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Clear, sweet, fresh, green. New-cut grass, dew-covered clover with a pale fruit tinge. Youth and springtime. Vibrant.

It has quite a bit of strength – throw and duration both good.

ADDED April 27:

Budding Moon is absolutely not the type of thing I wear often, in fact I already sold off my bottle and just kept about 1.5mls worth in a travel bottle.

But it's just perfect for this sunny day! I woke up craving something springy and floral, and this totally fit the bill. It's got a lovely soft clear sweetness to it, and is quite refreshing. Just makes me want to sing nonsense songs and make daisy chains in the grass. I can't pick out any notes - I'm not so good with identifying florals. It's got a nice throw, and has lasted quite a long time today. Very pretty for just the right type of day. I don't regret selling the bottle, though, because I won't be in the mood for it all that often!

Vanilla, musk, powder. I'm not sure what 'mineral' smells like, as so many others have mentioned, but I am smelling something I don't recognize, maybe that's it.

This is very soft and comforting, yet oddly - professional. Most vanilla sweetstuffs I prefer to wear at home or to bed, cuddled under a blanket with hot tea or cocoa. But this one is definitely one I can wear to work. It's not too sweet, cool, but very vanilla.

Long duration, not a long throw but the waft is wonderful - it's hovering around just under my nose all day.

Not a very strong scent. On wet it's a light, pale rose.

As it dries, the rose is enveloped in a base of earth. The resins, whatever they are, are keeping the rose from dominating. Almost woodsy. It's very beautiful, subdued, understated, but alluring. Some roses tickle and turn sharp in my nose - this one doesn't.

This is a quiet, romantic, classic scent. I hope it strengthens and lasts - I would love to try this alone (and not shortly after getting a noseful of red lantern!)

Forgive my brevity, but I'm trying to get these in in the hopes they might help someone buy more in the next hour or so!

Bottle: fruity/flowers.

On wet: Very light jasmine in there, but not overpowering WHAM jasmine like it usually does to me. It's very subdued for a jasmine. Still fruity and floral. Not getting any sexy dirty musk yet, but....

Drying down: getting more earthy and grounded. Still sweet and pretty, but something.... sharp and tangy creeping in. Oooh... there's the musk.

This a pretty sophisticated, pretty, womanly scent.

Upon opening the bottle, aroma of caramel and butter. Sweet, decadent, dark butter - as opposed to the pumpkin patch butter, if that makes sense.

As it dries, it's definitely still rich but not sweet. Smoky. Burnt caramel and smoke. No more butter. Still waiting for the coconut.

Dry... I can hardly smell it 'cuz I've had my nose glued to my wrist. Breathe... stick my nose in a glass of scotch, and....

Dark, smokey, rich, decadent, illicit, shameful. Coffee and caramel and booze and dark wood stained with ages of smoke and grime.

Oh lord this is good.

edited to add: good? what the... this is sinful. it's just getting better and better by the minute. for the first time in history I'm contemplating a 3rd bottle.

Carnivale is a frantic swirl of sensory input. Spicy, fruity, tons of fun. Colorful. I think it's the carnation that I'm really taken with. As many others have noted, this doesn't stay constant but twirls and changes!

My only disappointment with it is that it vanishes much too quickly - I find myself re-applying every couple of hours. Worth it, though.

I'm not sure how I've managed to not review this for so long. Beatrice is a scent I find myself craving often. Beatrice is sweet, soft, vanilla-floral. The flowers are indeed rare, or just so well-blended that I can't pick out any particular familiar one.

She is innocence. Pure of heart, sweet and lovely.

Beatrice has a good strong throw and lasts hours.

Very perfume-y, and definitely noir-ish. This is a nighttime scent only for me, if I try it in the day I feel like I’m wearing a theatrical costume. But at night, especially in a dark lounge, it’s perfect…. Murder is just a smoke swirl away!

This last forever, too – very potent.

Earthy, spicy and just perfume.

Works. Yep it does. I’ve tried it twice, and both times I’ve slept fairly solidly. It lasts quite a while, I took someone’s advice and put a couple of drops straight on my pillow. The couple of times I did wake up, I just rolled over and could smell it strongly again.

I honestly don’t know what it smells like, when I use it I’m not thinking of notes, but of losing consciousness as quickly as possible.

Rose. This is deep. Not fresh, not green, but gorgeously black. It’s very deep, very three-dimensional for what is ostensible a single ‘note’. It’s not for the faint of heart – there’s no wearing just a little Peacock Queen. If it’s on, you’re making a bold statement, a statement which says ‘Hmph’ while looking down it’s nose at the little people.

In the bottle: What everyone else said. Jasmine.

Wet on skin - Jasmine. (good thing I love jasmine!)

Drying down - it's turning into a different kind of floral now. Still floral, but less jasmine-y. There's something like a grape undertone (someone else mentioned this too). I don't know what moonflower smells like, maybe that?

After an hour, so far, no sandalwood or frankincense, as I was hoping for. I think my nose is sensitive to the florals and has a hard time finding the other notes. I'll let this one age a bit more on my skin and see if it morphs any more.

This has turned rather nice though. I do like it.

Afraid I can't help yet, but I will say that caramel is the main reason I jumped right onto Red Lantern on the valentine's update!

Wet: The almond is strong first, although I think my nose is particularly susceptible to almond. As it dries, the other notes come forward and blend well. I adore cardamom and wish it were a bit more prominent, but it is there. This is a scent of strength. Very grounded, very confident. Good strong throw and lasts 6-8 hours.

First on: Something in this reminds me of Nosferatu. Like Nosferatu made with a bright, fruity wine instead of it’s dry, sanguineous wine. Maybe the herbal notes are doing this.

As it dries, the fruit becomes more prominent. Grape perhaps, or cranberry. It’s still not too sweet though, which is nice. No sugar added! Throw is light to medium, and staying power about 3-4 hours.

This is a very light, clear, dry berry scent. If berries normally go sugary on you, this is worth a try

After the reviews came in, and I saw a few bottles popping up on the sales/swaps, I got a bit nervous.. I was already skeptical on the evergreen notes, which hasn't done so well in the past on me.

The florals in this definitely soften down the fir, though. This is an extremely well-blended scent of florals and evergreen tang, I can't pick out individual notes. It is wintry, exhilarating, invigorating. It has a long throw and lasts a good 6-8 hours.

I’m usually nervous about trying really popular scents for the first time. It’s kind of like hearing too much about a really great movie before you see it – you often end up disappointed. So I was expecting to be somewhat disappointed in Snow White, especially since light and milky/creamy scents haven’t done so well by me yet.

Wrong. This lives up to every fabulous review of it.

It’s very coconut on me. Not cheap fake tanning-oil coconut, but a creamy, billowing coconut full of innocence, warmth and light. I can’t discern other specific notes, perhaps a bit of pineapple, except to know that there is something other than coconut in there that blends to create an incredibly unique scent. After a couple of hours I think I detect some light florals too.

Snow White has some long strong arms! It’s got a long reach, and staying power. Three hours later it’s still wafting up to me, almost as strong as when I first applied it.

Genius.

First on, it's pine and warm spices. Very different than I expected, nothing berry-like about it. This is about the most 'Christmassy' smelling scent yet - greens, firesides, candles, and baking smells all rolled up.

The throw is strong, and duration quite long. This is very seasonal, and I doubt I'd wear it much outside of holiday-type events, but I'll definitely keep the imp, and perhaps order a bottle next year if it comes around again.

A delicious vanilla peppermint without too much sweetness. This was light and airy and very holiday-ish on me. Sadly, it didn't last very long. And, ultimately, I think mint is just not my thing, sadly. However it is absolutely lovely for those of you that do get along with mint.

Throw was short, duration about two hours.

In the bottle, I could barely smell a thing - quite surprising, as I was sort of expecting that cold musty blast you'd expect when dragging open the door to a crypt in the dead of night. Nope.

On the skin, though, it really took off - strong, and lasting. Pure, wet, earthy soil. This is really amazing stuff. I'm looking forward to layering with scents that I like but are too... fresh or fruity, hoping it will bring them down to a wearable gravity.

Of course, I expect I'll be wearing it straight up a lot too!

Mm, if that’s what orchid smells like, I like it. I’m still learning my florals so I don’t think I can pick out the individual notes. This has an ‘out of focus’ feel to it. That’s a terrible choice of words, but I can’t find another way to describe it – ‘soft’ isn’t quite it. As opposed to a sharp clear note, that some others describe. Maybe that’s the musk muddling things up. Anyway, it’s a lovely softish musky floral, but with an attitude – dark and exotic, yet comforting. And a touch of something that smells like vanilla? That can’t be right…. Something in this reminds me of Beatrice, just a little, but less innocent, more devious.

It has good throw and staying power – 5+ hours.

Morgause is a fruity floral on my skin. I think I'm getting jasmine pretty strongly, sweet. It definitely does invoke the aura of 'purple'. Not getting any of the incense, though, which I'd hoped for to bring this to earth.

My skin is just eating it up, though. It may be the extremely dry weather, I'll try again when I'm feeling more balanced.

First on my skins, it's a sharp hit of cinnamon - tingling in the nose cinnamon. After a few minutes the rose starts to step forward. This is a sweet, cheerful rose with cinnamon. I never would have thought those two notes would go together so well. Another pleasant surprise!

It stays close to the skin and fades pretty quickly, within two hours. I'll try slathering and see if I can get it to stick around, it's quite pretty.

Yum! It goes on buttery-spicy. The sandalwood is a wonderful match to the pumpkin. Dry, it is warm, spicy, cheer mixed with firelogs. Wonderful for a bright cold winter day.

Gifted to me by a Fantastic Forumite. Thanks again!

Until now I have studiously avoided anything with patchouli in it. However, I’m a staunch and stereotypical Virgo, and if the Lab has decreed that Virgos are represented by patchouli, then who am I to argue?

When I first got it I dabbed just a bit on. Earthy, musty, more so than I would expect given the notes. I put it away for a later try.

All week I’ve been feeling disconnected. Not quite confident in my decisions, a little discombobulated. Last night I was looking for something to ground me, bring me back to myself. I reached for the Virgo. Something about the earthiness of this resonated with me. I could smell the apple if I tried, and the patchouli if I thought about it, but overall it was a well blended scent – all the notes came together. It was grounding, focusing – just what I was looking for. I woke up today confident.

I probably wouldn’t wear this out in public, but it will be a perfect meditation scent. I’ll use it ritually to center myself when I drift.

If this ever becomes available again I’ll definitely get as much as I can.

Sugary berries. Sweet sweet sweet. I can see how others have gotten bubblegum from it - it's definitely berries, but with a strong dose of sugar added. It's a fun scent, but not something I'd reach for often. This might be good on a cold winter's day when I'm missing summertime.

It's pretty strong and lasts several hours.