voodoocatwoman

Accck! This started out all bright florals and freshness and turned to the soap from hell. It is making my sinuses block, my nose wants to run for the hills and somewhere in my head is one hell of a sneeze waiting to be released.

Ooooh, this is neat! It starts out reminding me of these wafers from the 60s called Fizzys that you dropped into water and Voila! you had pseudo-carbonated drink.

When ti dries, the juniper comes out strong. The combination of the fizz and evergreen is just... well... NEAT. I like this a lot.

Verrrrrrrry interesting fragrance, this.

It starts out as dirt. I dabbed some on, sniffed and thought "great. I smell like I've been digging in the garden." I figured I'd wash it off when I got to work. Fortunately, I got busy and forgot about it for a few hours. When I sniffed my arm after several hours had passed, it had turned to sweet floral. I am not crazy about its start, but I certainly am happy with what I ended up with.

I think Black Opal is going up there in the top 5. It reminds me of Antique Lace (which is up there too) but deeply musky. It is warm and sexy and simply gorgeous. I put some on at 6 this morning and after 10pm, I can STILL detect the vanilla musk.

Super thanks to Seismogenic for the gift of this imp!!

This is lovely- in the bottle, I pick up tea, sweet tea. After it dries, I find the freesia and jasmine notes to be the most prominent. It is soft and clean and pretty.

BOY can I smell the blood orange in this blend. On drydown it is so sweet that I can taste it.

Oh, man do I smell juniper and gin. Something very sweet is lilting right at the very top. (strawberry sugar candy? Grenadine?)

Drydown doesn't change the order much, except the candy sweetness is stronger and lasts longer.

Not bad.

Interesting. This starts out smelling like Doublemint Gum and grapefruit peel. It's cool and tangy, sweet and tart. The mint fades on drydown and the grapefruit amps a bit. Now something sharper than grapefruit (that reminds me of the way a beauty salon smells, if that makes any sense at all) is coming out.

I don't know if I like it or not.

the fabulous schackjj sent me a bit of this a few weeks back to try...

I wasn't too crazy about the scent in the imp... but oh, mama! When I put it on and let it dry it turned into blueberry muffin wonderfulness. I am NOT a foodie for fragrances but I will make an exception in the case of Blue Phoenix. LOVE

XCI

When this goes on, it first reminds me of pineapple lifesavers...

on drydown, it loses the fruitiness and just turns clean. I wish I knew what notes I was smelling but I don't. I can say that I am not detecting any floral or food. It is just fresh and clean. Maybe there's a pine note way in the background but there's still a primary note that is blowing a fresh breezeright up my nose. Whatever it is, I LOVE it.

CXXXVI

This one has a bit of spicy floral in it. Am I smelling carnation? Maybe geranium?

Gah, I am so bad at this.

CXXXII

Molasses. That's what this reminds me of. Molasses.

CXV

In the imp, this smells very green... almost like sap from the stem of a flower (I keep seeing a daisy in my nose's eye). It gets a little softer and sweeter on application but it maintains that feral quality. I have no idea what notes are in here. I could be imagining a wee bit of violet but I can't discern anything else.

Very different. Very nice.

eta: how on earth did Lycanthrope manage to get bottles CXV and CCXV in the same order... and then decant imps of both to me? Hee!

CCXV

It starts out very vanilla. Then I could swear I smell smoke. Wood smoke. Pinon wood smoke. Criminy! This is the pinon incense my dad used to burn incessantly.

Hang on a sec. Someone just threw a bouquet of flowers on top of the fire. They smolder.

What an odd fragrance. It is bringing back serious childhood memories. Wow.

XXI

Wet: Lemon Drops!!! Super lemony but not cleaning fluid lemony.

Dry: At first it lost the lemon action and turned soapy. Fortunately, that faded preety quickly. What I am left with is lemon cake.

I am not a foody as far as my scents are concerned- this is nice but I don't know about wearing it...

Just sniffing this is making my teeth contemplate a good rot. It is sweet, oh MAN is it sweet!! Mountains of cotton candy and cherry taffy by the yard...

It gets softer on drydown but stays just as sweet. Yum.

This fragrance starts out as INYOURFACE hyperactive gardenia-turned-Tigger. I can almost hear the "woo hoo!!" Fortunately, I love both Milne and gardenia. Otherwise I would have run from the room screaming something about evil bouncy tiger flowers sucking my breath away. The super-headiness quickly fades, however. What is left is a sweet but calm mix of florals. I think I like this a lot.

Wowser... this is powerful. I've seen people describe the initial scent as Christmas'y and that is quite accurate. But with the Christmas scent is something almost wine-like. It is a bright scent and a little overwhelming. I can taste it.

I like it but it is not a slathering scent.

What high hopes I had for Marotte...

It started off GORGEOUS. The amber and pear were perfectly matched and I remember thinking that this was going to be one of my all time favorites.

And then it dried.... and turned to dusting powder.

Le Sigh for Le Mat.

II (2)

I read fairnymph's review and I have to wonder if we have decants of the same oil. I get anise and cedar from this while it's wet. No chocolate. No raspberry.

When it dries down, the licorice takes a back seat and the cedar steps aside as well. What comes to the fore now is a sweet resin, coupled with a floral that is so heady it is breathtaking. If it only lasted... it turns into something that reminds me of a dusting powder I used when I was a teen. While the reminiscence is lovely, I'd rather have the floral and resin. *sigh*

CCCXXIX (329)

Sweetly gorgeous! There's amber in here for sure. I detect violet too- that[s what's the most powerful while wet. Once it dries down, it is just sweet amber. LOVE

Previously reviewed by Aerinha.

I don't smell not one iota of coconut. This is orris all the way. I like the way it smells (because orris is one of the ingredients in my personal horoscope scent) but the intensity of the orris is giving me a bit of a headache. Definitely not a slathering scent. A little dab'll do ya!

I want to drink this. I know that nothing foody is listed as a note, but I swear I smell something like peach... and it is making me very hungry. I could sniff this imp all day.

Dry, it turns very incense-ish... it is very different from peach nectar, but it is still very nice. However, I no longer wish to drink it. I gave up drinking incense a long time ago.

CLIX

Wower McWowerson!! I do believe I am detecting an evergreen note... not necessarily pine but something a bit softer? There is a very sweet floral as well... gardenia? This is definitely going to be a favorite.