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(chais - ah, sorry - I thought you were just looking for alternates in general, of which Volt could be just one - sorry! Hope someone who has tried Volt can chime in! )

Chairmolokom & nrl1978 - you can do a search in this thread once you are in it by finding the "search" box (with the forum skin I use, it's up near the top right of the screen) - make sure it says "in this topic" and then put in your search string. Yes, there are tons of suggestions in this thread for Antique Lace, and The Coil is also discussed relatively recently (scroll to the top of the page). plainjean - Searching for Tiger Lily on the forum is trickier because so many other results come up, but reading through the review thread you might be able to find some comparisons. I noticed that someone felt that the floral had some similarities to Alice, and the honey-note to O, so maybe some layering? You've probably tried those two already, though, but maybe there are other comparisons.

This is really really good on me - surprisingly so, given some of the other lackluster reviews. It starts off somewhat nutty, and then becomes soft and somewhat powdery-perfumey, smooth, and then over many hours, it's a skin-close spiciness of frankincense. I *love* oakmoss, and it's not sticking out on me here as it usually does - it usually makes things go more masculine than I wish them to, and it's not doing that here. I also don't get any type of overwhelming patchouli, other than perhaps that spiciness. No mint, either. And I even get compliments on it. (Actually, two different compliments from two different people on different days, and normally neither of those people mention anything.) So it's not just me being weird in thinking it smells nice on me. This is now on my want-bottle list.

I am a fan of Slobbering Pine, too! Interestingly, I don't get pine from it really, and... that's okay by me. It goes almost golden-fruity, while still staying bright and clear, and for me, that makes it a winner.

Smoother & sexier than expected! I agree with whoever said it smells more like tobacco than typical woods (though not the overly-sugary-ness of some of bpal's tobacco notes), even a tinge of smoke while it's wet. I get absolutely no rose at all, and I am extremely susceptible to it. I'm not getting any pine at all, either. Smooth, tobacco, and a sweetness that must come from either vanilla or honey. Fantastic! I'm surprised I'm not hearing more chatter about this - it seems like it would be ridiculously popular. I wonder if the woods-and-balsam listed notes have made some people think it would be more masculine than it is. I think it's the unisex (and awesome on a woman) equivalent of Moxie Nouveau's Girls With Cigars (blond tobacco, amyris, and ambergris, sweetness of blackberry, and the earthy spice of clove). Really great.

You posted it in the discontinued GC thread. And here's my answer: On me, Niflheim is like a more damp / green Gomorrah, so you might wish to try Gomorrah. You could also check the review thread for Niflheim& see if others compare it to other scents.

On me, Niflheim is like a more damp / green Gomorrah.

xposted in case folks look in this thread: I find that the drydown of Flora (now discontinued, alas) is very very similar to that of Bastet.

vowsatseas: For The First of Three Spirits, try Xiuhecuhtli for sure, and also perhaps Antikythera Mechanism is in a similar family, though not as close as X and with a very different vibe. Also, you may want to read the review thread to see what others have thought. ==== I find that the drydown of Flora (now discontinued, alas) is very very similar to that of Bastet.

Hi! Here are some GC (including salon) scents that remind me of some of those you've tried. (They're not all meadow scents, but they all have something in common with the scents you like.) What was so neat about Fairy Market is that it had a coolness *and* a sunny-ness, and most scents have just one or the other. (I haven't tried Passionate Shepherd, so I can't do comparisons there.) I totally feel for you - there's nothing like Fairy Market, is there? Mag Mell - zingy, golden 51 - Did you ever try this? What did you think? Machu Picchu - Golden and floral, but with the addition of lush fruity-ness. Not necessarily a meadow scent, but in a similar family to Fairy Market. All in the golden afternoon - golden (though not grassy), also with a zingy-ness Hermia - golden, smooth (not grassy) Pepper - golden and lightly floral (not grassy) Night-Gaunt - sunny and floral (not grassy). Sounds like it wouldn't be all that good, but it's way better than expected, and it has a sweetness to it that is somewhat like the sweetness of Fairy Market, though less outright sugary. Rosalind - I *love* Rosalind, and it just doesn't last on me at all. But you should try it! Dorian - Okay, this is not meadowy at ALL (lol) but it does have that extremely-elusive sugar note; one of the few scents in the GC with sugar. Fairy Market is like a floral-sweet Dorian, actually, as I sit here & compare them side by side - it's surprising how similar the sugar note is. Another GC with sugar is High Strung Daisies, which is all floral-sweet. Wonder what would happen if you layered Dorian & High Strung Daisies, or Dorian with something else? Salons (so, not impable, but not LE either): Death & Life Completed - Has some of the perfumey-ness that Fairy Market has, but is like the late summer or autumn version where Fairy Market is the spring version. Orpheus - Green and grassy and fresh, though not floral or nearly as sweet as Fairy Market Sunflower - Another late-summer to Fairy Market's springtime. Garden Path with Chickens - Very grassy! You might wish to try Litha if it comes back; it doesn't have the sugar note that Fairy Market has but it's very nice. (Also, Enchanted Wood Florist went too sweet on me too! )

This is so pretty! Wet: citrusy and lightly floral in a good way, not in any of the typical "dreaded florals" way, and not like the usual "white florals". After it has a chance to settle - Citrusy and perhaps even resin-y? This stays surprisingly good. It holds up pretty well over the day. It's particularly unexpected here, because such light notes typically fade on me and leave nothing remarkable. This time, they have settled back into what is still a very pretty, golden scent on my skin. Nice! Night-Gaunt is definitely a top-quality scent, from the very first moment on, until the end of the day. Comparisons to other scents: It doesn't really seem snowy to me (as other reviewers had said), but it does remind me of Manhattan, which in turn reminds me of Cloister Graveyard in the Snow, so I can see a relationship there. It's fruitier & sweeter / more carefree than Manhattan. And, it's not really like Mag Mell (especially since MM has a vanilla note that is not present in N-G), but it is in the same light-bright-golden family.

It seems like the rosewater smells like a lightly-scented smooth rose scent, correct? You might try Lucy's Kiss, Seraglio, maybe Jezebel, maybe even Alice. There are so many rose scents out there! (There are also a couple scents with rosewater listed as a note, but there's so much else going on in those that it seems certain that rosewater is not the main scent.)

I can't believe how awesome this is on me. Slightly sweet, cinnamony-woodsiness, warm, and amazing.

I can't believe no one has compared this to Hamadryad yet. Cinnamony, warm, and wonderful.

Oh, Hamadryad. The good version is so good, and the wintergreen version is so wintergreen. I'm doing a test to see how long it takes the wintergreen to burn off. Applied at: 1:18 pm Next check: 1:27 pm - still wintergreen Check (including dh opinion): 1:50 pm - wintergreen is gone! yay! So, half an hour or less. Maybe if I put it on just before brushing my teeth, then before anyone else smelled it on me, it would be fine?

This really is a morpher, which I guess makes sense! In the bottle: Herbal, smells like how the TALs are sometimes medicinal-herbal since they're blended for function not scent - it's the brittle and lunar part, perhaps the pine. Wet on my skin: Hm, herbs are gone and it starts to smell more like fruits (I'll admit that I, too, would have guessed peaches and not berries) Dry: Interesting enough, hard to describe mixture of lots of things. Not floral at all. Hours later: OMG, what smells so good.... oh, it's ME! This has become the most glorious lightly spicy oriental type scent. It's hard to pick out any notes, so I'm not sure what's causing this wonderful blend on my skin - probably the peppercorn, myrrh, and perhaps the patchouli (maybe), backed by everything else. Absolutely gorgeous.

Wow, this is so much more different and way lighter than I expected that I had to re-try it again on a different day without my preconceived notions. I don't get any amber, patchouli, leather, or dark musk. What I get instead is a tart sweetness with what is probably white musk and/or a sugar note. It reminds me most of my memory of Zephyr, though with slightly more oomph, a tinge of spice that is probably coming from the hint of petitgrain, plus a tinge of tartness from the rhubarb & sweetness which might be from the apple blossom. It is really pretty, and I wonder if aging it will give it even more oomph.

I totally love these scents that have this kind of high-pitched awesomeness to them, like The Torture Queen. First on, this does not disappoint. Yay! (It's the kind of scent that some bpallers may find too perfumey or cologne-y; I have learned that I LOVE it.) I'm excited to see how this wears throughout the day. Because unfortunately for me and The Torture Queen, TTQ does not seem to have any base notes grounding it at all on my skin, so it seems kind of thin several hours later. This, on the other hand, seems like it may hang in there with some grounded-ness, perhaps from the oak. I certainly didn't expect this to be my fave out of the Last Unicorn pack, but it very well might be! ETA: Okay, now I know what it reminds me of. You know how the first review of Dorian talks about "...as soon as the maid serving the tea is gone, this proper Victoran gentleman f***s you six ways from Sunday..." (No, I don't go around memorizing reviews, but that one was, um, memorable.) Well, I always felt like Dorian was a little sweet and vanilla (delicious though it is) for that image. The Ninth Cage, though, is edgy enough to do it.

In the bottle: Ooo, yay! Another wonderful "snow" scent! On me: This is just the kind of wintery scent I adore! I chanced upon the "snow" scents last year, with Snow Maiden and The First Soft Snow, and I just fell in love. This is another in that vein, with perhaps lightly less sweetness and more ozoney-ness as it dries, more gender-neutral. (And for newer readers who feel this review is less than helpful, I know, I know, and I completely understand and apologize, but I cannot explain this scent to anyone. It is not mint, or pine, or ozone, or menthol, or vanilla, or any one thing that I can describe in words. You just need to try it.)

In the bottle: Foody, cake, nuts On me: Hm, I'm not getting the non-food scents (pine, holly, berries) here. What I get is maple-y foodiness and spice, with nuts in the background. Smells like one of those warm delectable foody scents that will be super-popular and somehow just never work for me personally!

French vanilla, red currant, sage, balsam, rosewood, mandarin, lemon peel, pomegranate, and cedar. In the bottle: Bitter-orange marmalade (like seville orange, not like the marmalade ends up actually bitter, if you know what I mean.) On my skin: I was a bit nervous at first, because it's a bit potpourri when first on, with the citrus fruits and herbal-ness (from the sage). I need not have worried, though! After a few minutes, it all settles down, and the vanilla warms it up a lot and brings everything together. It's like being in a house that has herbs & orange-slices drying hanging from the rafters, and maybe a big red bowl of holiday punch on the table, ready for all to grab a cup. I don't really get cedar here at all; it must just be rounding out the scent.

In the bottle: A paradox - it smells of something sweet-berry and something dry-dusty, at the same time. On me: Kind of too-boisterous at first - (Fruit! Grapes! Something randomly dry!) - but this thankfully all passes very quickly. It settles into what must be a dusky orange-blossom, sweetened by vanilla and tea, and backed by the barest lightest sandalwood. It is somehow both deeper and brighter, in various ways, than I had expected, which is amazingly evocative, if you think about it, given its name "Changing the Shadows". How neat!

When wet: Vanilla cake On my skin: Getting less cakey & more lemony. It's really a nice scent, comforting and warm. While it may be a bit too foody for non-foody me, it's definitely lovely!

While wet: Dry old cut wood On my skin: Woods and maybe some nuttiness. (Okay, I didn't read the note list as I was trying it, and apparently the suggestion of the name "The Nutcracker" let me to think that nuts could be involved. Am I just very suggestible? Not sure...I'm glad that at least one other person above mentioned a slight foodiness, so I'm not the only one! It's definitely more "nutty" than fruity; I don't think I get fig out to of this blend.)

This is a really nice masculine leather-tonka blend. Not overly vetiver at all, it's just adding some depth. I wish that I got more oakmoss here, because that's a note I truly adore, but then again it's probably to any scent's credit that I'm not saying "Hey! Oakmoss!" In the end, while I think it might be a bit too masculine/leather for me, I can see it being fantastic on the right person. Lovers of leather should definitely check it out.