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Gifted with a decanted imp by Eldritch. In the bottle: The light herbal that I detect at first reminds me of Dormouse for some reason. It's the same light green kind of scent but where Dormouse is backed by tea, this is backed by a very subtle floral. Wet: When it hits my skin its turns into lemon. So what does civet smell like? Is it like lemon? This is definitely a citrus blend. It actually reminds me of Calliope without that troubling pepper scent that distressed me so much. Dry down: Still lemon. There's a faint hint of something nice and green in the background, but my skin wants to be lemon pledge with this scent. I'm not opposed as lemon pledge and I have a long history, but I was so hoping for something green and light and pretty. There's a little more flora, but it's like a lemon floral. Like lemons and flowers had babies on my wrist. Wait, there. Floral. A sweet, light floral. Very nice kinda white with green around the edges in my mind. I don't know if it's the iris or the orris or the sage but something in this is very pretty once we get past the lemon flower babies stage. Dry: A nice floral scent that has something of a powdery background. In fact, I imagine this as a type of scented powder. It even has that kind of feel to it. The floral isn't strong and heady the way that they get in some blends but is simply soft and understated with a hint of green behind it. This is a spring day in a bottle. This is sunshine and the first sign of flowers breaking through the ground. This is light rain and picking herbs under a rainbow. This is what I wanted Calliope to be. I don't think I'd need a big bottle and seeing as how I can't get one this is a good thing. But I love having it around. I'll probably wear it occasionally, but I'm sure it would make a perfectly wonderful room scent. ETA: There's the sage. Nice.

Brimming with native fruits and flowers, but also imbued with the power of native earth magicks: apricot and pomegranate with deep plum, wild roses, two Middle Eastern pale musks, white orchid, iris and sweet roots. In the bottle: I'm really looking forward to smelling and I'm really nervous about this blend at the same time. The Middle Eastern musks worry me, but the rest of the scents make me go, "Oooooh, please work." Oh, god, that's yummy. I am so drawn to fruit scents. I really am, and this is a very rich fruit scent in the vial. Very golden in color to me. I suspect that that's the apricots. Very heavy and cloying and just rich. Wet: I can pull the apricot out immediately as my grandmother cooks with them a lot. Also the plums. There's something unsettling under the surface that's faintly bitter. That might be the roots or the musk. Mmmmm, plums. So far this is ligther than it smelled in the bottle, and no surfacing of any evil musks that might make me go all sneezey. The florals are hard to find in this. They seem to be lingering in the background to let the fruits play. There's still that slighty bitter note that distresses me. Dry down: This dries slowly on me. Some of the oils disappear in a flash and some linger like oil slicks on my wrist. This one lingers. Hmmm. Now it's becoming more musky and deeper in its scent. The fruits are still around to give it some lightness, but they're no longer the predominant note. That distressing bitter one is still there, though. I think I can pull out the rose. (Go figure. My nose seems to be attuned to them.) Now it's not so sweet and much muskier. Not like OMG I am musk. More like, I am musk, and I'm here to stay. I was worried that I mgiht be allergic to this. I'm not. I'm just somewhat offput by it. It's nice and complex, but something in it makes me stomach a little queasy. Dry: This fades down to next to nothing on me. There's still oil on my wrist, but I only get the barest hint of a slight musk with some floral and fruit around the edges. It smelled so nice in the vial. Another one ruined by my skin. I may play with this in my oil burner or just throw it into the swap pile. It's nice, but not me.

In the bottle: That's a suagr cookie all right only it has a little kick to it. It actually kinda smells like a mix between sugar cookies and a ginger snap. Very light though there is a somewhat cloying vanilla scent to the background. Sweet and foody. I think this is the first foody blend I have. Wet: This smells almost exactly like the Irish ginger snaps I made last week. It's a very delicious scent. I'm glad I imp swaped so I could have a sample of this. This is like a candle I'd expect to buy. I highly doubt that I'll ever wear it. More than likely I'll use it in my oil burner once it arrives. But I have to say that the lab did a great job in replicating sugar cookies and gave them a bit of a kick as well. Dry down: I'm thinking that kick is a little extra cinnamony goodness but not enough to make me break out into fits. This is a very comforting smell that reminds me of kitchens and baking and colored suagr. It has a slightly boozey background note, but I might just be imagining things. Dry: The cinnamon wants to play more on my skin than the sugary goodness of the cookie. This could be a bit of a problem as cinnamon and I have a love/hate relationship. No, there it goes fading down to play nicely with everyone else. I still think this would be a lovely fragrance to scent things (other than me) with. Candles, lotion, my room. I'll play around with it. I like having the imp. I just don't want to smell like it. I just like the smell of it.

In the bottle: Hi, I'm a tree covered in some fruits in the middle of winter. So, you see I'm crisp and fresh and snowy. Yet I'm also with the tree and the fruit. I'm complex. Will you love me? Well, I'd be inclined to at least like you provided that you don't set me into an allergic reaction, which is a problem that tree scents and I have. But, let's take a test drive. Wet: Wow, cirsp and fruity. Let's talk about how I like fruit scents. It also has a nice, sinus clearing smell that's fresh and crisp. Like winter air. Walking out in the snow and feeling your nose getting cold but you can just breathe the ice crystals in. And, wow, what a throw. Most things don't give me much throw, but this is pretty lovely. Kinda green in the background, but not overwhelmingly so. Dry down: Kinda smells like Vick's Vapor Rub only, you know, not. The florals in this are not the kind of florals that I've experienced in other things, and the musk is much brighter as well. I still get that lovely ice/snow scent, which I adore. Oh, oh I know what this is. This is a more feminine version of the body wash I have in the shower right now. It's Winter Snowfall by Suave. This is fresh like that but more tempered by fruits (citrus?) and the musk, the floral and spruce exist right on the edge of this scent. Dry: This is nice. A very cool fragrance. It has a chilly citrus note but it's less pronounced than in Queen of Diamonds. This is more floral than that and the musk makes it all light and bright and just...I feel like I should be able to breath out snow. I only have a decanted imp of this and smelling it I kinda wish I had decided to purchase a whole bottle. Queen of Diamonds is my doll, but Ice Queen is the younger sister who doesn't bother me make-up and goes walking in the woods to come home with snow in her hair. This is so beautiful. I'm not so OMG in love with it, but I'd be willing to have more around if I got the chance

In the bottle: Kinda floral and green with a hint of musk. It reminds me a little of Dublin, which scares me to no end considering how allergic to that I ended up being. But AJ was kind enough to send it to me. Wet: This reminds me a little of my Rice Flower and Shea soap, which I am also allergic to, as it is a light floral with a hint of musk underneath. The herbs provide a nice, subtle green note. I was hoping this would be more sparkling. I'm not sure what I expected. More water and some more vibrant florals maybe. What I smell mostly is the herbs and musk. Dry down: Herbal and musky. This is a much more masculine scent that I had expected. But then it is named after a warrior bard so maybe I should have considered that. *sigh* I hope Beth makes a Cerridwen scent. I'd buy a 5ml right off. Oh, I am, I am a manly man as you can rightly sniff. I bare my wrists with musk and herbs and you can take a whiff. It's not that I don't like this. It's a nice mix, but it really is too masculine for me. And, unfortunately, it's also giving me a headache. I apparently either am allergic to Irish blossoms or these herbals as I have no problem with light musk in other blends. Dry: Musky and herbal. No real sign of a redeeming floral in sight, and my head is still giving me warning signs, which are better than all out headaches and congestion from hell. I'm gonna wash this off and give it to the boy. I'm sure he'll adore it.

Amsterdam is a grass/floral kind of scent. At least on me it was. So you might like that for a grass kind of scent.

In the bottle: Very green, herbal kind of smell. I imagine that must be the lavender, which leads me to believe that all the lavender incense and candles I have are lying about the scent of lavender. Oh well, I should have expected as much. I'm really not getting a sense for either the jasmine or the honeysuckle so they must be hiding. I know that the jasmine will come out to play once it hits my skin. Wet: Hmmm, now it's a fight between the lavender and the honeysuckle. Jasmine will wait and rule after the other scents die out. She does that. Um...ew. I've smelled something like that before. Kinda like...plastic...plastic scented dolls. I don't think this lavender likes me. It smells like something is dying a truly painful death on my skin. Dry down: On me this is stinky. There's a cloying, decaying smell in the background that I really wasn't expecting. I don't know if it's the combination of the scents or one of the scents on its own, but I've made this blend smell horrible. Dry: Nasty. Nasty. No redeeming factors. Evil skin. This has to be put into the swap pile so i'm not declared a biohazard. Of course now I'll have to try more lavender blends just to see if that's the bad note on my skin or if it was the combination of the notes in this.

Tulips, peony, fresh flowing water and crisp green grasses. In the bottle: Soft floral that makes me think of pink and, oddly, enough fabric softner. I can smell grass and water, but I'm unfamilar with either of the florals so they just strike me as floral. Wet: Kinda spicy floral with the grass undertone. I can still smell the water, but not as much as when it was in the vail. This is just kinda there for me, unfortunately. It's not wowing me, and i'm not allergic to it. It's nice. It would be a nice room scent or a scent for fabric softner. It's just not something for me. Not something I think i'll wear. Dry down: Still a slightly spicey pink/light green scent with the edges of grass and water to the smell. I'm glad the lab threw this in with one of my orders as I did want to try it. If I keep it, I'll probably use it in my oil burner to scent my room rather than as a perfume for my skin. It's really too pink to be me. I like most florals, but I seem drawn to ones that are crisp or a little heavier than this. This is light and airy, which is nice, but it's just a little too expected for my tastes. Dry: This retains its scent nicely throughout wear. I still like it, but I don't really want to wear it. It's a little too girly for me. Too pink and pretty. It's a very nice scent, though. It just isn't for me. I'm thankfully that it didn't turn horrible on me as my skin is not always fond of the aquatic notes. ETA: Oh, oh oh, allergic. Washing off and sending straight to the swap pile. Oh well. It would have been a nice room scent, but after a little while I wouldn't have even been able to smell it.

Dawn dishwashing soap and Darkswan's Japanese Pear and Ginseng both get off all traces of whatever scent you happen to be wearing. At least, they work for me.

In the bottle: While he was up during Christmas, the boy remarked that he really liked this scent. I'm hoping I like it, too, and that it doesn't do horrible things to my sinuses so I can wear it for him. Oh, grapefruit how I covet you. This is another one of those scents that just makes me think, "Clean and crisp." It's sweet, but there's a little edge in there. The tartness of the ginger and the fruits with the tea in the background to mellow it out. If this stays as lovely on as it is in the bottle then I'm hurrying over to the lab and buying a bottle today. (Along with Wilde, Whitechapel and Thalia. I've really only been looking for an excuse.) Wet: That's lovely. Grapefruit with ginger in the background. Kind of tart with some sweet lurking in the background along with that lovely tea note that makes me want to just slather it all over myself. This has a good throw as I'm sniffing the wafts rather than my nose as I type this. The apple comes out in a very lovely way. This is one of my new favorites and has scored a spot on the big bottle list. As long as it retains its good scent on me that is. Dry down: More grapefruit and tea. The apple sweet is dying down a little leaving me with a nice tart tea on my arm. OMG so yummy. I'm in love with all the tea scents. I'm gonna buy them and hoarde them and wear them and call them Geroge. Dry: This dries pretty quick. I may have missed some of the dry down because I'm watching Jim dismantle our purchasing machine as it wouldn't turn on this morning. Tea with a little less tart and a little more apple. But it's still good. I love love love love love grapefruit now. The scent is just lucious and all of Beth's tea blends make me ecstatic. The ginger is being a little more apparaent, which provides a nice spicey contrast. It's a sweet, slightly tart tea. Loves it!

In the bottle: Very cold, fresh scent. So grapefruit straight in the bottle with the slightest hint of a floral dashed in there. The citrus notes are all blended together so I can really pick any of them out except the grapefruit. This is a very crisp, luscious kind of sense that has a distinct sharpness to it as well. Wet: More mandarin and grapefruit on my wrist than anything else right now. This strikes me as a cold version of Titania. Titania is a joy to be around, her smile puts her at ease. QoD is regal and proud and somewhat aloof; her smile is a little colder. But she likes you even though she doesn't say t much. Slight hint of the florals in the citrus, esp. the rose but that's no surprise to me as it's on my wrist. Dry down: this is truely lovely. It speaks of snow on the trees and walking together talking in hushed voices and smiling rather than laughing. The rose is very nice in this and is playing with my skin perfectly. In fact, right now it's dominating the citrus scents, which is a little sad but I still like this in general. A very nice, very cool, refreshing blend. The grapefruit wants to be the king of the hill again. Fine by me. I never realized how much I like the smell of grapefruit until getting this. Yummy. Dry: Cirtrus with florals gathered around it. The orchid is playing very nicely now, too. This is going to have to go into a roller bottle once I finish the review because damn! so nice. Titania has some competeition to stay at the top. A very clean, crisp scent. Very ice covered boughs swaying in the wind and the patter of sleet on the roof but with the glimmer of hope that spring is coming to warm the world up again. I like that this citrus is so cool rather than overpowering. So glad I broke down and bought my own bottle. I don't know what I would have done without this.

In the bottle: Wow, that's stronger than I had anticipated. It hits you with this pure...well, I think of it as orangeness. You can smell honey and, I guess, lilies. I admit to not being able to recall what lilies smell like. But this is fairly strong. Wet: There's something kind of musky in the background note that I don't really like. In fact, I'm just not overly fond of this floral much at all. It needs something to make it lighter for me. This is strong and kinda cloying and I'm getting a touch of a headache. Dry down: It's more spicey than musky, I guess. This reminds me of the blends with carnation in them. Unfortunately, I have problems with those blends. This is a little more honey than spice, though. Not honey sweet but honey bright and warm and sticky. A little bit strong for me. Dry: Well, it's calmed down a little, but it's still not a smell that I really care that much for. It's bright and warm and still kinda dense. I perfer the lighter, sweeter scents in general. It might be useful as a room scent except for that slight headache it gives me. I don't dislike it, and I don't really care for it. This is one of my undecideds so I'll keep it around for another test drive later on.

In the bottle: More carnation. Also, what does bergamot smell like? If it's that top note in the bottle, then I'm avoiding it. This smells...I don't know. I had imagined that Alice would be a much calmer scent than this, something oddly refined but childlike a the same time. And while this is kinda like that, it's also really rather spicey. Wet: I can smell a little bit of the honey but the carnation and maybe the spicey bergamot seems to be the most prevalent. There's some of the milk and , yes, as it dries it seems to soften a little and I like it more. Dry down: Milk and honey with just a touch of spice. This smells like arrowroot cookies dipped in tea. Really rather lovely now that it's on my skin and has calmed down a little. The bergamot and the carnation provide a little bit of spice to something that would otherwise run the risk of bordering on bland. Dry: This dries pretty fast. In fact, I'm racing to get all the stages written down before they pass me by. It's a little spicer and a little less milky now, but you can still detect the milk and honey notes. What this really reminds me of is chai tea. A good cup of chai tea made from real tea leaves and milk. (An Indian friend treated me to jus such a cup while I was at college. I've been hooked and unable to find anything that truely pleases me since.) Yep, chai in milk. Kinda sassy, kinda spicey but also creamy and lovely and yum. The dry stage is so totally worth the rest. I don't know how often I'll wear it or if I'll need a bigger bottle, but I am glad that I have this. As it settles more, the rose starts to show a little around the edges, but the carnation/bergamot is coming back out. Sadness. Suddenly it's rose again. This keeps changing. I'll have to keep it around for more test drives. Uh oh, either Alice or the mixture of all the scents in my room is given me a headache.

In the bottle: The moonflower adds a very pale, ethereal smell to the rose. You can even pick out the dew in there. It's not green like Rose Red or as rich as The Empress or as sweet as Persephone. It has something that's vaguely antiseptic about it. Wet: The moonflower has a very strange smell to it. I can detect the rose, but it's under the moonflower. All the moonflower reminds me of is the rich, thick, white magnolia petals in New Orleans and the way I used to crush them between my fingers. This smells the way they felt, kinda waxy but relenting at the same time. This is a very ethereal floral, the kind you can catch on the night breeze if you're outside walking under the stars. Dry down: I'm not sure about this rose blend. It's very nicely done, but the scent just isn't something I really care for. I don't know if it's because of the moonflower or the rose used or what. I'm usually a very big fan of the rose blends. Spellbound is the only one I've found so far that really bothered me. This is nice in a strange way, in an otherworldly way. This is not an earth rose. This is the rose that exists during the twilight hours in a fairy circle under the moon. It's perking up a bit and getting a little sweeter as time goes by though so it might work out after all. There's still that almost waxy note in the background. I can't pick out what it is, but these magnolia petals are emblazoned on my mind's eyes, the way they scattered across the ground. The way they felt between my fingers. The way they tore. Dry: Something in this makes me want to sneeze. And my head is clogging up a little. I think I might have found another rose blend that isn't for me. But i've still got a lot of them to love. I can't keep anything I'm allergic to. I wouldn't mind if it was just headaches, but I start sneezing and gets congested and it's really just horrible. This is a lovely blend and probably makes many people very happy. But it doesn't love me back. At this point, I would be willing to blame bad smells on the monthly cycle, but my allergies don't change so this can safely go into the swap pile.

In the bottle: Oh god, that smells good. And, yes, I did say that aloud before writing it down. Can I just pause a second here to say that I love the smell of lime? I do, I absolutely adore it and crave it and stalk it down. I can detect the citron, too. So good. But it's the lime that has me swooning. Wet: Lime and citron dancing in a wonderful blend of lovely smells on my wrist. Watch them dance in all their glory. Hee. I love this completely and utterly. There's something about lime that makes it my favorite citrus scent. I think it's just the greenness of it. I might be able to detect just a trace of the musk, but mostly there's just the very simple love that is lime and citron. They're my new OTP. I don't want to give this up. I want to just wallow in it, scent lotion with it and keep it on my skin forever and ever amen. None of the pretty lilac has come to play yet, but I'm okay with that. Maybe it's a wallflower and is waiting for lime to ask it to dance. Dry down: Can I lick my wrist? Will a perfume oil blend kill me if I injest it? This clears my sinuses with its breath taking citrus rush. I'm not sure that my boy will like this even though I did buy it for him. He seems a little leery of lime, even though he did carry away my first imp of Wilde. Lilac has been asked to dance, and, really, he has a very sure foot as well. He and the citrus scents are getting along wonderfully while the musk provides a very firm floor on which to dance. I don't know why this scent brings to mind images of dancing, but it does. It makes me think of the musical Jekyll and Hyde. I haven't firgured out yet which of the characters would be wearing Whitechapel, though. Dry:Still very, very lime and lilacy. The lime is still the prevalent note, which is fine by me as I love the scent to death. I actually made my own milk bath with some dry milk and lime oil. That's all that's in it, and I adore it. The lilac is also being a bit more forceful, but as I love all of these scents I'm not adverse to that. I want to scent lotion with this, I really do. I hope the boy likes it as it would smell heavenly on me. If he doesn't, though, I'd be perfectly happy with keeping it all.

In the bottle: That's leather all right. Not the soft smell of my leather coat, either, but the way the leather shop on the town square smells. The way it smells as it goes through each process. Wet: Very full-bodied leather. It doesn't smell unpleasant in general. It just doesn't really suit me. I'm probably more of a Whip or Wanda girl as I want something lighter in my leather smell. This would be wonderful on the boy, though, as it's a pretty masculine scent. Dry down: Leather with a slightly spicey kick. Again, I feel that this is much too masculine for me, but it conjures images of cowboys in chaps riding on horses and making gruff noises as they spite tobacco out of their mouths. Dry: Very strong leather. This scent remains true throughout. Very strong and dark and masculine with something at the edge that is a little spicey and exotic. I don't want to wear this, but I do want to slather it on the boy and bask in the smell of it.

In the bottle: Now, Snow White scares me a little because of some of the reviews on the forum, which I didn't read until after I bought the bottle. Almonds and coconut. I don't wish to really smell like either of these. I bought it, and it's here so let's try it out. Coconut and almond and something vaguely floral. It really doesn't smell like snow to me yet as it's too cloying. Wet: There's the crisp snow smell I was hoping for. I may hate snow, but I do like the smell of it. The way it makes everything seem clean and fresh. It's sweet and kinda milky, but not overpoweringly so. I can still detect a faint trace of maybe almond, but that coconut reek is gone. (I hate coconut.) This is nice, but it doesn't scream me. I don't even really like it all that much. It's creamy and rich and very...very cream colored in my mind. This is the beautiful milk maid. This is Buttercup in The Princess Bride. But I'm not Buttersup or even Snow White. I'm more like Rose Red. Dry down: A milky kind of floral. A little trace of lingering almond. Also some of the coconut, but it smells like what I imagine coconut milk would smell like rather than the plasticy coconut you buy in flakes at the store. I don't really like this as a scent for me or for the house. It's too...cream, which doesn't even make sense outside of my mind. Dry: Still a milky, almondy kind of flavor. I know this is a lab favorite and a forum one, too, but I just don't like it. I guess I should be glad my skin didn't turn it into anything revolting. After washing some of it off it was more like a rich vanilla smell, but I have lotion that smells like that and I don't really want to go through the other stages to get to the vanilla one. Oh well, you can't love them all.

In the bottle: This is red and green at the same time. This is exactly what I recall smelling when I sniff a rose growing in a garden and feel its soft petals against my face. It's truely amazing how they can replicate that scent so perfectly, but there it is. A rose garden contained in a bottle, always fresh and perfect. Wet: Very green to start with, a very earthy growing, cut stems and broad leaves kind of scent. But the gentle wahft of the rose petals themseleves start to gradually come out into the open. This is the last rose of the winter growing through the snow and it's scent has been transformed into something crisp and pure and red. Dry down: Still very much like stems and roses together. It's very nice and natural, but the green smell seems to be more prominent than the rose part, which is my fav. No, there's my rose. They just like to take turns and mingle. This is a very nice blend and different from the other rose blends in that it is more true to nature and there's been less blending done. The smell even ripes on your skin the way the rose does as the petals unfurl in the sunlight. Dry: My beautiful roses blooming on my skin. So soft and fresh and naturla. Red and green together with a touch of sweet that underlies the rose and the touch of earth in the stems. This is magical and very nice. A very real scent. I usually like my scents a touch sweeter so I'm not sure how much wea i'll get out of this, but i'm very glad that I bought it.

In the bottle: Can I eat it? Oh please, can I? It just smells so lucious and rich. Very deep and purple and something that I just want to sink my teeth into. Very much sugar and plums and a little bit of floral, but mostly just fruity goodness. Wet: Uh, huh. These bottles don't have reducers do I have to figure out someway to apply it. Rubbed the cap on my wrist. Still sweet and kinda plumey but more of the florals seem to be sticking their heads out now. It does somewhat resemble a kind of jam or bubblegum. That sweet note is just hovering over everything. The plum is just providing a background and the florals are kinda hit or miss at this point. Dry down: I think I smell like fruit bubblegum. Now I like fruit bubblegum. I think it smells pretty good. I had just been hoping that this would be a beautiful plum breeze with the slightest hint of sweet and floral rather than bubblegum. A little more of the florals, which are ncie especially tempered with the sugar. I still wish the plum had stuck around a little longer. Dry: A sweet smell that has both fruit and floral behind it. Still reminds me of gum. The plum is perking back up rather than sitting in the background, but I'm unsure as to how well I like this blend. It's truely stunning in the bottle. It just turns into something not so nice on my skin. Hmm, or did I speak too soon? The sweet plum seems to be in full effect now, and it's very ncie indeed. This is what I was hoping it would smell like on, and it does. I don't know how often I'd wear it, but it is a very happy, purple scent with just enough sugar and floral so that the fruit doesn't make you sick.

In the bottle: Radiant and sunny honeysuckle. I remember that my mother taught me how to pull the flower out and suck the sweet nectar from inside of the little yellow and white flowers. My grandparents had a vine on their fence, I think, and we visit in the summer and drink the nectar. Wet: It gets more jasmine when I put it on my skin, which is fine as I love jasmine as well as honeysuckle. This oil has a nice throw, too. There's more honeysuckle and something under it that's sweeter that has to be the buttercup. This is a fairly strong, heady floral but not one of those that I'm allergic to. It just says yellow as it should being the embodiment of the sun. Dry down: More jasmine now. I was kinda hoping the honeysuckle might be the prominent note as I have Ave Maria to provide me with my jasmine fill. But the jasmine is tempered by both the honeysuckle and the buttercup. Still not as noticeable as I'd like but a very nice scent overall. Very, very happy and yellow and just warm. Dry: It's sweeter now as the notes become closer to one scent rather than trying to upstage each other the way they were earlier. More of the honeysuckle, which is a very good thing. A nice scent. It's kinda light and summery and warm. Very pretty. It's more of a heavy floral than I usually like as most of my floral favs are tempered with tea orherbs or fruits. But I could see myself wearing this. I don't think it's big bottle worthy, but I'm glad I have the imp. It does have the slightly bad characteristic of reminding me of a candle or a Glad Plug-in, but that's probably just me trying to relate it to something I've smelled. ETA: And, as always with me, the scent is different from wrist to wrist. My left is mostly jasmine and the right if predominantly honeysuckle. As long as my skin divides fragrances like this every perfume is really two in one.

In the bottle: That's a very different kind of floral than the ones I've grown accustomed to with BPAL. It's kinda...not heavy but cloying. I could see how this would drag Ophelia down. There's also the hint of something sweet to it and, yes, water, clear streams. Wet: It's got something of a green scent to it and there's that sweet note. It's a very fruit sugar kind of note. This has a pretty good throw and the throw smells a little different than the oil that's right on my wrist. It does smell like a nice, upscale perfume. Dry down: It's still got that heavy, sweet note. I have no clear idea of what any of things in it smell like on their own other than roses and who knows if white smell like the others. Oh, I can smell the rose in the throw. And that bright green is probably the lotus as I had something else with the ivy and it surely didn't smell like this. This is bright and trickling, a very water over stones and petals kind of scent. The throw is really incredible. Usually, I just smell scents straight on my skin so it's odd that I can smell the throw. Dry: I like this. I do, even though it's a bit more floral and less water than I had imagined. It morphs with time, too, the distance between the oil and my nose. It smells like a candle or incense or something that I had once. It's very nice. It's a little serious, though, and I don't know if I want a big bottle. I'm definitely keeping the imp and wearing it. probably more in the spring or summer than now. I'll give it a few more wears and decide how much I need for the future.

Wet: Sweet berries with a slight green twinge. Something almost...I don't know what heather is supposed to smell like. This is nice, but I'm worried about it giving me a headache. And it's not one of those instantly fall in love ones like I was hoping. It's still rather nice. Dry down: Berries lightened with that touch of floral. This is less complex than a lot of the other scents. I'm not saying that's bad. I have to be very careful with complex scents as I never know what note might be making me ill or sending me into convulsions of happiness. Dry: The floral wants to become the predominant scent, which is okay as it's not one of those florals that sends me running to the bathroom looking for soap. It's a very nice floral, and I'm quite fond of it. I was just hoping for berries. Really, I kinda want to smell like a Strawberry Shortcake doll only in blackberry rather than strawberry. What can I say? I'm a geek like that. This is a much more mature scent that I thought it would be, which makes sense for Glasgow. There's that breath of berries mixed with that nice floral. I haven't decided whether I want a big bottle, but I do really like this scent. I'll wear it a couple more times to see how it plays out.

I like my reducers. By bottles of Libra and Titania have them and I'm very pleased. I want to put both these scents in roller bottles because I want to be able to apply more scent. The problem is that I don't want all these extra bottles. Does anyone know if the 5ml bottle caps would be exchangable with 1/8oz or 1/4 caos from The Sunburst Bottle Co? I'm terrible with conversions. Otherwise I'd try the math myself.

In the bottle: This is one of the boy's favorite scents, and I'm somewhat afraid that he'll wear it down to nothing before we can get a bottle here. That means that I have to be very nice to this imp and possibly go scurrying around the forum looking for more. That said, though, let's review. Pepper and herbs with the slightest hint of a floral. Overall, it's a lot gentler than I thought it would be. I was expecting things like musk and patchouli, but this is little more than an herbal with a pepper kick so far. Wet: Pepper. That's what it says to me. Pepper. But not like the pepper in Callie, which drove me up the wall. This is a more refined pepper that's tempered with herbals. Wow, I can actually picture a hill with herbs growing on it in the light of the full moon. There's a floral note in the background as if this might be a flowering herb. Dry down: This starts to dry pretty quickly. It's an herbal/floral with a kick. A very brown smell as opposed to green for me. Green herbals are very fresh and clean. This is darker and has more spice to it, more pepper if you will. But the slight floral tames it and clams everything down. Dry: Still herbally, though the pepper has mostly faded and the floral is in the background. It really smells like nothing I've ever smelled before so I'm running out of good comparitions for it. It has something underneath it which provides a citrus smell that isn't really. And that description in and of itself makes no sense. The floral is also taking over a bit but leaving the herbal note under it for a heavy backing. This is dark and brooding. It's nice, but is another of those scents I'd never wear. It smells pretty good on the boy, though, and, after several hours, even turns to faint roses on him. Surprisingly enough, he doesn't mind that fact. This is nice on me, but it doesn't speak to me the way scents like Dormouse, Severin and Titania do. So I'm washing it off and putting the imp aside for him.

In the bottle: Wow, that's nasty. Oh, ick. I think it's the musk. I think it's killing me. This blend may be too masculine for me to even swipe onto my poor female wrist. Wet: On, it's much better. Except for that weird sour smell. I can smell leather but either the vetiver or the black musk is making it smell really funky. I so should not be wearing this. My skin knows this and is revolting. Strongly. I don't really like musk. I just wanted to ewvire this. *whine* Now I just want to smell it on the boy. I'm sure it's lovely on him because I cannot pull this off. Dry down: Vetiver, which I'm not a big fan of. This smells so bad on me that I'm washing it off now. This is one of the boy's blends that I ripped off so I could review it. Well, I'm sure it smells wonderful on him, but it should never be put back on me.