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This is a sweet powdery musk (almost smells like a dark amber). I don't get any spice.

Lemony white tea with a musk base. Almost a white tea SN.

This is the green, carrot seed snow note. I amp carrot seed and it ruins every scent it's in for me. This is the chilly, evergreen carrot seed snow note with a little cedar and musk.

Before I looked at the notes, I was smelling fresh greeness and rose. It brought to mind green grass beside a rose garden. Now that's dried down and I see the notes, I smell rose and sage with a little bergamot and fruity nectarine and what I assume is ornery hedgehog musk. Unfortunately it is quickly turning to soap like a lot of rose notes do on me (especially combo'ed with sage). I think if your skin doesn't hate rose like mine, this is a very pretty and bright blend.

This is the smell of when you first open a pomegranate without spilling any juice. A somewhat earthy fruit. There's a promise of tartness, but it's really more of a tease. Then there's a dark, not really sweet, not really powdery, not golden at all, amber. It isn't a very strong perfume, but it lasts forever. 12 hours later it's become soap.

In the bottle, rose, syrupy cardamom, nag champa, and other things my nose can't identify. On me, soapy rose and syrupy cardamom when wet, eventually drying down to soapy nag champa and rose with an itsy bitsy teeny hint of cardamom. Mainly it's just soap though.

Corn chips for a long time then turns into a clean musk, salty, cottony, floraly, mineraly scent.

Amber and incense - I think it's myrrh.

Grain of salt: My skin tends to amp the sweetness in things, so keep that in mind. At first it is a green apple, not too tart, but not too sweet. A little floral, a little green grassy. Just very innocent and green. Then my skin chemistry takes control and it amps the sweetness to high heavens. It goes very sweet, almost cloying. There's a background of soapiness. After hanging for awhile (get it), it turns into apple bubblegum soap. It's almost BBW apple, but more soapy.

This is a soft, soothing scent. It is anise-forward palo santo with a soft, woody sandalwood. The anise scent isn't harsh or astringent like it sometimes can be. The palo santo takes a step back on dry down to contribute a nice sweetness to the warm woodiness of the sandalwood. This is my favorite version of sandalwood. I think this is my favorite duet. It is just so soothing and calming.

Starts off strong cherries, like bright red maraschino CHERRY. Quickly anise comes in and it's sweet licorice cherries, then sweet, fruity licorice as the red musk asserts itself, then eventually it dries to soft anise and red musk.

I meant to leave this for Kabuki, not Kyoto. Please delete.

JASMINE JASMINE JASMINE JASMINE, then fades to sweet rose with just a hint of resin.

First, it's a big loud white floral with a slight aquatic feel, then the orris pops up in the background to shush the moonflower. At this point it's like Zorya P without the grey and salt and whistfulness. As it dries down further, orris gives up and just glares at moonflower. Moonflower takes the hint and settles down into a more subtle sweet floral. It's really beautiful, but definitely a bold fragrance on me.

First on, sweet honeysuckle, then the dirty patchouli comes in and stays for awhile, it disappears as the dry down continues until it's just a whisp of dirty soap.

Oh sweet desert scent. This is sage forward at first, with creosote and some light greens and florals. I think I do smell the borax and it isn't unpleasant at all. It settles down to a powdery sage before it disappears. It is the smell of the desert in the rain, without the ozone.

Starts off with a green, slightly mossy pine - like snapping a pine branch. It's the evergreen needles and sweet sappy wood with a little moss hanging off. Then it dries down to a sweet redwood with evergreen lingering in the background. Finally, before it disappears, it's just sweet redwood. It's the most beautiful forest smell I've experienced - like moving from the outside to the inside of a tree until you get to the sweet heartwood.

This is very perfumey on me. It's a boozy, syrupy scent that smells more mahogany than cedar. The vanilla smells like a dried bean shell, rather than the sweetness inside.

This is a strange scent on me. It's mainly sweet beeswax and ozoney leather. I see golden honey and shiny black leather when I first put it on. It eventually (after about 3 hours) into a honeyed, incensey, papered ozone. Perhaps the metal is reading as ozone to me? It's an outburst of lightning that settles into rumination. I'm never sure if I truly like this scent, but I can't stop wearing it or smelling it when I do.

This is sweet, clovey carnation. It's like a stronger Ganymede's Junk on me and reminiscent of my favorite foot lotion ever - Lush's Pied de Pepper.

This is a pink, sugared rose scent. It is cotton candy and sugared rose. My skin tends to amp sweetness so the rose is a background note so this is more candy and less floral. I made a body oil out of this and the scent hangs around for a long time on my skin and clothes.

I wish this ghost haunted my house, floating around leaving a fresh, floral whiff in it's path. This smells like a really nice shampoo, one that makes big, iridescent bubbles, and that leaves your hair smelling fresh and lightly scented. No one note is dominant on me, I pick out the green ivy and the iris, but everything else blends.

My bottle is aged over a year and has gotten better and better with age. When I first got it, it was all screechy, ashy, dirty patchouli and very spicy clove. I didn't like it, and put it quietly away to see what happened with time. Oh man, with time the patch calms down. It is still the strongest note when I first apply it, and in the first half hour or so it's clovey patch. But as it dries down and melds with my skin, the sweet fig comes out supported by the saffron (I love saffron and clove together). The amber melds with the fig to become a sweet figgy scent grounded by spicy, more subtle patchouli. It is a very golden RAWR scent with a definite feminine edge. It's an apt scent for the label art. ETA: After two years, this has softened even more, the patch and clove are still the first notes that hang out, but they're much softer. It gradually morphs into a sweet, amber fig that's soft and demure. It just keeps getting better and better. Every stage of this one is a winner.

This is a misty fragrance with purple highlights. First I smell the orris as violet (only a violet that works on my skin), with a light, salty, powedery, resinous frank, and a fluffy, soft grey musk. I don't smell much magnolia, unless it is flowering up the orris. This is a soft, feminine scent that wears close to the skin and doesn't last super long. It doesn't make me feel mournful at all.

This is powdery white leather with the dirty, spicy, dry smell of dead leaves. Not sure about the cognac.