Katherynne

Try Perversion, that's a good suggestion. It's fairly similar to the Flames soap, I think.

Every time Devil's Night comes around for sale, I think about buying it, but don't. This year, after it was cancelled out of a decant circle, I decided to just go ahead and buy a bottle unsniffed because of how I always think about it -- and I am so glad I did! As I have always suspected, this is just. gorgeous.

This is sweet and chilled like the autumn air, warm with the sugar and deep with musk. I really love this. While I love Samhain, this is a less cinnamon-y foody autumn and it really smells like the autumn air, to me. There's a smoky vanilla to this I love, and the "autumn night" seems similar to October, which I also love.

So happy I bought this.

This is a spiced cousin to my ever-beloved Verdandi.

Sweet, ginger-y spiced apple, I do get the amber base here and the champaca really blooms on the drydown. This is a warm, almost autumnal apple for me, very pretty. I had hoped for a bit more spice from the carnation, but the level we have here is very nice.

The only pitfall for apple scents for me is that my skin eats them, so I'll be counting on wear-time for whether or not I'll purchase a full bottle of this one.

On me this smells EXACTLY LIKE Bath and Body Works "sweet pea" fragrance.

Which I hate. I've let it dry down to see if it would stop smelling like that, but nope, still going strong. I have to wash this off.

Oh, this is so pretty! This is a sparkly, bright apple with a smooth floral drydown. I love the tiare in this, it's soft but stil noticable. The musks are sheer and sweet in this blend as well. I am very pleasantly surprised.

You know, I put this on and it just KICKED ME IN THE FACE and I thought, wow, no. But as it started to dry, the notes really began blending, and it's turned into the beautifully autumnal scent I'd hoped it would be.

The honey and maplewood blend sweetly with the cognac. The patchouli dirties it up a bit and overall this is a sweet, earthy, pretty autumnal scent. I don't know if it's bottle worthy, but I do like this.

Like many others, I bought this because it's full of notes I really like. That said, it's very... sharp. I think there is a rawness to the red musk that is going to have to age a little before this becomes the scent I really thought it was going to be. The Arbor is very pretty and the floral notes are present, but for me, the red musk is really overpowering everything else and I have difficulty picking out the subtleties in the blend.

Of course, THAT said, don't get me wrong: I like it! it's just not what I thought it would be. I'm going to give it some time to age, and then try again and re-review. So I'm 'on the fence' on this one.

This scent just SMELLS like the Sabbat, to me. I put it on with some trepidation, because it smelled like pinesol in the imp -- but wow, once it was on, it bloomed. I am in love with it. It is herbal and crisp but also resinous and sweet, and it blooms brightly on the skin. I will wear this on the Sabbat itself and enjoy it throughout the winter. I bet it's amazing in an oil burner, too!

I'm in the lemon pledge club. I'm not washing it off because I want to give it a chance, but if this scent stays it's heading towards migraine territory, and it will have to come on. Distinctly disappointing.

eta: one hour later it began to smell strongly of rose. it also somehow later began to remind me of ouija.

two hours later on, it's lightened up into a still-very-lemony rose and herb scent, and I'm definitely getting the olive now.

may keep decant, but most likely not.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, from start to finish. This scent is, as a side note, a perfect companion to Villainess' Proserpina soap.

This is darkly, richly fruity. My beloved vetiver & carnation take this to a grittier level than just fruit, and the neroli really comes out on me during the drydown. Slight points off for short wear-time, but it seems like anything fruit has that problem on me. A possible bottle-worthy scent.

to me this is aquatic and sad, a beautifully melancholy scent. I get the dogwood, weeping cherry, and and camellia. I think this scent is beautiful, but I'm not sure how much I'll wear it.

I take back everything bad I ever said about you, Samhain 2009. You aren't synthetic and cloying at all -- no, now you're rich, honeyed, and spicy-smooth. You smell just like my kitchen after a round of mulling cider and baking pies, with a touch of cool autumn air through the window, and the warmth of a candle's flicker on my hearth altar shelf. I get rich honey, soft but full-bellied pumpkin, ripe apples and kicks of spice.

What a mood lifter you were for me today.

This is nothing but sugary vanilla for me. It's bland and disappointing. I was hoping for some of the spice that others are reporting, but I don't get any. It fades out into plain vanilla after about one hour or so.

Swap pile.

This is quite beautiful! I was worried about the sugar, but for me, this is all ripe, juicy apricot with a grounding undercurrent of my beloved vetiver. The red currant helps make this scent fruity and juicy, but I get no coconut whatsoever. Well, I take that back. On the initial application, I get a blast of coconut and lemony sugar, but it wears off quickly. It smells, strangely, like Villainess's "Peach" Smack! note before it dries down.

This one has little throw on me, too, staying close to the skin. It's very nice, but the wear time is only a few hours before I can't smell it any more, not even if I press my nose to my wrist.

I'll keep the decant, but it's not a bottle scent for me.

I'm getting the red ginger and buttery pumpkin. Not much mandarin, which is really disappointing. The sweetness is more defined as it dries down, so is the powdery amber note.

The more I try things with pumpkin in them the more I think I don't like it. Swap pile.

This is mostly the lily and sandalwood. Wet, I get a hit of the citrus & mint combo, but once it dries down, it's all dry sandalwood and pure stargazer lily. I really like it. Very nice for summer. I was hoping for more blood orange, but as it is, this is a very haunting, ghostly scent. I wonder if the notes besides the lily will come out more with age?

Mmmmm. This is dark and cologne-like to me.

It's got that sweet rot-like edge to it that The Forbidding Foyer had, but it's not as heavy on that. I definitely get a whiff of the alcohol of wine and mimosa, though I don't get any citrus which I was kind of hoping for. Not much raw earth, either -- this is a deeper, darker sort of dirt. The woods come out as it dries and it's morphing into a forest on a moonless night, the sweetness fading to the background. This is really beautiful, but I'm uncertain of how much I will wear it. I will have to keep trying it on to see how I feel about it.

eta: oh! I turned my head and got a whiff of rich, brilliant pomegranate! I think this one may be more fascinating than I had thought!

Wow, I love this.

I got thick pepper as soon as I put it on, followed immediately by a soft sweetness that I think comes from the white honey. Then it gets smokier with tobacco and woods, and it dries down into this beautifully rich, sweet-woody-smoke smell, spiked with pepper. I knew I would love this because pepper is a love note for me, but I am happy that this is so heavy on it.

After asking about tobacco flower, this was a blend I got recommended. I am so glad I finally just went ahead and bought a bottle -- on me, this is purely tobacco flower with a soft sandalwood & floral background. It's perfect, perfect, perfect. It definitely feels pearly and luminescent, it's soft and demure enough for work, it's strongly tobacco flower which I have been CRAVING... yeah. Exactly what I was hoping for out of this one. A+

I really thought I'd love this -- carnation & pink pepper are favourites for me -- because I was hoping it would be a good GC replacement for Pink Moon '07 (which is the carnation & phlox one...). And to be fair, it does remind me faintly of Pink Moon 07.

HOWEVER. This is way, way, WAY too sweet for me. This is almost bubblegummy, and it has a definite rock candy-ness to it that I just don't like. I don't like to smell this sweet and sugary; it's almost nauseating. It takes it some time to dry down past that initial SWEETNESS, and once it does, I do get green, peppery carnation... but I don't think this will be a bottle purchase because the bubblegum business is too much for me. I can't wait for the drydown on this one. I'll keep my imp, but that'll be that.

I guess I will have to keep hoarding my Pink Moon 07 & using it sparingly! Oh well. It was a good thought!

So... I ordered 5mls of Dorian & Autumn Moon of the Mirror Stand on February 24th. Via paypal. Are we not getting CnS now? I haven't seen anything and it's almost April, so... I am wondering if something is wrong?

So, I was looking at my BPAL box today, dreaming of warmer weather and the impending spring, and I realized: all my stuff is heavy, or incense-y, or something I consider too overpowering in hot weather. I have maybe one or two scents that are appropriate in the summer!

And that just won't do. Last summer I didn't wear my BPAL much because of this, but I didn't do a thing about it. So! Lay it on me! What scents do YOU think are the best for hot weather and summertime? I'm thinking crisp, bright, cool.....

I was gonna say Pele or Hi'iaka!

This is really, really nice.

The rice flower sweetness and honey are on top, spiced with my beloved pepper. Followed closely by sandalwood, with deep woody oakmoss on bottom. When I first put it on it smelled JUST like something else, and I was like, WHAT?! but the drydown changed all that. I think the oakmoss was hitting me first, but as the blend dries, the sweetness comes out on top.

Another Shunga I may have to score a bottle of.

Just gorgeous juciy sweet quince with sexy honeyed vanilla; sexed up with the tobacco...well blended...great throw and sexy without trying too hard..this is backup worthy!

AGREE.

This reminds me of Black Lace because of the cognac; it's really lovely. This is such a rich, juicy, smooth blend -- mysterious and sexy, and very, very feminine. This is the scent I'd wear just on the pulse points to the opera in a gorgeous dark dress. It is amazing. I cannot stop smelling myself.

ETA: Wow, long wear-time. I put this on and it lasted all day without any reapplication, and there was still a faintly honey tinge to my wrists when I got up this morning. Will definitely be buying a bottle (or two) of this.