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To me, Halite Phoenix is saltier than My Country. My Country was more rosey floral. 

This is was very lemony on me.  The litsea cubeba was very loud for the first several hours, then it turned into a very cologney scent.  I thought it was my husband because he had just taken a shower, but it was me.  It wasn't calming on me, but I could see this being a good scent for the atmosphere. 

This is a really beautiful scent.  Narcissus is a big ole white indolic scent on me at first.  I had to double check the notes to make sure there wasn't oud in it because I was getting a bit of barnyard. It settles down quickly into a beautiful, bossy white floral that slowly begins to give way (but never fully) to the orris butter and vanilla.  Over time this settles down into a sweet, creamy scent that is predominantly vanilla and amber with the orris adding a little creaminess, the narcissus adding a little floral, and the bergamot adding a little fresh bubbliness.  

Champa and oud are the strongest notes in this.  Which for me means this smells like soapy poo. 

This is a soapy cologne.  Sweet bourbon vetiver and bergamot are the strongest scents to me.  

This is a cardamom mate tea with an herbal undernote.  It's very soothing. 

ETA: It reminds me of drinking my favorite coffee shop's chai mate.  If it had coconut, it would smell just like it. 

This is a very soft lovely scent that starts off with a rosy amber with a non-corn chips salt.  It dries down to a soft, sweet, salty scent without much throw and staying power.  It's very pretty, but also not very long-lasting.

On 2/12/2020 at 12:31 PM, torikitty said:

This totally reminds me of brown sugar and cinnamon instant oatmeal.

Same, but without the brown sugar.  It's like cinnamon oatmeal.  It reminds me a lot of Halfling.

I'm a sometimes-fig.  The only blends it's worked in for me are Tweedledum, Blodughadda, and Lola Lee Loo (and that one pushes it a little).  It usually goes powdery and cloying on me. 

Oh no! This smells like freshly opened Barbie hair, which, may be totally apropos. 

This is a very sweet spray.  After a year of aging, the honey and honeysuckle has become aggressively sweet, bordering on cloying.  It's still very pretty, but a little goes a long way. 

This is a sweet honey with spicy clove and cinnamon.   It makes me hungry every time I spritz it.  For me the spicy notes hold their own with the honey.  This is after a year of aging, so it might be better now than when it first released.

Rosy, fruity sweetness tempered and deepened by musk.  It doesn't give you a cavity like Fuzzy Pink Handcuffs or Strawberry and Rosebud, but it's in the same family.  Strong sillage doesn't hang around long, but it is still light and on the skin for a couple of hours.  It gets on clothes and smells amazing later.

This is a pink scent, but more of a darker rose pink than a bubblegum or hot pink. 

ETA: Update after about 10 months: this has chilled out a lot. It's not as sweet as it was. The guava has calmed down a lot and now melds better with the rose, vanilla, and sugar musk to create a beautiful dark pink fruity rosey musk (the guava is still the strongest note initially). The red currant, cognac, and sandalwood come out more on the drydown and add a guazy halo and slight shadow to this pretty pink scent. 

Oh, I love Wilde.  It smells like a really classy hotel lotion, like something you'd get at Aveda.  I get the lavender and thyme blending very well into a soothing herbal that isn't abrasive or sharp.  There's tonka's sweetness, and moss grounding everything. 

This is a beeswaxy honey, a little sweet musk (not the sharp screeching white musk), and a little metallic and floral ting. 

Black musk, light honey, a little saffron, and lemon lightly brightening this.  None of my problem notes go crazy and this isn't a super strong blend.  Lovely and sexy. 

This is citrus soap with an herbally green lavender.  I'm going to say it's lemon, soapy florals (could be rose, lily, or a white floral), and lavender. 

Sweet, juicy lily.  Turns into creamy, sweet, soapy lily.  It smells like a really nice floral soap.  It's not a bad soapy.  

This smells like a cigar to me.  It's like walking into my favorite tobacco shop.  It's rich, sweet, dark brown, and dry.  It's papery like a cigar wrapper.  

On 11/29/2019 at 10:36 PM, forspecial_plate said:

Note the description for the new Yule scent, V'al HaNissim: "beeswax glowing softly amber".  So beeswax single note?  Or beeswax plus amber maybe.  I'm interested in how this will smell!

This is the most beewaxy scent I've sniffed yet.  It smells like sniffing a beeswax candle or Burt's Bees honey lip balm.  It's super good. 

This is probably an decently aged imp, so keep that in mind.  That said, this smells like tart, slightly sweet granny smith apples.  I can't explain how or why, but that's what I smell. 

This smells like the deodorizing stuff I sprinkle on my catboxes.  It's clean, fresh, and a little dusty.  It definitely reminds me of my black cats since they love playing in clean litter.  

My journey: 

Poop with a little herbal lavender 

Poop

Poop

Poop

Sweet resins close to the skin

This starts off a big, velvety dark rose.  Then it goes very bad and goes cleaner/disinfectant.  

At first it was sweet candy cane, then dried down to sweet strawberry lemon candies.  The lemon isn't very strong.  It smells like a lemonhead candy - a little tart and sweet.  The strawberry helps keep it from getting too lemony and tart.  It's a fun scent!