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in the imp: fig, garden, dirt.

on me: smells like green leaves, specifically the ones from the lilac bush when I was a little kid, when the sun hit them.

later: smells like fig-scented Jergen's baby lotion on me now. Yikes! This is not good, O skin chemistry mine. Stop that silliness. It's making my head hurt.

Alas, this is not for me. Oh, well. Interesting though.

Hm. In the bottle, it's fascinating. Floral sharp somethingness, but not the florals I usually dislike. I like the opium-ness.

On me, though, it's hypnotic band-aids. Huh.

Still, they're hypnotic.

Must ponder this for a while. We shall see.

It's Charmin all the way on me, so far. We'll see if later it has any wood scent, but so far, it's scented TP. Hmm. But it's pretty amusing, I must admit.

Huh. I was worried here, because apple usually hits my skin and becomes instant rotten apple, but this might be working! So far, it's staying true apple, with some sweetness around it. This may actually be a candy apple scent that I can wear. Yay!!

I smell the tartness of the apple, and the scent of the peel, and the juiciness. The sugar/caramel is very faint, but it's there.

Wow. This is trippy. Pumpkin and candle-smoke, and something with alcohol somewhere near it, and then some really spooky sort of incensey note, except very dark.

If, when the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch, he's actually some glorious nameless horror from the depths of madness who will send his acolyte Linus running through the streets laughing maniacally and gibbering with fear, this is what he'll be wearing.

(I suppose the dark incense could be the asphalt smell.)

God, I love this! It's pumpkin cheesecake, really creamy, with a graham cracker crust. Oh, my! So very yummy-smelling!

(And I think I've used up a month's supply of exclamation points on this. Worth it, though.)

Fruit punch -- with lots of grape and lots of berries -- and a LOT of brandy. Woo! So very not subtle, but charming withal. In a kind of a fruity drunk way, anyhow.

If I get a bottle of this to go with the decant I have, I'll have to slather it on Halloween, and grin a lot.

Marshmallow Poof is definitely marshmallow on me. And a little bit of those orange candy circus peanuts, too. But mostly marshmallow, kind of a marshmallow peep, in fact.

It's fascinating, though I'm not sure it's scent love, if you know what I mean. But I can't stop snorting my arm. Heh.

Addendum: Later, it dries down to an absolutely perfect classic marshmallow. It's so not what I thought I'd love to wear, but I really, really like it. I'm very glad I got a decant of this.

in the decant: Pear! PEARpearPEARpear! And vanilla. And a little bit of sugar. But mostly PEAR. Not sure this is going to go well, since pear single note immediately went to rotted pear on me.

wet: pear bubblegum. Weird pear bubblegum. The vanilla goes all... pink on me, smell-wise, and not in such a good way. Darn skin chemistry.

drying: Uh-oh. Here come the plasticky note that ultimately killed Midway for me. (See also: darn skin chemistry.) Pear receding, oddling enough. Strange creamy note with a little ozone coming up. This is kind of interesting, actually. Not what I'd choose to wear, and probably not what was intended (sing the chorus: darn skin chemistry!) but interesting in a mad science kind of way.

later: plastic pear? With butter, apparently. On me, this goes to buttered plastic pears. With sugar and vanilla and a little ozone. How odd.

I bet somebody else will love this. I'll have to read their reviews for the vicarious pleasure, then.

If there's such a thing as carnation and sandalwood creme brulee, that's what Egg'd Mailbox smells like on me. Want more! Want want want!

It does indeed do unfortunate things on me, which is sad, because I very much wanted to like Singing Moon.

On first application I get Spanish moss and a sort of moldy-mildewy scent. There might be some floral in the background, but the moss/mildew is too strong to distinguish it. After about ten minutes some mint starts coming out rather strongly. (I get a sort of Chloraseptic note like bibliophile did; I wonder if we're skin chemistry cousins or something.) The mildew then accelerates, giving a strong mint and mildew blast which is what sealed Singing Moon's fate, much to jenett's pleasure.

Way, way later there is a faint drydown of flowers and seaspray, but by then it was just too late. Alas. Oh, well. I am lucky to have a friend who is my scent-and-chemistry opposite, because it means I can foist off all the high florals, moss, lots of herbals, and especially the violets, on her. Mwa-ha-ha!

Alas, in the decant of this, all I can smell is spanish moss and dirt. When it's on, some florals come out over time, but mostly the earth scent is overpowering, with tones of decaying greenery that I can only blame on my skin chemistry's reaction to earth scents and some fruits. And then the spanish moss jumps in even harder, and makes me want to sneeze. Alas! But someone will love it, so off to swaps it goes.

Most of the Ars Draconis scents would be appropriate, though you might come home from a rock show with more treasure than you can carry.

Wah! Bloody Mary hates me.

I bought two bottles, driven by the thought of a cherry cheesecake scent. Alas, I got a sort of dull acrid overtone, similar to what blu mentioned. Something in my skin chemistry and Bloody Mary combine to bring out a cherry tobacco note. It's like the lovechild from hell of a three-way between Hearth, Herr Dross, and Midway, what with the cream and powdered sugar on top. Alas, alas.

My heart, she breaks. Off to swaps, I fear.

I don't get a craving to wear Stardust very often, but today was a good day for it. The scent makes me laugh: it really IS Aqua-Net and cigarettes and champagne and a wild late-seventies early-eighties party scene.

It gets a lot softer on drydown, and is the muted ghost of such a party. Still makes me smile, though. I may only wear this a couple of times a year, but I'm glad I've got some. (I've got a little of both years.) Nostalgia, ah. And Beth, as always, is a genius at blending.

In the imp, this smelled very light herbal and green. I have trouble describing it. I do smell some green tea in it in the imp. Unfortunately, on me, it becomes Windex (a window-cleaning product) from hell. The tea comes out on the drydown, but I can't make it through the Windex phase.

Drat. Oh, well. Somebody else will like it, and that will be good. Off to swaps it goes.

Shanghai is giving me a strong note of Windex during the initial application and for the first half hour. Whatever that is, it doesn't like me. I can smell the green tea later, but can't get happily through the Windex phase. Drat.

is there a blend that smells predominantly of mint, but not menthol? the search function takes us to blends that mix mint with a zillion other oils, and what I want is something a bit like mint tea. Something fresh and at the same time comforting. And if possible, not a LE.

Gennivre. Wonderful, wonderful mint tea, with a little sugar cane. Mmmm!

(I hate menthol too, so if you find other scents that you like, please to tell me? Thanks!)

Like Polychrome, shelldoo, Wench457 and others, I've got a pina colada festival going here.

More data when drydown hits, but am rather amused by this first phase.

This smells more complicated in the imp than it does on me. I get an almost anise-like note along with all the jasmine when I sniff the imp, and other things I cannot name. Once it's on me it goes to pure jasmine, though. Really strong, too.

I smell like jasmine soap. Oh, well. This one's not for me. It's looking like all things with jasmine in them are not for me. I love the smell of the blooming flowers themselves, though. Maybe I'll just have to stick to that, and let other people give the jasmine BPAL a home.

In the imp: Smells to me like Jergen's Baby Lotion and a faint breath of citrus and flowers. Hmm. Not immediately attracted to this.

Wet: Much stronger baby lotion on me. Hm. But now it's morphing.... A floral note is struggling to emerge.

A minute or two later: Yeah, definitely floral. And I don't much like most florals. On the other hand, there's something in here that reminds me of both Antique Lace and Black Opal, and it's a note I like. When I sniff my wrists, I don't get the note, but when my hands are on the keyboard it drifts up to me. Hmm! Whatever this note is, it reminds me of a trip to Florida in my senior year of high school. (Warm-climate blossoms, and a little Bain de Soleil suntan lotion? I bought the Bain de Soleil, which was v. expensive compared to anything we usually got, at some store in an area city; I had seen an ad for it in Vogue or some such, all white sand and wishful thinking. In late winter in Wisconsin, those are powerful motivating thoughts.) It does smell sort of like a breeze in a place snowbirds would rather be at that time of year, so yeah, it kind of fits the name here.

Drydown: That nice creamy unnameable note is all that's left, now, plus a very faint floral which is actually quite pleasant.

Opinion: To me, this smells so much like Antique Lace and Black Opal, both of which I have a bit of, that I'd be unlikely to reach for it. However, I'd like to find out what other people think of it on me, because they often notice things I don't. (I think I might be a tiny bit hard-of-smelling in some bandwidths.)

Verdict: Keep the imp. It's a fine 2nd tier scent. Retry later and see what reactions it gets. (I didn't superlove Spanked on me, but numerous people commented on how much they liked it, which is very interesting. One's skin chemistry is individual, and I like wearing something that combines with it in ways that get that kind of rave reviews.)

Later yet: There's a lovely vanilla musk thing going on, faint but really nice. I like Zephyr a lot. Not sure I'll spring for a bottle, but I will definitely try this imp a few more times and see.

I wwould recommend staying away from blends with pennyroyal then, because it has that icy quality, and more of a peppermint feel to it (although it's definitely pennyroyal, another animal).

For instance, Mad Hatter is like mint meltaways to my nose, but the mint is cold.

You might try one pennyroyal scent, though, just to get a feel for what it is like!

Ah! Thank you. I will do that. Learning is good.

decant: mint mint mint MINT! More interesting than just peppermint, though -- I don't actually get much peppermint in here at all.

wet: mint mint Thin Mint chocolate?! mint... OK, now sugary faint bergamot over mint... now green tea with a little bergamot and fading mint with vanilla

drydown: a very, very faint green tea scent. No mint at all. Either it's gone or I can't detect it. No Snake Oil scent left either.

Interesting, but too fugitive on me to buy a bottle. Oh, well. Worth trying, though, definitely.

Thanks! Will try that one today, then, since I have an imp.

I'm looking for mint scents that are not cold -- specifically, I love spearmint but do not like peppermint. A buttery mint that's not icy might be nice, too.

Recommendations? (This is all happening because I tried Gennivre and fell in love with the mint tea beautifulness.)

Thanks!