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In the bottle and wet it's sharp yet ‘perfumey’ and slightly lemony as it dries. It becomes creamy once dry with tea starting to appear and some sort of flowers appearing. Very gentle, I’d love my laundry to smell like this! It's like the memory of a hug, or the faint scent that remains on a piece of clothing that belongs to someone you love.

Very low throw and doesn't last long on me but really lovely.

In bottle it's rich and resinous. Just applied the honey shines through with a tiny touch of saffron - still very resinous, that’s not going anywhere. Once dry it is sweet but not foodie, red musk leading but the honey and vanilla making it a little furrier and the saffron present but staying in the background. Later on it is a gorgeous honeyed musk. Good throw but not overwhelming. Lasts a long time on me.

In the bottle and wet I get a faint nuttiness and cream. Once dry it is sweet, creamy, with a tiny bit of musk and lemon. The amber gets more prominent over time but its still creamy. After an hour it is amber scented marshmallows. Low throw.

Overwhelmingly green in the bottle. When wet it is also all about the green, rich and lush but with a slight spicy undertone. It gets spicier as it dries, I think this is the sunlight and dried grasses.  After a short time drying the green leaves take over, with almost a wildflower note. This is glorious, I could happily spend an afternoon dozing in a clearing in this forest.

After about an hour it has faded quite a bit but stays green and I love it.

Beautifully green and wet when ... well, wet!  Once it's dry, it is fresh and green with very gentle bergamot and only a tiny hint of white musk. This will be perfect for hot summers

On me it starts out almost aniseed but very quickly dries down to creamy flowers, honey and a very mild hint of spices. This smells very grown up and I'm possibly too much of a chaotic mess to wear it!

In the bottle I get juicy black cherries and that persists when it is wet on my skin. It makes my mouth water!

As it dries the vanilla begins to appear, and then the champaca, and the juicy cherries are almost gone.

Once dry, all I get is vanilla and champaca, no cherries at all

This is very nutty in the bottle and wet, with a slight burnt note. Dries down to a sweet balance of all three, really beautiful.

In bottle - vague laundry detergent, very faint flower that I think is maybe peony?

Wet - getting stronger, but still mostly laundry

As it dries, flowers finally appear, but can’t pick any specific ones out, except more heady than the Cottage Garden flowers. After a while turns beeswax on me which is confusing. Low throw and doesn’t last long.

I'm hoping that after a few months it has aged enough for the incense to be more prominent.

In the bottle I get the cacao and the terebrith resin, and a bit of the honey shows up when wet on the skin.

As it dries the myrrh gets stronger but the cacao is still there.

Once dry there is a faint touch of honey, lots of myrrh and some labdanum, with dry cacao and the tenebrith peeking through. After an hour or so I finally get the patchouli coming through, with tenebrith and the cacao still there. Not much throw but it does last a while.

Wet and in the bottle it is very wildflowery. I’m no good at picking out flowers in this one, but no rose or white floral type things. It seems exactly like walking in a Cottage Garden and is really beautiful.

As it dries it gets a bit greener, but this is a gorgeous realistic blend, gentle rather than a heady overpowering one.

In the bottle it’s all strong neroli.

Wet, the neroli is still there but the tangerine peeks through in the background.

As it dries it remains mostly neroli, I don’t get amber or musk at all . It has very low throw and doesn’t hang about long.

In the bottle I get nothing but laundry detergent, and wet I get a tropical fruit note - something like papaya maybe? Probably the combo of pomegranate and peach.

That note fades quickly and the amber comes out, with a slight burnt note (presumably the blackened cardamon). No moss or ambergris for me but the incense smoke appears faintly once dry. After quite a while it ends up incense smoke and pomegranate. I think this will change as it ages and turn into a stunner.

In the bottle it is all banana toffee chews.

Wet on the skin I get really good quality banoffee pie, with real bananas and a proper bitter caramel note.

As it dries the marshmallow finally appears for me, with a gentle rum note and a hint of the frankincense.

This goose is strangely well behaved so it must be plotting something.

When wet it's beautiful juicy pineapple sweets and honestly I would be overjoyed if it just stayed like that.

As it dries I get more rose and the pineapple edges backwards out the room. Come back Pineapple! I love you! Don't be bullied out by those powdery notes!

Pineapple didn't listen 😫 and once dry it's all powdery rose on me.

If you want a sleep blend, this is the one!

In the bottle the lavender is present but only gently so, rounded out by slight flowery herbal notes.

Once on the skin there's a brief burst of overpowering lavender but that settles down really quickly and chamomile is the most prominent note. There are faint florals which I can't pick apart as I'm unfamiliar with some but I do get the lemon balm along with the chamomile. Once it's dry it almost has a hay or grasses note. the overall effect is very calming and soothing.

In the bottle and when wet it's all very sharp pine, but real pine not disinfectant. As it dries I get the stone note, and the oaks but no wildflowers or grasses as yet. The pine is far less prominent now. It turns very light after half an hour, grassy but I can't find the flowers. It's almost gone after two hours.

From the start it's all about the pastry note on me, I could almost knock back the bottle it smells so yummy. As it dries the raspberry jam appears, with apricot far more subtly in the background. After about an hour the apricot is prominent, with a pastry backnote. Not much throw, and disappeared after around 3 hours, but it's nice to find a pastry note that doesn't turn sour on me.

When wet its perfumey, but peach starts creeping into the background. As it dries the peach becomes more prominent but still very classic perfume floral on me. Reminds me of something a relative wore back in the dim distant past but I can't put a name to it.

Lovely lemony herbal when wet, not sharp lemon like lemon juice, more muted & softer. As it dries the honeysuckle peeks out but the lemon stops it from getting too sickly sweet. An instant win.

Wet: fruity sweets

Dry: Not quite so much of a fruit hit, a drier scent, strawberry coming through along with the vanilla musk but the whole thing seems too sweet and girly for me

When wet its sharp and lemony, which is probably the motherwort? Very light and fresh.

Once dry, much more herbal and less lemony, and after about half an hour it smells like herbal kitten belly

Wet: comforting spices

Dry: a warm fuzziness, reminds me of warm spiced milk without being milky. There can't be cinnamon in it as my skin isn't peeling off! Very low throw, might be a nice comforting bedtime scent.

Wet & in the imp: sharp, animalistic musk

Dry: More forest evergreen, quite dry, walking on pine needles but the muskiness in the background still and eventually the warm hazelnut appears very subtly

On 7/17/2021 at 4:18 PM, Greenwoodtree said:

 

Haha, I dont think it is!

Doooo iiiiiiit ....