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Mouse is sweet and sharp at the same time - must be the sweetpea? After a while, it becomes a faint, wistful vanilla. Reminds me of Antique Lace. Certain vanilla and floral combinations smell really wrong to me.

Absurd! Green mango, fig, patchouli and green tea. Wet: bubblegum. Dry: Fruit, wood shavings. Light and tangy. I couldn't smell the patchouli at all.

O started out kind of honey almondish. I thought it smelled similar to Dana O'Shee, only with more honey. However, the amber started making an appearance after little bit. Surprise, O really does smell like sex. Like when your brain sort of freezes up with heady longing. That kind. Then it faded to a sweet, powdery smell.

Baron Samedi smelled like coca-cola wet. It dried down to a dark, smoky, heavy scent. Very bitter. I didn't like it.

I was really hoping Midnight Kiss would be cocoa and flowers, it smelled really lovely and sweet in the imp, but on my skin the patchouli came out and kind of dominated the other notes.

Moscow was all jasmine on me, my skin amps jasmine like nobody's business - and I don't even like jasmine.

I didn't like the imp I received of Fairy Market. It was too sharp and strong and headache inducing. But I recently bought a bottle and like it much better. It smells floral and rather grassy in the bottle, but not on my skin. I get soft, powdery incense, lavendar, and something vaguely sugary. I usually don't like incense but this blend was balanced enough by the other notes that it wasn't a problem. I wonder if aging it makes the incense more prominent. It's quite pretty and I will be keeping this bottle. Hopefully it doesn't change too much.

Wet: Cherries. Dry: Floral soap.

In the imp Tamora smelled sweet and fruity. On my skin it was sweet vanilla, and something sharp and woody. And playdoh. No fresh peaches for me.

To me patchouli just smells like incense, and Siren smelled like too-strong incense. I was looking foward to the ginger, but if Siren has any ginger, it's old, powdered, and dusty. I really hated this one.

Dirty smells clean, and fresh, like flowers after a rainstorm. It reminds me a bit of The Unicorn, only more aquatic and not as sweet.

I love The Unicorn. I don't really know why, but I do. I've got a bottle of it. The herbs fade a little on the drydown. It's not sweet at all. Floral, really clean, ethereal. Slightly soapy, but it's the type of soap I'd like to smell like. My friends and relatives don't really get all the fuss I make about it. But that's ok, because The Unicorn is all mine.

Kinda...weird. Tart berries with an undercurrent of sharpness. That goes away after a while, and you're left with a berry smell. Wild berries, kind of sour. Not really a wearable scent imo.

I had previously decided I didn't like Dana O'Shee because it smelled like marischino cherries. But I wore it to English class and it smelled pretty good, like toasted almonds. Once the cherry settled down, it was really nice. I'm glad I gave it another chance.

This is exactly what the descriptions says, musk, tea, and vanilla. It's a very pretty combination, but quite faint and nondescript. I'm going to age my imp and see if the throw improves.

Snake Oil did not live up to all the great reviews, imo. I wore it one day and developed a headache. It was extremely incensy. Headshop, playdoh. And I couldn't smell the vanilla every else was talking about. I've gotten so that I can identify more notes now, and appreciate scents that I haven't before. But I guess it all comes down to personal preference.

Wet, hazelnut. Dry, chocolate brownie, milk chocolate. Really sweet. Like, sugar has GOT to be one of the notes. I appreciate the novelty of smelling like chocolate because I can. So I bought a bottle. In the future I'd like to try chocolate scents that are perhaps more true cocoa-y, darker, richer, and less sweet.

Alice is spicy and sweet at the same time in the imp. Kind of a weird combination. I didn't really like it.

Light ginger and citrus smoothed with milk. One thing about Sudha Sigara is that it's really really light. My skin just eats it. It's refreshing, but imperceptible on my wrist. I'm going to age it a bit and see if that helps any with the throw.