mymymai

ITB: Bourbon vanilla, ambrette, and champaca flower. The combination smells like a floral banana smoothie to me. Wet: Champaca flower...oop, there's that banana again. Okay, now that I concentrate, there's bourbon vanilla, ambrette seed, and the tiniest dab of leather. It's somewhat spicy if I had to categorize this scent. Dry: Okay, less banana now and more champaca flower, ambrette seed, bourbon, and light frankincense. It's nice, but not awesome.

ITI: It's soft and gentle like the rain, but I can also pick up on the playful rice wine and bourbon vanilla notes. Wet: Grapefruit, rice wine, and subtle vanilla orchid make this a delightfully playful choice. This does remind me a bit of my beloved Fresh's Sake scent from the Memories of a Geisha collection. It figures that this one would be limited edition as well. Dry: Rice wine and grapefruit, primarily. It's wonderful and I'm pleased to have found something with a rice wine note that works so well on my skin.

ITB: It's odd. I can pick up the papyrus and fir, but I'm guessing as to the cold perfume-y note. Perhaps that's the chill air. Wet: It's green and slightly astringent from the fir, but there's an odd muskiness underneath the champaca flower. It reminds me a little of early 90's Glade air fresheners. Dry: Yeah, it's really similar to air fresheners mixed with soap. That's too bad.

ITB: It's a little soapy, but the snow note is interesting as it is a bit sweet. There is also a lemon tinge to the green hemlock that makes me want to sniff more. Wet: It does remind me of freshly fallen snow as the herbiness from the hemlock still speaks of life under the cold. As it begins to dry, the iris and lily emerge, adding an interesting floral, but it also takes the scent into a slightly more artificial range. Dry: The scent is clean and fresh from the snow note with tones of hemlock and lily...and a little vanilla. The scent fades considerably after a few hours and ends up staying very close to the skin.

ITB: It's resinous and cold at the same time, which is interesting - patchouli, clove, orchid, and bitter clove. Wet: The clove is very strong here, making the scent seem almost dusty. King mandarin and patchouli followed by bamboo and a hint of orchid follow the strong clove note. It conjures images of running amok through a spice shop. Dry: IT's still heavy on the clove, but now I can pick up myrrh, which sweetens it, and musk, which softens the scent. Warm patchouli drifts underneath it all, making it a pleasantly spicy scent.

ITB: Gorgeous teakwood, nearly freshly polished, and faint tobacco. Wet: The teak is both comforting and almost minty, but the scent is soothed further by the vanilla. However, I'm not getting any tobacco. Dry: Now the tobacco and vanilla combine to provide a smoky and creamy haze over the teakwood. It's a perfect rich, woodsy scent.

ITB: Oils fragrant with frankincense and star anise please my nose. There is something faintly metallic to it, but the resins are dominant here. Wet: Resinous leather massaged with oil and a little copper, then topped with star anise. Oh, this is gorgeous! Dry: After about 7 hours, the scent is primarily frankincense, star anise, and just a touch of metal. I've really enjoyed wearing it today.

ITB: The patchouli here is smoky and reminds me a bit of coffee. It's much more pleasant than I had anticipated. Wet: Yes, that's nice. It's smoky as before, but now with a luscious earthiness. Dry: The scent is now earthy and black with a touch of resin. It's nice and would be great layered with a rose single note.

ITB: It's faint, but I get leather and ambergris. That combination is almost comforting, which is odd. Wet: The bay laurel is stronger here, to the extent that I can't smell the other notes. The scent itself doesn't have a great deal of throw at all. Dry: Now that is has dried, the balsam is the top note, then leather, which is fabulous with the rein. Finally, there is a little dryness caused by the bay laurel at the end. It would smell lovely on a man.

ITB: It's powdery (tobacco) and musky, but pleasantly so because those are mixed with lilac and a touch of lime rind. Wet: The lilac, lime, and now rosemary are much stronger on my skin, but the gentle tobacco remains underneath. Dry: It fades considerably after a short period of time. In its current state, I can tease out the musk and tobacco and the faintest impression of rosemary.

ITB: I'm at a disadvantage here since I never smelled the original limited run of Snow Glass Apples, so I won't be able to compare. However, unto itself, the scent features crisp and slightly tart apples with the Lab's snowy undertones. Wet: The apple note is now bright and crunchy on my skin while still remaining slightly bitter. The snow is soft and haunting underneath and it seems to be enhanced with just a dab of mint. Dry: After several hours, the snow has seemingly dissipated and been replaced with a soft musk, which surrounds and cradles the now fainter apple note.

ITB: Parchment, ink, and thick leather. I don't get burning as much as I do wonderfully bound literature. Wet: Ah, now I get the burning part. It does smell like burning parchment and thick, smoldering brown leather. Oh, this is great! Dry: The scent is thick with smoke and leather, although faint impressions of parchment and perhaps a little ink remain.

ITB: It's resinous and leathery, like incense smoldering on black leather - myrrh, opoponax, a dab of patchouli on damp skin. Oh, this could be dangerous! Wet: Latex oddly enough comes out as the stronger note on my skin, followed by opoponax, then leather, then myrrh. Skin musk starts to come through as the scent begins to dry. Dry: Leather, latex, myrrh, opoponax, myrrh and musk. It's sweet, resinous, and darkly alluring. Yummy!

ITB: It smells like old musk, light floral perfume, but it is ephemeral as I can't seem to pine down the notes with any certainty. Wet: Okay, I've nailed down must, which is almost civet-like, something slightly powdery...it's so confusing. There are no florals, no fruits. It does remind me of air when trying to describe it. Dry: It's clean like Ivory soap and airy but with the same tones of musk as when it was wet. How intriguing.

ITB: Salt and kelp and sea-foam with a touch of something perfume-like. Wet: It's aquatic, but pleasantly so (which is amazing for my nose). I get oceanic plants, musk, maybe even faint ambergris and salt. Dry: It's still perfume-y and aquatic, but faintly so. It's not bad.

ITB: Slightly tart strawberry, lightly green raspberry leaf, fuzzy pink musk, and a faint peach. Wet: Pink, almost candied musk becomes the strongest note, followed by strawberry and raspberry leaf and then white peach. Too bad I just spilled it all over my desk, but at least it smells nice. Dry: The pinkness of the must has died down slightly and coupled with the emergence of the pale wood, the scent has taken a little bit more of an adult aspect, although it is still rather "pink" and fruity from the strawberry and peach.

ITB: It's musky and reminds me of orange-infused cheesecake for some reason. Wet: Gardenia, orange, warm and sensuous amber along with a hint of spice. Dry: After 15 hours, it's still lovely - orange flower, amber, and a dash of super fain gardenia and spice.

ITB: Glade-reminiscent "rain" scent, although it is rather artificial, paired with light florals and something that seems a little off, like quince. Wet: The flowers are a little stronger still and the rain scent is still a bit fake, but the off note I was smelling earlier isn't nearly as prevalent. Dry: Sadly, it dries down to smell like fabric softener dryer sheets.

ITB: I get bready spice, but faintly so, but that's it as far as what I can smell out of the bottle. Wet: Fruit cake spices, more nutmeg and clove, and scented black tea with a subtle hint of rose. Oh, how lovely! Dry: The only difference between its wet state and now is that the rosewater is a little more clear to the nose. Otherwise, it's spicy and makes my mouth water.

ITB: Cacao, vanilla, grains of paradise, and red sandalwood. It's interesting so far. It has a paper-y quality to the scent. Wet: It's strangely woodsy and papery on my skin. The cacao becomes nearly invisible to my nose whereas the sandalwood, caraway, cubeb, grains of paradise, and faint rose otto become more dominant. However, the scent is still rather light and is staying close to my skin. As it starts to dry, it takes on a lemony quality and then it begins to have throw. Dry: It went through a stage during dry down when it became heavily incense-laden. Now, it's cacao, vanilla, ginseng, cardamom, light patchouli, honey, and saffron. IT's rather nice, actually - a solid blend.

ITB: Candied, bruised violets, vanilla orchids, and subtle green tea. Gorgeous! Wet: Much the same with more subtle violet, although there is more green from the tea and the delicate musk has started to show. Dry: After about 30 minutes, the violet, vanilla, and musk blend to make a beautifully introspective and feminine scent. I wish I had more than a couple imp's worth.

ITB: I get dry tea leaf and linden blossom from the initial sniff. It's already a bit haunting, but beautiful. Wet: The linden blossom is a bit clearer here, but the tea leaf and papyrus are not far behind. There is a faint powderiness from the orris root, but I'm not picking up any of the coffin wood yet. Dry: After a few hours, the orris root becomes more apparent, but it still contends with the linden blossoms and the dry tea leaf.

ITB: White chocolate, honey, basil flowers, heather, rose and some "blue" smelling flower of which I'm not sure. Wet: White chocolate and strong wildflowers are the most evident - heather, basil chamomile, carnation, followed by sweet yellow rose, champaca flower, and tiare. It's certainly much more floral than any other 13 I have tested. Dry: Now that the scent has had a few hours to settle, it's mellowed into white chocolate, honey, tiare, and wild flowers. It's pretty, actually.

ITB: It's cocoa, white chocolate, and vanilla with just a tad of fruitiness and a little floral. It seems much more feminine than the tentacle or black label 13's. Wet: Cocoa, ginger, vanilla, honey, clove, and nutty massoia bark, although it starts to develop a little more fruit as it begins to dry. Dry: White chocolate, faded ginger, massoia bark, vanilla, peach and starfruit. It dries much more fruity than I would have originally suspected.

ITB: Dark chocolate fudge is correct! There is also black incense, prune, vanilla, and just a little green (hemlock, I think) present so far. Wet: Warm chocolate fudge, vanilla, incense, prune, faint tobacco smoke, and bluebell. It actually reminds me of a cafe next to an overgrown garden. Interesting. Dry: The incense and herbal notes with touches of florals becomes more dominant than the fudge, although that is still apparent. The prune and vanilla are still there, which give it an interesting sweetness.