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isyche
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I adore this - it's the most "me" scent I've found yet and I could wear it all the time. Not too sweet, comfortable and unassuming. I don't get any lemon from it, just a shady deep green tea/moss/fig smell...the combination makes me think of curling up with a book on a mossy stone under a tree. Can't wait for my big bottle to get here.
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I have a poster of the painting La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee on my wall, and I tend to keep my distance from people, and I love green/clean scents, so I love this. I definitely get that air of chilly disdain from it. It gets slightly sweeter and less prickly as it fades, but it's never cloying.
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I was really looking forward to trying Unseelie too, but alas, I am one of the people for whom it just smells like baby powder.
Possibly very slightly evil baby powder, but baby powder nonetheless. Sigh.
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On me this smells exactly like the name/description - roses, but darker/more sinister than normal roses - shadowy, dry, and not too sweet. I really like that extra darkness.
It's quite heavy and not something I'd want to wear every day (it seems to demand a certain level of drama), but I'm definitely hanging on to the imp I have.
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Persephone
in Excolo
I was all excited to try this after reading about it, but on me it just smelled super-sweet and candy-ish, like a sticky red lollipop. I could smell the pomegranate when it was in the vial, but never the rose.
Noir
in Discontinued Scents
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I loved the description of this, but there's a sharp/bitter note in it that overpowers everything else for me. It calmed down a little after a while, but I still felt like I wasn't sophisticated enough to wear it, somehow - like trying to dress up in some 40s femme fatale's clothes and looking silly. Ah well.
Edited to add: I kept the imp, I've tried it a few more times, and Noir's bitterness has grown on me. It smells glamorously cynical. It's still more sophisticated than I am, but I can wear it now.
(And since it's been discontinued, I'll have to ration out my mostly-full imp, so I'm glad it's not an everyday scent...)