Dandelion

In the bottle and wet on skin, it's sharp, tart plum with a bit of cream and grassy wildflowers to tone it down. Once it's on my wrist and dried the plum lets up a bit and the cream and flowers come through more. It's lovely - sweet and girlish, but there's something about those plums. They don't smell like a BPAL plum note I've tried before. This note seems deeper, sweeter, maybe even a bit spicy. They're magic witch plums! Love this scent! It reminds me a bit of La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente, one of my go-to early summer scents. They both have the same dark fruit-floral thing going on.

Another rec for Tiger Lily here... it has lily and honey notes, and seems to get a lot of compliments when I wear it. Also you may like Pink Moon 2007 and Poisson d'Avril - both LEs so you may have to do a bit of looking to find them. The first thing I thought of was Tamora - very sweet, almost <i>too</i> sweet for me, but you may like it! La Belle Au Bois Dormant also fits the bill.

I like Silk Road and Harlot for cinnamon in the summer - Silk Road is sweet and spicy but light and (I think) damn sexy. Harlot is cinnamon with roses. Chimera has been mentioned as a summery cinnamon blend, but it's also strong and foody enough for cold weather.

I'm gonna third the rec for Hymn to Proserpine and second Yerevan - I love Yerevan! It has a really nice plum note and is a bit sweet, but more tart on my skin. Also (because I love pomegranate) I want to mention Persephone - which is very juicy and dewy, not sickly sweet at all - and La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente (although that may be too sweet for you).

THIN MINTS. That's the only way to describe Tokyo Stomp. Is it girl scout cookie season yet?

Try this thread. Just to put something here, though, Vasakasajja has what smells like a pineapple note to me and, it seems, a lot of other people who tried it. It's lovely.

In the imp I get a lot of amber with some overripe fruit on top. I don't know what "darkening" amber is supposed to smell like, but it doesn't seem dark to me - it's the amber I loved when I got my very first order from the lab. It smells like the amber in Macchu Picchu, but instead of being just a hint of amber, it's amber. It's lovely. The fruits develop into pomegranite, and maybe a bit of apple and grape, and plum that seems to burn off pretty fast. As the amber grows stronger, so does an interesting spice scent that comes out of nowhere. It's a subdued spice, but still all I can smell in the throw for the first few hours of wear. It's only when I get up close to my skin that I can smell the fruit and amber. It's not unpleasant, but not what I was hoping for. I really like the wet fruity scent better.

Ooh, Arkham is a gorgeous woodsy-green scent with a hint of florals but no pine, at least not on me. Neo-Tokyo is light and fresh and pretty. Tweedledum isn't exactly green, technically, but it just smells somehow green to me. It's kumquat and very soft (usually I don't like the note) patchouli on me. Smells earthy and fresh.

I've been on a tropical kick lately - must be the freezing weather outside. Macchu Picchu is one of my all-time favorites, Pele is great but fades to nothing on my skin, I like Santo Domingo a lot, but Manila isn't one of my favorites. Any suggestions for what I should try next?

Very soft and pretty, cool and fresh, except for a slightly astringent note that is cloying to my nose on first application, but calms down a lot later. I think I'll be saving this imp for summer, as it has a refreshing smell. It's a very green scent, too, but not sharp, which I like.

My skin hates these roses. Ugh. Roses, OMGROSES, and smelly socks. I hate you, skin. You normally do so well with rose! Whyyyyy?

Spicy, full, fruity honey. I really can't pick out the notes other than honey (my skin AMPS THAT SHIT), but they're definitely there and add life to the scent. I like it. It's grown up, not sticky or girlish like some other honey scents. I'll be keeping the imp around, although I don't think it's going on my bottle list.

Perhaps it's because I ordered this scent in the worst time of the year for apples (it came to me at the end of July), or maybe it was because of the stifling weather it was mailed in - can heat damage some oils?, but something in my imp smelled pretty rotten. To me it smelled like rotted apples. I got none of the woods, and no crisp fall goodnes. Still, I tested it, and although the rotten smell faded some and the woody scent came out a bit more, there was still some of the grossness that turned me off to it. I ended up throwing the imp out - I wasn't going to use it and since I felt the problem was with the imp and not my skin chemistry or nose, I didn't want to pass it along to some unsuspecting person. Perhaps I'll order another imp this winter and the weather will be on my side this time!

Wow. I get, oddly enough, *plum* and amber as the top notes. With a hint of something spiced-orangey, although that may be just my nose's citrus obsession. It's gorgeous though - spicy, sweet, and deep. Perfect sexy going-out-at-night scent.

Huh. Lotus? I didn't smell it at all, and it's a scent that usually jumps out at me in all it's bubblegummy sweetness. I didn't notice the ylang ylang either, or the green tea. I did smell a bit of sage, or "green part of strawberry plant", as my nose interpreted it. ^^ I did get strawberries and cream, though, and lots of - on my skin, it's pretty much all sweet strawberry. My skin does love fruity notes. Gorgeous, but I like my scents to have a bit more noticeable complexity - I'm sure the other notes are there, but I can't tell when I sniff my wrist!