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I've always liked freesia, and I like it in this. But for some reason, it's smelling salty on me. Fresh, crisp, green, and... salty? Odd. I like the crispness of it, but to be utterly honest, I don't believe this is working on my skin as well as it's working on other people. My husband thinks it smells great, but my reaction is still meh. Maybe I'll wear it around for a couple of days and see if I like it better.

Roses? What roses? This is ALL blackcurrant tart on me... at first. As it dries I can start to smell a bit of rose, but it doesn't even come close to being as strong as the foody tart smell. It blends very well with the blackcurrant. I would never have guessed that combination would work this well. The rose keeps this from being a foody scent, and the "tart" part of it keeps it from being a rose scent. It's a fabulous combination. All in all: I really like this one a lot. It's a nose-glued-to-wrist scent.

At the very first, all I could smell was cassia. Then it smelled strangely like a mixture of cassia and red licorice. Almost medicinal. It seems like some of the notes in there are fighting to get out, but I don't think anything's going to be able to conquer that cassia. Under the cassia, it smells strange and discordant. I think the combination of red musk and lemon peel is odd, and not in a good way. Don't think this one's going to work for me.

This smells exactly like the cucumber salad in a sweet syrup that comes as a side with my favorite Thai dish. Very green, and VERY accurately cucumber. I guess there's some grass in there too, but I'm not really paying attention to it because really all I notice is the cucumber. It's making me hungry. An odd side note: One time when my hormones were messed up or something, that cucumber salad at the Thai restaurant tasted like watermelon to me. It was the wrong texture, but it had the exact taste of fresh watermelon. When I'm sniffing this scent right now, that watermelon comparison is coming back to me. It smells like watermelon seeds. Weird!

I agree with previous reviewers -- definitely not straight-up lily. Lily is a very distinctive scent, and althought it's in there, it's not loud. I also agree with the person who said it's a "warm honeyed, spicy scent." There's a really interesting spice in this (although I don't know what it is) -- not hot, just spicy. There's also something that makes this smell smoother than lily usually does. Also, sometimes it seems very sweet, but on the very next sniff I don't smell that sweetness. Interesting and unusual!

Ooo, this is an interesting aquatic. It smells salty and sweet. It doesn't smell exactly like the ocean, it smells like the air around an ocean. To be honest, it seems like there's some sort of smooth creamy floral note in there with it. It's not at all unpleasant (don't let the description fool you!) and reminds me of being on vacation. I think this is one of the prettier and least masculine aquatic blends. Very nice!

OK, wait. What's in this? Peony, bamboo, plum blossom, tangerine, orange, lychee, pine resin, kumquat, pussy willow, quince, narcissus, King madarin, peach blossom, and dragon's blood. Holy smokes, that's a long list of notes. I would think it would smell confused and odd. But... it doesn't. When it's wet the tangerine is pretty strong, but as it dries down the tangerine isn't quite so prominent. It's smells like a good, sweet, fruity scent, but not entirely fruity. Not like just fruit and nothing else. I would never have able to guess what was in this. It smells well-rounded and well-balanced. It smells unusual but also familiar. Grounded but whimsical. Cute but solid. I'm not sure how to describe it. I know I like it, but I don't know why. But it makes me smile to smell it, and that's good enough for me.

This oil apparently doesn't morph at all on me. It smells the same wet as dry, and it never changes. The dragon's blood is apparent but not as strong as in some other DB blends, and the pepper and ginger are prominent but subdued by the opoponax. It's spicy in an aromatic way rather than a hot fiery way (which is good -- I'm not a fan of fiery hot scents). The honeysuckle... hm, I'm having a hard time picking it out. I think dragon's blood and honeysuckle is a particularly good combination because the DB tamps down the honeysuckle so it doesn't become overbearing, but the honeysuckle makes the dragon's blood smell more floral rather than resinous -- pretty rather than sticky. I like the scent and I know this is a keeper, but I also know it's not one that I'm going to wear often. I have to be in a certain mood for pepper and ginger, although I'm basically always in the mood for opoponax.

First impression: Sweet and green. Not picking up on any honey cakes or sweet cream. Smells like spring flowers. But really incredibly sweet ones. As it dries it becomes more incensey, but I'm not usually a fan of the incense + floral combination. Frankincense is almost always too sweet on me, but combined with the florals the whole thing smells sour for some reason. Maybe it's the leaf notes? When it's dry it's not floral enough to be a pretty floral scent, and when it's wet it's too green and sweet. I'm just not sure about this. I think it's all right, but I don't think it will ever be a favorite. There are other springtime scents I like a lot better than this one.

In my humble opinion, you're not the one who should be looking for somewhere else to stay, he is. That business about not being able to go to her place because her ex is there is garbage! What are you?? Her ex's feelings are more important than yours? Not hardly. He could not be treating you any shittier. And honestly I can't believe that this new woman is even willing to come into your house and act like that. She sounds like a real piece of work too. Good grief.

I ordered a bottle of this even though I thought from the description that it if I wore it I would smell dirty and gross like I'd been dragged across the bottom of a swamp. HA! Not at all. It smells like a combination of dry wood, very light moss, and faint pretty florals. It's humid, but not like startlingly strong hothouse flowers. It doesn't smell heavy or muggy, it smells damp. But not dewy. It's hard to describe! It smells like a summer afternoon in Louisiana, without the horrifying heat. Lilting, with a light breeze blowing over someone's garden that's next to wetlands. It gets more aquatic as it dries, but it never becomes overbearing. I can imagine a man wearing this because of the aquatic and dry wood notes, but the light pretty florals make it smell quite feminine to me. This is surprisingly lovely. Considering I didn't think I'd like this at all, I'm truly amazed. I'm really looking forward to wearing this over the summer, and I'm very, very glad that I have a bottle of this. p.s. I don't know how to pronounce Roux-Ga-Roux, so I've been calling it Ragnarök in my head.

This is very sweet! It has a lot more sugar in it than I was expecting, and the sugary sweetness is kind of smelling like melons to me. I couldn't smell any carnation at first, which is surprising because that note is usually loud on my skin. But as it's warming up I can begin to smell a hint of carnation. Carnation is usually an odd note on me -- it has a spicy dry feel to it and is sometimes bitter. Not in this one, though. Here it smells fresh. Like fresh cut carnations. And crap, I don't remember what phlox smells like. I planted some last summer but I don't remember it having a distinctive scent. But there's certainly a floral note in this that isn't carnation, so I guess that's the phlox. It's pretty. This becomes a little less sugary and more floral over time, but it's a good smooth floral, not a heady or green one. It smells like fresh petals, with a nice carnation spicy overtone. I like this, and it'll be great to wear in the spring! ETA: After a while the carnation has taken over and made the blend smell funky. I'm not sure I like this after all.

The blackberry is definitely strongest on my skin, followed by the French lavender. The lavender seems to be distorting the blackberry, and it ends up being an odd sweetly sour scent. Almost like blackberry wine. I'm having trouble figuring out whether I like it or not. It reminds me a lot of Monster Bait Closet without the booze. That's how strong the blackberry is on me.

I love this soap. It smells just like Dorian, but it's smoother and softer. Of course I already knew that I love the scent of Dorian, so the only thing in question was whether I liked the soap itself. It's lovely -- it lathered beautifully and seemed to be pretty good at moisturizing. The scent doesn't linger too long on my skin, but it was very strong while I was using the soap.

Nuts. This smells like fig soap on me. I'm pretty sure it's the rose that's the soap culprit -- rose has been doing that to me lately. It's not a bad scent, it just smells a bit on the detergent side. Maybe I'll try it another day and see if it works better.

Clean, watery, and lightly floral. Smells like springtime. It's aquatic-like in that it's watery, but it doesn't smell like salty ocean water or like ozone like aquatics usually do. This is much, much softer. It's watery like dew. Sweet and lovely. I'm really glad this is not sharp or green or too strong on me like it is on other reviewers. Maybe because my imp is about a year old? I don't know what the reason is, but on me it's so soft... it smells like a cloud. Really beautiful.

While this was drying I liked it a whole lot and was surprised because I usually don't like anything this overtly floral. It's more heady than I usually like, but it's soft enough that it didn't bother me. But when it was dry it started to smell strange -- sweet but kind of ickily floral at the same time. Like when you're surrounded by flowers and you feel like you're being smothered by their heady scent. I think the sweet pea is too strong. It's making the scent too sweet. There's a teeny bit of vanilla underneath the scent... to be honest it seems more like a vanilla bean than vanilla. I can't smell any carnation or apple blossom -- those are usually strong notes on me. Not smelling any neroli, either. It seems like everything but the sweet pea is blending together... which is disappointing because sweet pea is my least favorite note in the description.

For some reason this smells mostly like cleaning products and a pencil box on me, and I don't know why. Usually those notes work just fine on me. But I think the woodiness and orange combination isn't working on me. It smells kind of... dusty. Like something that needs to be cleaned. I don't think I'd be able to wear this as perfume.

Lavender that's not sharp and herby, it's smooth. It's on the verge of going powdery but it doesn't get there. I've been testing some of the Somnium blends recently, and I like Safari better than any of those I've tried. It smells soft and soothing.

Lavender and a soft floral, maybe a gentle herb like chamomile. This one is softer than the other Somnium blends I've tried, and the lavender isn't as strong. It definitely seems like it'll help me sleep. Very quieting and calming.

At first I thought it smelled perfumey; now I think it smells cologney. Ozone and white musk mostly, very little floral, and some moss. Hmmm. It's too bad my husband wears so many ozone scents because now whenever I smell something with ozone it smells masculine to me. This is a lovely scent, and I do like it... not sure if I'll be able to convince the hubby to wear something called Urania, though.

Hey, I kinda like this! Weird. I read those notes and thought it would be hugely terrible on me, but it's not. The lavender is sweet and soft. The lotus is in there doing its sweet bubblegummy lotus thing, but it smells pretty good with the lavender. It ends up being mostly just lavender, but it's still sweet. Not so bad after all!

On me this is a very soapy rose with cinnamon. To be fair, roses don't usually work on me, so this isn't a big surprise. It's a litlte bit smoky, but the smokiness doesn't overcome the soapiness.

I should mention first that my imp is labeled Old Kyoto, so that gives you an idea of its age. When I first put it on, all I smelled was anise and cherries. Not as strong as kabuki, but something similar to it. However, once it mellows out, it's a sweet cherry blossom with sandalwood. The star anise isn't nearly as strong, and the cherry scent has faded into a floral. This is prettier and more sophisticated than Kabuki, and I wouldn't even put them in the same family at this stage.

This smells like a lovely, rich amber, softly spiced and wam. I remember wearing it this past summer one day when it was hot outside, and it smelled a lot spicier then. I thought it smelled like cinnamon then, but I'm not getting any cinnamon from this today. Just thick amber, but it's soft. Not powdery at all. It's very pretty, and when I wore it this summer I remember thinking it was great for the summertime. I didn't think a warm scent would be good in the summer, but it was perfect.