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I got this in an imp lot and opened this unresearched, and then said, outloud, "What the hell?" and slathered it on my wrist immediately. The first in-vial whiff is pungent and green; not piney, but strong the way pine can be. It immediately started resolving on my skin into a spicy smell, not the least bit sweet or musky, with a little bite like the acidic note in celery or lovage. My first guess for the sweet note was hyssop; I also wondered if there was basil in it, since to me this smells of clean, well-used kitchens. That must be the bay. I could smell the smoke once I read the lab description, but wouldn't have called the sharpness of the smell that before. Now, after about forty minutes, the honey wine has amped, to the point where it's mostly honey smoke. It smells amazing. I was just commenting to someone earlier how I don't like most "perfumey" smells - this is the least perfumey smell I've ever smelled. I wish the honey wouldn't amp so much on me, but this is really wonderful stuff.

The first whiff out of the vial was very potent, a little dark and heady - chocolate, but I'm not sure I'd want to eat it. I rather slathered this on, and at first I was getting this sweet cocoa, inside-of-a-Starbucks smell, but the more I sniff, the more it smells like the fermenting sweetness of a cacao pod, and the forest around it. It might be the power of suggestion, but something about it reminds me of standing in the ruins of Quirigua, the rainforest growing up around the white marble. I caved ten minutes into the drydown and read the lab description, and yep: now that I know what I'm looking for, there's the bite of the rum. It's a fairly boozy smell, on me, amplified by the blowsyness of the chocolate. For the first ten minutes I was thinking this one was a swapper, but by minute fifteen I realized that I'd had my nose pinned to my wrist for five minutes; moreover, I was finding my own wrist sexy. Eep. Potent stuff. It is very boozy, though, and the longer I wear it, the more the wine comes out; it would be kind of awkward to wear to the office, then.