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well, im one of those people upon whom amber goes funky.

Hetairae for me is O without the funk. i dont know what it lacks from O but it smells identical wet upon application and where O goes - oh no!! funkytown - Hetairae seems to make a quick detour thru craft store and then back to a delightful honeyed musk for me.

out of the bottle and wet its coffee rio candies! irish creme! kaluha - you get the picture! its so buttery cremey insanely sweet coffee that i want to go to the magical cafe where they serve this drink, iced! upon drydown, Miskatonic U becomes a very dry dusty grog, which i love - but its not going to get much action this summer because its such a perfect FALL scent that ill save it for then!

i recieved Milk Moon today - the same day my best friend gave birth to a beautiful little girl!

its everything everyone has described and i totally agree with the "fertile, biological"-ness of the dairy scent - its not quite fermented to me, but it is alive as opposed to a baked good, soft, but not really foody to me - the aliveness and biologicalness of the scent stands out to me.

im going to bring some to my lovely lady right now!

edited to add: dry down hours later is soft delicious cocoa powder!

i have no mint! none at any stage at all!

i have a heavy cedar sugar scent that is making my teeth hurt really bad.

powdery in a not good for me way

i was so hoping juke joint was going to be my summer scent - something refreshing and light. my imp is so dark and powdery it hurts...

i thought i reviewed this already - i had first tested Graveyard Dirt at Black Broom - im pretty sure it was the magickal variety - and all i know is that it put me right into the earth, enveloped, soft warm and moist earth. i fell in love but then found out that they had none at the store and would probably not get any more.....

then i freaked out and got myself a bottle when it came out as a LE - i have to say that out of the bottle its not as deep as i remember the sample at Black Broom, but still its soft fresh tilled earth. upon wearing it lightens up and softens even more - it actually reminds me alot alot of lush's spice mountain soap, with more clove and root beer and dirt thrown in.

yum my!

my nose is attached to my wrist in insane sniffing - Black Forest is the deepest softest forest with a mulch of pine needles and soft earth with the slightist marine tinge - its a bit stronger but the exact smell of the peppermint sweetness of the air in the Santa Cruz mountains - when i would come home on a foggy day and step off the bus into the forest this is the sweet deliciousness i would take lungfulls of. i think diluted in jojoba this will be exact.

Kether is the smell of my baby nephews head.

almond, honey, barest of floral, sweet and light.

edited to add: 5 hours later the spicyness comes out - still sweet but a little spicy like ginger.

out of the vial wet Moxie smells like an insane screaming creamsicle with a layer or darker spices behind it. upon wearing *everything* intensified, the orange became syrupy sweet in the most delicious way possible , the spices turned into...uh oh.

its the same wet, deep pepper undercurrent that made alecto smell like bologna to me.

i will never wear this scent again (if i can wash it off, that pepper note is stuck on my skin), but as a quick pick me up out of the vial only, whew! its a pants kicker!

im very surpised by how much i have fallen in love with Belle Epoque in the last 15 minutes. at first swipe, it smelled to me very much like a sweet heady jasmine which is not my favorite (i think this was the overall sweet mix of the elements, nothing sticking out) and upon wearing its expanded to a vanilla/sandlewood base and sharp opium/soft lily-of-the-valley mid-top notes - this is what my brain thinks it looks like. when i sniff my wrists i realize im playing "find the lily-of-the-valley" and then i find it and its very satisfying. its so delightfully old fashioned, exciting, sharp, frilly, coy- :D

i can't believe that i havent written a review of Snow White yet! I love love love snow white but every time i wore it it reminded me of *someone* else. i dont know who, but it just never gelled with my skin to feel like it was something that i was wearing. soft and sweet, with a little coconut behind it, but like someone i know, something i know...so i never ever wore it, just sniffed from time to time.....

today i decided to wear it as i was baking anise lemon honey biscotti and oh geez, with this context i am suddenly *wearing* it! i dont know if its the ingredients or what but its such a perfect complement to the spicy cookies i made! i also dont get the cold sense from Snow White - on me is a warm dry coconut rum laced macaroon with a dry scent of wind along a sunny beach - baking cookies on the beach with enough something floral to keep it not foody.

yay! im so glad i kept this bottle!!!!!

Dorian dries and lasts for hours as Honey Lemon Iced Tea. This is going to be my summertime 2005 scent!!!!!

White Rabbit for me is a lighter, more wearable Baobhan Sith for me. I loved loved Baobhan Sith but there is an element in it that really irritated my sinuses - and White Rabbit seems to have the same sort of gingery/floral scent but without the high citrus tang that made my eyes water so sadly!!!!!

out of the vial it has that lemony tea scent - and upon application it becomes a rose scent that reminds me of Alice without the spicy carnation - and then the honey and vanilla take over and its so delectable! I dont ever get the warm milk part but it does evolve into a soft beautiful non-powdery ginger tinged floral tea - and then the floral part fades a bit and it stays on for hours as the scent of light creamy milk chocolate tinged with ginger.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

red wine red wine red wine heady rich back of the mouth taste of red wine.

it started out a lot like honey+coffee+amber+chocolate but then quickly turned to red wine and has stayed as wine for over an hour now! Its making me salivate! I dont know if it is something i would wear often but, hmmm, its so exactly red wine its amazing!

everything clover said plus i think i detect some eucalyptus too - its very light and cave like but dark and sinister - im one of those folks who adores what the civet does in a scent on my skin so its realy sexy and deep too - dont be scared of black annis its really really lovely if you love licorice!!!

matey, this be the warmest richest butterscotch rum ive ever smelled - its a BIG scent (it lasted on me for a whole day into night!) and is so undeniably rich and delicious - there is a popcorn edge to it at first but the drydown and everlasting scent is predominantly butter-scotch with a lil booze (and coconut? am i imagineing things?) this would be the most fabulous conditioner or lotion scent!!!

this is very much like carnation cookies with cinnamon and some light citrus frosting on top - without being foody at all!! it also immediatly brightened my day - soft and not overpowering, very very dry and like the midday sun.... im having an idea that ahathoor and chimera would layer in a really delicious way.....

oh no, its discontinued!!!!!!

morella starts very mysteriously, i smell the greenery but upon wearing it goes straight to the only non soapy violet that I have ever smelled - soft and smells exactly like those hard sugar square violet candies!

Loralei is such a melancholy scent - the neroli and ylang ylang almost sink with sadness but the sandlewood keeps it flat, afloat almost - upon wearing the sandlewood comes out stongly and its so soft and still sad - the dry down is my favorite though - so faintly i smell a very true scent of water - its so so so beautiful!

i Baba Yaga!!!!

upon first sniff in the bottle its very fruity and yellow orange smelling - with more of a pineapple-maybe jasmine angle to it - it then mellowed even fruitier, like crazy candies and is now a soft fruity spice - its very strong its lasted a few hours now and seems to be getting stronger in the last stage! I think mostly i love sniffing my wrist and imagining Baba Yaga sailing thru the forest in her cauldron ship - im getting a big bottle o this!!

dark dark dark dark dark dark dark trees and earth, the resins and the vetiver plunge damnation straight thru to be a lot like the smell i would imagine of the soil a foot into the earth - out of the imp its very mossy maybe moldy and upon wearing it turns very very dry for me, still the same tone - its the darkest driest most somber scent i have encountered so far....

im seconding the Baku reccommendation - just sniffing it puts me in an intense state of relaxation, and my dreams are definatly a lot less weird!

eta: now i cannot sleep without baku! what will i do at the end of the imp??????

out of the bottle Salome is very marzipan, spice and then more almonds than you can shake a stick at! upon wearing it mellowed yet became very full the same almond spice and then moved through some jasmine and now finally landing on the very earthy combination of sandelwood and musk - like the base note in Ann Bonny which is so delicious but unfortunatly makes me a bit ill to the stomach. But if you can handle it, the drydown is so so so so beautiful - i think i may try to use it as a room scent but it is so totally different, i wish there was a way to capture the dry earthiness of this last part! And it hasnt lost any "volume" so to speak, morphing thru the scents at the same altitude...

eta: this time wearing it that base note that make me feel icky is so faint that i am really really really enjoying it, its such a soft jasmine spice its got a very light loveliness that im so glad that i can noww enjoy!

this immediatly relaxed me upon smelling it and i was a stress case just driving from west hollywood in traffic! - mmmm it smells like the most full + true lavender touched with a tinge of eucalyptus.....upon wearing for me it becomes a very watery lavender very comforting im going to wear this to sleep tonight!

sugar skull freaks me out because its the exact smell of my moms car that she had while i was in elementry school - she would always eat honey nut cheerios with maple syrup for breakfast (i know, kinda gross but she loves it!) in the car on the way to work and leave the cup in the car all day while at work so the beige leather interior took on the aroma of maple syrup and on hot days it was maple syrup and hot leather and that is exactly what this smells like!!

which in a way i cant ever wear as a scent because it always grossed me out that she would eat sticky cheerios in the car but ill definatly keep it in my scent museum as my mom doesnt have the car anymore and its very nostalgic for me! how amazing it is that beth can make these smells that sometimes completely are smell memories...!!