Alaeidrel

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.

This is really bright - it's the only word I can use to describe it. I get some herbs and some leaves but mostly just overwhelming brightness that makes my eyes water.

Perfumy aquatics. Gorgeous and deep, but also too artificial in a way for me - that might be the ozone. I think I wnated this to smell more like a wet Zombi. Pretty, but headache inducing for me.

I just get a melange of colors from this. I can't pick out any notes, but it's gorgeous.

Out of the bottle this like, a pure butter accord and it's gross. Once it dries, I get a sweet... something. I can't pick out any of the notes, it's not super musky and weirdly enough the honey isn't doing it's normal screaming thing on me. I"ll have to retest it.

This is hard for me to smell on the drydown,which is weird. I might need to slather. It's incense and spices with maybe a hint of trees or leather - I think the leather and sandalwood just ground the scent. This isn't something I'd normally wear, it's masculine and not my normal thing, but I really like it. I want to see how it ages for sure, and it'll be a good warm winter scent.

I don't do white florals well, but this is a blend I might actually be able to wear. It's citrusy at first and then wears down to something more mellow, sweet flowers and musk with citrus. It kind of reminds me of sunscreen in a pleasant way.