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AGLAEA Splendour Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle. First sniff: ohhh, this is sweet, a very sunny scent, I imagine bright orange and soft yellow hues, with a bit of gold. I love it! While wet, Aglaea is a beautiful medley of fruity notes, the most prominent one being peach. It smells to me just like freshly made peach preserves. on the drydown, the amber is making itself known, but it is in the backround supporting the peachy jam scent. This is getting prettier and prettier. I can smell a slight tang, but am not the best at picking out notes, the myrtle perhaps? Ahh, there is the wine note, very subtle and making this blend even more pleasant. Dry: This is a scent that stays very similar in the bottle and on my skin. It is quickly becoming one of my favorites, and is destined to be a 5ml or maybe even a 10ml. It has great throw too. The amber is so soft and golden, the peaches are glorious, and the wine and hints of musk weave a headspinningly wonderful scent that I am looking forward to dousing mysefl in when Spring comes. Warm and soft, this is a flirty peachy Spring/Summery oil. Thank you Beth, for making my month!

I really like this blend. It is Honey, chamomile and a dusting of pollen all the way. Makes me want a cup of Chamomile tea. I agree that this would be a good sleep blend.

I amp rose like nobody's business, so I was a bit skeptical of Wanton. In the imp it smells very floral, heavy and womanly. On my skin, O HAI ROSE!!!!!!!!!! I was hoping to at least get to smell the pachouli in the background, but this blend is all rose, start to finish. Pretty on someone who gets along with rose, but not for me.

I was so very excited when my bottle of Bite Me arrived. In the bottle, it smelled like pure almond extract with a slight floral undertone. Wet- almond and...rose? I am not getting any caramel. As it dried, the rose scent dominated and wiped out the almond. It smells like a bouquet of roses that have been dried somehow...yup, dried roses. Rose is one of the notes that does not work well at all with my skin chemistry, I can smell a tiny hint of caramel in the background but I do not think this blend is going to work for me. It is not at all like the almond note in Kyoto, which I adore.

This started out smelling like beautiful green meadows and the pulp of a kiwi fruit. Then the wasabi says HAI really strongly for a few minutes, nose tingling and peppery! I dries down to a lovely green smell, clean without smelling soapy or like dryer sheets, and though it has wonderful throw, it still retains a sense of delicacy.

Mmmmm, I love this scent! On me, it starts out smelling just like a dark chocolate covered cherry, complete with the pink gooey cream inside. After a thankfully brief cough syrup phase, it mellows out and becomes a more real black cherry smell with the gourmet chocolate perfectly balancing it out. SO glad I got a bottle of this one.

I am smelling beautiful Ylang Ylang, with maybe a hint of Jasmine and honeysuckle in the background. This smells very seductive indeed!

Butter Rum Cookie smells wonderful and full of buttery cookie goodness with a hint or rum in the imp. On my skin, it quickly turns to the all consuming cinnamon. (Which is weird because I stay away from scents with cinnamon in them for that very reason, but it wasn't listed in the description) It dries down to cinnamon with a hint of cookie, but I this this one would benefit from a better home.

The Magi smells like men's cologne in the imp to me, and on my skin it turns to a fizzy cola scent (My BF told me I smell like Sprite) and pretty much stays there. Faint whiff of incense but the cola note stays until the end...sigh. I do smell a hint of the grape on the drydown, but it turns sickly sweet on me, then fades away.

Jacob's Ladder '08 smells gloriously golden and amber-y in the imp, and pretty much stays that way on my skin. I get a slight woodsy note peeking through, almost earthy, but mostly amber. Smooth smooth amber. This one is blended so well, I know that I am smelling all of the components but they just smell so warm and glowing together. Too bad it doesn't have much throw on me.

Perchta smells beautiful in the imp, very pine-y. On me it smells of light musk, evergreen and soft white florals, which I love. There was a weird ozone stage in between but it went away luckily, and I am in LOVE with this scent now. It remind me of Hex '05 without the smoke, which is the closest I am going to get to that wonderful wonderful scent, since the '08 version smells very different. I shall call this one Hex Jr.

MMMMmmm....Gelt... In the bottle, it is all smooth cocoa. On me, wet I get cocoa, the amber and a slight citrus note, almost orangey. After it dries, the citrus note vanishes and I have warm, powdery cocoa. I can very much still smell the amber too.

In the bottle. this smells like straight up fir trees. Wet, it is not much different. VERY strong. After half an hour it mellows out and I smell amber and herbs, along with the pine. It is beautifully blended but I was hoping it would be a bit more like the '05 version which it is sadly not.

Ohmygod! Chaos Theory CLII (152) is so yummy! At first sniff of this beauty, all I could smell was lemon. Then I put it on, and it grew into a huuuuge lemon tree right on my wrist! I can smell pulp, rind, zesty-zest, even the seeds, this is so true to what a lemon smells like! 5 minutes later, a sweet sugar smell comes into the backround, not clashing with it at all, but making it even more beautiful!!! Now it smells like fresh lemons dipped in sugar. Mmm, lemon signle note, and a drop of sugar, that is what this is! It stays true to the lemon loveliness the whole time, never morphing. Previously reviewed by UltraViolet.

Wet~ Lavendar, with a hint of lime. Drydown~ Oh, this is turning into softer, sweeter lavender.. The lime is fading into the backgound...It is extremely soothing. Dry~ the citrus note is stronger, but all in all, this blend stayed very much the same in the bottle and on me. I really like it, and it is awesome for grounding me. I have been battling chronic pain for a long time now, and Quietude is taking my mind off of it, I'm going ot rub some on my stomach and let it sink in. Fantastic, thank you Beth.

Oh, oh my. Sweet, very sweet without being sticky-sickeningly sweet. This does inded, evoke the very essence of pink, with a smattering of red in it. The strong whiff of candied flowers and honey initially makes my head spin and my nose swoon, but it quickly gives way to a lovely complex floral, I can smell the daffodil! (my favorite) It is almost sharp, like the flowers are trying to burst through the sweet shell, but it remains perfectly balanced and absolutely amazing. The final note that stays the longest is strawberry...wild strawberry. This is by far my favorite Lunacy Blend and I am so glad I got more than one bottle of it. Beth, you are a Goddess.

very sweet, the fig overtook my skin almost immediatly. 5 minutes later, it tempered into a soft figgy currant smell, with a hint of spice in the background. an hour later it was all sweet fig, and almost completely gone. I liked the scent of this blend in the bottle very much, but alas, my skin would not let it develop to it's full potential.

very innocent indeed! This scent embodies girliness on me! Watery florals, kind of a light green/light blue feel. I may have to purchase a 5ml, this is so delicate and beautiful. On the drydown, it turned briefly to smokey plastic on me, but thank goodness that went away.

Wow! My nose almost burned from this one! It smells like salty, freshly laundered tangy ozone layers mixed with that chilly Moon Note I can't quite identify, and blue/black flowers. Very aquatic on the drydown, it smells very masculine on me. I'm loving this in the first stages and when it fades to a lighter. lingering floral, but the longest stage is pure manly ocean on me. It smells like a saltier, tangier Undertow. May have to go in the swap pile, but I'll give it one more chance.

wine, once this hits my skin it is sweet tangy STRONG wine and sage! Yum! It is very bubbly, and after about an hour, the myrrh peeks out and tempers it, subtly turning it into a sweeter and more complex scent than it was at first! It is a very orangey red scent, festive and swirling with depth! I love it and wish I had more! In the last stages, it smells of fresh squeezed grapes and hops!

This is one of my favorite blends thus far. In the bottle it smells like coconut and sweet flowers, very ethereal. On my skin, wet, it is coconut amplified, but still retains that sweetness, and there is a note that I cannot describe, but seems to meld it all together and keep it beautiful! It has the element of soft winter blooms, not chilly at all, but inviting and intriguing! It is the longest lasting scent I have tried so far, I could even smell it on my pillow 2 days later! Snow White, how I love thee..

Chaos Theory XXVIII To me, this smells likeSugar Cookie with rum added, and minus the strong cinnamon note. I smell butter and vanilla, but sadly, like Eggnog, one of the nots is making it turn into an odd plasticky smell on my skin. gifted this imp to a friend, hopefully it will smell like the bakery goodness in the imp on them!! Previously reviewed by fragrantgrasse and Azrhiaz.

Chaos Theory XXXII Out of the bottle, this smells so familiar, as others have said, like bananas, but in a way, like sweet smokey bananas. (?) Verrry floral undertone, smells like night blooms growing in the sunny tropics. Ahh...after about half an hour it mellows down and gets much sweeter, almost honey like, and the banana has all but vanished and been replaced by sandalwood. I love this! It doesn't turn to powder in the least, and the nots have such a dichotomy that they harmonize together beautifully. Previously reviewed by quantum spice, inkstone and kimmer.

I am so gifted to have found a 5ml of this, it is the truest coconut scent I have ever smelled. It smells like i just cracked open a coconut, at first the flaked coconut smell and the milky coconut smell were fighting on my wrist, but the milky sweet, well rounded and so fresh I can even smell the fuzz scent is staying. What a perfect summer scent! It has excellent throw too!

I smell a sweet floral at first. ...now I smell cinnamon. And clove. I swear there is cinnamon in here though, I miss the first floral whiff... attack of the spices, the clove has taken over. It smells like I imagine clove incense would smell, sweet and slightly smokey, very spicey. There is a hint of vanilla underneath. This is a pretty blend, but a bit too spicy for me.