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Straight out of the bottle I'm getting lily and honeysuckle. Maybe a hint of hyacinth. On dry down, the rose comes out. This is a very floral scent. I'm not horribly crazy about florals.

In the bottle I am getting a hint of carnation??? This smells like potion / christmas kisses / ruby slippers from Lush. *double checks bottle* Valentine of Rome, check. *checks ingredients* no carnation or cinnamon. *blinks* *smells some coffee beans* *smells it on skin* Woah. Still carnations. Spicy sweet yummy goodness. Not at ALL like I expected it to smell. Loving it, though. Might have to add it to the order list for a back up bottle... I can feel my skin doing the icy hot thing a tiny bit. Hmm.

Woah. When I open the bottle I can immediately smell sweet sweet caramel. Glad the boyfriend has a stuffed up nose or he'd be screaming "WHAT IS THAT SMELL???" and pinching his note shut. He hateses the food smells, precious. I totally want to drink this. Very very nice. On my skin, the tobacco and coconut are coming out. This is the first blend I've had where I can actually smell the coconut! What a huge morph from the bottle! No caramel at all now. It's getting spicy and red-black scented with dark gold glints now and again as the amber pokes up. Not sure I like this as much as I thought I would. But I feel a bit like I'm coming down with the boyfriend's cold -- my throat is getting sore and scratchy. Could be throwing off my chemistry and my sense of smell. BLAST. *edit* the more I smell it, the more I like it. A hint of the caramel sweetness has come back as a bottom note with the top being a coconut-y tobacco. Lovely.

Sniffing the bottle I get deep dark lovely earth tones as a top note. Bottom note is sweetened musk. Yum. On my skin and dry, it totally reminds me of something I love. The balsam and patchouli are coming out and the bottom is still a nice soft sweet deep musk. Very earthy.

The first thing I get when smelling this in the bottle is a floral date with a honey vanilla bottom. On my skin it has a bitter floral scent. As it dries, it retains that bitterness. I expected to love this one much more since the first note listed was honey! But it turned in a bitter floral on me. Scratching off the extra bottle I was going to order.

In the bottle I am reminded pleasantly of some other dark luscious bpal scents such as da.rk deli.cacies. On my skin it doesn't disappoint -- dark and sexy, deep but sweet.

In the bottle it's super yummy -- I am smelling a spicy rose violet cedar. The incense spice is the top note and the rose-violet-cedar are on the bottom. Very very nice. Dark. Dry on my skin it lightens up and becomes a lovely incensey rose-violet. VERY nice.

Wow! This has an amazingly cute label, but I love ratties. I don't really have a lot to add over what has been said. This is a scrumptious yummy MELON! In the bottle AND on my skin. Once it dries on my skin there is a little bit of floral lurking behind the melon. DANG IT. I might need more bottles. And with all of the huge updates coming up! *looks at empty pockets*

I put a pic of Frederic in my flickr gallery. (scroll up for link)

In the imp I'm getting dark old vetiver! Almost as a single note!! Dare I let it touch my skin?? Ok, why not. On my skin this totally reminds me (don't laugh) of one of my scratch and sniff books that I had as a child. Bambi's Forest. This smells like the scratch and sniff campfire smoke. Dead ringer. I'd totally forgotten about that book. I've always been a scent freak... when my mom lost me in a store she didn't worry. I'd be in the candle aisle, smelling candles happily. She could always find me. Waiting for the scent to dry.... still campfire smoke. Maybe with some dirt kicked over it. Wet dirt. Ok, as it dries it starts to smell a little more like incense as the patchouli is finally able to claw its way to the surface and breathe under the smotheringly selfish vetivert, who wants all the limelight! But it isn't a long or deep breath. Vetivert gleefully punches patchouli in the nose for the KO. Poor patchouli. This is earthy, stark, deep, and dirty. Smoky. If I were to wear this, I would sweeten it up a lot with a fruity scent (maybe some orange) or a vanilla. Yay for layering!

Another frimp from the lab! In the imp I'm getting that stale perfume scent. That one you get when you purchase a gift pack of perfume in different sizes, and the little bottles that aren't pressurized? They go stale. And smell like this. Underneath stale perfume I can smell some sandalwood. On my skin it smells like sandalwood bandages. Or something that reminds me of bandages. Quite odd. I've never had a scent be weird on me. But I guess the start in the imp wasn't all that promising. I'll try this one again in a few weeks and see if my chemistry is just off today or what the deal is.

A frimp from the lab! In the imp, I get spicy apples. A little bit of a cider tang. I think someone is eating what they are supposed to be guarding!! *peers at three headed dragon who looks away guiltily* On my skin, it's still apple. Oh wait. That's hyacinth in the background providing a sweet floral. The dragon's blood must be providing the hint of spice. There is a teeny hint of musk in the bottom when I exhale. Someone is not only eating the apples, she's rolling in the hyacinths. And hasn't had anything to guard the tree against for a while, as she's not hurt or bloody. A light, fruity, refreshing scent. Not really me -- I'm into darker, smokier, dirtier scents. But it is beautiful. I might try it in an oil burner.

In the imp this is WOAH! HELLO LEMON!!! Question for you guys -- "Terror and mortal fear" = "lemons"??? *taps foot* I mean, ok, lemons are SOUR and make you pucker. But sometimes puckering is a good thing. Except when it's Renee Zellweger. Ok, I get the terror and mortal fear part now. But on to the perfume! Ok, second sniff from the imp (after the terror and mortal fear have subsided enough to let me pry it open with my shaking sweating fearful fingers), I can sense that the lemon is more verbena. Grapefruit is baring its scary gnashing teeth at me. Except I'm really not that scared, I'm just trying to make Phobos feel good about his/her job. Shh. Come on, it must be tough to be a child of war and be... lemon scented. No wonder they are the embodiment of terror! They were probably picked on by the other children. 'HEY PHOBOS! YOU SMELL LIKE LEMON! And your daddy is WAR?? AHAHAHAHA.' Phobos probably had to kick a lot of ass to protect daddy's reputation. Maybe I really am scared of this one, as I'm delaying letting it TOUCH me! Shamed, I swipe it on my skin. Lemonade is my first impression. (Loviator is on my other wrist, taunting Phobos. 'Hey, I'm tougher than you! I smell like LEATHER!') As it starts to dry, my mouth is watering a bit. (Note to self, don't use foody perfumes when you're hungry.) Dry down reveals more grapefruit. (Ok, now I want greyhounds and lemondrops. And no, I'm not an alcoholic.) Verbena is coming back. Bottom is a becoming a bit muskier. Either the lemon decided to beat up my nose or it's shrinking. It's more of a verbena grapefruit top now with a slight soft musk bottom. Refreshing, sweet, and lemony. Maybe layering with a little snake oil would make it into lemon sugar cookies. Or with Sugar Cookie! I would think this definitely has a future as a layering tool. edit: Four hours later this is completely gone from my skin.

Frimped from the lab! Being a switch (except I'm not 50-50, I'm more like 95% top, 5% bottom), you'd think this would be a scent I'd want to wear when topping someone. In the imp it hits you first with a supple leather scent but quickly the amber and musk creep in to round out the bottom. Except they are fairly sweet instead of being dark and musky dirty. On my skin it smells pretty much the same as in the imp while it's wet. Then as it dries, it's still sweet and turns a little powdery. I'm getting leather - powdery amber - musk - sweet - leather - spice? - sweet. It's a nice smell but it isn't dark or dirty enough to make me think of topping. It reminds me more of what I thought Coyote would smell like, if he were a well washed house Coyote. Sweet furry leather with a bit of musk and sweet amber.

Frimped from the lab! In the imp it is very much an aquatic. Salty! On my skin I can smell it turn a bit green. Don't smell any bittersweet wine. On me it's just a salty green aquatic.

In the imp this smells bright with bergamot but has an underlying sweetness. As soon as I swiped it across my wrist I could smell it deepen and mature into something more spicy. Now that it is dry, I can smell mostly carnation with a sweet bottom. (Sweet bottom cracks me up, my friend calls her boy toy that.) Not sure if I'll get a bottle or not... I'll have to wear it alone for a day and see if I fall in love.

This is a smoky sandalwood sort of scent with a foody--almost like cocoa absolute--bottom. It really reminds me of VELVET. Seriously. But with some smoky qualities. And less vanilla sweet. With more sandalwood. (having just sniffed the two bottles side by side.) It's a yummy scent -- just not what I was expecting.

I got tired of waiting to be frimped with Snake Oil and finally just ordered a bottle. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? It's spice and vanilla! And of course I love it. But I am going to let it age as per everyone's recommendations.

I bought this one on impulse without sniffing first or reading the reviews. BAD BAD BAD me. BAD. I hate cherry and amaretto. I mean, it's the SIGNATURE SCENT. I SHOULD LOVE IT. I will let it age and see the amaretto scent dies a little.

In the imp this is almost fruity. I had to do a double take at the ingredients... hmmm no fruit here! Very sweet and a little mouthwatering. Bottom is a woody floral. Once it dries on my skin, the sweet pea spices it up a bit and the sweetness dies back to a reasonable level. The sandalwood and amber seem to ground it. Very nice, but Blood Amber (which I am wearing on the other wrist) actually smells more like what I expected THIS one to smell like -- sweet peas! Weird. And yes, I remember which wrist I put each one on. I'll have to try it again alone.

Slivers of warm, pulsating blood forever crystallized in golden amber resin. This is very much a sister to "Blood", which is all cherry on me with maybe a teeny hint of reinsy-spice. But the amber makes it a pit powdery. I tried this on one arm and Mouse's Long and Sad Tale on the other, and I keep thinking this one must be Mouse, because it almost smells like sweet peas. Sweet and a little spicy. I've been sniffing it all day and might need a bottle.

All I get from this is lavender lavender lavender. Maybe a slightly sweet finish. I loved it. This was the first imp that I've used completely. I wore it every night to bed and sprinkled some on my pillows. A bottle is in my future!! (And I'm sooo happy I just got frimped with another Sonmium today -- Somnus -- since I ran out of Baku!)

In the bottle: Dark and woodsy. A little musky. Teeny bit of bay. No rum, rose, or currant. Wet on skin: Woah, wood. Wood wood wood. (um? nm. Bad joke waiting to happen here.) Bottom of patchouli and musk. Dark. Deep. Moody. Lovely. Tiny bit of smokiness in the background. As it dries, a hint of rose creeps out. Mostly it just seems to bind it together and puts a sweet finish on it. Dry on skin: Very masculine on me -- musky patchouli with a woody bottom. Slight sweet hint of fruity rose. I *really* like it, but I think I would like it even more on the neck of snuggly hot guy. Sniffing my arm just isn't the same.

Ok, I uploaded photos of all of my bottles (well, most) to flickr. When I get around to resizing them, I'll put them in the gallery here. In the meantime: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twilight_bpal/ Muses are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twilight_bpal/2342155690/ And here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twilight_bpal/2341317971/

Eh? I bought Samhain in January from the lab's ebay auction and it came in a cobalt bottle. That makes it 2005 samhain? I hadn't smelled it previously. Hmmmmmmm.