carrickfergus

This is just SO superfloral girly.... you have to have a lot of estrogen to pull this one off.

Like standing in a bakery... too sweet, saccharine, false..... ick.

Ginger, vanilla, brown sugar... don't actually get much pumpkin-smell from this one, but it's very rich and decandent and sweet.

It's... very fruity. It would remind me of Fortunato except it doesn't make me want to throw up. Fruit, fruit, and more fruit, but subtler and ALMOST pleasant. Almost. Not for me.

Roses, roses, and nothing but roses. It's nice, but I can't find much to differentiate it from a bottle of essential oil of rose.

I get sugar and musk.... bakery in a sex shop. Interesting but not very pleasant as a perfume.

This honestly is "Love Me" with more floral accents. It's toned-down but otherwise about the same.

I get sharp florals from this and nothing else, but a pleasant-floral, not overwhelming but a bit generic.

Sharp, geranium-smokey-herbal. A very INTERESTING scent, very unique.

Resin YES! Plus CLEAN.... ultimately sort of pool-smelling undertones but without the weird gross locker-room stuff. Very, VERY nice. Pure sort of smell.

Sharp and herbal-smokey, not quiote masculine, just rather delightful.

It's fresh and sharp, perhaps something like citrus, then fades in a few minutes to a subtle hint of a scent that made me immediately think of a grill -- that charcoal smokey smell, but in a pleasant way, not at all overwhelming.

Subtle and smokey -- subtle is the key. It's an undertone of fire and ash, warm and melodic, not at all ash-tray smelling.

Oceany-sweet and lovely... light, pleasant, neutral... it's something I'd expect to smell in a rented beach house.

This unexpected freebie turned out to be my favourite from a swap I did. It's an unexpected grapefruit sparkling in something warm and smoky. Absolutely lovely.

Holy fruity booze, Batman!

 

At first I smelled like I just took a swim in a pool of some VERY unpleasant mixed drink no one outside a frathouse would ever willingly ingest. It faded to something that might almost be tolerable in very small doses, but remains horrid fruity booze that someone has tried to hide by rubbing tobacco leaves directly onto one's body.

 

It is quite revolting.

Fruity with undertones of what seems like vanilla fades to sweet, slightly floral-soapy sandalwood. It's a truly androgynous scent, befitting of its name -- I can't decide whether it's more masculine or feminine. It could go either way.

Wow, I hadn't realized this one was so old!

 

This is one of only three full bottles I own. It's that good. And I can describe it very simply:

 

If you have ever in your life walked past or through a Christmas tree lot in cold weather, you have smelled the contents of this bottle. It is EXACTLY the same. A gorgeous scent for me because I grew up in a house next to an empty lot that was used to sell Christmas trees every December. My siblings and I used to play in it. We climbed the piles of extra trees when no one was looking to shoo us off, and we built nests with the discarded branches.

 

This is the smell of us doing that.

I cast my vote in disagreement that it's a unisex scent -- it is masculine to me, because it is a lot like my father's cologne. That said, it is a sort of effiminate masculine, like Wilde, with undertones of girl-smell that make the overall impression very Victorian aesthete. I adore this one, I think it suits its name well.

This is, without a doubt, a very pleasing scent. However, its effect on me can be summed up in two words:

 

Suntan lotion.

 

Ayup. No different than slathering on some SPF. But without any aquatic-type smells to associate it with a locker room, it really is a very nice smell and worth trying.

I found this one to be a very subtle scent, with its strongest note being something like clove. Unfortunately, after some consideration, I found that the overall impression is of something one might smell in a bakery, which I don't especially care for.

Holy moses this is awesome. Eucalyptus and mint and metallic.... you can TASTE this scent. It really is an experience.

This is the only really truly GIRLY smell that works on me -- rose-greanium but light, kind of an airy princess-maiden smell. Innocent, I suppose, is a nice word for how this is.

I'm not sure what whim made me order this over other scents I was considering, but I did, and I'm glad. It is piney, woodsy, rich, with subtleties of rose and moss and night-scents... What really hooked me to this perfume is that it's the only perfume I've ever had to which I would apply the description of "sexy."

 

If anyone has ever seen the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, this invoked a similar feeling of raw instinctive power.

Clove, cinnamon, cardamom, spices you'd associate with far-away places, liquorice... but not in a way that makes you smell like you just stepped out of a kitchen. This is wonderful.