greenranger

This is for the 2008 "Beaverversary" edition.

 

It starts off as strawberry cheesecake.

 

The final drydown, which lasts forever even on my very dry skin that nothing is lasting on except this, is close to the final dry down in Huesos de Santos after all the fruity and spice notes were gone...that sweet creamy note that lasted past everything else.

 

Otherwise they have nothing in common at all. Cheesecake, drying down to a sweet creamy scent that lasts forever on me.

Woods and walnut and spices....Oooh, and chamomile.

 

So far I love it. Slightly fruity sweet from the fig, and spicy and warm and complex!

 

Yum! Yum yum yum yum....

Y'know, this may be the first honeysuckle scent I have tested where I actually smell the honeysuckle? Honeysuckle, carnations and metal, with verbena.

 

I ...think I like this...Clean and airy, a little spicy, slightly sweet. This feels springlike to me...which could be the basis for a very bad pun, considering it is metal phoenix.

 

I'll need to try it again when my skin is less dry and the scent will have a chance of lasting. Right now with my very dry skin, it didn't las long at all, but, many scents that normally last on me have not been lately.

Very very soft, clean, white, and fluffy. On me, not very floral, and not even really sweet.

 

I let the love and adoration of others sway me into getting it. I can see why others might like it, but, I am not certain this is for me. I'm more in love with spice and this is almost the anti-spice.

I bought this on impulse, as I had a sharp insistent craving for the scent of rain. We hadn't had much at the time(since then we have had lots, of course) and that clean wet scent was something I was missing rather intensely.

 

This actually does have a little bit of that clean wet scent, though certainly not as much as a real rainstorm. The rest of the scent, the incense and the dust, I find very like the Parliament of Monsters from the Carnivale.

 

My skin has been really dry lately and scents have not been staying that usually do, so my review of how long it lasts will have to wait for more typical local weather.

The pomegranite and currant are the first candies I notice, but, the pear comes out farly soon.

 

The sugar is also fairly strong, and seems like it will be staying around for a while, even when the fruits fade. I don't have all that much optimism about how long fruit notes stick around on me anymore.

 

 

Sugar Skull lasts very well on me, but Sticky Pillowcase did not. This seems a little closer to Sugar Skull plus fruits, but, without whatever was giving me the incense scent in Sugar Skull.

 

I am glad I figured out that foodie scents work well on me. When I started, I wouldn't have picked this out, but, it is nice!

On me, this started off very very grape. This is odd, because usually wine notes work well on me.

 

It settled down to a slightly fruity, quite unobtrusive, very slightly spicy, leather scent.

This is very soft on me. The most prominent note is the lavender. I shouldn't have worried about the snow. There was nothing amping in this at all.

 

It is lovely...but, unfortunately on me it is very soft, and I don't identify with soft as much as I do with spicy.

Ho Ho Ho is a spicy warm scent. It is very slightly sweet, but, mostly it is warm baking spices(or mulling spices). Very yum. I doubt there is anise in this, as I suspect it would amp a little on me and take over. I could be wrong.

 

I don't get apples. I barely get any fruit or any sweetness at all, but, if there is fruit in this I don't think it is apple. I'd think pear or pear cider, maybe? Possibly a bit of orange rind, but, barely any. Really, I am getting mostly spice.

 

There might be a little bit of pine...or pine resin? Or pine smoke? If there is, again, I am not getting much.

 

On me, this is mostly baking or mulling spices with only a bare hint of something else suggesting holidays...that might be orange rind, pear, or something pine resiny or smokey.

 

The distilled essence of holiday celebration planning...just add food, friends, and lights.

Eggnog latte...is the scent of the inside of a coffeeshop during the holidays: coffee, steamed milk, and the spices of whatever is in the holiday specials and baked goods. Sweeter and richer than Bah, which was OMG strong coffee on me when tested at the lab. Also, better on my skin than Misk U, as that one had a parchment note that, combined with coffee, just did not play nicely on me.

 

Eggnog Latte likes me, though.

 

On my skin the spices and the eggnog come out, but the coffee is still there. It just isn't out in front anymore.

 

I could still smell this on my skin the next day! The coffee was gone, but the eggnog and a little bit of the spice lingered. Very yum, and excellent for days when reapplying a scent just isn't in the cards.

Wood(pine?) and resins. A light golden scent, not a deep dark one. Other people are saying vetiver and patchouli...but, if there is vetiver or patchouli in this, it doesn't seem like very much, at least on my skin. This is a lighter resin scent on me.

I couldn't smell all that much in the imp, but, once I put it on my skin the spice! Mmmmmm.

 

I couldn't identify flowers in this at all at first. I suppose that may be because I think carnations smell like a spice and lavender smells like an herb. So, the result of the lavender and carnation plus the amber and the moss to my nose? A fresh, spicy and energetic scent, that my nose does not peg as floral at all. I'm hoping the amber means that it will last well on me.

I don't think I have actually had a martini, so, I can't really compare it to that.

 

It seems like a fresh, clean, almost aquatic juniper scent. I think I actually like it. Which is odd for anything aproaching aquatic. =)

 

So far, the throw is pretty good, and it doesn't seem to be changing much.

Lemon verbena and a little tea. I'm not getting any honeysuckle yet.

 

Light, clean, refreshing, and very simple. For someone looking for a simple scent, this might work well.

Wet and green, like a riverbank.

I wasn't sure about the iris, but, this seems nice so far.

Drying, the spices and the woods start to pick up.

Light, refreshing even, but, spicy and complex enough to hold my interest.

In the imp, lavender and jasmine.

 

On me, wet, mostly lavender. This is fine, as I like lavender. Jasmine and I have had troubles before. I might be able to smell a little lilac, but the honeysuckle is MIA.

 

Drying, it is fairly heady. On me, it is mostly still lavender, with some lilac and jasmine. The honeysuckle still has not arrived.

 

Dry, the lavender is still on top(good), and the jasmine and lilac are still there, but only as backup. There might possibly be a small hint of honeysuckle hiding behind them. The scent as a whole has calmed down somewhat. It isn't as heady as it was, and seems to be more blended.

 

I will probably keep the imp, but, I don't know that I'll be ordering a bottle. Sometimes I am in the mood for lavender and between this and my imp of Love and Pain, I may be set.

Honey and something resiny and faintly spicy. In the imp I thought I smelled something greener, but, it is gone now. I don't smell vanilla or beeswax exactly...but something that very, very faintly reminds me of something like that?

Sniffed in the imp, cola....serously fizzy cola.

 

On me, it gets very lemony, very fast. Lemon juice, lemon rind, and lemon/lime soda all combined. I smell like I sliced open a lemon and smooshed it all over my arm.

Out of many, one indeed. It is soooo well blended. I like it more than I really expected. I'm just geeky about the election and had to try it whether it worked or not.


I really can't identify any individual notes in this. Absolutely nothing is amping on me. One, unified, floral scent and not FLOWERS OMG at all.

Sweet resiny incense. This is much sweeter than I had thought it would be. That's fine. I get along well with sweet. This is less peppery than most of the frankincense I have sniffed. There's a bit of a similarity to penitence or cathedral(bot favorites of mine)...but, this is both sweeter and milder?

 

Mmmm. Yeah. I think this will work.

Ah, that pine is lovely! I can smell a bit of the orange, and I think I can detect the amber and the patchouli. The flowers are fortunately faint(no, I am not much of a floral person).

 

 

Drying, everything begins to blend much more. I am unfortunately losing the pine. Maybe I need to look for more terebinth pine notes in other things. It's still nice, but, I will have to see how it sticks around on my skin to know whether the bottle was a good idea or not.

It really is lovely, and I think the comparison to Luperci is not far off. I don't smell beeswax, but, the resins come very close to the smooth, rich feel I associate with beeswax.

 

Wet and drying, it is a lovely, sweet, golden, resiny scent. I get a feeling of power and balance from it.

 

If this lasts well on my skin and doesn't change much I can see wearing this often.

Huesos de Santo smells soooo good for an hour, till the orange cake fades enough to let the anise through.

 

Then about four hours in I like it again after the anise leaves.

 

That's three hours of anise, which somehow doesn't smell all that great on me, though I like it in food. This scent would be so perfect, if only the anise were not there, or something else, like coriander? I can always use another coriander scent.

 

Anyhow, I was hoping that those who have tried the scents that I have not gotten to might be able to point me to a scent that was like Huesos de Santo, but, without that one thing that made me hesitate and not buy a bottle.

 

Failing that, maybe I could find more coriander scents beyond Crawdad and Tristan. =)

Wet, SMOKE.

 

Drying, it does smell a bit like Coalface soap from Lush.

 

 

Dry it is spicy, dark, and very, very smoky. There's definitely vetiver and myrrh in this.

 

I like it, but, whooooah, smoky!

Ashy, smoky, santa ana winds always make me nervy. I spotted this and thought that I'd give it a try.

 

 

In the frimp(Thank you lab. Your timing on this was perfect.) it is a soft almost aquatic scent.

 

On me, I can tell there are flowers there...I can even almost smell the rose.

 

 

A wet, soothing scent, like a fountain running almost out of hearing range that keeps other noises at bay....plus roses. I know the roses will fade soon on me, and that's ok. This would probably work better for me either in a locket or applied on something other than my skin.