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Fresh, green juniper, like when you squeeze a juniper berry between your fingers, and a little herbally lemon. A very fresh, clean scent.

This is a dusty, sweet, slightly nutty scent. I guess it's sweet in the way nuts are sweet, which is a little earthy and a little fatty. This is not a gourmand vanilla - it smells more like the bean pod after you've scraped the seeds out. This fig isn't the normal powdery sweet fig I'm used to. It is just a little sweet.

This is a worn, soft, faded black leather scent. There's a little paper sweetness, but not much. It's mainly leather. Leather often goes loud and wonky on me, but this one behaves itself. It is comforting and nostalgic.

I get snow, ferns, and citrusy herbs. It is very evocative of a bright, cold winter night.

Nag Champa tends to go Ivory soap on me, and this is no exception. It's soap with resin. Then just Ivory soap.

This is a woolly blanket. It is sweet and thick and pilled and cozy. I can ID sweet coffee in the sweetness of this scent, but don't notice much milk. This is totally fine with me because milk and I don't always get along. This has great sillage and lasts a good while on me. I don't think this is a bottle for me, but I might hang onto the imp.

Gardenia tends to go soapy on me, so I don't have high hopes. Also, milk and cream scents don't usually work on me. This is a surprise. It smells a lot like Lush's silky underwear on me. It is creamy, sweet gardenia with just a little hint of green that smells a little like cucumber peel. It has that watery green freshness. It is really quite nice.

Usually silver metallics go way too cologne on me. This is a clean aquatic with a little floweriness and salt in it. Maybe some ozone, but not heavily so. A little black musk, maybe silver musk? This smells really good.

Sweet amber vanilla and clovey carnation. I love it.

This is an aggressive beeswax scent. It's a louder Light of Men's Lives with more honeyed amber sweetness, and a more serious O without as much sweetness. This dries down to a beautiful honey amber with a little beeswax waxiness. It's golden, glowing, and soothing.

I wish my dogs smelled like this! Bub is sweet, spicy, grass. It smells like the bright, sunny love I have for my dog. Bub must've been a very good boy. ETA: My nose has learned more notes. This is in the same family as No One is Above the Law on Me. It has the same sunny notes without any floral. I would say there's amber, bergamot, grass, a little spice, and something a little bubbly I can't ID. It might be a furry musk. Still is beautiful and makes me a little weepy.

This smells good. The leather is more of a warm, snuggly brown smell. This isn't flashy. The hemp and rosin add some sweet waxiness and a dry vegetal note.

Ooooo, this is nice. This is a gentle patchouli, a little dirty but kept from getting filthy by the sweet fig and fruity mango green tea.

Soapy rose with maybe some chamomile?

My first sniff without notes was lily of the valley with a little soft lemon. This is a powdery, sweet, cool white scent. I think the most prominent notes on me are the jasmine (being demure for once), myrrh, neroli, and a little bergamot. This is an innocent, pretty spring scent for me.

The King of Hearts is a sexy man. At first it was a pretty, sweet rose, but then it dried down to a beautifully blended scent where no one scent is louder than the others, they're all supporting each other in a harmonious blend. I get the rosewood, sweetened by black cherry, and then a nice, mellow herbal lavender that isn't too astringent. The musks are hanging out in the background but not trying to dominant. Usually red musk goes haywire on my skin and rose can be overly loud, but here they behave and play well with the other notes.

Oh, this is not good. This is soap with a weird, sour, bilious scent. It's almost like soap and rotten fruit.

Woodsmoke is the most dominant note on me with a hint of labdanum and a feral smell that I'm assuming is the musk. It's not unpleasant, but it's not my kind of scent. It is interesting and I want to keep sniffing it.

This is buttery extra sugary kettle corn with a side of cotton candy. It's making me hungry and activating my sweet tooth! It's a fun, lighthearted scent.

initially this is a smokey cocoa mint - initially I thought it had vetiver in it. It softens to a cozy, subtle sweet mint , earthy chocolate cedar. It's cozy and warm. I don't get pistachio or oakmoss. Neither chocolate nor mint work very well on me so I shouldn't like this scent as much as I do, but they actually work with the cedar grounding them (my skin loves cedar).

This is a sweet, slightly sweetgrassy clove. It isn't fiery. It's sweet, soft (for clove), and comforting.

Starts off with a strong herbal lavender. It dries down to a soft, cottony tuberose. Tuberose smells like a plug-in or laundry detergent on me, tropical ones. This is a really good smelling detergent. I wouldn't be mad if my sheets smelled like this at night. I think the moss is helping to keep the tuberose from being too loud and a little more soft and cottony than normal.

I love daffodils, all varieties, and I love the way they all smell so I was compelled to get this. First on, it is a big loud floral. It's a little poopy in the way oud can be (is that indolic?), with some undercurrents of citrus. It's a little difficult to manage at this point the sillage is crazy. I'm overwhelmed by the smell of it in the crook of my elbow. I'm thinking this might be the poet's narcissus because it's similar to other narcissus notes I've smelled, e.g., hunger. As it dries down, it quiets, the poopiness goes away, and it turns into a beautiful yellow daffodil scent. Just sweet and bright like the hope of spring. The throw isn't as overwhelming and it lasts a good time. I'm hoping with aging it'll calm down and I won't have to go through the poopy phase to get to the pretty phase. ETA: Wearing it now several weeks later, it has totally calmed down. It is now a beautiful sunny daffodil scent with a little green. It's just gorgeous and springy. It has strong sillage but doesn't last long (just like the ephemerals it represents!).

It's that carrot seed snow that fights with beautiful sandalwood. The loud snow wins and then the scent disappears. The sandalwood is really gorgeous when it's on top.

2019 - When I sniff this I see the crumble strudel topping from an apple crisp. It is sweets oats and warm spices. It is a foodie scent on me. I don't get any sweet potato. Great. Now I want to make an apple crisp. It is making my wrist where it is applied itchy.