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Honey, hay, and brown musk. This one is a fuzzy, happy, comforting brown musk. You say oxen, but it makes me think horses. Its the smell of a nice warm animal. Good throw and wear length.

Manly aquatic. Sea, salt, and wood. Smells like a manly sea musk. Great throw and wear length.

Beeswax, honey, and a whiff of lemon. So yes, honeyed beeswax and lemon. Lemon Scented Sticky Bat flew into a beeswax puddle. Good throw and wear length.

White musk with a whiff of cherry blossom. It's definitely a cherry blossom/white musk blend. Low throw, good wear length.

Jasmine and vanilla devolves to jasmine getting super drunk on whiskey creams and passing out on a sandalwood floor after she danced her heart out. The life of a jasmine flapper is hard work! Medium throw and wear length.

White tea, warm sandalwood and a whiff of juniper. This is mainly a tea-sandalwood blend on me. It smells like nicely polished wooden floors (if said floors were like antique sandalwood) and you're visiting a tea house. Fancy. Medium throw and wear length.

Evergreens, snow, and subtle florals. This is definitely a winter in transition toward spring. Where the crocuses and other flowers are coming up through the cold and snow. Good throw and wear length.

Peony, a ton of melon, faint citrus, and a note of watery bamboo. This is a cool melon blend, with that fruity peony blush that some very ripe green melons get. Cool, delicate, fruity. Good throw and wear length.

Clove tea and a whiff of leather. This is basically an amped up on steroids black tea for me. Masculine, definitely. Love the dry spice clove throughout though. Medium throw and wear length.

I get mainly hazelnut, coffee, cream, a whiff of patchouli and cassia, and a ton of vanilla on the drydown. This one is a sophisticated coffee cream blend. Very gender neutral, and definitely ending up closer to the masculine territory. This is manly coffee. It actually makes me think of Turkish coffee. There's a whiff of the sage on the drydown which gives it some savoriness and exotic feel. Great throw and wear length.

Woods and smoke. There's something here, which I think is the wood moss, that adds a note of aquatic freshness to the mahogany that ends up coding like the chemicalness that I tend to associate with black leather, so this is more of a mahogany leather blend on me. Great throw and wear length.

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Red Patchouli and nutmeg. This is basically a red patchouli blend on me. Good throw and wear length.

Carnation, spices (pepper, clove, and a whiff of patchouli), and a touch of leather and amber. This one is a warm spicy carnation blend. More sophisticated than a Luper. I would categorize this as gender neutral oriental, and I think it would be absolutely banging on the right fella with the right skin chemistry. Medium throw and wear length.

Coconut, amber, and fresh green grasses. On wet, I smelled grasses, orange blossom, and a whiff of vanilla. Very spring like. As it dries, you get the coconut and fig come out, giving it a more tropical blend, and the amber warms it up a fair deal so it ends up being more like an early summer. Delightful for those that love spring, coconut blends, and just want something tropical. Good throw and wear length.

Myrrh, frankincense, cassia, and lilies. This smells like a Victorian gentleman's cologne. Whose into Egypt, wearing a linen shirt without a cravat, and in the evenings, bending you over his desk and administering a little discipline with a papyrus switch while he chews on a cardamom pod. Medium throw and wear length.

It starts off as fairly fruity sugar, almost toothachingly so, and ends up a smoky sweet molasses sugar. Light, layerable, and sexy. Medium throw and wear length.

Rum, dry cinnamon bark, and smoky vetiver. Ugh, this reminds me to Bay Rum but drier. UNF. So good. Medium throw and wear length.

Salty aquatic overlay on honey, leather, and wax. I find this to be a gender-neutral, slightly masculine blend. It's like if the Light of Men's Lives went to sea and lived the pirate life for a while. Medium throw and wear length.

Orchid, wisteria and incense. This smells like a purple orchid incense. Medium throw and wear length.

An offering made in the depths of the year’s darkness to honor the Solstice sun.

Carnation, hay, white musk and a touch of clove. This one is a white musk floral with carnation, hay, and clove. It's sort of both cool and warm at the same time. Medium throw and wear length.

Dark musk, apricot, and a hint of vanilla. This one is a sexy apricot blend. It sticks pretty close to your skin, but its like a skin musk with a low throw. Meaning, someone has to come up and snuggle you but once they do, they'll fall prey to this scent's charm.

Beeswax, jasmine, and amber. With a hint of peppercorn. This one is a complex beeswax with jasmine and hints of other things. It's definitely a sexy beeswax. Good throw and wear length.

Dark, smoky carnation and a whiff of incense. Good throw and wear length.