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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 

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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! 

Fresh, green juniper, like when you squeeze a juniper berry between your fingers, and a little herbally lemon.  A very fresh, clean scent.  

This is a dusty, sweet, slightly nutty scent.  I guess it's sweet in the way nuts are sweet, which is a little earthy and a little fatty.  This is not a gourmand vanilla - it smells more like the bean pod after you've scraped the seeds out.  This fig isn't the normal powdery sweet fig I'm used to.  It is just a little sweet.  

This is a worn, soft, faded black leather scent.  There's a little paper sweetness, but not much.  It's mainly leather.  Leather often goes loud and wonky on me, but this one behaves itself.  It is comforting and nostalgic.  

I get snow, ferns, and citrusy herbs.  It is very evocative of a bright, cold winter night.  

Nag Champa tends to go Ivory soap on me, and this is no exception.  It's soap with resin.  Then just Ivory soap.  

This is a woolly blanket.  It is sweet and thick and pilled and cozy.  I can ID sweet coffee in the sweetness of this scent, but don't notice much milk.  This is totally fine with me because milk and I don't always get along.  This has great sillage and lasts a good while on me.  I don't think this is a bottle for me, but I might hang onto the imp.  

Gardenia tends to go soapy on me, so I don't have high hopes.  Also, milk and cream scents don't usually work on me. 

This is a surprise.  It smells a lot like Lush's silky underwear on me.  It is creamy, sweet gardenia with just a little hint of green that smells a little like cucumber peel.  It has that watery green freshness.  It is really quite nice.  

Usually silver metallics go way too cologne on me.  This is a clean aquatic with a little floweriness and salt in it.  Maybe some ozone, but not heavily so.  A little black musk, maybe silver musk? This smells really good.  

Sweet amber vanilla and clovey carnation.  I love it.  

This is an aggressive beeswax scent.  It's a louder Light of Men's Lives with more honeyed amber sweetness, and a more serious O without as much sweetness.  This dries down to a beautiful honey amber with a little beeswax waxiness.  It's golden, glowing, and soothing. 

I wish my dogs smelled like this! Bub is sweet, spicy, grass.  It smells like the bright, sunny love I have for my dog.  Bub must've been a very good boy.  

ETA: My nose has learned more notes.  This is in the same family as No One is Above the Law on Me. It has the same sunny notes without any floral.  I would say there's amber, bergamot, grass, a little spice, and something a little bubbly I can't ID.  It might be a furry musk.  Still is beautiful and makes me a little weepy. 

This smells good.  The leather is more of a warm, snuggly brown smell.  This isn't flashy.  The hemp and rosin add some sweet waxiness and a dry vegetal note.  

Ooooo, this is nice.  This is a gentle patchouli, a little dirty but kept from getting filthy by the sweet fig and fruity mango green tea.  

Soapy rose with maybe some chamomile?