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On drydown I get mostly a pleasant, no headachey incense with just a little almondy something. Could be cookie. This actually smells quite good, an unassuming blend that is sort of comforting. Worth keeping.

Dries down to slightly buttery marshmallow with a tad of sugar. Sadly also comes with a plasticy note which while almost makes the scent believable, might make it unwearable. Also may have an undertone of baby powder? I will retest but might be for swaps.

This is a lovely, very cold apple, heavy on the snow/mint for me. A pleasant scent but dries a little masculine on me. Off to swaps.

Much like Mango this takes the dry down to get nice but is a not particularly sweet but definitely orange scent. A little perfumey, but not in a headache inducing way, more a makes it complex enough to be wearable in a way king mandarin never was on me. Does fade quickly though.

Surprisingly wearable form of mango, sweet but not cloying. Almost floral, edge of almost perfumey.

Very good, definite keeper.

There will be an Autumnal Round of SW! We are firming dates and prepping things!

 

Em- I'll give you a PM heads up when we have that solidified.

Yay yay yay. Thanks Coldie for bringing the good news!

Pleaaaaase Switch Witch ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is not my typical sort of blend, but it melds together seamlessly. A slightly sweet blend of chewy tobacco, understated cinnamon, a breath of coffee maybe a whiff of wood, sweet. It is nice and comforting, like cuddling in on a cold autumn evening with a great book and a big slouchy sweater. I has considered selling this before retesting it, but nope, staying staying.

Sadly this does not play well with my skin chemistry. In the bottle it smells nice, as it starts to dry it becomes a cloying sort of fakish vanilla with oud. On full dry down, baby powder and vanilla. Meh. Off to the swaps.

This dries down quite nice on me. Wood with a hint of old paper. A heady dose of nonoverwhelming cologne and just the tiniest whiff of pumpkin latte. This is masculine but oddly comforting. I keep waffling back and forth if I should keep or not.

This dries down for me to the beaver moon cheesecake note with not very spicy pumpkin and a hint of graham cracker crust. Beaver moon05 is lovely for me and so is this, a comforting variation worth keeping for sure.

This dries down as pleasantly as I remember on me. An orangey creaminess with some pomegranate, a little bitter. The french vanilla is very rich and big, the orange (blossom?) is what makes a faint bitterness but it is good with the vanilla. The pomegranate just keeps it from being creamsicle. Another sort of surprising keeper.

This dries down to cool violets sweetened with dead on strawberry daiquiri, muddled with something similar to aldehydes. Nicer than the scent list and character inspiration lead you to believe, but still not for me.

Retesting all the bottles and pleasantly surprised with the dry down. Unrepentantly sweet and foody without beconing cloying or nauseating. Drydown is mostly sugared fruits (the plum well featured I think), with hints of clove, rich chestnuts, some buttery pastry and maybe the faintest whiff of pine. A keeper I think, but I will save for winter.

 

To be clear, for me at least pine does NOT dominate this blend.

 

This starts out super piney on me- strong and one note and overwhelming. After a while into the dry down I start to get the birch, sort of a sweetish wood note. A little sap lends a softening to the whole thing. It is actually pretty nice once it hits this stage, but reads very masculine on me. I have had this since release but I am retesting everything and it may be time for this to find a new home.

So glad a sweet fairy procured this for me- this is a sweet (without being cloying) cherry with what definitely feels to me like a crusty sugary meringue. The cherry is not sharp on me, sort of a soft, calm cherry, with what seems like light fluffy sugar creaminess. A keeper for me.

For Beaver Moon 2005- this starts off a little artificial and plasticy on me, very vanilla cakey, not a lot of cheesecake.

Dry down is the most glorious not quite overly foody vanilla with sort of a hint of cheesecake, cake and frosting.

Forgot how much I love this one, will be keeping the bottle.

In the bottle this is pure milk chocolatey goodness. On my wrist it is hot cocoa, milky chocolatw, maybe a little foamy, super smooth, creamy. Definitely not dry cocoa, or bitter anything. Surprisingly wearable.

In the bottle... This reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it. I think I'm mainly getting the white ouhd with the tobacco as a backdrop. Not getting any rose hips I don't think. This is not sweet. It is perfumey... I wouldn't call it overly feminine but definitely not masculine. I'm at a loss. It is pleasant, but I find it difficult to describe.

This is a lovely well blended scent. It is floral but not high pitched. The orange blossom is predominant with a spiciness from the peppercorn and a creaminess from the coconut and musk. A perfumey scent but not department storey.

 

I wish I could try it in but instead I'll just have to be content sniffing for now. Definitely a sweet subtle scent for someone who might not love florals but wants to like them.

Oh huh first. I received a small decant of this Banana Cream Pie HG and I have to say it is my favorite of the ones I've tried. Totally unexpected. The banana is definitely a ripe sweet banana but doesn't go very runt-y. The cream really shines, tempering the banana so I mostly just get those two notes, with the faintest hint of a baked good that takes this spray into the gourmand category. Don't be scared of the banana! This has a pretty close to the head silage but I also wear my glosses pretty light.
This will be a bottle purchase for me.

Let's see. I'm going to review this in two parts. Scent and then why I came to review it, which is how I used it for intent.

 

Scent wise this is a very "perfume-y" oil for me. Now, since I was using it for intent, I didn't give two hoots what it smelled like but I can report that I don't think it gave me a headache so it wasn't white perfumey flowers. I definitely picked up on powdery amber and some kind of darker floral I think and just a general sort of perfume scent. Sorry I can't be more specific, my nose isn't always well attuned to this sort of thing. I definitely picked up on the amber though.

 

Intent.

So yesterday was a Bad. Day. You know those No Good, Very Bad Days? Like that. Without going into much detail I cracked. I had visits for work to go do and I couldn't bring myself to do them. I was a melt down, crying, snotty nose, crick in my neck mess. My husband gave me the option of one last ditch effort of me trying to go do my work with me checking in with him periodically to make sure I was ok, or him calling in to say I couldn't complete my stuff. Since I didn't want to fail I decided that even though I was I needed to go. So I started to get together. And I asked him to pull down my perfume. I started going through my TALs. Something made me grab Senelion. I had never used it and couldn't even remember what the description for it was. When I read "Make the impossible possible" I knew that my impossible was making it through the day in one piece. So I dabbed some on my crown, eye and heart chakras and the palms of my hands, took a deep breath and then anointed all my chakras with white light (because any day I feel crappy I have to put on white light.) Then I got dressed.

 

By the time I was out the door I had stopped crying.

By the time I was in my car I had stopped snuffling.

By the time I was at my first visit I was a little more than half heartedly singing to Pharrel Williams' "Happy".

By the time I was finished with my visits I was feeling like I had done a pretty good job, deserved some slightly more upscale Chinese and hit happy hour at the bar of a Chinese joint, had some half price apps and beer and had conversation with a nice guy while he waited for his wife, and then talked to her too, even though I am a true blue diagnosed social phobic.

 

I then went home and went to bed.

 

All and all though? I would say the oil was probably a success.

This scent is crazily accurate for me. I get in the bottle the smell of faint sweet dandelion heads (the flower), a little of the milky stems and a wash of the fresh not quite bitter leafy green bits. On me at least in the short term it stays pretty true. Will edit in the long term dry down.

If you like how actual dandelions smell, especially if you have fond memories of picking them on warm almost summer evenings and lying in the grass as the sun is just a glow on the horizon... You want this SN.

Note: This is using this as a moisturizer OUT of the bath.

The first thing I get hit with is the red ginger and allspice. Next I get epsom salt, luckily not overpowering like when you dump it in the bath. So far I don't really get the patchouli, nutmeg or chamomile, unless that is what is laying the ground work for a sort of earthy undertone. I'm hoping that some chamomile peeks out, as I really enjoy that note. This feels warm (not burny) on my skin, kind of like when you use heat activated massage oil, but not quite intense. May be worth trying in the bath.
Definitely pleasant, but may be better for bath use than for moisturizing as it is... strongish.

So... this is amazing. I never got to try steeplechase, but holy crap this is good. It has almost buttery nuts (I'm not good at identifying one nut versus another) with an uncloying but strong candied scent behind it.

Must. Have. More.