TygherRayn

Pipe tobacco. Cherry pipe tobacco ... though unless I'm imagining it, while fresh on, this gives off a bit of candy-cane as well. This was, of courswe, whatfirst drew me to this LE, and it's something that evokes images of men in silk smoking jackets and dark grey britches and boots sitting in a smoky room with a roaring fire, all discussing over snifters of brandy their latest hunt, and the state of their various affairs, social and otherwise.

 

It's a very masculine scent, to be truthful and while I like it, it's just a little -too- masculine for me to wear. Might try it as a room scent, while the season is still right for it. Otherwise, I think this will end up traded away.

*blinkblink* Okay, I wanted this one because of the floral in it, but sniffing the bottle ... and Jason noticed it too .. this is foody. *blinks and sniffs again* Okay, did my bottles get switched? Ruh-roh?

 

It sure does .. all foody. Like a nutty chocolate .. very similar to Gluttony or Bliss smell to me. It makes me rather panicked, too, because this was not what I envisioned for All saints at all. but I trust Beth's vision, so on it goes!

 

Immediately on, it stays foody for a second, but giving it just a bit of time to breathe the scent totally changes, and it's so extremely strange! Beth is apparently becoming the Goddess of the ever-changing scent. After a minute, this becomes floral indeed, and a beautiful, dark, brooding floral. The despair and the passion of the saints. Walking into a glorious stone cathedral, one of the old ones with ivy climbing all over it, seeking every nook and cranny, and how it smells just after there has been a marriage .. or a funeral. The scent of sweet white flowers .. roses, lilies .. but there's more. Almost a minty smell somewhere in there. Something herbal and green, but still sweet .. and yet very somber, very rich, very ... divine. After about 5 or so minutes it gets woody .. like aged timbers, and a little incensey too. I'm loving this.

 

The deliciousness stays for a long while .. I don't even want to try and pick apart the notes in this, because it's just so simply wonderful. Wood, and flowers, and smoke and the delicious foods one might find at a wedding celebration .. or a wake. A celebration of the glory and the pain of those whom have been elevated for living their lives. A remembrance of the importance of doing just that ... living.

 

This blend is almost too ... *ponders the right word* ... stately for me to wear regularly. It's a powerful scent, and stirs a lot of things in me, but I love it too much not to wear it just the same. It makes me want to sit for hours in the back pew of my mimere's old Catholic church, listening to the organ play, and pondering the mysteries of the universe, of my faith, and of life in all its forms.

OMG! I'm so utterly delighted to have given in and purchased Samhain 2004 .. and I almost regret not getting more of it when I had the chance! This time around it is everything I hoped it would be, not at all sour or rotten like the first incarnation did on my skin, and even more the scent of a crisp october evening than it was before.

 

In the bottle, this has a creamy and yet fruity smell to it, something that evokes the image of sitting at the table while my mother doid my makeup for trick-or-treating, sipping on hot cocoa because it was bound to actually be cold, while mom and dad drank wine. It has the scent of falling leaves, and grass that was cut for the last time of the year, and pumpkins sitting on every doorstep.

 

Putting it on, I hoped beyond hope that this incarnation wouldn't do what the first one did .. and my prayers were answered.!Immediately it becomes a heartier verson of the bottle scent, creamy and rich and incredibly delicious. As it mellows, spreading into my skin like a delicious blanket, it draws out an apple scent that is to-die-for. Crisp Macintosh apples, fresh from the local orchards, biting into one while I hunt for the perfect pumpkin. It's simply dreamy .. everything I hoped this scent would be, and it gives me chills to think about it.

 

It wears all night long, and even after 8-10 hours I still get a dreamy scent from my wrists when I sniff them, though the lovely cloud of scent is gone from around me. After all this time, it's become smokey and soft, a bonfire in an open field around which witches dance and sing and seek the wisdom of their ancestors.

 

*shivers* I have chills again. God, I love this scent.

Without the Halloween LE's? Possibly Chimera, as it's deliciously spicy. If I get hunter moon before then, I'd go for that. If not, besides Chimera .. probably Scorpio. I do love my scorpio oil, after all.

THE CHARIOT

 

Triumphal "car" (chariot), armored warrior, sun/moon symbols, lingam & yoni symbol (the encircled rod on the winged shield), black and white sphinxes/lions/horses, sometimes at rest. A canopy of stars and sometimes a throne inside the car.

 

Basic Tarot Meaning

 

The chariot is one of the most complex cards to define. On its most basic level, it implies war, a struggle, and an eventual, hard-won victory. Either over enemies, obstacles, nature, the beasts inside you, or to just get what you want. But there is a great deal more to it. The charioteer wears emblems of the sun, yet the sign behind this card is Cancer, the moon. The chariot is all about motion, and yet it is often shown as stationary.

 

What does this all mean? It means a union of opposites, like the black and white steeds. They pull in different directions, but must be (and can be!) made to go together in one direction. Control is required over opposing emotions, wants, needs, people, circumstances; bring them together and give them a single direction, your direction. Confidence is also needed and, most especially, motivation. The card can, in fact, indicate new motivation or inspiration, which gets a stagnant situation moving again. It can also imply, on a more pragmatic level, a trip (usually by car), a vehicle - in the shop for repairs if the card comes up reversed - or a message.

 

Apples. Immediately I get apples when I open the bottle. I'm not quite certain if it's macintish or granny smith or what, but it's a very familiar smell. I don't entirely understand why this particular card has that smell associated with it though.

 

Wet it takes on a more dry-wine scent which more typifies the tarot meaning I suppose. It becomes more berrylike that apple-y also, It's very nice ... though I almost think I prefer the apple-y part.

 

It seems to be staying with that delicious wine smell, very light and brisk. I really wish I knew the notes in this one, because it's absolutely delicious smelling. *purrs*

My first thought on seeing this was "I have to have it.' After all, traditionally, the Queen of Spades is used as my significator card. Even ignoring that .. amber, and blackberry and plum? There was no way I wasn't getting this one. Sniffing it from the bottle I get a fruity spicey scent, mostly fruity, then the spice seems to kick in as an afterthough.

 

As soon as I put it on this gets an almost cinnamon-y spice to it, but it's more woody than that. Floral, but not really. It's lovely, rich and dark, and exceedingly dangerous smelling. I see a cat-burglar, creeping over a tile roof in the night. I see a madam who rules her bordello with sharp words and a soft hand.

 

I don't know where that spiciness that I'm associating with cinnamon is coming from, but I adore it. It's not quite cinnamon, but it's so close, it's amazing. The amber is there, but is soft and in the background still. I expect the more this wears the stronger that will become. Now I imagine an old forest, the thick trunks of the trees covered by the tendrils of climbing vines, their flowers filling the air with perfume.

 

I really love this. *purrs*

I never reviewed this? Bad Tygher!

 

I couldn't resist Blue Moon, and not just because it wouldn't come out for a while, since the next Blue Moon isn't for almost 2 years. The moonflower, cucumber and orchid in this called to me. And sniffing the bottle, what seems most prominent to me is the cool, blue-green scent. Like a cucumber, this smells cool, like putting cucumber slices on tired, puffy eyes. Soothing. Green. Delicate and mysterious and powerful. A priestess' oil, certainly.

 

Just put on, this darkens considerably, more of the blue than the green. I imagine a woman of power standing in a field with a ring of fire surrounding her, her arms reaching to the dark night sky just as the moon is overhead. She is crowned with a wreath of night-blooming flowers, and the scent of the woods touches her on a gentle breeze. It's delicate without giving up power. It's soft, but with a slight edge. I can't really pick out any notes, but this is more of an herbal green that an flowery one.

 

This softens as I wear it, but I count this as just a natural change. It's incredibly lovely, and I certainly can feel the power that comes with an oil prepared for the magical time of the Blue Moon. Definitely herbal, like chamomile flowers and aloes and all that other green stuff. Now it can certainly be described as ethereal .. where it was more physical before, it's certainly got a wispy feel to it after it settles down. And still there's that cucumber coolness that I just am loving. Mmm.

When I think of this oil I think red .. cherry/cinnamon red, and spicy. That's not entirely what I get from the bottle though. It's more of a muted color, a burnt browny-red, with something almost sour in it. It's very strange, not at all what I expected. But then, I've found the ones I get all wrong are often incredibly lovely.

 

Wet, this doesn't seem to release the dragon's blood like Red Moon does. What I do smell is rather green, with a hint of rose starting to come out after a moment or three. If the rose goes too strong though, this is going to be somewhat disappointing.

 

It does stay a little rosey, but it doesn't seem to be overwhelmingly so as it dries into my skin. For something named red moon, this goes rather green herbal, in fact, with just a slight overtone of rose. The dragon's blood never really came out to play on me, so I might try layering this with dragon's blood itself .. or one of the 'dragon' blends.

At first sniff, this gives me the impression of a dry, sweet red wine. Now, I bought this partially because of the name and the description .. nevermind the notes in it. But having amber in it, I had to get some. I don't really smell any in it out of the bottle .. but amber's a funny thing. It does seem to have the somewhat sour pithy part of an orange in it though, something just barely bitter. And it's a good smell.

 

Word of warning .. this -will- stain your clothes. I really think I dislike the reducer caps, because this dribbled all down my wrist and had to be wiped off .. with a white shirt. Grr. but at least my shirt will smell good, right? And that smell is decidedly dry and crackly now .. not quite like Scarecrow though. More of a fruity dryness .. or perhaps a smoky fruitiness. It does seem, after a minute or two, to get more sotty/smoky. Not at all a bad thing. It's the dragon's blood I'm smelling I think ... it reminds me a little of dragon's heart. I'm not getting amber in this yet at all .. but I'm not worried. I love this just the same.

 

Mm. It's not an overpowering amber at all, at least not yet, but this scent is warm and lovely on me. Still somewhat smoky, but more like the reddish haze of smoldering embers and the blackish soot and smoke after a fire's been put out. This is a warm, living smoke rather than a cool, dead one. Yum yum yum yum yum!

Sniffing the bottle .. one of my two 5ml bottles of which I'm deliriously happy to have .. I get something very sweet. Cherries maybe. Almost like cherry Luden's throat drops, but a bit .. smokier. The first thing that came to mind when I opened and sniffed was smoke, in fact .. maybe like cherry pipe tobacco, rather than cough syrup. This is the still sunny, warm days of late summer, where Mabon and Harvest Moon are the cooler, darker early Autumn nights.

 

Mmmhmm. Cherry pipe tobacco. I smelled enough of it when I was working in a drug store and the tobacco aisle was part of my responsibility. My grandfather also used to smoke a pipe, and this sort-of reminds me of him in that way. It's ver cherry .. but I love the smell of it, still wet on my skin. as it sits and sinks in this gets a luscious milky tone to it, creamier than it started, and warmer. And there's cinnamon in this .. glorious cinnamon, how I love thee!

 

I want more. Of course, I already have much of this particular scent. It settles so deliciously on my skin .. just a warm blanket of harvest fruits and smoke and corn stalks drying and .. just all the imagery of autumn's blessings all in one small bottle. And cinnamon. Spicy, delicious cinnamon filling the air. Gods, I love this scent.

In the bottle, this starts off incredibly foody. Like a sweet bread of some type, but I'm not sure I can pick out any notes to be sure. It's possibly the pumpkin .. creamy and golden at the same time. If this were a food, I'd likely gain about a hundred pounds eating it. Yum!

 

Just putting it on, this stops being a golden corn hue and becomes considerably darker. Fresh baked bread, or pumpkin cheesecake. It's nutty and warm, chocolate brown, but with no chocolate scent. There's an underlying floral note that sorta tickles at my nose that I can't quite get. But this is the smell of a bakery in the autumn, perhaps, with bunches of fresh flowers decorating the windows every morning, mums and sunflowers in golden hues.

 

This stops being foody about 10-15 minutes after applying it, remaining a very dark floral, but not dark in the nocturne/Nyx sort of way. This is just the impending darkness of a chilly autumn evening. When you've had the windows open all day, and the mums outside are scenting the air, and there's cider simmering on the stove. I love this scent. Perhaps not as much as Mabon, but I love this scent.

In the bottle, this is 'the mmmmm'. And I vant zhe mmmmm. *winks* Seriously though, I love the smell of this. This is an autumnal gathering where someone has cider in a cauldron bubbling away, and there's a flagon of honeymeade wandering around. I was very excited to try this one, and I'm not at all disappointed. I think I can smell the woodiness in this also, somewhere in with the apple blossom-y floral.

 

When I first put it on a darker fruitiness comes out .. the blackberry perhaps. It's defnitely more berry-like than apple. It definitely darkens the scent, which at first seemed almost too bright and sunny to be an auntumnal blend. Now though, this is forboding of the darkening nights. Much like my mornings are now dark, this has darkened also, warning of winter's approach.

 

Yumyumyumyumyum. This just gets better and better the more I wear it. Dark purples and rich apple reds, like in a cool sunset, come to mind whenever I sniff it. Tempered by only the slightest hint of something green. Love it. Simply love it.

In the bottle this is very floral, very sweet, but at the same time it's very dark and moody. I definitely smell rose in this, and like with every other rose scent, I worry a little about that. But it seems to be balanced with something else, something greener, almost like Rose Red but not quite so green.

 

Having just put this on, it's indeed a rather rose-neavy scent at first, but it doesn't get the almost throat-closing cloying feel that most rose blends seem to do on me. There's a green-ness, something maybe herbal, though I don't know what note it could be. I don't get mint from this as I might expect for a coolness, yet it does indeent smell 'chilly' so to speak. As it wears I realize where that green-ness is coming from. Lime! I'm thrilled too, because I love all the lime scents I've tried so far. The rose is still very much there, but it mellows and blends with the cool lime, and perhaps another floral.

 

Havisham seemed to vanish on my skin after a while, though at the moment my nose is a bit touchy. It's probably still there, I just can't smell it. but I'm not worried about it. I don;t mind doing retouches with this one.

Eve:

In the bottle, has a fruity scent at first sniff that covers a rose/floral note I can't quite picture. It's very sweet and delicate, almost demure.

 

Wet, this becomes considerably more rosey on me, and like most rose scents I'm tempted to just wash it off. But I'm going to give it a go.

 

For a while, this tries to be more fruity, but the rose scent returns. I can't quite get a feel for this one, and that troubles me. There's a nakedness to this scent also .. it reminds me in a way of being naked in a rainstorm (Don't ask me how I know) but not in the way the rain smells, but rather the way a body smells in the rain.

Iago:

In the bottle, this is kind of a dark-sweetness. I like it, but it's also very odd. Realizing it's a gender: male scent, I don't expect it to do wonderful things on, but I do want to try it to see if I can figure out what is in it that intrigues me so.

 

Wet, I want to say there's something minty, but it doesn't smell like mint, if that makes any sense. It's .. warm. This scent, if it had a color, would be orange. But not like the fruit. There's a .. leafy-greenness to it also .. it's very nice, strong but not overpowering.

 

Wearing, of the four this is the one I like the most. It reminds me of a man's cologne, but not the perfumey ones. This is definitely one I would like to smell on a man .. and luckily, Jason tried it on too! It's gotten sweeter .. like maybe lime is in it or something. I really like this, and can even see myself wearing it. *purrs*

 

Frootloops! Jason's right .. this smells like Froot Loops! And now I'm hungry! And I want MORE!

Debauchery:

I can't even get past the scent of this one in the bottle ... it's got to have civet in it, and civet and I do not get along. Sadly, I can't even try this one on. To quote a dear friend, this smells like Aaaaaassssssss.

Damnation:

In the bottle, this smells rather ashy, somewhat like Djinn. Behind the ash there's a little bit of something sweet, almost tempting. Like a delicate fruit being offered from the hand of a demon.

 

Wet, this keeps the ashy scent, though it does seem to soften as it's absorbed by my skin, leaving it not so acrid to my nose.

 

Wearing, this stays quite ashy for a while yet, but it's a bit warmer. This is like standing next to a smouldering fire with a mug of warm cider .. but the ashes overpower anything else. It seems to want to have another scent behind it, but doesn't really. Oddly, I like that. I don't know if I could wear this, but it'd make a wonderful Fire oil.

Very sweet and green. Brings to mind the sticky insides of a honeysuckle flower, and the pollen that gets everywhere when I have cut lilies in the house.

 

When I first put it on, it turns very, very sweet. Almost fruity, it's so sweet. It's very nice though, a pretty floral that's not so light that I fear it will vanish on me, as some do.

 

After a while this softens, but it's a very wafty scent .. I can smell it every time I move ... and it's only on one wrist at the moment! But I like this one too. Similar I think to Titiana, but not as bright or pretty. There's a hidden darkness to this one, something to be wary of. The scent, though, is a definite keeper.

Right out of the imp this is a little bit smoky and a little bit wine-y. And I suddenly have the Donny and marie song in my head. Darnit! Go'way! When I think of a cabaret I instantly think of the musical .. especially the Liza Minelli version put to television. Miss Sally Bowles would indeed wear this scent.

 

After first putting it on it takes on a more 'body heat' scent. This is the scent that lingers in the room when decadent men and women gather for a night of wine, tobacco, women and song. It's women's perfume blended with sweet wine, and the lusty musk of temptation rippling through it all.

 

This stays somewhat 'warm' as it were, but it's a sultry warmth that invades your senses. More floral now as it's settled into my skin, dark and tempting. Seems to be sticking around pretty well soo, and is definitely a keeper.

Another one that I've since sent on because it would be better appreciated elsewhere, but I have to at least say something about it before I let it pass into memory.

 

Snow White .. a gift to me from the lovely Clephan and her kitties I might add ... was indeed very white. A sort of warm, mellow white .. definitely coconutty and something else. but it was truly a white scent. I've had snow cream described to me, and this is what I imagine it tastes like.

I've since swapped this away for something I prefer .. but I thought I should give my impressions of this one before they were totally gone. And a huge thank you to Clephan for letting me try this!

 

Spooky is a candy/cookie sweet blend .. something like a cross between tooth-rotting candy corn and a steaming hot cocoa to me. It was very delicious smelling, but like Bliss and Gluttony, I just can't seem to wear the overly chocolatey scents.

 

Side note: I keep getting the image of a black cat when I think about how this smelled.

Oh my gods, that's red. Rich, cherry, sticky cough syrup red.

 

As soon as I opened this one, that's all I saw. I could have closed my eyes and seen bright red, juicy cherries dancing about. Not that that's a bad thing .. it would only be bad for Jason's sister, I think. but for me .. I like the smell of cherry. I love cherry flavored Ludens ... eat them like candy, I do.

 

After putting this on it mellows a bit .. which despite really liking the bright cherry smell is a good thing, as I'm not sure I'd want to smell like vibrant crimson dancing cherries. Something a little darker. I thing I detect a woody note or two in there, but they're fleeting, overpowered by the delicious cherry note.

 

Aw heck, this is making me hungrier than Hunger did! It's really very delicious though. Smooth, like cherry cough syrup. Maybe a little bit like cherry menthol drops, but I could be imagining that. Overall, this one really does succeed at being the Red Queen .. crisp, curt, sweet when it cares to be.

 

Where's the white rabbit? And the Flamingoes?

Evil Dreamsicle indeed.

 

I adore creamsicles. Lovelovelove the creamy orange goodness. Hunger makes me crave one like ytou wouldn't believe. Right out of the bottle it's orange .. but it's almost blood orange it's so dark and wicked.

 

Just putting it on my skin brings out the orange even more, mingled with a light vanilla note that is so unlike the typical overdone vanilla I'm always afraid to smell. I hold to the impression that this rather than being a sweet naval orange is more like a blood orange .. a bit tart, a bit spicy, and just a little scary to bite into.

 

As the night draws on, this grows a bit more incensy, as someone else noted I think. but it's sweet, and lovely. I don't know which I would want to do with this, wear it or make it into incense and wax tarts, as I know I'd love for my room at least to smell like this, if not the whole house.

Jason wore this yesterday, and I loved it on him, but I think he's just not a fan of foody scents on himself. But believe me, he was absolutely edible. Definitely a scent you could put on your man for a night of cuddling. A long carriage ride under the stars. A sleghride. Nights like that .. yeah.

 

In the bottle this is somewhat spicy, but a smooth, milky spice. It's similar to chai, but not quite as spicy as that. Might be the rum I'm smelling. Not a bad scent at all. On second sniff, there's a wine note in this, probably coming to the forefront for me because I do love wine in most blends I've tried.

 

When I first put it on what I smell most is a strong wine note, but it's quickly overtaken by a smell that's almost but not quite vanilla. Is that the tonka bean? I vaguely recall hearing tonka can be used in place of vanilla. It's kinda like a smooth rum drink on me .. like a mudslide, but not chocolatey. I'm reminded of sitting at a bar with friends, all sharing drinks and generally being obnoxious 20-somethings.

 

Later on this gets a bit smokier, warmer and almost drier. Definitely smoky though, with a bit of spilled wine in the background. So very much a scent I'll wear more often .. and I'll delight in telling people the name. Perversion. *purrr*

Right out of the bottle, this is a WHOOSH of pink bubblegum. Not quite the stuff you used to get shredded in the pouches. More like bubble tape. Sinfully sweet, so sweet you can feel the cavity growing. A second sniff brings out something almost orangey .. definitely a fruity smell. I'm not sure I get the 'womanly perfume' but in this, I don't think it's needed. This is definitely the smell of jailbait.

When I first put it on it's still that sticky sweet cavity inducing smell that I just now is going to irritate my teeth, it's so sweet. It's a girl in a catholic schoolgirl uniform, the buttons of the blouse undone halfway and the tails tied around her waist. She's sucking on a lollypop, cherry red, watching the older boys drive by as she twists a finger in her hair.

As it settles down, it becomes more of an older scent, but still tainted by that bubblegum sweetness. This reminds me of a movie, and I can't think of the name of it. It's one where a teenage girl seduces her older teacher, and when he turns her away she gets her revenge. This is the perfume she would have worn. It's sweet, and edgy, and just a little dangerous while trying to keep up a mask of innocence.