greenranger

I can't stop smelling my arm.



Dark and smooth and not shiny at all.

This has a few of my very favorite plant notes, and I'll include the tobacco in that statement. I adore cypress, and olibanum. Hemlock is often present in the green scents that I love. Styrax I have found in favorite blends before. I can't really pick anything out at all, but, the amazing sweet darkness on my arm.... Mmmmmmm.

As it warms up it just keeps getting better.

I was looking forward to this one. I just knew it would be wonderful for me. *sigh* It just needs to stay just like this forever....

This is a bright and energetic scent. It's not strong, but, it seems fairly penetrating.

I suspect that is the verbena at the forefront that is providing that bright citrus note. I get no flowers, but, this isn't a straight resin scent on me either. It's golden, but, it isn't a mellow gold. There are no dark corners, and everything been swept clean with bright energy.

As it dries, it isn't changing much. The verbena might be stepping back a little to let the other notes shine.

This reminds me of Sol Invictus, and if you liked that you will probably like this as well. They are both very clean, bright, golden scents.

This starts off fudge and chocolate, but, then it goes....in a completely different direction.

After about 5 minutes, I wouldn't guess that there's any chocolate in it at all.

Vanilla? Absolutely.

Vanilla, and flowers, backed by resins. I'm pretty certain that I am smelling bluebells drenched in vanilla and myrrh.

Actually, I think I really like this. The greenery is beginning to show up. I think the tobacco and cypress are now apparent as well...and maybe a few other green things.

The flower scents are wafting around a bit further out than the rest, but otherwise, it is blending together now. I'll need to try this a few dozen more times, but, I like this.

Oh, and the green tentacled 13 on the label is very cute as well.

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Second wearing: It's still really well blended, except that I am getting some sort of really sexy...musk. I only see musk seed listed, but, mmmmm. This is actually close to what red musk sometimes smells like on me, and I do like. =)

So, is that what Champaca flower smells like? This is coming across like a floral on me, but, nothing familar. It's soft, and elegant. It's also close to the skin.

The vanilla is warming up(my skin loves vanilla) and it is becoming a slightly floral vanilla, with a bit of sandalwood and resin in the background. It is the sort of scent that, while it doesn't bowl me over right off the bat, is likely to grow on me over time.

At first, it's all patchouli and pepper.

Drying, the tea comes out.

I suspect that the carnation and clove are hiding till it has aged just a bit. I put this on about three minutes after I retrieved the box from the mail, so there may be some temperature shock still. It's very promising so far, though.

It's just so strange how one scent, presented with no scent notes, can come across so differently to different people.

I too love the Quick Grope. However, I didn't get wassail or apples, at least until I read other people's reviews. Now, with that in mind, I can almost smell something like apple, maybe....perhaps.

What I smelled was some sort of spicy Christmas greenery that wasn't pine or fir tree, and I figured that was most likely mistletoe, or an impression of it(possibly an impression of it. I know I loved Beth's impression of tumbleweeds in Velvet Bandito). Then I thought I smelled some sort of musk, possibly skin musk.

Once the scent settles into greenery and musk on me it stays stable for hours and hours and hours. It was still recognizable as itself the next morning. To me, it smells like spicy sweet greenery, and something slightly musky, in a very vverry good way.

Now, as to whether there is really musk in this? I suspect we need a report from someone who can't usually do musk on their skin to be certain.

If there's smoke, it is faint on me. I don't smell it.

My husband said "strong, sweet and ...flowery?" However, his nose is not to be trusted at all.

The cubeb is most apparent at first, with a lovely veil of honey sweetening it's rather tart edges. As it dries, the cubeb steps back and the honey and cradamom step forward and all three blend into this lovely warm sweetness. At the very end, which for me is some 8 to ten hours in, the honey and the cardamom are all that remain.

This has a lot of attitude at first, when the cubeb is at the forefront. Then it becomes more and more cozy as it dries and settles in. I really like it.

Mostly spices, a hint of coffee...and the goat milk note hiding under everything. It's nice? It isn't instant love, though.

I will say that the far drydown is lovely. All that was left on my skin the next morning was a really great coffee scent. Apparently the parts that I do like have the most staying power. I just wish it didn't take quite so long to get there.

Peppery spicy soap. I have no idea where the soap is coming from. Most foody scents work just fine for me, so this is extremely odd. However, I'll let the bottle sit a while and try again some other time.

Second try, and though it is different(slightly) from the first, it still isn't love. I still have no idea what is causing the scent to go wrong on me. Sniffed closely it is harsher than it should be. I Like bitter dark blends, but, this just comes across as harsh when it shouldn't be. However...several hours later I am getting a whiff of something sweet and almost barely floral? Somewhere near my hands where I applied this? But, when I sniff the backs of my hands it's still harsh like rough wood soaked in sugar water. There's no wood notes listed, there's no floral notes listed...what the heck does my skin think it's doing? Gah!

When I first put it on it made me think of the warm mash you'd feed a horse. I was thinking that there might be grains in this as well, but, no.

Once it settles down it is mostly honey and crumbled bits of hazelnut. If the hay ever showed up it was a mere whisp in the background. I got no berries at all. Somewhere as it dried I thought I did smell the carrots.

Complex is a very good word for this.

It's a rich spicy scent that makes me think of the desert and the spice caravans, or maybe a mediteranean feast with a lot of food...there's something festive and a little foody about it.

I can't pick out much in the way of individual notes, but, I can tell that there's lemon something in it. Other than the lemon verbena, though, nothing stands out seperately. I do like this, but, I'll have to see how it agrees with my skin over time. I'll check in later with a verdict.=)

Bright and clean and sunny and sparkling.

I'm not getting any particular notes, but, an overall impression of golden sunlight. Not hot sunlight, but, bright golden light over fresh new cleanness.

Also, this lasts pretty well on my skin.

On me, this isn't floral or fruit or really resinous either. It's just light and bright and clean.

Despite the notes, on me, this smells like it should be some creamy hot drink served at some upscale coffeehouse. Not coffee or chocolate, obviously, but, if someone served me something steaming in a hot mug that smelled like this? I'd drink it. Seriously. This is seriously delish, and I am absolutely kicking myself for not getting some last year. Why? WHY did I wait?

*sob*

*deep sniff of arm*

*sigh*

I am really serious in that without the list of notes given I would have been totally off the wall and guessing things like vanilla, honey and steamed foamed milk. The lavender I might possibly have gotten...maybe. Then I would have been completely stumped, since I couldn't possibly want to drink something with rosewood or geranium in it, could I? I amp roses, normally, and I am getting no rose whatsoever from this.

This is not a floral on me.

This made me thirsty and I had to go make myself cocoa to take the place of the mysterious hot drink that I wasn't going to be getting because the drink does not exist.*

How did I get a foodie scent from this list of notes? I am completely confused. Happy, but, confused. I may need more bottles.

* I have it. I need a London Fog Latte. This is why I must be thinking of a drink. There's no tea in this, but, there's Lavender in that drink...and maybe the Bergamot in the Earl Grey tea and the Geranium in this are close enough for my nose to confuse them. Beyond that I have no idea, except that it feels creamy and warm.

Citrussy, cheery, happy, with an undercurrent of almost floral sweetness.

As it warms on my skin, the resin comes forward and I can also smell the tang of the geranium. It's smoothing out and becoming less...perky? It's still a very happy, lively scent.

Frankincense and citrus, with a bit of geranium. I think this may go into my regular rotation of scents.

I'm happy to try anything at all if it has Terebinth pine in it. The Clove was a bonus.

I am happy to report that this scent is everything that I wanted it to be. Spicy pine and clove, blended together. There really isn't anything else to say, I suppose, except that even with only a very few notes, it hits the complicated deep, spicy area that I love so very much.

It probably helps that pine and cloves are two scents that just about define my Christmas memories. If you distilled all the good stuff around Christmas down to just two scents(which would be awfully, terribly hard to do. I'm so bad at editing down.), then these would be it, because together they seem to add up to much more. I don't need to have the cinnamon and oranges, the candy canes, or the wrapping paper added into it. The clove and the pine summon their spirits and they are suddenly there anyway.

It starts out sharp and almost menacing.

Dry it becomes a dark complicated spicy/woody scent, barely sweetened by the peach blossom and the currant.

The far dry down is lovely and rich with redwood, tonka and peach blossom.

This should improve with a bit of age. The sharpness at the beginning is a little intimidating, and a wee bit of mellowing would probably make me love it more. It's still a complicated wood and spice scent, and I am happy to have it.

My skin is slightly unusual, in that caramel usually doesn't last on me. It vanishes.

On me, I can smell the caramel for about the first 15 minutes, and then it becomes a slightly sweet memory behind all the spices.

Yes, that's right. I can sort of smell the red musk. I hardly get any flowers whatsoever. On me, this is nutmeg, and patchouli doing a really decent imitation of the March Friday the 13th scent.

I really like it, much like I really liked the March 13. However, as foody as it is on me, I can't justify a second bottle. I don't tend to reach for the foody ones to wear as often.

Yum.

I have so many blends with myrrh, patchouli, vanilla...this is nothing like any of them.

Nothing. Like. Any. Of. Them.

Complex, bitter, dark, spicy and sweet. I suppose I am surprised at the sweetness.

I have nothing to compare this to. It is itself.

My husband is rewatching Buffy the Vampire slayer episodes. He's going through a LOT of them in a row as he is not well and can't do much else. So, I am rewatching lots of episodes as well.

I always did love to watch Anthony Stewart Head.

This scent is what Giles would smell like. This is the scent of a sexy librarian with a library of arcane books and a past with dark magical secrets. I really really like this scent. It wasn't in my original Hellboy order, but, I tried a bit on at a Will-Call, and then I had to have a bottle.

I got no smoke, and the vanilla floral perfume was faintly present at first and then faded.

Mostly what I smell is buttery soft suede, like a cuddly blanket that's all fleece on one side and suede on the other. I have a fake fur blanket that is exactly that, made to look like fleece and suede, but better because it is softer and machine washable. I was wearing Liz, and wrapped in the blanket, and thinking that the blanket should smell like that.

Probably as it ages the vanilla will be more present on me, but, I expect I will still like it and consider it cuddly.

This started off all grassy and I was worried, because I really have enough green grassy scents(2 is more than enough for me).

Then I went off and did something else for 15 minutes or so, and when I sniffed the spot again, the grass was gone...or morphed. Or, rather I can still smell the grass on the spot on my upper arm, but, on the back of my hand all I smell is sunlight and clean fur. It isn't a strong scent, but, it's a clean skin scent.

Fresh, happy, and clean.

Peach blossom...not peach fruity, but peach petals...with a hint of the chrysanthemums and tea. If I sniff and try really hard I can detect the musk and jasmine. I think this will age nicely, with the musk, which is good because it makes me think of pastel colored summer sundresses and picnics. This isn't a fall scent for me.

Whoah. Not what I was expecting....

I expect I will be trying this more than just this once, partly because I really wasn't expecting a package today, so I was already wearing another scent. This one I'll have to try again solo.

The oil went on dark...and a little sticky.

Feral is a good description of the musk. It's sweetened by the cacao, but, no where anywhere close to foody. This isn't the softer tobacco that I am accustomed to either. This scent comes out swinging.

I think it's going to soften up...in a while? Maybe?

Right now, though this is one bunch of very ...assertive... dancing girls.

So.

Why did I wait so long to order some of this?

This is wonderful. The pine is fantastic. It's lasting a loooong time. This is beautiful and golden and resiny without being just like all the other resins I own and love.

The interesting thing is that the scent is more pine on my arms, and more of all the rest of the notes on the back of my hands. On my hands the skin musk, smoky vanilla, patchouli, Indian resins, golden honey, tobacco and the pine all blend into this splendid sweet golden whole. On my arms, it is more pine with just a background of the other notes.

Why did I wait so long?

On wet, very sweet, and very girly.

I'm hoping a bit of aging will bring the musks and resins forward more.

Actually, even the first few minutes bring the musks and resins forward more.

In our neighboorhood, people plant star jasmine, and I like it...in the neighbors yards. It gets a little powerful if it is right under your own window. I do like the smell, though. Neither this nor The Girl really captured that scent. This isn't really there yet. I'll try it again after a while.