indicolite

I have heard this was sweet, and sweet things make Indicolite run headlong if they are perfume; however, my gut told me Akuma tempted me.

And it is a keeper. My skin likes neroli, which is good because my nose likes it too. The blood orange and raspberry show up just enough to give the neroli a very interesting twist. I kept on bringing my thumb back to my nose to sniff it. I think Akuma is going to be a keeper.

The wet fruits must be that note from Sacred Whore of Babylon that my brain always parses as melon, although I do not think it is. Eris is not as sweet as the Sacred Whore was; however, she does not make me go back to sniff her, which makes me relegate her, alas, to the swap pile.

It must the alder leaf I am getting.

Nice, but not memorable at all.

Am I insane or is this citrus?

The mint is cooming out now, lovely and cool, but I still get a hint of citrus that I smelled on opening the bottle - or is my memory playing tricks with associations with the clementine oranges of Christmas past? It also has a hint of something like spice in it.

I think I need enough of it to last until the heat of summer, when it will be perfect. I have not tried Snow White, so I do not know how it compares, but Snow Flakes is very lovely indeed.

I think I smell the citrus and the frangipani. I am waiting for the amber to come in; on my skin, amber is usually one of the last scents to the party but will last.

This is very lovely; however, I may not need more than one bottle.

I fullly agree with the above reviews: very soft, very delicate, yet on me cold and snowy as well. If there was any scent of winter thrush song, this is it. Mysterious and beautiful is the word. I can smell the orris (a favourite of mine) blended perfectly with the icy note, while the amber adds a hint of warmth.

I think I may be in love.

This is indeed cold, but in a very interesting way. It is clove, cypress, and what I think is artemisia. A very interesting spicy blend, and one I quite like. I am waiting for the myrrh to come out. However, I think this may be a blend I will need to stock up on.

At first she was hyacinth...hyacinth, hyacinth, hyacinth, praise be to the lab for my favourite flower.

Now she is white sandalwood with perhaps a hint of myrrh.

Still, I may need to stop up on my Mina.

Help with my French: Marquise de Merteuil...

The best approximation using only Eastern North America English that I can think of is

mar-keez d"e" mare-t-"e"-y.

"e" is the vowel in "her".

If you try saying mare as in female horse and then saying t-"e"-y quickly, it will be quite close.

Spicy, fruity, and general catalogue?

I will put in a good word for Al-Shairan - peach and clove, and March Hare - apricot and clove may also give you that fruity spicy kick. The lab's apricot note is wonderful *lovingly strokes apricot Chaos Theory*.

Oooooh dear.

Love Me and Follow Me Boy had the civet note under control - making things interesting but not overwhelming. But Fire of Love - is like Satyr. And I am going to use the dreaded simile that I have not yet used in nearly 150 imps tried, and say:

It smells like ass.

I am sorry. But no love. No fire. Fire of Love as a frimp was kindly meant, but it is probably going to get frimped to someone who will find success and rekindled love with it; I will try other methods.

Over a meet n' sniff discussion, the thesis came up that Dragon's Musk is the better version of Dragon's Heart.

Now, being a passionate lover of Dragon's Heart, I wanted to test that thesis for myself, so I took the first opportunity to swap for some Dragon;s Musk (thanks, NDcent!)

And tried Heart and Musk, one on each wrist.

Musk is not "better." Musk is "different."

It lacks the floral/fruit aspect of Heart. I can smell the muskiness coming through my favourite dragon's blood note. It creates an entirely different mood than Dragon's Heart does: I lack words precisely, but if Dragon's Heart to me was "I am beautiful, I am sexy" and Dragon's Bone was "I am calm, I am wise, things are steady" Dragon's Musk is a friendly love rather than a sexy one.

Whatever, no words.

The imp is a steady friend, although I will decide at a later date about bottles.

The headshop descriptions in previous reviews were right - on first sniff, this took me back to a favourite, now rarely frequented jewelry store that sold Indian and Balinese silver and also incense of all kinds. Now on my skin, the roses have come out to play. Rose, rose, rose - but still the jewlery shop - but not the unpleasant-memory kind of incense.

Not bad at all. Thanks, 1demondog, for frimping this!

A lot of patchouli and musk.

I was not completely floored by the Misfortune Teller, but after wearing her in my locket for a while, I am still not tired of her. She is getting to be my comfort scent (although there are GC comfort scents too) and I think I shall need to get more bottles to stock up before the end of the carnival.

Thank you to macabre_fae for a decant!

I generally resist celebrating fall - it is only a sign of the coming of that dread winter - but this one I can actually smell as a joyous celebration of fall. Spiced apples is the top note, but as it dires I can smell the sage and herbs coming out.

It is a VERY well done reflection of the Harvest Moon.

Thanks to macabre_fae for a decant!

My gut was right, as it usually is: I need a bottle of this. I really cannot pick notes out, but I keep on smelling the back of my hand where I put this, going "More, more, more..."

Ok, next spare cash is going towards a bottle of this loveliness.

I am coming to the conclusion that my skin amps neroli like there is no tomorrow, because that is what I smelled and went "Oh, this smells like Calliope!" It does offer tantalising hints of rosemary and lavender.

I like this scent, but seduction blend it is not.

It started off as a really nice floral with the same note as in Sacred Whore of Babylon that makes me think of melons. But now it has a certain - edge to it that makes me wary (ETA: The edge is lotus, yes. Now changing my profile to affirm the sad truth: lotus makes me headachey.) This is all in a locket, by the way. On my skin it sort of vanished fairly quickly, before I got a good look at it.

I do not know about this one. I will give it a chance, but I will not scrimp on giving away a couple of decants if other people want them more.

This is lovely, with grapefruit and...other stuff.

It is not as powerful as Baobhan Sith on me, though. I will hold on to it for its loveliness, but if I do not reach for it often, I will swap the Cheshire Cat.

Fruity-floral, with a little bit of fir giving it depth, but I cannot pick out any other notes right now.

I do not think this one is one I want to hang around, though. I have tried it twice and have no memory of it afterwards. It deserves going somewhere where it can get more love.

This is actually rather lovely and fairly yummy, coconutty and hazelnutty.

I do not know if this is me, since it is making me rather hungry too... but it is nice.

Funny - it smells like roasted almonds on me. I am pretty sure that is what I am smelling, unlike Velvet, which WAS indeed chocolate.

I will hold on to this for now - I have already applied it twice as a comfort scent. I did not think of myself as a foody-scent gal, but this is nice.

Oh, it is growing chocolatey on drydown, cool.

Arkham is very lovely on the drydown; however, whatever Beth puts into the Picnic scents to make them a little... ghastly-eerie flares up on first application and makes me almost not like it.

But methinks I can grow to like it. I am holding on to my imp.

It does smell citrusy, with a hint of floral and something very faint behind it that reminds me of some medicine. This may actually be the coconut meat.

I am waiting for the amber to show up once it dries.

It is a very interesting scent. I will see whether I need a bottle, but I am holding on to my imp. Very versatile - of course, being protoplasmic and all...

This is immediately reminding me of Aizen'Miyoo, but I like it better. It is more subtle than Aizen-Miyoo, at least on me - A-M had throw all over the place, and so I had to put it in a body cream to again be allowed in polite society. The Night-Gaunt I keep on getting drawn to. This one may be a keeper, from the look (smell?) of it.