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So sexy-smelling! Patchouli can sometimes end up smelling like dirt or pencil erasers, but this patchouli is just scintillating and earthy. Magnetic.

This smelled dark and resinous to me--I think it's the combination of frankincense and sandalwood that powder out on me and the cedar. It's dark and forboding, but not really me.

Aquatic Planting Moon! I was expecting this to be more like Plague of Frogs, but it's more fresh-smelling. Oddly compelling .

This was the runner-up Plague to me--it was sweet and fiery, but not intensely so (at least on my skin). And like the person who smelled Ritz crackers, there was a faint baked goods note to me. Really oddly nice, fiery, sweet, slightly bready. Very nice!

This scent is the most amazing of them all in my opinion--it's a wonderful vanilla mint, and it's been a while since I smelled Snowblind, but I remember it smelling like this. Warm, comforting, sweet, and foody without being too much so. If we could nominate a Homecoming queen, er, plague, this one would win the crown (which would probably be made of thorns).

So surprisingly nice! It's a sweet, dry herbal with a hint of dragon's blood herbal to it.

This smelled so good in the bottle, sort of dry incense with almond. But as it started drying down, it became plastic almond. Sigh . Th

Although I don't smoke, my Mom did, and I remember her Benson & Hedges cigarette boxes were lined with foil paper. And although smoking was gross, I loved the smell of the tobacco-scented foil, and watching her play solitaire with the Benson & Hedges playing cards as we watched TV. That's what Three Dayes smelled like to me: tobacco with a dry, metallic paperiness to it. Oddly pleasant (and it amazes me that I have a pleasant memory of my Mom smoking!), but I would not like to smell like this.

Frankincense and myrrh tend to powder on me, but this does not at all! It's all incense wet, but dry it turns into a sweet, lovely "grown-up perfume" scent to paraphrase another reviewer. I think I'm mainly getting ti leaf and labdanum. It's sweet, a little sexy, a little kick-ass. Confident and assertive...this is definitely bottle-worthy.

Poor The Other Miss Spink. So little love! Well, this definitely has the same burnt sugar/marshmallow/Aliens ride at Universal smokiness in The Other Miss Forcible. But with this, my skin amps rose so much that this turns into a lovely, smoky, subdued, oddly seductive version of the childlike tea party that was Miss Spink. Kind of like Midnight Mass with rose...it's nice. Not something I'd wear every day (and truly the sunshine-y Miss Spink is more appealing overall), but nice.

Florals and tea, with a subtle hint of that baked note. This blend just makes me smile...it's sweet and not overpowering, and just smells like sunshine and teatime. But that teatime you might have had a little girl, imagining your dolls and bears, or your favorite characters coming to call (my teatime would have had Benson, oddly enough. I was a weird kid who valued deadpan humor). A childlike, effusive, innocent counterpoint to the demure knowingness of the Miss Forcible. I love this so much .

Miss Forcible with a smoky intensity. It smells like burnt sugar to me, or burnt marshmallows, edges black and charred. Oddly appealing, but a little disturbing. Also, if you rode the Aliens ride at Universal in the 90s, there's a bit of that quality to the smokiness, the same quality in that smoke. This sounds bizarre and not even pleasant, but this is an unconventially pleasing scent.

This smells like a tangy tea to me, with a hint of scone. It doesn't smell old-ladyish to me, but it does smell like a refined tea party. (with a hint of debauchery--the wit of Lord Henry with Dorian Gray, the crazy talk of which "founding father you fancy" at Emily Gilmore's DAR gathering. The semblance of propriety with a bit of a naughty side). The musk is there, but hidden way, way down. I've loved the reviews of this scent. And I have to laugh, because having smelled many an old purse (old lady or my own), there's a stale smell to those completely lacking here. This is lovely! It's not a young scent, but it's ageless. At least to me . Also, I want to try layering it with Miss Spink sometime...when I go from scent to scent, each seems to brighten the other.

Very clean smelling...actually, it turns into TP'd Tree on me. It's such a complex list of notes, to smell just like Demeter's Laundromat .

... Deep cocoa laced with patchouli, leather armor, ritual incense, and a touch of Xochiquetzal’s flowers. The resins go all powdery, and all that's left is a bit of bitter cocoa and something burning. Not good on me.

Not bad, but extremely light. Faintly dragon's blood-like.

In the imp it's a wonderful, bright apple scent, and I think, "Maybe it's enough like Hesperides to be a good alternative." But on, as it dries, the apple fades away and all that's left is a clean scent with a bit of a soapy feel to it. It's very pleasant, just not what I would typically choose to smell like perfume-wise (on the other hand, were this a soap scent, it would be wonderful).

On me, this is all white musk. It smells sweet and a little incensey, but I'm disappointed that there's no coconut or hazelnut (2 of my favorite things!)

Oh, Seance, I hardly knew ye. The vetiver scents may come and go (and go, and go, and go), but when a rose scent leaves it always makes me especially nostalgic. This smells like lovely, shy, rosy incense in the imp. Bulgarian rose, desert rose, that tangy rose scent, not a regular rose-red garden rose. On, it disappears, a slight hint of it remaining on my skin. This would have been an amazing Atmo, a shy, wallflower cousin to the dramatic Fainting Couch. On me though, it's just wasted. Maybe I'll try it in a scent locket. It's a great scent.

It smells lovely and deep and sweet in the imp, like wine and chocolate. Wet, it keeps vacillating between too-sweet and bitter. After the drydown, it's a nice mix of a hint of fruit and a hint of the bitter cocoa. It's okay--not amazing on me, but nice.

Grapefruit along with something obnoxious and overpowering. A giant cloud of...something...a neroli and jasmine sledgehammer? No...all of the notes have worked at one point, but like a really bad star-studded extravaganza, together it's a dud.

It smells like light incense and faint herbs. It's extremely neutral on me, not one thing or another. It would be a nice base scent for layering.

This is really gorgeous...lily warmed by jasmine, sweet and smooth. Definitely a keeper.

This smells like a really complex Jolly Rancher. Candied raspberry or pomegranate...wet and red and sweet. Weird, but pretty.

It's so sweet and fresh and fierce. It smells clean and natural, and sweet, but the sage gives it a slight herbal greenness. Very nice!