starryharlequin

Got this one as a freebie in my recent order. In the bottle, it smells amazing--kind of fruity and sweet, with some kind of sexy undertone--putting it on made me feel vampiric, like I wanted to start eating my wrist, and the skin scent was part of that desire....a bit creepy actually. But good. But then, ten minutes in.....wtf, patchouli? At first I thought it might be the amber, but I checked a couple of other scents I have which include amber, and this hasn't happened with them. But it did happen with Scherezade, which doesn't have patchouli listed either--but which does have red musk . My bet is that there's patchouli in the red musk blend, and because my skin looooooooves patchouli (a drop of Ravenous can give me a headache, it's so strong) I'm just amping that scent up way beyond all others. About four hours later, now, the patchouli is finally fading, and I think I'm getting the berries and amber (oh, that's what it smells like!). It's very nice again. But I don't think I can handle the 100% patchouli that long just for ten good minutes at the beginning and a couple of very faded hours at the end. Alas!

(Fair warning: this is a ~2-year-old imp. Still smells like I remember, though.) In the bottle, this is just delicious. I love baking, and it smells like a kitchen at the height of the Christmas season: butter and sugar and creamy sweet things, maybe some spices, all overlaid. I think this could be a good room scent (not when I'm very hungry or very full, though!) if it doesn't work out on me. Wet: Hi, hazelnut coffee candle! Dry: Yeah...so I've had this on ten hours now, and it never changed from the way it smelled the instant I put it on. Which is good for most perfumes, except that I used to burn hazelnut coffee candles all the time, and I can't stand the scent any more. Room scent it is, though...and I envy all the people who get the other notes!

When I opened this, it smelled a little like incense topped off with fruit, which made me nervous (my skin tends to pick up patchouli and throw it to the winds, strong enough to give me a headache). But this oil was lovely from the minute I put it on. Kind of hard to describe...I could smell it, but it was hard to notice--it smelled a lot like my normal skin amped up. Which, uh, was the point of saying it smelled like skin, hey. It did stay close to the skin, and retained that lovely almost-me scent for a while; unfortunately after a couple of hours it turned into a pure incense-y kind of smell, which I think was the myrrh, and got a little stronger. I had to take it off at that point. I may try it again, and hope that's just a short phase. But until it turned into nothing but myrrh, oh, this oil was very nice!