SadariEvenstar

Clove and black musk with a swirl of dark smoke. I love it. Love it.

I have almost never regretted putting something on my skin more. The wave of nausea that came over me when I put this on was horrible. This was straight up cloying, buttery, artificial pumpkin. No Morocco.

Straight up red musk heavy Snake Oil. No pumpkin, barely any of the other notes in Snake Oil, just red musk. It's the yucky kind of red musk too. bleh.

Cinnamon. Cinnamon. Cinnamon. Beneath all that the pumpkin note that I really love, it's pumpkin guts not bakery pumpkin and this scent would have been perfect without the cinnamon potpourri.

So, I'm not a gardener. It's part not being able to remember to take care of things and part terrible luck. I have some second hand roses though. My mother in law transplanted them into my flower bed before she moved out of state. I've only killed one. Anyway, what usually happens is that I get a few roses in the spring and then little bugs come and eat all the leaves and I don't get anymore for the rest of the summer. Then, once it starts to cool down in the fall my roses revive themselves and I get a few more in late September/October as long as the weather cooperates. Harvest Moon smells exactly like what my little garden smells like right now. Juicy, realistic roses bursting out of a leaf littered ground. ('Cause let's face it, I don't rake my leaves either.) The rose never goes soapy and the leaf note is not too green.

I really don't know what happened to this one. Yesterday the oil in the imp was very well mixed, the whole thing was a uniform color. This is what it smelled like: Wet: A blast of chocolate that evaporated quickly, followed by a wonderful spiced plum. Dry: It mellowed into something sweet and fuzzy and I liked it a lot. The throw was decent. The imp, almost as soon as I opened it started leaking everywhere, so I stood it upright in my cabinet overnight. Today when I came to do an all day test the oil had completely separated. Dark brown on the bottom, completely colorless on top. No amount of rolling, tipping, and finally, shaking could get the two parts to come together again. So I go ahead and test it anyway. Today the oil was nearly odorless. A little bit of the soft fuzzy stage, but so faint that I could barely smell it after I put it on.

Nope, not for me. This should have been perfect for me, with only 1 completely unknown note. I get lavender with some kind of horrible screechy greenish floralish note that I am allergic to.

This is really, really pretty. I can't usually wear anything that jasmine has been near but my nose doesn't detect it at all. It's all just one flawlessly well blended perfume. Something about it reminds me of Morocco for some reason. They aren't really all that similar, but they both give me the same type of impression.

This is wonderful. I'm picky about my lavender (TKO actually made me cringe when I smelled it in the bottle) and up to this point I really hadn't found *my* bpal lavender. This is lavender grounded by a deep spicy sweet base. It settles in like a second skin on me. I want to cuddle myself. It's very gender neutral. I keep thinking, "masculine, no feminine, no...." The throw is not huge, but the lasting power is excellent. It's been 8 hours and it's only now starting to fade.

Take Humpback Whale (which I love), tone down the mint, add flowers and a bit of soap and this is what you get. It is refreshing and light, but not for me. 15 minutes later. No, yuck. This smells like stale vomit with a side of toothpaste.

No. blergh. Stinky flowers over aquatics. I definitely thought jasmine when I put this on.

I haven't tried it, you could try Tobacco Honey.

Wet: A delicious cake note and a very high pitch citrus floral note having a death match. It's aggravating my allergies something fierce. Fully dry; Both notes died. wtf, This is an entirely different perfume. I smell nothing of the intial notes after about 40 minutes. This is now a very perfumey perfume. Musky and rather pretty. I like it much better at this stage, though I miss that cake note. Further testing is going to be needed to see if I can wear this one.

Interesting! This is a very light perfume, but lingering. It's been about an hour and a half since I put it one and it's still there, but very quiet. It reminds me of walking into my local garden shop in the winter. We always go there for a Christmas tree and while I wouldn't say it's christmasy but it does remind me very much of that shop. The strawberry is more of a tart (I don't know if tart is exactly the word I want, but it is a slightly green strawberry) strawberry that lingers around the edges of the scent especially as it dries. It sweetens a when it is completely dry, but it's never super sweet. There is a dusty quality about this, kind of like garden soil that has crumbled off of flower pots and dried out. It's got a lovely green herbal feeling to it and the peppermint is there, but it doesn't really smell like peppermint, it just smells cool. So yes, just like the garden shop in the winter. Shelves that held plants in the summer are now empty and covered in a fine layer of dried soil. Other shelves are full of an assortment of dried herbs and strawberry candles. The cold from the outside comes creeping in every time the door is opened. I like it! It's not really like anything else I own, but it's going to be a nice gentle perfume to wear in the summer. eta:Several hours after I put it on it is a soft herbal strawberry, all other notes have faded away. It's very pretty, but very light.

2013 version I initially passed this over because of the jasmine, but I got to test it at will call and was blown away. This is sexy, sexy honey and ginger. No flowers to be found in mine. It actually reminds me Mother's Shub's Gingerbread Temples, but with fewer floral notes, as funny as that is.

This smells really bizarre on my skin. Soap, a hint of rose, and a really awful scent I can't put my finger on. No spices. Something in here is making my wrist itch, which has never happened to me before. Weird and definitely not for me.

I picked this decant up on a whim. I really didn't expect it to work. In fact, I'm allergic to lilacs though lilac fougere is sometimes okay. This must be one of those times because I actually really like this. I actually don't get lilac from this at all. The tea comes to the forefront for me and it's a pretty true to life tea note (tea can go horribly wrong on my skin and this is very nice). There is a lovely sweetness behind it that must come from the red licorice. This is an unexpected hit, and I see a bottle in my future. This will be wonderful in the summer. eta: I love this, but it has no staying power at all. I reapplied 3 times yesterday and I usually don't have to reapply anything.

Roses and strawberries, a touch on the soapy side. Sadly the orris butter is giving it a bit of a nauseating undercurrent.

Wet, This smells like a simpler version of Glittering Apple of the Stars. Dry, This smells exactly like this green apple scented shampoo I used to use when I was a kid. Exactly. I'm about seven years old sniffing this. I used to bathe before I went to sleep so my hair was always wet when I laid down and my pillow always smelled like this. I'll be keeping the decant just for the nostalgia.

Wet: Grass! Grass, grass, grass. This is just like grass in the early morning the day after it was mown. It's a thick carpet of grass clippings, wet from the dew. The kind of grass that stains your shoes and the bottom of your pants just from walking through it. Dry: Used dryer sheets (not as strong as unused ones), still warm from the dryer.

Right off the bat I get a softer version of the honey musk in Lady Una. It's sunny and warm without being cloying. I don't really get a lot of gardenia and rice milk as separate notes, but I think they must being adding to the creamy sunshine feel of the honey musk. This is really beautiful, almost perfect, but... I don't think orris and I can be friends. True to the description this is a very gentle orris, so much so that I didn't notice it for the first 10 minutes or so. Then I caught it lingering in the background, smelling persistently of wallpaper paste. I don't even know why orris smells like wallpaper paste to me, but the scent is so familiar. Every room in my parent's house is wallpapered and they rewallpapered them all at least once when I was growing up. The smell is kind of stomach turning to me, but at least I know what ruined Unveil the Grace in Thine Eyes now. I'm going to give this one another try or two because I would really, really love it if I could get past the orris.

This is so fluffy and pink! On my skin it is mostly soft fuzzy rose petals and marshmallow. It is not an overpowering, soapy rose at all. The strawberry is there in the background tying it together, but I wouldn't call this a strawberry scent. I feel like this scent should be an ice cream flavor that I would buy gallons of. eta: After about 15 minutes on this does develop a bit of a plastic smell to it. Like a scented doll I had as a child. I'll likely keep the decant, but I don't foresee this becoming a bottle purchase. eta 2: Surprisingly, I did buy a bottle of this. It's a little plasticy but I just keep wearing it anyway. It's like a hotline to the happier times in my childhood. I know I had a toy that smelled like this, I just can't remember what it was.

This is lovely. Wet, it has a strong blast of mint with the aquatics underneath scrambling to gain purchase. I'm not the best at differentiating notes in bpal aquatics, they tend to smell very similar to me. I like them, but there has to be a twist to get my interest. The mint is the twist. Dry, the mint and the aquatics balance out. This is the cold ocean. Bpal aquatics always seem to make me think of warm, sunny water. This is cold and deep and quiet. This is going to be a wonderful scent to wear in hot weather.

Oak Moon and The Antikythera Mechanism had a beautiful, beautiful baby called Arana. AM is amazing on my husband, but goes sickly sweet syrup on my skin. This does not, this is everything I hoped AM would be on my skin. This is vanilla and oak in perfect balance. It's a little cologney, especially at first, but in a good way and it does tone way down on the drydown. I'm thinking I'm going to need more of this one.

When I put this one on I loved it, but as it dried it rapidly lost its complexity. After an hour it was basically a strong dirty patch, so strong that it's bothering my allergies which is something that patch has never done to me before. This has mega staying power, when I woke up the next morning I still smelled strongly of it. Bleh, not a fan, sadly.