TrailerTrashPrincess

so. Poison (the band) played at Lakewood (in Atlanta) every year, for my birthday, for... about 14 years. yes. just for my birthday. it was my party, and i invited a few thousand of my closest friends anyway. one year in particular, it rained. and oh good heavens how it rained. but it was summer, in Georgia, and it was warm. by the time i got halfway through the (gravel) parking lot, nowhere near the gate, i was already drenched. not the first, nor the last time that happened to me there! but that year, i had product in my hair. it was a weeknight and i'd gone to school (highschool) that day. and my favourite hairspray is Suave. was. is. only used hairspray once in the last decade or so - and it was Suave, then, too. anyway. it rained so hard and my hair got soaking wet, and i had mousse-and-hairspray water running everywhere. and i could not only smell it, but i could *taste* it. but i was having a lovely day, and the rain was warm, and i had fantastic seats and backstage pass so what did i care? and this partial bottle of atmo spray i just got? smells exactly like that day. warm summer rain, Suave hairspray, and a few thousand of my closest friends. and i adore it! **this was in the mid 90's, so i can't say if their hairspray still smells the same. i hope it does, though!**

i adore buttered rum. but this was the scent that finally convinced me that i just can't do the Lab's rum. it just never works. i really honestly can't tell much difference between this and Grog.

quick thoughts as this bottle has recently moved on to a better home: i can see the comparisons to Lush's American Cream. it also reminds me a bit of the "Sexiest Musk" from Body Fantasies that - don't pay any mind to the name - is really quite delicious. this goes oddly mint (but not mint)-plasticky on me, and has a dusty floral background in there, too. all in all i don't think this is quite staged-moon-landing so much as astronaut's aunt's guest bathroom. maybe?

i generally don't like to post reviews before my decant circle folks have gotten their pakkitches.... but this one struck me so much while i was decanting it (and i sampled a drop!) that i had to post. for anyone who loves this? to me, it's a dead ringer for Sundog's (Doc Bronner Soap) Patchouli Lime body lotion and tattoo balm. this isn't the hamster cage patchouli, and it also isn't the bitter patchouli... it's also not the sweet one that i love so much. in other words, patchouli-haters, don't be afraid to give this one a try!

since this bottle is moving on to a more appreciative home, i thought i'd post my notes to remind myself of why: woodsy patchouli, maybe like the kind in #occupy? not the sweet, earthy kind. the vanilla is whichever kind it is that reminds me of coconuts, and the hemp, well, smells like burlap. overall it's okay and i'm glad i got to try it, but it's not something i'll ever reach for.

since this bottle is moving on to a better home, i thought i'd post my notes: now, i love rose scents. the more plasticky-fake, the better. this is powdery rose. not dusting-powder, not quite, but... powdery rose. may as well be called Powder Moon. nice, but not for me. kinda reminds me of the smell of old-school (unused! clean, fresh from the pakkitch) diapers. ... and i can't do anything even remotely baby powder scented.

sniffed from the bottle: there's a very specific scent i associate with most natural grocery type places.... not an herb shop (although those have their own specific scent, too), but a small, natural grocery. i've been to dozens, in probably a dozen states, and they all have a similar smell. if i had to try and describe it, i'd say it's all the scents Doc Bronners makes, but all mixed together (lemon-rose-tea tree-lavender-eucalyptus). and while not particularly pleasant, it isn't unpleasant, either. it's one of those scents that just *is*. anyway, wet from the bottle, i feel like i'm standing in the back of the local natural grocery, in the bulk products section. once dry and settled? it's like... almost-clove, and baby powder. which makes no damn sense, but that's what i get. a shame, too, 'cuz i had hopes for this one!

in the bottle: ugh, no. like every bottle on the cologne counter all spilled into one big puddle. on skin, sadly, it isn't much better. it's just too jumbled and too many notes for me.

sniffed from the bottle: smells kinda like a christmas tree. on skin it settles down a bit and becomes just "tree" without the holiday-ishness. bitter to me, though. Does remind me a bit of one of the Dawn scents (Cernunnos).

chock full of dealbreaker notes you are. sniffed from the bottle, all i smell is peppermint. on skin, it's yet more peppermint, with cumin-pepper created a spice in dire need of a shower.

thinking about this one instantly brings to mind the 3rd Doctor's Venusian aikido! sniffed from the bottle, it smells oddly almost like spearmint tea. almost. i'm thinkin' that's the lemon verbena, which seems to be the overwhelming scent i get out of this.

since this bottle is now going to a better home, i thought i should post a quickie review first... kinda mead-ish (in a good way), but more apple and less honey. don't really get any blackberry, which is a good thing 'cuz i don't like them. i think the chamomile and nuts are what gives a cereal-y, kinda creamy backdrop in there somewhere. overall, a very Harvest kind of scent, comforting and familiar and yet not. but since i've never done more than sniff it, it's time for a better home.

this stuff is chock full of dealbreaker notes for me - white musk smells like Tide, violets go chalky and wrong, and the green tea just usually goes to wet paper towels. and yet, somehow, this is surprisingly nice. not really my speed, and i don't see myself needing a bottle, but it's gentle and soothing. exactly the way a governess ought to smell, i think? to be precise... i imagine this is how Nanny from Muppet Babies would smell.

did i get Teatime in Roswell in this bottle by mistake? 'cuz that's what it smells like, almost exactly. or, like, a blend of Teatime in Roswell and Bread-and-Butter-Fly. weak tea, cucumber sandwiches, cookies and paper doilies.

i adore patchouli, but this is the same icky patchouli that's in #occupywallstreet i've tried this a couple of times, and it just smells like cedar, or pencil shavings, with delusions of deliciousness. boo.

there used to be a place, between Aragon and Cedartown, where sometimes these crazy bonfire parties would happen. there was a searchlight, beaming up to the heavens as a signpost to find the place, if you didn't already know how to get there. and just like sargeismydog's review... there were shenanigans. and sometimes jell-o wrestling. sweet woods burning, lots of spilled beer, tires to sit on, and well, a lot of memories. but not really something i want to wear as a *perfume*.

2012 version: 4th verse, same as the first. so good in the bottle, so plastic on my skin.

i know spanish moss and oakmoss aren't the same. but this is more like oakmoss than spanish moss... it's oakmoss in a fuzzy purple sweater. but just not for me.

2012 version - smells so much like last year's Autumn Cider to me. too much so. too cranberry-y... not enough apple. boo.

when i was doing the decants of this one, either it was still too fresh or my nose was on overload because i thought i didn't like it. when i tested it again yesterday, i do like it. although it reminds me more of Jovan Musk mixed with The Premature Burial than the description & listed notes. i think i really like it, though. and i think i may need more. oops. this part won't make sense to anyone but me: smells like Bill's dresser (which was my dresser before - the fake black marble one?), and my uncle Bubba.

i love the fizzy and champagne BPALs. and i love pumpkin. and i so wanted to love this. and it's nice, when wet. but as soon as it settles in, it goes funky on me the most bizarre thing, for me, is that after about an hour it smells like Harlequin And Columbine... and just stays that way.

quick review before this bottle goes to live with someone else: at first it's a waxy, christmas-scented candle. a frankincense and myrrh sort of thing. then it settles into an incense - a dusty sort of incense, but pretty. i hate coconut, but there's none here. maybe this is a tropical island christmas incense?

won this from one of the Lab's ebay auctions, back in Nov of '07. but now it is going to live with someone else. quick notes: it's like the bitter patchouli from #occupywallstreet, or like Smokestack, without the choking.

quick review of this before it goes to live with someone else: i've had this bottle for years and while i like it, it isn't something i've ever reached for. it either smells like an expensive salon shampoo, or like a natural grocery. i don't know why so many natural grocers (not big ones like WF or TJs, but little tiny local places) have such similar smells - maybe it's all the boxed teas? - but they do! gentle, nonoffensive, vaguely pretty.

quick review of my resurrected bottle before it goes to live with someone else: dragon's blood and purple. hyacinth? lilac? something dusty-light-purple smelling.