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I get a blast of the lab's almond note, which goes to syrupy fake cherry on my skin, then it's layered with stale coffee cake. As it settles that combo burns off until I'm left with a sort of generic Halloween candle vibe. The longer it's on skin, the more it settles and the more I like it, but I don't see myself reaching for it either.

Occasionally I run into a blend that gives me a really intense mental image of theme-and this is one of them; this is October in a vial. I get a blast of pumpkin right away, then the candle wax which makes this smell like a jack o lantern. The peach starts coming forward. Unfortunately the peach is a little too strong for me and makes this more of a 'thematic' blend than a wearable one for me, but this is such a cool oil. Even with the peach this conjures up October to my nose.

this is an exceptionally rare bpal. this got the 'midnight stamp of approval'-and my bf doesn't like bpal pretty much across the board. it's is definitely in the scent family that people call masculine-on me this is a slightly less sweet/spicy take on the way that cloved cigerrettes used to leave me smelling. if nothing else i do like it for nostalgia reasons. if this had a booze note this is what clubbing used to smell like for me.

all I get out of this is bright red, sweet fruits and a hint of grass-which I'm guessing is the holly. this is very pretty, and fluffy. this is going to be very nice for spring, and i think that is one i would actually use of a bottle of-so it's staying. it does feel vaguely like a middle ground between the second of the two spirits and midwinter's eve.

This is so much lighter and cleaner than I thought it would be-and it's amazing. Bordering on an aquatic, this is a graveyard during spring thaw. I grew up on a flood plain, and this was what mid-March smelled with-fresh, clean, WET soil, early flowers, and fresh air. There's something sort of fizzy about this scent that makes it kind of playful. The longer it's on, the more the fruits and roses come out. The fizz wears off and the mud/dirt note recedes (which makes me sort of sad, I loved that note when it was forward) and I swear I start reading tobacco. This is amazing all the way around. This is officially the second lunacy I've liked and that's actually worked on my skin.

Hellfire. I love the way that it smells on me, but not the blisters it leaves. Dorian. I don't really like the way that it smells on me and it makes me sneeze. I don't know if it's an allergy, but the lab's snow notes are almost always instant headache triggers for me.

And there will always be the blend that will break all the rules. The lab's snow note is horrible on me, to the point of being pain inducing. If there's a snow note in there that other people are picking up on, I'm not getting it at all. Or any white florals, but a lot more of the white florals that normally hate me seem to be playing nice on my skin lately. I agree that I'm not getting plum out of this blend-it's candied strawberries. It reminds me a lot of the sugared berries I leave in the fridge to break down before I make jam. I like this note more in Mania, but this is nice too. If I try hard I can get the florals muttering in the background but the throw is entirely berries and sugar. Very young, and very early to midsummer, not midwinter.

Very pretty, and one of few 'pretty' blends I feel like keeping in my collection. White florals almost never work on me, going too floral or too intense. But this is a fairly close to skin, light, early spring/easter feeling. It reminds me a lot of vampire tears, which is my default white floral blend but this almost simple enough to stand out. Not quite a single note but still a very pared down blend on my skin-which I prefer for my florals.

It seems that I've missed reviewing this one. This is pretty much straight musk on my skin, and I'm guessing at least one of them is brown. This is slightly fuzzy and quite warm. It goes kind of sweet after awhile. This is a pretty laid musk blend on my skin and I do enjoy it.

gingerbread poppet. this is pretty much a (very slightly) spicier gingerbread poppet on my skin. then it takes a hard sharp turn into ivory soap, which makes no sense but shrug.

Hi. I'm a pine tree. Don't you wish you could smell like me? Did I mention I'm a giant, demonic pine tree that's going to destroy not only the other notes in the blend but slowly creep up and wipe up any other scent in the room? How about waking you up? Didn't I warn you that I was going to wake you up in the middle of the night? ...Yep STRONG single note pine. As much as I love pine this proves to me I never need a SN.

This is screamingly citrus. There's a very faint floral edge that does tune done the sharper citruses, and the mint is a sensation at the end of the blend more than a scent. Normally rose in any form is a deathnote for me but I'm not getting any of it here. I do like this one, but I do think it's going to fair better when it's not 12 degrees out.

I haven't done this in awhile either, and I feel that my personality has shifted since I did it last. Sign-wise I'm an aries with my moon in gemini and cancer rising. I still have a strong drive towards social science, though it's been years since I finished my masters-though I find my interests drifting towards the 'darker'. I plan on getting my PhD in death studies if I ever go that far. I'm a knitter and a horror blogger. I've been told that I have a fairly dualistic personality-the first impression is that I run on the aggressive/dominant side but I have a healer/comforter streak that's almost as dominant. I'm actually much more tuned into people's emotions than I think people are aware and I'm working on acknowledging that more often. That said I do tend to run towards talkative and impatient. I'm fairly introverted and people keep aligning me with water- I'm very 'autumn' in terms of coloration and I do best at dusk time-wise. I'm most active between 3 pm and midnight. I am fairly nerdy but as I mentioned before most of my fandoms run to dark/horror. I cook, almost obsessively, and I'm a canner. I'm much harder on myself than what people think I am, and I place a lot of weight on earning what you get out of life.

Moody, dusty chocolate. This reminds me a lot of baking chocolate, really expensive good quality baking chocolate. There's something going definitely to 'dust' right away and then it goes a little woody. Something is making this slightly sweeter, so it starts smelling really good, really, really dark chocolate. I didn't think tootsie rolls until I started reading reviews but I can definately see it. Eventually it starts phasing between an incensy type light tonka/patchouli and then goes back very quickly into the dark chocolate. I'm not sure that I would want to smell like this enough to need more than my tester (especially since I have imps in my collection that are years old and are only now at the 3/4 mark) but I seem to like 'moody' lately so I think I'll hang on to it.

Imp: milk chocolate, tea, and lemon wet/dry: if by milk chocolate you mean lemon lifesavers, sure. I actually like the citrusy blends so I'll probably hang on to it, but this is totally not what I was expecting. It morphs so that sometimes it's milky lemon, sometimes it's vanilla lemon, sometimes it's just aggressively lemon. It wants to go to Pledge, but the other notes keep it from becoming too fake.

This is one of the very rare violet scents that work on me (skin test everything. seriously.) I get the holiday sweets (like opening a box of ribbon candy), something that hints at smokey (the chimney dust?) and the sugared violets. I do like this is and it reminds me of a candy that I can't place. I don't see myself reaching for this, ever, but I like it a lot more than I probably should-and it is nice to know that sugared violets don't go to death-stank on my skin. (Also, yes, this is sugar skull and violets.)

chimera sometimes wants to be chai on me, sometimes it wants to be gummy bears. hellfire was the closest to the perfect 'actually spicy' blend on my chem as opposed to spicy but wants to smell like other things-but i was allergic to it. clemence is pretty much straight cinnamon on me though sometimes it wants to pull soapy. also it's been a very, very long time since i've tested it but i feel like plunder has a spice and a tea note.

Nobility and haughtiness befitting the Antichrist: sage, carnation and cedar with lavender, vanilla, white musk and leather. If anything this smells like Sweet Honesty threw a temper tantrum. On my skin it's both very young and very moody. The leather is keeping the white musk from going out of control (or unwashed dirty) but this is very, very perfumy on me. I don't see us getting along. Eventually the ceder and the sage pull a little bit forward-I would love this just for the leather, sage, and cedar if the rest would get along better with my skin.

I completely forgot the notes list when I first put this one, so that may or may not be a good thing for reviewing purposes. in the imp: musky herbaliness. wet: more musky herbaliness. This is a bizarre one because there's a scent I really like lurking underneath a nasty medicinal quality I very much don't like [big surprise there. this is a dragon's blood blend]. dry: short drydown is the same nasty top scent but the longer it's on, I start getting the resinous ambery quality I love so much from Nephilim. I'm still getting whiffs of dragon's blood which is a really hard note for me to wear. If the dragon's blood were fainter or held more in check this is would be a definite keeper. Right now I'm thinking I don't love it enough to keep-not with having a bottle and a half of Nephilim, which works much, much better on my chemistry. I think this one will end up in my friend's enabling box.

gore-shock. it took me a minute to realize what this reminds me of. this is gore-shock minus the heavier 'gore' notes. i actually really like this one, much more than i thought i would. eta: sigh. and then it morphs. in the imp-darker than i thought it would be, and darker than i remember stone notes being. wet-smoky, with the stone accord and a little bit of blood. something is reading as leather as well. this is masculine without being overpowering with my chem. dry-the stone pulls forward and starts to read as florals...and then there's an aquatic note. which rarely works well on my skin and gives me headaches. I keep sniffing at it like I'm hoping it'll pull back towards the wet stage. normally i would give a blend like this another skin test but i do so badly with the lab's water note that i don't dare.

The note list on this is completely different from what I expected. And look, one of the five blends with rose that I can wear. This is Tavern of Hell's just as sexy cousin, just sexy in different ways. This reads as a sort of yellow, lush floral on my skin. I like this one, a lot, and it feels like a very classic perfume blend. It's syrupy. The vetiver is keeping this slow and heavy. If you like Tavern but not the booze note, this is a very close family member.

A venerable voodoo blend, used for purification of the spirit and to amplify positive personal power. the impression I got opening this imp was...Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry era. Don't ask. Scentwise I get the feeling that if Doc Constantine took a bath and put on some Goldbond powder. It doesn't smell bad but I would layer it with something to dirty it up a bit if I wanted to wear it as a skin scent.

...This is amazing. Seriously, this has joined my list of 'must have more' blends. in the imp: very floral and green, bright. This does not feel 'nightmarish' to me, and I don't normally do well with light florals and green-the only real exception is Vampire Tears, so I use that as my comparision point. wet: Very light and still very green. I'm not sure what's keeping this from amping into screaming white floral hell, but this very much behaving itself. I'm starting to get the fruit gums. Dry: Holy crap. This is amazing. I get the florals but as a background, and early dry is Vampire Tears and vanilla. I would love if it just stayed at that point. But then it slowly starts to moprh into vanillas and a much more restrained version of the cherry note from Suck It. I want to roll in this stuff.

Screaming, high whiteness like psych horror was. Layered with a patchuli heavy blend the whiteness is cut down to a dull roar and I can start to get some of the darker notes nibbling at the edges. Definately not a good blend on me.

in the imp-sharp. very sharp. wet-wow. this is not what I was expecting at all. Sugared greenery. This is actually very nice. There doesn't seem to be the white musk that sneaks into a lot of green blends, and little to no florals. Whatever is making this sugary on my skin is also keeping it out of migraine territory. Dry: Warning-this is the first day of my cycle so I want to retest this later and see if this is the problem. It keeps alternating between this gorgeous sugared woods and greenery scent with a hint of berry and bug repellant. It seems like the longer it's on the less bug repellent I'm getting and it's settling into gorgeous. I need to retest this when my hormones aren't at their most unbalanced because I'm going to put money on that being what's amping one of the herbs into Cutter repellant territory.