Carmencita

This is beautiful.

 

In the vial: Coffee, Cocoa, Dust

On the skin: Coffee, leather, shortbread cookies

Later: Sitting in a bookstore coffee shop, surrounded by tomes bound in leather, looking out on snow from a dusty, quiet corner. BOTTLE WORTHY.

This is beautiful and unconventional. It smells like a swirl of dry earth mixed with freshly-rained on rich, rich earth and the dry spicy gingerbread notes folded in. I tried it at a Meet 'n Sniff and kept waiting for it to turn into something unpleasant (thinking it was too good to be true). It's not.

 

Rich, loamy, crumbly earth and muted but still spicy gingerbread. If you wear this, people will be asking you about it.

If an older version of Snow White, Antique Lace, and TKO had a quiet, dreamy, sweet lovechild, this would be it.

 

I immediately put a drop on my pillow and fell into a snowy sugar-spun sleep.

This is my favorite brown nail polish of all time. My bottle has just dried out. It lasted such a long time and was consummately lovely. It also was the perfect manicure color for an Inara Serra costume. When did these leave the website? Are they forever discontinued?

I love all these suggestions! Thank you.

 

Mage would be perfect for Amora, and the RPG line...but something seductive would not go amiss.

 

I'm wearing Clara's Squid Hat costume so maybe I should go with Ebisu Making Love While Two Octopuses Look On?

 

The only one I think I know for sure is Boltie. I've decided on Nephilim for her.

I don't watch enough True Blood to make a recommendation, but may I ask the ladies and gentlemen for advice on another matter?

 

The following are my costumes for DragonCon. Which would you recommend for the following:

 

Boltie (Super, movie)

Clara Beane (The Guild, web series)

Carmen Sandiego (computer game, game show, cartoon)

Enchantress (Amora, Marvel Comics)

In the vial: Leather, ozone, and ...apples?

 

On my skin: Stormclouds, gunpowder, apples and sugared lemon

 

Later: Stormclouds, gunpowder, lemon, apples and sugar-encrusted lemon.

 

For the record, I do not like leather scents in general. I don't like them on me or other people. However, this is just fascinating. I cannot stop sniffing my wrist and it's been three days of fresh applications without tiring of the novelty of this.

 

I would adore this on a man as well but love, love, love it on me. My skin does strange things to oils. In this case, where most of you are getting leather, I am getting all different notes and layers. I smell like a storm. I smell like firecrackers. I smell like sweet juicy apples. I smell like lemon rock candy.

 

This is my new favorite.

 

In the vial: Leather, ozone, and ...apples?

 

On my skin: Stormclouds, gunpowder, apples and sugared lemon

 

Later: Stormclouds, gunpowder, lemon, apples and sugar-encrusted lemon.

 

For the record, I do not like leather scents in general. I don't like them on me or other people. However, this is just fascinating. I cannot stop sniffing my wrist and it's been three days of fresh applications without tiring of the novelty of this.

 

I would adore this on a man as well but love, love, love it on me. My skin does strange things to oils. In this case, where most of you are getting leather, I am getting all different notes and layers. I smell like a storm. I smell like firecrackers. I smell like sweet juicy apples. I smell like lemon rock candy.

 

This is my new favorite.

My friend Em and I loved this, spilled too much on ourselves. It was odd and clean. A clean rain scent. Sharp, but the florals wouldn't stop us. Need another imp to be sure, not worth buying a whole bottle just to rep-test

Same in all stages: pepper and blood and tears

 

Verdict: love, dark yes

Same in all stages: truly gluttonous, stomach-churning richness in caramel and heavy cake with cream and oversweet sauces.

Verdict: too much

In the vial: morning dew and something citrusy, also fresh cut tomato

 

Wet: lemon and orange, cherry, sticky scent

 

Dry: peachy and plummy

 

Verdict: weird morphing, okay but I think Vice is better

In the vial: Smells like a woodsy, bookish Wilde

 

On: Too strong! I only put a dab and I'm drowning in men's cologne

 

Drydown: This smells like my dad, every nuance. His cologne, the tobacco from his cigarettes, the leather from his jacket, and the rich soil in his garden in the mountains. This is unsettling. Incredible. I will keep a vial but do not think I will do a bottle. The leather is too strong for me.

Positively delightful.

 

In the bottle: Sassafras and/or sarsparilla, crushed leaves, ice, a touch of maple sugar, and something bubbly but not specifically root beer to me.

 

On me: It almost smells like someone was trying to make root beer from things in their garden, it's too earthy for me to call it 'root beer' although it is very reminiscent of the beverage.

 

Later: Nice staying power, does get herby and slightly medicinal while still retaining that fresh and bubbly sweetness.

 

Love. This I purchased at the Whole Foods in Georgia that recently started selling BPAL.

Snow,Glass, Apples the scent is breathtaking. I'm going to be sad to have just one bottle and also thrilled. It is reminiscent of Snow Moon, Snow Angel, Punkie Night, with whisps of blood and a snatch of mint to it. WOW. But it's very soft and airy with a sweet drydown.

I was lucky enough to get this over a year ago and never reviewed it, oy ve!

 

To reiterate what others have said, a sweet, fresh, meaty coconut scent with all the connotations of a suntan lotion day, except that this smells genuine and not fake. Raw sweetened coconut..yum. Very good for layering with.. well almost anything, particularly Monsterbait: Tokyo Stomp, where it makes you smell like a MOUNDS bar!!!!

In the vial: candied flowers and soapy suds

 

On my skin: reminiscent of Arachne, however waxing soap-y and clay-y

 

Later: Boring. Soap and spiderwebs. Going rubbery. Don't worry, lasses! It's most likely just my skin.

 

Definitely not for me though.

I just got a frimp of this with a lab order! Was this really discontinued in 2004; four years ago?

 

In the vial: Fruit and my coworker's bad breath

 

On me: Bubble solution, fruit, and coworker's bad breath (the last being a very specific scent)

 

Later: Fruit and rubber ( No bad breath!)

They are wonderful and I am sure they would say it is no trouble.

 

Welcome to the Fray.

Swank, and whoever mentioned Fae is right on. Fae is bottled sunshine and happiness... in my opinion.

I almost wore Pirate Moon for Beth and Ted, but I'm dressed (yet again) as Carmen Sandiego, and even though her signature scent should probably be something from Wanderlust, I'm wearing SWANK. I've come to associate it with her.

in the vial: white flowers, apple lemon

skin: mmmmm.

on me: pepper with a soft touch of lemon zest and a sugary fruit torte.

vial: melon, plum, honey, white grape juice

skin: like tweedledee

later: peach rooibus tea! Wonderful.

vial: The uniocorn plus tears and tea

on me; fresh clean, light fruit and candied citrus

later: maybe my perfect clean scent. Like Szzezpony but lighter and slightly fruiter.

in the vial: incense and powder

on me: fruit/clay/resin/incense

later: sweat, bitter incense, fruit

 

verdict: Meh.

My friend Em and I slathered ourselves in Punkie Night.

 

She went as Narcissa Malfoy.

 

I went as a cross between Tonks and some random Ravenclaw witch.