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on me this smells like an aquatic citrus-floral. sweet from the florals but sharp from the ozone. it reminds me of commercial perfume, as ozones often do. i cant really make out separate notes in this, and i can't smell the violet at all. i like it better than some aquatics i've tried, but it's not really a keeper for me personally.

oberon smells masculine to me. it smells just like powdery dryer sheets on my skin. or detergent. must be the juniper? this isn't really me so it'll go to swaps.

wow what an interesting scent. i am mostly getting the blackcurrant, lavender and ozone, i think. it reminds me of something but i cant place it. almost like those blackcurrant candies that come in a tin-berry plus something slightly sharp/tart, which i believe is the ozone. the only downside is, i feel like this is fading fast on my skin.

i definitely sense the mandarin, tonka, saffron, black tea, tobacco leaf, and red musk, with the mandarin, tonka and tea being most prominent. kind of reminds me of a perfumey orange tea, if there were such a thing. it's very light and pretty with slight spiciness underneath. a keeper!

thank god the cedar/sage isn't overpowering in this. i get warm spicy carnationy-leather. in other words, total hotness. this is very unisex, so dudes could pull it off too. it kind of reminds me of mac mv3, which i love, which is a vanilla, leather, vetiver + other stuff blend. i am so thrilled when leather blends work on me.

i had to look up cassia, i don't think i'd ever tried a scent with this note. i am really ambivalent when it comes to foody scents, and cakey is usually even worse, but i was drawn to this monster bait. it reminds me of a cheese danish with cinnamon-maple-y stuff and some berries...maybe? it smells SO familiar, but i can't quite put my finger on it. i am undecided as to whether or not i should keep it. i do like it, but i don't know if i love it. i'll have to try it a few more times.

this smells EXACTLY like gaultier classique to me, without the strong alcohol component. whose notes are- Orange Flower, Bulgarian Rose, Italian Mandarin, Star Aniseed, Orchid, Iris, Ylang-Ylang, Indian Ginger, Soft Vanilla, Woody Amber. this doesn't smell that rosy to me, but does smell like a spicy floral-oriental. i love gaultier classique, and therefore love othello! i dont find this to be that masculine either.

foody scents are hit and miss for me, but i like eat me! it's got the creamy vanilla-cake going on with the berry to tart it up a bit, and i swear there's a slight amber or spice scent i'm getting too. not sure i'd wear this often, but it smells really lovely for a foody scent ETA: later when it's more worn-off i get the plasticky smell i got from midway. but in the early stages it smells pretty.

i got this one in my hopes of the orange blossom smelling good on me, but alas it's just ok. i can smell a candy-orange scent, the tea and a weirdness to it which i assume is the pepper? it also has a bubblyness to it, for lack of a better word. i don't smell a typical orange blossom fron this at all, which is unfortunate for me because i like the typical tart orange blossom floral-scent. this is more sweet orange candy on me. it reminds me of a scented doll.

anything with poppy/opium smells hippie to me.

i normally love orange blossom, but for some reason this scent is bubblegummy sweet on me, with a hint of mustiness, maybe from the sandalwood? i'm not sure, but i will have to re-try this. re-try, yeeears later after receiving a frimp from the lab: i get sweet honey and orange blossom with a hint of rose. it reminds me of rose flavored turkish delight. the rose goes slightly sour on me. i love rose, but bpal's rose can be beautiful or sour depending on the blend. the orange blossom and honey gets very very sweet after being on the skin about 15 minutes. far too sweet for me.

bastet is another spicy floral that i love. it's very warm and musky, and the lotus isn't too promiment, like it has been in other scents where it gets the bubblegum-y smell. i wouldn't even know lotus was in here if i just sniffed it. a possible big bottle purchase.

Lush, creamy vanilla and the honey of the sweetest kiss smeared with the vital throb of husky clove, swollen red cherries, but darkened with the vampiric sensuality of vetiver, soporific poppy and blood red wine, and a skin-light pulse of feral musk. i should stay clear of poppy or opium scents, i know i should, but...i still wanted to try this one. still the poppy comes through too much making this smell too headshop-ish for my tastes.

ooooh i love this one. i thought it might be overly floral, but it's really not. it's very warm and spicy, kind of a spicy floral/floral-oriental. reminds me of haunted with florals added, like a richer more complex haunted. definitely getting a big bottle of this one!

i know the only thing similar to sin and haunted is the amber, but this reminds me a lot of haunted, just with a spiciness added in. the sandalwood is faint enough not to give me a headache, and so is the patchouli! the amber and cinnamon come out on my skin the most, so i love this one! cinnamon can be hit or miss but the amber makes it work i think. it's very spicy and sexy- it makes me think of dark red.

this is one weird scent! first it starts of REALLY nutty, beyond just an 'almond-type' scent, it actually smells like nuts. then that fades a bit and the spices and florals(?) come through. the description doesn't say florals, but i sense some sort of floral. once the nuttiness calms down, there is a resulting sweetness that comes through. this is very interesting, but i'm not sure i'd wear it too much. it's basically a warm golden scent with lots of nuts.

i love neroli so much, but am not too familiar with bpal's neroli. this was a lot sweeter than i would've expected-perhaps it's the ylang ylang, which i am not overly familar with either. it's a pretty floral, and a bit sweet. with neroli i expected a more tart-sweetness, but it wasn't like that at all. still a pretty scent though, but a bit too floral-sweet for my tastes.

A pounding heartbeat coalesced into scent: demonic passion and brutal sexuality manifested through myrrh, red patchouli, cognac, honey, and tuberose and geranium in a breathy, panting veil over the darkest body musk. i thought i liked this one, then just re-tried it and all i am getting is a strong pencil-shaving sandalwoody-smell with a powdery overtone, which makes no sense given the notes, but my skin chemistry can be a mess sometimes. this one will go to the swap pile.

i dont know what happened-the first time i tried this it was nice, today i try it again and ugh, it doesn't work on me :/ the florals turn very cloying and sweet on me and it's giving me a headache.

i get a strong patchouli when i first put this on. then the musks come out more and a slightly citrus/herbal/aquatic(?) scent. it smells very much like commercial perfume on me and is very strong. it has a strong biting scent to it too. maybe that's the poppy? i dont really think this one's for me.

smells like bubblegum and pencil shavings on me. funny, i usually only get pencil shavings from frankincense. off to the swaps with this one.

hrm. im not sure how i feel about this one. part of me likes it and part of me doesn't. it's a very soft light iridescent rosy scent. maybe aquatics or soft flowers with rose? but it's the kind of rose that turns on my skin a bit. many roses work on me, but this is one of the few that doesn't quite do it.

this smelled pretty much exactly how i thought it would- mostly lavender that's softened a bit by the other notes. masculine without being 'manly' and very fresh. it smells just like a lavender cologne that caswell massey had when i worked there.

ahhh i cant express how much i love this one! rich warm amber and carnation are the most prominent on my skin. it's a slightly spicy amber on me, and i need big bottle stat.

this smells like commercial men's cologne at first. the color that comes to mind with this is yellow-green. im not sure why. it's very fresh and sharp and now that it's dried down i smell soapy and has a lavender-ish smell with something sweet in the background which may be the jasmine or r ose geranium.