Coldfire

Decant: deep vanilla, really aged deep vanilla
Wet On Me: dark vanilla booze
Drying Down: starting to get a nut note when I sniff. not sure if this is from the booze?
Dry: the vanilla has mellowed out and turned into a nut booze scent under my nose. Interesting to try but will probably trade out.

Decant: dark pine and pitch
Wet on Me: a dark forest and pitch
Drying Down: getting more of the cedar now.
Dry: soft woods with the faint sweetness of berries. very nice!

Decant: mmmm Patchouli and LEATHER!!!!!
Wet on Me: holy yum this smells divine at first application. all patchouli and leather. Totally hitting my sweet spot!
Drying Down: I need to track down TONS of this! holy cow this is just fabulous leather patch.
Dry: LOVE LOVE LOVE! Smooth leather patchouli that makes me want to huff the back of my hand all day long!

Decant: dark raspberry and metal \m/\m/
Wet on Me: dark raspberry and no metal but getting tea leaf now
Drying Down: mostly raspberry and tea leaf. really nice!
Dry: a soft raspberry and tea leaf blend. Nothing to really 'fear' here!

Imp: totally ocean. bright sunny day ocean and sea air
Wet on me: still happy sunny ocean/sea air
Drying Down: wood is starting to come out and play with the salty sea air/ocean and tiny teases of the spices
Dry: dear geds this is magnificent! I just want to keep huffing the back of my hand!!!!!

Imp: oh cheeezus cherry almond sticky sweetness overload
Wet on me: now I'm getting cherry almond with air freshener rose
Drying Down: oh this blend and my skin are at WAR!!!!!!
Dry: My skin did evil evil things to this. To trade!

Imp: the sticky sweet of almond
Wet on Me: cloying sweet cherry almond over vetiver. not starting out on the right foot with me
Drying Down: cherry almond over vetiver with the tiniest trace of patch hiding waaaaaay down below.
Dry: Almond amps and never works well on my skin. To the trade pile with these!

Imp: incense/resin notes but with a warm bright sunny vibe
Wet on Me: that same bright sunny incense-y resin-y scent
Drying Down: I'm getting that 'gold' feeling when sniffing my hand. And that copal wafting around it and basking in the glow of the gold.
Dry: This is all just so wonderful! It does smell of days gone by but yet not musty or dusty. This is bright but intoxicating. I've fallen under its spell.

Imp: Sharp Grapefruit tempered by a dark sensual musk
Wet on Me: Grapefruit-y musk!
Drying Down: less grapefruit and more red musk and I swoon with each inhale
Dry: by ALL of the gods I wish to bathe in this. This is sex. This is lust. This is frenzied sensuality. This is lurve!!!!!

Imp: rose, myrrh and jasmine let's see if rose will be nice to me this time
Wet on Me: I really must be the eternal optimist that I think rose will work on me. Already it's pushing the other notes out of the way and wearing stompy boots all over everything.
Drying Down: bad rose. that air freshener rose. not playing nice with others and just stompy bootin it all over the place.....
Dry: I keep hoping and trying. Why I don't know only I have hope I may find a rose that works on me and my rose hatin skin.

Imp: cedar and raspberry
Wet On Me: cedarwood
Drying Down: mostly cedar
Dry: soft cedarwood.

Imp: not sinister. but I detect sandalwood
Wet on Me: still getting sandalwood
Drying Down: still not getting sinister. just sandalwood
Dry: Mostly just sandalwood to my nose

Decant: sweet, white and faint lavender
Wet on Me: aahhh the sandalwood and now the faint patchouli. By all the gods Beth does the most amazing patchouli notes.
Drying Down: sandalwood and patchouli are doing this mating dance together under my nose. not getting any lavender now but I'm okay with that.
Dry: a nice smooth blend of the sandalwood and now a vanilla lavender. this truly is a pleasant moment in time captured in scent.

Decant: Dark Wood and Patchouli
Wet on Me: Clove, resin over the patch
Drying Down: oh this is love. the clove has settled down, the musk is doing it's powder-y thing in the background, the patchouli is not going all dirty hippie allover the place. This is just well blended love.
Dry: This is a keeper. To me this is perfect enjoyment!

Decant: sweet Golden Delicious Apple
Wet on Me: fresh apple now, tart
Drying Down: spicy apple tea!
Dry: ginger carnation apple. very early fall like scent.

Decant: sharp herbs
Wet on Me: sharp sharp herbs stomping over floral
Drying Down: this mellows and fades fairly quickly. a faint sweetness in the background if you inhale really deep.
Dry: sweet almost powdery chrysanthemum. Not bad. Probably Rehome

Decant: kinda spicy kinda wood kinda sweet
Wet on me: interesting. hard to put my nose on the notes i get a faint touch of wood and a sharp almost booze note
Drying Down: Nut? I'm getting that semi rancid nut note now
Dry: it went to rancid nuts. Gonna have to re-home

Decant: coffee and carnation
Wet on Me: coffee, carnation and the faintest trace of leather
Drying Down: mmmmmm leather. and hints of tobacco. the carnation has left the building and the coffee went into hiding
Dry: leather coffee fabulousness! This is so many kinds of good. I'm huffin my wrist like a junkie needing a fix.

Decant: white. with 'white' herb and cedar notes if those could be considered white
Wet on me: rosewood, sandalwood and cedar now, kind of sweet wood-y
Drying Down: mostly the wood notes with the faintest traces of the lavender and chamomile and that sweetness that comes from sandalwood
Dry: less wood.....but that sweetness of the sandalwood wraps around the lavender note. so calming and soothing! Keep!

This has been aging since 2011 before I got to try it. the full decant has thickened and shrunk from full.
Decant: orange blossom
Wet on me: heady orange blossom
Drying Down: soap-y effervescent orange blossom now that effervescent is probably the champagne grape
Dry: Champagne Soap. Interesting. Will probably re-home

Decant: neroli coming in loud and proud in the decant
Wet On Me: mostly the neroli and some orchid
Drying Down: okay NOW comes the plum and black currant. and the faint whispers of the black musk. The neroli has receeded and took the orchid with it.
Dry: this is my dark fruit love! I'm swooning and huffing my wrist like there is no tomorrow! this is beyond divine.

Decant: oooo dark and red musk-y incense. giving me a come hither
Wet on Me: oh yeah...come hither-ing all over me right now dark seductinve incense and red musk
Drying Down: lovely rd musk love. swoon! hypnotic and mesmerizing
Dry: did not get the smoke notes or leaves. I got red musk incense LOVE! This has this witch dancin!!!!

Decant: mint-y tobacco
Wet on Me: minty tobacco with a trace of the pepper and something a bit astringent-y
Drying Down: getting a wood/dry plants note stepping up to the plate now over the tobacco...with the mint stepping back a bit.
Dry: interesting. It has an stashed in the attic feel to the final dry scent. It's okay but I'll probably re-home this.

Decant: WOAH! Honeysuckle out the gate!
Wet on Me: Mostly the Honeysuckle with faint traces of the jasmine
Drying Down: getting that effervescent champagne note now over the honeysuckle and the growing stronger jasmine. They are beginning the stompy boot dance over everything.
Dry: it got scary for a moment as the Jasmine was threatening me with a bad time but now mellowed out to a kinda sweet but not, sorta effervescent kinda floral scent. Will probably pass this along

Decant: "yellow" "warm and sunny"
Wet on me: pale pal sandalwood and lemongrass. so very faint
Drying Down: this is starting to smell like Dumbledore's Sherbet Lemon candies to my delight!
Dry: the sandalwood came out once dry. What started as faint, bloomed on my skin to a bright sunny 'yellow' scent that is sweetened by the sandalwood. so pleasant!