audesapere

I'm looking for a good scent for my first character.

Her name is Delphine. She's a pickpocket and possibly a spy as well. She's foul mouthed, promiscuous, and bold as hell. She's also loyal, empathetic and always up for a bit of fun. She loves girly things (especially makeup and jewelery). She's a Ravnos, if it matters, and she speaks fluent French. Above all, she's a survivor.

I can't see her in traditional perfume. Vicomte de Valmont piqued my interests, but I'd love more ideas. I see her smelling feminine, but dangerous.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, guys.

In Imp: Woodsy

Wet: Piney and dark

Dry: Masculine and outsdoorsy.

Very nice, but too masculine for me.

In Imp: Clean and lemony

Wet: Lemony and sweet, a little spicy. Really lemony.

Dry: Lemon pledge. Damn.

After: It turned into a very subtle blend of spices, but the lemon is still prominant and was too much for me. To swaps it goes.

In Imp- *quirks eyebrow* Pepper? Floral pepper? Even stranger, I like it.

Wet- Earthy, wet, creamy. Starts floral and progresses nicely into a blend of earthy root and subtle floral.

Dry-Sweet/bitter, a little medicinal, still creamy.

Later: Love it.

In Imp: Really unusal, golden.

Wet: Pineapple. Golden pineapple.

Dry: I smell like a tropical smoothie.

Blasted body chemistry.

In Imp: Green, not fruity green, leafy green.

Wet- Dark, like a stone kitchen. hung wih herbs.

Dry- bitter, olive-y, very green.

Later-Bitter, lush green.

In Imp: Wet earth, spices

Wet-Spicy for about three seconds. Then earth, which literally smells like death on me. Oh, bloody hell.

That's as far as I got. My quixotic quest to prove that soil can so work on me continues.

In the Imp: sweet, not flowery. Hmmmm...

Wet: Very ozone-y air, chocolate-y.

Dry: Don't laugh- this smells like incense(not Catholic-style, something else) burning near a super expensive dark chocolate bar with orange.

Later-Excellent. Mysterious and dark but not smothering. A new favorite.

In Imp-strong floral, white and sweet

Wet- chamomile and something else- geranium?

Dry- Reminds me of an idealized version of walking down the country road I live on with my best friend and smelling the wildflowers in the unmowed field.

Later: Nice, but not me.

In Imp- strong, spicy

Wet- mmm, spicy and masculine, but not macho-does that make sense? Juniper, but not Gin.

Dry-powdery, spicy sweet, not foody at all. I could see wearing this to a business lunch ( if I had a business), because it's super pleasant, but doesn't scream PERFUME! as loudly as possible. It sort of implies it.

Later: I see why this is 'Omen'. Oedipus might smell like this. I love it.

*Caveat- I like masculine scents. This isn't hyper masculine, but it's not really feminine, either. *

In Imp: sweet-I can't define it

Wet- sweet, floral, feminine

Dry- wood, floral, sweet and creamy. Cinnamon, somehow.

Lasted a good long time. I really like it. This is fairly gender neutral, but I see this on me, not on Jeff, know what I mean ?

In imp- sweet. fresh, faint

Wet-slightly like tea and lime, a bit aquatic

Dry- white and limey, like looking at a lime tree in the sun by a river

Nice. Mom loved it.

In Imp: Roses. Very prominant roses

Wet: Still roses, also wet, mouldy smell. I almost felt panicked.

Dry: It turned to mildew on me, with the rose smelling too strong.

I had such high hopes, too. Oh, well.

In Imp: Fruity. sweet, masculine.

Wet: Wow, this changes about every thirty seconds. I smelled the fruity, spicy smell, the leather, the greenery, and the ozone, followed by the mellowing of the fruit and the prevailence of the ozone.

Dry: I smelled the lighter, fruitspice smell, over the dry, sweet ozone. The part of the poem about the soured wine and cold bones is what I thogh of. I could smell age and desolation.

Later: Lasted about four hours, but they were good hours. I like this a lot.

In Imp: Smells like commercial perfume-I can detect alchohol. This may or may not bode well.

Wet: Strong, sharp flowery aroma. The flowers are very 'white' to me, maybe jasmine or heavy lily. This smells like something.....

Dry:White Shoulders. It smells just like Grandma's perfume, only with a very slight tinge of incense.

Later: It was too strong. It gave me a headache. Ah, well.

In Imp: Cotton candy fruit. Seriously. A little bubble gum.

Wet: Bubble gum. Must be the lotus, and that fruity smell, which seems like apple. Very, very sweet. It actually aggrevated my headache.

Dry: Just the fruity, spun sugar sweetness, which is good on some but cloys on me.

Later: I may have a slight bias against this, due to horrible childhood trauma involving guerilla spritzes of cotton candy body spray, but this is super sweet, and sort of little girl. Not me at all.

In Imp: Strong, masculine. I nod approvingly.

Wet: LAVENDER! and a wee bit of lemon, somewhere, but the lavender is the really noticeable part.

Dry: Masculine, but in a clean, sweet unisex way (does that makes sense?) A man could wear this as well as a woman, and no one would think it too feminine/masculine. This is lavender, but subtle, blended lavender, not the screeching, 'look at me' lavender I hate. I also smell spice.

Later: This lasted almost 12 hours. I can smell it clearly (8:30 pm) and I put this on at about 9:25 am. It's very light and powdery. More approving nods.

In Imp- Anise seed and something else. I felt hungry, and my upset stomach went away for a minute.

Wet- Still anisy, but also citrus.

Dry- Musk and that anise-citrus. I'm not getting lavender, but what I am getting is nice.

Later-Musk with a strong, unplaceable backround. The musk is warm and nice-not MUSK! but a subtle musk.

In Imp: Strong! It almost blistered my sinuses. Which is a good thing, actually.

Wet- Black pepper. Fresh, coarsly ground black pepper. I recoiled a little.

Dry-strong lavender that fades to a sweet, perfumy base. This smells 'old'. I could see an aristocrat wearing this to receive Marie Antoinette. I smell a little lemon.

Later: I love it! It was strong, but not offensive or obtrusive. I could smell it when I woke up this morning-I applied a dab at about midnight and woke about seven thirty. Jeff seemed to really like it, too.

In Imp- sweet, high florals.

Wet- peach and slight floral backround.

Dry-At first quite floral, with strong peach. Then more peach with a light floral backround.

Finally-sweet, fairly fruity floral. I couldn't descern the individual florals, just the ripe, juciy peach with a backround I woul describe as 'expensive smelling'. Fairly strong. It's been nearly three hours, and it's still apparent, which is supprising.

Very nice.

In the bottle: Sharp, green, incense like. No rose, no orchid. Not bad, but strong.

Wet: Sharp, almost biting green. The floral begins to come through. Primarily rose at this point, although as someone else mentioned, the word creamy comes to mind; maybe the orchid asserting itself?

Dry: I was listening to "Jesus Christ, Superstar" when I tried this, and towards the end, Magdalene smells like the song "Everything's alright". I could smell the spicy, rare ointment she was using, and the smell of the woman herself: sweet, soft, but not afraid to be assertive if she had to.

Later: It doesn't exactly disappear, but it gets very, very faint on me. I only did my wrist, however. I think I'll keep it, because I love the whole image, but I prefer a stronger perfume. **Sigh**