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The violet in Faith made me realize that I do love violets. And Hope made me love rose, which I usually run from. Aside from those, I've got a few favorites in the sweet floral category (which I love too) Daiyu Purple Phoenix - this is the most purple scent I've ever smelled, sweet purple florals Euphrosyne The Flower Song Black Lotus (lotus is always a sweet floral to me)

In the imp: Acai Berries!! Berries with a teeny bit of floral. On me: Wet I got a whole lot of acai and not much else. On the drydown it gets musky and blends beautifully with the acai berry. I also get plum, but it's not listed as a note (it's probably the musk). I get a bit of teak leaf to ground the scent beautifully, but only a smidge of indestinct florals.

Daiyu: Moroccan jasmine, chrysanthemum, tea leaf, white musk, and acai berry. In the imp: Berries!! Berries with a bit of floral. On me: Wet I got a whole lot of acai and not much else. On the drydown it gets musky and blends beautifully with the acai berry. I also get plum, but it's not listed as a note. I get a bit of teak leaf, but ont much jasmine or chrysanthemum. I am really liking this, but as I have to be picky to not end up buying the entire grindhouse I am still not sure if a bottle of this will be purchased.

Swadhisthana: Sacral: The Glory of Vishnu, The House of Varuna, One’s Own Abode The Six-Petaled Lotus. The unconscious, the sweetness of life, desire, pleasure, sexuality, procreation, emotion. Swadhisthana is the manifestation of passion, the reconciliation, balance and union of the masculine and feminine within ourselves. In Swadhisthana, we learn to give and receive pleasure. It is the stimulation of the life force, the basis for life itself, and our force on the physical plane. In this chakra, our samskaras are cloistered, and in this chakra they find expression. Because of the highly sexual identification of this chakra, many find its temptations and trials very difficult to overcome. **This is the first Chakra that I've tried, and WOW! I need to try more of them. In the bottle: A deliciously dark incense blend, very sensual and unique. The reviews say floral and/or citrus? But I got none of either one. I did get a bit of an iodine type of smell too. On me: Whoa. Well, it works, it is very sexual! On me this was a very sensual incensey blend with a sharp something that my nose couldn't identify (the iodine-ish type smell, but not in a bad way). At one point (once the chakra started working...), it turned into waffles with a super strong throw, and then went back to being incensey without any waffle traces. I'll have to reserve this one for special occasions.

An example of skin chemistry gone very wonky.... In the decant: a delicious sweet almond (mostly almond) with a tiny bit of sarsparilla peeking out. On me: This was absolutely amazing for about 15 minutes - a sweet almond blend with a kick. And then.....it turned to soured milk that had been expired for a few weeks. This was much worse than Milk Moon 07. The worst part is, I was already in my car on my way to work when it turned into soured milk....and I had to open the windows and keep the nausea in check.

Thank you!! I'll be adding Hellion and Red Phoenix to my wishlist and hope I get lucky. I do have an imp of Blood Countess, hadn't thought of that but I'll go home and give it a shot.

Have you lovely smelling ladies come across any GC scents that smell like Nahemoth (a Sephiroth)? I absolutely adore this scent, and have a wee little imp and can't seem to find any more of her. But I'd be willing to try her twin or close relative. Please.

Tristan is a very sexy masculine scent. The redwood and sandalwood are sweetened up a bit by the tonka, with the lemon peel lightening up the scent so it isn't too woodsy. The coriander is in the background, rounding out the scent with a bit of herbal goodness that blends in perfectly with the woods and lemon peel. I love this on me, but I need to sneak it onto the boy somehow because I think it would smell dead sexy on a guy.

Resurrection of the Flesh: Frankincense, hyssop, heliochrysum, ylang ylang, copal, angelica, and rose geranium. Featured in the Salon: detail of the fresco. In the imp: WoW! The resins and ylang ylang blend so beautifully together. A quick test tells me this will be a favorite. On me: a delicious incensey blend fused with the beauty of ylang ylang. For maybe half an hour. And then it fades to almost nothing. My skin ate it, and in eating it the fragrance that is left isn't even classifiable. It's something, but so faint that it isn't much. I am very disappointed by this.

Two Monsters: Oakmoss, vetiver, black musk, champaca flower, leather, patchouli, ginger, Japanese pittosporum, ambergris and white pepper. In the Imp: Upon first sniff I didn't think it would work. I got a lot of leather, which has a 50/50 chance of going wrong on my skin, and vetiver, whichusually goes wrong on me if it's GC but not with CD blends. Wet: The wrong kind of leather and some rotted spinach smelling vetiver underneath. I didn't even wait for the drydown and tossed it into the swaps pile. And then, 10 minutes later, this scent morphed into one of the most amazing scents I have ever tried. Talk about a morpher!!! It reminds me of Temple Viper, another favorite. The leather blends beautifully with the resins and champaca to create an slightly leathery sweet incense scent that is absolutely amazing!! Must hoard. It has a very good throw and I get the feeling has a pretty long staying power too. Oh yes, I need a bottle.

Upon first sniff I didn't think it would work. I got a lot of leather, which has a 50/50 chance of going wrong on my skin, and vetiver, whichusually goes wrong on me if it's GC but not with CD blends. Wet: The wrong kind of leather and some rotted spinach smelling vetiver underneath. I didn't even wait for the drydown and tossed it into the swaps pile. And then, 10 minutes later, this scent morphed into one of the most amazing scents I have ever tried. Talk about a morpher!!! It reminds me of Temple Viper, another favorite. The leather blends beautifully with the resins and champaca to create an slightly leathery sweet incense scent that is absolutely amazing!! Must hoard.

Bilquis: Honey, myrrh, lily of the valley, rose otto, fig leaf, almond, ambrette, red apple, and warm musk. In the imp: Sweet delicious honey and almond. Heaven!!! On me: The almondy sweetness vanishes, and the rose otto comes to the forefront. At first it was a very perfumey blend, but now it is almost entirely rose. This would be wonderful for a rose fan, as it is a very complex and slightly sweet rose blend.... but I am not a fan so I'll have to pass on this one.

Temple Viper is my absolute favorite snake, and I will be hoarding several bottles of this. In the bottle: It definitely has a strong Snake Oil presence, but with a sweet incensey quality. I get mainly frankincense, champaca, and sweet sugar cane. The labdanum and hyssop are there in the background. On me: A bottom layer of Snake Oil with sweet incense blooming on top. Still a very strong frankincense, champaca, and sugar cane presence....but now the other notes come out to play with them. Opoponax and labdanum blend in with the frankincense to make it even more incensey delicious, and sweetens it up a little more. The hyssop gives the blend a touch of herbal goodness, but not overwhelming. Love!

Spider: White ginger, artemesia, vetiver, nutmeg, King mandarin, bergamot, and lime. In the imp: sweet masculine goodness. Indistinct notes, but it smells wonderful. On me: First, I "blind" tested, as I grabbed the imp without looking at the notes. This has vetiver and it doesn't smell like rotted spinach!! Yay!! On me: A very beautiful masculine sexy scent, and it smells wonderful on me. The ginger and bergamot work beautifully together, and I believe I'm getting some King mandarin too. No lime in sight, but that's good because citrus usually goes weird on me. This one is a major shock - it's got vetiver AND lime and it still smells freaking awesome on me!!! I think me needs a bottle of this. There is something femininely sexy to me about wearing awesome smelling masculine scents.

Mr. Nancy: Sugar cookies with bay rum, tobacco, and lime. In the imp: Sweet cookie yumminess!!! On me: Where did the cookie go? I smell like bread dough with a whole ton of cinnamon in it. No cinnamon in the notes, could it be the bay rum? Only bay rum usually doesn't smell like cinnamon to me though. Very strange. This will be a pass.

Lady Una:Honey musk, green tea leaf, blackberry leaf, vanilla bean, and fae spices. In the imp: Deliciously honey musky blackberry. Yummy!! What are fae spices? On me: I am getting a lot of honey musk and peach, even though peach isn't listed in the notes. Everything else ran and hid - I'm thinking I smell the fae spices but I can't pinpoint that. It's very faint, not a lot of throw or staying power. It smells good, but it's not my kind of scent. I was hoping for a honey-berry-vanilla scent, and this was definitely not that.

I really wanted to love this. In the imp: I got a little currant and undetectable florals, no mint at all, but it was very very faint. On me: I'm wearing perfume? Really? Where is it? Even with my nose up to my wrist I could barely smell anything. I couldn't smell enough of the perfume to pick out any notes, so this one is definitely not for me. I've never had any BPAL go into stealth mode like this, what a shame.

Philosopher in Meditation: Smoldering woodfire embers, Galen’s Kyphi, and Abramelin incense. In the imp: Hot - fire hot and incense smoking. I'm not familiar with Galen's Kyphi so I'm not sure what I'm smelling. On me: Incense!!! Deep, dark, delicous incense!! It is sweetened up by something that I can't quite figure out, and smells so very lovely. If I smell like incense, I am happy, and this is no exception. It's a unique incense, different from the other incenses that I've tried. Methinks a bottle is needed.

Lucretia: Iris, black amber, sage, Kashmir wood, vanilla musk, mandarin and violet. In the bottle: Yuck - pure iris! I almost didn't even test it, but thankfully I did. On me: A sharp violet! The iris hides, thankfully. The violet blooms and definitely takes the forefront, its beauty is accentuated by the amber, sage, and vanilla musk. They blend beautifully to de-floralize the violet while still keeping a strong violet presence (confusing, but I don't know how else to describe it). This is a gorgeous scent.

I think this is going to be one of my favorite categories!! Madonna: Hyssop, pomegranate, Angel’s Trumpet, Indonesian patchouli, iris, white orchid, and frankincense. OMFG I need buckets of this!!!!!! The white orchid dominates, but is balanced out by the pomegranite to make this a very sweet beautiful orchid. The hyssop (I think) sweetens it up nicely, and the frankincense makes it resiney enough to give a bit of an incense feel. This is heaven!!!! Bottle - yes, must have bottle. Love and Pain: Lavender, Balkan tobacco, black musk, dark vanilla, and golden copaifera. This is the most beautiuful lavender blend!!! The tobacco keeps it from getting overly floral, but didn't stand out on its own (thankfully, because I amp it like crazy). The dark vanilla and black musk work beautifully to turn the lavender into a very dark purple type of scent, very sensual. Bottle is definitely needed!! Death and Life Completed: Grey amber, carnation, lemon balm, hydrangea, Chinese peony, white sandalwood, cypress, juniper, cedar, hibiscus, and African daisy. Peony!! This is what I wanted peony moon to smell like. For me it's mostly peopny and hibiscus, no amber anywhere unfortunately. The sandalwood and cedar complement the florals very niceley and give it a bit of a woodsey feel. Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Those Condemned to Death: Accords of peach kernel, hemlock, aconite, and belladonna, with bitter almond, saffron, honey, myrrh, hyssop, frankincense, and palm. It's hard to tell what I'm smelling specifically, but the honey in this is amped A LOT! I think it's the honey/almond combination. This is so well blended that I can't pick out the notes. It smells very good, but it's not "me" so I'll probably pass on this one.

In the bottle: sweet orchid!! Yummy! On me: Orchid darkened by frankincese and sweetened by something (hysspo maybe?). The pomegranate keeps this from being overly floral and really accentuates the beauty of the orchid. The frankincense makes it a little bit incensey, which I love! No iris in "sniff" thankfully, as it doesn't usually work for me. The patchouli is hiding somewhere, I think it's keeping the blend from being omg floral, which is great. This reminds me of a sweeter and less perfumey version of Tom Ford's Black Orchid, which makes me a happy girl because I loooove it! This is definitely a favorite!!

Yvaine: The high, crystalline scent of a star-filled night with blue lavender and lush magnolia. In the imp: Not sure about this, it doesn't smell very appealing and I get some sort of citrus? On me: This totally blossoms, and the weirdness goes away. The lavender is sweetened up by something in there, and the magnolia peeks out but doesn't make the blend overly flora. It really does embody Yvaine, to my Stardust-loving-self. This is very yummy and a bottle is needed.

I am on the hunt for the perfect ylang ylang blend. I looooove this flower! But when she is in perfume, I don't like it to be super floral, so I'm looking for not-so-floral ylang. A few of my favorites have ylang without being floral: Skuld Et Lux Fuit Loralei Any other suggestions on a not-super-floral ylang? Tiki Queen went awfully wrong on me, and I'd had such high hopes for her!

Antonino, The Carny Talker: White musk, wild plum, vetiver, black coconut, verbena, fig, and lavender. In the imp: I was expecting this to be dark, and was scared of the vetiver (usually my nemesis). Instead, I got this beautiful feminine scent of plum, verbena, and fig. Couldn't find the coconut, and thankfully not the vetiver. On me: A beautiful blend of precious. The vetiver hid, and I'm ever sooooo thankful!! The musk helped the plum and fig bloom without being fruity. The verbena gave it a teeny bit of citrus so change things up, and the lavender really rounded this scent out beautifully. The coconut helped make this scent sweet, but I can't detect any coconut on me. I think Antonino was really "Antonina" because this is a very feminine scent. I'm in love, and must get a bottle of this before CD comes down.

The Organ Grinder: Almond milk, sarsaparilla, tobacco smoke, black patchouli and white pine bark. In the imp: A delicous almondy scent, though not as strong of an almond as those with almond oil. I also get some sarsaparilla and pine bark, but this is so well blended I can't pick out the other notes. On me: Better than in the imp! A beautiful almond/woodsy scent. For about half an hour/45 minutes that is. It then decided to turn into disgusting SOURED MILK! About as bad as Milk Moon 07 - ick. Thankfully the throw still smells pretty good, and I only get strong soured milk upon sniffing my wrists, but it's awful. And I can't seem to wash it off, so I'm stuck with it. And I can't smell too closely because it makes me nauseous. So far it seems determined to last on my skin all freaking day. This is not nice.