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When it's wet the main note I pick up is the redcurrant, with a slightly woody note.
Once it dries down I'm finding it very hard to pick out individual notes on this as it all blends so beautifully together - if I try to concentrate on picking out a note it seems to shimmer and change quite a bit. Overall a fruity sort of incense, not overpowering and very gently musky. I don't really pick up the green moss and the noticable currant vanished as it dried but there's still a sweet and fruity note. i find myself wishing that the moss and the lemon shone through a bit more on me but it's hellishly hot here so I will retry when the weather cools down.

On me from start to finish I get amped florals, all of the time. If florals are your thing you will undoubtedly love it, but I really wanted the tonka, tobacco and bourbon vanilla to show themselves and they just didn't. I can tell it is of course beautifully blended but my skin refuses to cooperate on this one so I shall send it somewhere else to be loved.

First blast smells like a spicy rich fortified spirit on me, I guess a combination of the bourbon geranium/vanilla and spicy carnation. As it dries the fruit emerges, the peach seems really juicy but there's also some raspberry in there. After it has sat for a while I get the bergamot cutting through the sweetness and really freshening the whole thing up. This is a lush, rich and rounded scent, with really good staying power.

Both in the bottle and wet I get a lovely light citrussy scent, from the bergamot and the tea with a tiny touch of tangerine.

Once it dries I immediately get hit with clove, lots of clove - like two planets colliding and Planet Clove completely squashes poor old Planet Citrus. The berries may be circling at a distance, but only make an appearance after a couple of hours to add a sour fruit edge to the clove.

I've worn this two days straight trying to work out how to describe it and I'm still struggling - it's pretty unique. There is definitely a sweetness, a little powdery but not overly so. It gives a sense of being luminous, but I usually associate that with the white florals and in this I don't detect much floral. It's how I imagine baby powder would smell if it was made from moon rocks! There is a tiny hint of greenness but no swampy mossy scent. I love it, it feels very ethereal.

Boundless Vista Of An Inner World and The Spell Of The Eastern Sea both come to mind - both aquatic but dark and evocative. I'd also suggest Hesiod's Phoenix is well worth a sniff and Mother Shub's Gingerbread Temples is a wonderfully rich foody.

So, I had an idea. I have no idea if it has ever been done before, because the cemetery is impossibly hard to find threads in, and I've only been in one swap, let alone hosted one, but it could be fun!

 

 

The idea would to be to make a bottle (or a handful of imps) holder for someone, based off one of their favourite scents in some way.

Since they'd be relatively small/light, it'd be intentionally friendly, as well as all sorts of crafts friendly. People could clay or wire sculpt, paint small boxes, decorate altoid tins, sew a fabric pouch, etc, as long as it could hold a bottle or some imps.

Lovely idea!

Wet: I get a blast of sweet rose, not noticeably red or white, more like wild rose

Dry: As soon as this is dry I get powdery granny-scent rose which is a shame. The honey makes no appearance until a couple of hours later but the powder rose lingers on and on.

On me this is very masculine at the moment - a really sexy high end woody cologne smell more than anything. it does remind me of Crowley but without the lift from the citrus. I get no bergamont, redcurrant or vanilla at all in this, which is a shame, but I'll age it for a while and hope those notes emerge.

This most reminds me of Morocco at the start but once it dries down I get no lemon or honey, just smoky vetiver, heavy musk and a beeswaxy scent which I presume is the saffron. I'd like this as an evening room spray but on me it just doesn't quite work.

On me it stays the same all the way through - soft peach, slightly powdery, with a hint of cherry in the background and a faint incense waft at the end. Light throw but still definately lingers.

 

This is a really beautiful, grown-up and sophisticated scent, which is completely unlike me, and yet I'm tempted to get a bottle anyway.

From start to finish this is entirely soap on me. Naughty, naughty skin chemistry

 

After a couple of hours the mandarin peeks out but it's barely there.

As soon as I apply it I get a massive blast of mint, but by the time it's dried that has vanished completely. It then starts with a delicate mandarin which is lovely but my skin eats it up, I have to put my nose to my skin to get anything. An hour later and it's a slightly citrusy musk which is beautiful but so delicate and close to the skin - far too light for me, I need something with a bit more punch.

So many great ideas... I hope hope hope they won't all be "US only" (that's why I LOVE it when Em runs swaps, she always opens them to "internationals" ).

This ... please please please!

Beautiful, completely beautiful - this manages to be light and yet fill the bathroom with scent at the same time. The rosewood wasn't heavy and woody - this is rosewood full of fresh sap, smelling like a ton of fresh red roses still on the branch. The green tea lifts this and there is a sweet fruity background and a tiny burnt note from the caramel, and I find myself wanting to eat my own arm. Definitely bottle-worthy and perfect for spring.

Bewitched or Titania or Kumari Kandam might all be worth a try

The ones that come to mind for me are:

 

AE Aegypti - Five honeys with vanilla orchid, gardenia, dragon's blood resin, gingergrass, and turmeric

A Thought From Propertius - Sweet honey, white apricot, and a touch of cayenne pepper

Hesoid's Phoenix - Golden amber, bourbon vanilla, and sweet oudh

 

You also might like [Redacted] Dragon - Raw red ginger, pink pepper, red carnation, sweet clove, vetiver, heartwood cinnamon, and jasmine sambac though I haven't tried it as cinnamon rips my skin off

Boundless Vista of an Inner World from the current LEs

Fairy Bites - Osmanthus and raw honey with lavender, chamomile, white peppermint, raspberry, honeysuckle, thyme, bergamot, and Dracula orchid. or Capax Infiniti - honey-snuggled skin musk, sweet vanilla ice cream residue, and lavender oil (Lilith’s favorite!), with a gentle hint of Dorian. both seem like daytime TKO to me. I don't get on with many florals but I don;t find Fairy Bites floral except for lavender which doesnt count!

 

Crowley - Infernal musk, red patchouli, lilac cologne, mahogany, lemon rind, oakmoss, leather, and vanilla husk. This is beautifully balanced.

 

Gnome - An explosive blend of effervescent golden ginger and black peppercorn with sarsaparilla, gurjum balsam, nutmeg, gear lubricant, and smoke. I never get the lubricant/smoke, just a lovely fizzy, energetic scent.

 

No.93 Engine - Balm of Gilead, benzoin, frankincense, balsam of peru, beeswax, saffron, galbanum, calamus, hyssop, mastic, lemon balm, and white sage.

 

Also a couple from this lot of Yules, (both aquatics which usually never work on me)

 

The Spell of the Eastern Sea - Sea salt, kelp, and twisting willows.

 

The Boundless Vista - Salted citron, black coconut, wormwood, and oily labdanum oozing through fungal mosses and sick, greenish subterranean flora.
 Sounds vile but is actually lovely - this seems to be a love it or hate it one, but I'm sure you'll find a buyer if you hate it!

Red or Pandy or Lolita or Kabuki all come to mind from GCs

This is my surprise winner of all the Yules. It doesn't morph much on me - I get sage honey, foodiness without it being sweet, a wild green edge and what I think is the oak, the acorns and the tobacco giving woody resins to round it all out. Lovely.

This is so beautifully blended that I really struggle to pick out any notes, yet I can look at the notes listing and be sure I noticed them all. Patchouli is probably most prominent followed by the green tea which makes it herbal rather than too sweet. It's a gloriously heady mix that lingers on my skin afterwards too.

This is gorgeous - very much like Eldritch Dark in lotion form, and beautifully moisturising. I just wish I could do a Naughty Inquisition to get more but all the Naughty perfumes have death notes.

When this goes on I get acrid, rotting citrus - ew!

 

I nearly washed it off but I have persevered. After an hour I am getting a herbal, vaguely citrus sandalwood but it still manages to be both powdery and acrid on me.

When it's wet it's Almond Daim bar, but it dries to cookies with a salty plasticky tang. Not for me.