautiful thing Drydown: Carmel-esq with a tart boozy high note. Foody without doing that "baked goods" grubby thing (No idea how to describe that). However the base note seems absent. I can tell this is going to struggle to stick around for the long game. ... Sound like it needs layered. With, maybe, Drag is for everyone? Verdict: High-note heavy; top notes of caramel and booze, nice spiced. Late drydown starts to go a tad masculine with a boozy spiced remnant.

Whoa. Imp: Sharp Strawberry Skin: Oh heavy beeswax. It cuts into the sharp strawberry easily, and there are these moments where it's 100% Jolly Rancher. Drydown: Easily morphs out of candy and falls into something red-musk esq. Reminiscent of the new Edible G-String scent. Same fruity sexy musk vibe happening. But much more wax. Hefty throw, beeswax stays around. Overall warm, red-musky, starts with sharp sweet fruit but fades to a warm red honey-haze.

2009 Version Imp: Cakey sweet Skin: ICING. Whoa. Ive tried a lot of "buttercream" scents and this is by far the most icingest scent Ive had. I want this on my birthday cake! Very almond-heavy. No trace of beer. Just fancy icing. Drydown: Settles down long term as a soft, sweet, robust vanilla. I didn't get beer, or really incense. Just a more rounded beautiful vanilla icing than usual. If you have a forgotten bottle, maybe check how it aged.

Source: Random swap pick from forumite Preconception: I love patch. I'm newly learning Tobacco doesn't smell like a smoker and is actually beautiful. So I'm optimistic. But I've never come across "hay" and liked it. Bottle: Surprisingly sweet and perfumey. Skin: Oh what a bloom. Still "perfumey" but tamed down. I know that's Hay being a weirdo. Otherwise this is all sweet smooth elegant patchouli & tobacco. They go together so beautifully - I can't. There aren't words for this combo. It's a new combo for me personally, I've ran across tobacco recently as I try to clear out my to-test stash. But the combo is just so delicious. Woody, earthy (but in a soft, summer breeze sort of way), smooth, sweet. Their combo is like amber's dark sister. Drydown: Stays about the same for me. The hay is sort of slicing into the patch+tobacco beauty I'm swooning for, and turning this more perfume-esq and possibly masculine edged. I think that's about where it stops; there isn't much more to this scent to tantalize my gemini self. I want something more for no reason at all. Verdict; beautiful and straightforward. Warm, smooth, gently earthly, slightly masculine blend. Beautiful and simple. If you're someone who loves wearing say vanilla straight, this is one you should try out. I agree, it will age amazingly. I'll try a few more wears before I swap or sell this bottle, because it's almost nirvana.

Source: Decant from 2012, waiting for me to get to it. Preconception: I'm afraid of florals, So, this one is intimidating. Imp: Wet, sweet, juicy. Skin: I ALWAYS underestimate how beautiful lotus is. This is wet, pretty, "floral" technically but absolutely beautiful. Like sitting next to a creek in soring. Drydown: Unfortunately it IS a floral and I'm dumb to different flower scents. One of them takes center stage and turns the blend away from creek-wet-breezes and into pollen territory. White, sweet, a bit clean. But steals the show. The amount of floral/pollen I get from this keeps the scent from feeling autumnal to me, and more like a spring/summer scent.

Source: Decant circle from 2012 Preconception: Just curious. I'm assuming it wont work on me, but trying everything out. Imp: Cotton, pine, herbal Skin: That... is pot. Pine pot. LOL makes Norman seeing ghosts make a whole lot more sense, eh? Wet pine pot on top of fabric. Drydown: Pot note eases up and moves into a more pine-citrus direction. On top of "Clothing" perfume. A kind of musky fabric. Cream keeps everything pooled together but I don't find it prominent at all. I swear there's something cedar in here too, woody. Verdict: Hits the namesake again. Clothing, pine, and citrusy potty ectoplasm.

Source: Old decant circle from the forums I neglected. Preconception: Just curious, no idea or prejudices against these notes. Imp: Dusty hills Skin: ... Road trip. This smells exactly like a road trip. Leather, skin, faint waft of gasoline from so many stops, and dirt - dry natural summer dirt. As a lover of gasoline smell (I was that weird kid inhaling deeply at the gas station, and my mom freaking out that I was going to give myself brain damage) I have to say it's NOT prominent. It's just the barest edge of passing by a gas station or car repair shop. Drydown: I actually really love this one. Smells like the Black Hills. Motorcyclists and all Verdict: Sturgis scent. Leather, motorcycles, nature, beautiful endless horizons, maybe a stray buffalo. First scent I've ever had from the lab that roots me back to South Dakota. Not my home state, but my current home.

Pale, gentle, clean, ethereal white & green floral. Light, not heady, barely sweet. Delicate and feminine.

Source: Who the heck knows, Probably lab. Preconception: Love plum. But I have this handwritten note from years ago that says "Pretty but faint" So... Imp: Floral simple not a lot to get. Skin: Mmm spicy plum. Drydown: My note was not wrong. This blend doesn't work on me - just no throw. I get little zings of spice but that's it. Maybe this vial is just a dud. Verdict: Pretty but faint

Source: Swap! Preconception: Pretty sure this one was a frimpie, or a "heck why not". No opinions! Imp: Whoa clean and soapy. Didn't expect that. Skin: Yep. Lovely clean soap. Drydown: Metallics are there. The electrostatic effect can be read as electrostatic, or when Im lazy "soap". Metallic soap. A touch of ... leather? Like soft well worn brown leather, almost skin-like musk. Verdict: Clean, electro-static charged, metallic. Comes across unisex, but I feel like it would do beautifully on someone masculine.

Source: Old decant circle in 2012 I neglected to test Preconception: Honestly don't know what I was thinking getting this one. I assume it's going to be death-by-ozone. Imp : Super clean, white, fresh. Skin: Same. Extra clean. Ozone-esq "ice sea". Something gingery popping in. Drydown: Warms up a little pit. I SWEAR there's something peach in here. There's this little touch of sweetness that perks up, with the soapy slush it almost comes across as floral even though it's not. It seems ever so slightly salty. Verdict: Bright, light, ginger-fizzy ozone scent. Interesting for those that like the ozone/sea tang.

Source: Lab Preconception: The only note I see is Vetiver. Pusling red. My death note I'm trying so hard to understand. Imp: ... So hey there, vet. Wet basement on the menu today? Maybe we can stick to like, happy prairie grass instead, huh? Skin: Rootbeer! That's fun. For five seconds. Then smoke billows up. Then someone threw vetiver into the bonfire and started drinking rootbeer again. Quit jumping around and let me smell you. Drydown: Actually a pretty cool scent. Once I get over my vetiver issues, it fizzles together into a nice blend. Citrus-spiked root beer, bonfire smoke, a general vibe of sweetness. Verdict: Youth group bonfire. Good intentions, youthful pep, naivety in abundance.

Source: Lab Preconception: NOPE. NOPE. Don't make me wear this, self. Magnolia? Gardenia!? JASMINE?! You know how I feel about jasmine. YEAH BUT TRY IT YOU HAVE IT. TRY EVERYTHING RAWR Imp: Florals. Yeah. Yeah I know. Skin: .... PUT IT ON YOUR SKIN. ... Ahem Skin: Florals. Imagine that. OOoh but patchouli!? See there's reasons we try everything. Drydown: OK so this is a floral that doesn't do that perfumey dusty in-your-nostrils thing that Jasmine very specifically does to me all the time. Instead this stays... behaved. Heady, for sure. But instead of powdery grandma it feels full bodied and well rounded. That depth from the patch and team is very very lovely. Beginner's floral. Floral for those that can't quite. Has an edge to it that feels oddly western - cedar? Woody patchouli for sure. It's sweet and full, floral but tempered from taking over the world. Actually worked really well on me. Verdict: That backup bottle the tom-boy female keeps for those occasions when she has to put on a dress and go to a wedding and pretend to be a girly bridesmaid for your sister in law. It passes as feminine but doesn't completely abandon you.

Source: Lab Preconceptions: Yawn-fest. I dunno why but I was so un-interested. Imp: I dunno what I smell. It's like, nothing? Skin: Surprisingly lovely what the heck. It's almost sarsaparilla-esq, but if it were cinnamon based. Vanilla backing, smokey hint. What the heck why is this so amazing. Drydown: Oh no. I sniffed it all off. It's gone. There's nothing. I can only sniff it by merging by face with my arm via bending laws of physics. Verdict: Lovely western cinnamon scent - but no throw. Super close to skin

Source: Lab Preconception: Super masculine/too edgy for me. Wouldn't have tried if I hadn't ran a circle for these. Imp: Boozy bold peppery leather. Skin: Comes across leathery to me at first. Then unravels to reveal it's just complicated spices. This is some artisan cognac is all I can say. Either that, or that dust on the pepper is some complicated mid-eastern spice-bazaar-dust. Drydown: Smoke is the prominent accord to me. That mid-eastern bazaar I mentioned? Fucking burning down. Ginny had enough of their "let me wrap it for you" shenanigans, coming back with other crap in the package half full and bad quality. Verdict; Dark sexy lady with cowboy boots, standing in front of a burning spice Bazaar. With a sparkle in her eye.

Source: Extra decant from my circle Preconception: SUPER STOKED! I love peach. I love carnation. I love patchoul. Vanilla. Bergamot. This is going to be awesome. Sniff: AWESOME. Fruity, zesty, spicy. Skin: Hm. Notable GREEN edge pops out. I'm not familiar with geranium, but I'm thinking it acts a bit like white rose? Drydown: Pretty disappointed. This turned into what my nose just considers rose. And after a small google of "what does geranium smell like" the answer is apparently "Rose". And Geranium doesn't care, it's gonna amp just like rose too. Everything else is lost in the spread. Verdict; Rose SN due to ampage. Small dusting behind that of a lovely fruity scent. So sad!

Source : leftover Imp from my Decant circle Preconception: I assumed this would be masculine and odd. Wouldn't have tried it otherwise. First Sniff: Lime. Wood. Active. Reminds me of.. my grandfather. But not in an old-dude way. He's an outdoorsy kind of guy, always whistling bird tunes too. Skin: About the same as the imp-sniff actually. The lime tones down slightly and I get a touch more wood. Overall bright and slightly sweet, with a citrus zip. There's a touch of floral on the edge but it's not taking a forefront. Tobaccoo starts to creep out as it dries. Drydown: Oh hi there Honey. Oh... hi there floral :|. Lime unfortunately doesn't last into the drydown, but that's the nature of lime. Once honey and lily enter the game, it's a battling match between sweet cloying honey, floral kudzu-style overtaking, and a peppery tobacco background. Happy to report I think this stays well balanced between those notes. Early it's very unisex, but once drydown hits it's notably feminine to me. Verdict: Fresh, bright, citrus/floral/honey dom. Good throw, nice staying power. Lovely scent over all.

Source: Bottle from forum member Preconception: Fearful of this scent but also really irrationally hopeful for the plum and lemon to work. Bottle Sniff: Dark floral musty fruit Skin: Oh god you have so much floral vibes happening why. But next to that is a fizzy bizzare fuzz. Literally "scrabbling" is the best description ever for this. I'm surprised by how much I love and hate this at the same time. It's like, literally, a black bird with poor motor skills trying to sit it's butt down on some lemon sugar eggs. There's these wafts of black fuzzy dark floral feather, then wafts of super sweet sugar and citrus. It's... super bizarre. Drydown: One of the eight legs of plum has to be plum blossom. That floral turns "clean" on my scent and starts to overtake. I'm really sad this didn't go fruity for me. Verdict; Light but black floral musk, with electric zips of sugar citrus.

I too must join the club of slight plastic, rootbeer, and commercial vanilla. Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely vanilla. The rootbeer note threw me for a loop (takes a few minutes to come out but then I can't unsmell it lol). It reminds me of this Vanilla and Brown Sugar perfume I had as a kid, from I think Bath and Body works. It was literally the first perfume I had that i liked and wore the crap out of it when I was like, 13. So, to me, this is a juvenile, entry-level scent. I think my history has given it bias it doesn't deserve. But I was really hoping for something much ... more extravagant and elegant and extreme for some reason.

Source - Ajevie decant Preconception - Assuming it will be as smells, assuming I won't like it cause incense is usually a dry thing, but trying it out for funsies. Imp: Sweet Incense. Skin: At first a sweet grape-like wine-like sugary incense. Then all the sudden ... Rose? Bitch - you rose. Rose wtf you doing in my perfume. You best sit back down I didn't get candy incense to get engulfed by you. Drydown: "Rose" or whoever TF she is comes and goes. And it's this rotating door of sweet wine then rose. If the door went faster and they blurred together I could dig this scent. But based on the amount of ampage this mystery floral is doing, I'm going to just call her Rose and walk away. Verdict; Rose is laughing her ass off at me while drinking wine. Dat ho. Oh - but if you aren't currently pissed at rose for not behaving EVER, this is a very lovely sweet wine-rose scent.

I have two imps ; one clearly from 2012 and one undated, and I'm confident it's from 2007 release based on the smell. So. Two reviews in one! 2007: Source : Swap - Unknown year. Label seems older, makes me THINK 2007 but I have no proof. Preconception: Really want JUICY PEAR please! Imp: Much more "perfumey" than I thought it would be... Skin: Pear is super subtle on me. This is all vanilla. Gentle vanilla - but vanilla. Maybe there was a pear in there that got cooked once? It's coming across as foody vanilla. Drydown: More of the same. Gets that lovely vanilla long-term drydown moving. Almost has a sandalwood-esq vibe to it for me. Smooth and warm. Verdict: Vanilla foody scent. I feel like the fruit was lost on the way to my skin. 2012: Source: Decant circle 2012 I've neglected. Preconception: Pear and vanilla YUM Imp: VERY Sweet! Pear syrup and vanilla. Good start. Skin: Vanilla prominent. Pear takes a biiig back seat. So sad. Drydown: Pear sweetens up, and this stays a very graceful pear and vanilla scent. It's very soft and faint, I wish it had just a bit more kick to it. But then that wouldn't be a haunted house, would it? Verdict: This is fitting for the namesake, it hit the brief. Gentle and soft vanilla and pear. Stronger pear than the 2007 version, less smooth and warm as well. But still faint and gentle, not a juicy pear in your face scent on me.

Source: Forum swap Preconception: Uuuuh bloody rings? Bottle: Kind of sweet amber Initial Skin: Uuuh nope. Bitter, tart, blood. Drydown: Amber takes a few to warm up per usual. Once it does it's a powdery amber, sweet vanilla-hinted base, but still mostly bitter & dusty.