crescentwench

In the bottle I get floral fresh peaches, right off the tree and lots of sweetness. On the body I'm amping that peach note but getting much more sugary creamy marshmallows. After dry down/wearing for a bit it settles in to creamy vanilla with a hit of sweet peaches. Very little throw but long lasting as most of the labs creamy vanilla scents are on me. 

I put some on this morning and ran out of the house. i caught a fruity whiff every once in a while during the day, and now that i've actually got time to sniff and analyze my wrist I smell like a musky fruit roll-up. That might sound wierd, but I actually really like it. I'll definatley wear this again, but I doubt I'd need a bottle of it.

At first it's all patchouli, but not dirty hippy patchouli, a really nice smooth patchouli, spicey with a soft hint of the vanilla and musk and just the faintest hint of plum. after a few hours the patchouli is gone and it's all delicious vanilla (almost identical to the SN vanilla bean i have, but with just a touch of musk). I'm so glad the patchouli faded out a bit, but i'm even more glad i kept this bottle on pure faith. it's delicious, and sure to be one of my year round favorites.

eta: wow! this is a morpher! another couple of hours later the patchouli is back, but much much subtler and the rest is all musk, with just the slightest hint of vanilla sweetness.

I got this scent in the hope that the rose would just magically disappear or at least not hate me.....

wet I can smell apple!! no hint of roses yet.

On me the rose comes out a bit, but it's the green rose scent you get at a flower shop, not the overpowering scent of the flowers.

On me, the apple keeps the rose in check, but it's still there enough to battle my sinuses. I think this is getting passed on to a friend who loves rose scents. i don't think this would bother me on someone else, but it's got enough throw that on me it keeps wafting into my nose.

it'd me lovely if i my nose didn't hate roses.

In the vial i get a warm fruit smell with a hit of.....alcohol?

on me it's fait and the fruit takes a turn i don't really like.

in the imp it's all light woods and air.

wet, i can barely find where i put it on my skin.

it's still very very faint, but it's warming up into a cinnamony spice.

eek. and there are some hints of floralmaking it go soapy. silly prostitues perfume!! I'm realy sad, as none of the "seafaring" scents have worked for me yet.

in the imp it smells familiar, but i can't place what note it is. perhaps the musk and smoke with the dragon's blood from Tingtagel.

on me it hits the cassia note from the monsterbaits that made ill. with an undercurrent of salon chemical smell.

blah.

in the imp it's all sweet and tart apples.

on, wet it goes all flowery. blargh.

and now it's getting soapy. the flowers hate me as much as i hate them. horray.

sadly this will not be one of my loves. it's surprisingly light compared to some of the other draconis scents,though.

it's all verbena in the imp.

wet, faint verbena. with a hint of ginger. This ones a bit to airy for me. It smells like a soap i like, but i don't want to smell like verbena all the time.

In the imp it's creamy and sweet, i don't catch any of the florals.

Wet, the amber and musk come out to playtoo. Yum! On me this is the way I had hoped 'o' or "snake oil" would smell. It's sweet, but not so sweet that I feel like a cake. It's not floral on me at all really, and the moss is there just enough to ground it and keep it from being too foody.

It's faint, but with a good bit of throw. my skin sucks up most scents so you have to be reallyclose to the skin to smell, but this floats just a bit above. It'll be a great compliment to some of the more masculine scents that I like to wear.

Definately a bottle on this one!!

There must be pine in this as well as the rosewood, perhaps one of the "soft woods", becase all i get is a cologny wood/pine scent. grr. i want leather!!

I was excited for an almond milk scent, since i love the smell fo it. This smells sharp in the bottle with that strange note that gave me an "off" feeling in schwarzer mond. I can smell the hint of almond milk. When i sniffed this when i first got it i had a head cold and could only smell the almond and was really psyched that this was going to smell how I had hoped.

trying it now with an unlclogged head I'm amping the pine like nuts. and it's one of the only scents i'm really allergic too. i had hoped the almond milk would mellow it out enough to not bother me. but no such luck. i shall go scrub my arm now.

i was so excited about this one. Musk, leather and tea! yay!

in the bottle i get all grapfruit. I like grapfruit, but i want musk and leather!! On me it's all citrus, no musk or leather and smell vaguely of a body shop or gap scent that I"ve smelled before. It's very sophisticated but not me at all.

mm. this one smelled very masculine in the bottle, with a hint of something sort of sweet and "off".

on me, that goes away and the amber comes out! yum! but that "off" something is still there.

after about 10min it fades to a very faint scent, but it is sadly the scent of head shop on me. off to swaps.

hmm.. smells like gingersnaps w/a sharp bite in the bottle. The same on me for about an hour, witha bit of cardamom (i think) peeking its head out as well as some sort of citrus scent or herb with a citrus-like bite.

Now it's dried down to an almost totally smoke -incense scent, with all of the sweetness of the ginger gone.

i can understand the attraction, but sadly this one's not for me.

XVIII - 18

I swapped my orangey/floral bottle to Wench457 for this bottle, which she thought smelled very masculie and clean, with a bit of earthiness on the drydown.

when i initially opened the box there was a sicky sweet powdery smell that me feel al little naueous, but now that i'm sniffing right out of the bottle I think it might have been a combo of this and the frimp of vixen she sent me.

straight out of the bottle all I can think of CK1. a little soft, a little sweet and kinda of herbal. I can't name any notes, but it definately smells like men's cologne.

on me it's a dead ringer for CK1.

I don't how much I'll wear it, its got a "perufmy" note that my nose and I don't like and most of beth's scents not having it is one of the reasons I love bpal so much.

CMLXXXIX - 989

nooooo! sandalwood! the bane of my existance. there is a hint of something sweet underneath it, though. After testing it and holding my arm away from my face long enough for the sandalwood to fade (like 3 hrs! gah!) there is a hint of sweetness, perhaps a sugary vanilla? it's almost the inverse of Monsterbait:Underpants which was all sugar on me with the faintest hint of sandalwood. I don't think i like this one anybetter. If it was a balance in the middle I might be pleased, but sadly it's off to the swaps.

MLXXIII - 1,073

This one reminds me of the Tweedles, it's citrusy and fresh with a bit of sweetness and tang and maybe a hint of floral. On me, all i smell is soap, though that might be becuase i've been handling soap recently. --- after testing again it doesn't smell like soap, it's just very very faint orangy, and whatever that hidden floral is must be making it go a bit funky on me. I want to say the floral is gardenia but I'm not sure. It's something light/white.

overall i'm sad that neither is my perfect blend. I'll just have to see if I can swap something better for me.

In the bottle - sweet and green and light, i can smell the aloe, and the rice wine and the sugar

on, wet: the same, the aloe comes out more

on dry - more aloe, i can smell a hint of grapefruit and the warmth and sweetness from teh sugar and rice wine.

on, 1hr later - sweet ginger, with a touch of woodsyness and the hint of fresh aloe.

eta:

several hours later (after wearing it in the steam heat of today) - the woodsyness and aloe have faded leaving a delicious ginger and vanilla, with a hint of grounding that must be the musk and the faintest hint of the sweet powdery note that grapefruit turns on me. this is delicious! it might be a good thing i ordered two bottles after all!!

courtesy of the convergence sniffies circle -

in the vial - smells exactly like Smut and Devil's Night had an illicit love child.

on, wet - pretty much the same, but with a touch of creamy/buttery note I didn't smell in the vial

on, dry - yup. Smut and Devil's Night's love child. I'll have to try combining the two on my arm to see if I get the same result.

1hr later - still not much change, it's gone a bit softer, a touch powdery,but still the same.

live from the US Convergence Sniffie tour....

in the vial - it smells like sweet vanilla sugar and then sharp herbs.

on, wet - spices and herbs, still sharp and the sweetness I smelled in the vial is totallygone

on, dry - still herby, but the sharpness has softened up some

on 1hr later - gorgeous!! some of the sweetness has returned and some musk has come out, the herbs are still there, but soft.

I'd better hide my wallet cause i want more!!

from the Convergence Sniffie Us tour...

in the vial - sharp, medicinal and herby. there's a note I can't place that reminds me of antiseptic.

on, wet - the same.

on, dry - still very much the same, it's not quite as sharp but still herby and medicinal.

on, 1hr later - It's softened up considerably, it's now a sort of masculine powdery incense smell. Still a little to sharp for me, but I bet it would be loverly on a boy.

got to test this through brienze's convergence sniffies tour circle.

in the vial - it's all sweet sugary vanilla and pumpkin with a hint of spices. It's the only pumpkin scent I've sniffed that didn't have a sort of rotten-gingerbread smell to it. I've got high hopes...(high pumkin pie in the sky hopes!!)

on, wet - still sweet and vanilla-y, the pumpkin takes over, and it's delicious, warm and sweet

on, dry - the spices come out: cloves, nutmeg and hint of cinnamon. It smells like warm fresh pumpkin pie.

on, 1hr later - pooh. I'm saddened to discover that the yumminess has morphed into a generic spiced-candle scent, with a bit wierd waxy tang. Oh well, it'll save my wallet....

In the imp: vanilla and ozone

on me: non existant. maybe a hint of vanilla, but it just disappears.

mmm. I think i'm in love. It's sweet, and warm and not too masculine or feminine. The wine smell is lovely. Sadly after 10 seconds on my skin the cypress takes over. I had hoped it would just go away, since it makes my allergies crazy, but no such luck. Off to the sink. I'm keeping the imp for use in a scent locket, but I am sad.

In the imp it's a warm earthy scent. I'm not getting any specific notes. On it's the same, a much lighter scent than other "dirt" scents I've tried and without any of the usual piney-resiny bits. I adore it. I think i just found the perfect summer scent - light and feminine but w/o making the bees flock to me.