Aveya

Imp: WHOA this is black bananas. This is tart over-ripe I can almost smell the fruit flies. At the same time it makes me think of those dried banana chips. Wet on Skin: Banana vanished and it's just a tonka-esq tobacco (why tonka? OH WAIT - It smells like Dee. Which I = tonka in my brain) Drydown: So I SWORE I hated vetiver. Because it smells like basement. But in this blend it's coming across as Tonka/leather to me. It's actually flippin' fantastic. I know nothing. This is just like a glorious re-iteration of Dee to me. Take out the sexy part of Dee and condense & multiply it into a stronger more potent scent. THIS IS THAT SCENT. Too masculine for me. But yet I looove this it's so beautifully dark and luxurious to me. Gonna smear this on the husband. Gonna layer this with vanilla. Gonna make girl-Dee and live happily ever after.

I honestly don't know where/why/how I got this imp. Maybe I had a random whim buy from Ajevie, but maybe it was a frimp. Huh. In any case - I hate florals. I avoid them chronically because they just don't fit who I am, and most of them go "powder", "old lady", or just amp up my house and are too much. So, with that... Imp : Yup hi florals. I'm gonna put you on my skin though. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Wet on skin: You guys aren't so bad. Sort of sweet soft white overall. I've come across "night" florals before and they have a nice mellow vibe to them I really appreciate. Drydown: I'm useless at notes, but I think even skilled people will say this is well-blended. Soft, floral, somehow damp white scent. Has tons of throw, as florals do. It feels white, cool, robust but delicate. But yeah you're still a floral and now it's all up in my nose and all I can smell lol. Would be beautiful florals for a floral person. I'll trade this off so they can enjoy!

Imp : Lavender. I'm worried it'll all be floraly stuff. Wet on skin : Omg that sugar. Drydown : This is beautiful. I hate florals but this is herbal through and through. Lavender raw and proper. With candied grapefruit. I think the other descriptions of lavender candy is slightly off for me. It isn't candy-sweet. It's surely sweet - but bright and crisp. That grapefruit cuts through anything that could go candy-cloy over-sweet. No this is just flipping amazing. I purchased this imp on a whim - soooo glad I did. now I have to hunt for a bottle. This is perfect every-day girl at the office for me. loooooooove Disclosure - I don't know what TKO smells like. It seems compared a lot so one day I'll come back to see.

Imp : Wet. Cucumber-y. Wet Skin: Club soda with lemon? This is a quirky scent. It's got elements of citrus or something sharp - but it's not forefront it's just accent. It has a general funky vibe overall. I keep going back to cucumbers, but it's not. not proper. I think it smells like a skin-peel I had as a pre-teen. It was cucumber and slightly medicinal. But fresh and clean and kind of funky smelling. That's exactly it. Verdict : Aloe-Cucumber facial peel-off mask. Or sprite in a mister.

2017 Decant: SHEW so I just tested the Graveyard dirt redux from 2014. This one is SO MUCH MUSHROOM wet on skin right away. Like the redux it changes on drydown. Dry: This stays damper longer than the redux does now. And the drydown is different. The redux test went warm and ambery (pleasant almost). This is staying RAW DIRT. This feels like gardening, with earth worms and pillbugs and the whole speal. I'm assuming it just means that aged graveyard dirt gets warm and loses it's spunk. But MAN this is dirt. good for a sniff. But I have no idea what I'd do with this otherwise . Trade time I guess so someone else can enjoy. Overall : mmmm loam.

Wet / early on skin : Mushroom single note. Drydown on skin: Warm amber-y almost vanilla-leather dirt. Actually really really beautiful. Low throw, a skin-sniffer. The low-throw will cause me to trade it. But worth the smell. I won't be so afraid of her dirt scents now.

2012 Decant: Amazing. I didn't expect to like this. I got it from a decant circle back in 2012, then life happened and I never got to testing it. I got it on a whim, though. But When i FIRST got into Bpal a scent I wanted was bonfire. I gave up on it, because you end up with Hellfire more often ( ). But this is THAT SCENT. This is nights around a fire with friends. There's a touch of even autumn leaves. This is a fall/late summer fire and camping and omg the emotions this brings up is amazing. This makes me want to go visit my family and stay up late watching shooting stars. Holy cow man. It doesn't get too dark/masculine. It stays just light enough. There is a lingering.. almost-basement smell. But it works in this scent and feels like it belongs - burning grass and playing in dirt around the firepit. I think I'm going to need to hunt some bottles of this to put into the diffuser for a room scent.

Blech I don't know what I expected mango pumpkin to smell like, but maaaan this is mango pumpkin. That is not a mix that belongs together. I feel awful for saying this, but each sniff makes me want to puke a little bit. Oh god. I'm not even going to keep sniffing this to pull out other scents. I haven't had a scrubber in forever and this was the last one I expected to scrub. There's more in this - for sure. But juicy ripe mango + wet pumpkin filling is just... omg why is this so pukey for me lol Trades

Fizzy! I was excited to try this one. I have imps left from a decant circle form 2012 that I JUST GOT TO now. What the heck, right? In the imp I was super excited. On skin at first I really loved it too. Reminds me of the atomic lau scents, and other gin/champagne scents. But it's the pumpkin spice. Something in the labs "pumpkin spice" goes a little... sickly sweet on me? Vaguely fake, tooo pumpkin? Something. I found it in the single note and it's 100% in this as well. It's an ALMOST awesome for me. The pumpkin is just a bit too thick/sweet for me. Then I read the review above mine and now I can't stop smelly sweaty feet either

Imp: Floraly musk Skin: Blech florals. I thought this one wouldn't be so floral. Rose tends to not feel "floral" to me, but this one is. I think it's something in white musks. Plus vanilla flower. Never came across that before so heck if I know lol. Overall this is a white scent, rosey with green accents. Musky without getting too deep and dark. Hints of a maybe vanilla in there. Predominantly a clean maybe "soapy" rose for me. ETA : Red musk is there for the long-game. Comes out much later, but not changing the baseline of the scent too much.

Creamy damp coconut plastic. I mean. Yep.

Imp: LIME. Sort of refreshing. I just realized I haven't ran across a lime scent in FOREVER. Initial impression : My husband might really like this one. Wet on skin: Leather lime. I mean I know it's not leather proper? But it is, go away. Drydown: This is a curious thing, isn't it? Honestly I like this. I don't want to hack it apart to it's components. It reminds me of Dee in ways. It's almost leathery, but bright. It's warm, as it sits the more cookie-esq aspects come out. This is really awesome actually. All that said, it's just a touch too masculine for me, as it should be. So I slathered some on my husbands arm and we'll see how that works out.

This scent is not one I was clamoring for, but came up for a swap so went what the heck, and did a bottle swap. I don't like florals so wasn't sure this would work or not for me. I'm also on the fence about sandalwoods, ambers, and honeys. As they're sort of hit or miss for me. That said... In the bottle: Musky. Slightly woody. Slightly sweet. Masculine and darker. Wet on skin: POOF nothing. Vanishing act. I've been testing a few sandalwoods & honey lately and they all seem to do this to me when I first put them on skin. *waits a few minutes* Dry on skin: After it sinks in, this is soft, sweet, warm, smooth. This is morocco-esq to me. I think that means it's sandal-wood prominent, rounded out by a sweet honey. Minus the spiced chair aspect, but add in the barest wiff of a lighter orange peel vibe. This is super close to skin. I've got very little throw. The florals I was afraid of are nowhere to be found. It COULD be that this is what it does aged. This is warm, soft, musky. There's this faint trace of an orange floral maybe underneath, but it's been literally drowned in warm soft amber-wood. If you love morocco or maybe mouses's sad long tale, this could be a love for you.

Im really suprised I haven't tried this one before. On me this has 0 throw. NO THROW. I think I saw like two reviews with the same problem. This is a nose-stuck-in-my-skin-scent. I just like, ate it up. I get no florals. Nothing. Which is fine by me tbh. This has an amber haze to it. Sandalwood's sweetness with vanilla. Maybe a tiny tiny twinge of something powdery thinking it wished it was a floral. And that's it. Soft, warm, fuzzy. Like dog hair stuck in fleece pajamas.

I often browse reviews as I contemplate my review. Morocco I know I've tried before and yet always think I haven't. Because the notes and the way people talk about this makes it seem like it should Rival Bengal in "Spice". But it does not. If you're on the hunt for IN YOUR FACE SPICE SCENTS this one will not scratch that itch. That is exactly this scent, just the dry-version. On my skin this just feels... odd. wrong. Something is just tweaked a little off in the wrong direction. Like almost sour milk but not quite there. I think the "warm musk" + sandalwood just isn't sitting right either in my nose or on my skin. Oh well.

I gambled on this scent, but someone offered a trade and figured what the heck. Full disclosure I hate Jasmine. It's all personal preference. On someone else or in someone else's house, sure it's lovely. The same way I can appreciate floral print bedspreads at someone else's house, or classical tea cups on display. But I sure as hell am never owning floral bedsheets or frilly tea cups It's just that Every. Other. Note. in this scent I adore. I had to try it. Apricot? patchouli? Skin Musk! Maybe Honey ("blossom-honey" is always a coin flip - honey or floral?). Sadly it's all Jasmine. Well behaved Jasmine, to be sure. It's not powdery over-floral overtaking the whole flippin' room Jasmine. I was hoping the candied apricot and patchouli would bring in an element of the labs Depraved into things. But this is totally different. This is soft, floral, sweet, pretty, sensual in an almost-innocent way, light-musk. I'd consider it a well rounded floral. One that if someone who fit this scent wore, I'd be jealous and probably a little attracted . But It's simply put, not for me. The patchouli in this is NOT the black patchouli I love. Not sure what kind it is- it's not forefront at all. It peaks out close to skin in dry-down later moments. There are splashes of apricot that cut through the Jasmine, I love those splashes with the skin musk. Later wear they do give off a slight Depraved feel, but cleaner. I'm just aching for a different scent I guess. This is Jasmine-forward, tamed by sweet fruity musky accents. Feminine, light, bright in a diffused light kind of way, innocent, but still carrying that luper sexy-body-musk thing with it. Amazingly attractive on the right person.

Imp: Sweet, green, waxy (?), lingering tone of honeycomb Wet on skin: Where'd you go? All the sharpness instant vanishes and I think there's honey there somewhere. *SOAK* my skin just gulped it up. I got nothing. Invisible scent Drydown: Honey creeps back first. Almost musky deep sensuous honey. Waxy touch. God if all honey stayed like this on me I'd be the biggest fan in the entire world. This brief little moment of melted honeycomb is to die for. Something green keeps trying to poke out but can't cut through. it keeps it smelling fresh, I think keeping the honey from overpowering. It stays serious beautiful sensual on me. I have no idea what hemlock is supposed to smell like. And honey seems to be hit or miss on me. I've started avoiding it because I think I amp it like Rose and carnation, and it just takes over the entire world. And while it can smell nice, I don't really want to smell like a bottle of honey usually. This one doesn't get there. This is tempered down and god I'm going to sit sniffing myself all day now. This reminds me of the waxy note in candles moon (tried recently so fresh on my mind) splashed with honey. It's working out really beautifully and I'm fascinated. It MIGHT border on powdery, if my chemistry goes wonky at some point. But then on other moments it vaquely reminds me of Bengal (that sort of encompassing skin musk-esq something). I love this one so far. Overall; Sensual musky melting honeycomb.

it's interesting how hit and miss this scent seems on everyone. For me it was a hit. It was creamsicle through and through, but adulted up a little bit. The pepper others seem to have a problem with I don't really get much of. If I stick my nose into my skin and search for it I can find it... but nothing noticable for me. It's not in the throw. And this has a nice medium throw. It wafts sweet orange-cream around randomly and is really pleasant. Right in my ballpark. That said, lately I've been searching out scents like this one - and I realize now there are a plethora of these to pick from. So I likely won't buy, hunt, or hoard bottles of this. I think Gobo scratches the same itch this does for me, but I sure won't pass down trade options for this in the future . Overall; fun creamsicle scent with a medium throw.

Disclaimer - No idea what Rose Jam smells like from Lush Wet on Skin : CANDY! Crystal clear cherry hard candy. "100% natural fruit juice" Drydown: Rose peaks out after the candy. Gives it a nice solid base. It's nice and robust, full wet rose. This candy note is amazing. it's similar to me to the sweetness in Absurd Suggestive Card Game in the lightness, crispness, sugar-candy vibe that she's caught so well in some of these scents. The rose is present but background. I've been proving I amp rose like a crazy person, so it's such a relief to see this candy-coating has properly subdued rose to get along with other scents. I love rose, but rarely can I wear it because it gets to be too much. I'll do a full-day trial at work with this one to make sure it behaves over long term in heavier wear, but if it stays like this it'll be a bottle buy for me. Yay!

I did NOT expect this . This was a random whim imp-buy because I thought heck, shortbread! Wet on skin this was SWEET. Unexpectedly so. Tea roses = sweet roses? Yummy. Rose Syrup. This is actually sweeter to me than Fuzzy handcuffs were, despite you know, not saying anything about being sweet. Drydown the sweet rose turns green rosy. Really pretty, proper cute perfect rose. I'm not really getting anything buttery, shortcake-y, or foody. It's just all really pretty slightly sweet well-rounded rose. Lovely scent. But I'm proving I amp rose, so it's drowning out everything else.

Second this hit my skin I knew it was doom for me. It's weirdly dry. Not the rose I expected. Not lab's lush red note like in Hope or the new fuzzy handcuffs. This is like dried roses? There are spices in this but they're not warming on me like I usually do with spice (not Bengal, for example). There's a note in here that's keeping things from being the beautiful spiced rose I expected. Something basement-esq (which is my super unhelpful description like when people say kitty litter or old lady. Apologies). When I let it sit a bit and sniff again it hits me - this is either vetiver or myrrh. Unfortunately I haven't learned these scents from each other yet enough to tell you which. But one of em. So, off to swappies with this one.

So first application it's all gummy fruity cherry strawberry. EXACTLY like edible underwear let's be honest. But then on me it QUICKLY fades and is all smutty rose-esq (Briefly smells like rose to me, I dunno what that was). Then morphs into a smutty sweet mess. ... Kind of like if you wore edible underwear At first I didn't think I'd like it. I don't like smut, for example. But this is sweeter (NOT more cloying) and crisper. It's like a beginners musk. JUST enough for me. This is really growing on me the more I sniff.

This is Gobo + Sticky Bat + Fizzy lab scent I've smelled in some of the gin/booze drinks of the past. Starts out strong lemon but gets cut as I wear it by the strawberry-orange. This is really awesome, fun, light scent. It's not overwhelming lemon, it balances out into a twisty fruity blend. It's also not feminine like fruity sweet can go, I could see this working really well on some masculine & non-binary folk I know. Yum.

I was really hoping for a sweet candy rose. In the imp it seems like MAYBE. But like the comment just before me - this is entirely 100% Hope for me. I think I amp rose? Or maybe this is just what rose does. But it's Rose-forward, slightly sweet, but still very beautiful. It's a tad sweeter than Hope, but barely noticable. If you love Hope but hate Faith, this is your chance to just stock up on the one worth noting - Long term drydown has THE MOST beautiful vanilla remnant on skin. If someone out there always has rose fade, it might be worth it for the vanilla after-glow.

In Bottle: Shallow sweet. Almost boring. Wet On Skin: BOOM. SKITTLES UP IN HERE. Drydown: Lots of throw early on, gets a sugary waft about it. I'm totally going to annoy some coworkers with this one, as they try to figure out where the skittles are. Super sweet but without being sickly. Gets a little spicey pep for me (not spices proper, think the citrus has a nice kick). This is EXACTLY what I hoped it would be. Sweet and almost fizzy. This bitch loves this unicorn. I think I might end up layering this with some vanilla or carnation for my own personal amusement. But looove it. Glad to grab a bottle.