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Ok. I have a confession. I love Sloth. Embarrassingly enough, it's one of the most "me" scents I've tried. It certainly helps that myrrh is my favorite resin. I've tried a myrrh single note (not the lab's), but it smelled cloyingly sweet and oddly like raisins. The vetiver's sharp/smoky/grassy/bonfire/dank basement qualities only serve to enhance the myrrh. It may start out old-spice manly and too sharp for me, but it soon becomes wearable. To me, this is a great comfort scent despite its intensity. It smells of relaxing, of burning incense in a room with curtains drawn on a sweltering day in summer. I can see how it might feel oppressive to some, but usually the effect is really quite cozy (and occasionally sexy in an earthy kind of way.) This is not one for daily wear, though. Note: Impolight's review is awesome.

Epitaph has lilies and roses "through a faint, ghostly mist." It doesn't smell aquatic to me though. or maybe I'm confusing that one with Eternal. That has stephanotis, cyclamen, heliotrope, white rose and gardenia. Anyway, one of these impressed me with its delicacy. Les Fleurs du Mal is mostly roses with lilac and wisteria. I liked this one but some people found it to be faintly soapy. Nocturne is violet, lilac and tuberose Twilight is lavender, jasmine, and honeysuckle Oh! And if you don't mind a tiny bit of leaf in the smell, I find The Rose (from Marchen) innocent and gorgeous.

The blackcurrant is very evident. This is tart and somewhat powdery, close to a traditional perfume. It's in the Odd Portents and On Darkness family, though this seems more simple. I like those two better, so I will not be getting a bottle.

I did a search and didn't turn up this specific request, so can anybody tell me some good GCs or LEs with moonflower? I tried the Phantom Wooer and it's just awesome. The creamy white scent there is gorgeous. I've also tried Nuit, (which has been discontinued anyway) but for some reason (probably sandalwood or the white musk) it turned bad after a while. Midnight (also DC'ed) was just a sharp floral mix and I couldn't really pick out the moonflower. So, recs?

Onions? Really? I get cucumber body wash with aloe and maybe grass, just a big juicy mix of everything green. It's almost a floral on me.

Initially this is a strong, sweet rose hip scent with a faint bit of dryer sheet. The dryer sheet almost disappears and I'm left with the smell of an old trunk crammed full of rose hip jelly and dried rose hips. Also there's some stone. This is simple but very pleasant. The rose hips are the most predominant note. There's the tiniest similarity to the Halloweenie Salon La Mort. It must be the rose and myrrh. Note: I'm trying this on a sweltering day, so it's probably stronger right now than it would be in cooler weather.

I didn't think I'd like this one so much. Ginger can sometimes smell like a cleaning agent on me, but this smells more like dried ginger. Dried ginger, something earthy (tumeric?), and some other spices I can't pick out. Anyhow, the cider note is wonderful and I want to eat my arm right now. Very autumn scent, now that I think about it, it reminds me of Blue Pumpkin Floss, but that was more cinnimony, and it turned into a candle like scent.

Resinous. Not church resins or hippie shop resins, but it smell like tree resin. I can tell there's some dragon's blood, pine and cedar here as well as something herbal. It smells very much like a damp forest, full of scorched patches. Actually, now that I think about it, it smells perfectly like a place where a dragon would live. Note: after a while the patchouli comes out. It smells a bit like baby powder, but aging should fix that.

This is just the faintest bit like Black Annis, except there's no civet. Just pine forest, faint woodsmoke, and musky anise. "Pine forest" might be a little misleading since it's light and airy rather than overwhelming pine. This is very pleasant.

A useful aid in study and ritual. Dot this oil onto your palms and then rub them together vigorously. Then inhale the scent to intensify your mental focus and clear your mind of errant thoughts. This blend will sometimes provoke sudden insight into problems, and consequentially can be used for inspiration. This is has a lemony smell and an immediate wakening/clearing effect. Then it wears off after a few minutes.

I've found this a little bit useful for getting ideas flowing when I'm already working on something. Too bad the smell (to me it's lavender and lime-eucalyptus shaving cream) is somewhat distracting.

Not quite carbonated, but I find The Silver Phoenix pretty. It *almost* has a carbonated smell to me.

Leipreachaun? It smells like gorgeous dark green clover with dirt, maybe? Possibly also clover flowers. I also get pipe tobacco (I don't even mind it amping) with some sweet resin. Also I think there might be either resin or leather. It's sweet, green, fresh, earthy and rugged. Perfect for early spring. I've tried Host of the Air for peat and clover, but sadly that turns a little soapy on me because of the lilies. Maybe I should beg the lab to release it again?

Mokiefraggle: Ok, the house cat thing for some reason made me think of The Illustrated Woman. Who knows? The girlish tomboy reminds me of Liz. Also try Hermia, if you like sweet pink things. It fits the theme if nothing else. Also, maybe The Black Cat? A lot of people don't like it because of the rose(?), catnip, and (I think) black musk, but it does fit the theme of someone mischievous and cat-like with a temper. Bastet could fit as well.

This is a floral scent that immediately reminds me of The Host of the Air, (the same greenness but no lily). There's a pinkness to this scent and I can recognize the apple blossom from Pomona and Adoration of the Mi-Go. There is a bit of fruitiness to the scent as well- the comparison to Golden Apple of the Sun is accurate. A dark, scratchy green, a pink floral, moss and some fruit resembling apples. It fades but it doesn't vanish. Not my favorite ever but certainly nice for spring. I'm undecided. Similar Scents: Adoration of the Mi-Go, The Host of the Air, Golden Apple of the Sun, Leanan Sidhe, Phantom Queen (to the best of my memory), Hermia

I'm not an O lover, but I really like A Wonderful Light from the Yules and many people compare that to O.

I get pumpkin spice with creamy coconut and some fennel. I've made some fennel seed/ spice oatmeal cookies that smelled a lot like this. It smells good, except I've never liked pumpkin spice very much and this has a weird toasted note that I really don't care for. This has an amazing throw.

I wouldn't exactly call this scent bubbly. This is dark and it smells brooding (ok, maybe a little like ginger-ale too, but this is not a bright and happy ginger scent compared to Gnome.) It smells a lot like Iron Phoenix to my nose, except here I can pick individual notes out with more ease. There's red ginger, crushed peppercorns, huge chunks of myrrh resin, something a little citrusy (neroli?), and some tobacco darkening it up. This is very promising for people who like spice.

I don't get detergent at all. There's a lot of floral initially, but it never gets too sharp or overwhelming. It's almost candy-like. The plum is juicy and gorgeous. There's also a hint of powder from the spanish moss and a hint of spice from the vetiver. It's dark but not in a heavy or opaque sense. Gorgeous. My skin does eat it a bit. The scent hangs around for a long time, but only in a flat, extremely close to the skin way. Then again, it sometimes reappears when I get warmer.

For me, the berry and ozone in Autumn and Winter overwhelmed the leaf note. The winter wind smelled a lot like an aquatic, turning the scent into a wet leaf smell. I can't say whether it would turn to screeching cologne on you, but on me the faint sweetness of the berries kept it from turning exactly to an aquatic cologne though it was heading in that direction.

In decant: I have no idea what this is except that it's light and I like it. On, I'm getting the impression that this would smell good on a guy. It's a clean sort of scent, though it doesn't smell like soap at all. I suspect a light musk, some kind of clear resin, juniper berries, and possibly juniper branches as well. I don't really get metal. If it's there at all it's very subtle and silvery. Very clean, very fresh.

Musky and dark. I'm reminded both of Haunted and Creature Feature, though this is slightly woodier than both of those. Possibly because of the vetiver and the moss? It's a nice dark resiny mossy thing that's just a tiny bit sweet (tobacco?). It does end up getting too powdery for me. I think a decant will be enough. By the way, layered with Most Magnificent Christmas Tree, this smells like a way more complex and gorgeous Black Forest.

At first I get a scent like lime candy which must be the davana. Almost immediately it turns into mint (later I can tell that it's really eucalyptus but only because mint isn't woody). Anything resembling candy has gone by this time and I smell subtle florals instead. There's still a faint lemon/lime smell that reminds me of a shaving cream. There's some freshness to this scent, like a chill morning. I get the idea of strange greenish morning light washing over everything. Nice enough, but I'd never use a whole bottle. Plus, I'd rather not smell like shaving cream.

The sweetness here reminds me of the sweet sap note in Slobbering Pine. This seems deeper and more complex than Slobbering Pine, though. In fact, this seems deeper and more complex than any lab evergreen scent I've tried. There is cedar, but it doesn't take over the whole scent like it usually does on me. This is pleasant, but I can probably be content with a decant. Edit: As time goes on, this gets sweeter until I can tell what people were talking about when they mentioned confectioner's sugar. Since the pine's gotten lighter, this is really pleasant and may be a bottle buy after all.

I think this is what a florescent light would smell like. White mint, ozone, a perfumy undertone from the white amber and possibly some eucalyptus. The eucalyptus is not the nose-clearing stuff I'm familiar with, though. This is fairly faint on me, but as it starts to dry down, I love the way the amber and ozone turns sweet, but this is really too faint for me. I prefer Ultraviolet.