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Tobacco Honey was nauseatingly gasoline-sweet to me.

Wet, it's herbal lemon and something else in particular that I can't identify. Floral, definitely, but I couldn't tell you what it is. Maybe bergamot instead of lemon? It reminds me very much of The Butterfly, but not as fuzzy. I've had it on all day (it's not loud, but it's tenacious) and it settled into something almost powdery, like amber.

Dirty/earthy patchouli blends that I can think of: Banshee Beat Ecstasy of True love is kind of a sister blend to Depraved, to my nose, although it's not as dirty Bat of Wealth Vixen (probably the dirtiest patchouli I can think of)

Love this. It smells just like sangria in the bottle and freshly applied on the wrist - a very cool, sweet, alcoholic blast of berry, but not hyper-sweet like the Luau scents. After it dries down, it's mostly just sweet berry musk. I can barely detect the amber, just a bit of warmth behind the musk. Yum. Edit to add that if you like Lampades, this is a definite family member, but a little softer and sweeter.

I don't like Pussy. When I rub it on my hand, it smells nasty. SERIOUSLY. It's very pretty in the bottle. Warm and golden and honey with herbs. Even on initial application, it's a lovely summery herby honey, and a beautiful background whuff of saffron. After ten minutes, it starts smelling funky. I think it's either the tobacco or the brown sugar. Actually, now that I've let it sit for a while longer, the funk has died off a bit. I think this is something I'll have to revisit in a few weeks or months.

Medb v4, a prototype. It's a sweet lemonade when it's wet, but it dries to down to vaguely lemony shortbread. J'adore.

My favorite hot weather scents are: Medb (this has aged nicely and smells less like lemonade and more like a lemon cookie) Ecstasy True Love Mead Moon O Hetairae I do like the sultry ones like Banshee Beat too - but I have to use considerably less of them when it's hot, because it doesn't take much for it to get overwhelming!

Red musk, patchouli, pomegranate, red currant, bourbon vanilla, nutmeg, sweet orange. In the bottle: whoa red musk. While slathering: whoa sweet orange. Now that it's been sitting on me for a while? Orange and patchouli. So very lovely...

Absolutely delicious in the bottle. On me... well, guess caramel is a death note in bath oil too. *sigh* Too bad, it was SO yummy until it sat on my skin for about half an hour!

What immediately came to mind were Szepasszony and Danube - both are aquatic florals, very cool, very pretty.

Oblivion. mmmm. I like Love's Philosophy quite a bit too.

You know how they say scent is a powerful memory trigger? Something in this has kicked me back about twenty years, and I'm not 100% sure what it is. It's making me think of this "create your own lotion" thing I read in a magazine or something once, and I have no idea what the ingredients were to do so, but it smells just like the results of whatever I made. It's very odd. It's kind of a combination between "clean cotton" and aquatic - very murky, musky floral. Pretty, but noooot my thing.

In principle, I love almost all of the notes in this blend except tobacco flower, and the castoreum is an unknown factor. It's a lovely light wood scent in the imp and when it's freshly applied, but thirty seconds later and the tobacco flower dominates. It's still got a woodsy undertone, and it's *almost* even kinda unisex/masculine, but alas, that nasty tobacco flower does not play well with my chemistry. sigh.

Reading all these reviews, it makes me wonder if I got the same blend as everyone else, because this smells like coconut wax crayon on me! I smell no pear, no carnation, nothing sweet - just coconut! It's definitely not suntan-lotion/oil coconut, though, which is definitely in its favor, but... yeah, I don't like smelling like a crayon, either. Oh well.

Bottle: sweet red musk. I smell the sugar and I smell red fruit, although it is not identifiably pom or raspberry. This is Dionysia stuffing herself with red velvet cupcakes and smoking a cigar afterwards. I was a little concerned about the sugar - it starts out a little sweet, but not hyper-sweet, and it mellows out almost immediately as the tobacco melds seamlessly with the sandalwood. I almost can't tell there's patchouli in this. Unfortunately, the frankincense is starting to amp, and whether or not the scent survives this will determine if I stash this or sell it. Stupid frankincense.

This one is a significant morpher. In the bottle, I smell a bright and clean pepper. Immediately on my skin, it smells like herbal tea. Given some time to warm up, it turns into a resinous musky patchouli that is very reminiscent of The Hag - warm and faintly fruity. Thankfully, the rose and the myrrh are also so faint as to have no soapy effect. It's very pretty, I'm sure it'll age nicely. ETA: there's also a mysterious pickle note in the bottle. It's definitely gorgeous once it's been on the skin for 10m or so, it's just a little odd til then!

While it's very delicate, the bergamot is surprisingly bitter and sharp, and it reminds me strongly of the CTV Amber I got over the summer, which had a note that I had parsed as lime peel, but after having smelled this? Could very easily have been bergamot as well. I think this will be a lot more interesting in 4-6 months when that's burned off a bit...

i have that on my wishlist, but wasn't sure if it'd be too boozy with it - did you find it that way? It's not a true raspberry by any stretch, it's raspberry punch, and by punch I mean hooooly cow is it alcoholic. I have not found a good true raspberry scent yet - it seems to be very hard to translate it to perfume without it being overly sweet or syrupy, when true raspberry is tongue-tinglingly tart. Dionysia is my favorite of the blends that *have* raspberry, but it's more of a general dark-tart-fruit than distinctively one berry.

Black tea with spices simmered with a clove-studded orange - a very citrussy chai. More citrus than spice. I'd almost agree with the cookie comparison, but I've never smelled cookies with that much citrus in them. Yum.

This one does indeed have a very high-pitched, bitter start to it - it smells like the white tea was steeped way too long, plus jasmine always tries to go cat-pee on me for the first couple of minutes. It morphs very quickly, though, into a low-key white floral - the jasmine is there, but while it isn't as *loud* as jasmine usually is, it still dominates the other notes to the point that only the white tea asserts itself. (I was terrified of the tobacco flower after Tobacco Honey, but I can barely detect it.) Between the initial bitterness and the soft floral that takes over, it's like getting a brief glimpse into the dark corners of someone's soul just before they put up the barriers of normalcy.

Hm. I tend to like the lab's LE honey blends, but this one really isn't doing anything for me, and I think it's because the red musk simply reminds me of SO many other blends that ... it doesn't really have a personality all its own. I can smell the Smut, I can smell the Snake Charmer, I can smell the Snake Oil, I can smell the Scherezade... the honey is far too low-key here. Maybe layered with O to kick it up... hm.

I got this as a bit of a joke, because my Warcraft character of 5+ years is named Hagrok and my nickname is Hag/Haggy, but I wasn't really expecting much with all those dark notes. To my surprise, a. it wasn't nearly as dark as I thought it would be, probably due to the currant sweetening it up just a tad and b. in six months or a year this might actually have a lot of potential. It's very bay-rummy, with just a touch of musk, and while I can smell the vetiver on first application, it fades into the background very quickly. It's thick and smoky without being eyewatering, and especially with the bay rum I think it will mellow out considerably. Edit to note that even after a couple of weeks, it's smoothed out into something deep and musky and sensual. I couldn't wear this every day, but I'm pondering a bottle now, if the Yules don't eat too far into my paypal budget.

I was all set to declare this my surprise hit of the weenies. It's beautiful on application - wet and green and gold, something I'd expect to smell upon waltzing into a field of marigolds after a rainstorm. Kept huffing my wrist, amazed at how much I liked it. Thought about getting a bottle. So pretty. After about ten minutes, though, all those marigolds are dead and rotting vegetation on my wrist.

Not as ferociously buttery as past pumpkins. I smell vanilla, but it may be vanilla musk as mentioned above, because it's very light. I'm pretty sure there's booze in the mix, too, because in the bottle it's light and sweet and alcoholic, like a specialty vanilla vodka, but on me it turns kinda sour, which is often what happens with booze blends. I'm sticking with using this as room spray!

It's amazing how right on the ball this is - soft sugary gum a couple minutes after you've first gotten it all chewed up and the flavor and the scent are still so ripe that people can smell your gum from five feet away, kinda like Bubbleyum. It doesn't come across as any particular *flavor*, though, just the straight-up bubblegum, like Extra Original. Impressive!