Deceitfuldescender

So Eve does not work on me because I amp the rose and it becomes cloying. Eve WSFU opens up almost as cloying, super sweet and very spicy and just not good for me.

But.

Dry down is different, I was not sure what to expect from the sage but it reads as a subdued earthy balancer to rich not overly sweet incense, spices and a dab of honey. Dry down is quite nice actually, and makes this a keeper I think.

 

Keep fing up Beth, cause winner winner.

On dry down this is a not quite perfuming almond blossom and rice milk (translate as just a pleasant creaminess) with only a sliver of currant hiding somewhere in the bouquet. Notably on the edge of foody without being foody. Nice and good for springy time.

This is such a bizarre scent on me, a morpher for sure. Wet and in the early dry down it is like soapy dryer sheets... definitely a painful stage. But dry it is a faintly sweet scent that is reminiscent of blood but in ankind of pleasant way. I am not sure how to describe it and I cannot pin down any notes. I do not get the frozen notes on my skin. Still deciding if it should stay or not.

The description for this sums it up nicely. Wet this is frank forward and is a little masculine for me, but on dry down there is light vanilla-y musk (definitey bourbon vanilla, not alcohol related in anyway and also not even remotely foody) with just the faintest overlay of frankincense that tempers it nicely. Not very resinous, not foody. Just right for layering and I cannot wait to experiment with it some. If this sounds like it might work for you, try it because it is very neutral and easy to wear.

I think this may be the coffee scent I always wanted but had never found in bpal. It starts out super coffee heavy, ultra thick, syrupy turkish style coffee, black. Then the spices start to come forward, sweetened greatly by the shisha (which reminds me so much of college when we used to go smoke in the middle eastern restaurants). This is a sum of its parts scent where these components swirl together and slowly even out so nothing is strongly dominating and it is just an accord of this perfect picture of a place.

Late drydown is just remnants of sweetish spices dabbed with coffee.

 

Such a winner for me.

This is definitely related to Morocco in big ways. Morocco is a little too intense for me, and this wears as Morocco but married to tea rose, which amps on me as sort of sickly sweet. I guess I am one of the unlucky few this perfume does not work for. It is pretty fresh from mailbox os I will retest after a few days.

Candied dragon’s blood with a little candied strawberry (like the strawberry hard candies with the gooey centers). I only recognize the Dragon’s blood bc of Kwamie Cotton, and while I enjoy it, I think I like it better with the cotton than with the strawberry. Still may be a keeper though, I will let it rest and then try again. Kwamie Cotton is one of my favorite scents period so comparing probably is not fair =p

Wet this is very vetiver on me, and as I dry down I get smoke, slightly sweetened smoke but mostly just smoke. It would seem I amp it. While not an unpleasant scent I was hoping the smoke would be a background note and not the forenote. Alas.

On my skin oh short dry down this is definitely crystalized flowers with lavender (not crystaly) and some of the cream. I think somewhee deep down is the cake, it is not amping on me currently. This is evenly matched floral and foody, not really wholly one of the other.

An interesting blend, interested to get to the late dry down as often scents take a while to really settle on my skin.

I have had this oil for some time now but I used it for the first time today. First I am very tired from numerous baby nIght wakings, and on top of it my bipolar depression has been rearing its head. Since wake up I have been struggling. This smells light and energetic, pleasanr. I anointed my top three chakras lightly, and combined this with fortitude and white light to help get through today. Since I did all three in close timing it may be a combination of the three of sunlight but I got a jolt of sort of raw energy and a slight lift of my mood. I can still feel the depression but it is as if a thin barrier is keeping it from overwhelming me. So I call this success.

Curse my skin chem, this is awful on me. So nice in the bottle, on me? Powder. Fresh? Powder. Late dry down? Powder. No other notes. No fruit or wine or honey or wood. Powder. If I could pinpoint what was doing it... Dorian maybe, it does not seem to like me in Paper Phoenix.

Powder.

So wet and early dry down this was sort of cola like syrupy deliciousness but now is hitting me with some heavy patchouli, but not the dirty hippy kind, with just a hint of dragons blood. A bit of perfumey sweetness that I would bet might be the honey accord over the sugared snake oil.
This is patchouli forward, but it is fresh from the mail and not the long dry down. I will try to update with long drydown results.

This will almost certainly age most gloriously and fans of patchouli that is not overwhelmy or head shopy should definitely try it. I myself am hoping for a bit more dragons blood!

Edit: this is already drying down to a sweet mashup of patch, perfumey dragons blood and sweet snake oil.
Snake oil is backdrop, not dominant, honey does not to all weird, in fact is almost undetectable to me. This has blended superbly into a fascinating and almost enchanting scent even though I *whispers* do not generally enjoy snek oil.

Edit: late dry down, a well rounded almost, nutty idk hos to describe it, full patchouli non dirty, with only the lightest kiss of snake oil and dragons blood.


Eta: tried my second bottle to see if there was any variation but it dried the same way, I may just amp patch (I usually actually normally avoid it in blends bc I cannot stand the dirty hippy variety, so I cannot speak to if that is normal for me.)
As earlier the dry down is a so pleasant mish mash if sweet snake oilyness as a backdrop for delicious chewy patch with only the faintest breath of dragon blood.

Kinda craving some skin musk (honeyed as a plus as Capax Infinity is what has me jonsing.) but having issues with search to find just skin musk and not skin and musk seperately which is about a million.

Super unfortunately for me my skin chemistry does not agree wholly with this. On the short to mid dry down it is a very musky (not in a way I enjoy) and almost cloying hit of antique lace and that is it. I get no lavender or tea or pepper, and this is not the antique lave I enjoy.

I am hoping I am just at a bit if my cycle that confounds it and that it might work on me later. Hoping hoping!

A little cozy, a little sexy. On short dry down this is creamy snake oil that up close is a little snow white, a little almond, a little marshmallow and the faintest bit of cotton blossom. If this stays true as it ages it will likely be quite glorious. I had hooed for more cotton though!

In the bottle this is a strong, sweet lavender with a touch of light musk.

 

On, in early dry down I am the oudh and asphalt and can only smell the lavender up close. It gives a cologney vibe to me in the sillage (which is not insubstantial, I can smell it faintly with my arms at my sides.)

 

Late dry down this is a rain touched nice sweetish lavender with only hints of the musk, oudh and asphalt. As usual a very gentle, atmosperic and lovely scent. Worth having a back up bottle.

Agree with Liber, green before dry down, but once dry a soft, warm fuzzy sort of skin scent. Kind of cozy. Well blended, just sort of a nonoffensive incensey blend that wet I woulda have passed on but dry... may be a keeper. Bet aging might deepen it.

So strange- my imp was marked hearth ‘04 but this smells almost exclusively of buttery chestnuts and some sweetness, which I would think would just be for ‘05. If I come in quite close I can tell there are some things behind the butter sweetness but hard to tell what

This is one of the least foodie foodie scents ever. Actually minda like it. NOT very sweet and honestly kinda light on the brownie portion. A lightly chocolatey cakey pumpkin scent with a hint of caramel and a dry down with sour creamyness. Pleasant and as I said not terribly sweet.

I will update if I remember for late dry down but my skin amps the cardamom to a high greenish cardamon which smells like something that should not be paired with sweets OR worn on me. Really unpleasant. Thanks skin chemistry. You ruin many things. Under the overpowering savory cardamom I get a hint of mild, creamy cake if I stick my nose in deep.

 

Maybe late dry down will be better?

 

Eta it is calming down to a tolerable scent, not very sweet and still not a winner for me but no longer something I have to immediately wash off either.

Man, does my skin hate this.

Chocolate often goes odd due to my skin chemistry, in fact Chad is probably the only one I have found that is wearable.

 

This starts off nice sweet chocolate syrup and ends up plasticy, powdered cocoa that is bitter. Just... bad juju all over for me. Disappointed, as others obviously get something very different.

This is hard to describe but I want to try because I like this almost as much as Love Low which I am starting to think may be my fave ever.

So disclaimer, people keep mentioning dragons blood and I am not sure I know what that smells like so this review may miss that.

 

In the bottle this reminds me of dryer sheets and I was pretty nervous. Wet it stays the same but as it dries it morphs into a soft cottony, cuddly scent with a sort of hint of rich sweetness that is not foody, and a milkyness that is also not foody. As described by others this is more of a feeling than a scent strictly, like yes, somebody's well used lovely, clean but enriched by all the cuddles, adventures and passing days it has experienced. This has a very low throw and my skin does eat if pretty quickly, I am happy to reapply though bc like Love Low it is so comforting.

Dear god, do not walk, run to buy this is you even slightly suspect you might enjoy it. The pumpkin and spices are present but mild in this blend and the pom and cherry balance each other with sweet and tangy to give this lush RED note combined that is sweet without being even a hint cloying and is just so good. This may be the hit of the season for me.

This is magical but hard to describe. It is sugary florals, Lavender, marshmallow. But the marshmallow is more like f@#k meringue, the sugared florals are like capax infinity. A hint of maybe citrus, and not lavender dominant. Really special, thank you fairy for this!

The late dry down of this has made this a sleeper hit for me.

A perfect blend of honeyed skin musk and sweet vanilla creaminess with just the faintest touch of dorian and lavender. Honestly kind of perfection, may need another bottle because it is just comforting.