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A chilly, bright perfume: flurries of virgin snow, crisp winter wind and the faintest breath of night-blooming flowers. It can't be that I'm the first to review this! To my nose this is exactly like my Snow White perfume oil. Do you love Snow White? This is perfect for you. Even if you are not one of Snow White's devotees, this particular spray is a very good choice. The room smells nice and soft and sort of virginal and girly. I love it. It's perfect "Snow White" and totally inoffensive. It just makes your room smell divine. Makes me happy. I'll be buying more of this for sure.

My top 5 scents would be: 1. Noir 2. Chrysanthemum Moon 3. Morocco 4. Antique Lace 5. Ecstasy Passion hmmm any thoughts?

Gorgeous light incense. Soft and hazy like the veil of incense you can detect when you go into a church after Service is over. It is quite light and not heady at all. Very wearable. A dream blend for incense lovers. Throw is low and longevity medium. I would need to slather that one, but I'm afraid to use up my bottle. I'll be quite sad when it's gone.

Creamy chocolate with a hint of spice. Moderate throw. A foody's dream scent. For me it's more for huffing and not actually wearing. Or maybe for creating a fun, playful home atmosphere. Nice.

A good masculine scent. Very softly aquatic but with a hint of spice. Also there's the barest hint of a "burned" note that only adds to the masculinity of the scent. I wonder if there's anything like this in the released blends.

This is quite AL-ish but it has more vanilla. Very nice, very wearable. I'd like to have a bottle of that one.

Exactly that! When I sniffed it in the decant and wet on my skin, I immediately thought "green!" and then "stems!" The carnations are more present than those in the original version, yes, but it's mainly the stems, mingled with the petals. This is less creamy, less heavy, less cloying than the original. The original is awesome,yes, but cloying on me and I end up not wearing it. The resurrected version is more intense carnation-stems and I may actually buy a bottle to wear. I'm a little afraid though what aging would do to it, as I don't want the cloying effect of the original.

This has the same apple as in Snow,Glass,Apples. It was my first reaction sniffing it in the imp and on my skin and I think this may have been a study on the theme. Drying down I do get the "baked" quality, but it always is more sharp than the rounded apple note in Sugar Slathered Candied Apple. I'll make it a point to test the released version but I won't say no if any amount of the proto falls into my lap

How does she do it? You burn this in an oil burner in the kitchen and you have found the solution for kids that don't want to eat Droolworthy roasted meat! (Didn't dare skin test that one, not my thing as a perfume)

Sweet, cinnamon tea. Quite nice. It's not "me" but it's very pleasant and wearable. ETA: Reminds me of something and I'm trying to figure out what!

LAVENDER and yes probably sage. This one could be a proto for a utility blend (panacea?). Lavender is very difficult on my skin (only Lilith Victoria works and that one, only after considerable aging) so I won't skin test.

Mmmm Red Musk! And a dark fruity note, could be plum, but not like the smoky SN Plum or Dionysia plum. This is a different, less aggressive and yummy fruity plum(?). I like this proto.

Foody. Nutty. Buttery. Not for me.

This one has a strong boozy (champagne?) note. I'm tempted to say like 2008's Champagne & .... series. But it's softer and kinder. On my skin the fizzy champagne note is what overpowers all else, even while drying down. Although it's bright and fun, personally I'm not a fan of boozy scents.

At last a bpal honey scent that is not trying to choke me to death. It's gorgeous honey and faint spice and it's exactly what I imagined and hoped O to be (and isn't, on me) Awesome, very wearable on me and darn it, I only got the one imp. How am I going to get some more? P.S. I can't, for the life of me, smell any cherry.

I received a sniffie of this rarity from tartchef because she is awesomesauce with multicoloured sprinkles on top Sniffing from the imp (not testable) this is a wonderful white floral, of the *good* kind. I can't say if these are "bleeding hearts" that I'm sniffing because we don't have them here. I would dare say it's a bit gardenia-like with a hint of "green" underneath. It's an unmistakably feminine, frilly, girly, joyous scent. I would imagine Scarlett o'Hara smelling like this, in her youth, before the war and her marriages This is really good and if ever released, bottle-worthy. Thank you tartchef for giving me the chance to sniff that beauty!

Ogygia, home of the nymph Calypso who detained Odysseus for seven years before letting him go onwards with his travels. The name alone was beckoning me. Selino and glistritha are common vegetables in Greek cooking. We have a saying: "Did you eat glistritha?" that we use when we want to tell someone that he/she talks a lot, jokingly. Glistritha is supposed to make you talk a lot Cereus above has described this blend beautifully and I can't add anything to the note descriptions. I do not wear green or aquatic scents, they are "difficult" to me. But this one is so evocative it has got to come live with me. Perhaps not as a perfume per se, but as an ambient scent. This is like living in a small house by the sea. The scent of seashores and islands, during their best time, when left alone, in the colder months. When you can smell the woods and the herbs, the salty air and the ever-so-faint smell of flowers in the distance. This, THIS is the scent of "my" Greece. Beautiful!

That's indeed a pink Snow White I think I may have found *my* girly bpal. My bottle is staying put and I may look for a back up, too. Don't be afraid of the rose in there, it's just a breath to my nose. Pink Snowballs is a girly, frilly, soft, come-close-to-sniff scent. I love it. ETA: Testing and retesting this, it's very very nice. No coconut-plastic note at all and very wearable overall. Please don't flame me, but it may even be better than Snow White herself

No, they are definitely not the same. To me the best one is 2004 and I know of a SW afficionado who prefers 2005 over 2004. I think 2008 was better than 2007. Even though I have my definite preference, none of them made me go wash it off or anything. I have kept only one 2004 bottle though. The atmo spray from last year is very true SW, too. I don't remember Moon of Small Spirits to be snowy, or Perchta either. Old Moon was snowy yes. I have a problem with mint, it makes me start coughing etc, so I don't like minty snowy scents. My favourite by far is Skadi. A very very close second, actually just one click away to me, is Snow Moon. Also L'Inverno does the same trip. I may need to revisit Lines Written among the Euganean Hills (although it was quite forest-y).

Answering the topic, for me it's Pinched. I think that this blend is s*x-in-a-bottle and although I have this exSO+pinched association, I'm working really hard to break it. So when next guy comes along, I'll be ready to slather him in Pinched, again. (Soon Universe, please? )

Incantation is awesome! It's one of the very few GC bottles that I've bought.

HighPriestessIce I'm surprised! Have you sniffed/tested bpal's Numb? *That's* a dead ringer for White Linen. But Man with Phallus Head? Goes to show how wildly people's chemistries vary!

To my nose and on my skin, this smells quite a bit like Semiramis. I do like Semiramis and I find Mlle quite nice, too. As I've put it on to test, I keep forgetting I'm testing Mlle and I try to remember when did I put on Semiramis today? I think it's the musk that puts those two blends in the same category and alongside Mme. too. I can also get the orange blossom which is quite nice and less bitter than, say, Khrysee. I can't pick up the coconut, but the faint trace of incense is quite lovely. This is lighter and a bit more playful than Mme and it can be worn even in occasions when Mme would be a bit "heavy". I am very happy with my bottle. It would have been back-up-worthy, but for the fact that it reminds me so much of Semiramis (which I also have a bottle of).

I am swapping away my two imps of Bruja, to someone for whom is her hg scent. So I wanted to review her before she left me. Edenssixthday's review above, from 3 years ago(!), could have been my own review, down to the comma. It's weird! I also have two imps of that, one is darker coloured and "heavier" smelling, the other is lighter coloured and "lighter" smelling. The darker one is sexier and lasts longer, the lighter one is more flirty. It's like two pictures of the same person, taken at different points in time. I love both, but they are going to a home that is desperate for them.

I'm going through a prolonged phase of rediscovering my love for Sandalwood. As I've said earlier in the thread Svaddhinaopatika is an awesome sweet sandalwood blend. I have since discovered Shroud, after its' discontinuation sadly. I'm seriously in love with that one, it's intense, quite dry, sandalwood and it dries down softer but still sandalwood. Awesome. I find the same note in Patientia which is gc in bptp and I really recommend trying. Also in bptp but LE was Winter Maiden: sweeter and very intense and all around awesome too. I've read hints that it might come back in winter, so if it does give it a try.