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I wanted to love this, but alas, this just didn't do much on my skin. I have to remember that my skin does best with a scent that has some brightness/ kick to it from somewhere, and this just doesn't have that zing like Tattered Lace did for me (although it was much more throw and lasted longer.) This is dark, sweet, a little perfumey, creamy, musky and a little smokey. Lovely, just not very me! I have not tried any version of Black Lace so I can't compare.

I haven't tried Creature Feature but, a good thing to keep in mine is all perfume has "possible allergens" in it, since everyone has different allergies to and different reactions to different things. You can also develop new allergies and lose old ones as you age, so it could even be something that didn't bother you before.

 

Also, did you possibly apply it when your skin was damp/ just out of a bath or shower etc.? Sometimes things that would normally not bother your skin suddenly cause a contact allergy if you try them when your skin is wet. (I try not to try anything new just after a shower etc. for precisely this reason.)

 

Hopefully they will get back to you with a list of what's in it/ if there's any rare oil in it that you wouldn't have encountered before so you'll have an idea of what to avoid!

Oddly the only note I am getting is the feral animalistic notes. This really smells very hunter-y! But likewise, where the heck are the other notes hiding? Weird. It's a soft, approachable animalistic tho. I like it!

Fruity and a little almost buttery/ creamy (coconut maybe?) when wet. As it dries down the creamy component is less dominant and this becomes bright fruits! I can definitely catch the pineapple in there, but I'm having a hard time picking out much individual otherwise. Lovely, cheerful, bright fruityness. It's sweet, but not too sweet. I like it, but I tend to like more fruit AND something (musk, plants, resins, spices, flowers, etc.) scents that feel less edible.

This is lightly sweet and fruity and salty, with a hint of floraly goodness and musk, but not too strong. It's quite soft and pretty! It's very balanced, so it doesn't go too foody, or too floral, or too musk, or too OCEAAAN OMG etc. It has light throw. It is lovely, but not AMAZEBALLS enough for me to keep it!

Oh. My. God.

 

(I could really end it at just that, but I'll try!)

 

I've had 1 or 2 imps of this laying around for quite a while, and for some reason was in no rush to test this. WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG?!

 

This is definitely related to Snake Oil on my skin, but if you take the stuff (I think patchouli and red musk?? maybe?) that sometimes goes funky on me in SN (especially fresh SN) and replaced it with delicious delicious wood and tobacco. This is RICH but so so so so good. I can't see me wearing this until it the weather cools down, because it is also POWERFUL, but OMG!!!! I think this also would be delicious slathered on a sexy sexy man. (Although sadly I don't see this being something MY sexy sexy man would be into. DAMMIT!!) Sooo gooooood!!!

Have you tried Xiuhtecuhtli? It's my favorite orange scent by far.

 

Notes: Copal, plumeria and sweet orange and the smoke of South American incense and crushed jungle blooms.

 

The orange is definitely most prominent on me.

 

 

ETA: It's in the Excolo section.

I got a testable sniffie of this in a swap and I am SO glad I've had the chance to at least try this. This was sooooo lovely. This was a warm, sweet, floral, and a little creamy? almost. It's so balanced. It was light-ish throw, which I like.

 

Both amber and jasmine usually go evil on me, but here they don't! (although I'm not sure I've tried white amber, and star jasmine specifically.) I LOVE star jasmine in person and I'm so happy I actually got some of that and not bitter sharp YECH like jasmine seems to go on my skin. I think this has convinced me to not entirely give up on amber and jasmine notes!

This was pretty, but uninteresting on me. I'm not super familiar with many of these notes, so I can't describe the specific aspects of the scent too well. I agree this this has a silver/ moonlight feel to it.

I love carnation. LOVE! And this really is a true, perfect, non morphing, long lasting carnation. For all that this is a perfect carnation, and it is beaaaautiful, I really don't think I would wear this. I LOVE carnation in a blend, but the single note is too simple for me alone, and I am not really a layering person!

I've been wanting to try this for quite some time. Finally!

Sadly though, this just does not do much for me. I am not a big fan of amber and this is VERY amber dominant (duh!) I get a bit of a dry woodsy feel from this too, especially wet, which I think much be the sandalwood. Overall: Sweet. Dry. Slightly wood. Ambery. It has a very golden feel to it.

(I like to think I LOVE golden scents, but, honestly, I rarely actually like them. Maybe I need to give up on this? )

This worked the best on me out of all of the Fraggles, but I still wasn't in love with it. It really does pretty much smell exactly like it is described, gentle, maybe a little mysterious. It's gentle, sweet, ethereal flowers. The throw on this was very light.

This was very very odd, especially when wet. Immediately it reminded me of -- pina colada chapstick? As a small child I once stubbornly locked myself in the bathroom in protest and ate a pina colada chapstick for sustenance. This smells like that tasted - pina colada-y but with a non-edible/ fake element (or in this case smell) to it.

 

This had really crazy throw when wet (especially the white musk). It was nearly headache inducing for me. When this dried out it became more reasonable throw, but still very very weird, and more foody than I would like.

This was a combo of LOVE notes (pink musk, pink pepper), and not sure notes (currant, cranberry) so I wasn't sure how it was going to go. The verdict is this is cute, and spunky, but not for me. The red fruits were pretty predominant. It was a too sweet, red fruity juicy candy for me. I wish the pepper and musk were more dominant

I was hoping the citrus notes would be the most prominent on me, but this was predominantly vanilla cream. It was very sweet and creamy and dessert-y. I could smell the citrus notes in this but it really got bowled over by the sweet creaminess. I was hoping for TART smoothed out a bit by cream, so this was disappointing. If you are fond of creamy/ vanilla foodyness this would be worth a try! It smells like something I would love to eat, but it's not something I want to smell like sadly.

This was really interesting! Chocolate hates me, so I was expecting to hate this, and I can't say I like it per se, but I'm really glad I got the chance to smell it. The chocolate doesn't amp and take over the blend like usually happens for me (maybe because it's DARK chocolate?) It's creamy figgy pear fruitness -- sweet fruit, not bright or sour -- with a hint of chocolate. It's quite rich and dessert-y. It's way foodier than I would ever wear, but it smells delicious!!

Wet - Banana-y flowers? Banana? What the heck! It smells beautiful, but was not expecting banana.

 

Drying/ dry- AHA! I think the banana-esque smell was just the cherry blossom acting weird. Now it's lovely springy florals, and I can definitely pick out the cherry blossom. It's not too FLORAL EXPLOSION though -- which is good since floral explosion equals headache time for me! I can't pick out the myrrh but I think it's what's adding the overall smoothness and warmth and keeping the florals behaving.

 

Oddly enough, in feel this reminds me a bit of Morocco. It really doesn't smell anything like it, but it has that same warm floral but not too floral, almost spicy feel to it.

 

Love it!

This was pretty. A little dark and a little fruity, with added depth from all the different notes (but I had a hard time picking out anything in specific. Would not have guessed it had lime in there!) It does have a "purple" feel too it. Dark purple! I wasn't in love though, so not a keeper for me!

Wet there were hints of the other notes at least, but dry on me this was JASMINE!!!!!!!!! (Imagine jasmine doing this: ) I tend to amp jasmine so I should have known, but BOO. Will try this one more time but I don't have high hopes.

My mom and brother thought this smelled great on me, and I tried so hard to love this, and I do LIKE it a lot, but alas this is just not me! This is sweet, juicy strawberries, sweet honey, a little creaminess and a little green/grassy-ness. It really is quite lovely, but just too foody and sweet for me! (And that's not to say that it is ridiculously sweet or anything -- foody and I just don't get along!)

 

I love this!! It's a little sweet and creamy, but also a little bright and fresh (the tea, I assume?) I can smell a hint of the coconut bark in there. This is precisely the sort of scent I love! Sweet but with some tartness/ sharpness to keep it interesting! I do wish the wear length was a bit longer (it seems to be totally gone except for a hint of the creamy sweetness within 3-4 hours or so.)

 

I was always a fan of Antique Lace but I like this SO MUCH MORE. Antique Lace is so dry, and sweet, and powdery, like the best vanilla dryer sheets ever, which I LIKE, but a similar vanilla-y feel with less powder and some freshness instead? OMG!

How have I never reviewed this?!?! I LOOOOVE this so much. I love Snake Oil. I almost love Dorian, but it's a hint too sweet and the fougere note is usually too much for me. Smoosh them together, add a few friends and HEAVEEEEN! It's like Snake Oil, but sweeter and creamier. The other notes aren't prominent/ I can't really pick them out, but they add smoothness and depth/ it doesn't go floral or lavender crazy on me. Lovelovelovelovelove.

I was afraid this was going to be too foody and sweet, because of the brown sugar, which I was afraid would go crazy syrupy sweet caramel-y, but it did not and I LOVE this! It's got sweetness there, but it's got a warm, spicy, almost woody scent that keeps the sweets from being too much for me. When this dries down for a while the tobacco becomes more prominent, but I love the smell of tobacco leaf. This is a lovely, well balanced scent. It smells very golden brown to me, if that makes sense, and I love that!!

 

(Note: Especially when wet this reminds me of Lush's Mange Too massage bar, but even better!!)

 

Edited to add: the throw on this is pretty strong compared to my usual and it lasts FOREVER so keep that in mind. I'm so used to lighter throw oils and I kind of SLATHERED this the other day without really thinking about it. It was lovely but a bit much for me as time went on!

I love this, but I'll be damned if I can really explain what it smells like. Dry and resinous, a little smoky, a little spicy, a little woody, a little herbaceous. It's very complex and well blended. It's a little mysterious, but warm, snuggly and approachable at the same time. Definitely a keeper!

 

(I would like to note that dragon's blood resin historically smells like banana Runts on me, but this does not do that!)

Hoggle was totally facsinating! When it was wet it really did have this sour/ fermented pumpkin smell prominent in the foreground. As it dried out it got a little more PUMPKIN!! and less fermented, but not so much so that it was overwhelming (pumpkin and I do not traditionally get along well. Jack eww eww eww... This was not aghastly sweet and buttery.) This really was rich, deep, and earthy after it really settled down. A hint of sweet and that interesting fermented smell from the pumpkin. It was a lot heavier/ darker/ more masculine than I'd wear but I liked this a lot and I don't think I have anything else in my collection quite like that fermented pumpkin note.

 

 

And to add, since there are many comparisons to Misk U and Red Lantern up thread, I actually hated both of those on me but like this -- go figure! This was not hugely sweet/ foody/ syrupy on me.