SadariEvenstar

Love, Mouse Circus, and Pink Moon 2012 are some of my favorites. I find Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending to be pink (I don't know if it's just a personal association.) and I love that one.

Wet, this is all over the place. It smells good, but a little weird. Caraway and citrus and cake and flour....

 

Dry, Well, it smells like the cake component of Cake Smash, tinged with a hint of caraway which serves to make it more interesting. :wub2:

This was straight snow on my skin - no plum, no currant, no cardamom.

I think I'm in the minority, but I kind of liked this one. It's cold and dusty with just a little apple. The only reason this one didn't make the cut was because there were so many more that I had to have.

Um, champagne and clove? This is not at all what I expected it to smell like, but I kind of love it anyway.

I put this on and ten seconds later, from across the room, my husband looked at me and said, "You're getting a bottle of this one."

 

Coffee always goes horribly wrong on my skin, so this shouldn't work, but it's amaaaaazing.

Krampuslaufen smells wonderfully of Christmas to me. My grandmother used to bake a truly massive amount of cookies when I was younger. Traditional Polish ones, American ones, Italian ones the recipes of which she got from her sister's Italian mother in law, even Baklava from a recipe she got from an old Greek neighbor. She would give us all of these pack haphazardly in a huge disposable roasting pan. This smells a lot like pulling the foil off of that - not really cookie but all the bits and bobs that went into them. It should be discordant but some how it's not. It doesn't really smell of apple, or smoke, or chains. It smells nothing like what I expected it to. There seems to actually be something like red musk (?) underneath it all tying it together. I don't usually like red musk, but this is reminding me a little of the red musk in Midnight Kiss which I really love. Maybe it's just the way the apple schnapps note is coming across, but I don't smell apple.

All in all it's really well blended and kind of hard for my nose to parse the notes, but I like it and I like smelling like it.

I get dry leaves and ash. It settles into mostly leaves and a bit of amber, the staying power isn't the best.

 

Very similar to other leaf blends that I own.

Hmmm, I just got a new bottle of Crowley in for Mr. Evenstar for Christmas. It is MUCH heavier on the red musk than the old bottle. I don't really care for red musk and he wears bpal primarily for me. I'm very nervous. (No use testing it on me, both with go all red musk single note the moment they hit my skin.)

Wet and drying this is all foody and leather. A sweet, warm, worn leather.

As it drys the foody quality tones way down and the paper comes out to play. This is old book paper, the most convincing that I have smelled yet. The kind that makes your nose twitch a little from its dustiness. My grandmother used to always give me very old books that she picked up at library book sales and garage sales. Titles no one had ever even heard of, but I loved them. This reminds me of being a kid, holed up in my room with a crumbling book and a cookie I stole from the cupboard.

I never find the flowers, but I'm am more than okay with that. This is the epitome of cozy.

eta: This kept reminding me a bit of Antikythera Mechanism, which my husband wears so I tried it on him. (Not to say that I think it is masculine. I think it is very gender neutral.)

I don't actually get any almond out of this. It is straight up snow/floral note, specifically the one used in Yellow and Blue Snowballs. Or Ondurdis without the pine and berries.

So. Take Snow White, remove the Play Doh and the floral component that I am allergic to. Add the faintest touch of mint when wet and you get this.

In other words, I need 312 bottles.

This opens up with a snow note that smells very like the one in Ondurdis to me. It then softens and melds with the other notes and it's dry leaves and what my nose reads as a vanilla musk. It's almost like Ondurdis and Sonnet D'Automne had a love child. It's snugly and beautiful. I love it!

This went so, so wrong on my skin. I get bug spray and manure. Given that Opium Poppy went barnyard on me, I'm guessing that I just can't wear poppy.

I didn't think I liked this when I tried it the first time. It seemed faint and kind of strange. I gave it a full day test anyway because I really wanted it to work. (Leaves! Anne!) I'm glad that I did, the scent really comes into itself when I wear more of it over a longer period of time. The leaves are warm and sweet and dry and a little bit musky. It's very like the leaf note in Sonnet D'Automne.

Vanilla Musk, clove, balsam, and a hint of coconut are what I get out of this. It reminds me a little bit of Organ Grinder. It's spicier though and the vanilla musk does something wonderful to the scent. I don't really get any cedar at all.

 

Love it.

I'm in love. LOVE.

 

This starts out with a blast of pine, very spicy carnation, and clove. As it's drying it went through a short phase where the leather/pine went weird and it smelled like cleaner. It burned off quickly though and as it dried it turned into the most snuggly leather I have ever smelled. This is sweet and spicy and the leather is so soft. The pine blends in smelling like forest air clinging to fur.

 

The Shiny Furball hairgloss compliments this perfectly.

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.