Ravenclaw79

Alright, lesson #1: Don't stick your sniffer immediately into the cloud of scent you just sprayed. It stung a bit, but at least I can tell you now that there's definitely at least a pinch of cinnamon in this scent.

All in all, it's a really nice scent that reminds me of Midway -- very caramel-y and boardwalk-y. Yum.

What an awesome "joke imp" we've been given with our NYCC purchases! And it certainly smells way better than it sounds.

 

In the imp: Gingerbread cookies! Yum!

 

Dried: Oh, it's lovely, lovely and spicy and gingerbread-y, a little bit like Reindeer from Uranus. But there's a hint of apple in there, too, I think, which is mixing nicely.

 

Thank you so much, you lovely Labbies, for the wonderful gift!

Leaves. REAL leaves. Nothing vetiver-y here -- just the pure, true scent of a pile of autumn leaves. Wonderfully evocative.

This doesn't smell like marshmallow to me. What it smells like is the most HEAVENLY spiced pumpkin EVER, better than Pumpkin V, better than anything I've yet smelled! I had to buy a bottle.

NYCC exclusives:

 

Wow. This stuff smells like ass.

 

Actually, it smells like a much-used barstool -- some sweet and liquor-y smells from spilled drinks, some artificial smoke from the dance floor, and a bunch of people's sweaty butts.

 

Clearly, this is my olfactory arch-nemesis, my anti-scent.

The color is pretty, but it's really sheer and doesn't seem to dry well -- even when I waited an hour or more between coats (and many hours afterward), it never dried properly and ended up getting smushed by my shoes and socks.

This smells like a bathroom on me. It's a clean bathroom, with air fresheners and new rolls of toilet paper, but it's still a bathroom. Bummer.

Honey! Bzz bzz bzz! But this isn't the standard Lab honey -- usually, the Lab's honey note is all fake-smelling on me, but this, this is a really warm, sticky honey, well-grounded by the horse chestnut so it actually smells more like real honey. Yum!

To my nose, this smells like a berry bush, maybe acai or something like that, but it's buried under a thick blanket of fog -- it's a very soft and white-smelling scent, with a hint of berry-like sweetness. Lovely.

The problem with going through my imp backlog is the amount of awesome scents I find. This one's great! Or should I say "grape!" the fruitiness comes across to me as grape-and-something, grape but not just grape. It's really nice and fruity.

Oh, lovely! This starts out as a berry that's almost grape, mixed with a sweetness that's almost like honey but not quite. On the drydown, it's sweet and slightly powdery and a bit fruity. Really, really nice. Might need a bottle before these ladies go away.

Anyone got pics of the Underworld Cup bottles, by any chance?

Ooh, lovely! It's like Blackberry Jam and Scones, but without the buttery pastry part and with some teeny bit of floral-y complexity underneath.

This smells like coconut sunblock, like Hawaiian Tropic, if it was perfume -- it's a perfumey sunblock, sunblock with tropical flowers. Pretty nice, and not icy at all (thank goodness).

This has a spicy smokiness that's a lot like Joloumuori. It also smells a lot like Yankee Candle's Moonlight Harvest. I may need a bottle.

This smells like a shampoo I used when I was little... I think it was called "strawberry rain" or something like that. I like it, 'cause it's light and pink-fruity and 'cause it's a little nostalgic for me.

Rose rose rose rose... of course, I amp rose, so I sort of expected that. It's very Victorian, though, with all that rose, very evocative.

Ooh, nice! This is like Schrodinger's Cat, but brighter -- like if that and Orange Phoenix had a baby. Yum!

Hey, this smells like Cream Soda, SARSPARILLA! ... hey, where'd it go? I got a few quick waves of awesome, but now, you have to go nose-to-skin to smell it. It's still really nice, though, subtle and sweet and awesome.

This one is CAKE. Not cake, not even Cake, but CAKE, CAKE that jumps off your arm, grabs you by the collar and slaps you in the face a few hundred dozen times. Ow, CAKE, stop that. Ow. It hurts, CAKE, please, please stop.

 

After a while, CAKE gets bored and wanders off, leaving a trail of its scent behind in an alley filled with cucumber plants. What a bully, that CAKE. What did I do to deserve that?

I'm gonna have to test this again, 'cause what I got, well ... stick your face over a glass of Dr Pepper and inhale. It's that -- Dr Pepper, but not so sweet, more like the carbon dioxide fizzing out of it. Weird.

I can review this one in two words: Singing Moon. Seriously, this smells identical to me. I'm gonna have to test them side-by-side just to see if I can pick out any difference at all.

What should I expect at the Dirty South Will Call, since nobody's really addressed that here? How is it different from the WC or dearly departed EC ones? Do they carry the entire line of GCs as well? How does it work when you're there?

On me, this smells identical to Orange Phoenix -- sort of like one of those chalky orange candy lollipops I had when I was a kid. Yum!