Shollin

First sniff: Funeral flowers with an edge of bright sweetness.

 

Wearing: Hello, violet! You always turn to powder on me, and you’re staying very true to your nature. Ah well.

CCXXX (A lovely wee sniffie from Deana. Thanks!)

 

First sniff: Ooh, yum. This one smells like coconut and berries. Very desserty.

 

Wearing: It’s the same pure white coconut as in Obatala, with a little splash of bright berry, and a blanket of soft vanilla as it dries. Just stunning.

 

Previously reviewed by Scarlett.

First sniff: Erg. Dragon’s blood and Red Hots?! There’s so much other wonderful stuff listed in here, but the cassia is chewing on my nose and I can’t smell anything else.

 

Wearing: Owie. Now it’s chewing on my wrist. I can catch a hint of something darker underneath the screaming cinnamon candy, but it’s spicy-sweet in a very aggressive way.

First sniff: Sharp, dark, sweet, hard-edged. I can’t make sense of it and I can’t handle it. It’s the too-loud sweetness of almond with the threatening sharpness of pine.

 

Wearing: Just too much. Too sharp, too sweet, too much.

First sniff: Pale fruits and flowers and soft musk. The pear is at the forefront with its delightfully odd texture.

 

Wearing: Oh, wow. Pear and orchid, immediately and very definitely – this isn’t a pale, reserved scent. It’s unabashedly gorgeous, incredibly deep and subtly sweet.

First sniff: Soft incense and bright citrus. It’s yellow-orange and very cheerful.

 

Wearing: It’s a lovely mood-booster. It’s hard for me to get a proper sniff because I left it off my wrists, just did the chakra application, so I can’t really get my nose to any of the application points! But the aura is that lovely citrusy incense. Ooh, wait… I can smell it if I stick my nose inside my sweater. I don’t think I can do that at work, though. It’s very warm and golden and inviting. (I should note here that I’m speaking of the scent, not my cleavage!)

First sniff: Tall, graceful, somber flowers. The lily is at the forefront with its big fleshy petals.

 

Wearing: Goes to powder pretty quickly, alas. It’s a deep, soft powder, not your average floofy talcum scent, but it’s still too powdery for my taste.

First sniff: Lavender incense? It’s definitely resinous, but there’s something softer draped across the top.

 

Wearing: Soft incense and lavender. It’s very soothing; I’m glad I put it on just before bed.

First sniff: A little bit of incense, a little bit of berry, a little bit of sugar. It’s all very soft and faint.

 

Wearing: It’s so soft I almost can’t tell I’m wearing anything. There’s a wisp of incense smoke and a waft of sweetness, but it’s quite reserved.

First sniff: I get almost nothing from the bottle but a wisp of linen shroud. All the deeper notes seem to be hiding.

 

Wearing: Soft white flowers on my wrist, and the sadly short-lived waft from my neck was all blackcurrant. The darker side that drew me to this scent, the myrrh and the musk and the resin, is nowhere to be found.

First sniff: Appropriately, I find I cannot say which note is sweetest there. It’s a swirl of soft fruity musky florals.

 

Wearing: Warm peach fuzz and gentle musk. Very soft and sensuous.

First sniff: Dark water, dark streets, dark dealings. It’s very cold and ominous, not the raucous pirate town I was expecting. Definitely the sort of place where you shouldn’t be out at night. There’s a salt-air tinge, too.

 

Wearing: Ah, there’s the rum. Much more spicy than boozey, fortunately, with deep wood underneath.

First sniff: Hee! What is it with the creepy Cthulhoid scents and evil grapefruit? R’lyeh is the grapefruit of dark unholy deeds (tm amaltheagray), and now Night-Gaunt is killer psycho grapefruit with the crazy eyes. It’s super-sharp. It wants to eat me.

 

Wearing: Can’t sleep… grapefruit will eat me… The sharpness reminds me of Aizen-Myoo, but there’s no cherry-blossom-tea splash to take the edge off – it’s just blade-edged citrus all the way.

First sniff: Wow, this one is really sweet, and somehow… dirty. Like berries and patchouli.

 

Wearing: Completely different. My skin cuts the sweetness entirely, and it settles into a really nice citrus-but-deeper.

First sniff: Velvet cherries.

 

Wearing: Velvet cherries and a hint of bitterness.

First sniff: Rich and red, plums and berries and wine.

 

Wearing: It’s very very winey; I can’t smell much else.

First sniff: Chocolatey with fruit and tea. Decidedly yummy.

 

Wearing: Ooh. It smells like expensive truffles with unexpected gourmet ingredients tucked away inside. Chocolate is definitely the base, slightly bitter dark chocolate, but there’s so much else going on here… a little bit fruity, a little splash of tea, a few drops of vanilla. It’s delectable and I cannot stop sniffing myself.

First sniff: At first I thought it was berries and cold, but there’s no berry here. It’s definitely more fruity to my nose than floral.

 

Wearing: It’s not the sort of thing I generally gravitate toward, but the sheer number of times I’ve resniffed my wrist definitely gives it points. It’s more floral now, but the peach (I guess?) keeps it from being too girlyflowery. Quiet, unassuming, gentle and really darn pretty.

First sniff: I’m betting now this lovely freebie from nineveh won’t work on me. Vetiver and I do not get along, and in the vial, it’s very vetiver with a little tingle of clove.

 

Wearing: It reminds me of a darker and more stable Voodoo… the same tingly darkness, with a swirl of Samhain’s leaves and autumn chill.

First sniff: Dark wood, darkness in general, with a little swish of dark green.

 

Wearing: It’s just dark dark dark and very woody. Add a little dust and I suspect this is what Management’s trailer smelled like in the HBO show Carnivale.

First sniff: Dusty, dry and desolate, with a bit of evergreen wafting in through the shattered windows. The Abbey reminds me quite a bit of Séance.

 

Wearing: Dry and wooden and empty.

DCLXXVII

 

First sniff: This seems to have the same buttery cake base as my bottle of Strange Attractors, and there’s a light fruity-creamy overtone.

 

Wearing: Hee! I sneaked a look at the previous reviews, and everyone was squealing about strawberries, and I thought I was missing something… But here they are, the second the oil hits my skin. Strawberries and cream and a wee bit of spice cake.

 

Last reviewed by storme.

CDL (Decant from cybra111)

 

First sniff: Pumpkin spice and cold air.

 

Wearing: Pumpkiny spicey coldy airy. Drinking pumpkin-spice chai on the sidewalk on a blustery day. It's chilly and comforting at the same time... it makes me think of being warm in winter.

 

Previously reviewed by filigree_shadow.

First sniff: This is… weird. It’s a little mediciney and a little incensey. Like medicine and magic combined. This guy is definitely a witch doctor, not an M.D.

 

Wearing: Sort of a sterile hospital clean, with a dark edge. It’s very blue, but it’s an institutional blue. The color of your basic Grey’s Anatomy scrubs.

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