Kelism

I know Sensual Amber has come up before and Jacob's Ladder was recommended. Jacob's Ladder is amber on me, but BBW has a sweetness to it whereas Jacob's Ladder is more dry.

 

Suggestions on something Amber but with a layer of sweetness?

 

 

Khajuraho was suggested but it has both honey and rose (which don't work for me).

Okay - I like vanilla but it seems to do different things for me.

 

Doing a quick search for vanilla and going based on what was on that list that I remember trying, here are my experiences:

 

Good:

Love's Philosopy - like a lot. It smells like sugar cookies or cake.

Golden Priapus - Like, but not so sure about the woods

Mouse's Sad & Long Tale - Like and may get a bottle

Reagan - nice, but it is gone SO quickly

 

 

BAD (I might go to bpal hell for saying this, but...):

O - overpowering, makes me feel sick

Snake Oil- overpowering, makes me feel sick

Opuhi - something about the ginger didn't work

Tiki Queen - too floral

White Rabbit - I don't remember, just didn't work

Dorian - too much

Antique Lace - too much

Tombstone - I don't really like the cedar

 

 

Add to it: honey doesn't work for me. At all - makes me feel ill.

 

I'm okay with stuff that tends towards a little powdery, but I really don't like the OMG VANILLA stuff.

 

Suggestions?

 

Edit: OMG how could I forget Mantis? For me, Mantis had a nice vanilla creaminess undertone to it.

In the bottle: Very faint, sort of herbal smelling. But I never trust what the bottle smells like, because 99.99% it smells nothing like it does on me.

 

Wet: I can smell a faint green floral but still with a heavy herbal base to it.

 

Drying: It disappeared. Gone! Either my body ate it or...

 

Dry: Then suddenly it came back. Stronger than before and a bit more floral. How odd - usually if it's gone it is gone and doesn't reappear. I would say it's nice gentle scent. I agree with Brighid, crushed herb/green(-white) floral. It does smell "clean"

I put this on today (after nearly spilling it all over myself) and it smelled very sweet. A dry sweet, but sweet. And sort of floral...but nothing I could put my finger on.

 

I realized as it dried that it smelled familiar. yes...this smells like the lobby at The Venitian to me. Not my kind of thing (but it kind of makes me want to go see Blue Man Group).

Wet: A green herbal mint. Not a toothpastey mint, but a nice very herbal feeling scent - much more like an actual mint leaf than anything mint scented. I would say it does have a cut grass type feeling...but it doesn't smell like cut grass.

 

Dry: Rose. A faint (but high pitched) rose with a little something else that I can't put my finger on (another floral). But...anything with rose amps on me and I don't really care for rose.

 

Not much throw at all. I liked it wet, but the drydown really did nothing for me.

I put this on and all I could think was "huh?"

 

I could not even begin to describe what it smells like. It seems like a warm weather scent - something kind of fresh and cool. I think what I smell is a mix of citrus with mint and just a hint of chocolate at first (that seems to have faded away), but honestly my nose is just sort of confused and can't really pick anything specific out of it.

 

I could see where people thought it smelled pledge-ish but this actually stays away from the "cleaner" smell to me (unlike embalming fluid).

 

It's not my kind of thing, but it's very interesting and I can see why people would enjoy it.

I got this as a frimp in my last lab order. This made me decide that, yes, the more "masculine" scents do tend to work better for me.

 

In the imp all I smell is juniper/pine. This made me almost set it aside to try something else, but I went for it anyway.

 

On me it's mostly vanilla/amber. The throw isn't huge but really all I smell is the vanilla/amber. But, if I hold my wrist up - that's when I can pick out the juniper. It grounds the creamy vanilla goodness. Yum.

In the bottle: pink bubble gum

On me: A very light, pinkish, candish, floral scent.

 

I smelled primarly what I assume was tuberose. I got NO vanilla and I don't think I really got coconut either. This didn't change too much as it dried. It was a pleasant, tropical-feeling scent that I imagine would do really well in the hot weather. But, it feels very delicate and girly (too delicate/girly for me). It was very gentle - there was enough throw that I could smell it around me, but it wasn't overpowering or too strong/bold.

Like Sarri I smelled a heavy ginger at first (NO vanilla) that I didn't think was that pleasant either. The scent hits you pretty hard. But, it wasn't what I was expecting - it was a different kind of ginger. I guess what my head thought the ginger would smell like didn't agree with what my nose decided this smelled like.

 

It kept changing for a good two hours. Eventually the ginger died down and I could start to smell some vanilla. At that point (2-3 hours after I put it on) I can see the Love's Philosphy's "cousin" comments. It did have a little similarity to Love's Philosophy, but I prefered LP.

 

I'm going to try this again before I decide to sell it but I'm not feeling it too much at this point.

Kind of yuck for me. I liked the concept of a nice fresh scent, but it came off more like a cleaning solution. It was very sharp and powerful and something about it didn't sit right with my head. The lemon was way strong for me and it didn't feel fresh, it felt more like a bathroom. A freshly cleaned bathroom, but a bathroom nonetheless.

The vanilla in this is a perfect vanilla for me - it isn't way overpowering and loud and it isn't foody. This is exactly what I wish the vanilla in Antique Lace would be ('cause maybe then I could wear it).

 

This has a nice creamy amber/light floral scent to it. It reminds me a bit of Jacob's Ladder, just a little lighter (I think Jacob's Ladder is more deep and more golden). I don't know what happened the first time I tried this, but I had thrown it in my swap pile. I decided to try it again and I am SO glad that I did. I will not swap it and I may get a bottle, I'm not sure yet.

 

When wet it has a slight bit of green to it, that faded as it dried. I'm not really familiar with sandlewood but I don't think I really smell much. For me it was a very light, creamy, soft vanilla and amber. There's just enough of the sweet pea to add a very slight white floral to it, but mostly it is creamy amber.

 

It's lasted quite awhile - at least 7 hours and I can still faintly smell it as I move around.

I wish it would come back

 

This is the first scent I tried that was no longer available and I fell in love - go figure. It's a light green, and has an almost vanilla-like creamy undertone. I assume the creamy is from the amber and golden musk. I really don't pick up on patchouli and I'm not sure what neroli smells like. It doesn't smell herbal to me...just a very nice green (I cannot come up with any other way to describe it). If it were a color it would be something like this.

 

I WANT MORE!

I get just what the description says: orange/ginger/patchouli (but it doesn't scream patchouli and it's not "dirty hippy" patchouli, I think the ginger helps make it more complex). The orange there but not obvious - I'm not sure I would have labeled what I was smelling as orange until I knew there was orange in it. It's very sexy and spicey and earthy. It's very strong and bold, deep and sensual. It has kind of a punch - there is no subtle about it for me. Vixen is the perfect name, too.

2005

I bought a bottle unsniffed because I heard that it is similar to BBW Sensual Amber.


For me this is very much creamy amber. Golden, smooth, glowing resin with a little smokeyness to it. It is definitely a low, deep scent for me. Kind of earthy but not in a dirt kind of way.

If I had to give it a color, it would be creamy amber. A feeling? Warm sun on a cold day.

I NEVER would have picked this out. Coconut, tobacco, rum? No way, not my thing. I tried it on without reading the description and it was the first scent I tried that I immediately decided oOo - I like that!

I don't get the pina colada that other people get. For me I think the tobacco and rum are more in the front and the coconut is just a nice backdrop. It's kind of sweet (but not SWEET - a nice balanced sweet), kind of smokey/sort of musky scent with maybe a little buttery rum splash. It doesn't seem beachy or suntan lotion - but I can easily see wearing it at the beach and defintely it has a pirate feel to me.

This seems really unisex/masculine to me so I'm suprised it doesn't come up more when people are mentioning unisex/masculine. I like how it smells on me, but I may also try it on my husband.

I'm not usually a floral person, but I really liked this. I put it on then read the description and it really seemed to fit. I find it to be totally orange and crushed jungle blooms. But not orange juice orange - more like a floral orange. It's a happy, light scent that just screams exotic and sunshine all at once. It's a good pick me up when it's gloomy outside. Plus, I got a very random "wow you smell GOOD" from a guy who doesn't usually notice things like that.

This was very "cake" or frosting to me, but in a good way and a not terribly foody way, if that is possible. I rarely sniff the bottle because most things smell very different to me in the bottle vs on my skin, but it smelled pretty much the same to me in the bottle/wet/dry.

 

It's a very soft and creamy to me and I had no hint of wintergreen or fake vanilla or plastic. I really like the soft vanilla in Reagan but it just died so quickly on me and had no throw. This has a similar vanilla feel, but has more staying power (and of course the creamy aspect to it).

 

I like!

You might like The Unicorn or The Lion- The Unicorn for the herbs, and the Lion for the creamy amber. Leanan Sidhe is a beloved, green herbal scent, and I've seen The Apothecary and the Dormouse mentioned in the company of Mantis.

 

 

Thanks, I realized I've got Leanan Sidhe and The Apothecary on my wishlist, so that's a good sign. I will add Dormouse, The Unicorn, Desire, The Catterpillar and Black Hellebore. I just got an imp of Phantasm that I haven't tried yet.

 

I've tried Embalming Fluid and to me it was okay but a little on the cleaner-ish side. It was more yellow-green than green-green if you know what I mean. I've also tried Zephyr and it lasted about two seconds and was gone/powder. Maybe I will pull it out and try it again. I've also tried The Lion but I don't remember anything about it. It didn't stand out at me I guess.

So the first scent I try that is no longer available I end up really liking...go figure.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on GC scents that are at all similar to Mantis? For me Mantis is a lovely light green...with nice (almost vanillaish) creamy undertones.