Casablanca

Soft earth and smoke over honey that begins even softer, but grows in strength as it warms. 

Before long, a charred vetiver creeps in, offering more smoke and a little grassiness. The tones of this are a swirl of smoke, char, wood, grass, earth, amber, dry-cracked leather, and the sweetness of darkish (but not buckwheat-dark) honey.

Although the blend is soft, I like it a lot. Smoke and honey is a combination I might always be hard-pressed to resist, and the other notes work wonderfully with them. Will need a bottle.

Freshly applied, fruity red musk washes over a fiery red ginger and slightly charred clove. The musk smells bold in a fruit-punch way to me -- with fruit-punch fruits.

Unfortunately the blend turns off onto an unpleasant path as it dries on my skin, as red musk sometimes does. This would work better on others.

Spicy red pepper and spicy musk alongside a pretty and dry white sandalwood. The chili pepper mingles with other spices, not listed -- I think nutmeg, cinnamon, maybe cardamom. And the spices rule this roost.

In drydown, some perfumey amber wafts in, another warming effect in an already spicy-warm blend.

Potent spiciness mingled with amber, musk, and pale sandalwood. I like it.

A potent shimmering gray musk over sandalwood and spicy, slightly cola labdanum. 

Something sweetens this, something smells a bit floral, and something also gives a whistling high pitch of a scent when I first apply it -- the last reminds me of petitgrain.

In drying, Innocent Souls turns quite powdery on me, and I wonder if there's some white musk and/or orris contributing.

This is not my style of scent, but it adeptly suits the concept.

Soft, brownish-gold amber and sandalwood.

I can see a strong likeness to Kimi Ga Dai Wa from the Lupers. But, whereas I got a fuzzy brown musk from Kimi Ga, here there's a soft brownish-gold fuzziness that reminds me of a fabric's fuzz rather than animal fur. 

This develops an almost dusty smell on my skin as it dries. It's a dry scent, not quite toasted, but leaning a little brownish and dusted.

Understated, dry, softly textured, warm, simple but not simplified.

My book on Japanese death poetry is one of my favorites; I was glad to see this concept scent.

Death Is Death begins as a serene, sweet, moderately dark-smelling myrrh incense. I definitely get the almost-caramelized sweetness mentioned in @wordortwo's review, a little on the wand and more so on my skin, but only at first. Smoke wreaths the scent and a grainy incense stick pierces it; they both shade the sandalwood until they seem to merge with it. 

The sweetness fades utterly. The blend turns more than a little balsamic on my skin as it dries.

Essentially: smoky, resinous incense. First sweet, then balsamic, ever-smoky. Simple and yet not.

Lovely blend in the vein of Pediophobia and Antique Lace.

I immediately threw this in my cart upon first test. But I decided to compare it with Pediophobia on my arm, wondering if it's enough difference to justify getting a third blend of a cognac-vanilla perfume that I quite like and yet, somehow, don't often reach for...

Compared with Pedio, this Sheet Ghost offers a more rustic take on the antique cognac-vanilla theme. The balsam and tumbleweeds bring a little vintage frontier vibe, replacing the cracked porcelain doll of Pediophobia. But there's a similar mood, and fans of Pediophobia or the Laces may enjoy this ghost.

I opted not to get a decant of this one, initially, because balsam often takes over on me. But I'm trying a friend's decant -- and the note is actually behaving nicely.

Given my new tighter budget, I don't think I can swing a bottle of this, but it has reminded me that I do love Pedio and Antique Lace and should wear them more often.

Disclaimer: This is a friend's decant. Red musk is often dreadful on me, but let's give it a go. With that in mind...

Slightly spicy red musk. For me, that's the sole note on first application, but soon it develops some deep mahogany and darker labdanum.

At the freshly dried stage, I get a lot of lacquer, too, and a little warm leather, though none is listed. Possible that's how some notes are combining, or there could be a hidden thing that's bringing leather to mind.

This is a heavy scent, in terms of weight and gravitas. Woody, red musky, lacquery, perhaps a little leathery.

This is the decant of a friend who loves metal and leather notes. They aren't as much my thing, but glad to try new blends.

With that disclaimer in place: Wow, yes, hello, metal. Steel with a side of steel, and, too, an ample serving of what smells like dirty leather, leather that has seen much use. The steel smells highly chemical to me, sort of paint thinnerish -- but with also a dull gray metallic finish. I think of dirty swords.

There's also a note that's reminding me of nothing so much as... gristle. Gristle cut out of meat.

Dirty swords, dirty leather, and gristle.

If you like sheer, glassy scents, this one is worth a try. I get primarily sheer, glassy musk on application; through the glass, I spy shimmering silver (especially) and gold, and the soft colors of some nondescript sweet blooms. 

I'm bullocks at picking out most flowers from each other in a bouquet, but these lean soapy on me before long, which makes me think of lilies. 

Sheer glass, metallicky metals, flowers, and musk.

After a while, I think I also smell warm cedar. I seem to be developing quite a bit of this warm note after drydown and I like it. I'm a cedar person, but I'm not a floral or glassy musk person, so this is just one it was nice to try.

On me this is mostly a sweet, balsamic beeswax with some soapy tulips. I tend to amp some balsamic notes a lot, and I'm definitely getting some here; it blends well into the beeswax. There's a hint of the listed white sandalwood at first, but it fades under the tulips as they intensify.

The tulips strengthen during the wet phase. I'm not sure I would have placed them as tulips without the notes list -- usually I encounter the flower with other early-bloomer spring flowers, and it smells different here with the balsamic beeswax. But as it blooms in drydown, it gets more distinctly tulippy.

After drydown, the balance shifts toward tulips over balsamic beeswax. There's a hint of the leather, but it's mostly washed over by the other notes.

Creamy-smooth sandalwoods and a hint of tobacco. Sandalwood usually has an airy, grainy wood texture in my nose, and that's present here. But it's refined in a way that reminds me of how Cedarwood and Smoked Vanilla was a refined version of cedar. I get a creamy tone up front here, smoothing textures, though it settles quickly. There's a little smokiness, too, perhaps from the tobacco.

Lovely sandalwood scent for sandalwood lovers. 

Out of the gate, I get smoky pines and clove. It's a haunted woods, and darkly atmospheric for a moment...

Then my skin decides it likes this one a lot, and eats most of it up, leaving only a faint and pleasantly spiced smoke. Trolls live short lives on me.

Clean white tea, crisp as folded white table linens, opens the scent. But there's also a pale creamy quality that reminds me of rice milk, much like one of the Shungas. Clean white tea, creamy rice milk, and a whiff of sweet hay. Pretty.

I notice a touch of the carnation in drydown, but mostly this is clean white tea, creamy rice milk, and a little sweet hay. Very Shunga.

Winter's Walk opens with a bloom of lilies and roses over green grasses and swampy-green cypress trees.

After a bit, I find a little tumble or two of dried maple leaves when I look for it, but meanwhile, the lilies are going quite soapy on me, as they often like to.

Now and then I think I catch a suggestion of Dorian's black tea, but I never notice lavender or other notes. The soapy lilies soap all over the place for the rest of the blend's life on my skin.

A "glut" is a perfect term for the cornucopia of fruits that unloads on first applying this scent: Syrupy peaches, grapes, apples, cherries! That's about the order of their strength on my skin, with sugar-syrupy peaches and grapes far out in front. 

It's a long time before I find any polished wood, and even then, it's really just a hint. This stays mostly about the fruit on me.

I love the name "Dooting Skull," but the perfume test didn't work out quite so well on me.

Right out of the gate, I get a blast of anise and a side of milky coconut. The licorice is a bit sugary and almost boozy in its intensity -- at first, it reminds me a little of Sambuca or something in that vein, but settles more into straight up black licorice with some time.

Although none is listed, in testing, my friend and I both get leather. Now I'm picturing a Good 'n Plenty candy with a cartoon face, winking and wearing leather chaps. I can definitely pick out nutmeg at this point, but not really the other listed notes. 

Black licorice, coconut milk, nutmeg, and a hint of background leather. Quirky AF.

This is a friend's decant, and not really my style of blend, but it's fun to test.

With that disclaimer: I tested this alongside It's All So Damn Beautiful, as they have a similar garage thing going on. This one begins with oak, leather, and motor oil on me, but then it swerves much airier and sweeter -- and kind of soapy -- with lavender. It actually reminds me of lavender and soft white floral soap. The earlier notes have completely vanished.

Later, the lavender and white floral soap regains hints of its earlier leather and motor oil, but mostly the blend stays oddly floral and soapy. Not for me.

This is a friend's decant, and not really my style of blend, but it's fun to test.

With that disclaimer: This was mostly oily oakmoss and petroleum on me. I got some charred lavender early on, but it faded out quickly, leaving a faint oakmoss garage smell.

Long after drydown, opoponax came out and hung on for an hour or so, darker and a little more interesting, but ultimately this one is not for me.

From the wand, I get dry-toasted sandalwood and a little... perfumey skin musk?

On my arm, it's akin to the wand sniff until it starts to warm up. Then some warmed pumpkin mash comes in: warm, plain, and a little buttery.

Meanwhile, I start to get a kind of black peppery quality to the toasted note as it warms. This becomes a sort of black pepper-toned toasted sandalwood, with lots of that grainy texture I usually get from sandalwood. A skin-warmed musk wafts around supporting these notes.

Essentially: Dry, toasty, slightly peppery sandalwood and warm pumpkin mash over skin musk.

On the wand, October 32 smells like dried leaves caught in scratchy gray wool.

On my arm, this is really soft, even after some days of rest. At first, it's a faint dry wool with a little of the dried leaves. The image of gray wool army blankets fits what this is bringing to mind for me... gray wool army blankets flecked with dried leaves.

In drydown, I start to find a little creamy amber. The blend stays soft, but the amber sweetens and strengthens it, becoming the salient note on me. It's a clear departure from the army blankets --- now this is an amber sweater of scratchy wool flecked with dried leaves. The black tea is the lightest presence in the mix, adding a bit of dark dryness. 

I haven't been ready to accept the post-Halloween holidays so far this year, which feels a bit like events are passing me by, even as I take part in them. So the concept of this scent feels close to me. I like how it rests on me once dried. It might be a little too soft for what I usually bottle, but I'll see how the decant ages.

Mm, apple-char smoke. 

I love most smoke notes, as well as the other notes listed, and this doesn't disappoint.

Charred and heavily smoking apples, burning dried leaves, cedar, and a soft cinnamon.

Beautiful autumn scent and my favorite of the Weenies tried so far. So glad I tried this for today, Thanksgiving.

This Dead Leaves: burnt, buttery waffle iron?

I think what's meant to be roasted almonds is, at first, closer to something that makes me think of butter and teflon on fire.

Once this starts drying in earnest, this wild phase settles into a mild, lightly toasted almond on a rustling DL background. The cream is scarcely detectable. Better, but I'm not sure it's enough.

This Dead Leaves opens with a burst of dry bell pepper cologne, the standard dead leaves thing. Happily, it doesn't stay there.

The dead leaves linger on, but not alone; they're joined by a mild vanilla butter and a low-key, chewy comb note.

This is a doable butter. It's not the White Larry movie butter or the face-socking buttah of a few of the baked goods perfumes.

I'm not sure this is grabbing me enough for a bottle, but I'll enjoy the decant.

Beautiful opening on this one.

Indigo plum musk, reddened with rose, freshened with a whiff of eucalyptus. Before long, I also get an amber incense impression behind these, though incense is not listed. It's a golden scent, like a golden frankincense or champaca incense. The honey doesn't stand out on its own for me, but there is a light sweetness helping to link other notes together. 

There's a lot woven through this. It's like a cool, translucent fabric of softly colored layers that partially show through the top. The eucalyptus seems to shimmer and throw a gossamer effect over the whole, like a top layer, under which move shadows of soft plum, indigo, rose, gold.

After drying, the musk amps on me overly, as often happens with Lab indigo musk, so I think this won't be a bottle. But it remains intriguing and complex, and the early phases were a journey. This was a delight to try.