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Deep, mysterious, and full of dark portents: oakmoss, juniper berry, myrrh and patchouli. At first this smells a bit similar to Black Annis, only sweeter, probably the juniper helps that, there's not quite as much decay in it. After about an hour, though, I'm smelling nothing but oakmoss, and while it still smells cleaner than Black Annis, it also doesn't have that tiny hint of something that could possibly be chocolate-ish, so I can't really pick which is the lesser of the two evils. Musty, like furniture in a castle that you'd tour in England today, ugly "antique" icky green couches, my grandmother's closet if only for the paint color. Rarely-used church storerooms. And somehow, the smell of Irish gift shops. Ugh. I think oak/moss/lichen and I just don't get along.

Even after reading other peoples' reviews, I still didn't know what "too boozy" was like and so didn't really believe I'd find it that way as well. In the bottle, this is boozy like a box of chocolates when you eat the whole box and wash it down with some mudslide or Bailey's and are too sloshed to feel guilty afterwards, though you do feel somewhat sick. Once it dries, it changes just a little, into the smell of one of those little country craft stores that sells potpourri and all those scented candles and homemade chocolates and such, with all the employees there completely under the table. Now I know what "too boozy" is. Maybe my mother will like it. ;-)

On me, this just smells rather light green and mint, similar on my skin to in the bottle, but no throw to it at all, and it fades pretty quickly. I had higher hopes from this one, but the friend I was going through my BPAL box with tried it as well, claims it really does smell like Absinthe, and ended up going home with my imp of it.

All the cedar hamster cage of Lear, but once it dries, the smell you can't get out of my dad's shirts even after you wash them, possibly has to do with the wood of the dresser they're stored in, though it doesn't smell specifically like cedar, mixed with guy sweat. Ick. And I didn't wash it off before it turned to sweat, so I swear it's oozing from my pores. Rather nasty. Unless my dad sweats "golden light", I certainly can't get any of this out of that. Tried it on a friend at the same time, who said it smelled like someone else's perfume that was described as "clean dirt", and he liked it.

In the imp, really didn't get a good smell because it got all over me when I opened it so I closed it quickly. On me, we have aquatic pine with a little citrus, and...cookies. Cookies?!? Maybe Fudgee-Os or Girl Guide cookies, the brown and white ones, not the thin mints. Thin mint cookie perfume would drive me insane and probably make me gain weight instantly. Evil Girl Guides? I don't think I like what's growing on the cookies. It's an interesting scent, but I like my food unmolested, cthanks. (accidental typo, left in on purpose)

Warm, sweet, yet sensual instead of foody, and I can't stop sniffing myself. I find this scent hard to describe, I don't seem to be able to smell the vanilla properly in any of the blends I've tried, yet I smell it in those that don't contain vanilla, but I'll take other people's words for it that the sweetness is coming from that. I can't identify any other particular spices, either, or the patchouli that's supposed to be in there. I don't care. I like it. *sniffs wrist* Ahhhh...

Well...it's better than Snow-Flakes, anyways. I agree with the first poster that said "cold and perfumey". The oil appears rather violently yellow colored to the extent that I can see the yellow when I put some on my skin...wonder how it'd look in an imp? I'm not sure what vetiver smells like, I don't smell anything similar between this and Black Annis, so I'm going to describe this one as white florals wielding snow shovels, ready to attack. Rather heavy white florals. Maybe even almost a little bit of lemon in there. The swap pile is screaming its name.

When wet, it's all green florals and perfumey "ick", changing to...green florals and perfumey "ick". I can maybe smell a little mint if I'm trying real hard, but it's not "mint flavored mint", it's "squash a mint leaf mint", if there is any. I could just be imagining it. About the kindest thing I can say with this one is that at least it doesn't turn soapy. Desolation? No. Not when the flowers are trying to eat me.

Snow covered trees? I can see that. Fruit, apple, almond, wood? Not too big a stretch there. But what's overwhelming to me is this blend's resemblance to Fa (I think) bubble bath. It doesn't *smell* soapy, but I guess that just must be what the stuff smells like. Certainly beats Desdemona or whatever I reviewed that I thought was like Estee Lauder bubble bath, but I don't use Fa either, my mother did, so I'm not sure what to do about this one. I suppose to other people, they might not remember the bubble bath scent, or it could be a good thing if I smell like I just came out of the bath. It's not offensive or anything. Maybe I can train my nose to not immediately dig up the bubble bath reference if I wear it more? I don't know. I'm a little disappointed that of the five LEs I just got, I only like one of them.

Orange citrus, not as lemon or sweet as Lolita, but definitely similar to the lemon fizziness in that one. I think this is the orange I was looking for in Bakeneko but couldn't find. I was afraid it'd go soapy on me, but it doesn't, it sticks around and after about an hour, the other scents, mostly the sandalwood I think, come out and it gets warmer and spicier...yum!

I love the "monster kitty" on the bottle, doesn't *look* like much of a monster kitty, but then again, neither does my cat, who most certainly is...beware the cute ones. In the bottle, it's tea and orange, kinda nice, but I was hoping some other scents would come out and make the tea not quite so prominent - I love Body Shop satsuma, which is most of the reason I ordered this. Unfortunately, when it hits my skin, it turns to pretty much solid tea. When it dries, tea. A few hours later, tea. Not very strong, either. Maybe I just got my hopes up too high with this one, I don't know, but at the moment, I just don't like it. I'll try it again in a week or two, see if my nose changes at all at different times of the month, and maybe when I get a scent locket, too.

It's all incensey on me, I guess it's the myrrh, think I might be coming down with a cold so maybe that's why I'm having a hard time picking other stuff out, but I can't smell much in the way of florals, which would have caused me to describe it as more "perfumey" than "incensey". But incensey is good.

Just call this one Smells Like A Hamster Cage. In the best possible way, of course, there's no hamster there, or it's just been cleaned. If you want cedar, it's here, though it disappears after a couple hours, leaving a very faint everything else. I never expected Lear to smell like cedar from the name, but maybe that's got something to do with my never having read the play, either?

There's also metawishlist.com, which imports your Amazon wishlist as well, if you like...I should put some BPAL stuff on there! Well, it would be a good idea if anyone would ever look at the list and buy me stuff, but a girl can dream...

I got my MCCXXV (1225) off ebay, no description in the listing what it smelled like, going for the completely random luck here. In the bottle it smells like really dark chocolate, with some toffee thrown in, and maybe even a bit of cherry? On my skin the toffee becomes enslaved by the chocolate, which is the very deep, dark side of chocolate, so dark it wears a black cloak and carries a sickle. You can still smell it, but the chocolate in in control, and is corrupting the toffee over to its ways. There's a hint of something else in there that provides a bit of mustiness, kinda like Black Annis but not nearly so strong, which keeps it from becoming foody. Also a little incense in there, maybe some tea leaves or heavily roasted coffee beans. The little bit of remaining cherry is simply what remains on the chocolate's breath since breakfast, because I can't see this chocolate brushing it's teeth. This is not chocolate you eat and enjoy. This is chocolate you serve, and bow down to when it passes by, lest it take off your head. Sith chocolate. Looking back at the reviews, I have no idea how the last reviewer, supremegoddessofall, got *cake* out of this, of all things. Maybe the chocolate had a life altering experience in the post, like Anakin Skywalker? It doesn't have much throw so, having a bottle, I slathered more on, and when I did that I got some sort of nut in there, too. It's growing on me.

I think it must be the amber that I identify as "just perfumey smelling perfume" when it's nothing floral I can smell in it, the stuff that gives me a headache. I can't smell any patchouli or musk, and think any herby stuff or citrus is probably all in my mind, since it's so faint, and my eyes and nose are starting to burn when I didn't exactly slather it on. I think I'm not an amber person. Oddly enough, the vial smelled sort of like sweet peas when I pulled the tape off it, possibly I was just imagining it in fear that it might be like Desdemona. I don't think I can leave this on to see how it mutates, even though the scent doesn't seem too unpleasant, I don't want a migraine.

I can definitely smell the sweet pea in this, but then the soap comes out and runs over you like a truck. And the sweet pea lives through the impact. Reminds me of a bubble bath my mom used to use when I was little, possibly Estee Lauder. I'd have preferred Mr. Bubble back then, but that's beside the point. But it's definitely sweet pea soap, and it's a lovely scent...on a sweet pea. I found out rather rapidly that it's not something I like to smell like, though other people with different tastes might like the smell of it on me. Would be a nice boost to insufficiently fragranced flowers. Never actually had anything else that I liked the smell of as long as it wasn't *me* that was smelling like it. I've never washed anything off so fast. Soap and water didn't kill it, so I used some Body Shop tea tree oil freshener, because *nothing* can overpower tea tree oil, right? Wrong! This can, and does! Either I put something over it, like heavy incense type stuff, or I'm stuck with it until it wears off. Smells less soapy now, but still, ugh. So not me. Edited to fix browser weirdness from original post.

... Offerings of milk, honey and sweet grains were made to placate these creatures, and it is that the basis of the scent created in their name. When it's wet, both in the bottle and on my skin, it smells, well, horrid. Industrial strength bathroom cleaner, but without any fruit scents like they usually add to that sort of stuff. I was thinking everyone must be insane thinking it smelled nice. Then it dried. Vanilla vanilla vanilla and more vanilla. No need to reapply this stuff! It's a certain particular kind of vanilla, too, since anytime I catch a whiff of it I'm instantly reminded of a certain place a few years ago. It's Blue Mountain vanilla. I've been trying to identify where back then I'd have been smelling stuff like this, but it's not working. From the way it started out, I'm wondering if it's the air fresheners in the toilets at that ski hill, and hoping it isn't! I like it, but I think it might just be a bit too much vanilla for me to order a big bottle...never thought it was possible for anything to be too foody for me! I really wish I could remember exactly what I was smelling! ETA: My mother says it smells nothing like vanilla, on me, but she can't say what it *does* smell like.

Bright, sweet and youthful, but swelling with a poisonous sexuality. Glittering heliotrope, honeysuckle, orange blossom and lemon verbena. This is who you're gonna call if you need citrus. I can't pick out any floral notes specifically, but I imagine it's what's adding a bit of sweetness to the tartness, making it less like other citrus smelling "regular" perfumes I've tried - it's creamsicle orange sweet, but there's no cream in it, and fizzy lemon candies. As it's drying, more bubblegum and the sweet flowers are coming out. If it doesn't mutate too much, this could be a surprise favorite, though more of a summer thing. This came in a lot of imps from eBay, I'd probably have never ordered it on my own, my dad's friend's ex-wife is named Lolita, and somehow we moved to the same block she lives on now! ETA: Well, that was a rather short lived love affair. Turned soapy not long after posting the review...slightly bubblegum scented soap, but still mostly soap. Ugh. Time to get a scent locket.

It smells dark and sweet at first, but I'm unable to pick out any vanilla in it. It only takes an hour or two to turn to a sort of sickly sweet cigar smoke scent on me, like Samhain does, though it takes Samhain much longer. The strange thing is, nobody *else* thinks it smells tobacco-y on me, they're all smelling the vanilla, which I can't find anywhere! Is there something wrong with my nose? I'm gonna have to try this one again and see if my nose is in a different mood, otherwise it's swap time, which is rather disappointing after all the great reviews of it.

I can't identify what it smells like in the bottle or when wet on my skin, really. At 8 hours, this scent still hasn't gone all cigar smoke on me, after trying Dragon's Milk and finding it mostly tobacco rather quickly, I'd thought it might be the vanilla. I can't tell the vanilla right off the bat on my skin, or in the bottle, but as it dries it turns rather yummy. The musk comes out later on, and I'd think there was some non-cigar type smoke in there if I weren't just smelling it on one wrist! I haven't really gotten anything mineral out of it, but I think I'll try it again, I seem to like it, even though it doesn't scream "foody". I agree with the not much throw until it crawls out of the woodwork at random assessments.

In the bottle and on my skin, this just seems to be straight perfumey floral somethingorother, my nose being unable to tell one kind of flower from another. Doesn't go bubblegummy at all on me, I suspect I'd have liked it better if it *did*. It doesn't smell *bad*, per se, it just doesn't smell good. I think my skin chemistry must be fairly neutral, because of the five scents I've tried, none really seem to change a whole lot. Anyways, it smells like regular old perfume, and I'm not a regular old perfume fan. Swap pile, or maybe my mom'll like it.

I got this one as a frimp off eBay... (if you're the one who sent it to me recently with Wolf Moon, let me know so I can leave feedback here!) In the bottle, it smelled almost like dark chocolate that's been sitting too long and was some sort of fruit flavored to start with, only without most of the chocolate...I can't really describe it. On my skin I still can't really describe it...maybe like the attic of a great aunt that likes those dark, dead, icky shades of green (like some of my dad's couches, only darker - I hate the color!) and beige, you find a chest and brush the dust off it and open it and you find that flavored chocolate in there that's been there for 50 years. Plus a little bit of something that's vaguely rootbeer-ish. Reading the description and reviews, that'd probably be the anise. Cave moss, I can see that, and it does have sort of a medicinal herb smell, not than I've ever *used* anything that smells like this, but I wouldn't be surprised if some sort of concoction did. The cave moss and lichen seems relatively close, color-wise to the description of my dad's couches, and the hag the great aunt that might wear this and let chocolate rot before letting someone eat it! It's sharp, cool and rotting, and just a little acrid. My least favorite of what I've tried, but not so bad as to make me want to wash it off immediately, so I'll keep wearing it and see if it changes into anything else.

Cold, fresh, but sweet, some sort of evergreen but I don't know exactly what it is, I've smelled it before but I can't identify the source, I'm guessing it's the juniper. And just a little hint of sandalwood and warmth, as if you crawled under the branches of an unusually fragrant evergreen - maybe like the potpourri or scented candles a tree might use to scent it's environment - to get out of the wind and the snow. And more sweet. I didn't expect so much sweet but I really like it. I seem to like everything so far...probably means that when I get the bottles of stuff I ordered unsniffed I'm gonna hate them! Not much throw, but I didn't put that much on. A guy could easily wear this too...mmmm...

Managed to get the imp cap off without breaking it! In the bottle, it seemed sweet and buttery, but on my skin, incense. After I finished breakfast, incense. The sort of sweet kind of incense, different from Samhain's patchouli, which smelled more perfumey at first, and I like this sort of incense better than that, I think. I smell something apple-like somewhere, but that could be coming from anywhere, perhaps oils which rubbed off my wrists onto my laptop when wearing something else, as I don't smell it close up at all. But it's a good, warm incense, like I just walked out of an occult shop where the stuff sticks to your hair. Another one I like.