wingedcorset

I adore pomegranates. I love them to death. During the season, I eat at least one a day. Rose, I am kinda meh about. Sadly, on me, this is all rose. ROSE! My skin seems to really amp and project rose. Alas. I had high hopes.

It's sweet and fun and girly. A very young scent. I can't really pick out the the strawberries and the champagne blend very well, with neither dominant on my skin.

In the vial this is pine and a little bit of citrus. PINE! It goes through a crazy change on my skin, down to a vaguely piney vaguely citrusy smell that has a totally unidentifiable note that reminds me of swimming pools in a good way. Someone else described this as airy, and I think I agree with this. A fresh winter day in the snow. Disappears fast. Really fast. That's sad.

This was a gorgeous fruity scent. Too bad it gave me a splitting headache.

My notes just say: Boozy round coconuts. As I recall (I tested this a few days ago) this was a gorgeous comforting scent. I can't do foodie scents and I totally loved this.

In the bottle it's minty. On skin it becomes violets. I dislike violets. Off to the swaps it went.

Clean, spicy, woodsy, not pine, but cedar? Dunno where TF I'm getting that. Pretty spicy smell. Yum. Damn, my reviews suck.

This was very citrus and creamy in the imp. I was excited. Then I put it on and a random green tea note leaped out at me. I cannot wear tea smells at all. I was sad.

Tea and I really don't get along. I have NO idea why I thought I'd like this scent. 100% green tea on me. Ew.

I don't really like evergreeny scents, but I love this. It dries into a creamy rosey evergreen scent that I just adore. The imp I have is, however, Old Dublin. We'll see how much I like the new formulation.

I wanted SO desparately for this one to work on me. It was yummy yummy flowery oats in the bottle. Alas, the minute it touched my skin, it became powdery doom.

In the bottle it's lemony complexity. On, it's vanilla lemonade. Dry, it's powder that doesn't suck.

Wow, complex. Every time I smell it, a different note comes through. None of them stay on top. The rose is always pretty present, though. This smells EXACTLY like a cabinet at my grandmother's house.

The cedar really came through for me in this one. Like a bunch of flowers stuffed in a cedar chest.

Rosey and woody. This kind of faded back and forth between the rose (gorgeous) and the frankinsence (blah) all day. A goegeous scent, but not for me.

Very clean. Floral and aquatic and green without bing overpoweringly any of those. ------- Greengreengreengreen. Would you like some aquatic with your green? ------- Honeysuckle. I'm getting a lot of honey-like smell off of this one. I think my skin really likes honey.

Spicy flowers? Yum. Exotic. A little bit of a warm pepsi smell, but not in a bad way. ------- Woah. I'm always amazed at how much scents change when I apply them. This one has become very cedary/spicy. Or sandalwoody/spicy, I guess. ------- Lipsmackers Dr. Pepper. That's what I was smelling wet, and that's what the drydown is smelling like. Still woody up close.

Light aquaticy floral. Violets. (Which I DO NOT like at all.) ------- WOAH! Floral. ------- Powdery doom, almost immediately.

Like Darkness, this reminds me of my grandma. Not in a bad way. Flowers? I dunno, I suck at picking out notes. ------- Boom! Strong! Is that the dragon's blood? Pretty. Sweet and flowery. ------- It switches back and forth between dragon's blood and amber in the most interesting way...

When I was a kid, we had marionberry (insert gratuitous crack smoking joke here) thickets in our backyard. This smells like the bowls of berries that we used to pick, complete with little bits of leaf. Wet on my wrist, it smelled like spiced peaches. From my journal: "Peaches? WTF? Suddenly I'm smelling spiced peaches. My nose is insane." Dry was "flowery rotting berries. Ew." The rotting smell went away quickly, and the scent faded between flowers and berries for the brief time that it stuck around.

Dark, heady, sensual. This screams "Perfect goth scent!!!!" at me. I'm getting the wine and the cherries and the musk and the honey in at varying times. They're kind of trading off who gets to be on top.

In the vial: Smells like a vanilla head shop. The oil itself is very thick. Wet: Dirty vanilla. I don't think I like this at all. Drydown: Still vanilla, still dirty. me = not a fan, sadly. But, hot damn, does it last forever or what? Verdict: Off to the swaps.

In the vial: Woah! There's a cupboard at my grandmother's house that smells exactly like this. So much so that I can't get notes, just heavy floral and Grandy. Wet: Still smells like Grandy. It's warming a little. Dry: I'm reminded of the smell of hippie shops where I grew up (Humboldt CO, CA). A spicy incensey smell. It's pretty, but not what I want to smell like. Drydown: Faded to a gorgeous spicy floral. Yum! Too bad the it doesn't smell like this the whole time. I'd drown myself in it, were that the case. Verdict: I have 3 imps of this. I may hang on to one for the "Woah, Grandy" factor, but the rest go to the swaps!

In the vial: MINT! Pennyroyal, exactly. I used to pick pennyroyal and make tea as a kid. (Yes, it's an abortafacient, I know that now.) This is what my hands would smell like after going to the park. Wet: Goodbye mint, hello lavander! This'd smell yummy on a boything. Gots to get me one of those to try perfumes on. Drydown: Powder. Total powder. Sadness. Verdict: Not in any hurry to swap it, but into the swap pile it goes.

I really really really wanted to like this! In the bottle: This smells like a bad Halloween candle. And very strong. Wet: Woah! Spice! Nutmeg! and a bit of the fake candle smell Drydown: Crap, I have no notes on this...I remember it being not at all good. *sigh* Verdict: Make with the swapping and be sad.