Coldfire

Decant: grass! Wet on Me: grass and dandelion and heather Drying Down: sharp green. Not so much grass green, but grass blending with the clover and heather and dandelion. What a meadow on the back of my hand! Dry: This smells like I imagine Ireland to smell like. The greens and heathers and dandelions and clover. So lovely. Keeping!

Decant: more brown sugar than dark chocolate Wet on Me: mostly dark brown sugar, I get the ginger, and allspice now too Drying down: A spice cabinet galore in my nose. Almost like a GingerSnap scent. Dry: don’t get much chocolate at all. Mostly all the spices in a ginger snap scent.

Imp: omg…headshop incense, leather, MAN! musk! Wet on Me: Already my nose is attached to my arm. Already I can tell this is going to be LOVE! Drying Down: still a spicy headshop incense. Can’t get enough of this. This is heady and gorgeous and MAN! Dry: gorgeous incense with an under current of leather. Faint hints of pepper make it spice feeling but not spicy. The chamomile joined the all male dance and gave it a touch of sweetness along with the musk without being at all overbearing! THE LOVE!

Imp: very very light. Very pale purple. Light light mint with light light violet and ylangyalng Wet on me: This almost disappears from the get go. Very light…when I close my eyes and inhale I get the palest of purple scent vibes. Drying Down: disappears very quickly. Faint sweet mint. Pretty. Dry: this is a ghost scent. I could have sworn I put it on…just disappeared to a ghost of a violet mint.

Imp: oh. Food. Sweet food. I get the praline and the buttercream and hazelnut Wet on me: WOAH….the sweet and nut is very strong. Drying down: oh man…this is food. This is just not smelling well in my nose. Dry: sorry…confirms I’m not a foody.

Imp: rose. Rose with aquatic Wet on Me: Still rose. Oh this might not be good. Rose amps bad on me. Drying down: Rose. But metallic air freshener rose on me. Dry: I give up. Fresh cut roses in a vase or fresh roses on the bush..my nose loves. Rose scent on ME? My nose and skin revolt and declare a fatwa on each other!

Imp: crisp tart sandalwood Wet on me: I get the sandalwood, and the licorice vibe of the star anise Drying Down: mostly licorice now. Dry: I get the anise/licorice. It’s okay..but it’s not the jelly bead I reach for in my easter basket.

Imp: soft and sweet. I get the wisteria and some musk Wet on Me: musk, wisteria, rose and rice flower Drying Down: this rose is really fighting to take over and dominate this for me. The wisteria, rice flower and peach blossom are giving it a run for its money. There is a scent war on my wrist and black musk went into a fox hole and is not coming out! Dry: the rose lost the war. This is light and sweet floral.

Imp: sharp, astringent, medicinal..Listerine? Wet on Me: now I get hints of wood thru the sharp astringent and medicinal almost a vetiver vibe Drying down: man. How do I describe man scent. Clean dressedup man. Some wood…no vetiver…some spice…still astringent..less sharp…still medicinal. Dry: Not bad. Not making me pick up mah pompoms and I’m a sucker for a man scent. But its okay. Re-home pile for someone who might like it better

Decant: sharp, green, piney, faint tart berry Wet on Me: Christmas-y! evergreenish, very faint tart spicy berry Drying Down: This just gets better and better and better. Christmas Berry! Which is nothing like a juicy sweet summer berry. This is cold and dark and winter-y and green and sharp spicy berry. Dry: completely in love with this. When I walk into the Kirklands Store in the mall…it smells like this. I wanna just roll around in this scent. Must acquire more.

Decant: Sweet Dragon’s blood with a cherry/almond vibe. Wet on Me: More vanilla Cherry…over faint Dragon’s blood Drying Down: mostly vanilla over dragon’s blood now. The cherry/almond is a lingering whisper. Dry: Boozy vanilla over dragon’s blood. Not bad. Interesting

Imp: sandalwood and rose Wet on Me: sandalwood with traces of patchoulie…and rose. Drying Down: the rose is quickly rushing up and covering every other note. Dry: Alas…this turn to all rose for me. Rose does not like the Coldie.

Imp: rose and gardenia having a tussle Wet On Me: Gardenia and Jasmine for the moment. Drying Down: More vanilla now over jasmine and gardenia. But soft. Dry: Still soft vanilla gardenia and jasmine. So far they are holding the rose at bay so that it can’t sour this for me. This is pretty.

Imp: medicinal vetiver. The medicinal reminds me of eucalyptus Wet on Me: more vetiver than medicinal now. Ze vetiver it does not like meeeeeeee Drying Down: this is musty sooty vetiver. Really does smell like a smokestack. Dry: I can honestly say this is not for me. Off to the re-home pile

Decant: green and sharp. Almost medicinal but not too offensive Wet on Me: Oh yeah…total green but clean fresh crisp green in the best of ways Drying Down: green and peeps of floral dancing in. Green is getting its swerve on with some flowers GO ON GREEN! Dry: this blended into the lush green of a summer’s evening. Now hard to pick just ONE note..thisis allgreen and lush and dancing with flowers…..aaaahhhhh the lovely

Imp: soft…kinda musky… Wet on Me: amber immediately went to baby powder on me Drying Down: Still Baby Powder. Man my skin just does not like Amber….altho Baby powder foes not smell bad perse…it’s just if I want to smell like baby powder I’ll reach for the Johnsons’s. Dry: Alas…still Baby powder. I’ll just re-home this.

Imp: total food! Pineapple upside down cake Wet on Me: Cherry Sweet Tars over Pineapple Upside Down cake. Drying Down: the pineapple went away and took cheery cherry with it….now I’m getting toffee and turkey! Dry: Toffee and gravy. Yes I am so not a foodie person.

Imp: I get sassafrass and cedar and hints of balsam Wet on Me: cedar and sass….and oooo I’m loving it! Drying Down: ooooo slight bits of vanilla come out with the cedar…interesting. The sassafrass is still being sassy. Dry: a warm vanilla sassafrass with cedar underall, and if I sniff long and slow I catch the ghost of Balsam. Oh I am loving this!

Imp: oooo pretty. Wet on me: prettier! Ginger and Tea and pretty on me! Drying Down: Prettiest! still such a delicate gorgeous blend of the white tea and ginger. WOW! Dry: Prettiestestesteses I am seriously swooning over this. I feel feminine and girlie but strong at the same time. This dances under my nose. And it has been dancing beautifully for a few hours now. This makes me want to dance at dusk with the faeries! Totally bottle worthy!

Imp: sandalwood and myrrh that feel like the Cocoa Powder Fairy left wispy traces floating over all Wet on Me: a touch more cocoa powder over sandalwood and myrrh Drying Down: the cocoa dustings have simmered down…a touch of the vanilla comes forward and dances with the sandalwood. Dry: this dried to a soft vanilla infused sandalwood with faint memories of the cocoa fairy

Imp: food. Black Currant tarts. and sugar Wet On Me: very foodie. Spices and black currants. Drying Down: oh the rose is starting to come out now….it’s food and air freshener rose. Man I wish I did not amp rose so badly. Dry: oh this did not blend well on me. Sending this to the re-home pile

Bottle: lemon and Jasmine….and hints of a really well mixed margarita. This is a clear summer day on the patio. Wet On Me: Lemon…but not medicinal lemon, Jasmine still, hints of lime and I think the sweet is the candied tamarind. Drying Down: the lemon pipes down now and the jasmine gets tempered by the marigold. Something sweet is really trying to say hello here. Dry: hmmm getting the smell of clean fresh baby here. Lilith seems to like making her presence known…even in her namesake perfumes. This is just a nice soft, warm summer blend that just makes you feel happy for smelling it.

Bottle: I get electric or ozone and the breeze Wet on Me: snow, crispy dry ozone, the snowdrop the cedar and cypress the barest trace of the berries. Crisp and clean and yes….electric. That sharp before a fierce thunderstorm Drying Down: less ozone and electric and more aloe and cedar and cypress with the hints of berries. Still smells a bit like just before a storm Dry: this dried down just lovely. Still smells of electric in the air. The ocean breeze without the salt. And yes…I do smell magic in this. Glad I tracked down a bottle. This is WIN!

Decant: metal and man Wet on Me: metal and the tobacco flower and the balsam in a very nice blend. I smell like an old boyfriend and damn he was goooood! Drying down: geds this is good. Metal and man and balsam and tobacco flower…and the teeeenist sweetness of musk..but nothing to take away from the MAN! Srsly…I need to go slather this on my man and just……..well ya know Dry: this thing dries like it starts….wrapping me in a warm cocoon of metal and man and yumminess. I can’t stop huffing my wrist. I have to close my office door so I don’t get funny looks. What is it with me and metal scents? \m/\m/

Imp: Heavy. Heavy like a Led Zepplin Riff. Wet on Me: sweet spicy heavy. Okay this is what I’m smelling as ole Led Zepp is crunching away thru Kasmir. Drying Down: Heady and Heavy…this is Page and Plant right in the thick of it. All in your head and in your mind and taking over. Chugga chugga chugga..oooooooooooooooooooooo yeah yeah oooooooooooooooooo yeah yeah Dry: deep spice with the sweetness coming from a touch of the orchid. The opium and benzoin are drifting tendrils round my head. I’m just laying back into this scent and letting it and Led Zepp carry me away…and the Led Zep is only playing in my head.