modillian

This was sent to me as a frimp, and I was so happy to try a suprise LE. Unfortunately, it turns completely to maple syrup on me. Must be my poor reaction to honey and candied chestnuts. I am trying to layer it with other things to make the maple syrup work for me, but I am pessimistic. :\ Dratted skin chemistry.

OH MY GOODNESS! I am having the exact same reaction to this as I did for Hemlock and Polyhymnia. I want to eat this off my wrists and paddle around in a lake of Vinland -this is simply delicious, even though there are no foody scents in here as far as I can tell. A husky, spicy wood (not cedar, but cedar-like), a deeply sweet floral, a light floral, green grasses, and some other things I cannot determine (possibly a fruit or two?). It's getting more perfumey after ten minutes, but it doesn't hurt the smell at all. This is a heady and utterly intoxicating scent on me. At twenty minutes it's more floral and fruits with light green spice in the back. I will use up all this imp, definitely, and I would have no compunction of buying a bottle. This is a gold and green scent to me. It has quite a powerful throw, and it lasts for about six hours on me. It's an excellent work perfume, I think. It's not seductive, but it has presense and character, like a Norse goddess who does exactly what she wants without any compunction at all -a complete power trip perfume.

Okay, the grapefruit is a lovely topnote soaring over the main orris note. I suspected I would like orris, and yis, it is good -powdery sweet under the squirt of citrus. Part of the sweetness can be attributed to the plum. The black amber is interesting a kind of opalescent weight in the background. Amber smells to me like a mellowing scent -something to pull together the disparate scents in an oil and melt them together -while alone amber is quite a formidable skin scent in itself. Oooh, after about ten minutes the bergamont pulls in, aiding the acidic tinge of grapefruit. It is a high, sweet and pink scent cut through with the citus/herbal burn. It lasts for the rest of the time as orris, amber and plum as the base with the citrus and herbs fading slowly. I love it! This is like my favorite Lucky You, only instead of a Lucky's You's jasmine and blue poppy there is powdery sweet orris. The throw is a little above average for me. This oil lasts looooong on my skin, about twelve hours, but then it dissipates. That's about the length of time that I like my perfumes to remain, anyways. Three thumbs up if you like sweet fruity scents with a bite. ETA November 2010: Unfortunatley, as with many oils the citrus weakens tremendously with aging and the scent has lost a lot of its complexity and throw in three years. Take my advice, to enjoy Megaera get a fresh imp and use it up within a year or two at most!

On first sniff, all I could get was potpourri. Old potpourri. Then it turned into lemongrass, or a lemony green scent. Now it's more like lemon cedar with some faint spiciness. I usually look at the scent descriptions only after I apply the oil, so I guess I have confused lemon with mandarin oranges. But still, usually I don't want to smell like oranges at all and maybe lemons only a little. WELL. This scent does not work on me. It would be nice for someone who likes green, citrusy, mildly sweet scents. The throw and the staying power are average. I'm surprised -I want to like fig scents, but this one went kablooie on me. Also, it lasted about four hours on me, so it's too short as well. Maybe next time.

First it was an astringent green smell (bergamot!) plus oranges, but after ten minutes there's some spice and that otherworldly scent sans astringence, so I know it's the neroli again. Green in the background, and the spice is ramping up (clove shows itself!) Very nice. Pending twenty minutes, there's almost no spice, almost no scent except green florals alone, very soft -not a scent with lots of throw. The green I'm smelling now is probably mimosa. No oranges after that first blast, just mimosa, neroli and a wee bit of clove. Delicious. The hard bite at first put me off, but it mellows into a lovely tasty scent that is a smidge too soft on me -let's see how a larger dose or some aging will affect the oil.

Ugh. This does not work at all on me. There's a nice floral base I can detect, but it's spoiled by what smells like rotten red fruit in the forefront. Ewww. I'll wait to see if it gets better. I had such high hopes for it too, since there's some raves on here. There's some sweetness there I can work with, but there's something else just disgusting in there. Huh, okay, so looking at the scent mix I'm thinking it's the duo of merlot and leather that comes off as disgusting rot on me. I don't think I want to smell like wine in any case. Leather is a workable scent on me (I like De Sade), but difficult to get in the right mix. I don't think I can work with fruit and leather together, pewee. I like the florals, though, so I guess I'm a floral person. I'm going to wash this off now at ten minutes, eww.

Oh, oh! This knocked me right out of my chair! It's magnificent! The lemon balm and woody notes come off as the finest furniture polish to me (which I like!) but there's some other stuff going on, all lurid topnotes (rosemary?), saucy undercurrents (sandalwood and myrrh?) and mellow creamy stuff in between (orris yuuuuummmm.) My goodness! For some reason, though, I have some mild skin irritation where I put the oil. I have no idea what could be bothering me (perhaps the volatile sage or rosemary oils?) This is the kind of lightly lemon scent I can handle. Oh yum. This is a toe-curling scent to me. After ten minutes the sage emerges from the crowd along with the spicy sandalwood and myrrh, lemon and creamy orris receding but still present. At twenty minutes the creamy delicious orris plus sandalwood/sage scent is stronger, lemon is very mild, and spice from the myrrh is minimal. I could definitely roll around in this perfume like Megaera. After an hour it's full of throaty woods (I'm guessing it's the rowan that has amped up the sandalwood all this time) with the resiny myrrh giving depth, orris rounding out the scent, and it remains like that. Guh. Polyhymnia is a sweet, woody fragrance. It could work as a room scent, but I definitely like it on the skin as well. The throw is about normal, and it lasts on me for about eight hours.

At first it is chemically and very aquatic on me. I don't really get snow, but more like the melted blue ice chips on a glacier, or the water melted from it. Smells possibly like one of those "wintery" blue candles at the Yankee Candle Company. Ice white flowers too. Oooo, even more candle-y after a few minutes. Strong throw. It's not bad, it's just that I'm unsure if I want to personally smell strongly like a blue snow candle. Yes, there is a bit of blurry waxiness to the scent as well. This most probably is a mix of white and blue floral oils with a berry and a resin thrown in. As far as chilly florals go, The Ghost better. Hmm, after ten minutes a a greenly aquatic scents dominates -maybe there's a pine or evergreen resin in here. Ack, after fifteen minutes I look at the descriptions, and yeah, it's mellowed and sweetened like a little girl's perfume, no longer a candle. My skin tends to mellow and sweeten loads of oils while amping up the musks or resins. Hmm. Not for me, since I neither ski like a real snow bunny nor want to. At an hour it's melted much more agreeablly into my skin, warmer, more like something I'd personally wear. Like a slushy snowmelt. Too bad it took so long to get there. On me it lasts about eight hours and morphs the whole time. It's very wintery indeed, but strikes me more as a room scent than a personal scent.

Oh, at first I do not like it. All menthol (eucalyptus?) with a little green herbs and lemon. Strong, very strong. Definitely a deadly scent, I can see it squirting ominously out of the stems, pressed gooey out of the leaves and roots. A vile, grimy ooze with a violent smell. But after five minutes the menthol melts into the green and lemon and is an absolutely delicious minty green candy that will kill me after sucking on it. I thought this would be a much dirtier scent, but as usual I've learned that an enticing, pretty thing that seduces into the abyss is a much craftier beast. The scents mellow and blend more, with shots of acidity, still strong with good throw on the skin, becoming more delectable by the second. Goodness gracious, what a great oil! After twenty minutes, it's sweetened, lightened, lost most of the astringency, but is resolutely a deadly green/ginger. It is riding out on the radiating skin heat like the devil himself. One hell of an oil indeed! At one hour it's grown faint, though, and at three hours it has completely disappeared. I may need to see if it stays longer with more application. What a winner!

Oh my! This is so refreshing! Aquatic definitely, with a slightly foody backdrop what with the vanilla. Oh, this is really different, I like it a lot. I didn't think I'd like it at all with the orange, but I can't even detect a bit of the foul orange note. It's all sparkling, refreshing white musk and light, dewy apricot, mmmmmmmm. I do detect vanilla even though it's unlisted. I don't know how this is aquatic, but it is. There main scent is of fresh running water with some foodyness in the back. Utterly delightful! Sweet, but not an overpowering type at all; a youthful scent. Apricot for the win, yummy yummy. After half and hour the apricot comes out as the main scent, little to no aquatics, strengthened with some velvety muskiness. The orange maybe is present in a slight perfumy yeastiness anchoring in the back (orange pollen, maybe?), but it's not a rotten fruit scent on me as is the usual. Really, really delightful. So glad I tried this one, sent as a frimp. I could wear this as a pick-me-up anywhere, or as a spring scent. The only problem I'm finding is the scent is so zippy that is fizzes up my nose and coats the back of my throat with a slight chemically something. So, keep the sniffing to a minimum during meals. ETA 05/17/09. I must say, this is even better with age. The zippy fizziness has left, and instead Katharina is a refreshing but also intoxicating apricot scent, and I like it a great deal better than Tamora or other peachy scents. I want to call Katharina a vanilla apricot, but it must be the orange blossom deepening the perfume. It's GORGEOUS, I love it even more now than I did before, but I don't wear it nearly enough since I still only have an imp. I'll be looking for an aged bottle or a new bottle to store away very soon. :>