Coldfire

Imp: Mint over grapefruit Wet on Me: Mint over aquatic green Drying Down: aquatic mint over lotus. Very faint. Dry: less mint now. Pale whispers of the white champagne dancing around the lotus and aquatic blooms all blending together. Very delicate and ethereal.

Imp: aquatic lilies with wood haunting the background Wet on me: More wet lilies and now that slight off note of the dried leaves Drying Down: wow…this fades out SUPER fast. Just this light ghostly blend teasing my nose. Dry: very faint. Your nose has to wrok at it to catch the scent. Pale while lilies floating on the water is what I get. No woods at all and the crushed leaves are gone. Quite nice. Keeping

Imp: wow..the pine hits the nose first..and the clove smoke as well. Wet on Me: Pine, basil, clove and the cumin believe it or not. Crossing fingers that “note-which-must-not-be-named” does not join the party and ruin it for me. Drying Down: So far so good….the musk is faint..and despite the name and description this is not unpleasant so far. Dry: I think this so far is the only scent with vetiver in it that does not hate me. Altho now that it has dried down..it has a medicinal band-aid scent to it. Weird-o-rama!

Imp: soft – yes, vanilla - yes, powdery – yes Wet on Me: sweet and soft but not too sugar sweet. Drying Down: definitely getting flashes of something other than a sweet powder scent. Dry: sweet powder. Nice but I think that re-homing it might be better

Decant: Peach wine and blood orange for sure. Wet on me: Still lovely peach wine with that blood orange back up. I’m getting something under all that. Is it the Osmanthus or the Woodviolet or the tuberose…only time will tell Drying Down: Seriously…Peach wine. It does not get better than this. I’m even getting a tad of the carnation in the background. I’m sooo loving this. Dry: Wow. I still get the peach wine, wee shots of the blood orange, but now carnation has joined the hallelujah chorus along with the tuberose and theosmanthus. HALLELUJAH indeed!

Bergamot and French lavender. Decant: Lavender love. I might swoon Wet on Me: Still Lavender Love. I am swooning. Drying Down: Still in a lavender swoon. Bare hints and suggestions of bergamot below in an undercurrent. Loving this! Dry: Oh me Oh MY! I’ve gotten the vapors. The lovely lavender vapors of Pontia. THIS is serious lavender love and a bottle MUST be obtained!

Imp: at first sniff…vetiver and dirt Wet on me: more dirt and less of the evil vetiver Drying Down; dirt, woody but that initial vetiver vibe has gone away. Almost …ALMOST get a trace whiff of patchouli in this. Dry: This seems to have dried out with a nice patchouli vibe to it. None of that stale vetiver any more.

Imp: green and wood! So far so good! Wet on Me: On me I love this Sam I am. I like it better than green eggs and ham! Drying Down: I love wood. If I could I would live in the woods. This smells like the woods. Like the trees on a late summer day. There is even some green in there that wants to share! Dry: this is the perfect scent for a forest loving earth mama like me. It’s not any one tree or green scent..but the scent of standing in the middle of a clearing in a forest all lush and pretty, just waiting for magick to happen. Magick happened on my wrist with this one.

Imp: definitely a flower. Pretty but not overly sweet or powering Wet on Me: still flower…but with a kind of powdery vibe to it. Drying Down: this fades out very fast…like a hazy memory Dry: went with the wind this did. Like a high you vaguely remember.

Imp: woah….vetiver first. Wet on Me: less vetiver and more…chrysanthemum? This is a first Drying Down: the rose and veitiver overpowered the mum and morphed into something I can’t quite relate to. Dry: This one is just there. It’s not getting me excited but I am not hating it. It’s just there. To re-home

Imp: mmmmm violet and jasmine maybe Wet on Me: still a tad more violet than anything else. Drying Down: violet…some jasmine…not sure if I’m getting the incenses or the fruits….but I’m getting something. Dry: It’s violet and jasmine. Everything else seemed to be too scared to come and play with me.

Imp: Amber over vetiver. I’m trying but the intial whiff is almost an automatic repel for me Wet on Me: Already I’m having my aversion to Vetiver. It’s stale earth and baby powder from jump street Drying Down: now it smells like band-aid. Srsly! It smells like a new band-aid. Dry: Baby Powder scented band-aids. Where is my Tonka? Where is the Carnation? And the Orris? I feel left at the altar on this. I know that I amp Amber to baby powder, and that vetiver hates me with a burning fierce, but not even the musk came out to play in this group. At least I got to try it and now it will be re-homed to someone that it likes better. Cause girrrrrrl it hates me!

Imp: smells like wine freshly poured out on the dirt as an offering Wet on Me: I can smell the earth but it’s not sour earth, it’s a sweet earth Drying Down: I love how the dirt notes haunt this scent. It’s a nice wine alrighty, but the dirt it haunts it so. Dry: This makes like a vamp and fades pretty darn quick in the daylight, but it leaves vague scent memories that make you think something happened and you are trying desperately to remember. I like this.

Imp: I get the dragon’s blood and the pepper and clove Wet on Me: Less Dragon’s blood and more pepper now. But not in a make you sneeze way Drying Down: now a balance has been struck between the clove and the dragon’s blood and it seems it was negotiated by the black pepper with the blessing of saint cinnamon. But with out the burn of cinnamon. Dry: Clove, and Black Pepper are doing the lambada while Cinnamon croons in the background on the dragon’s blood dance floor. So this is how the truce goes? A dirty dance-off?

Imp: I smell the spice and the lotus more than the lavender Wet on Me: Lotus over lavender, the lotus sweetens the lavender with touches of the spicey vibe I get from carnation Drying down: definitely spicy more than anything. Sweet spicy, like a carnation. Dry: I’m so getting carnations over lotus out of this. No lavender. I love lavender. Nice that I tried this tho.

Imp: WOAH! Green vetiver to me Wet on Me: Green and Vetiver dusty Drying down: touches of Mr Clean in this. Mr Clean is Wolfsbane? Dry: a woody, sometimes green Mr. Clean. Not sure HOW my nose is getting that.

Imp: earthy with wood undertones and slight green whispers under those Wet on me: more woody now and then earthy and then more whispers of green. Drying Down: More wood now and the earth seems to be taking the scent of patchouli. Very little green now. Dry: Mostly a wood. Hardwood it seems, with undertones of patchouli when you breathe in deep enough and waaaay in the back as a ghost is the green. I like this. Glad I got to try it.

Imp: heavy, and herby Wet on Me: Still Heavy and herby with an ancient vibe Drying down: Sweet herbal.heavy. dusty Dry: heavy and syrupy and herbaly. Just about too heavy for me. I think I’ll re-home this one.

Salt air, ocean mist, aged patchouli, sarsaparilla, watered-down rum, leather-tinged musk, and a spray of gunpowder. Imp: ooooooI can smell the salt air and the ocean mist Wet on Me: OMG this rocks so much. Salt air, ocean mist, some sasparilla… Drying Down: Nose has firmly attached itself to my hand now. This is totally standing on the deck of a pirate ship. ARGH! Dry: This is another keeper and must get bottle. I’m standing on the deck of an old ship sailing to nowhere and loving it while wearing this. Lovecity!

Imp: Jasmine! With the tuberose! Wet on Me: More jasime but balanced with the tuberose Drying Down: rose…regular rose is coming out and stepping on everything. Dry: Sad. Stale. Once the rose started stepping on everything it all went south for me. Off to the trade pile

Imp: LILY! Wet on Me: Supermarket heavy Easter Lily Drying Down: spicy lily now. the easter lily scent is gone! Dry: Spicy lily which makes this okay to me.

Imp: woah. Super heavy lily Wet on Me: still super heavy lily. But not that supermarket Easter lily smell Drying Down: really heavy lily but this has this undertone of dark and mesmerizing. Dry: this mellowed down on me after a while. This might be a lily I can handle

Imp: honey and something I can’t out my nose on Wet on Me: woah too sweet! The honey gets overpowering on me the second it hits my skin Drying Down: Wow…honey is just too sweet for my nose. I’m not getting anything but this honey my skin seems to amp. No herbs or anything. Dry: Honey. I want to love honey, but I amp honey into sweetness overdrive. I am glad I got to try this but it might be better loved somewhere else.

Imp: yuzu and aquatic flowers is what I’m getting in the imp Wet on Me: touches of the white grapefruit over the yuzu and aquatic flowers. Drying Down: this gets very faint after a while and the kumquat comes more to the forefront now. Dry: kumquat receded now and I get the yuzu and light floral. Very nice. Haunting and ethereal. I like it.

Imp: mmmmm carnations and chrysanthemum. Wow! Wet on me: Even better. Alrady the nose is locked to the wrist! Drying Down: I am sooo in love with this right now. I get the spicy and the flowers, slight traces of the sweet of the plum. Dry: OOOOOOO Keeper and must get bottle. Spicy Carnation and mum love! This is a total fall scent. Must have more to remind me of my favorite season.