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this I wish were available all the time... I don't see a rich sugared fruit in the line up so as far as I know nothing else comes close. Really delicious.

hmmmm so I love this. I am loving peach as a note thanks to dragon con.. I had peach scents sitting in my imp and decant pile but had never tried them so new note to love. It is clean and fresh. I don't really smell a lot of stuff in my hair after a bit but it isn't all heavy incense to my nose. I have had several people comment on how good it smells on me tho. One gal starts sniffing around asking who is wearing patchouli... I had to say it was my hair gloss even tho patch isn't what I get or listed for that matter. One of those incense is patchouli people I guess.

i hate reviewing glosses. I am so bad at it. But I wanted to share the fact that everybody seems to love it when I wear it

I am not fond of fir or pine scents but decided to give this an honest to goodness squirt just in case. {I do like christmas trees and their piney scents so maybe good for holidays?} In the squirt it smells fake and soapy. Not soapy really but like those air fresheners we had in in the 80s in restaurant type bathrooms... Pine renizits or something. Which had some odd soapy tinge probably because restaurant bathrooms should hopefully smell like people are washing and that horrid industrial soap would spill its pink disgustingness all over the place. So the two scents: pine and pink soap are intertwined in my head. Unfortunate really. I am sure others would find this lovely but as usual pine and fir and all those evergreen type tree scents have some horrid association for me unless it happens to be real and decorated with blobs and blobs of twinkling lights.

It does morph into a lovely floral with the pine underneath it. Alas the merest hint of pine, after the assault of pine and soap, is too much. If it had started floral with a hint of pine I would consider this a use it up but wouldn't buy myself a big bottle.

I feel really really bad writing this out. I wish the evergreens somehow managed not to be top notes in everything I have tried with them. I always do enjoy them after dry down but the beginning stages just really make me uber sensitive to the merest hint of the scent.

High Strung Daisies smells like sugar syrup on me... very candied and sweet. Oh hey look sugar is a note listed!!!

Daisy, pink carnation, pink pepper, and sugar.

oooh yes I second Dorian... the teas often come across as lemony to me. Don't know why.

twinkle twinkle little bat is a very sugary lemonade

ps I don't like lemon but that is the scent that most screams lemon to me

I third bathsheba.... absolutely lovely and my favorite plum

My 10 yr old has been gifted with 2 full bottles of MILK CHOCOLATE WITH MACADAMIA NUT, COCONUT, BUTTOM MUSHROOM, AND MARSHMALLOW {Had to copy that one cus the name in my head is shroomy chocolate} and 2 bottles of Gluttony. She has been wearing Gluttony for years

ALAS the future commercial perfume wearing kids in her school told her Gluttony smelled horrible and she won't wear it anymore. I think she has a few other bottles as well... beaver moon or strawberry moon or something like that. She does the foody obviously. I have totally forgotten what I have given her since when she hit 8 I let her house her own bottles in her own little box in her own room. But I remember the gluttony and mean girls whenever I see a request for it..... I wonder if she would mind my swapping it?

I have a friend who is big on orange blossom... she swears Paramatman is pure orange blossom on her...

orange blossom, east indian sandalwood, champaca

I get neroli from water snake even tho it is not listed... perhaps because it has a syrupy vibe to me... and mandarin instead of orange. Still I swore there was neroli in it to somebody lately. I noticed it as neroli instead of orange or mandarin or tangerine after wearing peach V.

huh I haven't reviewed this one... Well I got it when it was released cus hello pumpkin my love

I amp dust. This was the scent that made me realize dust, dirt, earth anything was a total pass. In the bottle gorgeous rich pumpkin. I adore it to no ends. I put it on and all I could smell was muck. The leather was the note I was worried about since leather is also an amper on me but nope I didn't even smell the leather because the dust turned into a fracking mudslide and buried me in grossness.

I still have my bottle {actually an imp or two in bottle cus the kind decantress knows I am both a pumpkin lover and a bottle art hoar} and sniff it every once in a while for the yum-o but every time I retest just in case age helped I am forced to wash it off. Le Sad

On me this went on Urdish and then the peach softened it up beautifully in say about an hour. I do not like Urd finding it too heavy fyi. So this was lovely. On me it lasts forever and ever and ever. I could still smell it easily the next day when I went for my shower whereas all the other peaches had faded into a lovely memory. By smell it easily I mean it was going strong. Will come back with more review notes but that was my initial test.

I die... seriously I die. This is heaven in a bottle. I love it love it love it. Perfection. I may have to give up trying other hair glosses for this one. Or maybe it is just that I think it will be awesome sauce come fall and winter and it is weenie stalking time so yeah ....

the ginger is reading as a faintly zingy fruity scent to me. The oudh is adding a wee bit of smokiness and then bam in yer face resin. Sweet sweet resin~~ those little nuggets of golden olfactory bliss.

I need another bottle.... why 6 months shelf life? Is that once it is opened? How can I hoard it if I have to throw it away in 6 months? Oh no....

wibbles

quote octobergwen for my review... the honey of O ... Much prefer the implacable tyrant.

Both arrived today and I sprayed my arms with the oils. Just one squirt to test scents. Haven't done the hair yet but still omg on IBT and O for this one.

It will go with All the Honeys. Yay

In the bath I smell mainly orange pekoe but on my skin I get mainly rice milk... Very gentle and soothing scent.

I use a lot of bath oils because I'm an insomniac and bathing {or showering} before bed helps one sleep. Something about the body being warm and cooling down mimics what our body does as it goes to sleep so warm bath/shower to cooler room temp starts the relaxation process. According to rumor and my personal experience. The trading post bath oils I have used so far have been purposefully chosen to be calming and this one is the faintest of the bunch I have tried. I do have some heavier resinous oils but I haven't put them to the helping me sleep test yet.

Anyway if you are looking for something that will not mess with your scent du jour this one is a really good choice. Also last time I tested Roses, Pearls, and Diamonds I was strongly reminded of Aunt Rosie's so if you like that you might want to hunt some of this down.

edited to strengthen comparison of Roses, Pearls & Diamonds to Aunt Rosie's.

dragons milk fwiw ages really well. That cherry cough drop syrup vibe tends to go away with some age. The culprit would most likely be dragons blood which often reads as cherry. I used to dislike dragons milk but wore it because my now husband liked it and honestly it is very faint on my skin after a wee bit. I have a 7 yr old bottle and a 1 yr old bottle and let me tell you that it only gets more glorious as it ages. The imp I recently got from lab is peeyuckie compared to the old. All this is to say you might want to hold onto that imp for say 6 months and try it again. Or try ignoring the scent for first hour you have it on and sniff again.... that deep dry down is much more indicative of what it will smell like when it is older than the fresh just applied scent.

elka the dragon's blood pusher

I apparently amp strawberries which may explain why I don't own any scents with the note....usually they are really fake and plasticy with a strong green stem to them but this, this, oh my...

I am getting strawberry jam enriched with rose petals... very sweet and warm and oozing. That sounds kinda gross but I honestly sense a warm jam or compote dripping off of a warm piece of toast tho not toast cus toast is not sweet. It really is, on me, that dribble of strawberry preserves that you quickly lick up before it plops down to the plate. Luckily it lasts for a long time. I kept getting whiffs of strawberry late the next day.

I love love and am sad that I cannot do another lab order until the next update which I suspect will coincide with takedown.

this one was the bat I was least excited about. I almost didn't pick it up cus of the vetiver. In fact I just tried it on today, despite having it for a couple of weeks, because it reeks of vetiver when you open the bottle and well yuck to vetiver. First few minutes all vetiver all the time then the licorice comes out and it smells like a really really strong licorice candy. I swore I could taste Good n Plenty since the vetiver harshened up the licorice and that is the harshest licorice I can think of. okay I thought of altoids for a minute with their curiously strong but I don't know if they have a licorice flavor. After a say half hour I started getting plum but not sweet juicy plum. I could literally see the green-ish flesh with the deep purple skin bleeding into it but it was a flavorless plum. More the fleshiness and promise of plum than plum itself. Since then~ now at an hour~ I am getting sweetness and I can only assume that is the immortelle {with which I am unfamiliar} and the resinous sandalwood. yeah I know sandalwood is a wood but since it appears in many incense blends I think of it as resinous.

What a trip

Still unsure about this one but honestly.... What a Trip.

I was lucky enough to find a kind hearted fairy for All The Things and when I opened my package of goodies to sniff All The Things this one stood out right away as a love. I put it on immediately and wore it on a night out on the town. It is spicy and sweet and the first ginger scent I was able to wear. From beginning to end I keep huffing and puffing it. Spicy sweet scents are my favorites tho usually the sweetness comes from resins or flowers so this is also a newish scent profile for me. AND it isn't really foodie to my nose. I am in the process of acquiring moar for my wearing pleasure cus I can tell it is destined to be not only a fave from this event but a all around favorite.

Much to my fairy and those willing to part with unloved moppy bats.

At C2E2 they had this on little cards set out on table so of course I picked one up, my husband picked one up for me, and the labbies threw one into a bag. I took this to mean must try immediately. Which I did before leaving con and sent the husband back to buy me a bottle. It is just that awesome and if you loved Fr Tobacco just get it already. It is sweet, dark and smoky and gorgeous. Hurled into my top scents already... and I literally have hundreds

and yes I have sent out the multiple on card imps I received cus well I have a bottle

Also many thanks to my fairy

I have sprayed this onto my sheets twice now so have been enjoying gentle wafts throughout the day as well as being engulfed by it during the night

First impression from The Beloved: roses

which led me to rereading the notes. Yes we have roses. And autumnal leaves from autumn lace. I am not getting much else but then my nose tends to find the labs blends really really well blended and I get impressions. I get a misty foggy gray enclosed garden? fields? dreary nonetheless with roses offering the promise of not dreary. Very evocative of the description

This is going to be my first really negative review. I am keeping it harsh cus I don't want to read people's raves a few years and think hmmm maybe it was pretty and I was just confused. Apologies to all who love it {and the lab~ seriously I have yet to find a scent I couldn't wear until this} Copied and pasted from elsewhere:

my eyes itched like crazy and I got a major attack of the sneezies wearing this

It does not die on me but lasts and lasts which just prolongs my misery

really rich nutmeats with perfume poured over the top

I cannot stand this. The merest drop of it makes me ill. I have gotten to the point of opening the bottle and gagging

tried 4 X in oh 6 months and it has to go. For real. I think 4 x is plenty of testing for the horrid and 6 months is plenty of time for it to settle

go away please

there should be a zero or negative star rating for this. I have never loathed a perfume as much as I loathe this one. I had such high hopes. I love, love, love peonies. I love the cream in katrina so thought this would be a peony version of the rose loveliness. No.

In the bottle slightly powdery smelling and wet/during dry down this is enhanced. Distressingly so. However it slowly morphs into a lovely spicy rose scent on me and reminds me strongly of Mrs Grose with greater lasting power. Which is awesome because Mrs Grose gets lost on me fairly quickly.

mind you I have no idea why the two scents are identical to my scent memory. I obviously should do a smack down before reviewing but once it dried that is all I could think of

I snagged bottles of Cloister Graveyard and Lantern Ghost from salon before they were DCed specifically for the summer snow note. I also enjoy Alice when it is hot because it isn't heavy.

OKAY I am pretty computer illiterate but I stuck a picture of the snake label on my knitting blog and the post is here

I apologize for directing you guys to my blog but I honestly don't blog anymore {years ago I used to daily but now it is every few months I blither} I think the photo came out great and if somebody wants to swipe the picture and insert into this thread that is okie dokie. Please just let me know so I can I don't know remove the link to blog or something