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We have an unexpected winner! Not my sort of fragrance but the name was so cute I just got swept up in Silly Season delerium.

& I am so glad I did. Snow bunny has a wonderful crisp pine/cyprus note in the bottle & when 1st applied (like Swedish pine/cyprus - you can imagine big branches of it spanking your booty). This is lovely as it's fresh crispness is a great antidote to a sweltering Aussie X-mas. Then it morphs, & this is my fave bit. It develops into the softest, girliest powdery berry scent & it's utterly gorgeous & has MASSIVE staying power. Perfect for Southern hempisphere Christmas' as put it on in morning when it's stinking hot & the greeness of it cuts through the heat & wakes you out of your sweaty stupor. But nightfall when the sky turns vivid pinks & purples & the weather is more sultry, the perume changes to match it & is subtle, soft & very very "come sniff me" sexy.

Snow Bunny Rocks

Not sure what Wisteria smells like, but on me this went really gorgeously Neroli-like. Light, sweet (but not cloyingly) slightly citussy & fresh. I love this one. It's a good Spring/Summer smell.

I'm so for this idea!

I wore my St John medallion this week. My Mum, bored at school in Grade 6, took a little gold backed medallion of the Madonna (given to her for her confirmation by random Italian Aunt) painstakingly removed the glass, took out the pic of the Holy Mother & replaced it with this itty bitty pic of John Lennon. Nonna found it a year ago when cleaning the house & gave it back to Mum who gave it to me, being a massive Beatles & Lennon fan that I am

Where she found such a small pic & how she did it I'll never know. But 40-45 years later it still looks new.

YUUUUUUUUM!!!!!

After 2 amazingly stressful 12 hour days at work, with the mercury pushing close to 40 degrees Celcius this little beauty that arrived today was a godsend.

Clean, white, fresh & comforting.

I calmed down straight away. It was relaxing, just like your weary head hitting those crisp freshly off the line sheets on a balmy summer night (which is sure is now). You know when you've had a craptsatic day or night out & all that keeps you going is the thought of smelling clean sheets & hitting the hay? Well, this is that feeling bottled.

The perfect antidote to an all-nighter? No, it's the perect antidote to a steamy, scorching Aussie summer. fabulous. I'm so glad i got a 5 ml unsniffed (which I never do). This is perfect for this heat as iIcan smell clean & nice rather than "hello I'm wearing perfume" which is nauseating when it's so hot it hurts to think. It's a scent that makes people say "you smell nice" rather than "your perfume smells nice".

Slight hint of floral in there but it's a tropical floral (much like my precious Pele).

I'm officially in love

Not sure what it is in it, but Vinland gave me an EXTREME reaction. Red raw rash & itching/burning.

not fun

Xiuhtecuhtli smells EXACTLY like Angel on me.

maybe give it a whirl?

OOh! It's those lollies i loved as a child!

Can't think of the name.

This is sherbety orange. That's all I'm getting. In the bottle It was more mellow & sweet, caught a hint of maple 7 gentle flowers. But on my skin it's a super tart orange sherbert & I feel like I'm 4 at a b'day party eating my way to a diabetic coma!

Not my kind of scent once on. If it smelled onme how it does in the bottle I'd love it. I love the novelty factor of it smelling like lollies, but not what I'd wear. Especially as it now appears to have given me a nasty rash that stings a wee bit.

I only get a feint lemon- I get carnation, green grass & very herby. Haven't tried it on yet, but out of the bottle, I like it.

Oh yeah, it's green. but a pale green, slightly aquatic fresh flowers. But the flowers i get when I smell this are the types a child would pick out of various neighbours gardens to give you. All those cute 7 sweet little flowers we forget about but are at child eye-level. little wee things that grow in amongst the big brash "oi smell me" flowers.

Basically it's a very cute scent. Cute is the word for this one. I like.

Why do i have no concept of what orris smells like yet it seems a match made in heaven with my skin?

This smells powdery, fresh lineny, summery sophisticated white lady-ish.

I like it alot.

There's a hint of green-ness in it too which always sits well with me. This is a Mum perfume. I feel all maternal wearing it. not sure why- just my odd scent associations i think.

Got this yesterday as a freebie. Not my usual thing but...

I smell lickable!

I smell of buttery scrummy rum. I'm a walking bottle of 12 year old Bacardi!

Very boozy, buttery (but not in a cake way if that makes sense?) & mildly spicy. It's a sunny rum There's something deeper in there I can't put my finger on. It's not spice but a deep warmth. Not one I'd have gone for myself as not into foody smells, but I'm almost tempted to nab a 5 ml of this.

Another vote to Rose Red for the above mentioned reasons (LE etc)

 

I like old london but it's a tea rose, so a lot sweeter than Rose Red, which is a fresh cut Dark Red rose, in the scent there are also traces of cut stems, and leaves.

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Yeah - what she said

Old London is very much a tea rose. Rose red smells like you've just cut a rich red rose out of your lightly rained on garden. it's the rose, stem. leaves & soil all rolled into the rosiest of rose scents ever. I love Rose Red (didn't order a bottle though as i love sniffing it but it's not a very 'me' scen to actually wear...mind you my Mum goes gaga for it. She loves Old london too.) Rose red's less of a girly rose than london. If London is a little girl rose, rose red is a teenage/young woman rose scent.

Similar to Bordello- Bewitched, Kitsune Tsuki, Maiden, Morella, Seraphim & maybe give queen of hearts & viola a try

Pele for sure.

Thanks Gal's!

I think Loviatar or Lust are the way to go. the scent pads fade after about 2 3 months so I can go for something lighter when it starts heating up. - Yes Ishtar, it's bloody freezing here at the moment!

I thought maybe Queen of hearts in Summer.

Mind you- Beth gave me a bottle of "Aries" as a freebie with my last order so given I am a ram & the car is red...... though it will be 'born' in late July/early August so will be a Leo by birth.

Still a forey little thing though

I went & bought myself a brand spankin' new car last weekend (this one in fact: Inga's shiny new red vroom vroom )

& While most love that "new car" smell, I like things to feel 'lived in' & familiar,otherwise I'll keep thinking I'm driving a hire car or something, it won't feel like my car.

So, with that in mind, I have one of those scent diffusers that you put essential oil on the fabric pad & chuck into the ciggie lighter & was curious which you think would be a good "car smell". Should i go for a scent among my faves or, should I go a 'neutral' one? maybe one that is relaxing or clears the head so I can drive better etc?? not sure which way to go on this...

My faves are: Haunted, Sanke oil, Spellbound, Loviatar, Pele, Old Paris & Queen Mab.

A scent that fits the car would be good too. I got the 'velocity red" which the site doesn't do justice too, it's a real blue based blood red, still vibrant but not garish with a metallic/glittery gleam to it. I also got the darkest legal tinted windows so it'll look solid black & red. So I was thinking something sexy & devilish. Bear in mind I detest anything with dragon's blood resin in it.

Any suggestions?

Edited 'cause I can't spell & am still waking up

Rose Red or Old London for sure.

Aw shit! Now I'll have to brush up on my time zones!! I'm hopeless at it- my best friend is in Dublin & just when I think I've figured it out I go & call her at 3a.m?!

 

Must get The one for Nov. 26th as that's redmond's b'day so curious to see if it'll have a particular effect on him?....

Have you tried the Personal World Clock? You choose the cities you want to compare and it'll show you the current time in each of them.

Woo hoo!! Thank-you!!

Melbourne: 7.41 A.M Wednesday = 2.41 PM Tuesday Los Angeles & 10.41 PM Tuesday Dublin

Aw shit! Now I'll have to brush up on my time zones!! I'm hopeless at it- my best friend is in Dublin & just when I think I've figured it out I go & call her at 3a.m?!

Must get The one for Nov. 26th as that's redmond's b'day so curious to see if it'll have a particular effect on him?....

Ta Muchly! Now I don't have to bug you guys! (save to get confirmation of order) & please, if beth finds my e-mail from last week about a new order- ignore it as I have 50-10 people asking to add stuff on so will submit it later

Persephone + Inga = Bad combo

This is a very juicy & fresh sweet girly scent. The two main scents- pomegranate & rose shine through in a great balancing act. One prob? Pomegranate is fun to eat but I don't want to smell like one. Any scent that has a sweet scent as it's base goes feral on my skin. Dragon's blood resin, pomegranate, some vanilla scents- I turn them to bubble gum.

Bliss in one word? = "Gianduia"

Which is the choc/hazelnut combo we Italians do so well- like the fondant in Baci chocolates. It's chocolatey but not sweet chocolate, the hazlenut smells reigns it in.

Not one for foody scents, hate most food perfumes, but may make an exception for this as it's yum & reminds me of my fave choccies (not a sweet tooth at all but when I do I scoff Baci's like you wouldn't believe!) & it dries to a nutty dry spice with a feint sweetness that is most pleasant.

Another vote for green (but a light green, not foresty) fresh & most assuredly masuline.

yet another I threw Red's way as I liked it very much with it's dry arid summery feel, but again, this is one for the blokes. Lovely but better smelt on your man then on oneself

STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!

I adored this one, but it is so very boldly "male" that I gave it to Red.

Smells like a more traditional (dare I say 'mainstream') men's cologne, but with that BPAL edge that hits you like commercial scents can only manage for the 1st 5 minutes before they fade to nothing.

Crisp, Bussiness like ( I got images of Red in a Black pinstripe suit & blood red shirt for some reason when I smelt this) & so very very masculine. I adored it & it smelt fab on me, but being a girly girl I figured I'd rather smell it on the boy than on me

VANILLA VANILLA VANILLA

that is all I get woth this one. Far too sweet for me so will see what happens to it on the boy as he has a knack of making what's sickly sweet on me far more boyish & menacing.