Shollin

Snow White

 

First sniff: Cool. Slightly minty? Very subtle and delicate. Something yummy in here too that I can’t put my finger on.

 

Wearing: Something round and fruity under the mint - white grapes, maybe? Smelled a bit like pineapple or pear at work. Still a cool scent, but more fruit than mint.

First sniff: I definitely smelled fruit, but all I got was apples. No hint of spice, just pure round fruity apples. (I smelled everything this time before reading the descriptions, just to see how close my nose got.)

 

Wearing: Here's what I wrote to Elizabeth in a moment of unrestrained fangirl drooling: "Jester is the most gorgeously perfectly hobbity scent I've ever worn. I can't figure out why it's all apples to me, because there isn't a hint of an apple in the description, but there it is... bright tart crisp autumnal apples, the kind for which you'd dodge the grouchy farmer's big scary dogs and climb way too far up in the tree, furry feet and all. Reminds me a heck of a lot of Merry and Pippin, and I loves my hobbitses." It's absolutely delicious and crunchy, if a scent can be crunchy.

Velvet didn't work on me either. As gorgeously chocolate-spice as it is in the bottle, about thirty seconds after it hit my skin it turned to very loud sandalwood that I couldn't seem to wash off.

 

It's apparently just our skin though, because several people have said it's utterly gorgeous and sexy on them. If I want to smell like chocolate I'll take Vice any day.

First sniff: More traditional, but with a bit of sharpness.

Wearing: Soothing and lavender - not the herb, the colour. A teeny bit of a citrusy smell - it's a little bit cleaning-product-ish at this stage. Faded into a floral baby-powder scent, which was very nice, and I can still smell it in the morning after applying it at bedtime.

Second wearing: There's something bright green in this that I didn't notice before. Definitely sharp-edged. The sharpness fades after a few hours to the floral baby powder, at which point it smells almost like Unseelie at the same stage, and Unseelie is more pleasant for the rest of its wearing.

First sniff: This is another scent that was very familiar but I couldn't pin down specifically what it was making me think of. Dark, green, mysterious.

Wearing: A little spicy and a little churchy. Seems to get darker and slightly bitter.

Second wearing: I swear this is sharper than before. The sharpness calms quickly though, and fades to a mysterious, slightly spicy dark-green smell. The woods at night, in midsummer – the feel of the scent is muggy rather than fresh.

Luna, from Celestials - Planetary Oils. Characteristics from the site:

 

 

First sniff: If anyone actually knows what this one smells like, please help me out. This is driving me crazy. I know this smell and I can't pin it down. (Happens to me way too often). I thought at first it was a fruit, but not an everyday fruit -- something exotic like kiwi or kumquat. The closest I can get is pineapple, but that's not right either. It has the texture of a bright yellow hard candy. Uplifting and sharp-sweet.

 

Wearing: Still haven't managed to define the very specific thing this scent reminds me of. The candy-smell calms down quickly and I'm left with the undefinable yellow fruit. Sweet but not unpleasantly so. I'm not madly in love with it, but it's nice enough.

First sniff: I wanted Unseelie the moment I saw it on the site, and it’s GORGEOUS. Soft and dark, a hint of flowers but not too floral - night-blooming flowers, maybe.

 

Wearing: Very powdery and silky. Unfortunately it’s far nicer in the bottle than on me – it seems to dry to baby powder pretty fast.

First sniff: Vice literally made me moan aloud. Dark, lush cocoa. Utterly delicious.

 

Wearing: Same as in the bottle. Not too strong. The cherries still haven’t shown themselves – I just smell rich dense dark liquid chocolate, like swimming in Willy Wonka’s river.