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im seconding the Baku reccommendation - just sniffing it puts me in an intense state of relaxation, and my dreams are definatly a lot less weird! eta: now i cannot sleep without baku! what will i do at the end of the imp??????

out of the bottle Salome is very marzipan, spice and then more almonds than you can shake a stick at! upon wearing it mellowed yet became very full the same almond spice and then moved through some jasmine and now finally landing on the very earthy combination of sandelwood and musk - like the base note in Ann Bonny which is so delicious but unfortunatly makes me a bit ill to the stomach. But if you can handle it, the drydown is so so so so beautiful - i think i may try to use it as a room scent but it is so totally different, i wish there was a way to capture the dry earthiness of this last part! And it hasnt lost any "volume" so to speak, morphing thru the scents at the same altitude... eta: this time wearing it that base note that make me feel icky is so faint that i am really really really enjoying it, its such a soft jasmine spice its got a very light loveliness that im so glad that i can noww enjoy!

this immediatly relaxed me upon smelling it and i was a stress case just driving from west hollywood in traffic! - mmmm it smells like the most full + true lavender touched with a tinge of eucalyptus.....upon wearing for me it becomes a very watery lavender very comforting im going to wear this to sleep tonight!

sugar skull freaks me out because its the exact smell of my moms car that she had while i was in elementry school - she would always eat honey nut cheerios with maple syrup for breakfast (i know, kinda gross but she loves it!) in the car on the way to work and leave the cup in the car all day while at work so the beige leather interior took on the aroma of maple syrup and on hot days it was maple syrup and hot leather and that is exactly what this smells like!! which in a way i cant ever wear as a scent because it always grossed me out that she would eat sticky cheerios in the car but ill definatly keep it in my scent museum as my mom doesnt have the car anymore and its very nostalgic for me! how amazing it is that beth can make these smells that sometimes completely are smell memories...!!

its very very very spicy and very very very complex - i smell some pumpkin and clove but not so much leaves and such - but i cant pick any particular things - a very velvety brown colored scent - its a little too much for me -makes my teeth hurt a little bit - though i am going to wait a couple weeks to give up on it because in theory (and description!) this should be my heaven-scent!

i dont get any of the smokiness that are being mentioned - it is in shape alot like harvest moon, it starts out very heavy foody lovely smell that on my skin morphs totally into a very green cucumber light floral. Chalk it up to different body chemistry!

no samhain, so im slathering on chimera layered with honey - mmmmmmmmmm

its late october, we just built a firepit and are about to light a bonfire outside, the stars are out finally after days of clouds and storm....chimera matches tonight so perfectly crisp cinnamony and resiny - nighttime chai bonfire time! i love it!

i never thought i would love this one as much as i do! i really dislike cherry anything, but this smells just like what i feel like Sarah Jessica Parker in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun would be wearing. Jailbait smells exactly like Bazooka bubble gum, upon wearing it becomes Big Red and then morphs into a slightly more sophisticated scent of Loves Baby Soft on a hot summer day. I put legwarmers on and slapped on some turquoise eyeshadow to go with it! I think I could wear this everyday!!

if you like slightly foody florals then get thee some All Saint's immediatly, before its gone! its very chocolatey to me and the base of frankincense makes it very "old fashioned" but the rest of it makes me want to eat it!!!!! (in a throughly modern way of course!) Very much in the same way velvet is...but lighter.

heres another question - has anyone refridgerated jojoba-diluted oils? I read somewhere about how jojoba oil is a preservative - but how much longer does it make it last? Im freaking out because i have way too many oils more than i will ever use in my life and it gets pretty hot here, so i want to try to preserve them as much as possible!!!

so thankful i got this in a swap - its so absolutely enchanting. I get the sharp pine/citrusy thing wet - and as it dries it is like a walk from the deepest, mossyiest part of the forest, and then slowly evolves into a beautiful meadow full of the freshest grass and sunshine - most grass scents give me a massive headache but this one is so real and so pure. I would ensnare *myself* in Val San Retour just to enjoy the experience! Love at first sniff, i must have a big bottle of this!

im having the same problem, i put my imp box in the back corner of my darkest closet - though still hot it was at least 10 degrees cooler in there! im tempted to take them with me, in box, everywhere i go, seeing as ive been trying really hard to stay entirely in air conditioning until this heat lets up! I think the cooler idea is the best - put a ice pack in there and like a towel and then the imps. Im wary of putting them in the fridge because once i put a refresher spray in there that was peppermint lavender and orange essential oils - whoa! the bouquet totally changed cold, it was a fierce orange and not a soft lavender anymore!! what is up with this weather? and yesterday was so dry i couldnt breathe and today is so totally humid its so crazy!

The caterpillar is such a lovely complex scent - it really is a shape shifter as others have mentioned. It starts out upon wearing heavy on the spicy carnation for me, like the sizzle-ly carnation in Alice. (i feel like its a more alice hanging out with the caterpillar, as this smells like alice but with way more notes layered over it). Then its very jasmine-y, and then the final drydown i get a very very dry sandalwood-patchouli which smells exactly like my grandmother! Its the Bee Brand Sandalwood scent with a patchouli base - i love it!!

i normally can't wear rose scents but this one - Old London is so *dry* it reminds me of ballet classes when i was a younger and specifically a recital piece in which we tossed rose petals up in the air and danced upon them, this scent has that fresh petal scent, and also a little of dirty pink leather shoes and musty backstages. a real memory scent for me.

tisiphone upon wearing for me is a very intense rose scent - i had to double check the description as i felt like i had perhaps mistaken it for queen mab (perhaps its the mix of heady oleander + neroli that makes the faux rose) but then tisiphone races past queen mab and settles into the softest, incensy, rich, yet not sweet ylang ylang with a very subtle yet severe ground of black patchouli (which is what i think gives the "edgy" aspect to the scent - i usually cannot handle black patchouli but it is really light in this mix) its a little powdery but not the tea rose sort of tooth chatteringly powder, it is the sweet and sniff your wrists for hours kind.....and 2 hours later im still feeling like a VICIOUS SOFTIE....this is my new favorite!!

oh i wanted to love this one. upon wearing it it immediatly became funky olive and 20 minutes later it smells like a funky deli (funky olive + black pepper + oily smell) on me. i can smell the raspberry and the ceder but its too far in the background to get me out of the deli

its the ocean! out on the water, chilly breezing by you...later it becomes, baby powder? where did my sweet salty go? Hurricane, you went by so fast....still i love it!

i could sniff at my wrists forever...and then the phantasm dissappears! Definately a big bottle of this for me, i will carry it around and bathe in it and the bottle would probably last a week at most but its such a delicious light lemon spicy airy scent (the green tea makes it grounded, ever so slightly) that its all i want to smell like in the summertime!!!

im very confused - im not sure if the Hellfire imp i got in a swap is the new or the old, but its like neither, wearing it its alot like...stale doublemint gum. with some spice behind it. its really weird, i kind of like it, its like all high spearmint notes and a dribble of background spice. nothing much else. Im going to order an imp from the lab with m next order to taste test...i want so badly to smell the ceremony!

this is DEAD ON EXACTLY what it smells like in western china-tibet places when you walk into the beautiful buddhist temples and out of the bottle it has the exact incense smoky sharp smell of old wood and incense of a thousand years: upon wearing it mellows into a ceder then a smokiness that is exactly what it smells like in the country near Zhongdian, just outside the town in northern Yunnan Province closest to tibet, sleeping in a yurt, someones started the fire outside for buttered tea breakfast outside, waiting for our horses that never show up to try to ride into tibet unnoticed... and then it mellows out to a sweet soft incense that reminds me of dinner at my grand uncle's home, always a coil of incense burning at their shrine to Kuan Yin. this is a KEEPER its the smell of my ancestral home, its the smell of my spiritual homeland. Im freaking out. I have never had such a real physical reaction to a scent like this, im there in china while sitting on my dusty porch in LA> thank you so much for making this!!!!!!!! you guys are AMAZING!!!!

very deliciously vanilla-ey and spic-ey and deep - i love it on, and it feels like a big soft lovely sexy aura. BUT- as soon as my boyfriend smelled it he freaked out and it smells to him exactly like his 11th grade girlfriend who would wear heavy vanilla perfume and smoke cloves and they would sneak to goth clubs in seattle and its the combo of all of that and leather and the wet and the pink club fake fog smoke that he smells in Snake Oil! Which i smell all of in Snake Oil too, except that its going to have to be a me-on-my-own-sexy-errands day sort of a scent, it freaks him out too much!

desire =delicious! the patchouli grounds the rose so that its stays just this side (the good side!) of teeth-rockingly sweet to me. (i dont do rose scents so well!) Upon wearing it becomes a very pure rose smell to me - the kind of scent you hope to walk through in the middle of the night by the victorian down the street with the elaborate rose garden - when its hot and muggy and and quite a bit smoggy outside. Lovely!

exactly! its like a melange of spices and sweets all mixed up, lead by their fearless leader, Fig! The metamorphisis of this while wearing this scent has been the most extreme (much like roadhouse) It was much more ethereal and sharp smelling in the vial (menthol?) and upon first application, but mellows out quickly into a lovely sweet fig import shop smell.

i love how warm and boozy it smells out of the vial but on me it immediately morphed into intense hazelnut that was in a battle with rum for my throat and then the drydown became exactly the same smell of the christmas pot pourri they break out every xmas at the union square Macy's where i worked for 2.5 years 10 years ago. instant work hell flash back. i had to scrub it off immediatley. Maybe as a room scent, so long as it doesnt take that avenue again!