indicolite

Ole! El olio de Madrid es vino, mucho mucho vino, y mas vino.

 

Wine, lotsa booze!

 

Oh, here's the clove coming out.

 

Now that it's dry, I am getting what I think is mimosa.

 

Madrid is...ok. But not something i will want to wear every day. However, I will hold on; I have a sneaky feeling I will need it for something.

Note to self: no grave loam.

Ever.

Smelling like I just rose from an ill-maintained coffin is not my style.

I did smell the perfume once.

I am not getting the lilac. I am getting rose. Dry rose.

 

And dry rose.

 

Not good enough for me, but some may like it.

I never got the cinnamon - and usually my skin amps it.

 

Harlot has dried to smell like rose. A dry rose. It does not make me smell very sexy or wanton.

 

I think Harlot is for the swap pile.

I found this VERY gentlemanly - the very picture of a gentleman (I have not yet tried any of the famed Dorian, Severin, Saint-Germain etc which are reputed as very gentlemanly scents.)

 

But on me after a while it goes rose, rose, rose with just a touch of spice.

 

Othello is very nice.

 

But I doubt he will get much wear with me.

I think the Queen was a floral.

 

I think so.

 

She vanished on my skin within ten minutes.

 

Darn.

 

But I do not think she is my type.

Can I really not tell the difference between cherries and almond? I thought that it was almond at first, but I guess it is cherry, very strongly. The Red Queen dries down to mahogany; I have now figured out what she reminds me of: Ouija!

 

She is okay; not fantastic, but I will find a use for my imp once I mend the broken cap.

A delicate floral perfume. I cannot pick notes out, but it is a definite floral. Dry, it has gone quite pretty.

 

Pretty but not me. I do not think Prague will be staying around long.

I quite liked the dark damp blossoms and the gloom. But now the murk is coming out as incense and/or labdanum, both of which are evil death. I cannot trust myself wearing this scent (not that it drives me wild; I do not think Nilfheim had that reputation. It drives me smelly. I can't help it that incense reminds me of solder.)

Very civet-y, but more medicinal-smelling.

 

I am really not certain. This may smell very sexy on a guy. On me it is just "ugh" and I think it is playing around with the smell of body without quite getting there.

 

I am NOT a Satyr. In case anyone was wondering.

Cocoa, vanilla, myrrh, sandalwood - what's not to like?

 

Plenty, it seems. I guess I am just not a foody person. The cocoa echoes the Centzon Totochtin (which is on my other wrist) and it smells like drak, spicy chocolate indeed.

 

But I am not dark spicy chocolate, no matter how much I loved myrrh in Masabakes and Lust.

 

I think there are plenty of women who would love Velvet. But I am not one of them.

Kabuki Review

In Senryu

 

Kabuki Theatre

Is this much like Kyoto?

Why Jap-anise, why?

 

At first quite different

Lovely, sexy, fruity musk

Perhaps a fav'rite?

 

But no, not for long!

Before I log in to here

Anise has come out.

 

Anise, star anise!

You are no demon, I know;

I just don't like you.

 

Fairest Kabuki

Joins compatriot Kyoto

Into the swap box.

Sweet holy Excolo, those bunnies are powerfully smelling of cocoa and booze!

 

They do have a "take over everything" quality, the Centzon Totochtin.

 

But I do not think I like them. If they were edible, I'll eat them in small qualities, but those bunnies are so strong they are getting a little nauseating.

 

Swap box for the bunnies, sorry.

At first I really could not place what the note was - it was something I could not place in any other blend. Now that it has dried, it does smell like something dark, in the same quality as the myrrh in Masabakes or Lust, but different. I am not sure what it is.

 

The smell is not unpleasant, and I would definitely tolerate it when I use it. It is just not a smell I would expect of a perfume.

I was wary of the honey, but I ordered a bottle. This is very nice. After drydown, the neroli dominates on me. Neroli was always a pale green scent to me, but the other aspects of the scent do indeed make it golden.

 

Quite a happy scent.

Bon Vivant is Grand Guignol's strawberry cousin. It is also very bubbly. I had kept Grand Guignol for pick-me-up occasions, and I do not use it much. I fear Bon Vivant, although very nice indeed, will not get much exercise either. However, Abberlaine Arrol suggested it would make a nice room scent, so I may use it for that.

 

It is a very fun, merry scent. I recommend it.

I was afraid of the poppy but so far the dragon's blood, amber and ylang ylang have allied to hold the poppy down. Yay yay.

 

This is actually a very interesting party scent. It is too - nighttime - to be a daytime scent, but it will work very nicely for an evening out.

 

The poppy is still being held down. I may have found ONE poppy/opium scent that does not drive me mad. Long live dragons.

Aye, and 'tis dark fruit indeed, tempered with amber.

 

I am not certain I like it. It is very nice, but it does not blow my mind as a couple of scents have in the same package. But it may grow on me.

I quite like it. All of the ingredients appeal to me. However, I already have many perfumes that share the same notes, so I am not sure Phantom will get the exercise it deserves. But I will keep the imp close for now.

Indicolite says it smells like burnt metal -- like someone soddering in an opium den.

I actually said SOLDERING in an opium den. And alas, this imp was the victim of the Great Broken Imp Caps Disaster of Summer 2006 and spilled. On the coffee table in Ottawa's most frequented mall. I am keeping my face out of there for the next little while at least and hoping they won't send out sniffer dogs (which would be cruelty to animals, actually).

 

I can kind of see where the scent was going - medicinal and evil. However, I have the perversity of turning it VERY medicinal and VERY evil. Too evil. And I have stated many times what poppy does to my mind. The Laudanum stain on my black velvet hat did smell nicely of nutmeg, but the unadulterated scent...

 

I mummified the imp in medical tape ("Be prepared!") and now it is sitting in a little package for me. And i threw out the bubble wrap, stained with the smell of solder in an opium den.

 

Laudanum - you may not go to another owner - but let's not meet each other. One of the few times an ordered imp was actually a mistake.

Wow, if I had doubted Beth's ability to craft an image scent before, I do not doubt now. This IS the golden, holy, sea of glass. Absolutely.

 

Even if I have to strain and say it is citrusy and aquatic and all...

 

Amazing scent.

Hmm, this is interesting. At first Marquise was dark florals, and I thought "This is like Morgause." But now she is pulling out her, indeed glistening, peach, and a hint of amber, and the Marquise has more tricks up her sleeve. Indeed she is stately and aristocratic, with a hint of scent that I suppose, by process of elimination, is galbanum.

 

I am quite uncertain about this Marquise. She is appealing in a way. Maybe she is me in a few years. Not quite now, but perhaps I will hold on to the imp of her.

I keep on expecting the lab description to lie and me to get vetiver or clove or something, but I am afraid I have to concede: Undertow is lotus and juniper with a hint of mint. A lot of mint but that's me - I have to say that mint is one of those things that gets on my skin and shouts "Hi! I'm mint!"

 

A lovely fresh scent. I got a LOT of cool scents and aquatics in my last imp pack. Too bloody bad Canadian summer is hinting at being over already; I could have used more of Undertow that day of 48C with the Humidex...

 

Recommended.

When first wet, I smell woody sandalwood with some dragon's blood. Given a minute or so to dry, it turned into something very different. I cannot place it, but it is a nice different. I suspect it is orris I smell, mingling in and tempering the wood.

 

This is a very lovely scent, but a scent for an odd mood. I will make room for it in my imp box, and it will see rotation, I think, but Dragon's Bone is NOT a daily scent.

Now I know the smell of dragon's blood, and it amps on me when wet, which is all good. But now that Dragon's Claw has dried, yep, it's sandalwood (it matches its description so well that I had a perverse desire to first claim that on me it was mint and rose and jasmine...). The other reviews have named it warm, sweet and resiny and it is. It also does have the sharpness that the creator intended.

 

I like this imp very much.