Coldfire

Decant: pine, cedar, juniper berry love
Wet on Me: cedar and pine with faint traces now of the juniper berry
Drying Down: oh hello faint whisp-y sarsaparilla and even fainter nutmeg. Nice to have you join the dance happening under my nose!
Dry: this dried down to a sweet, faintly spice-y even fainter wood-y blend. So lovely under my nose!!!

Decant: tart and citrus
Wet on Me: more tart citrus. Not getting an 'orange' vibe on this
Drying Down: tart, citrus and bitter. Almost smelling what the peel/pith would taste like
Dry: this is dark tart citrus with the ghosts of a pale 'orange' note. Interesting single note.

I got this in 2013 and either the oil leaked or it just evaporated and thickened up to a stick consistency. This will teach me to wait so long before testing!

Decant: WOAH! Creamy sweet dragon's blood
Wet On me: Raid with sweet cream
Drying Down: sweet RAID Why does Dragon's Blood go to RAID on my askin?
Dry: Sweet Creamy RAID. I know exactly who I am giving this too!

Decant: dark, shadow-y and green but dark green
Wet on me: like entering Knockturn Alley. seriously. dark stone and that dark green of the moss and ivy
Drying Down: those dried rosehips are threatening to cause mayhem on my skin. still that shadow-dark alley vibe as well
Dry: it has the stone and the dark greens notes with a splash of dusty. this rosehips teeter on that could turn or not turn on me. I'm glad I got a decant of this. Probably will trade.

Imp: happy and 'pink' sweet but not sugar sweet
Wet On Me: Happy, pink-y and a sweet fruity vibe
Drying Down: ahhh there is the daisy! but still 'pink' and sweet and happy!
Dry: this is a sweet lil happy happy scent. there is a high energy vibe with the happy and this sweet lil 'pink' vibe as well!

Imp: clean non-salty aquatic with a hint of a ghost white floral
Wet on Me: pale ghost white floral aquatic almost hauntning
Drying Down: not as strong, but a more floral and less aquatic...but a white/clear vibe
Dry: a pale floral with ghost whispers of clean aquatic notes...faint now but can get heady if you inhale too long or too often. to trade.

Decant: powder-y vanilla and dirt
Wet on me: sandalwood and dirt
Drying Down: vanilla leather sandalwood, comforting
Dry: this is love. warm and sweet but not sugar sweet with that leather lurking lustfully in the background. Keep!!

Decant: heavy heady jasmine garndenia
Wet on Me: really heady floral with jasmine, gardenia and carnation all fighting for prominence under my nose
Drying Down: still a lush heady floral cacophony under my nose
Dry: mostly gardenia and carnation and I love that. The jasmine stays back in the background. Glad to test but will probably pass this tester on.

Decant: incense-y, resin-y wine
Wet on Me: oh that glorious wine with now faint traces of patch. by the gods my skin loves Beth';s patchouli notes
Drying Down: oh dear. i'm getting a soap-y rose air freshener note in the background. the wine and poppy and patchouli kind of remind me of a head shop back in San Jose - Paragon Imports, but this soap-y rose.......
Dry: oh hell. it went to rose and amped the eff all over every other note in this scent gotta put it in get rid of bag.

Decant: wood-y herbs in a northern lights kitchen
Wet on Me: wonderful clean herbs and wood. so bright and light but warm
Drying Down: This is insanely good. Just everything the description says
Dry: When I inhale this and close my eyes I am taken to a warm kitchen in northern Sweden or Norway that has been covered in wood and on a wood table many herbs that were growing in the kitchen window are being chopped for the cooking. It's bright and sunny on a cold snowy day.

Decant: OMGS MAN!!! Swoon!!!!
Wet on me: really good smelling man, leather smoothed with the cocoa and coffee and teakwood.
Drying Down: more wood and leather but the cocoa and coffee are a delight in the back ground.
Dry: This is such total love! It dried into this fabulously masucline but warm and comforting leather/wood/cocoa/coffee love. Beth does magic with her leather notes!!!!! TO HOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Decant: heady dark fruit and floral
Wet on Me: sweet wisteria but sharp astringent almost RAID-like
Drying Down: the RAID-note has morphed to a very heady floral over wispy plum.
Dry: It has mellowed a bit now. The plum went into hiding and it's still head floral. Happy to have tried but putting on the trade pile.

Decant: Vanilla with a splash of patch
Wet on me: okay now I'm getting a 'savory/salt-y" note with the vanilla patch.
Drying Down: the vanilla has mellowed out and I get the woodiness of the patch and the sweetness of the fig
Dry: this dried down to a fabulous smooth vanilla/fig/patch. not one note standing out more than any of the others. Delightful!

Decant: Lavender and the dried wildflowers
Wet on me: more lavender now and way way way in the background is the tease of the patchouli
Drying Down: more patchouli now but the lavender keeps it from going complete dirty hippie.
Dry: this dried down GORGEOUS!!!!!!!! this soft lavender/patch that is just dreamy. Keeper!

Imp: air freshener rose and dirt
Wet on Me: dirt on air freshener rose.
Drying Down: the dirty air freshener rose JUST hates ME!!!
Dry: man what did I ever do to piss off Rose and Dirt. they just loathe my skin!

Imp: dark pitch-y woods with dark floral with the Violet being the one I scent the most
Wet on Me: still that dark pitch-y wood notes and the violet notes.
Drying Down: less wood now. the floral is a bit better blended and smoother under the nose
Dry: The throw on this is very short. This is a right under your nose sort of scent. IT's sweet but not sugar sweet. But as nice as it is I think I'll put it on the trade pile.

Imp: Salt-y wood-y with a hint of sweet
Wet on Me: sweet wood-y spice. giving me a masculine vibe
Drying Down: the sweetness of the rum over this masculine wood scent
Dry: This is love. A sweet wood-y masculine but not Hi I'm all man scent. This is that perfect unisex scent for everyone! Keeper!

Imp: apple Fruit Stripe!!!
Wet on Me: apple Kirkland's store!!!!
Drying Down: dark red apple-fruits and way deep below all that the faintest of traces of incense
Dry: faint dark apple and fruits. Love it. Keep!!!

Imp: Green Aquatic
Wet on Me: definite green aquatic
Drying Down: starting to get the white ginger with the green. and that slight baby powder scent of the amber
Dry: The wet green is tempered by the amber. It dries down to very very faint powdery pale green.

Probably will put in the trade pile.

Imp: (Dark in color) dark and smokey
Wet on Me: definitely dark and smokey but not acrid, a masculine vibe
Drying Down: okay still masculine and dark smoke-y but getting an industrial soot vibe
Dry: Masculine soot-y coal smoke and strangely...not unpleasant!

Imp: carnation and bergamot
Wet on me: spicy carnation with milk and honey.
Drying Down: spicy carnation milk and honey. I'm not gonna jinx it!
Dry: HO LEE COW! Finally a scent with rose that DOES NOT AMP on my skin! This is milk and honey and carnation and lovely!!!!!

Imp: holy cheeses all the notes that hate my skin the most right out of the gate. ROSE! LILAC!!! LILY!
Wet on Me: holy mix of spray air freshener from 1960 at my grandmother's house! Plus a good dose of Raid as well. when I said these notes hate my skin and nose...they mean it!
Drying Down: talk about death notes. This is tryingto kill me. death by scent induced headache.
Dry: I feel so bad that I cannot wax rhapsodic about BPAL's rose, lily or lilac notes. What did I do in another life to make rose, lily and lilac hate me so? To trade!

Imp: almost heady floral
Wet on Me: that heady floral but not yet
Drying Down: still a heady floral but with that powder-y note I get from amber. the way it's amping on my skin there has to be rose, lilac or lily.
Dry: a powdery floral that gets very heady under my nose very quickly. I think this could be someone else's cup of tea. to trade.

Imp: totally ocean aquatic and white flowers
Wet on Me: aquatic white flowers
Drying Down: now getting more ocean again with the aquatic the jasmine is revving up to be the more dominant floral note. not getting any fir.....yet
Dry: aquatic jasmine. really kinda heady actually. Not really my thing.

Imp: hot, dark ginger
Wet on Me: spicy dark gingerbread
Drying Down: dark dark spicy gingerbread and a faint ghost of a wood note?
Dry: not so sharp ginger now. pleasant. lovely. not scary at all!