marilyn eyre

This smells like church perfume to me. Easter Sunday, new purple dress, flowers everywhere kind of perfumed occasion.

It's very pretty, but too churchy for everyday wear for me.

Perfect, pure rose. Velvety petals and all.

I almost didn't put a bottle of this in my cart because Hollywood Babylon is my strawberry scent.

Good thing I have little self-control, because they are so different and so perfect.

Because to me, Hollywood Babylon is like drinking a dry cocktail while being driven around on a hot night in LA.

The Instructional Manual is drinking an all-natural strawberry smoothie in freshly washed clothes in a park with the cherry blossoms blooming in the middle of the day in Washington, DC.

I'll need a backup of this.

 

Hannibal Part 2

 

Wendigo

Depraved: A salacious, lecherous, leering scent – dirty and dark, slapped with a wet sweetness. Earthy black patchouli swelling with apricot.

Feathered Stag

Thanatopsis: A deep, solomn earthen scent containing pine, juniper and musk.

Alana Bloom

I honestly have no idea. Help!

Abigail Hobbs

Salome: A scent that is both coquettish and sinister. Exotic and lush, brimming with grace and viciousness: almond with star jasmine, oakmoss, red sandalwood and Egyptian musk.

Freddie Lounds

Saw-scaled Viper: snake Oil with cinnamon, cassia, and red ginger.

 

I LOVE Hannibal! I actually think Freddie would smell like War (Red ginger, black spices, patchouli, honeysuckle, and three blood-soaked red musks) and Frederick Chilton would smell like Foolish and Vacuous (A scent with no depth: a light, reedy, almost vapid take on a classic men’s fougere.)

I think Alana would wear Veritas (The essence of honesty, integrity, and veracity: frankincense, white carnation, angelica, chamomile, and heliotrope.)

If you're like me and you opened this and gagged on the putrid smell of concentrated cough syrup, let it age a few months. Because now, it;s a thick miix of tropical fruits with a touch of chili to round it out. Nice and rich.

Weirdly, I don't get a baked note at all. All I get is a thick, juicy, blueberry filling with a perfect topping of cream. Lovely and subtle enough to wear for practically every occasion.

Was gifted a squirt of this in my Trading Post order, and I'm so glad because I would never have tried it otherwise. Weirdly for me, i's the vanilla note from Dorian with a generous dose of lavender. I can pick out some violet, but I can't smell any of the other notes. But it's fabulous. I'm spraying it over all of my blankets so they're all snuggly.

Really gross when I first got it six months ago, smelled like old grape-flavored sour candy. But after I aged it, now it turns into this beautiful honeyed wine.

A keeper.

Smells like a very green men's cologne. My nose can't identify any specific notes, but I love it anyway!

Roses drenched in a buttery, fruity syrup. It sounds like it might clash horribly, but on my skin it gives me a mental picture of velvet, for some reason. Makes me picture a queen lounging on fancy throw pillows and eating delicious pastries all day. I love it, but it's a very heavy scent for special occasions.

This is the sexiest scent I own.

On me, it's a rich dark leather with a tinge of dust, like a fancy chair in an old library. There's this lush coconut as a top note, with dashes of rose and ginger.

SO dark and rich, I love it to pieces.

The perfect pomegranate scent. Lush and tart, with a hint of sweetness. It's a skin scent that lasts all day. Lovely for the months where Persephone's getting it on in Hell.

This smells chintzy in the best way possible. The Lab's honeysuckle note smells like the real deal, and I can almost taste the juicy drops of nectar. It does have a lovely amber base that grounds it to my skin, but it has this glittery element to it that I enjoy. So fresh and sparkly, it's incredible.

Too grassy when it's wet, like the lawn was just mowed. But when it's nice and dry, this beautiful green musk comes out and it smells like rolling in the first fresh spring grass. It's lovely, but I can't wear it that often.

On my skin, it's a very animalistic musk with a little dribble of dragon blood. I can't actually smell any leather, but it has a leathery sort of feel to the whole smell. Very nice and dry.

Very soapy rose with that cheap apple smell that I happen to adore for nostalgia reasons. The grape kind of comes out after the soap smell burns off.

I know my description doesn't sound appealing, but there's something about it that I just adore. So clean and pure and I love Dante, this is a winner.

Damn.

I bought a bottle of the 2015 version because I heard so much about it. And for the first month, I couldn't stand it. It smelled like those gross cheap plastic toys bathing in sour grape juice.

But I heard it gets better with age so I cracked it open recently. AND WHOA.

It's a sexy dark purple kind of smell, and the plastic note is like some sort of dirty rubbery edge that just rounds the whole experience out.

Well done, and next time it comes out, I'm stocking up.

Listen, all I can say about this scent is that it smells like a sexy male librarian that plays the violin in his spare time. So glad I smatched up a bottle. Word of warning: it's very strong, but in an oh so good way.

Wowza. This is the perfect mix of gritty sex appeal and slick charm. The oil note is pretty prevalent, but I'm kind of into it. I actually get this image of wearing a leather jacket while walking down the city streets at night, but leather isn't a note. This stuff is STRONG, though. Only use a little bit.

This smells…dirty...

Not in a gross "ew get that smell out of here" but…just…filthy. The kind of filthy wrapped up in silk dresses and red lipstick licking a strawberry lollipop. While riding with the top down in your convertible.

…I love it.

A juicy Red Delicious apple with something nefarious below the surface. Guaranteed to make you feel like the fairest of them all.

Weird. Kind of a fizzy blackcurrant with a ton of lavender. The white musk appears in flashes. I think I like it, but I'd have to figure out where to wear it.

Wow. I've been wanting to try this scent for a while, but i had no idea how good it was. Lots and lots of lush magnolias dripping with spiced mandarin juice. I can just pick out some musk underneath it all. This is the kind of scent a true Southern belle wears while she drinks sweet tea and spreads malicious gossip. I think this might be my new signature scent.

Wow.

I didn't used to care for foodie scents because it's often far too overbearing in commercial perfumes. But this frimp changed everything.

To take a page out of Neil Gaiman in American Gods, I smells like a slutty bride on top of a wedding cake, which in this case is not a bad thing. It's rich vanilla cake with berries sprinkled on top, dusted with extra sugar.

Give me ALL THE BOTTLES.

It smells like a beautiful necklace, amber chains and glittering gems

I WANT A HUNDRED BOTTLES I SMELL LIKE A QUEEN