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i adore kabuki but it seems like a much more dark and brooding scent. more darkly sexy than fun sexy.

 

but it might feel different on your skin. the more love for kabuki, the better!

agapē or high-strung daisies perhaps?

wow. i just tried on a dab of the dodo that came to me as a recent frimp from the lab... and...

 

in the past, all my imps (and my current bottle) have had a pleasant dose of cassia but nothing overpowering.

 

this one, however, started out as an agony of overwhelming cassia. i'm got pink welts to show for it. now i can smell the rest of the scent but wow. cassia overload.

I love that dress, wvgemini. It looks like a dress that wants to smell like plum, dark wine, berries, and black currant to me, lol. Bordello, Eat Me, Mme Moriarty, or Bewitched, I'd say...

 

i was going to say bordello, eat me or jailbait!

 

bottle: a beautiful syrupy floral. possibly the cactus blossom. this is the 2007 version.

 

wet: very sweet and bright, almost sharp when i stick my nose against my skin. i get the same very sweet floral scent with a faint backdrop of foody goodness.

 

dry: i'm starting to get a bit of the incense, it's calming the in-your-face sweetness of the floral. a very interesting scent.

bottle: amber and peach, this sort of reminds me of tamora but with a bit of tea.

 

wet: beautiful! spicy sweet tea and peach with an amber backdrop. so pretty!

 

dry: spicy floral tea. no peach to speak of just a beautiful bright tea scent. probably my favorite tea scent from bpal yet.

bottle: very dark musk, sandalwood and vetiver.

 

wet: the rose wants to ruin this scent so badly but it just can't seem to overpower the musk and vetiver on my skin.

 

dry: the rose is giving this a bit of sharpness rather than soapiness. i redit the musk and sandalwood with keeping the rose in line. my beloved vetiver is nowhere to be seen though...

bottle: very, very sweet vanilla and tonka with a touch of woodsy floral.

 

wet: this is a bit more floral once applied... but then it just vanishes! all the vanilla and wood just disappear leaving only a faint sweet floral.

 

dry: as this dries the notes re-emerge, this is more of a sweet, creamy wood scent on my skin. not much throw but decent staying power.

bottle: very sweet aquatic.

 

wet: freesia and aquatic. i would never have guessed that i would like such a scnet but i find myself very taken with it.

 

dry: this dries to a silky soft freesia scent with a gentle watery note that is too ethereal to call "aquatic". much nicer than expected.

I so wish that I could get a bottle of that Sakura spray. It has such a gorgeous label...

 

agreed. and i don't even like room sprays that much!

sturgeon moon smells very much like wet grasses to me.

a bold bluff would be a good choice as well. good call beachbabealways.

earth phoenix smells just like rich cavendish tobacco. in fact the first time i smelled it i went over to do a side-by-side sniff with a container of my husband's tobacco. it's a dead-ringer and has a cherry note.

imp: strong on the booze, light on the grape.

 

wet: this smells very strongly boozy while the faint waft of grape remains. not bad but somewhat odd.

 

dry: as the grape fades, this smells more and more like actual wine, not wine and grape kool-aid. i think this might be an ideal layering scent.

imp: whoa! this smells very strongly lemony!

 

wet: it takes a while for any other scent besides lemon to come out but after a while, it turned to a sweet, lemon-spice scent. not at all what i was expecting. this doesn't really smell like cubeb to me but i suppose that's what smells so lemony.

 

dry: this dries to the pure, uncut scent of lemonheads... sweet, sweet lemon.

imp: creamy banana. i'm in love!

 

wet: this is a little artificial smelling when first applied, but that fades quickly to a very creamy, rich banana scent.

 

dry: this is more cream and graham-cracker crust as it dries, just a touch of banana left. i love it.

imp: pine pitch and honey.

 

wet: gorgeous! this is very brilliantly spicy (not hot spicy) with such a thick layer of vanilla and musk ... needless to say, i love it.

 

dry: as this dries, it turns to the most wonderfully blended scent. so well-blended i can barely distinguish the different notes. i will be needing a bottle!

i always say LAY-don. but now i realize i've never bothered to look this one up...

the traveller is a fairly understated label. it's soft sage green with a very light grey celtic knot and the words "the traveller" in green across the middle.

 

(unless there are multiple versions of the label. i have two more bottles on order so i guess i'll see...)

machu piccu & manila were the first two i thought of.

amsterdam was the first scent i thought of. then prague (which i have only recently fallen in love with!), shattered, water of notre dame, the unicorn...

imp: what the...? this smells like yellow mustard. very vinegary.

 

wet: this is the most odd assortment of florals i have ever smelled. whatever that odd, sharp, vinegary scent is, it's still around though not as strong.

 

dry: once dry this smells very softly floral, no more odd sharp vinegar scent. i really wish i knew which of the notes that was, it really ruined this whole scent for me.l

imp: sweet, flowery musk.

 

wet: beautiful! the plum is juicy sweet whilethe carnation is creamy sweet. the musk ties it all together. i already think i need a bottle!

 

dry: this is very lovely, the plum is dominant but not overly sweet. the carnation and musk really tie this scent together well.

imp: spicy sweet booze.

 

wet: this smells like a buttery cinnamon pastry at first, though my skin is not burning so it must not be cinnamon at all. after a few minutes i start to smell more almond and clove.

 

dry: this dries to a relatively dusty clove and bay scent. nicely masculine.

imp: rich, sweet greenery.

 

wet: imagine the scent of a florist's shop with the sweetness amped up. that is exactly what this smells like to me. i don't know what ash manna smells like exactly but if this is it, i like ti a great deal. very pretty!

 

dry: this softens a bit as it dries, it gets a bit less bright. it is so pretty, i wasn't expecting to like this as much as i do, it's unusual yet very feminine.