Lunaratu

This is very foody when first on—honey and sweet cakes indeed. I do not pick up any wine at this point. This is all milk and honey with yummy sweet cakes. I’m not usually a foody person but dang if I’m not nosing my arm to constantly smell this. This is yummy and comforting. Like being a little girl and having a fully set up tea party in an afternoon garden with the pretty frilly dress and everything. There’s a joy to this, an innocence in its very sexy yumminess if that makes sense. The wine mellows out the full on cake effect after it dries to create a bit of an even warmer, slight sexier feel to the full arrangement, giving it some complexity and depth. Yum, that’s basically all I can say. Rating: 3.5/5

There is definitely some spice to this one along with the flowers. It’s like cinnamon or some such mingled with rose or carnation. It melds down into a very subtly floral but more skin scent. I can’t say anything to the voodoo properties yet but I can definitely see myself wearing this one. Rating: 3.5/5

Grapefruit, red currant, dark musk, Roman chamomile, delphinium, and lavender This is definitely sweet and fruity—very much the magenta and pink striped cat of the Disney version. I love the smell of the red currants however blending back and forth with a clean sweet scent. There is a tiny bit of very nice herbs in the background lending some foliage behind the cat. This dries down into a gorgeous darkly fruity skin scent. I definitely want to get my hands on more than a sniffie of this little guy. Rating: 4/5 EDIT: added description

This went on very strong, narcotic opium incense. This settles down a bit and then I can sense something like currants in the background. I can also smell the jasmine trying to pop its head out in there, adding a lush floral note to the whole. However, it also smells intensely soapy—not for me. Rating: 2/5

This is very light, clean. I have to admit I was a little scared to try this one because lavender usually hates me with a passion. Thusfar the lavender in this is behaving itself. As it dries the orange comes out a bit and adds to the clean quality of it—yet this still remains very light, very airy with some sweetness and depth. Rating: 3/5

This is sweet, tangy, and smoky. It almost seems like a grapefruit type of sweet tanginess however and I’m not that great a fan of grapefruit. This is definitely a bright sunny yellow scent but I have to admit I was hoping for something not so, well, tangy when I tried this—something more incense and smoky like was what I was hoping for. It’s not a bad scent just not for me. Rating: 3/5

Oh jeez is this strong when it goes on—kinda sharp and perfumey. However, as this dries it settles down and becomes much darker and fuzzier. There is also something vaguely sweet about this—but in a creamy, dark manner. Is that the coconut then? This just gets darker and darker as it settles and becomes almost narcotic. It is an intense smell despite the fact that it doesn’t have a lot of throw. Almost disconcerting in fact. Interesting, complex with definite morphing capabilities this scent does not lack for surprises or punches for that matter. Rating: 3/5

This is very much an aged vanilla when this goes on which is completely not what I was expecting at all. However it is pleasant and warmly delicious. It smells a lot like the smoked vanilla lotion by the body shop and becomes more and more like the lotion as it dries down. It’s a smoked vanilla but it gets a tinge of vanilla extract—that almost alcoholic vanilla—smell to it. This is a vanilla scent through and through. Rating: 3/5

This is of course a beautiful lily when this goes on but a deepened, non-screeching type of lily. There is almost something sweet or fruity lingering behind the dark lily scent. This is a very mature lovely scent that is extremely subtle and very well blended. The lily is creamy and dark with hints of a spiciness or a sweetness behind it. I’m liking this scent a lot. Rating: 4/5

Smells at first like some kind of grain alcohol that has some kind of flower or fruit in it. However, after it dries it settles down into an extremely light, unobtrusive floral. It’s clean but slightly sweet mixed with the floral—most likely the rose. Yet this is extremely light. It’s a good scent but not my usual type of love. Rating: 3.5/5

At first, sweet yet spicy like golden fur and temple spices/incense. It has a great similarity thusfar on my skin to Cleopatra Testing Poisons except Bastet is fuzzier, more blurred and more spices than herbs—a very dry, golden scent that is fuzzy and darker around the edges. I was putting off trying this because I wanted it to work very badly so now that it does I am certainly not giving up this little imp! Rating: 4/5

Oh my is this extremely pungent on first application—the lavender and the rosemary are definitely making themselves known here because this is all herbs on initial application mixed with some kind of lemon scent. As it dries this becomes almost a lemon pledge scent. I really don’t need to smell like lemon wood polish/cleanser so I’m happy when the frankincense decides to come out and play with the rest of the ingredients. However, now it smells like a spicy wood that has been rubbed down well with lemon pledge. While a pleasant enough scent not exactly one I want to smell like. Rating: 3/5

There is something certainly fruity when this initially goes on—but also somehow dusky or dark in color. However this becomes much more of a musk scent as it dries with that fruitiness taking a huge back-step to it. It’s a dark, almost herby musk which just does not suit me really at all. Rating: 3/5

It starts smelling rather perfumey—in a light floral, fruity way. It’s kind of reminding me of Dream by the Gap from oh so many years ago—which was actually my first perfume ever so this is making me think it might be appropriate for a young teenager rather than a full grown woman. It sticks very close to that scent even through dry-down. However after awhile the white musk kinda starts to scream on my skin a bit around the other stuff and the scent becomes a tinge sharp though still floral and fruity. Not exactly for me. Rating: 3.5/5

This is like a more mellow version of Mme. Moriarty on my skin and melds into me so that it smells like me but so much better. This has the warmth of the beeswax blending everything together and making all the other ingredients behave and play well together but in a mild way that is gorgeously subtle. It is certainly purple—but more of a smoky, gauzy purple with that hint of sweetness and incense smoke swirling around the beeswax. This smells like the mysterious, candlelit workshop of the witch which leaves it traces of scent lingering on her garments, trailing after her both as warning and as beckoning. Beautiful. Rating: 4/5

Red ginger, black spices, patchouli, honeysuckle, and three blood-soaked red musks Smells like something rotten on me in the imp and initially on my skin. Something almost fruity is coming out on drydown however that is puzzling me—I guess that’s the honeysuckle? It definitely starts to smell like fire-roasted fruit, maybe pineapple, and honey after a bit on my skin with some muskiness underlying. Pleasant, which is a huge change from the wet stage. There is also some grittiness and definitive redness to this perfume that makes it appropriate for a female War. It’s feminine but subtly fiery. Sweet at first but with warning signs there beneath the surface if you just look. However the final drydown is back to some kind of sticky, gritty musk. Don’t know if I like that. Rating: 3/5 EDIT: added description

I had to try this gentleman on first when I received my glorious imps—I am just such a bookworm. First on Azi was a good deal of crystalline musk then quickly warmed up by the cedar smell of the blonde woods. At first I’m worried that this is going to start roaring sandalwood/cedar all over the place but it doesn’t. Aziraphale is soft and the throw is indeed like sitting in an old library with aged, well-oiled wood and lovely manuscripts in leather binding just waiting to be read. It feels like a snuggle into a chair and read scent. There’s also something just a tad sweet about it on me—it might just be how the warmth translates onto my skin but I love that aspect of this. If I smelled this on a guy I’d want to snuggle up with him all day in a warm over-sized chair while it rained outside. This is clean, warm, light yet haunting and fairly irresistible in my book. Rating: 4/5

Way too sticky sweet with something that makes my nose almost itch. It’s a weird combination and my skin is mucking this up into something sweet but spiky. I really thought this would be a hit with me and it’s not. It’s a shame really. However, I do recommend that people smell this next to Allison Gross—the two together for some odd reason smell really good and complement each other well. Rating: 3/5

I waffled on getting this up to the last second—I knew I wanted Leo and Allison Gross but I was iffy about Red Moon. However I am soo glad I did get because it has been my favorite of the bunch. It’s sexy, summery, and infinitely wearable like a gauzy red patterned sun dress that is always flattering. It’s more of a skin scent after awhile but one that I could see cuddling up into in those moments of late summer twilight. Warm, spicy, yet light this incarnation is definitely lovely. Rating: 4/5

At first this is so overwhelmingly herbal/floral that I’m strongly reminded of my experience with the newest Blue Moon—i.e. not good. However, it softens a tiny bit upon initial dry-down and becomes sweeter and a tiny bit more powdery. While it’s still extremely herbal on me it’s not the pungent, sharp, awful herbal that can tend to happen on my skin. It’s smells like I walked into an herbalists shop in which plants are growing and hanging to dry all around, veritably surrounded by it. This is definitely how I think the character would smell or perhaps even Kaye from “Tithe” (yes I read ya books, what can I say)—human but magical and beautiful in a way that isn’t mortal. What’s really interesting is that this smells quite good pressed next to my other wrist which has Leo on it—the two definitely smell yummy together. I will certainly be holding onto my bottle to see how it ages. Rating: 3.5/5

This smells a lot like roses on my skin which amps and smells extremely floral on me. A bit too much for me but on some people this is probably extremely lovely. Rating: 3/5

Ok this is very foody—so very foody it’s in fact making me hungry smelling it. It really does smell like baking tarts which is extremely yummy smelling but I don’t know if I need to make myself hungry 24/7 smelling this on me. However, this is certainly that scent to waft that enticing just baked smell if I ever decide to sell an apartment. yummy but not me. Rating: 4/5

This is really a gender neutral scent with a trace of both floral and cologne aromas but it’s too bordering on masculine for me. However, I have a feeling that if I smelled this on a guy it would be one of those scents I’d want to curl up with. Rating: 3/5

This is refreshing and sweet at the same time when this first goes on—you can smell both the citrus notes and the honey coming through. The apricot starts to come through as it’s drying which makes it even more golden and fresh. When dry there is a definite sweetness from the apricot and the honey but the citrus in this lightens the sweetness to make this a refreshing. It’s really very pretty and light enough for the summer like some kind of refreshing apricot cold drink. Rating: 3.5/5

This is fizzy, bright, and pink in such a way as to make it refreshing. It’s delightful and very summery—the equivalent of fizzy cold pink lemonade on a bright day. I will definitely be holding onto my imp. Rating: 4/5