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Sweet grass that fades almost immediately. Another one for the burner...

A quiet scent, soft, calm and enigmatic. A perfume of mystery, of whispers, and of secrets behind secrets. White sandalwood, lilac, gardenia, violet, orris, lavender and ylang ylang. All I smell is light lavender, which is my mother's scent. It doesn't have much personality. However, it makes a great linen spray and adds dimension to spicy/incense scents.

I hope I'm not driving everyone nuts by playing catch-up with my reviews and I'm trying to avoid the ones that already have 7+ pages, but I just have to jump in and say I love Antique Lace. It's the actual bloom of the vanilla orchid and not the bean. It makes me smile, but I think it needs some kind of wood.

This is a very pervasive musk. Not white musk, but animal musk fixative. I smell nothing else. It drowned out the smells of all my other scents in my closet it's so strong. Pee-yew!

If dark purple had a smell, this would be it. The notes are all perfectly balanced and the result is a dark and sensual floral.

This was an imp I got in the middle of my jasmine phase that pretty well cured me of it. Pretty, but not me. The person I swapped it to was very happy, though she normally isn't a jasmine fan.

I hated how quickly this faded, because I love the dirty bubblegum smell, but lotus has definitely become my new favorite flower. This is on my big bottle list to be experimented with in layering.

This is super sweet. If I breathe deeply enough from my wrist, I can smell black poppy. Mostly though I'm reminded of Jailbait.

Amber and peach. Everyone thinks this smells great on me, it's very girly and sweet, but I just couldn't get past the peach.

My boyfriend hates pine. Then again, he's from the desert (he's a Coyote man) and I'm from the woods. In the bottle and first on, it's sweet pine. Even a little too much for me. But happily for both he and I, the drydown is all Enraged Bunny Musk (my new favorite) making peace with the pine. Lovely, lovely, lovely.

Dang- overripe bananas. Where is my tropical beach?

Moscow is a luxurious floral bouquet, but is mostly rose. I've decided to avoid the Wanderlust perfume because most of them are just too loud and complex.

Fig. I wanted to smell coconut so badly, but this is just a very sweet fig.

Chewing Juicy Fruit gum in a flower shoppe. There are just too many different sweet smells here, and though it makes a great room scent, I feel like I smell like Carmen Miranda's headdress.

My favorite dessert wine is made from green grapes harvested in a week in late autumn, and this smells just like it. Very sweet alcohol.

This smells just like Mountain Dew. I thought I caught a little bit of lilac at first, but then... lemon lime.

The almond in this stays is very dominant, and stays right on top of the musk. I recommend layering Salome with anything else with jasmine and sandalwood, because sadly, it fades very fast on it's own.

She's attractive, but I don't trust her. I was expecting something that smelled like wind off the water, something romantic, but Loralei is unsettlingly personal. A body smell, like sticking your nose in the crook of a strange woman's arm.

Holy spicy vanilla, Batman! This smells great on the guy friend I gave it to, but is too exotic for my chemistry.

In the bottle, this is a very edible almond. On my skin, it just turns to and Indian headshop, all clove and sandalwood incense.

You know the scene in Coppola's Dracula when Lucy and Mina are reading Arabian Nights together? This reminds me of that scene. Lucy must store those stiff, lacy. satin gowns of hers in a wardrobe perfumed with rose sachet. This is Lucy the lady, not Lucy the succubus.

This is so sexy on my boyfriend, especially in hot weather. With his chemistry, it ends up a very natural minty musk and always surprises me when I get close. The BPAL version of the "Axe effect." Layered with De Sade, it has a bit more throw but it really is the kind of thing only I care if I smell.

I was so bored with rose until I smelled this funeral bouquet. It immediately went on my big bottle list. What's great about it is it's versatility- I can wear it at work, out to dinner, or out vamping and it's never out of character. Very beautiful, long lasting and well behaved.

Hot candle wax and opium- this is in my top 5. Compared side by side, Languor is more feminine and less smoky.

I had just polished off a bottle of Black Dahlia when this arrived and was really surprised that this smelled exactly the same. I don't smell any honey, musk or spice just a metric ton of flowers.