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Darkness, Blood Countess, and Sed Non Satiata all have a strong opium note, too.

I did a search for amber on the lab site and the results are here. Blood Amber from Bewitching Brews category sounds good for you and then, of course, there is O from Love Potions. Hmmm, maybe the Lion, too.

Here is the thread addressing the Paypal rebate. Apparently, it doesn't count if you used the *send money* tab. It needs to be a cart-type checkout system taking Paypal.

After you follow Jarvenpa's instructions, bear in mind that the search engine will not function on words three letters or less. So, if you find something in a sales post like Urd from the Excolo category, it will not pull up when you plug it into the search engine

This is the first of the snakes that I tried and the one that I knew I was sure to love. The Temple Viper is true to its name. This is the snake that slithered into the temple and caught wisps of nag champa incense on its skin. It is sweet, but there is something dry, like very dry wood. I'm not sure what it is, but it adds an earthiness to this snake. I will be needing multiple bottles of this beauty.

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I would go ahead and contact Sara in customer service. Here is the email address. What address did you use as a mailing address?

I agree with darklorelei, but I actually am a patchouli lover and I had a difficult time detecting much in this blend. I think that it is so well blended that it doesn't really stand out.

You just enabled me I don't remember if I had ever tried it before, but after I read your post, I found it in one of my boxes, tried it on and There is a sweetness from the fig and the tonka so the cypress may not go musty on you, but then, I don't know because I like wood notes. I really like this and find it really well blended. I have no idea why I never noticed Nemesis before

What kind of sesame oil? Is it the dark sesame one?

Oh my God... I'm in your boat as well. I lived in Monterey for most of my life and moved away a couple of years ago. I miss it so much. I could cry when I think about it. The scents that remind me the most of home are Sea of Glass and Tempest, but Tempest sounds closer to what you want since it has a very definite "green" feeling to me, while Sea of Glass is a bit more floral. Tempest definitely reminds me of afternoons spent sitting on my favorite bench under the cypress tree at the water's edge, watching the fog roll in. Maybe it will do the same for you. OMG, thank you, glass_cat! I will have to hunt down an imp of Tempest and try that. One would think that with a few hundred imps, I might have it, but of course not I can't even believe how much I miss Pacific Grove.................I wonder if your favorite bench was the same as mine

How about Titus Andronicus from Illyria? Here is the description

Ummm, the Pit and the Pendulum and Clockwork Girl - maybe?

I've been looking for an ocean scent as well, but I'm looking for the Pacific. I was born and have always lived along the California coast, but I miss living in the Monterey Bay area so much. I'm wanting the ocean smell and a bit of cypress to take me back there. Do any of these suggestions sound like what I described?

Severin is a mild black tea blend. It is less astringent than a lot of other tea blends and the bergamot is rather gentle, too and a bit perfumey. The leather, too, is much more gentle than in other blends and settles over all. On me, this is a very balanced, soft skin scent - lovely.

This is the smell of the ocean that has been in turmoil. The vetivert is strong and it smells like the beach after a storm where the sands and rocks are littered with debris and aquatic plants and sea life that have been washed ashore and left to dry in the salt air. It is interesting and evocative and having always been drawn to the ocean, whether it be calm or turbulent, I can't stop smelling my wrist.

Some of my favorite rose blends are Two, Five & Seven, Seance, Ouija, Desire, Les Bijoux, Hymn, Rose Cross, Rakshasa and Thanatos as FSP had mentioned. The LE Parlement of Foules is another of my favorites if you can get a hold of it.

Dark, resiny, sticky - it reminds me a bit of Schwarzer Mond because of the darkness. When I first applied this, it was strong, strong patchouli which receded when it dried. The sandalwood and musk come out from behind the patchouli and I smell something sweet and powdery. It's a very familiar smell and I can't quite put my finger on it........................rose geranium! Is there rose geranium in here? I like Typhon a lot, although it isn't quite as dark as I expected. I can't wait to see what this does when it has aged. I bet that it'll be even more amazing.

Have you tried any of the sandalwood or nag champa blends? You might want to try Anne Bonney which has a lot of wood notes or Urd and Tushnamatay which are both nag champa blends. Years ago, things from India, like bedspreads, smelled strongly of nag champa which has a lot of sandalwood. Dr. John Seward from OotD smells like a spicier version of nag champa.

Like so many others, the smell of wintergreen was what hit me first. After drydown, that note disappeared and what was left was a complete surprise. I found a fresh, crisp smell as if I was in a woodland meadow in the fall or in the spring. There is the small of conifers and meadow flowers, all very clean and soft. It was so pretty and so far from the initial wet stage that I could not stop sniffing my arm. This is absolutely lovely.

You might want to try Coyote in the Excolo category

I'm going to go ahead and add something to this thread that I had started. I found a couple of nag champa blends, Tushnamatay and the Order of the Dragon LE, Dr. John Seward which smells to me like nag champa with a bit of spice.

Cold and dark, that's how it smells and feels to me. There is something sweet, but I'm not really thinking of flowers when I smell this. This is like a sinister void and I can imagine putting my arm into the void and experiencing the chill. I am glad that I was able to experience this creation.

This is an interesting blend because even though there are a lot of flowers in this, there is an underlying bitterness that seems to stem from the blackberry. The blackberry seems a bit earthy as if you were to smell the rest of the plant and the berry itself seems bitter from being unripe. I'm thinking that the earthiness is also coming from the sage and the lavender because it has a bit of an herbal edge. I've been craving a berry scent lately that isn't so sweet and cloying and had hoped for just a hint of rose and I think that I've found it in Bitter Moon. This is beauty, but with a bitter edge. Like, Ah Xia, I wish that I had gotten two bottles.

Some of my favorite things are in this little bottle - the sweet rose that reminds me of the rose in Parlement of Foules, wood and resin notes and currant. It's much darker and complex than P of F, but since I have a tendency to layer incense blends with P of F, this blend is absolutely perfect for me. This is beautiful and I'll be needing a backup bottle.