stubbornfire

Vetiver hits first, but is followed quickly by cedar and..what I think is sage + ambergris. The amber and tobacco kind of wait in the background, quiet and sticking very close to my skin. After the first half hour or so, the vetiver starts to lay low and what's left is a low throw* smoky mix of...mostly everything? Tobacco/amber/sage/cedar. It's a gorgeous mix - soft and comforting but with strength. A very comforting Don't Fuck With Me; I'm really in love with it. I definitely have to try to get my hands on some bottles. *ofc, ymmv with throw - everything ever sticks close to me.

It smells SO MUCH like The Traveller upon initial application - leather, and something spicy - but where the Traveler keeps the leather and gets kind of a... dusty road smell(?) almost, Kvothe starts to smell like a fresh/clean sort of cologne. The leather is still there, but it lightens. In other words, it's goddamn amazing and I wish I could have afforded like 20 bottles.

I put a bit on my skin as my hair doesn't do well with oils/glosses. That said... CHERRIES out of the gate! Like a cherry starbust! Then it starts to mix with something floral-y that I would believe included carnations, although it didn't smell totally carnation-y to me? After a few moments the cherry is gone completely (sadness) but I have this nice 'clean' floral? That's the only way I can think to word it as it's not floral alone. It's not soapy, even, not really, just 'clean' I guess. Don't laugh, but I almost want to say I smell rose too, but that may be something else I tried leaking into the smell. (I'd almost swear though..) It's nice!! Kind of surprising me that I like it, since it's not especially my thing but. Like Little Fairy Tales of History, it'd be good to wear on days I want something light and a bit pretty without screaming FEMININE. Def a decant or a partial; I kind of really dig it.

I put a little on my skin as my hair doesn't do well with oils/glosses. That said... I feel like one of those cheesy shampoo commercials- Yes, yes, yes!! This is the scent I ordered the entire round of minis to try and it is Glorious. Spicy and gorgeous and powerful. You can smell the red sandalwood, clove, and saffron all hanging out together and being excellent all at once. The base/background is definitely not a pure amber- the honey smooths it and they mingle together (literally together as I can't pick them out individually) letting the others steal the spotlight. I really hope I can swing a bottle of this before it goes down because it's the best gloss, period, beating out even Aspen Leaves and Fears. If spicy resin powerful villainess smells are your thing do yourself a solid and give this one a shot.

I put a little on my skin as I don't take baths often. That said.... It's very light! Almost not there! Could just be my dry-ish skin though? It's a lightly sweet scent- more 'nectar' to me than honey, unless the lab's honey note has learned to stop stomping on things. There are some accompanying light floral smells, but nothing I can pick out individually ( I'm pretty weak at those in general though). It's really nice, actually. Not my usual jam, so probably not a full bottle purchase, but maybe a decant or a partial? For days I'm feeling the feminine without needing my scent to scream it.

Before I start- I put a bit on my skin as my hair doesn't do well with oils/glosses. That said... Oh my goodness. I wish I had plays-nicely-with-others hair cause wow. I don't get much leather but I do get a gorgeously mixed spicy herbal-y amber & oud-y masculine leaning androgynous scent that is just good! Very good!! It almost smells "clean" as it's drying/absorbing up, to be honest. Maybe like a hot woodsy guy took off his woodsy guy coat and it clung to his skin for awhile but his clean skin smell is showing up now. Gosh I want more of this!!

Before I start- I put a little on my skin as my hair doesn't do well with oils/glosses. That said.... GARDENIA GARDENIA GARDENIA GARDENIA. Oh here is a tiny bit of what i guess is satly oud. It plays surprisingly well with the GARDENIA GARDENIA GARDENIA GARDENIA. Joking aside, it really does! And while the smell is 99% floral, that 1% really adds to the scent as a whole. I'm not a gardenia person, but I still can't bring myself to hate it. That said, I'll probably be passing my mini on to someone else who is.

It's probably the ace in me, but this definitely didn't come off as sexy- more.... Well, kind of like a well used witch's cabinent?? The rose and patch are the only notes I get and, on my linens, the rose is not super strong and is firmly reined in (and well mixed with) the patch. It's a grounded smell, rather earthy, almost spicy sort of smell. Very Woodsy, not floral at all. It doesnt blow me away, but it's definitely nice and my favorite of the three atmos! Worth a try even if you are just 'okay' or 'iffy' with roses, as they do not dominate the scent at all. Worth a try period if you'd like something earthy without being totally dirt-y.

Molly officially puts me 4/4 for the scents I've tried from the Pretty Deadly line, and I can't wait to try more! Molly opens with like a POW! - a combo of lime and...well, everything else! I can pick out the brightness from the lime and the lily- with a touch of cedar?? But otherwise it's an incredibly well blended perfume that manages a kind of sweet-tangy-musky thing all at once and I could just smell my arm all day. Molly doesn't quite oust Sarah as my favorite PD line lady, but she's a surefire second - for now anyway.

The only down side to this blend is that it basically doesn't last on me at all - half an hour, an hour? Tops. But that's my chemistry's nonsense. Otherwise, this is a perfect blend. Fresh, drying, or dried - I have trouble picking out notes when they blend this well together. It's soft, comforting, and a 'bright' unisex scent with a throw that doesn't go far, but is pretty strong in my immediate area! Honestly this isn't much of a review, but if you love resin scents? Definitely try this one. If you're not sure about resins and want a gentle introduction? Try this one. All elements are present but well blended and none overpowers all the others. I will have to try for a lab order before this comes down - I will definitely regret it otherwise!

Oh man this is pretty cool! I get a blend of brown leather (soft not hard), lavender, and bay- sounds weird but it works! The tobacco leaf and oud make the back kinda smokey - feelings wise not like a smoke smell. I was bummed about W&TM but Twadorski here is pretty good! I have about a half bottle I will definitely use up! But I'm not sure if i need a backup

Starts off Apple blossom and coconut milk in the lead,followed closely by something I'm unfamiliar with- mandrake root maybe? As it dries, sandalwood and woodmusk join in with just a touch of soft brown leather hiding & wrapped up in Apple-blossom-coconut-milk. It really is beachy and summery!! I do wish the woodmusk and leather were stronger on me, as I feel it would make this more 'unisex'. It's pretty!! But it's pretty feminine and I'm not sure if I should keep it or not. Anyone looking for a summer scent that isn't super floral-y or super foodie should really check W&TM out.

I really wanted to love this because 1: notes, and 2: cute bottle art. Unfortunately it's just too strong! Most of my reviews I have to mention that my skin chemistry eats BPAL up- short wear lengths, minimal throw. This is the OPPOSITE as far as throw goes, and I just can't leave it on long enough to test staying power. VoPA starts STRONG with HONEY and MYRRH. Like, holyshit strong. There is definitely some soft brown leather in the background - my favorite type of leather, usually! But in this blend, all it serves to do is make the overpowering sweetness of the other two that much sweeter. As it starts to dry, the tobacco shows up, but not distinguishably (thats a hell of a word) by itself - it just dirties up the myrrh and honey; makes them a bit darker. It's still LOUD and STRONG and way too SWEET. A little goes a very, very long way! I wish I had this "problem" with something that actually works for me. to sales/swaps!

Someday someone may ask me-Stubbs, don't you have enough rose+_____ perfumes? And I will laugh and buy another. It's a soft but strong rose, with wood! And soft but present sandalwood. Theres a bright pretty something in the background I believe is the ambergris. The more it sits the more all the components blend! Although I can pretty much pick them all out still if I look. Its pretty and perfect and I want like ten bottles.

Will come back to edit later as I've been testing a lot of things and am leaving the house soon,but i knew wanted to get a hit of this down. Thoughts upon seeing notes: worried about lilac (cloyingly sweet to the point of smelling like sick when there's too much of it). Initial thoughts upon sniffing: I know this feeling. Fresh on: Lavender, and greens- it's sharp and herbal. There is a bit of lemon to it, and knowing there's lilac in let's me zero in on a bit of sweetness in the background. (The 'floral' other reviews mentioned, which isn't floral at all to me- just a vague, nonfoodie sweetness.) Drying down some: sharp greens, less distinctly lavender but still herbal with a twist of lemon and a - bruised really is a good way to put it! - sweetness. I know this feeling! It's weird to smell a feeling in perfume form. I like it, quite a bit, surprisingly. I think I'll save it for those bad days when I don't want people to mess with me. Between the oil and my resting "bitchface" I should be good to go.

I'm definitely gonna have to try this again - maybe after a bit of aging? My decant was FIR, chapparal, and black amber. I think the cedar smoke (or the musk, but my money's on the smoke) was blending with the amber as it's not quite the black amber I'm used to. But these notes were the whole of the scent. No leather. I do like it though! More than I would have thought, actually, especially with all that fir. Must be the amber/chapparal working magic together with my love of masculine scents. I can kind of agree that it's not exactly diabolical... Kind of like an outdoorsy type that got roped into working at the carnaval one way or another. Horst, from the Johannes Cabal series might smell like this after spending a year on a hell train with his brother, haha :)aa EDIT-- tried this on again today for work and it's blended super well! The musk is here and mixing with everything! The fir has lightened up and the scent as a whole is much more androgynous rather than the hard masculine lumberjack sort of thing I was getting before. Sadly, I still don't get leather, but it's so good- so, so good! Suddenly the idea of it belonging to a devious snake oil salesman makes perfect sense! And I need bottles. Bottlesss.

So, so good!! Wish I could have ordered more than a decant! First on, it's a hazy green musky scent. Sandalwood pipes up quickly and these two dominate the scent. If I give it some time though, vanilla starts to show itself in the background. If I'm a little more patient, the tobacco finally pulls up in the bg and parks itself there with the vanilla. I didn't have it on for very long, but it was gorgeous. My first shot at a green musk and it made me love it. Definitely have to add this to my 'hunt down' list.

Labdanum, cedar, teak and red rose. Edit--- I'm super sorry but I'm on a very old mobile phone and may not be able to add in the scent description right away. It's a battle to load the forums. I'll try to borrow a comp later. I'm so jealous of everyone who gets strong rose from this! I love rose when it's red, or dried, or pretty much anyway but "green", but the rose in my decant is all but nonexistent! Maybe aging will help. :PP I was trying some others as well,so i'll transfer from my notes a bit. First on, it's very sharp- almost all a skreechy wood and laudanum. As it dries, the cedar and the laudanum start to distinguish themselves from each other. If I give it a bit more time, i get hints of rose in the background!! But it doesn't last very long. The end result (before I washed it off anyway) was a woody cedar+teak together (teak finally showed up!) with laudanum close by. I do like it...but I'm unsure about a bottle. I think I need to age this imp for awhile first and see if that brings the rose out any. If not, I'll pass it on.

As with Xanthe, this decant was for my mom so I know Iulia won't be up my alley. I was curious and wanted to give her a shot anyway though. 8) Very much mint, honey, and lemon! I can definitely find the sugar,although it smells like it blends itself right with the mint and the lemon quickly - I start to not get one without one of the others pretty soon after applying. I didn't specifically get rose or orange blossom,but it was very sweet and feminine! And those notes may have come out more had I left it on longer than 15-20 minutes so.

Tested quickly as this decant was actually for my mom, and I know it's not gonna be my kind of thing. Curiousity though... Candy!! Xanthe smells like sugary fruity candy! After a moment or two I can start to separate the guava and the orange. There's a pretty note next that I guess is the apple blossom. The white pepper stayed in the background and wasn't so much distinguishable by itself as it was kind of a sturdy base for the fruit to sit on. But I didn't keep it on for more than 10minutes or so though.

This reminds me of phantom queen! So I think it has either rose or ylang ylang.. It's definitely got something lemon in it too - maybe lemon balm?? I hope so because it smells amazing and lemongrass usually doesn't want to work with me. :| I used this in a personal ritual tonight, just as the last bits of shadow cleared off the moon at the end of the eclipse. Figured a rare occurence like this, should make use of it. I won't be reporting any results - it was a reaffirmation for myself of my identity and my purpose. But gosh it sure smells lovely!

I can't believe this has lemon rind in it?? I sniffed it and the applied it right away - it smelled deep and lovely with just a but of, uhh idk how to word it, "up!" To not make it too dark. I...guess that is the lemon rind?? I will have to test it again later, definitely, but at the moment the vetiver, woods, and sandalwood are dominate and smell wonderful! Someone else mentioned it smelled like Herne or Cernnunos had her back and yeah, I see it. A hot nature dude who is surprisingly chill. I also, out of curiousity, layered some of the Solstice Scents Sycamore Chai frimp I received over it. Incantation whipped all of the foodieness from it! Sycamore, in return, made Incancation more mellow, like a witch's cottage kitchen at night or something. If that makes sense. Like the hot nature dude put on twenty pounds, had a couple of kids, and is more down to earth than before - and somehow this just makes him more desirable. Where is this even going anymore, laughs. A+++

Smelling this before I saw the notes, I thought for sure it had sarsaparilla in it! I smell smoke, lots, and it DOES smell like a saloon or a western themed bar that people wearing leather have been sweating in! I recognize this smell from some western reenactment stuff my family went to a few years back. It's good! It's REALLY good! Smelling it blind I wasn't sure if I'd like it - I like to know all the notes ahead of time, so I can pass on anything too sweet or too flowery. But this is nothing like that! It surprised me, but it's pleasant! It's not something I'd spray on the bed to go to sleep to, I'd spray this more in a living area, I think? To give it character. Or a guest bedroom? It's not the sort of smell you go to sleep to, if you know what I mean. 😇

It does come out pretty sharp! But it kind if alternates being sharp and being soft. The citrus infused amber is strongest on me - and you can definitely tell this is a Citrus amber - but I also get whiffs of myrrh and what I think is geranium! Cause it's not myrrh alone. I think the marigold (and maybe sunflower) might be what's pushing this from just a bright sunny scent to something that's also very green. It's kind of like you get the flowers fresh, the green of their stems, and hints of softness. This was surprisingly strong on me! The first bpal I could put a bit on and distinctly smell it about myself as I walked - it was strong! I'm not sure how "me" the scent is or how often I'll wear it due to that, but I like it well enough. Plus I was motivated to buy it due to my love of White Wolf's Changeling: The Lost game, so liking it even this much was a bonus. EDIT-- I guess the strength of it was bound to make it not last, esp the way my skin Chemistry eats bpal up anyway! About an hour in the amber is already doing that sort of powdery thing I love. It's mixing so nicely with the myrrh, and the green is more gentle and calm and less sharp. It'll likely be gone in another hour but it's lovely, and I think I've decided that I definitely like it.

I think I can pick out patchouli, ginger, and sage. There is something sweet-like to this too, however, and I guess that's the berry? I'm not crazy about the thread of sweetness that's just sort of plopped in the middle of this otherwise incense-y smokey goodness. Hm. The more it (the perfume) dries, I sometimes catch a whiff of it (the sweetness!) and sometimes it seems like it's gone - the closer my nose is to where I applied it, the more I pick it up, so it's becoming 'there but not too prominent'. It's..okay. I don't need a bottle, but I appreciate having gotten to try it! Now I'll have an idea of what pimento berry is about the next time I see it listed in a scent! Thanks again Blue