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A really complex and evolving scent, that kind of tells a tale. It has surpised me very favorably, I was expecting something very heavy, more smoky and not so wearable, but is is lighter than I imagined, and more beautiful. In my skin, I don't get carnation, all the notes mix very well and I am only able to distingish what I suppose is the honey, that smells much more of beeswax with a hint of sour propoleum that cuts the sweetness. After a while, the beeswax with a hint of wood covers most of the other notes, so I don't know if I will get a bottle of this, perhaps another decant if I can find it will be enough. Edit, 22 october 2006 Gah! I got that other decant and poured both in a bottle I got from the generous person that sent the second decant... and forgot about it. I tried it yesterday again... has it changed! it is just, hmh, better! deeper, very blended, golden beautifulness. It is so amazing I don't know what to say, except that it ages exceptionally well, and that I am in the hunt for one or two bottles! a bit late but there is hope...

Hmhm, elegant, really elegant, delicate but with some kind of inner strenght, so polite, fresh, genteel indeed. Fresh and bright (but not golden, more like silvery) and softly warmed by the white? musk. I have to agree with Blood onmy hands, it is like a perfect couple with Berenice. Will get a bottle!

Jasmine was my favorite flower when I was a kid, I picked flowers from the big jasmine plant that grew in the house next to my grandmother's, entwined with the fence. I loved the smell so much, and tried to extract it somehow, just putting flowers in water, in alcohol... of course nothing worked, I didn't have a clue how this was done. My grandmother's balcony had dozens of geraniums (probably another type though), I love the smell of Juniper and it's berries, and Poe is my favorite writer, so I had to get a decant of this! Even if I was afraid of the jasmine, because I haven't smelled any perfume with jasmine I liked, nothing smelled like the flowers... ... except Ligeia! It is mostly jasmine, and the best I have ever smelled, it smells just like the flowers! It brings so many childhood memories It is amazing, the juniper berry and geranium avoids it getting too sweet or concentrated, giving a "rest of the plant" feeling, a greener note in the background. I love this, I am getting a bottle for sure.

I start loving this the moment I open the imp... Pine! hmhm, it smells like one bottle of pine eo I once had and loved. I run out of it, and the next one didn't smell at all the same! grr In a moment, I start smelling other things. Other lovely trees, musk, something animal, woah I LOVE it. It only gets better with time, melting *drools* I can't stop sniffing. This is a dark temperate evergreen forest... It is exactly what I was looking for when I found bpal, would they have something that smells like a dark forest? I don't have much more to say... Just perfect!

Boo, it smells like horribly sweet candy in the bottle (I think this is the dragon's blood, and now I am extremely afraid of it...) and I had to make an effort to try it on. At first it just smells like bubble gum :S In a moment it starts to change, and I think I smell wine, but it is not the wine I am used to smell, perhaps because of the spices and the sweetness. It changes, but not enough. This is too syrup and sweet for me Maybe I should have paid more attantion to the reviews before ordering, but I was blinded by the imagery, I wanted to like this one so much... Maybe if more of the wood and leather would come out, it does after a good while, when it has almost faded, but the sweetness stays there for too long and it makes me sick in my stomach. I didn't put on much because it scared me, maybe if I do and I endure the first minutes, I will like it. I will try it again, but I don't have much hope...

In the bottle it smells fresh, but not in a citrusy way (that is what I associate with fresh). Keeps on smelling like that on the skin, with some herbal touches, after a minute it starts to smell more woodsy, there are the rum and bourbon! The earth is very subtle, just grounding it, very nicely done. It is well blended, I can't tell the notes apart. Many hours later. I like it even more. Decayed dried leaves, the moss, earth, the party is over. Absolutely lovely.

I am mediterranean and my father was an "olivarero" when he was young, not to mention I use exclusively olive oil to cook (and for other things too). So I had to try this if only for the olive leaf, I like the other notes too, well I don't really know how raspberry leaf smells... The imp smells like wood. Hm, it is wood and green and somewhat acid and dry. But I can't tell what it is. I get a hint of wax. I don't remember the leaves of the olive tree smelling like anything... so I don't have a clue how their essence smells. It doesn't remind me of olive oil. I don't smell the vetiver, but the wood I smell must be the cedar. It is a bit sinuses-opening. It doesn't change that much, it just keeps fading into cedarwood until this is the only thing I perceive, a few hours later. It is not awesome, but I like it.

I was a bit afraid about this one, but I also wanted to order something different from the foresty stuff I ordered, and this was that imp. It surprised me positively. It smells like a hippy shop in the beginning, then mellows into somehting much nicer, but always keeping that middle-eastern feeling, of course. It is incensey, smokey, very warm, but not too sweet (yay!) It is what I would expect an indolent odalisque to smell like. I don't see myself wearing this often, but I will use it when I am in the mood. I don't wonder why a lot of people love it

Hmh, I love it! Eucaliptus, juniper, cypress... I knew I would like this one! The eucaliptus is all I can smell in the beginning, then it mixes with the juniper, then the cypress comes, and after that I perceive something that resembles ginger and must be the galangal, I love this perfume through all it's changes! Hours later, it is a faint woodsy green smell. Very fresh in the beginning, woodsy, medicinal, but I like that. I can only wish a werewolf would smell like this

This smells SO synthetic on me (and also on the imp...) I tried to wait to see if it changed, first it smelled like rubber, then fake apple candy, ugh, and I wanted to like this one so much... I had to wash it off after half an hour, it made me sick. There was some smell lingering all the afternoon though, and I didn't like it at all

This is my first review ever Bottle: Sharp and dry. Wet on skin: Slightly turpentinish at first. Draws the air out of my lungs, astringent, very dry. Medicinal. Calms down in a minute. Dry down: In the beginning it is a bit stranger to my skin, but after a few minutes it "melts" and starts smelling beyond my wrists. It comes to my nose, very subtly. It evolves and changes. The cypress is always there, grey and cold and also peaceful, the geranium comes out and blends perfectly, later on the orange blossom, subtle and sooting, bringing a dot of life and hope to this cold and grey, pensive scent, balancing it. On me, the mint is really subtle, and I can't place the lavender. It works really well with my chemistry, evolves to a very beautiful, evocative and most of all, calming scent. Overall: This scent is VERY evocative in me. I get a lot of images and feelings from my childhood, when I used to walk in silence and peace with my father in a hill/park in my hometown, which is rich in cypress and was pretty wild and abandoned at that time. It has made me write a lot of personal reflections on my private journal, it is so catarthic and so calming, that I am very grateful this scent was ever created, and more so that it has been resurrected after being discontinued, because I am gonna order a bigger bottle for sure, I so need inner peace and silence at this moment, but anytime it is very welcome. I hope it doesn't get discontinued again, because for some reason most people don't seem to like it