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Apparently I ruin everything. In the Imp it smells like a lovely apple floral. On me, it's an unending source of old lady perfumey funk that amps endlessly. Much disappointment.

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love the honeycomb in No 93 engine, but getting through the wet phases isn't my jam

any ideas for a more pure honey comb scent or honey wax scents with little or minimal intereference from other resins

combo with floral (if it isn't WOAH, HELLO floral!) or herbal is okay

 

if its smells like the fresh honey out of a raw honey comb, that would be perfect

please don't say single note honey, as I would have to pawn a kidney to get that

Quintessence of Dust is very beeswax-forward, at least on me.

A bit of "In the Forest" with beeswax. Lovely!

A new favorite! I'm not even sure why I purchased this one save curiosity about the ambiguous notes. A surprisingly grounded (yet still ethereal), resinous floral. Incense-y but soft. All the notes are muted and perfectly balanced. Champa? Iron? Red sandalwood? Vetiver? Very mysterious...

Moderate throw, and it really lasts. This one screams "wear me in your hair!"

Gorgeous pumpkin spice and chocolate in perfect accord. What a rare and unexpected treat!

In the vial, it's slightly green, berry-ish, soapy.

On me it's like cheap truck stop soap. Bleh.

Like a pirate dad. A sweet one. Starts out pure almond, then dries down to incensey clove and patchouli. Overall? Pretty yum.

There's a whole lotta childhood here. Grassy fields with clover, rolling around with one of those scented Strawberry Shortcake dolls. Very odd and oddly evocative.

I agree with the Jean Nate. Soapy '70s perfume. Sad. The notes sounded pretty ideal.

Everything about this scent screams "little girl". The kind of little girl I never was. But I can't help but love this bubbly effervescence. A sweet, candy-like fragrance that's unbelievably grounded by florals. Spring, spring, spring!

I like anise (anise seed and star anise and fennel and just about anything anise-y). But this goes pure NyQuil on me. Darn.

Ooooh...so much going on with this one. The clove is mellow and rounded, not sharp on me. The storax seems to ground it, with the patchouli blending so perfectly it's barely noticeable as a note unto itself. A gorgeous, genuinely different and exotic incense blend!

Pure apple shampoo. A little inky-ness in the dry down (really does remind me of the tinny smell of spilled ball point pen ink).

Sharp pine and...awapuhi?

In the decant: cucumber sandalwood. I'm intrigued.

Wet: the same immediate blast of cucumber sandalwood...but then the florals creep in.

Dry: florals overpowering the sandalwood and the green cuke. It's all flowers now. Very pretty, but very not me. Off to the swap box with you!

BPAL's dirt mixed with leather, something sweet and grainy, and a sharp herbal note in the background that's definitely not hops. I knows me some Styrian Goldings, and I can't smell a solitary whiff.

The dry-down smells like my Grandpa Teddy's hair tonic. He never carried an axe.

Honey rose anise. Freaking YUMMY. I should try a honey rose glaze on my Pan de Muertos...

Nice tonka and tamarind. A little amber and patchouli in the dry-down. Reminds me of Chicken-Legged Hut without the nuttiness.

Of course I'd fall hopelessly in love with a rare. Nymphes de Pave smells like my very favorite candy, Abbaye de Flavigny Rose Pastilles. Sweet and foody, but also pretty and floral. The scent description is, as far as I can tell, completely accurate.

Pretty like Rakshasa, but without the plastic patchouli! Wheee!!

What is this? Strange, sharp, herbal, almost bitter...with the hint of nutty/grainy/maple. It reminds me a touch of eating a maple doughnut and candied pecans while showering with a bar of Irish Spring. The oddest damned thing!

Oh, I'm falling in love with this scent. It took a few tries, but especially in the dry down (when it lingers on and on...I love scents with staying power). There's definitely a tiny bit of vetiver in there. I think that's the electricity scarring mentioned in the description. But it's tempered nicely with the ozone, cypress, and blood notes. In the end it reminds me of a kinder, gentler Agnes Nutter.

It must be the musk and honey, but it smells a lot to me like a sweeter, less resinous Bien Loin d'Ici. Really pretty and sexy. I'll wear this a lot when I'm fancied-up.

This Charming Man. A very attractive men's cologne. I can kinda tell he's not really into me, though.

This one's so very my cuppa. It feels almost like the masculine twin of Bien Loin d'Ici. There's clove and patchouli at first, but they faded quickly on me. The vetiver is indeed martial as others have mentioned, which is matched sniff-for-sniff with the sharp pepper note. The champaca is the grace and beauty in this one, though. Keeps drifting in and out, sometimes obvious, and sometimes nearly undetectable. A strange, morphing enigma of a fragrance. Fascinating...