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I second Donkehpoo's rec for The Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, which is a cozy, sweet floral-tinged vanilla. Other faves of mine include: Antikythera Mechanism - wonderful dry, warm, tobacco-wood scent with a hint of vanilla. It's a fan favorite for a reason, and I've gone through two bottles of it. Jezebel - my hands-down favorite rose scent, a rich, velvety, lush orange blossom/rose/honey/sandalwood combo. It goes on smelling an awful lot like orange juice, but don't be put off by that; once it's been on your skin for a few minutes the rose and sandalwood start coming forward beautifully. I'm picky about rose scents because rose can sometimes smell soapy on my, but Jezebel is perfection. (Example: This spring, when the Lupercalia Dozen Roses LEs came out, I tested decants of eight of them... and bought more Jezebel instead.) Black Pearl - A light, sheer coconut/hazelnut/orris scent that's cool and feminine (despite being non-floral) and perfect for summer. I'm on my second bottle of this one, too (partly because I wear it a lot during the summer, and partly because it's a very light scent I have to slather on). Tombstone - Another longtime fave I've gone through multiple bottles of. I second pretty much everything GlassKoala said about it.

In the imp - soft, sweet/light, sweet pea with a hint of sage giving it a slight green/vegetal quality. Very girly and fresh/innocent.. This isn't a fairy queen; it's one of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies. Pictured: Aeval in the bottle. Wet/freshly applied - sweet pea dominant, like Mouse's Long & sad Tale without the vanilla & sandalwood. After a moment or so it starts to go soapy. Nooo, you were so good on the little imp wand. On my hair, it basically disappears. Five-ten minutes in - Freshly scrubbed skin musk/hint of soap. We started out flower fairies. We are now a vintage soap ad. This is an extremely light scent, with very little throw. The drydown has only just started and it's already in nose-to-wrist territory. Pictured: Aeval on my skin. Half hour in - Soap, maybe nice sunblock, clean skin musk. Freshly-scrubbed skin if you were naturally sweet-smelling. Totally gone from my hair. By the time an hour and a half have gone by, all traces of Aeval have completely disappeared. This is a short-lived, ethereal fairy.

In the imp - Sakura & a hint of neroli over a cedar base. Almost syrupy without being cloying. Wet/freshly applied - Gentle cedar with wisps of soft florals floating above it. Shunga-like, as I expected. Five-ten minutes in - The cedar has receded, blended seamlessly in to the florals, and the syrupy-sweet aspect is gone, too, leaving a soft/powdery floral that edges close to soapiness (don't turn into soap, please don't). Light, with low throw (only about an inch or so). I'm getting much more sakura & peach blossom than neroli (there's not even a hint of citrus bite - smelling this blind I'd never guess neroli was in it, and after the first few minutes I'd struggle to pinpoint cedar). I ran the wand from the imp through my hair as well, and on said hair, with skin chemistry removed from the equation, it's a completely different scent, cedar dominant with a hint of syrupy peach and some very faint hazy frankincense incense, maybe a slight touch of floral. Is there such a thing as girly cedar? If so, this is it. Half hour in - Soft peach blossom & clean skin musk, maybe with a hint of cedar, but only if I'm looking for it. On my hair, it's a faint cedar-peach combo that smells almost like baked goods.

Volcano in Springtime was entirely vanilla cream and sandalwood on me, no floral notes, but I enthusiastically second Cave of Treasures and The Bride. This is a lab discussion thread, not a post thread, but I'll add that Three Couples HG from this year's Lupers is an amazing gently-spiced fig & orange blossom that pairs beautifully with spicy florientals and that I'd kill to have in perfume oil form.

In imp - Warm, almost candy-sweet vanilla-cedar. Wet/freshly applied - Creamy, almost musky haze of vanilla-cedar/wood. The cedar is more of a creamy warmth than any distinctive cedar scent. This is amazing! A glorious your-skin-but-better scent. Five-ten minutes in - A soft haze of sheer, creamy vanilla-myrrh-wood, cozy and delicious (it's the soft, powdery kind of myrrh rather than the gritty, resinous kind). I need to death-match this with Small Brown Cat. One hour in - Inez is a non-morpher. Still creamy, warm vanilla-cedar, so well blended that I can't pick out the separate notes. Late drydown - goddamn glorious. Best Grindhouse lady ever, hands-down. Like the late drydown of Tombstone with it's glowing vanilla-cedar only better. Earlier in the drydown I could get a hint of spiced incense (the myrrh + cinnamon-clove-y carnation) when I put my nose right to the skin of my wrist. Now it's just a soft, powdery, vanilliac cedar-myrrh.

Retesting my decant of Aeronwen now that it's got some age on it. Originally, it was a tangy herbal-citrus, but let's see what a year on the shelf has done with it. In imp - rich, velvety brown scent from the fig and black musk/myth Wet/freshly applied - Predominantly fig and cedar, but then a sort of bronze-colored herbal tang comes forward. This is really well blended; I can't really pick out individual notes (letting your decants age for a year clearly benefits them). I get a hint of freshness and just a bit of citrus from the orange, but unlike the usual amped-up dishwashing liquid/Citraclean orange often turns into on my skin, it's just a subtle breath. This is a rich, slightly-earthy herb garden scent, but with that velvety undertone from the fig/musk/amber. Five-ten minutes in - rich, bright, fruity fig, velvety and slightly humid, slightly earthy/woody and slightly herbal and not like any of my other fig or amber/musk perfumes. If A Measurement of the Soul is my cold-weather fig and Amacitia is my nostalgic California desert/spa fig, this is a summer fig. Fifteen minutes in - the amber/orange has started to go creamy, like the slight creamsicle undertone in Titus Andronicus. (On my hair, it's a rich, sweet cedar incense that's almost Christmas-y, possibly from the fig&orange + myrrh& amber, but on the other hand also like the wooden/uninsulated attic of the old house I grew up in in the summer, thanks to the cedar and warm, humid fruit) One hour in - cedar and bronze musk with a hint/edge of something tangy. It makes me think of a sheet of iridescent bronze silk with green or orange highlights depending on which way the light hits it. Late drydown (like, 4 hours in) - faint cedar skin scent, and now that the top/middle notes are gone, I can pick up a powdery skin-musk-like hint of myrrh, as well. I'm definitely a fan. Aeronwen was nice but not bottle-worthy when I cracked open a brand-new decant back in 2017. Now it's smoothed out into a beautifully blended velvety bronze amber/musk with just a hint of fresh herbs and rich, earthy fruit (from the sweet orange and fig). I think I'm in love. This may be my second/third-favorite out of the Grindhouse Ladies so far, surpassed only by Inez.

Wet/in the imp - Light/sweet anise (but more a floral/perfume-y sweet than a licorice candy sweet) Freshly Applied - sickly-sweet anise liquor and a hint of hazy opium smoke. Heady and slightly overwhelming (and also not very floral)... except no, wait for it... there, at about the two-three minute mark, comes the fusty waft of indolic florals. Hello, wet stage of lilac. Fifteen-twenty minutes in - Cool anise/absinthe, heady opium smoke, and a hint of fusty white floral that hasn't gone away. The throw is nice - cool anise with a hint of rosewater - but nearer to the skin it's all cloying and too-thick and the fusty hint of white floral lurks around the edges like maybe someone in the absinthe tent has stale, bad breath. On my hair, it's a cool, somnolent scent with a hint of alcohol that makes me think of an upscale nail salon. The Green Fairy likes to get pedicures and have her nails done. And the absinthe tent seriously needs a good airing out. Drydown - Around the 1 hour mark, it started to fade and turn soapy - I guess they kicked the drunks out and are scrubbing the tent down. The absinthe+nail salon scent stayed on my hair for the next eight-ten hours, btw, ages after it vanished from my skin. Don't put this one in your hair, folks.

Testing this at the same time as Mad Sweeney, because they both have a whiskey note and are thematically linked. In the imp - Pretty much straight whiskey, but a little softer/more perfume-y than Mad Sweeney and not as sharp. This still smells like alcohol, but not as overwhelmingly. Freshly Applied - whisky and honeyed skin musk. Cozy-sexy, like a really nice manly cologne on your boyfriend's collar. (BTW, the combined throw from both this and Mad Sweeney, which I'm testing on my other arm, plus the leftover dregs of the Saw Scaled Viper I put on eight hours ago? Total bananas foster territory. I'm surrounded by a cloud of caramelized sugar and dark rum/rum caramel sauce). Fifteen Minutes in - as it dries it’s gotten softer and less masculine. This is clearly the sort of honey note that goes powdery, because I’m getting baby powder and skin musk, with amber and whiskey. I’m not picking up any sweat or blood at all, unless Leprechauns sweat vintage perfume nitromusks and bleed honey/dark-unsweetened-caramel laced with whiskey. Which they actually might, come to think of it. Actually, the smell reminds me a little of the new Starbucks ultra-caramel frappuccino’s dark caramel flavoring, overlaid by perfume musk. (Combined throw of this plus Mad Sweeney now smells like manly whiskey-laced dessert topping. Like sticky toffee pudding soaked in whiskey.) Half-hour in - The sweat and blood notes have gone all perfume-y synthetic musk with an edge of dryer sheets. A shame, because the opening stage was so good. 1 Hour +/Drydown - the honey/mead did its best to turn the whole scent into baby powder and the sweaty musk wanted to morph to dryer sheets, but they don't quite succeed. For The Joy of It gets less sweet and less powdery over time, and by the time we're well into the drydown it's like the manlier version of that Luper from this year that was all wood and sweetened musk, except that was softer/hazier and sweeter than this (a quick check of my perfume notes from this spring tells me I'm thinking of Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements).

Mad Sweeney starts out utterly awful, but dries down into something truly delicious. In the imp - Strong, sweet whiskey. Smells a little bit like bananas foster and a lot like alcohol. I can literally feel the fumes in the back of my throat. Freshly Applied- whiskey mixed with nail polish remover. Does Mad Sweeney drink rubbing alcohol? Fifteen Minutes in - rich, deep whiskey and oak. Starting to smell good now that the rubbing alcohol topnote has burned off. Several inches of throw. I probably smell like a distillery. Or a Jack Daniels commercial. Half-hour in - A rich, manly aftershave that's what an imaginary cis-male me would smell like if I grew a beard and wore a rugged brown leather bomber's jacket and got a job doing manly carpentry and woodworking. In my manly barn/wooden airplane hanger built with oak beams and filled with leather flying apparel and chewing tobacco and rich, seasoned wood and toasted sawdust. Where I burn pretend-whiskey-and-mahogany/teak-scented candles. (Over the course of the first half-hour, this has gradually morphed from almost entirely booze with a faint hint of oak to being oak dominant, but a richer/thicker and less-dry oak than Antikythera Mechanism.) By forty minutes in it smells divine, like the sexiest wood-paneled sauna ever, if someone threw a shot of good whiskey onto the hot rocks to hear it sizzle. Amazing. I’m seriously considering a bottle. I want to try layering this with Bulgarian Tobacco SN.

Wet - MIIIINT. The vanilla and sugar/mallow root make it a soft, buttery/creamy mint, like those pastel-colored buttermints they used to serve at the end of the meal in restaurants, but I'm really sensitive to the taste/smell of mint (to the point that most toothpaste feels like it's burning the inside of my mouth) so it's still too much mint for me. Like a pastel-colored buttermint that's punching you in the face. Five minutes in - Minty mint mint mint. It's a soft, sweet, complex mint, with hints of other notes underneath it, but mostly all I can make out is mint. Ten minutes in - by ten minutes in the initial blast of nose-searing mint has calmed down slightly, and I can make out a haze of pale rose and what feels like white musk but is probably the spun sugar surrounding/accompanying the mint. The pastel buttermints are now being served on a white-linen-covered tray with a vase full of pink and white roses. That, or Alisz is sucking on a buttermint after spraying herself with rosewater. Close to my skin it's more minty, but the throw has a hint of frankincense now. Thirty minutes in - The mint has softened down a great deal as the frankincense has come forward, turning Alisz into a cool, wispy candied rose. I actually really like it now, but I'd like it better if it had just skipped the inclusion of mint entirely. 1-2 Hours in - Alisz has morphed from nose-searing mint to a lovely, cool, soft, hazy vanilla-rose where the frankincense and mint blend seamlessly in. I can't even detect the mint anymore, it's just making the rest of the blend smell light and cool. Is this how scents like Snow White smell to people who aren't super-oversensitive to menthol?

2017 version. I have high hopes for this blend, because the bottle art makes Ashlultum look like a sexy orc lady. Wet/in imp - light (but fuzzy-warm) almost sunblock-y vanilla-tobacco-coconut-musk. Not very floral. Sweet without going full-blown gourmand. Freshly Applied - still toasty-sweet sunblock, but now with a hint of fustiness once it hits my skin. Hello, indolic elements in lilac. I otherwise get no hints of floral, but the indole is definitely there. It's fading quickly, though, pretty much gone by five minutes in. Ten-fifteen minutes in - warm, toasty tobacco-coconut-vanilla. This is very well-blended, with none of the individual notes dominating. I get approximately zero tea, and only the barest hint of something floral, less like lilac and more like the coconut is accompanied by a hint of monoi oil. When I hold my arm out away from my face, I can get just a hint of coconut-lilac, but up close it's all a soft, slightly-grainy (the way tobacco sometimes is) warm scent that makes me think of warm, golden sand. If this is Sargon's warprize-turned-queen, she likes to slather on tobacco-vanilla-monoi oil and sunbathe wholesomely on one of the palace terraces. Possibly on a beach chair, while wearing a giant, floppy sun hat. Half-hour in - The throw is light and somehow summer-y (sexy orc lady is still wearing a floppy straw sun hat), despite the warm richness of the tonka/tobacco, while putting my nose to my skin gets me gentle, sun-warmed golden tonka with a hint of velvety tobacco. I can't tell how strong it is or how much sillage it has overall because the L'Heure Vert I'm testing on my other arm is drowning it out. 2 hours in - Starting to fade into a soft skin scent by hour two, but still a warm, lazing-in-the-sunlight golden scent. Just a much fainter version.

Wet/in imp - cinnamon-skin musk scent (ambrette usually = a sexy, slightly sweaty musk on me) with an astringent edge that's almost like juniper (the calamus?) Freshly applied - masculine aftershave, clean, spicy, and bracing/medicinal. I can definitely recognize the calamus from the Post's Patientia Bath Oil. Makes my skin tingle where applied. Fifteen-twenty minutes - Patientia's warmer, cozier, less clean/green-scented cousin. My wrist is still tingling/stinging, but there's no redness. 1 hour in - Relatively little morphing (still warm, cozy myrrh and skin musk with a little bit of a manly aftershave-esque tang), but it's gotten softer and closer to the skin. 3 hours in - Magician's Hands has melded into a soft, unisex skin scent/skin musk, with a bit of an outdoorsy/leathery/manly tang. This smells like there's sandalwood in it even though there isn't. Despite containing cinnamon and myrrh, it's nothing like the Scroll or Chimera - the ambrette and calamus are dominant.

Wet/in imp - cool, sweet spiciness that's almost like root beer or coca-cola or ginger-ale. Seriously, this smells like an artisanal soda made with real cane sugar. Freshly applied - rootbeer/cola/cream soda. Seriously, I cannot believe how much this smells like something out of a fancy soda fountain. No burning effect from the cinnamon (yet?). Fifteen-twenty minutes- nose-tingling rootbeer/ginger-ale/cola OMG this is so weird. I really like it - it's cooling rather than warm like cinnamon usually is, a perfect summer boardwalk scent. The cinnamon's failed to burn/sting on my skin thus far, so I think I can rule this one safe for my skin. 1 hour in - The scent has faded back slightly and lost some of that epic fizzy tingle, but it's still a unique tingly, spicy-cool scent. 3 hours in - has faded to a soft, close-to-the-skin fizzy scent. Less like soda now and more like a soft, powdery-haze-y fluff with a bit of tingle. I can't distinguish any of the notes clearly, except for the soft, powdery effect that's likely due to myrrh's drydown.

Clean, soft, inoffensive office scent. Which sound like damning with faint praise but actually isn't - there aren't many "clean" scents I can wear without smelling like detergent (curse you, aquatic notes) or dish soap (citrus oils hate me), so having an unobtrusive office-friendly scent that isn't floral or vanilla to add to my weekday rotation will be nice. There's a slightly funky aspect to it in the wet stage, but it very quickly settles down into a light clean/spa-like skin scent, slightly herbal and sweetened just a bit by a soft/light amber. The juniper in this is indeed sheer, adding a hint of extra clean/freshness to the sage rather than making you smell like gin. I was expecting this scent to be similar to L'Idole, the other amber/juniper scent I've got, but there's barely any resemblance - it's not nearly as sharp or strong as L'Idole. Low throw (which is good for an office scent, though) and shortish wear length. By hour two it's all but gone, just a nose-to-the-skin hint of it left. In my hair, there's a slight smoky hint that doesn't show up on my skin - possibly this is due to the copal? I haven't worn many scents that include that note, my usual go-to incense note is frankincense.

Wonderful wood/resin/frankincense combo (LizziesLuck is right; this is far more than just an echo of frankincense). The palo santo and sage are strongest in the wet stage, and make the initial opening very soothing and clarifying, almost like a spa scent (if your spa was located inside an incense-filled cathedral) and then it dries down to a soft, warm resin/incense smoke/wood. I'd say it's sweeter than Antikythera Mechanism (without being any less unisex/potentially masculine) and warmer/less sharp & dry, possibly the difference between ail Matto's sandalwood and AM's oak. This scent is so soothing/relaxing/grounding that it feels like it should be a TAL or a meditation aid, especially in the early drydown where the sage/frank/palo santo notes predominate. I'm going to be adding this to my bedtime scent lineup.

I amp almond to the skies, so despite milk, honey, and fig being some of my favorite notes, I was sadly expecting Narr to be a too-sweet almond extract SN (like Eden, where I was hoping for fig+coconut with a hint of almond and got almond+almond with a hint of almond). I can happily report that I was mostly wrong. This is the rare almond-including blend where the almond behaves itself and shares the spotlight... eventually. Wet/in the imp: Milky honey and almaretto Freshly applied: Pure almond extract. The devil's confectionery flavoring strikes again. Drydown: After the initial almond-extract/amaretto blast, Narr dries down into a slightly-fruity honeycake scent that's not as sweet as I expected it to be. The almond reigns supreme for at least the first twenty minutes, but then begins to gradually morph from almondy-almond almond cake into honeycake. The fig and ambrette give it a depth/warmth/richness that keeps the cake and honey combo from tipping over into cloying. If Dana O'Shee and Sharing of the Cake Between the Lion and the Unicorn HG had a threesome with Cockaigne, their cake-scented gourmand lovechild might smell like Narr.* *Actually, those three scents layered together are more cloying and sticky-sweet than Narr. I know this because after my pleasant cake-triumphs-over-almond surprise with Narr, I got all three out of my cabinet and tried it for comparison.

Delicious Tobacco/Amber/Vanilla surrounded by wisps of spiced incense. I know vanilla + labdanum is practically the definitive amber base blend, but something about the labdanum/tobacco combo (and possibly the fact that it's "fossilized amber resin" instead of just amber) reads as warm, dry incense smoke to me.

In Imp/wet - Pale floral. musk, powdery violet, and lilac, with maybe a hint of citrus. This smells like the kind of floral that goes bad on me. Freshly Applied - white floral mustiness Five-ten minutes in - soft, airy, pale floral that reminds me slightly of a softer Warbler on the Plum without the tea note. Apparently this IS the kind of floral that works on me after all. Half-hour in - soft, slightly powdery floral that's gotten noticeably softer just in the past fifteen minutes. This is well blended - I can't pick out any specific note at this point, just a soft, springlike sweet scent. This is very much a skin scent. Only a half-hour in, and I already have to put my nose right to the skin of my wrist in order to smell it. So far I it, not enough to need a bottle, but definitely enough to keep and wear the imp for early/mid-spring days.

In Imp/wet - citrusy white tea and sweet lilac Freshly Applied - sour/tangy/fresh white tea with a hint of lilac. I amp white tea to the skies and it always smells like citrus on me. This smells almost like something you'd drink, a citrus-y floral thing like very sharp lemonade with flower petals in it.. Ten-fifteen minutes in - sweet, floral lilac and sharp, citrusy white tea, with the tea note dominating. I can't really smell much candlewax, it's just sort of making the lilac sweeter. Half-hour in - The white tea is still dominant, but a soft cloud of sweet lilac is easily detectable underneath. The throw has more lilac, and right next to my skin it's all white tea. By the time I'm one-two hours in, Eusapia has become a well-blended sweet-sharp floral with a hint of candy-like creaminess from the beeswax. I don't know that I need a bottle, but I'll definitely keep my decant to wear this spring.

Usually I test rose + sandalwood scents by deathmatching them against Jezebel, but I don't have any Jezebel imps around at the moment so I'm going to have to do this blind. In the imp/wet - perfume-y (must be the benzoin), light, dry, sweet. The rose isn't very strong. Freshly applied - the rose pops out as soon as it hits my skin. Rose/sandalwood is a good combo on me in Jezebel, where it's lush and velvety. This is a lighter rose than that, with just a hint of sour/soap (the cold cream comparison upthread is sadly apt). I'm afraid it might be The Bad Rose. That, or the benzoin isn't sweet enough to make it good on me. Fifteen minutes in - The benzoin and sandalwood are lovely, but the rose is just a little too sour. It's the flip side of The Best Lies, which was just too sweet; this one isn't quite sweet enough. Three hours in - BPAL has three rose notes as far as my skin chemistry is concerned: The Good Rose, The Bad Rose, and Fancy Scented Soap. The rose in Joy and Fear can't decide which of them it wants to be. It starts out thin, sour, and slightly soapy, spends a long time pretending to be rose-scented cold cream, and then, several hours into the drydown, gradually morphs into a warm, soft rose-sandalwood skin scent that I actually really like. Too bad it takes half a workday to get there. Not the worst rose skin chemistry fail I've experienced by far, but probably not for me.

In the imp, Orion smells like dry, warm fig-leather-wood, with a hint of what smells almost like brown sugar. On my skin, it's a warm and cozy scent, more leather-black pepper-cedar than fig, though the fig and tobacco are probably what's giving it a rich/warm sweetness (that almost gourmand brown sugarish note). The leather blends in nicely and doesn't take over. I love it already. By the half-hour mark, it's settled into a warm, cozy-humid leather-spice-wood-sweetness scent. It reminds me of Pleasure of the Imagination III, even though the only note they share is leather.

Jezebel is a velvety, full-bodied rose that isn't at all green on me, but the orange blossom note in it is very strong - the wet stage in particular smells like I poured a glass of orange juice on my arm.

The moment I saw brown sugar + birch tar, I knew I needed to try this. Wulric from the Carnival has birch tar and is one of my cozy bedtime faves. In imp/wet - brown sugar, wood, and smoke. I like it already. Freshly applied - warm, slightly-smokey tobacco/wood, with hints of sweet brown sugar. Like a lighter/less smokey sibling of Smokestack. Very close to the skin and snuggly. Ten-fifteen minutes in - snuggly wood/skin musk/hint of smoke skin scent, all warm resin-y tobacco and coziness. Like Smokestack and Buffalo Man had a baby. Two hours in - This is pretty much a non-morpher and stays a cozy warm tobacco/resin skin scent with a hint of smoke through its wear time. This is tied with Measurement of the Soul as my fave Yule so far. It's almost gone by the two hour mark unless I put my nose directly to my skin, but that just means I'll have to buy a bottle and slather it.

2017 edition: In the imp, it's light, sweet, and fruity. For a few minutes after I put it on, the mead/sima note does that musty/fusty thing blends with honey notes sometimes do on my skin during the wet stage, but after about ten minutes that's gone away and I get effervescent mead and a hint of fruity prunes. This smells like a nice, fizzy LUSH bath bomb with a milk and honey/plum pudding theme.

In imp/wet - perfumey-soapy wood, like freshly polished furniture (Edit: after I wrote this impression down, I re-checked the notes, and ha, what I remembered as mahogany, vanilla, oak, and tea is in fact "<I>polished</I> mahogany," vanilla, oak, and tea). Freshly Applied - perfumey tea with a hint of dry wood underneath (this smells like the same oak from Antikythera Mechanism). Mahogany always goes sort of hazy and musky on me, and it's doing so here, making this tea + unisex musk. Five-Ten Minutes In - the perfume-y mahogany musk has completely tamed the tea, to my pleasant surprise. This smells like a unisex wood/musk perfume now, and actually reminds me a little of a fancier/more complex version of Bath&BodyWork's Mahogany and Teak scented candles, except without the overwhelming cheap-synthetic-musk-chemical fakeness those candles have (so, basically, B&BW Teak & Mahogany scent if it were actually good). I only applied it lightly to my wrists, but there's a good two-three inches of throw. Lets see how long it hangs around for. Half-hour in - Same as five-ten minutes but slightly lighter. One hour in - Ditto. This is pretty much a non-morpher after the first fifteen-or-so minutes. I can still catch a remnant of the scent on my skin at this point, six hours or so after application, so this has a decent wear time (for my oil-eating skin, anyway) as well.