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Does anyone know if Ebay purchases can be combined with a Lab order, particularly for international shipping to Australia?

Tried some of this on my skin this morning after a couple of years' of not using perfume oils.

Started off smelling really delightful - nice rich musk, with the cassia, patchouli, and tobacco coming out clear and strong. Two hours later, it's pretty much turned to powder. Might be the musk, might be the patchouli. (My skin's never been great on the woods.)

I got this in a decant circle back when the bath oil first came out and never tried it.

Am I late or am I late? Yes, I'm late. But I finally tried a dab of this in my bath and I kind of regret not getting a full bottle of it the first time!

I smell amazing. Sweet but not sugary, and the cream is definitely there. The amber is doing amazing things on my skin, and the lotus and teak are anchoring it with that hint of freshness that keeps it from getting too musty.

So nice.

Ooh, I like the idea! Count me in if we can get enough people together!

I'm mostly patchwork, but I'd see what I could expand to!

Not a bad scent - a little light on the florals, where I prefer the heavier. Definitely smelling the vanilla bourbon, jasmine, and lily. It's kind of interesting - when I inhale close to my skin, I almost get 'layers' of scent - one moment, it's the vanilla, the next, jasmine, the next, musk.

On the 'try again' pile for the moment.

Very amber and ozonic - a kind of bronzy scent. Doesn't suit my skin and it's not something I'd wear very often, if at all.

Green. Very green on me, which isn't my thing at all. I hope that the myrrh would bring it all together, anchor the herbs/greens, but it's not doing a thing for me at all.

Deathrock...doesn't smell like anything. Chemicals, maybe, which is probably the point? Not my scent.

Okay, I could have sworn I smelled marzipan when I tried this, but it was just a whiff. Some rosewood/sandalwoods, which actually are working quite nicely on my skin - wood doesn't always.

I'm not sure I'd wear this, though. It goes in the 'try again' pile, and I'll double-check it later.

Rose with a dash of incense. Nice, thick, heavy roses, deep red. Actually it reminds me of...Tabula Smaragdina, or perhaps Peacock Queen. Now I have to go dig those out and compare!

I don't know if I'll get a bottle - it is a lovely scent, but I don't know if I'd use it enough.

I got an imp of this in a decant circle, and oh, do I ever love it!

Wet, it throws opium and leather everywhere. Dry, the dusty wool and massoia bark come out to play. It's a very masculine scent, but I love the smell of it on my skin. If I had a guy, I'd slather him in this and jump his bones. Alas!

The throw is fantastic! Must get a bottle.

It smells delightfully sweet and marshmallowy in the imp, but when on my skin, it rapidly turns to plastic. Burned plastic.

L'Estate is a huge disappointment for me.

Not because it's not a lovely scent: it is! Smooth and amber on my skin at first...and then it turns rashy. In less than 15 mins, I have a raised red splotch about the size of my two thumbs on my skin.

It's gonna have to go, I'm afraid.

Signior Dildo was violets and herbal in the bottle, but five minutes after I put him on, he was gone! Violets, orris, narcissus, vanilla. All vanished in an instant!

Signior Dildo gave me no pleasure at all.

Oh my gosh. This is a beeswaxy version of Fairy Wine, only it's not going all thin and sour the way Fairy Wine does on my skin. *inhales*

Truly, I opened the bottle and fell in love with the scent. I could just pour this out all around my room and die happy. The roses provide the soprano, the wine is the alto, the frankincense the tenor and the beeswax the bass - an exquisite four-note harmony.

Five minutes later: ARGH! What gives? Still some roses, still a dash of wine, but mostly the frankincense and beeswax. Still a nice scent, only not quite what I was expecting.

I wonder if this would work better on me if I layered it with Whip.

This isn't just a whiff of the Orient like Black Lace - spices, incense, sandalwood - but a full-blown Indian temple crowded with worshippers to Shiva, their voices lifting in a constant babble of prayer. I get incense (probably the patchouli and sandalwood) and tobacco, and while the lime isn't distinct, I suspect it's what's anchoring this. The drydown is smoky and herbal, but a good, strong herbal - a branch of bay leaves being burned with a single tobacco leaf in the middle.

I'll have to try this layered with Black Heart, which has incense-y fruity notes on me. Should prove interesting!

I'd love to have a guy I could slather this on, and then jump!

This is weird. Most of what I'm getting from Villain is an aniseedy kind of scent with a dash of musk. Very male.

If this scent is truly a villain, he's the sexy, heartless kind that will seduce the heroine into bed against her better judgement (and for his own ends), and will get his come-uppance in the form of having to question his own motives at the end when she rescues the hero from him. Redeemable? Maybe. Possibly even a deeply flawed hero? A mustache-twirler, not a swashbuckler.

Okay, now I'm getting the lavendar.

Intensely floral, turning thin at the end. Great throw, just not a scent I want to wear too much!

Osiris v4: I just tried this today while decanting, and on my skin, it's a more resinous Black Lace that fades very fast.

Persephone, Whip, Peacock Queen, Rose Moon, and Parliament Of Foules are my 'heavy' rose notes - I find that the rose doesn't go soapy on me when it's a heavier rose.

Spellbound, Victoria, and Viola were good to start with, but they don't last very long.

Helena and Harlot went soapy on me, though. I think it's the thinner rose notes - my chemistry needs notes that punch it in the face, and light, fresh rose doesn't do it so well...

Purrsnickety was lovely enough to get a bottle of this for me (among about a dozen others) and I agree - it's going to be a massive hit among the Cobwebs 3 Protos.

I put this on and instantly had sandalwood headbutt me in the nose with the twin crowns of Egypt. Sandalwood is usually a bad thing on me - it amps-amps-amps leaving me smelling like a piece of old, musty furniture (at least in my head). This time, it's still there, but with a sweetness and creaminess to it. Edenssixthday was spot-on when she said it's got elements of Glowing Vulva about it - but on me, it takes on more of a woody aspect, possibly with a dash of something incense.

I'm not getting the spiciness - but then, spices tend to go bland and flat on me, more's the pity.

My brain just informed me that Osiris is the love-child of Glowing Vulva, Black Lace, and MB: Underpants with a little Indonesian handcrafted keepsake box thrown in. Lovely, but not really my scent, I think...

Alcohol and I are not the best of mates. He gives me a headache within an hour, I go red and blotchy, then I fall asleep on him, and he's nowhere to be found the next morning.

Now speed this up to a matter of minutes, and this is Spiked Punch. Within five minutes of application, the alcohol has burned off, leaving me smelling like someone spilled their glass of fruit drink on me last night and I haven't changed clothing.

*sniffs again*

Actually, it's not as bad as I thought - in the last ten minutes it's transmuted to the kind of solid fruitiness that I look for from the usual fruity blends (and those always end up by going sour and stale on my skin after a few minutes).

I was sold this imp with a bunch of other rares thanks to a generous forumite (whose name I have sadly forgotten).

This? Is like the best and tastiest parts of childhood junk food! It smells of hot popcorn with butter, creamy caramel thickshakes, and I want to say fairy floss, but that's probably just my imagination going back to days at the fairgrounds, pestering my dad for all the junk food we were never allowed to eat at home!

One for the foodies, definitely, and smells divine, but I'm not sure that I'd wear this.

I bought this imp along with a bunch of other rares from a very generous forumite!

This scent shows me what genius takes place in the lab!

It's exactly what the label says - a pumpkin-flavoured cream-cheesecake filling in graham-cracker base! And it's really really delicious.

That said, I'll probably never wear this. So I think it might go in the sales pile...

Chemical strawberries, with dandelion leaves, sugar-sweet. It's not bad, actually - it's not going sour or bitter on me, the way a lot of the fruity scents do. Don't know that I'd wear this one around - I smell like strawberry candy and I'm not so hot about strangers lickin' on me! - but it's not a bad scent.