steelfaerie

People have probably already contributed these, but I think Xiuhtecuhtli and Tristran are two of the strangest scents ever. I adore them both and have gone through multiple bottles of each, but they are in fact very odd.

Okie-doke, here we go. This is my first experience with Chaos, but amber is my favorite, so I had to swallow my trepidation and buy two bottles. #33. From the git-go I can tell that this is not going to work. In the bottle it smells like straight bubblegum, which is just a no-go. There is some kind of fresh woody smell underlying that. Interestingly, this is the fullest bottle I've ever seen - it's full, basically, to the lip of the bottle. On skin: Yup, bubblegum. Bubblegum and (because my skin chemistry is terrible) urinal cakes. Where is the amber? I feel like this could definitely work for someone else, but it just won't work for me. As it's drying, a cool scent is also coming out in there that I can't pinpoint. No. No, no, no. #55. Okay, this has potential. In the bottle it is warmer than #33, deeper and rounded. On skin: Oh my gosh, this is really beautiful. Wet, it reminds me of Pink by Victoria's Secret, only... you know, good. As it dries... holy crap, this is very hard to pick notes out of. The amber is definitely there. I feel like the amber is making the rest of the notes glow, somehow. There are florals in there - maybe very light, white florals. There is also a very faint underlying incensey smell. This is gooooooood. Oh, here comes the incense -not overpowering, but stronger, meshing with the other scents and blending it into this mysterious-smelling deliciousness. This one is gorgeous.

I was so excited for this and it was a horrible letdown. In the imp it smelled REALLY nutty and buttery, but on my skin I got the mental image of being in a stinky craft store and the guy behind the counter was drinking a big old cup of medicinal Theraflu. I get no fig and no wood. Not my bag.

Okay, Prada's eau de parfum lists: Bergamot Oil Italian, Orange Oil, Bitter Orange Oil, Mandarin Flower, Mimosa India, Rose Absolute ABS, Schinus Molle ABS LMR, Peru Balsam, Patchouli Oil LMR, Raspberry Flower, Labdanum Resinoide LMR, Tonka Bean ABS LMR, Vanilla Absolute, Musk, Sandalwood Oil. And BPAL's "The Sea Rat" from the 2008 Wind in the Willows lists: Seaweed, ambergris, and sea buckthorn berry with exotic herbs, incense smoke, ship wood, and Burmese musk. Yet on me, the two scents are all but identical. I don't know if my chemistry has gone absolutely haywire or what, but I can't tell the different between these two.

I'm with you - I'm on my third bottle of Xiuhtechuhtli. 10mls would be more economical, but I understand why they stopped making them. And I'm A+ in favor of anything that speeds up turn-around-time so I get my precious faster!

My all-time favorite apple scent is the magnificent Hesperides!

Alas, this may as well just be a vetiver single note for all it does for me. I can't even smell anything else when it's wet in the imp. Where are you, musk and tamarind? Wahhhhh.

I love this stuff. The balsam and amber come out in my bathtub and make me never want to get out. I haven't tried it on my hair yet, but this is definitely the kind of smell I'd like my hair to have, so I'll have to give that a whirl. I've got two bottles of this and I hope I can pick up some more from folks who aren't crazy about it!

You know, I can see where other people get the candle badness, but it doesn't happen to me. This goes on sweet and fruity and dries down into utter magnificence. It loses a bit of the straight-up sweetness as the clove comes out and just becomes sexy. I normally HATE fruity scents but I have a whole bottle of March Hare. I generally treat it as a summer scent because the fruit to me seems very summery and warm-weathery (although the bees like it too, alas). It's both a bright scent and a dark scent. It's just heavenly. *loves it severely*

In the bottle, I got all excited because I perceived a vague similarity to my beloved Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, and I am fruitlessly searching for a GC to replace it in my heart and nose. However, once applied, my skin turned Cthulhu to crap like it does with most things that I really want to love. Within 30 seconds it had transformed into strong, cheap men's cologne on me and I was scrubbing it off with alcohol. Win some, lose some. Sigh.

Squirting Cucumber?

Oh my gosh, that bottle is so cute, and the squat green one is too!

I completely agree, ClareN. It seems to me like this nitpicking over what the phraseology means has been going on for long enough. I really would love some actual clarification.

For a light, appley scent, I am really amazed at how Hesperides is capable of lasting at least a whole day and sometimes two. I put it on at 8 AM, it's 4:30, and I can still smell it strongly without even huffing my wrist. o_o;

Nocnitsa smells like pure pine on me with a sort of underlying sweetness. I wear it constantly, as the tree smells are some of my favourite notes. I was apprehensive about it turning into air freshener, but no, it stays moist and wet-pine smelling. It's absolutely fantastic, and the longer it's worn, the sweeter it becomes.