aleciarivas

White chocolate and strawberry. This is strawberry that reminds me of the hair of my Strawberry Shortcake dolls when I was little! The white chocolate is subtle and hiding in the background, but it’s there. Unfortunately the chocolate scents have been hit or miss on me, and this one is a miss. I don’t care for smelling like a plastic toy LOL- no matter how comforting the smell may be!

Wow when I first put this on all I smelled was ROSE ROSE ROSE- as in, in your FACE rose. On drydown I get a faint hint of something woody behind it, but really this stays an overblown, overripe rose. Since rose is NOT one of my favorite scents, this is not a good thing. The throw is pretty good too, which again is not such a good thing since I'm not fond of rose LOL.

Hm this one is kind of a neutral for me. I don't like it, but I don't dislike it either. I can't pin it down, I guess, not to mention the fact that it has no throw whatsoever so I can hardly smell it anyhow. I may have to pack this one up for a bit and try it again later

:cough cough hack hack: I REALLY wanted to love Pomona- in the imp it was sure pretty, and I'm trying to find some nice... not-fall scents lol! But after about 5 minutes of prettiness and me feeling pretty confident that Pomona might be a winner.... it turned into some sort of strange chemical-like scent that made my nose tickle and then it made me start coughing! Strange, very strange. Not sure what in this is reacting weird with me... but yeah. Ick! Time to go scrub it off...

Blech!!! This turns into something like dead rotting wood and clinging green vines on me. A hint of pleasing incense beneath, which in no way salvages the stronger tones. This one's getting washed off immediately!!!

Oh this is simply lovely! And I say simply because this seems like a much less-complicated BPAL scent than I normally like. This is almost a creamy orange creamsicle, and I simply CANNOT quit smelling my arm! I love this scent, and it would even be very appropriate my youngest DD (age 9) to wear. Quite a keeper!

Pretty but very, very faint- I have to put my wrist right up to my nose and huff to get a wisp of this. Creamy and softly floral, it really is a very, very pretty scent. Too soft for me, though- I'm not much a "pretty" soft of girl lol!

To me, this is like Grog's little sister. Lovely and edibly delicious (don't worry I didn't eat it!) in the imp, and also when first applied. I was in total love with this until about an hour in when it turned into a butter Crisco on me. Bleh! If I could keep it fresh I'd love it, but the dry-down is awful.

Smells light and airy, crisp is certainly the right word for this scent! I don’t really get any pine, and just a hint of fruity sweetness in the back. Pretty and airy, but not very distinctive to me.

It’s been a run of bad luck for me with scents lately. Unfortunately, something in this one turns to playdough. Dried and nasty playdough. I was so hoping for this to be yummy since it sounds like a perfect foodie scent but no go for me! Double unfortunately, this has GREAT throw. Great playdough throw! Ick!

White musk likes to take over on me and turn into some sort of weird sharp-smelling stereotypical commercial perfume. Blech. This was another such occasion of the rest of the lovely scent immediately turning into that nasty store-bought perfume.

DEFINITELY medicinal. Ick. Ew. Cough cough. I can smell some sort of dry wood beneath it all, but frankly I just can't get past the medicinal smell.

I couldn't handle this one on me, it smelled like a man's cologne. Granted a very NICE man's cologne, but a man's cologne all the same.... Sooo..... now it's in my hubby's box and it smells divine on him!

DEFINITELY warm and dark. Amber is one of my favorite notes, so this was a nice find. There's a dark hint of something beneath, possibly musk. But it only peeks out occasionally, mostly all I get is the nice, warm Amber.

Oooooo too floral for me!! I kept sneezing once this dried down, and it took me quite awhile to realize what I was sneezing over!

Unfortunately Queen Alice didn't love me! Wah! I really do love carnation, but something in this blend turned sickly stickily sweet. And then turned into an almost pepto-bismol smell, then back to the sickly stickily sweet smell.

Sad, sad me. Unfortunately this was very pretty for about 10 minutes- at which point all I could smell was baby powder. As a matter of fact, my oldest daughter sniffed near me later and frowned and said, "WHAT is that smell? Did you change a baby today?" I suspect that the sweet pea is my arch-enemy, because I really can't stand the smell of baby powder and that seems to rear its ugly head whenever I try sweet pea. Grr... But it has been passed on to somone who loves it!

Very yummy...... for about 20 minutes. Then it gets VERY plasticy on me. This is the third time I have tried it, and I get the same reaction every time. Off to the swaps list....

OOOoooooooooooooooo I have been wanting a dragon's blood scent for so LONG I have tried most of the Ars Draconis, to no avail.... They all turn icky. But this!!! This is richly-scented, exactly what I would imagine a Red Dragon would smell like, warm and basking in the sun. Spicy, resiny, and oh-so-yummy musky. This is a warm and passionate scent on me that I will now hoard.... Edited to add: FallDaze's review made me realize- this DOES remind me of Midnight Kiss!!! I LOVE Midnight Kiss on my SO but it smells blah on me. But this- this works for me!

Resinous, piney, floral. Must be the frankincense that I don't like. Too much resin and too much floral. Ew.

Perfectly enchanting! An irresistibly sexual, utterly rapturous blend of three roses, radiant amber, and sensual red musk. Oh-so-lovely! There goes that amber smelling SOOOOO unexpectedly wonderful on my skin! The roses and musk create a nice soft background to the sweet sultry amber.

Very wood-y. Cedar amps like crazy on me, in spite of the fact that I LOVE the smell. Just not on me. Somewhere in the midst of all that cedar are some dead-ish flowers. Ew.

Well what it all boiled down to was flowers and dirt. Cheap flowers and dirty dirt. Ick.

Spicy, resinous incensy smell. Granny perfume underneath it all. Blech.

Soapy rose. It starts out pretty nice with a ver soft rose smell but after a very short while all I get is soapy rose. Ew.