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... Offerings of milk, honey and sweet grains were made to placate these creatures, and it is that the basis of the scent created in their name. In the vial there were almonds. On my skin, there were sugared almonds. Once again, my skins likes foody scents, whereas I'm just blah on them. Nice enough, but I don't think I'd ever reach for it.

In the vial, I thought I got a hint of bubblegum. There was definitely a sweet undercurrent to the mosses and greenery. On my skin, I could smell the dirt and the mosses for the first minute or so. Unfortunately, it quickly turned to a very sharp soap. Almost like what The Caterpillar did, but with moss and earth instead of jasmine floating on top. I might try to get ahold of Burial or Zombi to see if I can get the earth scent back or they do the same thing, but this one just doesn't work on me at all.

Mmmm, I like this one. When it's first applied, I can really only smell the fruit scents with spice in the background. Like a less ameretto version of Bordello. As it dries, however, the spice really comes out. It has that dry, smoky spice of Brimstone close to the skin, but with wiffs of fruit. Best of both worlds, definitely.

Apparently, even though I'm not a fan of sweet scents, my skin loves them. From application at 9pm to the next morning, I smelled like honey. Not clover or light honey, but a dark, almost black honey with an overlay of vanilla. (I have a honey like this at home, but I can't remember what type of flowers the bees grabbed the pollen from.) I think some of the darkness comes from the amber. It adds a slightly less sweet note that helps cut the honey.

In the vial, I can smell the citrus and lighter scents, but as soon as it gets onto my skin the honey and milk really amps up. The black tea and some of the spices are still there in the background, however, keeping it from being too much. I think this is about this sweetest scent that I'd be willing to keep.

In the vial it was watery and sharp. On drydown it was a lovely aquatic floral. Unfortunately, when it's wet or when it's gotten onto my scarf and clothing, it's a very, very sharp floral which somehow reminds me of insect repellant. Which ties in nicely with the idea of a bayou, but not necessarily how I want to smell.

Maybe it's a temporarily wonky skin chemistry, but instead of the three witches, I only got the one witch. The one living in a gingerbread house. I'm not a fan of foody scents, so I'm not sure how much wear this is going to get. But I'll test it again in a couple of days and see how it smells then.

In the vial it's all soft mint, but as soon as it hits my skin the mint disappears and it morphs into a rich green scent. As it wears on it is right between Demeter's Pruning Shears and Wet Garden, but sometimes it smells exactly like freshly cut fiddleheads (the young fern bits, not the wooden instrument heads.) Richer than sharp but still very, very green.

This one turned out very weird on me. When I first put it on, I could smell apricots and anise. However, once it wore on a little it almost completely disappeared, but what I could smell was autoclave tape. I'm not sure what's stranger. That my skin turned this to autoclave tape, or that it only took a couple of sniffs to recognise something I hadn't smelled in over 10 years.

When I first got a whiff of this at the edge of the vial, I though it was like a scratch-and-sniff sticker from the 80s. Really didn't think I'd like it. However, once I put it on it was wonderful and peppery and warm. I'm not sure I would wear it on it's own since it almost called for something else. However, I was trying Dragon's Milk on my other arm and realised that I'd really like Brimstone if it had a warm, red scent mixed in. I'll probably keep this around for a while. But in the meantime, Wrath was added to my wishlist.

I thought this would be really wonderful. In the vial it was all mandarin, directly on my skin it was nice and figgy. But within an hour I ended up smelling like a really high-quality candle (à la xoe.) Like the ones you find in a kitchen etc store.

In the vial it was lovely with jasmine and incense. Then it hit my skin and it became a bowl of my grandmother's rose-shaped guest soaps. The ones that we weren't allowed to actually use. Then it got washed off. I can still smell it, but it's no longer giving me a headache. I think this is the first scent that's going into the swap pile with absolutely no regrets or "but it's pleasant, it's just not me." Too bad, since it's nice in the vial. ETA: Of course, with the addition of soap it becomes a nice, light floral. But still not enough to keep

I received this one as a freebie from the lab, so I had no expectations as to how this scent would smell. In the vial, it was very, very sweet. On initial application, it was soft and sweet. The vanilla really tempered the sharp sweetness of the dragon's blood. It didn't change much on my skin. It kind of mellowed, but it didn't get any less sweet or soft. Overall, it didn't do anything weird on my skin, but it's really not a me scent. I didn't get any of the incense other people did which I probably would have preferred. It's very nice, but very pink.

This is becoming one of my most favourite scents. When I first open the imp it's bright, bright cherries. On application the cherries mix with pipe tobacco and as it wears on the darker woods come through. I should mention that while I can't stand the scent of cigarettes, my father smoked pipe tobacco up until I was 13 or so. I still find the scent rather comforting, even though I was ridiculously susceptible to bronchitis through my childhood. I also have a degree in Zoology, so the name conjures up the Red Queen hypothesis rather than the character. (Running as fast as you can to stay in one place.) Over all, very warm and calming. And even though I should think of tobacco as a masculine scent (at least pipe tobacco) it's a very feminine. I think someone mentioned that it was a mature, feminine scent, which it is to me as well.

The first thing I smelled right out of the bottle was all that lovely pine. Nice and sharp, definitely like walking in the midst of a forest of long white pines, where there's a bed of mulchy, soft needles under all the trees. Unfortunately, as it dries all the pine goes away. The only scent that throws is the black musk, which is fine, but makes my nose tickle. If I sniff right at skin level, I can smell the ambergris and a bit of the pine. I'm still making my way through my first couple of orders, so I might keep it around a bit longer, but I don't think I'm going to be coming back to it as often as others.

My first review. Inspired by the scent that's getting me through the day after the office Christmas party. In the bottle and first application it was cold and sharp - very citrusy, like white grapefruit? As it wore on pine and vanilla and softer scents came out, but it's still very grapefruity. It's definitely one of my favourites of the small number I have and I'm really glad I have a 5ml bottle. Now I'm just going to be torn between using it a lot and using it very sparingly.

Hey Krista, I may have been the one who mentioned the one week transit time. I know that referred to paper documents from when my prof in Brandon was editting for various journals. I could have been very wrong when it comes to oils. But thanks to your posting I checked my email and my Sept 28th order is also being shipped out tomorrow. Yay! (I was really hoping to have it before I went on vacation on the 27th, but I guess I'll have something to look forward to when I get back.)

I am far too suggestible. I just spent the past 10 minutes trying to find proof that I included the shipping fee with my last order. I did, but though I received confirmation from the lab that they received the order, I apparently never got the receipt from PayPal. It's on the website, however. No one mention irons. Or ask whether I locked the office door when I left.

I think there are separate topics in the announcement thread for International orders. They're further down in the thread, but they list the city and postal codes for the orders. The last one went out on the 11th of September. My own question concerns how much time international shipping tends to add to an order. In a purely hypothetical situation which is in no way related to me and my inability to act like an adult when it comes to waiting for things, if someone were to have placed an order on the 28th of September for some imps and 5mL of Samhain oil, does anyone know the chances of it arriving internationally before the 31st of October? Keeping in mind that whether something is mailed from Michigan or Fukuoka, everything takes a week to enter or leave Canada.