autumnviolet

MARIE:

wet-violet.

dry down: violet

later-violet.

Stays and stays with a light violetty touch.

Luckily, I adore violets and currently have a yard full of them. Um, they don't really smell like this.

BUT this is a great violet scent. Most are too cloying and sweet.

I'm getting a 10ml of this because it is perfect for spring.

Sure would like violet/rose, though...

Spooky?

Wet: cilantro, mint and coconut.

On skin, dry down: this faded into coconut very quickly.

Within an hour it was gone. I soo wanted thin mint...

Storm Moon

WOW! Ozone and wet stuff and sharp stuff and sleet-torn flowers!

Wet: Indefinable. But I'll try-electric sleet. Aquatic notes, just drenched and a masculine bit of musk with, hmmmm orchid?

On skin: lovely. Softens into a wet floral but not feminine Spring like. Tough flowers made to with stand the snow...crocus and witch hazel.

Hours later; wah! fades in 2 hours or so.

Catherine. My Grandmother's name, a very...strong name.

Wet: sharp, bitter orange blossoms. I love that. An undercurrent of something bitter, too piercing.

Dry down on skin: still orange blossom with comtinuing sharp, soapy, harsh tone.

Hours later: fades in about 4 hours to a soft summer blossom smell with that crisp tang. Not to be trifled with.

Bluebeard

Wet: powerfully strong. No violets to my nose. Heavy, masculine. Woodsy and metallic.

Dry down: powdery like gunpowder. Tobacco. Bay rum.

hours later: very heavy and angry. Dusty bay rum and a green scent.

wet: cherry and formaldehyde. Let's try again-ok, cinnamon, but real cinnamon-I smell cinnamon bark with a bitter note and myrrh and sweet.

on me/dry down: wow. Cinnamon an caramel.

later: actually gets stronger on me as it goes on. Warm, interesting sweet caramel and cinnamon.

Wet; bitter oak and apples? I smell chocolate and almonds with a fruit smell.

On me/dry down: faded fast. Fruity

Re-applied. Oak, a harsh scent with almonds and fruit.

March Hare

wet: Whew! Orangy-orange and tart lemon.

On me/dry down: oranges. Really bright oranges.

Later: I was surprised that the description says apricots and cloves. No cloves on me, but, ok, orange apricots. Husband says it smells like a room scent candle. Strong!

Forbidden fruit.

Wet/in vial: sloghtly over-ripe berries with a plastic-chemical undertone. Lotus? I smell sweet, pungent too sweet.

dry down: berries but not real berries-lipgloss berries.

hours later: just the berries-but artificial berries. Like... the lipgloss and perfume I'd have worn while experiencing forbidden fruit at age 14.

Twilight smells like a soft evening falling after a warm, lazy day.

It's sad, but not overwhelmingly so.

Wet: floral, lavender honeysuckle and maybe lily of the valley with a sharp tone and a sniff like rain

Dry down: floral, soft, roses and honeysuckle

hours later, very soft, lingering roses and lavender.

rocketing to the top of my 5 ml list...

VELVET!!!

wet: cocoa/chocolate! rich, heavenly, milk chocolate!

on skin/dry down: wah! where the chocolate go? wah..wa..huh, that's the incense my mom burned when I was a kid...sandalwood? the chocolate morphs into...sandalwood?

a few hours later: I wish it was chocolate, but the mellow sandalwood with myrrh is both sharp crisp and soft pillowy. Love this, truly, truly original. Both hard and soft.

Wet: mmmm. sharp aquatics (icicles!) and woodsy herbal with a definite spring floral. A walk in the winter woods with a sharp tang in the wind...and the discovery of new hyacinths in the snowdrifts.

fresh and dry: this scent held very well for me. I could still smell ice, woods and florals.

4 hours later: great, great soft floral with an edge.

huh-a real oddity.

Wet: oil, burning, smoky, sweet. weird.

dry down: evolves into a nice masculine scent of woodsy green. The smoke burns off.

Hours later-woodsy guy-scent. nice.

I only wish the initial smell stayed.

Wet: POW! Green mint and sour limes. In a good way.

Dry down: goes to green sweet herbs with some lime.

Hours later: a pretty green sniff with a little citrus.

One of Scorpio's symbols is the Phoenix because Scorpios always seem to struggle up from the ashes of disaster (particularly theirs). So being Scorpio, I was intrigued by anything Black Phoenix, esp because it is the signature scent of the Lab.

Wet: mmm, sweet cherries in musk with amber over the top. A strong, hit-you-upside-the-head sniff.

Dry down: there is still a cherry sweetness but the musk/amber is coming through.

Hours later, a nice sweet amber. Definitely amber, but a powdery, sweet one.

wet/inbottle: *laughing* pine-tobacco smoke-chocolate! Odd sniff.

First impression-uh, ok. Pine and green stuff and a harsh tinge of bitter smoke. It did make me sleepy and feeling slightly bewitched.

Dry down-softens into an elegant powdery greenness unlike anything I've ever had before. I loved it 3 hours later. The sniff is powdery, green herb but sweetish.

Oddly relaxing.

HUH! Not what I thought from the name!

WET: oooh, sharp, silvery orange blossom and bubble gum? Definitely a sharp sniff, a tang in the air.

Wet on skin: boo hoo! The sharp tang goes away,.nice masculine floral, though.

Dry down: fades in about 4 hours but keeps changing intriguingly. A floral with tones of aquatic. Smells "blue", if you can understand the implication.

Hymn: a curious, spiritual smell.

In bottle, wet: wow! amber and rose. Maybe myrrh. Strong. I'm afraid to put too much on.

dry down: church-y with roses. Amber. Relatively strong on me.

Hours later: this really dies down on me. barely sniffable. like a beautiful hymn, fading away into the ether, light streaming through stained glass windows.

Still sweet amber, with roses.

I really want to like Jester. I love the name, the concept, the description.

Wet: strawberry lip gloss! really, really strawberry candy.

Dry: very sweet, strawberry/cherry candy-with an artificial tang.

Hours later: cherry candy.

hmmm...

What a deep, lush, fragrance!

wet: Strong, but not objectionably. Roses, jasmine, musk, orange flower?

dry down: lingering smell of musky, amber rose. It does smell like flowers at midnight, in a quiet grove.

In the bottle/wet: cinnamon candy! sweet cinnamon.

dry down: sweet, cinnamony, spicy but a bit musky/amber.

Lasts.

Interesting

Embalming fuid is puzzling. I cannot pin the smells down.

Wet: good sharp lemon.

dry down: I smell an aloe note, a sweet musk smell, a bit of tea, and a sweet lemon. I wish there was more lemon.

But I really like this for Spring. Light, but not too light.

This scent is magickal! Woo Hoo! I am thrilled and pleased...will definitely be getting a big bottle. Lab, you all are amazing with the ethereal and the unexplainable!

Bottle/wet: chocolate mint, clean soapy smell and dill undertones (but in a good way)

dry down: clear, soap, clean smell with a small sharp undertone.

Lasts many hours with the clean smell.

HOWEVER: My DH has almost no sense of smell. 99.9% of all smells are lost on him. BUT he snuggled up to me 6 hours after I put it on, sniffed and cooed, "You smell good". In 13 years of marriage, he has never done this. I have always had to thrust my arm under his nose and say, "smell this". So, I am tearfully gratified that he can smell and enjoy this scent.

Hmmm. I read the other reviews and think my nose is stuck.

In bottle: sweet, treacle/molasses, cherry?

On skin:

hit my sinuses with a whoof! I still smell hot caramel and cherries.

dry down-Tobacco, cherries, warm -mmmm-sugar. Musk? Odd, dark, intriguing. OOh I smell candle wax, too.

definitely a seduction smell.

Pele is the volcano Goddess, but She started out as the water goddess until she saw fire and liked it better. She gave the ocean over to her sister, with whom she fights.

Just like Pele the Goddess, this scent is whimsical. It fades. I had to reapply after 3 hours.

having said that, WOW! Lush jasmine with a hint of ashes. Seriously, if you go to Hawaii and visit Pele's home with an offering lei of jasmine, the air will smell similar to this. tropical flowers with a tint of ashes in the air.

Nice.