mandragora369

This scent is a disappointment for me. Normally I love ylang ylang but here I smell none. This smells like a public pool on my skin. You know with the chlorined pool water. So this smells not good.

I bought this scent second hand couple of month ago. I wasn't aware it is from 2010 and 8 years old.

So this must be perfectly aged.

I truly love this soft sweet strawberry scent! It is fruity and slightly sweet. Love it!

(There is no peppery scent on my skin.)

On my skin it starts with intensive peonies. As it dries down the tea and a herbal scent come forth. But during the dry down a soapy citrus smell emerges.

Stays on my skin a couple of hours, but just a faint floral scent.

This is an interesting scent although I'm no fan of florals. But I like peonies.

Got this scent as frimp and I didn't read the fig being in there. My nose smelled it immediately. Wet I could smell the patchoulie and a pretty earth scent (I guess the mushrooms) as well, but after 20 minutes all three was left was the sweet fig on my skin.

Sad but no scent for me.

2017 version

OMG I am glad I blind bought this one, it is such a gorgeous scent, like a designer perfume like someone wrote.

Normally I hate flower Scents but wanted to try this cause of the hemlock and nightshade. On the other side I love amber and frankincense, I cannot detect one of them, but all together they are gorgeous.

It is floral, sweet and heavy. Thankfully it lasts all day on my skin.

Wow such a strong vertiver at the beginning, it is almost sharp. But I like vertiver! There are also the astringent dead leaves note and the smoke as well at the beginning. This is really strong - I guess one must like those strong components.

As it dries down the vertiver gets less strong and the other components take over a bit and the vanilla mellows it out. But the scent is still quite strong and I guess masculine. But I like dark masculine scents.

Wet: On my skin the plum is very dominant with a dark undertone.

As it dries the plum gets less strong and a beautiful oudh scent emerges within the next hours. Stays on my skin until the next day. Very strong wear length. This DL I liked from the beginning, the others needed some time to rest.

I can only guess the clove, cannot detect it on its own. But I really like it!!

In the bottle: it smells beautifully in the bottle, incense and juniper.

Wet: incense and the tangy juniper, which I love.

Dry: my skin sucks this up, first I can still smell the incense and a little tangy, but short after I hardly smell anything, it completely fades.

I acquired a bottle of this old scent, 12 years old.

Wet: this is very herbal on my skin.

Dry: the honey scent is quite strong on me with a floral touch. But I cannot detect Carnation, frankincense or copal which is sad.

Sadly this is just roses on me. Strong roses. No Carnation, no cherry.

Nothing for me sadly.

Wet: green apple? I really smell this typical apple scent with a bit blossoms in the background.

Dry: now I can detect the tea scent, it is kind of astringent. The apple is gone but the blossom scent gets stronger. But I get no Sandelwood and no dragonsblood. Sad but nothing for me. Was hoping for a more balsamic scent.

2017 Version

Wet: the sweet chocolate is more dominant, in background there is the balsamic Amber.

Dry: as it drys, the Amber get in foreground, it is heavy and balsamic on my skin. I love it, since I love Amber! Now the chocolate is in the background, its bitterness is still detectable.

When I got this one in December 17 I did not like it. Then I only smelled green moss, no DL. Now after 2 month of aging, it smells much better! It is astringent and green, but has also somehow a sweet touch to it. Guess from the oudh. A really nice smell! Can't detect frankincense though.

2017 Version

I really like this scent! Smells like a dark balsamic pom scent to me. The pom is first very sweet and fruity with the dark background. As it drys down, the chypre gets stronger.

When I got it December 17:

Sadly I only smell floral here, no leaves, no amber no leather. Only floral, no scent for me.

Now after 2 months aging:

It is now much better then before. Now I can smell the Amber base and there's a bitterness which I guess is from the dead leaves note. Now the floral is way more in the background which makes it way better!

On my skin this is a very intensive aquatic scent. I get no dark aspects, only fresh ocean scents. Does not smell good on my skin.

2017 version

Normally I hate apple and pumpkin scents. But this scent I really like! It is intensive fruity and dark. I love patchouli and woody scents! That's why I needed to try this one.

At the beginning the scent is very fruity with darkness in the background.

As time passes the fruitiness gets less strong and the darker aspects get stronger. But the spicyness also get stronger. Luckily I cannot smell apple or this typical pumpkin scent.

On my skin it is a beautiful dark fruity spicy scent. ❤️