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OH HELLO PINE OF MY DREAMS I was recently betrayed by pine when Wolf Moon left me smelling like a neglected litterbox. Pine clearly feels badly about what it did and wants to try again. This is sweet, cool pine, and yes, there is a fruit/berry note that weirdly makes me think of Juicy Fruit gum. I say weirdly because I totally dig it. It's different from all my other evergreen scents, and it's very sweet and pretty.

OH MY GOD. This is smoky and spicy and sweet perfection. It smells like a sexy birthday cake candle that just got blown out. I love carnation blends, but I've never actually known what carnation smells like. Apparently it smells like that ridiculous sentence I just typed above and can't bring myself to type again. This is magnificent and I need it in my life forever.

"Oof, I wasn't expecting it to be this floral," said the jackass who once again ignored the fact that LITERALLY EVERY NOTE is a flower of some kind. The jackass is me, by the way. I am the jackass who now smells like flowers. Again. That said, this is very pretty if you're a flower person and not a jackass.

Oh. This is so soft and sweet. I tend to shy away from powdery scents, but this is just lovely. It's definitely got a glow to it, but it's a cool glow - the perfect evocation of a winter sunset in a quiet wood. As it dries, something spicy-sweet and clove-ish comes out. Does oakmoss smell like cloves? I'm bad at this.

Frimp! I've never had luck with the lab's chocolate note. It always comes off as very fake-smelling and plasticky. So I almost didn't bother with this. So glad I did - it's pure Swiss Miss Cocoa on my skin. Grainy, rich, creamy, and chocolatey. Unf.

I love love love pine. Pine and I are bff. I hear people talk about the whole cat pee thing and I'm like "Y'all are bananas, but whatever, more evergreen glory for me." So idk why I smell like cat piss and grape soda right now, but I'm pretty much refusing to accept it. First stage of grief and all that. I keep sniffing, hoping it'll morph into the gorgeous purply night smell I caught a whiff of when I first opened the bottle. I even re-sniffed the bottle, and no, now that's cat piss too. The cool, crisp berry scent is becoming a bit more prominent, but there's still that faint whiff of feline vengeance that all shithead cat owners are familiar with lingering in the background. Still in denial that pine would betray me, after all we've been through together. Edit: So 15 minutes later this turned into Nocturne (which naturally shares zero notes with Wolf Moon) and then abruptly disappeared. So I got mad (hello, second stage of grief) and slathered myself. Sniffing my wrist is like slapping myself in the face with a pee-covered sock. AND YET, as I type, I keep getting wafts of this gorgeous woodsy purple scent that is similar to what the poster above me described. I'm hoping this is just a temporary skin chemistry fluke. I'm going to try again later to see if there's any improvement.

Wet: the honey note from O is predominant. I happen to love that note, so yay! There's something slightly greener underneath - a fresh grassy scent. No rose yet. For whatever reason, I tested 3 scents on the same arm, so my nose is having a fit. This one is better appreciated sniffing from a few inches away, but I keep huffing it trying to keep it separate from the others and I've about made myself cross-eyed in the process. Dry: ok, once again I'm going to be fairly useless describing what it is I'm sniffing. But the smell I'm getting from my wrist reminds me of a baby doll I had when I was little; one of those super realistic ones that had scented skin. Sort of a soft, delicate, sweet scent that isn't quite baby powder but in that family. I'm thinking that maybe the honey's gone a bit powdery on me, as it's wont to do. And beside it is light, creamy rose with a hint of grass. To me, this is a soft, girly, spring scent. Not what I'd expect from a Weenie, but very lovely none the less.

APPLE. This is crisp, fresh spring apple, not spicy autumn apple. At first, that's all I smell. The apple fades after a few hours to a soft, sugary scent that lingers. A sweet, crisp, very pink scent. God, the Lupers this year are murdering my bank account. This one's bottleworthy too. Samhain's apple is a little too heady for me - it can almost be a little nauseating, like drinking too much hot cider at once. This apple is refreshing and energetic, like taking a bite out of a Honeycrisp during a brisk Spring hike.

This, to me, is Katharina's sultry big sister. It has the same sweet, lush apricot that I love in Katharina, but the cardamom and the bourbon vanilla warm and spice it up a bit. It's absolutely delicious. Not too sweet, but softly sexy and close to the skin. This is the perfect snuggle-up scent.

Everyone said it smelled like a jelly donut, which is why I bought it in the first place. I absolutely LOVE jelly donuts. But somewhere between buying this and receiving it, I convinced myself that everyone was wrong and that making a strawberry donut scent was impossible and that this would just smell like strawberries and maybe cream. I should really listen to my betters. You know when you're expected something like, say, orange juice, but you take a big ol swig of chocolate milk instead and even though you probably would prefer chocolate milk in the first place your mind still revolts because it expected something completely different? Yeah. My first impression was that this was horrible and plastic, because I just didn't expect it to smell JUST LIKE A GODDAMNED JELLY DONUT. Which is absurd, because everyone said it would. Anyway, 5 seconds later, my brain got over itself and realized that this is the most delicious thing that's ever happened to me that isn't actual food. It smells like a strawberry jelly donut. Powdered sugar, flaky buttery donut, sweet creamy strawberry jam. Decent staying power on me too. Don't know about throw since I haven't worn it out yet, but I'll let you all know if any of my peers try to take a bite out of me tomorrow. I once said in all sincerity that I would prefer to be proposed to with a box of our local bakery's strawberry and cream donuts instead of a ring. I am serious about jelly donuts. This smells just like those donuts and I'm so glad I bought a bottle.

This is my first review and my nose isn't exactly trained in such things, so take this with a grain of salt. At first application, it's very damp and mossy. I agree that there's initially a smoky patch hint to it, similar to Banshee Beat, but that's completely gone now. It sweetens up as it dries. At first I wasn't sure - I love green, mossy scents but wouldn't necessarily wear them - but the sweetness (I'm assuming that's floral/musk) makes it much more wearable. It's dusty too - reminds me of the dusty note in Tombstone and Dee that I love so much (that must be the woods). There's almost something a bit marine to this - a clean, cool salty smell that seems at odds with the dust and moss - maybe that's the stone? All in all, it's an extremely evocative scent - makes me think of a crumbling Scottish castle by the sea. I'm absolutely ok with that, and wish I'd gotten a bottle. The longer this stays on my arm, the more I love it.