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Sweet coffee!!!

With a whiff of parchment...

How could I have ever doubted the people who swore by this (although $120 on eBay is a little too much)?

Need bottle, stat!

I want pines and snow, pines and snow, like Jersey Devil only with snow!

I am getting - no, not wintergreen like most people - tomato leaf. Lots and lots of tomato leaf, which makes me think of summer, but not winter in the Carpathians. I am wearing them in a locket, too!

Pine, come!

Very delightfully fresh. Something like Sea of Glass or Shattered - but more fun.

I love this one!

I can smell the rose and the blood. Not the wine, and thank the Excolo for that, for wine generally is an annoying scent to me. But it does have a very heady flavour to the scent.

I think I like Black Rose better, but this is nice.

Oh, why doesn't anyone rave about this one? The neroli is such a wonderful amp, but there is something there giving an interesting quality to the neroli.

On me, Mantis is incredibly fresh.

I may grow to like this one. A first surprise liked frimp.

This is very heady. Tropical, and heady is a good way to describe it. The myrrh and patchouli join up with the lotus. I fear I will not wear this very much. Although it does not trigger the Say No To Drugs reflex, it makes my thoughts swim a little.

I think that lotus gives me a headache. I am not sure.

This is a nice scent, but I am not sure I will wear it much.

Um...tea with a hint of lemon cookie?

Why do almost all of the debauchery scents not work debauchery on me (except for Satyr, which worked TOO well)?

When I sniffed Dorian at a meet n' sniff, the smell in the imp fitted perfectly a review of Abberlaine Arrol's: "being held down and ravished by a lemon cookie." But for me on my skin it is just - tea with a hint of lemon cookie. Being ravished over tea might be fun, but Dorian is not doing it for me.

I will try him in a scent locket.

Whoa, I need not regret that I swapped away Golden Priapus, because Jersey Devil fills the pine ticket! Golden Priapus was pure pine to me...

But this is not sweet pine, like Priapus. It is windblown pine and I can see pine-covered granite ridges. I have never yet been to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, but the boreal forest of the Canadian Shield is a perfect setting for this Jersey Devil as well. Rarely has a scent been so evocative among Beth's huge catalogue of evocative scents.

A success!

It is rose and patchouli, yes, but on me it has a fresh undertone that keeps on reminding me of cucumber, though I know it is not cucumber, I do not think.

I like it very much. This is my first raid on the Rappaccini's Garden, and I am looking forward to the journey!

This is a very unusual Ars Draconis scent, unlike the other ones I have tried. The myrrh, I suppose, makes it darker and...well, myrrh-like, and the cassia helps it too. I can't really describe it. I think I will like it, though. It is the Dark Dragon kind of blend.

This is so far my favourite of the boozy scents I have tried, counting Bon Vivant and Grand Guignol and Swank all in one scent category. It smells very lovely, like pomegranate and booze.

However, it throws like nobody's business. That is its one problem. I get a little embarrassed smelling up the lab with pomegranate martinis.

But I rather like it.

I knew I loved this on first sniff at the Meet n' Sniff, and I am very grateful to simplyfussfree for her parting with her imp. I was a little nervous of milk and honey, but the ginger and the milk balance perfectly.

Don't know what the ambrosia is - but this a new favourite!

You know, this is spicy amber, and I ordered an imp because I like spices and I like amber.

And I like the Lion, yes. But I am not going wild over it, like a lot of people are.

I do not know why.

This is a beautifully subtle scent of tea and...and other things.

I like it very very very much.

But it is quiet, without much throw.

I love to dance, so I was hoping for Terpsichore to be a wonderful scent.

But she is not me. She is a pretty spicy floral, but she dries down into just wet...pea, I guess? And not sweet pea either.

I am getting the feeling I do not like jasmine.

I get the jasmine and the musk and a touch of spice. I just fear that Zorya is too jasmine-y, spicy, not me at all.

I had hopes for her.

Strike two out of three Zoryas. Maybe Utrennyaya will do it.

Oh dear.

Poppy, poppy, poppy's evil smoke!

All around the poppy are such nice things, Euterpe, why poppy? Why for me, who loves music like her own soul, did the muse of music bring poppy?

Now that the poppy has raged over, Euterpe is rather...interesting.

But I do not think I will wear her much.

This is a very beautiful clear lemon balm. I think I will like it as much as Calliope. Other, herbal scents are showing up in little hints, and hint of myrrh and orris appeared about ten minutes after drying, but the lemon dominates. It clears your mind.

As a mathematician, I find the Muse of Geometry the most appropriate of the muses for those aspects of my life. I think I will wear her often. I may need a large bottle.

As long as my algebra classmates like lemon balm in the morning...

I am not sure I got the right scent.

I expected something dark and sacred. Instead I got...very light, clear, almost floral.

A dash of citrus, yes.

But I am quite confused by this Incantation.

This is very well blended, although I did get the spicy smoke people spoke of, in some stages.

It is a very complex scent.

I will give it a chance. But the Black Tower is different from anything I have ever tried before.

I think this is patchouli and tonka.

But no dried rose.

Nemesis is very weird. I will give her a chance, but she is quite weird. Eerie.

White musk.

Plenty of white musk.

I will give Urania a chance to grow, but she is very very much white musk.

She is a little too...settled to be a refreshing scent. Beth knew what she was doing when she made the muses.

I kinda wanna go stargaze... even though it is a quiet midafternoon.

I had very high hopes for Clio. Of all the muses, she was the one that haunted me the most.

Did my fabled intuition fail me?

All I am getting is musty parchment at first. Beth has captured perfectly the scent of musty parchment...

No wait, there's some orange.

Clio may actually be nice. I'll let her grow on me.

But it is not an instant love.

Calliope, muse of epics, I have such a tendency to write epics that if you did not suit me, I would have thrown something.

However, you DO suit me!

This is such a clear scent, but with that hint of almond keeping it from being totally clear. I cannot get any more precise than that, but I can feel the creative juices bubbling.

I think Calliope is going to be a keeper.