Schmoozy

Huh, I didn't realize this was different from previous years. Strong white wine grape just like The Chained Phantoms with resins, pomegranate and cake. It's a nice enough scent, but for some reason the white wine grape note is messing with my skin chemistry. I might just need to retest this at a later date.

Hmmm, at first I thought there was too much going on when first applied. Once it has the chance to dry down, this is stunning. Creamy vanilla mingles with tart fruits and citrus with the just the lightest hints of woods underneath. It's juicy, creamy, slightly woodsy, and has a very small medicinal vibe runnign through.

Just as the description states - cedar & frankincense. Dry, dusty old wood, with heapings of resins.

Mint, mint, mint and well more mint. With a tiny blast of sugared vanilla. I adore the Lick It series and will buy a couple of bottles because it is always instant love.

Lemons. ozone and metals. It's rather sweet, is really fresh and crisp, but not one of my favorites.

Grass, soil and air. It's kinda on the sweet side and I attribute that to the airy feel. It's not bad, just not for me.

Wow, these are some crisp cold white grapes. However, even though I love chamomile and balsam of peru, this does not translate very well on my skin. It's ends smelling way too boozy and thus cancels out the balsam and chamomile. Sad.

Patchouli'd lavender over a bed of blackberries. It's extremely sweet, resinous and thick. Even though it has notes of win, the patchouli turns on my skin, making this blend extremely sweet, with too much fruit, lavender and patchouli and not in a good way.

Dry, dusty and woody. Incense with hints of fig that seem to sweeten the overall blend. It does have Midnight Mass qualities, but it the resemblance is small.

Heavy on the honey and amber with pumpkin pie, pine and bulging red fruits. It's an explosion of sweetness and spice with fruits and woods. This is going to make a gorgeous room scent.

I can see why this would appeal, but to be honest, it's not for me. I will definitely make a great room scent, so I look forward to when my spray arrives, but the although the mince pie is spicy and delicious, it's something I want to smell, not smell like. The best part of this scent is the bow resin and spruce wood fiddle. I absolutely adore wood scents and these are stunning. Thick syrupy resins and spruce mingling with the pie spices. I could bathe in it.

Mr. Schmoozy loved it though.

Oooh, it's my beloved airy aquatic scent at Christmas. Grasses swaying in th wind, with some mud and moss thrown in. The smell of fire lingers in the background. It's kinda sweet, a little smokey and slightly masculine.

Leather, cumin and black pepper are the standouts here. The oakmoss joins in after a while ands a slight citrus twist, which results in a mens scent. The vetiver smooths the way after a while and adds earthiness and a smokey vibe. I adore leather, but this is not one I could wear. There is no tonka to be had, and the vetiver is overkill. I think this would smell good on Mr. Schmoozy, but he doesn't really love vetiver either. A decant is more than enough.

This is pretty much a single note of Beth's beloved snow note. It's minty, creamy, cooling and stunning. The tuberose is sitting very quietly in the background and hardly making it's presence known.

This is Christmas in a bottle. Pine, holly, and the amzing smell of baked goodies mingling through the house. It doesn't get any better than this. It evokes memories, and is instantly soothing and extremely comforting. This should have been a Trading Post offering.

Absolutely stunning. This is the orange blossom of Khrysee except instead of orange blossom blended with one of my most coveted notes - amber, Beth changes it up to white sandalwood and vanilla. As always the sandalwood is dry, slightly dusty and very woodsy. The red tea is earthy and the carnation is spicy just like the orange blossom. All together they blend into one hell of a beautfifully spicy, soothing blend. I am goign to need bottles of this.

Hmm this blend is so over the map, that I can't really pinpoint it. At first it's black currant with blue musk. It's tart and lush, and the blue musk joins in and adds a wispy dream-like quality to it. Once the resins - well frankincense joins in and then for a brief moment it somehow translates into patchouli. At this point, I want to wash this s$%t off.

But the moment is brief and the frankincense just needs time to adjust with the musk and black curant. I honestly can't smell any wisteria or mugwort, if there in the blend somewhere, they are very understated. I'll definitely keep my decant to experiment with.

A deep, fruity red wine that feels like it's been mulled with cider. It's delicious at first, but once the marzipan note hits, holy shit it's sweet. The sweetness burns off after 10 or so minutes, but during that 10 minutes, it's straight up cinnamon marzipan. Where the heck did the mulled wine go? I am going to have to try this a few more times to see if my decant is bottle worthy. That morphing period was pretty tough to get through.

Yum. Spicy cake mingles with oats drowned in milk. Out of the candied fruits I can smell candied ginger right away, the other fruits kind of fade into the background. I love the cream in this blend as it helps to mellow out all the notes and blend it together seamlessly. I adore the clove in this. I love spice when it's not sweet, and this isn't really a sweet blend.

Such a simple oil. Spicy fig pudding with with holly. Slightly foody, extremely spicy and the greenery blends beautifully with the fig.

Soft musk and powdry amber, sweetened ever so slightly with vanilla. It's instant love. To my nose the summer florals are an afterthought. Pretty much

non-existant, unless you huff really hard, and even then, it's greenery, not petals. There is a feelign of coldness though that seems to run through the oil, and it mingles beautifully with the creamy vanilla and gentle musk.

Hello peach syrup with a dot of strawberry. No cheescake to be had. Hmmmm, will have to re-test this at a later time.

Winter-Time is a soft, sweet, minty slightly piney delicate scent. There are no other words to describe it - other than beautiful.

Wow. This is freaking amazing!! Eagerly anticipating my decant, I was sad to see the mention of licorice/anise in some reviews. I was worried that those notes of doom would ruin what sounds to be one hell of a blend. Thankfully, The Soldier has just the barest touch of black licorice. The black pepper and licorice add spice to the tea, red musk and leather. All the notes combine together, and not one is dominant. It's creamy, slightly foody, spicy and full of naughty leather. The red musk to my nose is barely there, it only adds depth to the leather and tea. Instant Love.

Just stunning. So simple, yet so damn pretty. Klara is just the slightest hint of honey that mingles with tea rose and carnation. At the end of each huff, I detect a whisper of mandarin. I can't make out iris or ylang ylang, as rose and carnation are the standouts here. It's creamy, spicy and sweet. A little powdry (I love powdry) and very girly.