Lethran

In bottle: It smells like marshmallow and meringue both. Also bubble gum a little. Wet: juicy fruit and marshmallows, at first, but is soon all marshmallows. Dry: Fast fading but retains marshmallow affect to the end.

In bottle: Chocolate, brown sugar and tonka are strongest, but the spices are present and well blended. Wet: The Ginger comes out strongly over the chocolate/sugar, with the nutmeg and allspice strengthening slowly. Dry: This ends up a beautiful balance between the chocolate/sugar and the spices. This is one of the best uses of the ginger note I’ve seen.

In bottle:This is a rich floral scent with an absolutely lovely medium green under coat. The non floral elements provide a lovely counterbalance to the florals. The orchid is stunning with the apple. Wet: If anything the plant base is stronger on the skin, creating a lovely, outdoors smelling mature floral. Dry: More apple blossoms, less everything else. Still nice enough though.

In bottle: Surprisingly floral, pleasantly green. It reminds me of honeysuckle. I do like the underlying woods, but the florals are overwhelming. Wet: It really does smell like early spring. It’s well blended and gentle. It’s lovely, but I was rather hoping for “The scent of wind and wood, and the smoke of council fires burning in the distance.” Sigh. I likely will keep it anyway, it’s that good, but I’m wondering if the bottle contents were incorrect. It smells nothing like the name and description and everything like a garden on a warm spring day. Dry: Some wood comes out on the dry down.

In bottle: Rather more floral than I’d hoped. The narcissus floats over mostly incense and musk. Wet: The pale musk does blend beautifully with the flowers and incense. This is a delicate, sweetly feminine thing with a bit of woodmoss and cedar underneath. It is lovely, but very not me. I admit, I’d rather hoped the woods and moss would be stronger. With warming, some vanilla cream comes out. Dry: mostly cedar and sandalwood.

In bottle: herbal with narcissus and cypress on top. Wet: This smells like a cypress grove somewhere with narcissus and various herbs growing around. The ambergris is soft, but does lovely things with all that crushed greenery. It’s more floral than I like on me, but it’s quite lovely and very well designed and blended. Dry: Alas, it goes soapy, but that’s as likely my body chemistry as not, and the narcissus is lovely.

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In bottle: Cotton candy, funnel cake, and smokey caramel are strongrest. Apple, taffy and sugar are softer, but pleasant. Wet: The bakery smell and the taffy strengthen. I really like the way the cotton candy smells on my skin. It’s weirdly comforting, yet there is a real hint of excitement underneath. Dry: Mostly cotton candy.

In bottle: Yum. I love the resin coated wood, the kerosene/oil note is unusual, but fascinating doing cool things with the cloth elements. It’s a little like mechanical Phoenix and Shadwell had a son. Wet: Very sexy. I love the way the resins sweeten the sharper elements. It feels a little like Jolly Roger while smelling more like several steampunk scents. It’s got a pleasant steampunk aftershave thing going on. I’m really liking the cloth elements as well, which really do give one a sence oftheater curtains and old costumes. Dry: the wood deepens and grows richer, the dust transforms into a very light sandalwood. The kerosene/oil softens with wear. The whole thing is stunning.

In bottle: The bergamot is quite strong. Very perfumey. Wet: It slides towards the masculine on the skin. The juniper and basil come out. It smells a little like leather even though its not listed. Slowly, the verbena emerges. Im not getting the mint, which is all to the good. This is surprisingly brightly herbal, while still staying a cologne. I wasnt sure at first, but its really wearing well on my skin. Dry: The bergamot reemerges, blending pleasantly with the other elements. I think this is the first juniper anything Ive liked and the mint is light enough not to trip my sensitivities. I was on the fence about ordering this, but Im glad I did. Its complex and well suited to my body chemistry.

In bottle: Mmmm… it really does smell exactly as advertised. I want to eat this. Wet: So rich and delicious. The coconut really comes out in this phase. Dry: Marshmallow strongest, then coconut, with a hint of chocolate.

In Bottle: I’m really liking this white chocolate note. It’s surprisingly strong. The strawberry softens it a bit. Wet: Much as in the bottle. The strawberries beautifully compliment the white chocolate. I’m impressed by how real this smells. Dry: The strawberry ends up ascendant.

In bottle: Sage is strongest. The incense sweetens it slightly and the metallics give it an edge. It’s a bright brash cologne, masculine-androgynous. Wet: More androgynous on the skin. I’m really liking the way the sage and metallics wrestle with each other. It is brash, yet sweet, herbal, yet resiny. I’m really liking this. Dry: Fades to mostly resin with a hint of sage.

In bottle: I’d guess cucumber. This is a very like green scent, as fits the concept. Wet: I can almost smell the seeds in the cucumber. I suspect some melon and/or oakmoss. Possibly ivy. It’s really growing ion me. (heh.) Dry: fades into something soft and pale green. Not long lasting, alas.

In bottle: I really like the tea/resin combo here. The florals are pleasant and blend well with the resins. Wet: The wine comes out more on the skin. The resins remain really tasty, but the tea softens rather. I usually don’t do well with wines, but this works remarkably well. Dry: This is so sweet and honey rich it’s surprising. I like the way the wine and resins blend. I’m not big on wine scents, but this is the Queen of them, I think.

In bottle: The chocolate note balances the caramel well with the pepper giving an interesting edge. Wet: The pepper really comes out on the skin. It’s pleasantly unusual. Dry: Fades rather fast, though the mix stays pretty steady

In bottle: Strong apple with moderate guava and flowers over the softer elements. It’s very fresh and fruity. Wet: My skin really ate this. Mostly apple with a hint of the other elements. The sugar cane makes it sweeter and smoother than the average apple blend. Dry: It opens out and deepens given time, turning into a rich fruity, sugary blend with a hint of delicate flowers. I would love to eat something that smelled like this. The Guava/passionfruit are really unusual over the apple.

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In bottle: The leather smells almost smoky. The pumpkin smells vaguely burnt in a good way. This is unusual and gripping. The slight sweetness of the pumpkin blends well with the environmental elements. The water weeds are really interesting. There is very little pine, which is just fine, the blend has so much character, a lot of pine would be distracting. Wet: The leather and pumpkin are most prominent. This is a rough leather, like in Dupin, definitely suitable for Saddle leather. The pumpkin is sweet and spicey. I no linger smell smoke, but I would swear there is cinnamon in this. I am now wondering if cinnamon is a component to “leather,” or possibly to pumpkin. It’s certainly distracting. It takes a long time for the gentler elements to peek through. Dry: cinnamon and leather mostly with some smoke. My roommate was able to smell the test sample on my skin and came into the office to complain about the smell. He thought I’d burned something in the kitchen. That is some serious throw. The aquatic herbs and dirt finally reemerge… six or seven hours after application and the whole thing balances well at that point and I started liking it again, but that’s a long time to wait. I took a bath, slept twice, and could still smell it on the test site 24 hours after application. O.o Another bath and sleep later, I smell mostly pump0kin and herbs on the test site. It has passed the two-day mark. It is quite lovely the second day.

If they make it, I'll buy it.

Rich wet loam, spices. Maybe carnation? Certainly cinnamon. Maybe some rose. Maybe melon. Something herbal and a touch chalky. I think maybe dandelion. I wasn’t expecting to like it from all the rose focused reviews, but I did. It’s more interesting and complex than I expected.

I get mostly the medium it’s in at first, but it emerges nicely into a loamy base with a light daisy floral with an orange tinge floating above. It’s not stunning, but it is quietly charming.

In bottle: It’s lovely in a citrusy way. The lime blends so well with the lemon rind and currents. The green musk is fascinating with what I’m guessing is the snakeshin. It’s pleasantly green and fruity. I know it’s all wrong for my skin chemistry, but it is lovely in the bottle. Wet: my skin starts amping the lemon immediately, though the green musk and lime hold their own. On my skin it has none of the subtly it had in the bottle, but I expected that. I think this would be a good late spring or summer scent for a fun loving athletic woman. Dry: It retains it’s balance rather well as it wears, staying bright sweet and fruity. It feels the way melon smells, really. On me it goes a bit soapy, but I’m bad at citrus.

In some brands Lady Grey is double bergamot. I add this not as any kind of correction, merely to reinforce Apple's suggestion of looking for tea+bergamot.

In bottle: Not as auspicious as I’d hoped. It really does smell carbonated though, which is a surprise. Wet: A real improvement. I’m fascinated by the pale green scent of it. It is rather like champagne without the alcohol, but with the dry fizziness of an actual champagne. The cigars are less burning cigar then the scent of the unburned ones that lingers in a box. Dry: The champagne remains dominant. A faint smokiness comes out and the whole thing sweetens. I’m getting almost an incense effect from the tobacco. Weirdly, it reminds me of the emotional effect Eau de Ghoul creates in me, while actually being much gentler. I have no clue why this would be, as they have no actual notes in common.