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Slushy snow and cornflakes. Sorry guys, Snake Oil is always problematic for me, but in this one I swear to god that it smells like a cornflakes. And slushy snow. Medium throw and wear length.

Dirt, moss, grapefruit and a squiggle of blood. This one smells like a fresh, mossy dirt scent. Good throw and wear length. Less creepy than I thought.

2019's version This one is less fir woods, and more green and incense on me. I also get more musk. Previous incarnations of Hexennacht have been more fir-heavy or smoke-heavy for me. This one is greenery, musk, and incense. Medium throw and wear length.

Cool florals. I get a whiff of tulip, and something that smells like crocus and phlox. This is cool, light, and very green florals. It smells like spring, on a lake that has just defrosted. Medium throw, good wear length.

Black leather, and red and black musk, with whiffs of cherry wood. This oddly enough, smelled like a leather chypre on wet to me, and then dried down to have the leather and the musks amping up. It's a fairly masculine scent, very sophisticated, and very very good. It's not my type of blend, but its gorgeous. Leather lovers, take note. Awesome throw and wear length on me, because leather.

Red leather, chocolate, and black pepper. I get mainly red leather with whiffs of chocolate and black pepper. If you're into leather blends, give this a whirl. Medium throw and wear length.

This is pretty much Sanguinem Menstruum with a very prevalent marshmallow note. It is honeyed, musky bloody, and a sugary marshmallow coating on all of it. Good throw and wear length. If you liked the original SM, but wanted something slightly sweeter, and more accessible, there you go.

OKAY, this very much coded to an apple blossom and white musk. I think its the combination of pink clover plus ectoplasm. It's clean, white, and floral. Good throw and wear length.

Camazotz is for you leather fiends. It's a nice warm leather, a la Lordy, but without the aftershave, and with more musk. It's like Lordy after work. You know takes off his tie, takes several shots of mezcal because goddamn, litigation is a bitch. Who knew that paper trails caused you to work out to much? Good throw and wear length.

Ganeida smells more like an aquatic floral to me, the lavender is the salty type of lavender, which sort of adds to the aquatic presence. It's a sweet aquatic floral though. Medium throw and wear length.

Lady Hatton is a very clean, delicate floral. If you like Dirty, this is like that but slightly more classical? If you're into aldehydes, I'd check this out.

This one is a dark powdery resin. I get mainly myrrh, labdanum, and a whiff of blood musk. It's dark, resinous, and slighly powdery on me. Good throw and wear length.

Creamy root beer with a dash of honey. Yup. Good throw and wear length.

This reminds me to Gun Moll, but sans the gunpowder. It's all this lethal sexiness, but more purple as opposed to having that modern weaponry about. This has all of those dark purple fruits, smoky musk, and threat laced throughout. This is the scent of a woman capable of exsanguinating a man with her bare hands and not getting a drop of it on her dark purple velvet dress. And when she smiles, there's a lizard part of your mind that simultaneously says RUN AWAY and HIT THAT, and you're sure that both sides are 100% right. Good throw and wear length.

Pink Moon is a very pink floral, with notes of peony, freesia, lily and phlox. I get a whiff of strawberry, but in general this is mainly a very pink floral, which transitions and has more of a honey/sugar note as it wears through. Good throw and wear length.

Peru balsam essential oil (Myroxylon balsamum), steam-distilled terebinth essential oil (Pinus palustris), pulverized organic fig and chestnut, handcrafted vegetal musk, blue chamomile and Roman chamomile essential oils (Matricaria recutita and Anthemis nobilis), hyssop essential oil (Hyssopus officinalis), clary sage essential oil (Salvia sclarea), blue yarrow essential oil (Achillea millefolium), valerian essential oil (Valeriana sp.), wild-harvested pinon pine resin (Trementina), chamomile flowers (Matricaria recutita), sarsaparilla root (Smilax regelii), wild-harvested cedar berries (Juniperus monosperma), organically grown orange peel from the TAL garden, juniper berries (Juniperus communis), bayberry root bark (Morella cerifera), crushed oak galls, organic rosehips (Rosa canina and Rosa rubiginosa), locally wild-harvested white sage leaf and white oak bark (many thanks to the genius loci of Los Angeles), and dandelion root (Taraxacum officinale). Each bottle contains a piece of lapis that has been washed in whiskey. Okay, so this smells like chestnuts, orange peel, sarsaparilla, chamomile, and a whole bunch of sage, and whiskey. It sort of golden, and homey, and full of bon homie. It's expansive, and fun, and in general all of the best parts of Jupiter's presence sans the ROCKSTAR/HEY BABY CAN I HIT THAT? In other words, this is more charm and less sleaze. The same way like a good looking suit on a guy does more than having him flex his pectoral muscles does to sell you on the whole package deal.

Honeyed Snake oil with a whiff of cinnamon. If you're into SO or honey, this seems like a match made in heaven. Medium throw and wear length.

Whiffs of lily and red musk. This is a very wispy white blend. Low throw and wear length.

Wet wool gardenia, jasmine and a whiff of something else. Gardenia is a spoiler on this one for me. Great throw and wear length, of course, those bastards.

If it be sinne to loue a louely Lad: Oh then sinne I, for whom my soule is sad. O would to God (so I might have my fee) My lips were honey, and thy mouth a Bee. Then shouldst thou sucke my sweete and my faire flower That now is ripe, and full of honey-berries. – Richard Barnfield Animalic, sensuous, and fierce: juniper berry and patchouli with leather, black musk, burgundy pitch, and honey-berries. Juniper, honey berries, whiffs of black musk and pitch. The leather is MIA. Honestly, this smells like a very clean (hey juniper and gin!) chypre, slightly soapy. Very gender neutral, but definitely a clean chypre for the men folk. Good throw and wear length.

Brian: “Lilith is always up for staging a hammy, fun photo. Here, I’ve found a Distracted American Child at Weihnachtsmarkt am Alexanderplatz and am very subtly and skillfully picking her pocket.” Lilith: “We saw a sign on the ground that said Pickpockets! – and me and Unkie decided to pose like what the picture looked like. He let me pickpocket him for real after we took the picture and he let me keep the money.” Neon pink grapefruit, lemon peel, petitgrain, and peppermint, all crunchy with sugar crystals.  Grapefruit, mint, sugar and lemon. This one is a very citrus based one, and honestly, very refreshing and pleasant. Medium throw and wear length.

Clear honey with a whiff of amber and red currant. It's mainly a honey with a touch of amber. Good throw and wear length.

Minty snow, touch of thyme and sandalwood. This sort of reminds me Death of a Gravedigger or Cloister Snowyard from the Salons. It's got that cool snowy mint, but touches of warmth underneath.

Fresh green bamboo, aquatic moss, and a grounding of patchouli. This is a very fresh cologne on me, very gender neutral. Ugh, I really am digging this. Medium throw and wear length.

This is mainly a dry spices (definitely cinnamon and allspice in there), woods, and no apple. It's still got a nice lather, after all these years. Hella cured soap. I mean 9 years later, and its still good.