bambi

In the decant, I get some sort of gingersnap or gingerbread cookies. Maybe a citrus note hiding in there somewhere? I can't be sure, as the scent of baked goods overpowers anything else. Yum. On my skin... Oh no. Chemicals. Cinnamon always smells like this on me. I don't know why I expected anything different. Still, I cry.

Lovely. Initially it was quite herbal on me, with the mint and the lemongrass taking the forefront. As it dried, it softened considerably (most likely the lavender's doing) into a soft, minty citrus. Very refreshing and easy to wear.

This scent did not morph on me at all. From the beginning, I got a rush of cedarpinecitrus all together and all wonderful. Cedar tends to be an overpowering note, but the citrus and evergreen-y smell from the litsea cubeba balanced it, and something sweet that I couldn't place seemed to be holding it all together. I really enjoyed this, and the fact that it didn't morph doesn't bother me at all.

I was lucky enough to try this because a friend of mine has a very precious couple of imps of it. The notes are not at all in my preferred scents (patchouli? dragon's blood? leather? vetiver?😱), but something about this just WORKED. The vanilla was the stand-out note for me., and there was a slight floral note to it. Perhaps the vanilla flower mixing with the fig? The amber came in a little later, and this became amazing. Very sexy, yet extremely wearable. Sweet, but mature.

Absolutely beautiful. Pomegranate tends to be a rather sharp fruit scent for me, but this is very balanced. The initial scents is all plum on me, but quickly the other notes join in. The amber, frankincense, and saffron make it a deeper scent, and it definitely has a metallic note. I assumed the metallic note was the limonite accord, though I had no idea what that was, so I looked it up, and its a form of iron! So I wasn't going crazy 😂 This dried down to a deep plum scent that I couldn't stop sniffing.

This is lovely. Quite sharp at first, which would be the lavender and probably the tobacco? On the skin, the lavender is still in the forefront on me, with a woody note backing it up. I'm not sure what that would be. The pomegranate isn't terribly strong on my skin. The woody note then shifts to a floral and the tobacco makes a comeback. The copal, sandalwood, musk, and amber bring so many different layers of softness and a distinctly "perfume-y" feel.

The notes in this are not usually the type of thing I usually go for, but as a Leo-rising, I had to give it a try. First impression is spicy-herbal-floral. I can smell the chamomile distinctly, and it's being warmed by the saffron at first. Then come the amber and frankincense. These round the scent out in a purely GOLDEN way. The overall impression is warm, golden, and spicy-sweet. I like it quite a lot.

This scent did not morph greatly on me. In the bottle, I got a giant whiff of the verbena mixing with the vetiver, which screamed of some sort of cleaner. However, being a lover of citrus scents, that did not deter me. On my skin, the cleaner scent died down a little, and the lavender came out to play. Sadly, I did not get any coconut or fig to soften the overall effect, but it was still quite pleasant.

Almost cucumber-y in the bottle. Floral and green upon application, with the green almost reminding me of what your hands smell like after snapping a stalk of milkweed. Immediately shifts into FLORAL floral, which then turns to soap, which then turns to powder. I smell like a very clean old lady's bathroom... Not my favorite. Very pretty in the bottle/imp, though.