Alaeidrel

I don't even know how to put into words how this smells, except like Christmas. I love it so much. I'm definitely getting the gingerbread from last year's gingerbread series, and the rest is a subtle cologne that just smells "red" and woody. It's very close to the skin on me, but I get wafts every so often and it's perfect.

In the bottle, it's recognizable as pear. On my skin... rootbeer?? This is Sustained Boos without the aldehyde, and the rootbeer I always wanted from outlaw. I'm so confused!

In the bottle, this is really screechy shampoo. As it dries, it gets fruitier, but never looses that cheap shampoo edge. 😕

In the bottle this smells like everything I want it to be: vanilla goat milk. On my skin this turns into... shampoo. What. Going to have to retest.

On skin, most of what I get after a bit is dusty patchouli. Not a winner on my skin chemistry - it's not super pleasant. In my scent locket, though, I get purple sage and vanilla with whiffs of dusty coffee. It's amazing. There was an Apricot Lane boutique at the mall in my hometown that always had this lovely signature smell, but I could never remember to ask what it was - this is that smell! I'm in love with it on a locket.

I want to love this - I love sassafrass as a perfume, I love zombi... and it turns my stomach so badly I can't even deal with considering smelling it again to see if it's morphed. There's something about the food / dirt combination that takes me literally to gagging. Sigh.

All I get out of this is berry shampoo. It's a very nice bright red berry, but I don't need to smell like I'm in the middle of washing my hair all the time.

I mostly get soft, warm smoke and wax out of this. I'm sure there's woods and leather under it, but they're not strong on me and just round out the scent. It's a gorgeous, low-throw, sexy scent and I adore it.

The first whiff of this I get from the bottle is that leathery, sweet-but-dry scent of old taxidermy in arid museum halls. It's a scent I like, but was totally not expecting... and I'm sad it doesn't last upon application. I definitely get something sweet and a bit of masculine 'spicy' notes that aren't actual spices. It dries down to a light, musky vanilla.

Green aquatic with a very light white floral. Not soapy, though.

This isn't a strong as I expected. It really does smell like dust and a rum note. It's old, story-teller Kvothe sitting for a moment at an empty table more than young, daring Kvothe. Pretty but not incredibly striking.

Everything out of the bottle is straight baby powder and I have no idea why - sandalwood is great with my skin.

...all I got was baby powder. Straight baby powder. I'm so confused because I love cardamom and leather and I can't smell any of it.

A playful, soft brown musk with balsam leather, wild juniper, lavender, and sweet sage. This is not what I expected, but it's beautiful. I put it on right out of the mail so it may develop even more as it settles. Immediately after putting it on, I started wondering which of our current houseguests had used a scented lotion that I had touched. It took a moment to realize it was wafting off my wrist! I'm getting something oddly floral but snuggly from Jojo, wafting as I move. I think it's the sage, this gorgeous heady high note that codes as floral but without the headache I get from flowers. When I sniff closer to my wrist I get musk and juniper, a little bit on the aquatic side, and only hints of leather. I can't wait to try this again after it rests. It's gorgeous and strange already.