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In the imp: This is all sassafras in the imp to me -- which reads to my nose as a sweet herbal smell which reminds me of a cross between root beer and wintergreen. There might be a little vetiver peeking through there as well.
Wet on skin: This stays very like it smelled in the imp to me: An herbal sweetness rather like wintergreen (or birch beer! it smells like birch beer!) I'm not getting any of the florals, which is actually kind of odd for a wet stage on me.
Early dry down (10 minutes): As this dries, the lilac comes out to play just very lightly. It's still dominated by the sassafras, but I get a little bit of the florals at the very front of the sniff. At the back, I'm getting a hint of dark vetiver and a little spice from the red musk.
Late dry down (30 minutes +): This is one of those scents that really changes on me over time. While in the beginning it is all herbal sweetness, after a couple of hours what I am left with is darker, muskier, and more resinous. Luckily, I like all those things! I never got the vanilla bean or fig out of this. The sassafras and florals ate it during the wet phase, and the vetiver and red musk subsume it during the dry. This has moderate throw in the beginning, but upon drying becomes a much closer to the skin scent. I do still smell sassafras on my sweater (from the crooks of my elbows), but everywhere else has become spicy red musk with a deep vetiver note. There is a hint of sweet about this, but mostly it is just dark.
Final Verdict: I like this -- not quite as much as I loved Ginny, but a very close second. It's more interesting than Ginny in the wet -- sweeter and more complex -- but the dry down on Ginny was more complex on me. I expected this to remind me of organ grinder from the sassafras and the deep resins, but instead I was reminded of Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener. I can live with just an imp, but if I ever see a partial bottle for cheap, I'd nab it.
Reminds me of: Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener
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In the imp: High, sweet and light. I don't get individual notes, but this seems very traditional perfume to me -- and a lighter, sweeter one for younger girls at that. These are not usually my things, but since this has a heart of patchouli, it may surprise me.
Wet on skin: Very sweet and very light. I'm getting something I suspect is mainly peach and raspberry leaf -- it's a sort of indistinct sweet fruit with a bit of herbal bite behind it. The vanilla is adding to the sweet characteristic just a bit.
Early dry down (10 minutes): My first impression is that this is a very nice choice for a summer night. It's very light and pleasant, not at all cloying or overwhelming. The carnation has come out a bit more, giving this a slightly green and peppery note in addition to the sweet fruit. It's nice, but very not me -- too high floral/sharp fruit without enough base. It strikes me as young, juicy, overtly feminine and very pastel.
Late dry down (30 minutes +): This stays very true to the early dry down. The patchouli never really announces itself, but it allows this to develop into a close to the skin, slightly warm scent as it fades. It stays sweet, with some subtle fruit, but the carnation and bergamot help balance it so that it turns out not quite so sweet.
Final Verdict: This very, very well balanced. I'm not a huge fruit/floral person, but this I can wear. It's the best kind of traditional scent -- it makes you smell good without smelling particularly like anything. By that I mean, it's unobtrusive and elegant. I'll use the imp, but have no need for a bottle.
Reminds me of: Fae, Imp, Tamora
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Y’know, for a zombie, you’re alright. A flicker of hero worship, tempered by naivety and an innately kind nature: shaggy leather, sweet rum absolute, and patchouli.
In the decanted imp: High, sweet, and boozy. It's not exactly straight-up rum -- there's something woodsy under it and maybe a little wet leather -- but the sweet booze is definitely dominant.
Wet on skin: Immediately less high and sweet, and more rounded than it was in the imp. The leather is actually the immediate top note on me, and it's a wet, slick leather rather than the old/dry/rubbed down leather I often get from other bpal leather scents. This is more an Wilson's Leather Shop in the mall than a worn leather jacket. The booze is still very present, and now it's very much rum as the sweetness it lends is very sugar-like (this is dark rum, not white rum, but not spiced rum...)
Early dry down (about 20 minutes): This is an early morpher and it starts to dry down and become a skin scent very quickly. After about 20 minutes the leather has settled down and mellowed out so that it's becoming that worn leather jacket (brown, not black, and the liner is long gone, so the unfinished inside flakes off on sweaters), and the booze is mellowing to become less about booze and more about sweetness. The patchouli is underneath it all at the heart, and it seems to be my favorite type of patchouli -- the one that turns into a cross between spicy cookies and the inside of a cedar chest on me.
Late dry down (1 hour+): Most of the changing Ian did happened very early on my skin. After an hour, it's very similar to how it was after 20 minutes, just a little fainter and closer to my skin. A dry, woody patchouli heart rounded out and sweetened by top notes of worn leather and a little sweet booze. It's the perfect character scent. You can absolutely imagine a sweet, shaggy guy who has been wearing the same leather jacket for years (which has had more than one drink spilled on it and spent its off-days balled up in an incense filled apartment) smelling like this.
Final verdict: What strikes me most about this scent is how playful it is. It's not deep dark and masculine (which leather and patchouli could easily be!), but rather light-hearted and a little sweet, but with a deep heart.
A few weeks ago, the people who live next-door to my 3-year-old nephew cut down a bunch of trees. He salvaged slices of the stumps and has been playing with them in his play structure/fort. He pretends they are bread and makes me "sandwiches" that are apparently composed of chocolate syrup, blueberries and catsup. There is something about this scent that reminds me of being up in the fort with him and eating those imaginary sandwiches. It's a little dirty, with wood and bugs and boy, but also sweet and innocent and joyful. Winner. I suspect that, long term, I'll love This Is Your Wilderness more because it's going to age so well, but this is an immediate use love.
Reminds me of: Mary Read (but this is lighter), Jolly Roger -
In the decanted imp: Oddly, this does not smell particularly dry to me. I get sandalwood, but something that at first strikes me as fruity, and then as a syrupy floral (like gardenia or honeysuckle). Not what I was expecting. Maybe it's the marjoram?
Wet on skin: Much sweeter than I expected. It's almost immediately quite traditionally "perfumey" and the immediate throw is pretty intense. The sandalwood is very strong and incense-like.
Early dry down (15-30 minutes): The throw on this actually gathers steam as it starts to dry down on me. The "dry" begins to come out as the sandalwood develops a powdery quality, and the scent that originally struck me as fruity/floral amps an almost crazy amount on me and is now quite floral. It's not a floral I recognize, however, it's sweet, high, a little syrupy and in the sneeze-inducing family for me. My overall impression is that either I have a mislabeled imp, or marjoram does very odd things on my skin!
Late dry down (1 hour+): This finally starts to mellow after about an hour and becomes a more traditional sandalwood based scent. It's powdery, and a little dry, with a touch of sweet resin base from the benzoin. It maintains a faint floral quality on me.
Final verdict: I think this is probably a beautiful blend, but it's just very much not me. It's too traditional, and smells to much like "perfume". It actually reminds me of traditional, alcohol based perfumes with sandalwood bases than it does most bpal. It sort of smells like the perfume you smell on someone in an elevator.
Reminds me of: Gaueko, Kathmandu (but these are a stretch -- really it smells like fully dried down Opium or Samsara or something to me)
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First, a general observation: Pine can be a really tricky scent. Because it's such a strong (and beautiful!) natural scent, it is often used in commercial fragrances meant to mask really bad odors. Sadly, many people have come to associate pine, especially strong or slightly artificial pine, with things like urinal cakes, car deodorizers, and Pine-Sol. I'm a huge fan of real pine -- and love having pine boughs in my house and using good (i.e. not fake smelling) pine candles. But all pine products run the risk of turning from lovely natural scents into horrible, men's bathroom smelling scents.
In the bottle: Pine, pine, pine. But a natural, deep, resinous pine. More like fresh sap than fresh pine needles.
Wet on skin: Straight-up pine sap. This is like taking a blob of sap off a pine tree and smearing it on my skin, only less sticky.
Early dry down (less than an hour): This is still very pine dominant. So far, it's mostly a very natural, sappy and resinous pine. Occasional whiffs are sharp and spiky like crushed green needles (which may actually be the cypress rather than the pine), but overall it is a rounded, sticky scent. I get a little bit of tobacco, which serves to dry the blend out. When I catch that note, it's like a big dried out tub of Drum, mixed with the resinous pine. I'm not getting much sweet from honey, and not much patchouli either as funk or as a spicy grounding note. This is taking a long time to mellow and blend on me.
Late dry down (hour +): This blend had an unusually long dry-down time period on me, and has quite a lot of staying power, although the throw is not huge and stays fairly close to the body. After a couple of hours it has finally really blended itself out on my skin, and most of the spikes of jagged pine/cypress I got wet and early in the application have evened out. The patchouli finally came out to play, and it has combined with the pine to form a deep, resinous, slightly spicy, slightly herbal, and very woody heart. It's more a funky, head-shop style patchouli than a soft or spicy version -- and I get some hippie/incense notes from it. Paired with the pine and tobacco, I'm left with something the reminds me of Fred Soll or piñon pine incense.
The pine is interesting because it serves as both a base and a top note here. The base is the all sap and wood -- like standing in the cave formed by low hanging branches of a pine. Meanwhile, the top still gives a few bursts of fresh, green pine needles. (Again, this top might be the cypress. I don't know that my sniffer is talented enough to distinguish between the two.)
I'm not sure I'm getting any honey from the blend. I'm sure it's there, I just can't pick it out. Instead, it helps bind and blend the other components. I suspect that, as this ages, the honey will combine with the deep resins to round and slightly sweeten things.
Final verdict: This is gorgeous and, I suspect, will just get more gorgeous with age. It's a very masculine, woodsy and outdoorsy scent and would smell divine on male hiker types. On me (a 5'2" fairly feminine woman) this is clean, outdoorsy, strong, and sensuous. It's a little bit hippie, but with some elegance. It's like the aging hippie woman who styles her snow white hair in a bun and looks like a former ballerina, wears all black Eileen Fisher, keeps bees, and sanded and refinished the hard wood floors in her house by hand. Or the older hippie man who has traded in his dreads/pony for a buzz cut that flatters his bald spot, and now dresses almost entirely in expensive denim and flannel, bakes bread for his grandkids, raises prize winning lily hybrids, and chops the wood for his wood burner himself. Both of them still have a daily yoga practice and like to camp, but also have memberships to local art museums and attend the symphony.
Reminds me of: Illustrated Women (but no old-man turning musk!!!!)
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I find Hetairae (billed as honey, patchouli, fig, clove and ylang ylang) to be mostly ylang ylang and honey on me and quite light. I tend to reach for it at this time of year when I want something light, golden, and floral (but that does't make me sneeze -- which is a tall order!) It easily lasts an 8 hour day on me, although it does end up lighter and sweeter than it started with just a hint of powder after about 10 hours. (My husband always says, "mmmmm, you smell like flowers and sugar")
I'm thinking I'm going to have to start extolling this one's virtues and/or stock up heavily as I see it hasn't been reviewed in a long time and the honey blends seem to on the chopping block pretty regularly...
It will gut me if Hetairae goes away.
PS I should also add that this one ages well, although unusually. Rather than getting really patchouli heavy as it ages, this one actually mellows and gets more floral/honey with time. The fig and patchouli eventually tame down REALLY far and it ends up being more golden and summery than the way it started (which is a bit spicier and earthier in undertones).
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Since my first swap was a great success, I've been thinking about what I would like to try next!
Anyone interested in a candy/sweets swap? I was thinking of something where everyone sends a small (under $5 a package before shipping) package to 3 different people, and gets three packages of goodies in return. I'm thinking small bubblelopes with a little treat inside.
Nitty gritty, I thought open to internationals, 10-15 player limit, and quick turn-around time since the packages are to be small.
I'd join in a heartbeat.
Me too! That one sounds manageable to me!
I'd want in on this one as well.
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I would be all over a recipe swap. In addition to spices, sauces or things like specialty dried pasta or regional bits and bobs like wild rice or dried cherries could be not too expensive ingredients.
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huh thats interesting... i hadn't even considered musk to be the culprit since i really love snake oil. doesnt snake oil have red musk or am i totally wrong?
what a complex, confusing world i've entered by falling for bpal!
I vote it's the musk. I CANNOT wear any musk with very occasional exception of red musk and then only in very select blends. Musk = grandpa cologne on me. EVERY. TIME.
Snake Oil and Vixen (as well as the Snake Pit scents and Spanked) are my Red Musk exceptions. I can wear them and NOT have old man cologne. Everything else though does it for me. I've decided it's something about the combination of that particular red musk with that particular patchouli (which loves me) and spices. Although, I prefer many of the Snake Pits (and spanked and Vixen) to Snake Oil. SO actually goes a bit powdery on me. (And lately, so does Vixen.)
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I vote it's the musk. I CANNOT wear any musk with very occasional exception of red musk and then only in very select blends. Musk = grandpa cologne on me. EVERY. TIME.
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I've been trying to work this out ... what makes SwitchWitch different from the other circular swaps?
It's usually bigger (way more participants), less themed and more anything goes, and stretches over a longer period of time (hence some people send multiple small packages). Tradition has it involving more clues, subterfuge and anonymous (until the reveal) interaction as well as helpers etc. The thread gets to be huge and is usually pretty active. The thread is traditional board way to get to know people in a very anything-goes almost ADD sort of chat format. (Like GUSP, but generally larger and even faster moving. Loads of people come to GUSP from SW, but loads of people do the opposite as well.)
Switch Witch can be fraught with drama due to all of the above, but it can also be very rewarding. I've had the opportunity to play witch for some really wonderful forumites and been the even luckier recipient of some others. For me, it's what first made this place feel like a community and a home. I've had a few run-ins with the drama, but they've always been outweighed by the kindness.
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I am loving on this bar of lavender-cedar soap someone gave me right now. Loving hard core. It's simple and clean and fresh, yet the cedar gives it a depth without being sweet. The scent it leaves on my skin is perfectly me, but sadly fades far too quickly. Is there anything in the catalog that might approximate it?
These are what I've tried:
L'Heur Vert -- too floral
Gaueko - The nag champa amps on me and it's all incense, nice but not what I'm looking for
Oneiroi: The jasmine killed it for me
Wulric: Musk amps on me and smells of old man
Paris: Lotus is bad on me and makes me sneeze
Villain: Too much citrus made me sneeze
In general, I DON'T want anything with musk in it (musk and I just don't mix -- I amp it like crazy and it makes me smell like an old man's cologne) and I think anything with Vanilla will be too sweet for what I'm seeking. Really, I'm looking for Lavender on a base of woods with very few other notes. Maybe a little smoke or leather pr a very small amount of additional herbs (thyme? rosemary?) would work.
Ideas?
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I have to go against the trend here, and just say skip the scents.
I love smellies, and the heavier the better. No scents have ever really bothered me, sometimes I wouldn't like them, but scent h as s never caused a physical reaction in me.
Then I got to spend quality time in the hospital for knee issues (almost 4 weeks in the course of 3 months). I'm not sure what happwned, but I woke up one day and couldn't handle any scent of any kind.
One day a gal came in to get my lunch tray and I had such a reaction they had to call some kind of code which brought all sorts of people running because I couldn't breathe. The culprit turned out to be a bath and bodyworks pocket bac. The kicker was that I had yhe same kind in my purse and it had never bothered me.
I kniw that's not the answer uoi want, but heaven forbid somone have a freak reaction like mine, and I would think you could be in serious trouble for violating policy.
Just my 2¢. Intetestingly enough the only thing I could tolerate the smell of was Ugh massage oil. And I craved the smell of that!
I've actually quit wearing anything day to day because I have a colleague who is very chemical and scent sensitive. I've never set her off, but I've seen her react to other people's scents and it's not pretty. Just as easy for me to save my smellies for evenings and weekends (and Mondays, when she does not work). It makes the scent budget smaller too!
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My vote would be for things that stay very, very close to your skin with limited throw because people DO have scent sensitivities and, as much as many might like a good smelling medical professional, you'd hate to have someone react to you. The ones that stay closest to my skin are:
Dana O'Shee
Sudha Segara
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Queen of Sheba
Dragon's Milk
Embalming Fluid
Velvet
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I could swear I'd already tried this, but I recently acquired an imp and can't find a review so...
In the imp: Strong vetiver, which always reminds me of my grandfather. Very sharp and a bit feral/musky.
Wet on skin: Immediately gets deeper and less sharp with a prominent wood-like note. A bit of dry black pepper in the first whiff, with the scent fading out to more wood and a little green vetiver in the background as I breathe through it.
Early dry down (about 10 minutes): This is doing thing patchouli sometimes does on me where it turns very dry and woody -- almost like the inside of cedar closet or jewelry box. Good thing I happen to like that thing.
There's also a little but of leather in here, but I'm smelling well worn sort of brown leather -- more like buckskin or suede rather than smooth leather if that makes sense. It's very warm, dry and masculine (which I happen to think is a very fine way for a lady to smell). I also get a very subtle note of something just a bit sweet -- it's almost like a very dry vanilla bean, but I suspect it's how the tonk a is playing in this blend.Late dry down (about an hour): This faded quickly and stayed very close to my skin (which is a big positive in my book). Notes stay as above in early dry down -- after the initial fade this didn't morph on me much at all. It's very pleasant and quite me, but so close to several other scents that's not an immediate purchase. (I put it on my wish list, but it's by no means a huge MUST HAVE if only because I own other stuff that fills the same sort of dry woods with a hint of spice niche.) I find it very similar to Black Rider (but less sweet), Tree of Life (but less cologne), Aelopile (less sweet/citrus), Krampus, Uncertain Horror and even Spanked (much less spice),
Interestingly, when I reviewed Uncertain Horror I said, "It strongly reminds me of both Krampus and Spanked, leading me to believe that the combination of patchouli and leather develops in such a specific way on my skin that the other notes along for the ride really don't matter all that much." I think that statement continues to hold true and this very much falls into that category.
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In the bottle: Fizzy lime with a sweet vanilla under it that has a certain buttery quality that actually scares me a little as it can be an amper for me. (Cream is about 50/50 on me. Sometimes it adds depth and other times it goes all microwave popcorn butter.)
Wet on skin: Hey there sweetness. This is like a Smartie (the American, pressed powdered sugar kind) dropped in a Sprite. Really, really hoping the ginger comes out to spice this up and the fig gives it some earthiness because at the moment this is a little too Pixie Stix, Bonne Belle for me.
Early dry down (about 10 minutes): The lime is getting more sour and realistic and less candy-like as this develops on my skin. The ginger has started to make an appearance and is a raw, fresh ginger kind of smell, but it's at the back of the scent as I huff, not on the top which I find a little odd for ginger. It's almost a shy ginger, if ginger can ever be shy. As I sniff, this has an almost cooling effect on my nose. As others have said, this is a very light scent -- although it does have some throw for me. But it is an airy, effervescent quality that makes it playful and light hearted. I can imagine this little bat flitting about smelling flowers and harassing bees.
Later dry down (about 1 hour): This is a fast fader and, for me, the spices and fig never did come out to play. I'm anxious to see how this ages, and if some of those notes come out from behind the youthful fizz over time.
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This might seem a little odd, but I think you might have decent luck with either Sassafrass Strengthener, Slippery Poppy Tincture or Nostrum Remedium with Supervillainess.
They're complimentary rather than similar (no leather, no woods, no rich coffee or cocoa), but I think their herbal qualities might play well. They seems to echo bits of the top notes of the soap that tend to fade quickly after bathing.
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2012 Version
In the decant: Sweet. Sweetsweetsweet. Tooth aching sweet. Oddly, it reminds me a Dragon's Blood (especially of Tintagel)
Wet on skin: Sweet, but under it is the Snake Oil musk and slight funk. It deepens the sweet. There's a bit of something herbal and almost bitter at the very back of my throat when I huff. Oddly, I'm still getting that dragon's blood top note. I wonder what honeys this has in it?
Early dry down (10 minutes or so): Turning powdery rather quickly and very, very sweet. The sweet doesn't smell like honey to me, oddly, but rather like syrup or honey mixed with ylang-ylang.
Late dry down (about an hour and half): A little powder, a little patchouli, a lot of honey and the honey is floral in a dragon's blood/ylang-ylang way. Smells very, very like Hetairae on me.
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In the imp: I can't pick out individual notes, but this strikes me as high (meaning not a deep scent) and bitter. It smells almost subtle?
Wet on skin: Amp, amp, amping! This is much stronger than I expected from the imp. The spices are definitely at the front of this upon application. The cumin is especially strong and I smell a bit like kitchen cabinet!
Early dry down (10 minutes): All cumin, all the time. Seriously, nothing is coming through at all but cumin. It's like I rubbed the spice all over my wrists.
Late dry down: I washed it off before I got this far. Maybe the cumin would have tempered, but I had a meeting that I couldn't go to smelling like that. (I washed at about 20 minutes in, so it did have some chance to morph.)
Verdict: SO NOT A WINNER ON ME.
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In the decant: Coconut scents always run the risk of smelling like suntan lotion to me, but this coconut smells much darker and richer than your typical Banana Boat concoction.
Wet on skin: Less rich than in the imp. There's something very sweet and a little chemical like at the top of this that is overpowering the coconut. Sugar cane?
Early dry down (about 10-15 minutes): The coconut comes back as this starts to dry down but that higher, sweet smell is still there too. It almost smells carbonated, if carbonation had a smell. It's a fizzy sweet. There's a little bit of musk under there, but this is mainly coconut and sweet. Remember those fizzing candies that were like sweet tarts, but odd flavors and fizzed a bit in your mouth (less fizzy than pop rocks). I think they were called Bottle Caps? This smells like those.
Later dry down (about an hour): Sweet, musky vanilla. There is just a little bit of something deep grounding it, almost more like a wood note than any of the listed notes on me. The champaca finally came out just a bit. This pretty, close to the skin, and kissably sweet.
Final word: A little girly for me, but pretty. It strikes me as a young lady's take on sensual. I think I might try layering it under Leather Phoenix...
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In the imp: Hmm...Vaguely nuttish, maybe like acorn powder? But also with a slight almost alcohol tang. It reminds me of almond extract without actually smelling like almond extract. And yes, I know how confusing that sounds.
Wet on skin: Rich and a little spicy. There's a lot of top note herbs going on, but the base has an almost buttery smell/feel to it. There's something a bit high and sweet in there too. Maybe vanilla? Or could that be sap?
Early dry down (10 minutes): Sweet, with a rich, deep base that is still a bit buttery, developing some powdery in the top notes.There's a spice in there that reminds me of the inside of the Indian grocer I used to frequent in Boston. All if that said, the first sniff says "men's cologne" to me. The nuances only emerge upon directed sniffing,
Late dry down (about an hour): Sort of powdery, spicy vanilla with a little something nutty under it. This does not have great staying powder on me at all, but it's pretty. I think it may be a nice mild scent for the days when I don't feel like a patchouli fiend. I kind of wish I'd gotten a bottle...
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2011 Version
In the imp: I mainly smell the evergreen with a little bit of herbal, almost lemon-like something at the the base.
Wet on skin: This is very astringent citrus on me with hints of something almost minty. I expect that in this wet stage I am amping verbena.
Early dry down (10 to 15 minutes later): Still very astringent, but less lemony. It smells like something that, when drunk, would pull all the saliva from your mouth and be quite sour tasting. I'm getting little bursts of juniper, the scent of which I mainly associate with gin. All of these impressions are leading me to think my wrist smells like a rather strong, very herbal, cocktail with a gin base. The evergreen is still present as a top note on top of all that herbal/sour. It's not at all like a perfume, but is somehow pleasant anyway.
Late dry down (about an hour and a half): After a while, a lot of the sour/citrus has left. I am now left with what is mostly evergreen (but not the strong, resinous spruce of The Most Magnificent Christmas Tree -- rather, a soft, dry, almost powdery evergreen) tempered with some green herbs and the tiniest touch of citrus and juniper on the very top. This is actually really, really lovely and MUCH more me than it was on the dry down.
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In the imp: Wow. This scares me. It smells like the air freshener my grandparents always had in the bathroom of their pop-up camper -- chemical orange and pine.
Wet on skin: I am really hoping this morphs because right at the application is a nightmare on me. Really just bad. There's a high, sweet, chemical top note that is all synthetic air freshener and honeysuckle. Beneath that I can start to make out the old man smell that most musks turn into me. At the moment, I'm wondering what possessed me to try this one. (It was the orange blossom, which I love, pine and tobacco. I was hoping those notes would dominate and I'd be left with a deep, earthy pine sweetened with the blossoms.)
Early dry down (about 10 minutes): This has mellowed a little, but I am really amping the honeysuckle. It's less chemical-like than it was and actually quite pretty. Of course, I'm not really a fan of pretty florals...
Later dry down (about two hours): For such a complex blend his has actually stayed really consistent on me over time: The honeysuckle dominates the top of the blend is far and away the strongest, most lasting note. It's what I smell wafting around me. In order to smell other notes, I have to huff my wrist. Even then, honeysuckle is very dominant, but I do get a slightly deeper, more grounded version of it than I'm getting in the air around me. It's a very rich floral. A floral I can actually stand and doesn't seem to make me sneeze. It's actually quite pretty. The drawback is the it's just not very ME. It's of someone much more feminine -- I see someone in long, floating floral dresses with lush golden hair and clear blue eyes wearing this.
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In the imp: A very true to life Christmas tree scent. This is how my living room smelled with the blue spruce in it.
Wet on skin: Pine, pine, pine. This really is a very life-like pine, not pine air freshener or fake pine candle. Very fresh, very sappy, very PINE.
Early dry down (10 minutes or so): I'm not getting much of the sweet that others have mentioned, or much in the way of base woods yet. I am really amping this top note of pine. My wrists smell like your hands do when you crush spruce needles in your hands -- very sappy and green with that very distinctive pine smell.
Later dry down (about an hour): The amp and throw has calmed way down on this. It has sweetened and deepened a bit as the time has gone on. I still get a spicy spruce top note, but as I keep sniffing I get a sweeter wood base - almost like honeyed cedar. It's quite pretty.
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