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Wonderful lather ... like cappuccino foam

 

This gives me far more nut than coffee, with a hint of spice, and its a lovely comforting scent.

On sniffing the bottle I certainly get buttery cookies, and when I put it in the water this is the smell that fills the bathroom, as if I'd been baking in there.

Strangely when I get in the bath I'm not really aware of the smell of cookies any longer, but if I sniff my skin close up I get a faint hint of raspberries. It of course leaves my skin soft and silky, but didn't stick around much on my skin after the bath either, just a very faint cookie smell

It might do better for those who apply the oil directly as a moisturiser.

In the bottle I get a beautiful limey berry mix and if I was very stupid I might just drink it! It stays like this while wet but almost the moment it dries, all that juicyness vanishes and I get a fresh, slightly citrusy snow note. While I might well love it in a bath oil or shower gel and it's nice enough, it's not what I want as a perfume

Seconding Tombeur and Perversion, also Mme Moriarty, Misfortune Teller (if you can find any or when the Carnaval returns next year) and maybe Obsidian Widow.

This is lovely - for me it is almost identical to my bottle of Misfortune Teller V3, and that is a very good thing indeed. Lovely sweet, fruity incense = the other thing it reminds me of is All Souls but this is definitely fruitier than that. Win.

I find the Trading Post's atmo spray The Queens Croquet Ground sprayed on my pillow does the trick

Hi there,

 

Now, I haven't ever smelled the Gonesh stuff - but I noticed it mentioned in a review that I was reading yesterday, so my first recommendation is:

Anubis - a blend of holy myrrh, storax, balsam, and embalming herbs.

 

Many people find that something they thought that they hated in a normal perfume ends up working really well on them here, so try to skin test everything and leave it to mellow before dismissing it.

Other than that, these are some of my favourites I'd say maybe try:

Vixen - The innocence of orange blossom tainted by the beguiling scents of ginger and patchouli

Wanton - Palmarosa, red sandalwood, attar of rose, patchouli

Tombeur - vanilla-infused sandalwood, blood musk, antique patchouli, vetiver, lavender, bitter almond, amber, and a trickle of Snake Oil.

Harlot - [somalian rose, Moroccan rose and Bulgar rose with a sultry dribble of cinnamon. (I can't wear it but I love it )

Two, Five and Seven - A huge bouquet of squished rose petals: Bulgarian rose, Somalian rose, Turkish rose, Damascus rose, red and white rose, tea rose, wine rose, shrub roses, rose, rose, rose… …and just an itty bitty bit of green grass.

 

There's also a thread where people give their suggestions for a couple of imp packs for newbies here.

My Bard is the one slumped in a corner after too much bay rum and an excess of Hey Nonny Nonny ... my skin should love this but instead I get stale sour sweat

 

I'm going to hang onto it for a few weeks and see if it starts behaving itself.

Mama-Ji if you can find a decant, or Old Demons of the First Class if you get on with the other notes. I'd also suggest maybe Bengal, but I haven't skin tested that one as I can't wear cinnamon - wasn't foody in the imp though.

I got this as a frimp in a Trading Post order and have been sniffing my wrist all day but I suck at detecting notes - so here goes nothing ...

 

Wet: It's slightly fruity, a sharp, green floral note and a sweet background. I'm not sure that I will like this. It is bugging me that I can't remember what it reminds me of at this stage.

 

Dry: It dries to something that is definitely foody on me - maybe buttery shortbread or else pie crust - sugary sweetness, a tiny touch of spice, a richness that I think is butter and then maybe some skin musk. I really like it once it's dry.

 

It's still lingering some 8 hours later.

And now, a quick question:Who'd be interested in a lightning ATC swap round, starting, say, next weekend? The mailing deadline would be December 17th, and the theme would be BPAL Yules.

Yes

 

How would you all feel about a plain old winter warm up swap? Something without holidays attached? The receiver would get a "snow day" kind of package, like tea, something soft and warm etc.?

And yes

Bastet and Crib Girls are both lovely and very sweet. Also Mango-Infused Pumpkin Chai Latte from the current Weenies might be worth considering, but I haven't tried that one.

bheansidhe, i think i'll have to take your advice and get some imps with the notes i suspect i will hate. though that takes a lot of discipline when i could instead get some that i know i will love

 

i hadn't thought that it was the tobacco but that is a definite possibility. ill have to hunt down some tobacoo containing imps!

Maybe search a few sales threads for cheap imps so you're not paying full price for things you might hate? - also many people sell half-full imps even cheaper.

Please please please make it for internationals too ... I've sent my final switch witch package yet I seem to be still shopping

This reminds me of Cloister Graveyard in the Snow - not surprising as they share the white musk and the mint. It's a very gentle, light, green scent. There's a vague floral in the background and it's all very nice but it vanishes so quickly on me. If it stuck around a bit longer I'd happily get a bottle - and I'd love to see this as a shower gel from the Trading Post.

My first thought when wet was hazelnut praline, but I can see where salty would come in, maybe a salted praline. After a few minutes I'm getting what I think is the pumpkin latte, but only slightly spiced, much more gentle than most of the pumpkin things I've tried. It's mellowing out to include wood and making me think of a wooden counter that had spiced pastries on it an hour or so earlier. There's a really tiny hint of cologne.

 

ETA: After an hour or so it does turn to mostly cologne - but an interesting, woody, sexy cologne. I need a man who wears this in my life.

Some unimpables I'd suggest are Pandy (Fresh white musk, honeycomb, sweet apricot, elemi, orange blossom, and mischievous pink pepper) and Alcie (bright nectarine, honey, sandalwood, green musk, sea buckthorn berry, and oakmoss),from the Pandora section, and also Lady Una (Honey musk, green tea leaf, blackberry leaf, vanilla bean, and fae spices) or The East (bluebonnet, passion flower, freesia, jasmine tea, mint, thyme, and redcurrant) from the Neil Gaiman/Stardust section. The vanilla & spices in Lady Una are very muted I find.

I got the strong almondy Dr Pepper smell while it was wet and then I kind of forgot about it for a little while. Then I put my nose to my wrist and actually jerked back away from myself as it smelled so strongly of the rotten wood and hidden nastiness. This hits the description spot on - but I don't want to scare myself when I sniff it!

When I first apply it I get a blast of wet green loveliness, dark green leaves, much fresher than box normally is. Once it's dry I also get a hint of roses too, white roses rather than red. I can close my eyes and imagine tall hedges studded with white roses. But not a hint of rosemary anywhere.

 

I don't find it claustrophobic at all, but I do have an affinity for hiding in greenery

Clove and black pepper and no decaying flesh at all It makes me think of the sort of spicy cologne an extremely sexy dark haired man would wear - a sort of mix of spice and sex and danger. I love it!

Can anyone think of a perfume oil that is similar to the gorgeous Butterfly Nectar bath oil? I'm having far too many baths in this lovely concoction when really I should have showers and use less water.

 

A couple of the reviews for Pandy (in the Pandora line) compare it to the Butterfly Nectar bath oil, so that might be worth looking into

 

EDIT.. oh, I just noticed yours is one of the reviews! Let's just call this a blonde moment for me

 

I got a sniffie of this free ... not something I would have ordered as I would have been scared of it!

The first blast is almost pure black pepper but as it dries I keep getting wafts of pumpkin. This isn't your super sweet pie type pumpkin, this is savoury, this is moroccan-spiced pumpkin. I don't exactly get the mandarin but I get a sort of dried citrus peel smell if I sniff really hard. No sandalwood as far as I can tell, but maybe it's submerged under all that pepper, which still stays dominant. I don;t recognise any carnation either - but other people have said they find carnation spicy, and this is certainly spicy so it might just be nose fail on my part. I'm really glad I got to try this one.

I don't usually like florals so I'm not sure what prompted me to get this but I'm very glad I did.

 

This is a truly beautiful mix of purple flowers, a tiny bit of rain and some green stems very gently in the background. On me it doesn't change much from wet to dry.

 

It makes me think of lying back on the grass next to a dear one on a summer's evening, just after dusk, surrounded by flowers. The darkness is thick and warm, the scent of flowers is all-encompassing and there's no need for words to break the peaceful silence. Truly lovely

2012 version:

 

This starts off dark spicy incensey and it's nice, but then, after about half an hour, it changes ...

 

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, it changes to the smell of old, cold iron, the heartless, inhuman, implacable evil that has lived, alone and uncaring, for countless millennia. This is the scent that wafts up from the cellar when you're all alone in the house, and you hear an unexplained scratching in the basement. You put your hand on the metal doorknob and turn it, just a fraction. You smell this and, if you're sensible, you run, not walk, out of the house and never look back.

 

Seriously, this creeps me out, it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck and I hope its next owner loves it.

I want sunshine and meadows and fresh air and green grass ... but what I get is table scraps.

 

I tried it last week and thought maybe my nose was broken, but today it's the same, both wet and dry I get spicy pie crust. I'm sure Bub enjoys the pie, but it's not quite what I was hoping for.