mymymai

ITI: Wow, that's strong. The opoponax reminds me of benzoin, along with a candied red musk on top of barely perceptible rose. Hmm. I'm usually a huge resin fan, but I'm not sure about this one.

Wet: Wow, I'm having a hard time smelling anything other than the opoponax and red musk. I think there might be rose in there, but the resins are so strong that I'm having trouble getting anything more than an impression. As it stands, the resin overpowers any complexity the rose might have offered.

Dry: For the first several hours, all I can think of is that it smells like opoponax, powder (red musk) and cat pee. Finally, after 5 hours, it smells more like red rose and musk with a touch of resin. However, I'm not sure I'm willing to wait that long for it to develop.

2014 Version

ITI: It's lightly sweet, but primarily resinous, but daintily so. I do get the incense, frankincense, and myrrh, but the olive blossom and blood resin are very balanced underneath, not overpowering the delicate incense or the light florals.

Wet: Olive blossom (light, well-behaved, subtle), followed by frankincense, myrrh, light cypress (which is unusual as that note tends to dominate on my skin), and delicate florals like baby's bread and daffodils. This is really rather nice.

Dry: Gosh, the frankincense and myrrh develop nicely once dried down some. The blood resin paired with the olive blossom and floral lend themselves to an innocently sweet yet resinously sultry scent that is really rather beautiful and would be suited for day or evening year. I think I need a bottle of this one.

ITI: Red rose (but a deep red) and benzoin. It's resinous and earthy while still having that deeply romantic floral from the rose.

Wet: Deep, dark, but still having a pinch of light from the rose - lovely. I'd in love with how the smoky vetiver and opium curl like the caterpillar's smoke around the rose while benzoin pulsates underneath. Wow!

Dry: It's a light, powdery rose now that it's had time to dry. Faint benzoin wafts gently underneath with a hint of opium tar, but the strong smoky quality of vetiver is gone. This is a keeper for me.

ITI: I sniffed this one without knowing the notes, so I wrote down that it seemed like the scent contained a nice but disquieting combination of peach, strawberry, and a muskier, aninmalistic tone underneath a mint or juniper.

Wet: I still get the animalistic tone, but it's mingled more completely with strong, very ripe fruit. It still seems like there is peach and a touch of strawberry here, but I'm also getting grape, but wine grapes. Just over all of that is pungent but almost mint juniper or evergreen. I think I actually like this one. It's strange, but interesting.

Dry: It mellows out quite a bit, but it still retains much of its evergreen notes along with a faint sweetness from the fruit. Very nice.

ITI: Hmm, it's a balanced blend of purple French florals, leather, incense, and orange blossom to my nose.

Wet: It has an almost caramelized brown sugar quality to it under paper orange blossom, incense, and stronger florals, but I'm not getting leather on my skin. I wasn't expecting the paper tone, but I do hope the leather note shows up as it dries.

Dry: Ah, there's the leather surrounded by the powdery, resinous tone of amber, flanked by lilac and another purple flower that is not as distinct. I'll be keeping this one.

ITI: I'm fairly happy that I received this one as a frimp. My mother was raving about it, claiming it's one of her new favorites and I've been eager so see what all the fuss is about. It's a bright scent, but somewhat rounder than purely citrus scents are. I think it's due to the bergamot, which lens a sightly exotic, warm tone to other scents that I've tested, as well as the white musk.

Wet: It reminds me of Lush's Honey I Washed the Kids but without the cloying honey tones. It's slightly anise-y, bright, exotically delicious, while having this bright musky tone to it infused with the sublime heliotrope. Okay, I think I can see why she likes it so much.

Dry: It dries down quickly, becoming creamier than I would have anticipated, like vanilla musk underneath hanging while florals and somnambulant, lulling bergamot tinged with anise. Gosh, this really is gorgeous.

ITI: It's muskier than I had anticipated. I can tease out the attar of rose, patchouli, and palmarosa, but I'm not getting much sandalwood. I'm not sure how I feel about this just yet.

Wet: Ack, that's really strong palmarosa and attar of rose. It's certainly in-your-face, and the patchouli only adds to the strength and power of the scent. I am getting a little sandalwood, but it's hard to detect on a cursory sniff. Hmm, it's a bit too much pungent floral for me, so I'm hoping it mellows out sufficiently as it dries.

Dry: This has great throw and lasts a good amount of time. 12 hours later and it much better because the rose is not quite so...old and musky. Instead, it is slightly spicy, feminine rose with tones of sandalwood - a feminine but not overtly girly scent. I think I'll keep this one.

ITI: Holy heavy roses, Batman. We are talking rose garden amount with a bit of dried green and earth under. Interesting.

Wet: Roses, roses everywhere - dried and very dark red petals strewn on fresh soil with a bit of damp moss underneath. Surprisingly good.

Dry: It's much more earthy when dried, but the smell of dried red rose petals and rose leaves is still very much what define the scent. It's nice, but not something I'd reach for on a regular basis.

ITI: It's absinthe, but with mint and a splash of lemon. Nice.

Wet: It's certainly absinthe! And it's strong. Very strong. The wormwood and anise pungent, clearly definable, but delicious on my skin and I still do pick up the mint and lemon with a light tone of hyssop underneath. This is a great brooding scent that I'll wear when I go out.

Dry: It's much drier in tone and a bit more medicinal after 4-5 hours. The wormwood and anise notes are more woody dried down and not as jarring or striking now that it's settled.

ITI: It's light, slightly perfumey. I definitely get "air" from this but also freesia, musk, salt, and mandarin.

Wet: It's slightly floral, musky, salty, with subtle hints of honeydew and really faint freesia. It's certainly interesting, but I'm not sold yet.

Dry: This is another short-lived scent. Even after an hour, it's already noticeably dissipated, to the point of having barely any throw. However, what I do get is a combination of musk, scrub, salt, and either guava or mandarin. It's nice, but I wish it lasted longer on me.

ITI: I get gingerbread spice, mulling spices, apple, but something along the lines of a tart burner wax's apple, faint loam (but not in a bad way, but in a just rained damp earth way), and a faint creamy floral underneath. What an interesting combination of notes. Note: This one is very strong with lots of throw. I recapped it after my sniff and I can smell it strongly even though I'm sitting over a foot away from it. Actually, I would love my entire room to smell like this.

Wet: Yes, that's most certainly spiced gingerbread with earth. I'm still picking up on the creamy undertone, but it isn't incredibly defined, like the Lab's cream notes. I think it might be a subtle vanilla.

Dry: I had to reapply as I had an unfortunate encounter with expired lotion. After some time, it's lightly floral with a hint of damp earth and spice. I really like this, despite the odd notes.

ITI: It's oddly soapy on first sniff. After some concentration, I get green apples. bitter lemon, and light, pale roses.

Wet: The roses are a bit stronger and deeper (redder) on my wrist, although the lemon is bitter and somewhat soapy still and the apples still green. It's interesting, but I wish it was a little sweeter.

Dry: While it was drying, I still picked up on the soapy tone, but it wasn't all together unpleasant. Now, it's a soft, gentle blend of rose, something faintly sweet, and just a little tart - like early spring. I do like it, even despite the soapiness.

ITI: (2014) I haven't smelled any of the other Womb Furie renditions before, so I'm starting virtually carte blanche. Of course, I love snake oil, but I'm fearful of the honey since it usually turns to outhouse scent on my skin. Here goes! Yet, that's honey bucket right there spoiling the beauty of snake oil. Boo.

Wet: At least the snake oil amps on my skin with it's lovely Indonesian oils and sugared vanilla, but there is a powdery sweetness with tones of port-a-potty that makes the scent less than gorgeous on me.

Dry: Now that it's dry, the Snake Oil seems to have tempered the honey is it is bearable and, if I may say so, pleasant. The honey has stayed slightly powdery, like a honey dusting powder, for which I am very thankful.

ITI: I get a really lovely, warm, creamy balsam with tea a little vanilla bourbon, and a faint dab of bergamot oil. I'm responding very favorably right now to this scent.

Wet: It still maintains that warm creaminess on my skin, but I get more of the balsam, patchouli, and bourbon vanilla rather than a subtle blend of the notes. I still really like it so far.

Dry: After 5 hours, it's light on my skin 0 tea, bergamot, vanilla, and balsam. It's a scent of which I'd consider getting a bottle.

ITI: It's sweetly resinous with touches of dried fruit underneath. I'm just worried about the quince on my skin, but so far, so good.

Wet: It smells like warm fruit cake, although I can detected the patchouli and bergamot. Surprisingly nice and warm.

Dry: As it was drying, I remember having a favorable response. It becomes less fruit cake and more alluringly warm and resinous form the amber, coconut, and myrrh. There is a slight sweetness to it from the mimosa, but it just adds to make this a gorgeous, feminine scent that would be a great winter, fall, or spring scent.

ITI: It's really bitter and green. I was expecting super sweet and fruity, though. I do pick up on the strawberry, and mint, but they are covered by the mastic, cypress, and pine.

Wet: It's still bitter, but now that the strawberry is stronger on my skin, it's not as bad. I still get the mint as well, and when paired with strawberry, reminds me of some of the new flavors of fruit gum that Trident is producing.

Dry: This one vanishes on my skin rather quickly. I've reapplied it twice and tried to assess it after 5 hours, but it's virtually non-existent each time. On third reapplication, I get strawberry Smarties and oakmoss with a touch of petitgrain. It's okay, but I'm not thrilled with it.

ITI: It's like artichoke and salted ambergris. I know this sounds really strange, but I like it. It has an umami quality to it and it makes my mouth water.

Wet: Yep, it's very much the same on my skin, although I do pick up on the aquatic tone (kelp, probably) as it starts to settle. Regardless, this scent is unconventional and oddly interesting.

Dry: Once dried, I get more of the buckthorn berry, kelp, and salt, and less of my lovely ambergris. It's still an aquatic I like, so that's a huge win for this scent.

ITI: It's fruity, but in a fruit bubblegum way. I think part of that might be the combination of the sugar, cassis, and mango.

Wet: Hmm, the bubblegum note reminds me of lotus, especially because there is that 1990's air freshener tone to it. It's sweet, but I can't shake the distaste for that first note.

Dry: It strikes me still like a Glade plugin- sweet yet slightly bitter in its floral saturation. I do get the orange carnation and coconut, which soften it, but this one is just not working for me.

ITI: Licorice, orange blossom, overly ripe fruit (like a week overripe), and sandalwood. There's something just odd about this.

Wet: Okay, the overripe scent is gone. Thank goodness! It's pungent licorice root (but in the best way), white sandalwood and patchouli on my skin. This is really nice, actually.

Dry: There's only a ephemeral red fruity tone and a touch of sandalwood left after a full day of work.

ITI: It smells like myrrh and balsam and something that reads as "round" for some reason.

Wet: It certainly does strike me as golden and warm. Now that it is on my skin, I'm certain there is amber in here as well as the balsam along with some kind of resinous incense not (I keep thinking of myrrh).

Dry: After 15 hours, only the amber remains distinct on my skin, but it is still a warm and round scent. It's very nice.

ITI: It's lily fragrant orchids, lilies, and almond pastries with a hint of resin from the benzoin. Strange.

Wet: The warm pastry note I picked up early is the ambergris paired with the gardenia, which I can now discern specifically because the notes become individually more distinct on skin. I also pick up on a touch of moss, lily, orchid, and resin, although all are much more subtle than the ambergris and gardenia.

Dry: It's still soft and faintly sweet, but the notes are not distinguishable after 12 hours.

ITI: Yep, that's jasmine and that is all I get. Wow.

Wet: I tried this on earlier but didn't have time to sit down and write anything. I remember thinking that I smelled...strongly perfume-y, which is the jasmine. Normally, I like the other notes, but jasmine is just a bully on my skin.

Dry: Slightly powdery jasmine, a touch of rose, and lily. It's too overtly floral for me, so it's a pass.

ITI: I get a gorgeous lemon verbena note, but like lemon verbena tea paired with something more masculine and slightly peppery. Interesting so far.

Wet: I still get mostly Embalming fluid ( lemon, tea, aloe, musk), but the aftershave tones down the sweeter aspects by adding something spicier and a little more sharp.

Dry: After some time. it becomes a soft, slightly lemon-y, tea infused subtle scent. I like it.

ITI: I get effervescent champagne - which is a nice I really do like. I don't pick up any strawberry, though, with which I'm perfectly fine.

Wet: Champagne and just a slight tone of strawberry - not cloying, but fresh and juicy. It reminds me of a romantic evening.

Dry: It died out before I left from work, but when I did catch a whiff of myself, I smelled like fizzy champagne and strawberries. I felt bubbly and fantastic.

ITI: I just get fresh, clean lavender - not freshly picked, but something I'd smell in the bath section.

Wet: Herby lavender and spicy lotus, but thankfully it's actually lotus on my skin rather than bubblegum!

Dry: It stays pretty consistent, but it does soften pretty quickly. Overall, this is a nice, feminine scent, although not overtly girly, which I could wear as a staple.