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Alaeidrel

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  1. 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.


  2. 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.


  3. In the bottle, I basically can't smell this.

     

    Drying down, it's wildflower honey without doing the insane AMP HONEY FOREVER my skin loves and saffron. There's maybe a little coconut rounding it out, but I don't smell it yet. (I also only test a tiny bit of each scent, so my wrist is literally pressed to my nose to sniff this).

     

    Dry it's a very sophisticated, slightly foody honey. I'm quite a fan. (Boo, hiss).


  4. In the bottle all I got was some sort of bright fruit.

     

    Drying down it's hella juicy papaya. Not super boozy, just bright and in your face. I can't find the ti leaf or the musk yet.

     

    Dry it's actually balanced out a lot. I can't really pick apart the notes but the papaya is muskier and not quite as insane, I'm assuming tempered by the ti. This will be really nice for my upcoming vacation in mexico.


  5. Sake is basically one of my favorite notes, and skin musk is something I always want to love. Ambrette seed and I have an interesting love/hate/evil migraine of doom relationship. As a triumverate, this bottle was a gamble but it seems to have paid off!

     

    I second that it's a little oddly floral, moreso than musky. Wet, the sake note is dominant for me (yay!) with more florals than I expected. I can't seem to find the musk, but I test such small amounts it might not be detectable unless I wear more.

     

    Dry it's still oddly floral. I'll have to wear it more and see how I feel about it... It's more 'white floral' than i see myself reaching for often.


  6. Holy crap. Hollllllly craaaap.

     

    I was sort of iffy about this since none of the vulvas have worked for me, but what a good blind buy.

     

    In the bottle it's mostly just coconut and I can't tell anything else.

     

    As it dries it's the mallow note I love with coconut and it's toasted and incredible. A foody scent I'd actually wear. Amber hates me, and so far, it hasn't come out to play at all and turn into evil powder.

     

    Dry it's exactly the same and amazing, holy crap.


  7. In the bottle, I mostly just get apricot, a little floral, a little fruit.

     

    As it dries it gets creamier vanilla and apricot, but with an odd high top note that reminds me of the vanilla orchid HG. There's maybe the tiniest hint of cardamom.

     

    Dry, it's still pretty floral and high. Here's to hoping it ages to be a little more musky - I ended up swapping away the aforementioned HG because of that note. I love apricot so I want this to be stronger, muskier and spicier.


  8. So much juniper. So sharp. So strong. When this first arrived all I got was fizzy gin, like in Golden Wave, but now after settling for a week it's strong metallic juniper with no fruit. I love the note but this is so strong it almost turns my stomach. Dried I get less metal and a little more fruit, but it's still a bit too harsh to wear.

     

    I swapped my bottle away, and then recently picked up an imp of it. How different this is than my bottle! It's still got the high, sharp gin note but it's tempered by obvious peach and something that might be apple or pie, but grounds it well. Much more pleasant, although I don't need a whole bottle.


  9. Testing this one just out of the cold, because I'm super impatient.

     

    Wet: definitely cloying, like mymymai said. Tons of marshmellows and some weird acrid note that might be the anise/cherries. Smells vaguely pink.

    Drydown: Faint, much more vanilla and mallow. No sandalwood anywhere, which is sad because that's what I was hoping the base would be. Much more pleasant. Slightly foody but not edible nor overwhelming.

    Dry: Mostly the same, but kinda powdery now. Bad perfume! Powder is death.

     

    It's still quite pleasant so we'll see how it goes after it warms up a little.


  10. I too got plants and moss and some sort of insence. I normally amp dragon's blood to nauseating levels but it's staying grounded in this one, adding spice but not overpowering the moss and whatever the peppery, resin scent is.


  11. Most apple is too weird on my skin to wear, but this is almost an apple single note as others have mentioned. I'm actually in love with it because it's so soft and gentle. It's a bit overly sweet in the bottle, but dries to a beautiful light apple and floral. I think there's probably a little currant and tomato grounding it but they're so well mixed I can't pick them out.


  12. Atropos describes this as 'chestnut buttercream' and I'm heavily inclined to agree. It's a skin scent, soft and nutty and sweet... yet somehow oddly floral. Sometimes on the drydown it hits and acrid note, but that seems to fade off pretty fast. It's just on the edge of foody.


  13. This is pretty great. It's less 'sweet potato' than I expected, but it's a pleasant non-foodie foodie blend.

     

    When first in the bottle or on it's all fake butter extract and incredibly strong. It mellows to a soft spiced ambrette musk - I think I get the oats, too. Stays close to the skin and soft, pleasantly so. I'd be estatic if it smelled more like it's muse but I'm happy to keep this iteration.


  14. Everything I get, straight out of the bottle, is honey and fig. There's maybe a little sage or cedar grounding it's sweetness but I can't find it. I amp honey and I love that this just smells like warm, sweet figs in the sun. So glad I got a bottle.


  15. So much juniper. So sharp. So strong. When this first arrived all I got was fizzy gin, like in Golden Wave, but now after settling for a week it's strong metallic juniper with no fruit. I love the note but this is so strong it almost turns my stomach. Dried I get less metal and a little more fruit, but it's still a bit too harsh to wear.

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