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Wow, I did not expect to like this as much as I did! Sweet, juicy blackberries with a hint of buttered pastry (the sort where you follow the scent trail from the bakery down the road to get one fresh from the oven). I don't get any kush.
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It's all sweet almond in the bottle, but in my hair I definitely smell something "toasted", as if the almonds have been in a pan for a few minutes and their skin has started to crackle. To me though, this settles into something similar to L'Occitane's almond body oil.
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This opens with a strong mint and nothing but mint, but on skin it's a vanilla mint. The sugar in this reminds me of icing sugar - mint-flavored icing sugar. I don't get any pistachio save for the vanilla becoming fuzzy and soft on drydown (which I assume is effect of the pistachio).
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I'm not sure if the vanilla + tobacco combo reads like the vanilla + cognac in Cognac-Stained Sheet Ghost, but in its wet phase, this scent smells exactly like Cognac-Stained Sheet Ghost to me. It eventually dries into a creamy vanilla sandalwood and sticks close to the skin.
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I get a lot of cherry rose and marshmallow upon application (though it's strong on the marshmallow, light on the cherry and even moreso on the rose). The rose is more evocative of dried rose petals. Everything settles about half an hour in to white tea with a sprinkle of marshmallow. I find white tea (or most teas, generally) become quite sour on me, but this scent is gorgeous and kept balanced with the marshmallow. I love it, and plan to bottle it.
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U Tried is exactly as described, but I agree it's sweet lemon candy dunked in sugar. However this reads as icing (powdered) sugar, not white sugar. It smells like a orange creme saver, but with lemon instead.
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Aasimar reminds me of a Persian black teas steeping with a cardamom pod. It is a gorgeous skin scent - and as others have said, a soft vanilla amber. The cardamom stays through the entire wear. It's cozy, inoffensive, and I will be slathering it to reminisce of warmer days.
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The bottle is a smooth combination of vanilla and sandalwood. On skin, I get something nutty and smoky (which I assume is the frankincense)? After about half an hour, this settles into a soft, slightly nutty vanilla.
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When I first got this bottle, the pine came out full force and if I sniffed hard enough, I could whiff the barest hint of cookie. The first skin test brought about a sickening mix of pine cleaner and cookie. I set it aside, determined for a cookie scent, to see if it changed. Braving the first sniff today, I get a mix of cookie (like the crispy edges of a baked cookie) and pine, but the pine isn't some horrific sharp cleaner anymore. On skin, it goes down as the same mix, but the pine burns away to leave a soft vanilla cloud with a hint of cookie dough. Unfortunately this doesn't linger for very long for me - maybe 2 hours at most. My friend: It smelled like creme brulee, but now it smells like vanilla candle and millipede.
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This was a smack in the face of spiced rum (reminiscent of the Kraken brand). I got the sweetness of the dates, almost as though they were sliced and squashed and left to macerate in some brown sugar. The wear time was immense - around 12 hours - drying down to an indiscernible dark booze and almond.
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This smelled like a thick, rich hot chocolate - like those hot chocolates in a fancy teacup in Paris, made from melted chocolate - with a generous dollop of cream on top. And all this build up and hype for nothing! What a skin chem fail. I used to volunteer with a charity, getting foster dogs ready for adoption days, and my job was to bathe them. And to me, wet doggies smell kind of musky, kind of earthy. No cream, no chocolate. Around 15 minutes after the initial application, this smelled like wet dog. After about 2 hours, my skin has eaten it into a musky soft cocoa (like wet cocoa powder), and the cream has come out - but it's sadly plasticky.