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Kippy

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  1. Kippy

    All They Had Seen, and All They Had Lost

    It was the aspen leaves that got me. I was desperately hoping for the scent of decaying aspen leaves, the smell of the forest in fall under a golden cathedral of quaking leaves. I just knew I'd get my package today, and when it was, this was the first bottle opened and slathered on my forearm. It's not quite living up to my desires, but I'll give it a day or two to calm down and try it again. There's some aspen in here, herbalish, clean, but it's really subdued. We need MOAR ASPEN up in here. I can't smell the roses at all, no great loss. Mostly it's a flower, I can't pick out which one. To me, it's more evocative of the color of aspens in fall, rather than the actual scent.
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    Nuclear Winter

    Aquatic, mint, a whisper of pine. The drydown was lovely, but after an hour and a half the mint and the pine are gone, now I've just got aquatic.
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    Sticky Pillowcase

    Doesn't quite smell like an upended Halloween bag, cause the bags generally have some chocolate in there! If you like foody/sweet, this is a good one. Stawberry, sugar, and caramel, and a little cotton linen keeping things clean. It's kin to Sugar Skull, but the strawberry and cotton really makes this one pop and make it more intriguing.
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    Lilith Victoria

    Let me start by saying I just love this. Innocent and sweet with secrets. I have a really hard time identifying lavendar as a scent. I grow ten types of it in my garden, love the scent, but if I put on a blindfold and was asked to identify what I'm smelling, 70% of the time I would get it wrong. What others are getting as a lavendar punch at the start, I'm smelling as baby powder. Since that's appropriate to the concept, I could swear it's baby powder I'm smelling. The baby powder scent calms down upon drying, just a hint floats over the top when dry. The Snake Oil and Dorian base smell exactly as I imagined them. It's innocent with a troublemaking streak, like the toddler that blurts out some embarrassing fact in public.
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    Katrina van Tassel

    White rose and honeyed cream. Rose and honey, a great combination. Virginal would be the word I would pick for this. Perfect for those days where you feel like being the ingenue. I pick up no cream. Lower throw than you would expect from rose or honey, or maybe I wisely applied just a teensy bit. Honey keeps it long lived too, the rose faded out after about four hours, but it's still a teensy bit there after six.
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    Pumpkin IV (2008)

    This is syrupy cloyingly sweet. The woods aren't prominent, and relinquish the mix to honey vanilla and cherry tobacco quickly. The cherry tobacco isn't enough to balance out the sweets. I'm left in a diabetic coma.
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    Samhain

    Samhain 08 I'm new, so never had a chance to try the previous versions. I'll compare to Harvest Moon, since it's similar in notes. HM was fir and spiced cider. Samhain is also fir and spiced cider - however, there is less fruitiness and more spices here. Samhain is more wearable while HM seems more potpurri or room scent. HM seems like a contrived fall scent, where Samhain invokes the season while doing it's job of making you smell fantastic. Really quite lovely. Edited to add, DAMN WHAT SMELLS SO GOOD??? OH IT'S ME!! Quite lovely doesn't cover it. Must.get.another.bottle.
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    Harvest Moon 2008

    It starts all fir and spiced cider. It's really apple-ish on the dry down, it's not immediately apparent that the fruitiness is more of a grape. Grape tends to escalate and get wildly strong over time on me, it does it here too after about an hour of wear. While very evocative of the season, it's a bit too close to a potpurri or room scent for me to really enjoy as a perfume.
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    A Blade of Grass

    This was almost all grass for me. I was hoping for some more leaves.
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    Mictecacihuatl

    Harumph. Other posters have said it's woody or aquatic, now I'm going to muddy the waters further and say it's a floral. My first impression is dirty floral. It's not immediately rose to my nose - the copal and agave are covering it a bit and keeping it in control, but yep, if you concentrate, there it is. I'm definately picking up the cigar tobacco, it's whats keeping this floral a little dark, a little dirty. In time, the woods come out and it gets a bit cologney. Nice - not a homerun, but it will get some rotation this fall. It's a welcome change from all the vanillas that seem to be multiplying like tribbles on my bpal shelf.
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    Chaos Theory IV: Edge of Chaos

    Chaos DCCCXIX (819) CARAMEL, big time. When the lab sends me a fresh mix of caramel, all I smell is celery seed. It goes away in time. I'm going to have to give this a couple of weeks to see if it calms down. On the upside, I rescued Agrat Bat Mahlat from the NO pile to compare, and now that Agrat has cooled her heels for a while, there is no celery to be found and I'm liking her. Update: 9/26 - the celery aspect has calmed down quite a bit, and now I'm able to wear this. It's caramel and fig. Good throw, long staying power.
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    Cheshire Moon

    This is one of my favorites. The first time I tried it, vanilla was the first thing to come to mind. I came back and checked the description, and was a little surprised it didn't list it as one of the notes. But on second sniff - maybe it's not vanilla at all but that soft smudgy quality of vanilla that softens the edges of other scents. It's got a creamy quality, but doesn't smell like cream. It reminds me of glaceed fruits over ice cream, or a big puffy pink pillow.
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    Hay Moon

    At first sniff in the bottle - I was skeered. Totally astringent, sharp, chemically, scary. It's the old-skool OFF! with the orange top. I took the plunge and put it on. The OFF! quality fades quickly and I'm not skeered anymore, but still.....Do I hate this? Do I really really hate this? Maybe it's not so bad. Wait, am I starting to like this? Or do I hate this? I could love it maybe, a little. Or not. The problem is, I can't really say what it smells like. It doesn't really smell like its notes - I'll just remark it has a thin, dry quality. And I suspect it might grow on me. But I might hate it.
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    Mead Moon

    It's Lush Honey Waffle soap. Dead on match at the beginning of the dry down. (YAY!!! I love that soap!) I'm not picking up the nutmeg or clove at all, just herbal honey goodness. As time moves on, it does develop a fuzzy vanilla-ish quality, but I don't think its actually vanilla. The lemon is just barely there. Another win for the honey lovers!
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    Thirteen (13): June 2008

    Wet - pure chocolate. Bitter dark chocolate. Dry - Chocolate Chocolate Choco.. bugspray! Chocolate Chocolate *eyes honeysuckle suspiciously* The bugspray scent doesn't get out of control though, as chocolate is rounding out the edges and keeping whatever it is from leaping out. This will merit a second chance.
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