Malaena

This one is very weird on me. At no point do I detect ANY of the listed notes. I smell musty wood and root beer.

I managed to get my hands on a tester of this. In the imp it smells like lemon juice with extra sugar and tang. On the skin it's sweet lemon but on dry down it turns into Lemon Pledge. Arg.

Iulia starts off with a blast of tea and sugar. It smells very clean with some lemon balm peaking through. The blend is then taken over by a flower that I can't identify. It's definitely not orange blossom and to my understanding rockrose is not a floral scent. It smells like an old-lady floral. Icy and stuffy. A good bit of musk underlies this.

This is VERY odd on me...it's like a cross between vanilla taffy and plastic. o.O

Devilish temptation, as sweet as sin: blood orange, neroli, and raspberry. This one is very strongly soap on me. When I sniff up close I can pick out a bit of raspberry. It reminds me quite a lot of Froot Loops...soapy Froot Loops! Bloody hell, I wonder what it is that my skin is mangling!!!

This one is very hard to describe. I can picked up a burnt smell but I am not very familiar with saffron. I swear I can smell a wee bit of red musk!! This one reminds me of one of those fancy soaps that are for looking pretty but not actually using.

I've allowed this to settle for a few months as when I first tried it it was screamy dirty patchouli. I'm happy to say it's mellowed but into non-screamy dirty patchouli. Arg!

Flowers hate me so much. I get nothing but floral death from this one. I think it has jasmine in it - that note always does this!

Wet - Cherries! Drying - Sweet cherries bit a bit of an almond feel. It reminds me of red vines and I want to eat my arm. The red musk gives this one great throw and makes food sexy! Verdict - Houston, we have a winner.

Wet - Peanut butter. wtf? Drying - Ooh, this smells like Voodoo without the pine or almond. Uh oh...here comes the myrrh. It turned into all myrrh all the time. Verdict - I guess I amp myrrh. Bla!

I was really hoping the banana wouldn't be prominent. I was wrong!!! Wet: Disturbingly artificial banana. Drying: Same with a little powderiness.

Wet - Super sweet grape soda or grape candy Drying - It wafts grape soda and patch. Up close it smells like ambery grape soda. I get occasional wafts of beer. Verdict - I can't stand the scent of beer and I'm not up for smelling of grape soda. This one is just weird. I'll give it a second test later on to see if my skin is wonky today.

This is the third blend this week that has turned into rotting flowers. I'm starting to think they just don't like me!!!!

Oi, the flowers in this one come together in a melange of rot. Ay dios mio!

This is Snake Oil without the drydown to powdered ass. I'm quite happy! All you folks regaling us with tales of Czernobog ickiness can just slide your imps my way.

Ah...oakmoss ruins another blend. Damn you and your cologney, amping nonsense!!!!

This one is VERY weird on me. I tested it twice to make sure. Wet - Light, soft jasmine. Usually jasmine screams in my face and smells like rot. Drying - The jasmine morphs to violets. The violets smell sugared. This is all sugared violets. WEIRD!!!!

Oi, now I know I hate narcissus. Good information for the future. ETA - Thought I should expand. Narcissus is like a funeral flower to me. Sickly sweet and cloying much like a lily (which I also hate).

Wet - All geranium!!! A few minutes later the jasmine peeks out and then TAKES OVER. GET IT OFF!

Wet - Holy sweet brown sugars, Batman! This one is pretty damn syrupy with a sugar punch to the face. Dry - It mellows and the oak appears. The oak has a musty quality as though it's been sitting off in a dark, forgotten corner. It starts off with low throw of a mellow brown sugar sweetness. After 30 minutes it's a skin scent of slightly sweet, musty oak. This one is not for me.

Wet - This starts off as a super sweet flower. At first I was confused and had to look it up because I thought "I know I didn't order a damn white floral!" It smells very much like honeysuckle. I don't know what opium smells like and no orchid I have ever smelled is reminiscent of this. Dry - The sweetness lessens and smokiness arises. It smells a bit like candle smoke. The smoke lessens and becomes an indescribable floral resiny scent. I'm going to pass this one along.

Wet - Fruity honey with almond and coconut. Dry - This is all fruity honey with a bit of green and musk when sniffed close up. I'm iffy with this blend. I love honey but I'm not sure if I like THIS honey.

Tea, patch, and fruit - what could possibly go wrong? I briefly catch a whiff of mango and then it stubbornly settles into fruit potpourri. This is exactly what Dionysia smells like on me; like walking into Pier One.

On me this is all Big Red gum. I'm really starting to think cinnamon is my mortal enemy.

This starts off as frighteningly herbal. It dries down into a whisper of sage with a hint of frankincense sweetness. It has a soapy feel to it. I think this would make a nice bed-time scent though I don't wear scents to bed!