whitsunweddings
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In the imp: Champaca dominant. Quite smokey and incensey, but also fairly floral. Nice, hippyish.
Wet: Smoky, soapy, powdery mix of woods and incense.
Dry: Just a bit of a hippyish soap, really. Nice but not my thing.
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Kagema
in Lupercalia
WHY ISN'T THIS MORE POPULAR??
In the imp: Amazing, like omg I'm going to die. Sweet orange, spicy bay and smoky tobacco.
Wet: Like in the bottle, but moreso. Orange dominant, and there's a note that smells like clove.
Dry: Sweet, lovely, spicy, amazing. I need a bottle.
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I: Sweet, coconutty butterscotch.
Wet: The same sweet coconut but with strong tropical booziness coming through.
Dry: Yup. Very sweet and foody coconut rum. Nice enough, but too boozy for me.
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I'm reviewing the 2012 version!
In the imp: Oof. Sharp, fresh pine with hints of sweet clove underneath.
Wet: That's really lovely. Sweet clove dominating quite quickly, with pine just underneath.
Dry: Just what I was hoping for with this scent! Clove sharpened by pine, which I'm very happy with, as pine usually dominates on me. Would not be adverse to a bottle, particularly for use as a room scent.
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I: Spicy woods with bay and clove.
Wet: Amazing spices with hints of leather and lime.
Dry: Sour manly lime, what a pity!
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In the imp: Like pumpkin dish soap, pumpkin and booze. An interesting night perhaps! But not something I care to smell like.
Wet: I don't want to be disgusting, but this is like pumpkin vomit and soap.
Dry: There's a creamy sweetness that I feel could be nice, but it's drowned out by the aforementioned vom/soap combo. Groce.
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In the imp: Kind of like orris, actually. Some floral. And incense.
Wet: Yeah. Sweet florals and incense.
Dry: It's just a white floral on me. Not terribl exciting.
An hour and a half later: Dried into something quite sweet and smoky. Nice enough.
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In the imp: Kind of like sweet, cinnamonny olive oil?
Wet: Cinnamon and sandalwood soap.
Dry: Yeah. A nice, tasteful, spice scent.
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Boo
in Halloweenie
In the imp: Intensely sweet creaminess.
Wet: Yup, like sugar and linen. I'm imagining this as a cloud of pink sparkles emenating from my wrists.
Dry: Sweet linen and cream. I can't decide if I like this or if it's sour saccrahine.
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In the imp: Mint? Maybe some woods.
Wet: Kind of smells like flyspray :/ bu hao.
Dry: Why did I buy this? IT HAS AMBERGRIS. Accordingly, this is ambergirs, flowers and coconut on me. Groce.
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In the bottle: Fizzy ginger, more like ginger root that you'd put in a curry than like, the powdered ginger you'd use in baking. There's a foody 'biscuity' note in the background that I assume to be honey?
Wet: Whoa. STRONG ginger. It's like, medicinal, and it's mixing weirdly with the honey and cream.
Dry: Fizzy ginger root with spoiled cream and biscuits. I'm so bummed, 'cause I adore all the notes, but this just didn't work on me
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In the imp: Sweet floraled honey with a hint of smoke.
Wet: I'm getting that clean, almost linen-y, honey note, but there's spicy tobacco in there too. I sort of feel that this could be amazing, or it could end up smelling like a pile of laundry sitting in a smoker's bedsit :/
Dry: A clean honey with hints of smoke and spice. It's okay.
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In the imp: We have this biscuit in NZ called Gingernuts - our most popular, apparently - and this smells just like them, mixed with lavender.
Wet: Yup. Ginger-caramellised-sugary-biscuity lavender. Glorious.
Dry: The combination of spice and sweetness makes this like a bubblegummy Eclipse with the barest hint of lavender. Wonderful! I need a bottle.
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In the imp: Sweet, woody incense.
Wet: Beeswax and frankincense with a citrussy edge. Surprisingly cologney.
Dry: Sweet, spiced incense. Very christmassy. Merely 'ok' on me, but I could imagine it working well on a bloke.
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In the imp: Dorian. This is seriously just Dorian.
Wet: Sweet, manly, earl grey tea. Or, as some like to call it, Dorian.
Dry: Yeah. It's Dorian. There's maybe the slightest hint of jasmine, but that aside, they're virtually identical. I do love the tea note - it's very true. When I was travelling recently, I stood near a lady in an airport who I'm pretty sure was wearing either this or Dorian and I was really jealous of how fresh and clean she smelled. Seriously contemplating buying a bottle for travelling!
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In the imp: Pure melon!
Wet: More honeyed and almost floralish.
Dry: Kind of like melon with grasses and honey? Interesting.
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In the imp: Apple, grasses, a hint of prickly tomato.
Wet: Chapaca coming out a bit. The overall effect is quite soapy.
Dry: A fresh and sweet apple with hints of grass. Not bad!
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In the imp: MANLY pine.
Wet: Much more fresh and sweet. The impression that I get is of ~bursts of sunlight filtering through dark trees~.
Dry: Interesting and complex. I get hints of lemon and resins in with the pine. Alas, too manly for me.
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In the imp: Brown sugar and spices. I want to eat this up!
Wet: Sweet clove and anise. Just lovely.
Dry: A beautiful gourmand and spice blend. Will be keeping my eyes peeled for a bottle!
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In the imp: Lavender!
Wet:... With something quite minty and zingy? This is not unlike Pain.
Dry: Yeah, I was hoping for something like my beloved Gaueko - lavender and smoke, y'know - but this is a more tart and herbal lavender blend.
Geisha in a State of Rumpled Annoyance
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In the imp: Ginger and lavender. Very fresh and herbal, both garden-y (not floral), and foody.
Wet: The lavender is stronger, plum coming out a bit.
Dry: Ooh, mostly ginger and lavender, but there are nice fruity notes in there too. It's bright and sparkly, tart without sour. I really like it, but I wore it to work and was gone within a few hours, so I think I'll pass on a bottle.