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I've been out of the loop for aggggggges so have no idea what is what any more.

Of course all my faves are disconned and almost impossible to get and while I have bottles and backups there will come a day when one runs out

In no particular order (ok, that's a lie #1 is #1 for a reason)

1 Quincy Morris

2 The Traveller

3 Rivet Goth

4 Clockwork ♂

5 Infernal Lover - the heavy on the musk one.

Oh, and the Carnaval better come back soon, I'm almost out of Wulric!

I received two bottles of Tattered Lace from DD at the same time and the fill is different on both. One is full into the neck, and the other is to the top of the shoulder. My Red Lace came the same way...two bottles, bought at the same time, different fill levels.

 

Aren't these all filled by the lab? And filled by hand? None of them are going to be exact. All usually hold more than 5mls. I bought a bottle of oil sold as 5ml, and I thought it would be a full bottle. It had approximately two decants missing, thus 5mls, going on the assumption that a bottle hold 7 mls.

 

I also have bottles where the label sits very low, closer to the bottom of the bottle, so to say the level is TOL would be correct, but not accurate. In those cases the fill would be more likely be minus a decant. Or more.

 

And the only time I can honestly say that I've gotten a "full" bottle (way up into the neck) has been with Chaos Theories.

 

But when I read "top of the label" my mind interprets it as "minus one decant".

Even if they are filled by hand, I doubt they are doing it by eye (not only would it be slow, it would be slightly insane) and would have calibrated pipettes to dispense the oil. 

Someone further up thread said they'd never had a bottle from the lab be at the TOL. I've had several over the years so it is possible for a bottle to have only been lightly tested once and still look like it has decants missing. 

I was trying to remember why this was triggering such strong scent memories for me, and then it hit me, Indian sweet shops, and in particular Soan Papadi.

No coconut and rum for me, and the barest hint of ginger when wet. As it dries a bit more of the ginger starts to develop but it is mostly chocolate and cardamom at this stage. I shall see what it is like at the end of a long day, but it is certainly very nice the way it is at the moment.....if only I could stop thinking about sweets now I'd be happy

Jasmine.

That's pretty much the extent of my review on this one. Obviously it is much more complex than that, and I did manage to leave it on long enough to detect what I thought might be a touch of Honeysuckle in the blend.

Unfortunately, despite it being a fairly subtle Jasmine I found it gave me a nasty headache fairly quickly and so I was unable to test it beyond 15 minutes.