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Because I am very, very crass this year. Slushy white mint, vanilla cream, lemon drops, grapefruit, and yuzu! I tend not to do "snow" scents, as much as I want to, so I was a bit hesitant about ordering it. It was too funny not to, though, and I'm glad I did - almost wishing I'd ordered a second, in fact! It's like the winter version of my beloved Spinning Multicolored Metallic Pinwheel. In the bottle I can smell maybe the tiniest bit of citrus, but mostly fizzy ginger ale and a bit of sugar, and then as it dries, the Christmas trees come out! There's maybe a tiny bit of musk in there, but I don't get any vanilla, and the citrus I get doesn't seem like grapefruit, to me. Not too sure what yuzu smells like, so I can't say on that. It doesn't have a huge amount of throw (but neither does Pinwheel, on me - I'm not a slatherer), and it's pretty faded after 8 hours or so, but I love it. It's not like any other "snow" scent I've tried - the rest have all been cold florals or aquatic scents, and I'm glad!

This stuff is all the amazing yummy foody goodness of Gingerbread Poppet with a bonus hit of cinnamon just for fun! I'm not sure if I'm getting the clove as mixed in with the cinnamon or as what's causing the gingerbread, but it makes me feel a little less regret for only getting one bottle of GP before it was gone. Almost vaguely like eating gingerbread cookies wearing Tintagel, some similarities there. This scent doesn't morph much between the bottle and me, wet or dry. Seems like a lot/most of my favorites don't, not sure if that's my skin, my luck, the types of scents I tend to like, or my nose not caring much between minor variances of "yum". Will probably order another bottle.

I've been very ambivalent about a lot of scents recently, I've still got about a dozen bottles sitting on my desk in the "undecided" category going as far back as the last batch of Yules, and I've been trying to get an opinion on them. Finally got one for Moon of Ice. In the bottle, it smelled promising, cold and piney and maybe a bit of juniper? I go downstairs to leave for work. From my dad: "I don't know what you're wearing this time, but it smells like you just put on Deep Woods Off." I give it some time to set, then later ask someone at work. "Yep, that's exactly what it smells like." I think I'll lend my bottle to someone else at work if she goes back up to the cottage, this last time I think she ended up going through about a dozen different kinds of bug sprays and still got eaten alive.

Gleaming eyes, screeching voices, glistening wings: black amber, black orchid, black currant, olive blossom, wood violet, lavender, blue musk, rose attar, and cedar. Amber, rose, and cedar - three things I'm not too fond of, why did I order this one again? However, I only read the ingredients again just now as I went to write this. When I first put it on, it smelled like caramel and a bit of currant, not as strong caramel as many of my other foody favorites, which was nice because it didn't make my dad go "What *are* you eating???" when I wandered into the kitchen for breakfast, as some other scents have done. After an hour or so, I start smelling nice woodsy stuff, like mild holly and juniper, but the caramel's still there in the background. It's a very good woodsy, and I don't get any cedar at all, which is a very good thing. I love this scent! I'm so glad I took a chance on it despite the scary things in the ingredients, because they're not showing up at all on me, yay!

Cassia, cardamom, and something cold, empty, and haunting. Like if the Undercity had a little country store that even the undead were no longer inhabiting. I didn't think of cherry or patchouli at all until I read the description for it, and even after doing so, I *still* can't smell either in it. I don't know if I like it or not. Hollow. But because of that, it's incredibly fitting, too. Even though I'd like patchouli and cherries better. Empty, empty, empty. I should wear it to work tomorrow night and see what one of my friends there smells it as, he's good with that sort of stuff, unlike my family. I think I'll keep it, even if the cherries and patchouli never show up.

In the imp, it smells kind of like decaying leaves, but not moss, and a bit like some of the leaves are burning. Once it hit my skin the leather popped out, but it only stayed for maybe half an hour before going to soap. Not floral soap like most florals turn to, but kinda like nondescript soap that you'd find in a liquid soap dispenser in a public washroom. Actually, it's *exactly* like that kind of soap. I'm not a huge leather fan anyways, though Western Diamondback is good, and it was a frimp, so I'm not too terribly disappointed, at least.

At first this one smelled a tiny bit floral and a tiny bit musty on top of something else, but then it rapidly dried to...Snake Oil! Yep, another one goes Snake Oil on me...good thing I like it. I don't seem to get any patchouli from this, and usually if a scent says it's got patchouli in it, I smell it. Not anything particularly recognizable as ginger, either. Just Snake Oil. Same color, too.

Definitely lots of throw with this one, I walk into the kitchen and my dad wonders what's smelling like caramel, but I swear I don't remember putting any more than normal on. Almost a little to the buttery side of the caramel, especially in the bottle. As it dries, though, the currant comes out to share the spotlight, and I start smelling so much while eating breakfast like I've already had dessert that I feel too full to finish, which is odd for me at McDonalds. The tobacco shows up behind the main caramel and currant notes just enough to give them some company, but not enough to be entirely sure that what I was smelling was tobacco until I got home and checked the description. I'm not getting any sandalwood, cinnamon, or patchouli from this at all. I think this'll do quite nicely when I want foody and throw.

In the bottle, I can't really describe it, but since it smells nothing like it when on my skin, I guess that's ok. On me, this is...exactly what I'd expect, from the description. Wow. Milky and fruity, maybe a little coconut. There's a bit of similarity to Dana O'Shee. This is milk and honey, with figs and grapes being fed to you by hotties wearing loincloths as you lie back and relax in the sun, or the shade, whatever suits you. Mmmmmm...

First time I wore this, I liked it but couldn't identify why, this was before looking at the description. Wearing it again,I can pick out the pineapple when wet, a sort of fake pineapple that I like better than the real kind. Then it gets a bit warmer and almost...butterier? A bit of coconut and maybe some other fruits, as it's drying, but it never smells particularly overtly fruity or foody, maybe as mentioned above it's the pepper toning it down. It's just *good*. Might need a bottle of this.

*This* is what Dragon's Blood should be, or at least what I expected it to be. The myrrh dominates, with the clove and cherry providing a nice warm backup, and just a tiny hint of the lilac in the background, but you largely forget it's there. I don't like lilacs, and I don't like any of the other dragon's blood blends, but this is beautiful. The name doesn't do it justice, it doesn't seem particularly vampiric to me. I love it. Think I'm going to need a big bottle.

At first sniff in the imp, and when it's fresh on my skin, this smells exactly like "green" should smell, without florals. It also seems a tiny bit amber-y or incensey. But within half an hour, it turns to something slightly cedar, with a little bit of smoke thrown in, and something reminiscent of moss. It smells...dead, for lack of a better word, compared to the bright alive green it looked in the imp. I got it as a frimp, but it's still kind of unfortunate.

From beginning to end, honey. Not the kind in jars, the kind with the comb still in it, ripped straight from the hive, eat at your own peril lest you sink your teeth into a bee. I swear you can smell the comb and hear the buzzing. Unfortunately, while it's the most amazingly realistic simulation of busting open a beehive without getting stung, I don't really *like* the smell of honeycombs, and there's nothing else in this. But top marks for realism here. Wow.

*dies* Snake Oil and chocolate. Mere words cannot express how I love this scent. I suppose it's the teakwood that keeps it just a bit dark so it doesn't go foody. I'm not really a slatherer, particularly when testing things for the first time, and this was the first scent that elicited unprovoked comments about how good I smelled. If I could just keep one bottle of my collection, this would be it. I don't miss not having any unadulterated Snake Oil around so much now.

I'm not really smelling apples here, but maybe what I think of as "apple" and what others smell apple as is a bit different. No citrus/orange here, either. I'm smelling...Tintagel! Or something else I've tried that I've filed in the "Yummy like Tintagel" pile. But starting from the moment I put it on, all day I've smelled Tintagel. Good thing I like it. It seems to have slightly fewer herby/spicey things in it, though. And I'm not smelling any Snake Oil at all. I opened the bottle of Tintagel that came in the same order to see if *that* smelled snakey at all, but it doesn't seem to. So while I like the scent, I can't really smell anything in it that I'm supposed to be smelling in it!