Little Bird

In the bottle and on my skin, this is all baby powder all the time . I have a problem with some sandalwood notes going powdery on my skin, but this is extra powdery. It smells like an explosion of clean, soft, white baby powder. I hate baby powder, so I had to scrub this off after an hour... Andreiphontes is definitely not a keeper for me.

In the bottle and on my skin at first, this is definitely an orange pomander smell. It's dry, slightly powdery orange and tons of clove spice. As this dries down, the spice morphs into something funky & bitter that reminds me of taco seasoning :/. I don't get any of the black licorice/anise. Miaiphonos is all dry, powdery orange and not-so-pleasant spices on me. This isn't working on my skin, and I won't be keeping my decant...

I get a lot of frankincense from Enyalios. It smells golden, smooth, sweet, and resinous. The oakmoss and balsam add a nice, dry woods base, and the juniper is giving it a bit of a cool, menthol feel. This is a really beautiful woods & resin scent that makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a forest. The patchouli comes out more in the drydown and the juniper pretty much disappears. I love patchouli and the patchouli here is earthy, sweet, dry, and brown smelling. I was curious about how the cocoa would play out in this blend, but I don't smell any cocoa here at all. Enyalios is like a woodsy version of Cathedral. If Cathedral is the smell of being inside a church, then this is a church in the middle of a forest with all of the doors and windows open. It's a really beautiful, calming scent for me

Needlework let me down in the lilac department this Lupercalia, but Penis Admiration is a gorgeous lilac scent on me <3. It smells like real, fresh lilacs (cool, blue, waxy/creamy, honeyed, fresh lilacs) and a really interesting vanilla note. I don't know if it smells really smoky on me, but it's a sweet, sultry vanilla. As it dries down, there's something floral-spicy about this (not foodie-spicy, but rich and spicy in the way that some flowers smell). The overall feel is of a really exotic, sweet lilac... I keep imagining that this smells like butterflies, or would be a great scent for attracting butterflies, lol. I don't love this quite as much as I love the Blue Lilac single note, but I'm down to hoarding my last decant of Blue Lilac SN, so it's nice to have more lilac blends. My other favorite lilac scent is Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree. Penis Admiration is a sweeter, heavier sort of lilac blend. I'll at least keep my decant of this, and might try to track down some more in the future.

This is a really light scent on me and only lasts about 15 minutes on my skin. It's hard to get a clear impression of it. I agree with reviewers that say this smells lemony. The mix of blackberry & mandarin smells a bit like sweet lemon drops on me as well. The fruitiness is the main player, with a little bit of cool, smooth white musk in the background. There's the tiniest hint of something earth-like and darker too. Kiss Amongst Discarded Tissues mostly just smells like musky lemon candy on me. I was hoping for more of a true blackberry and gardenia note...

In the bottle, this smells like green, smoky wood and a hint of soap. On my skin, the blend softens and smells like soft, brown leather, dry wood, and sweet, slightly smoky, incensey tobacco. It really reminds me of Dee. As it dries down, this is mostly soft leather and sweet tobacco (almost smells a bit like sugary vanilla smoke). I like this a lot, but it doesn't have very good throw on me. I'm not sure if it would ever win out over Dee when I'm in the mood for a soft leather scent either. Maybe I'll keep my partial bottle and layer it with Dee...

Inganok Jewelers reminds me of El Dorado and Leipreachan at first (has that similar perfumey, hard, gold note), but it's not as good as either of those blends were on me. Jewelers is more earthy than metallic on my skin (like 70% earthy, 30% metallic, lol). It almost smells like a gritty, dry, brown patchouli plus a bit of clean, musky metal note. At points I thought that it smelled a lot like an earthy, slightly smoky vetiver as well. The drydown is rather sour and earthy on me. I don't get the impression of gleaming stone and silver at all... Mostly this is a sour, earthy smell on me. I have metal & earth blends that I like *a lot* more than this one.

In the bottle, this smells like creamy, sweet citrus and warm, slightly powdery amber. On my skin, this smells almost exactly like Possets' Naples Yellow scent. The only difference is that Okayaki is a lot lighter on me. It's creamy, sweet citrus and warm, rich, resinous amber. After an hour, I think that I can smell a bit of clean, cool snow note creeping in, but the entire scent has almost faded away at that point. I like this, but it smells so similar to Naples Yellow on me that I probably won't keep my decant (as I already own and love Naples Yellow).

In the bottle, this is like a whiff of salty lime margaritas and tropical flowers on an ocean breeze. On my skin, the scent instantly goes sharp and something smells really smoky (like burning paper). It's mostly smoke with a hint of lime and a stab of sharp floral. I usually enjoy most of the notes in this, so I'm not sure what is going smoky :/. It smells like I waved my arm too close to a campfire where I applied this. After a half hour, this is really light and just smells like a hint of soapy floral and smoke. I expected this scent to have better staying power than it does All in all, this is not-so-good on me, and I don't think I'll keep my decant...

In the bottle, this smells creamy, sweet, and golden, with a clean edge. On my skin, there's a sweet (almost honeyed), toasted warmth from the chestnut, with the other notes adding a creamy, clean feel that softens the sweetness. I usually find chestnut notes to be way too sweet and cloying, but the other notes in this blend are keeping the chestnut under control. As it dries down, it gets a little bit of a spicy, herbal edge to it and a hint of something lemony. Out of all of my Lupercalia decants, I keep coming back to Harimise and it's really growing on me. The scent that wafts off of my skin is the sweet warmth of the chestnut mixed with clean magnolia and creamy rice powder. It's a really appealing, clean sweetness that I've already gotten a couple compliments on. It's like clean skin + sexy, comforting warmth and a touch of elegant perfume. And it feels like a casual, every-day sort of scent to me. It feels comfortable, and it actually has great staying power and throw on me. ETA: I ordered two bottles of this and one smells as described above, and the second bottle smells sweeter (kinda maple syrupy) and more baby powdery. Serious lack of consistency...

My overall impression of Aatos Polemoio is that it smells like a handful of old, dusty, cheap, spice-scented potpourri left out in a dirty wooden bowl. It's a very dry, gritty sort of scent, and the spice smells so cheap, sharp, and gross on me. Bleh . I love black currant, but I don't get any fruitiness from this it all. It's all sharp, cheap, gross spiciness and dry, dark, gritty wood notes...

In the bottle, this smells like perfumey, slightly soapy, yellow flowers. On my skin, this is perfumey (and when I say perfumey, I mean a sharp, chemical-y, almost musky smell), sweet, yellow flowers. I wish that I could smell the grass or greenery that others have mentioned. As this dries down, it's sickly sweet yellow flowers and a hint of dish soap. It's too sweet and too perfumey for me...

In the bottle, this is intensely tart, fruity, and refreshing. It smells cool and clean, perhaps from the mint. On my skin, this smells clean without being soapy and cool without being minty. It's like a blast of tart, frozen cranberry and a background of clean laundry hung up to dry. It reminds me of The Hamptons a bit. It's a clean, pleasant cranberry smell. It's strong for about a half hour on me and then fades pretty quickly after that. I think that I'll keep my decant, but I still prefer The Hamptons for a tart cranberry scent.

I thought that Ronin smelled like a lighter Golden Priapus with a good dose of sweet, golden honey. I guess that the sandalwood, pepper, and oakmoss mix together in a way that reminds me of pine forests. This is mostly honey on me, though, with the other nights hanging out in the background. Ronin doesn't have very good throw or staying power on me; it clings close to the skin and only lasts about an hour. It's an okay scent, but probably not something that I'd choose to wear again...

This is so unlike any of the other boozy/wine scents I've tried. It's not as sweet as blends like Gluhwein or Soothing System. I get a lot of cherry from this. I normally don't like cherry scents, because they're sickly sweet, they smell like kool-aid powder, or they smell like cough syrup. The cherry here is a dry, dark, sophisticated, grownup cherry that I just love, though. In the bottle, this is scary-alcoholic and smells just like opening up a bottle of dark wine. On my skin, thankfully, the alcoholic/chemical note disappears and I'm left with that rich, dark cherry and some darker, slightly smoky notes. I thought that it smelled a bit like a hint of smooth, smoky leather, but my husband says that this smells incensey to him, so I'm probably smelling the "black incense" and thinking leather. There's something about this that smells like cool, wet air to me as well, and reminds me of being inside of damp caverns. The Zadok Allen Vineyard actually reminds me a bit of bptp's Dungeon spray more than anything else. I wear Dungeon by spritzing it on my jackets & shoes, but ZAV is an even darker, more complex, wearable, dark wine. I don't own any other wine scents quite like this one (or as good as this one). This is an awesome, rich scent, and I think it would smell great on a man or a woman. I need at least one backup bottle before this gets discontinued.

Saint Foutin de Varailles is *gorgeous* and pretty much smells like equal parts of all of the listed notes on me. It smells like dried, dark, aged, sweet roses, a bit of fruity (almost plum-like) dark wine, and sweet, honeyed beeswax and incense. It's a dark, sexy, old smelling scent that makes me think of pinup models, old dance clubs, and flappers. This is what I always wished Formula 54 had smelled like on me. I can also imagine the woman in the The Blood Garden artwork to be wearing this scent. It's such a bold, confident fragrance. I think that this is going to have to take the title of my favorite rose scent. I usually amp up rose blends to rose single note, but this is complex, dark, sweet, sexy, and all around beautiful. I feel like it fits me really well, like I'm supposed to smell this way. I need a full bottle of this, for sure. I don't own anything else quite like this scent. I want to bathe in it, and I want my house to smell like this too... :love!:

I don't like plain Snake Oil aged or fresh (though I enjoy a lot of blends that mix Snake Oil with something, like the Snake Pit blends) and I tend to dislike honey scents (too sweet/simple), but I find Womb Furie to be very wearable and lovely. The Snake Oil here adds a smoky darkness that cuts through the honey's sweetness, but the honey manages to sweeten up and get rid of the parts of Snake Oil that I usually find to be powdery/dirty/gross smelling. Womb Furie winds up smelling like a dark, exotic, slightly smoky, honey incense on me. I think that this will age really well too.

In the bottle and on my skin at first, this is warm and sour and kinda reminds me of urine. As this dries down, more of the fir note comes out, and it's also a bit on the floral, perfumey side of things. I'm used to evergreen notes smelling kind of cold, but this blend has a warm, sour, salty quality to it that I hate. And within a half hour, this turns intensely baby powdery with a hint of soap, like someone tried to clean up the nastiness that this was and just made it worse. This is just awful on me in every way...

In the bottle, this smells like gingerbread men dipped in chocolate. On my skin, this smells bready & slightly dry, and a sharp ginger note takes over. It's like a gingerbread cookie that was left out to go stale. The ginger is really sharp and intense on me, and it overpowers any chocolate or coconut that may have been here. This Truffle is dry, bready, and has an intense, sharp, foodie ginger going for it. I prefer Shub-Niggurath for a ginger scent, as it is much less dry & simple smelling on me. This isn't a bad scent; it's just not as complex as I was hoping for. On a positive note, this doesn't make my skin red or itchy, it doesn't give me a headache, and it's not something that I felt the need to run and wash off, lol. It's just okay...

This isn't a very chocolatey truffle. In the bottle, I can smell a hint of dark chocolate, but there's no chocolate note to be found once this is on my skin. This is a lemony green tea (not as sharp or lemony as Shanghai, though, and it's sweeter than both Shanghai and Embalming Fluid). It's very refreshing and summery smelling <3. I keep thinking that I smell a hint of soft, green grass somewhere in here. It's a very green scent. As this dries down, it smells like lemon-lime lifesavers candies & a hint of something like green grass - very smooth, sweet citrus. I love how green and summery this smells (as we've gotten a ton of snow the past couple days). I wish that it lasted longer, though. It has pretty good throw while it sticks around, but it doesn't even last a full hour on my skin. All in all, this is a pleasant, smooth, sweet fragrance. I'll definitely keep my decant, and think about getting a bottle for slathering...

In the bottle, this smells like sharp, perfumey, chemical florals. On my skin, it's much the same. It smells like the cheap, department store, floral-heavy concoctions that I try to stay away from. It's the sort of scent that makes my nose burn and my throat feel tight. I get a lot of chemicals, metallic hairspray, and fakey sharp floral. My skin has a tendency to amp up red musk and rose notes, and I don't smell either of them here. It's a mess of perfumey, sharp, dry, chemical floral notes on me. This does get a bit sweeter & slightly incensey in the drydown, but not enough to make this wearable for me at all. Two Loves is just too intensely perfumey-floral. It gives me a headache

I can't pick out any of the notes in this exactly. This smells like a very white scent to me, and makes me think of pale, clean skin and white tissue paper. It's sort of powdery soft and clean, without smelling too dry or like baby powder. Something in this goes tart & slightly fruity on my skin, and makes me think of sweet tarts candy. I think that the coconut milk is adding a bit of a creamy feel to the whole blend. I wish that I could smell more of the coconut. This is a really strong scent with lots of throw, which is odd, because it smells so light and delicate. I'll probably just keep my decant of this one, as a tiny dab of oil while go a long way for me. I'll wear this on days when I'm looking for a clean skin scent and don't mind the sweet tarts edge that this one has. I'm also hoping that it'll be more coconutty on me with some aging.

In the bottle, and on my skin at first, this smells very woodsy, and I was surprised that there aren't any cedar or sandalwood listed as notes. I guess it might be the amber giving me that woods impression. The caraway adds a minty/menthol smell to the whole thing, so that is smells like woods in winter on my skin. As this dries down, it smells like everything is going wrong on my skin. Something turns unpleasantly sour and dirty, something else turns unpleasantly warm and powdery, and another note turns sharp, acrid, and smoky. Underneath the sour, powdery warmth and sharp smoke, this is sort of spicy and sickly-sweet-floral. It makes me want to gag :/.

These new year's scents rarely work on me. They have a tendency to go soapy-clean on my skin, and I don't care for soapy scents (I'm more into patchouli, earth, resins, incense, leather, vanillas, and foodie scents). Earth Ox is total soapy-blah on me, Earth Rat has a promising melon-y startup and then turns to sharp, citrussy soap, and Fire Pig (the best on me) is a light, clean, peachy-citrus that fades away within an hour. Metal Tiger continues the soapy trend by smelling like sharp, tart, bitter citrus and soapy, floral dryer sheets. I like sweet citrus smells, but I can't handle sharp, bitter citrus notes. And Metal Tiger is strong, soapy, awful mishmash on my skin. I had to scrub it off after about an hour. The label is lovely, though...

Unveiled smells a lot better in the bottle than it does on my skin. It smells sort of juicy, peachy, breezy, and refreshing in the bottle. On my skin, it's suddenly very dry and spicy (perhaps the tea and amber?). It smells a lot like autumn potpourri - dry leaves and cheap cider spice. I've been having better luck with wearing spice scents lately, but this is the sort of spice that overwhelms and gives me a bad headache. My skin chemisty does have a tendency to amp up spiciness, though. It also made my wrist red and itchy where I applied the oil :/. I can see how this would be pretty on someone else, but it's cheap spice potpourri on me