TooMuchTemptation

Milk Moon '05 is serious love for me, but I hadn't taken the opportunity to try Milk Moon 07 until now. As I sniff the bottle, I keep waiting for that full-bore, slightly minty butter cream smell of the old moon to come up, but it doesn't. There's definitely creaminess there, and I think I'm getting the hint of mint, but it's thinner smelling somehow. The second sniff I take brings me a very tropical fruity scent. When I put it on my skin, the first thing to waft up to me is pineapple. Not acidic fresh pineapple, but the juice that canned pineapple is packed in, with a slight muskiness. Where's my creamy goodness? Oh, wait, there it is, behind the pineapple. I don't know if it's the tropical fruity feel I'm getting from this, but the creaminess smells like coconut milk to me, not dairy milk. It's creamy, but not buttery. Pina Colada with ice blended in, and a touch of effervesence. As this dries, it becomes more like the 2005 version, but it's still more watery, almost aquatic, and underpinned by a very juicy fruit note, almost like the fruit I get from the dry down of Swank. I think it's the pomegranate and the white grape. Actually this is making me think of Shattered somehow, but with coconut. I'm digging it. I can't tease out the fig or date notes. In the end stages, it's sweet, musky, slightly powdery coconut. It's close to my skin, and a lot like what I wanted O to be. The honey in O turned to ass and diaper powder on me, but this blend keeps it pretty. It's like sweet, soft, sexy skin. This isn't the rich condensed milk comfort I get from 05, but I still like it. It's fresher, and more fun-it sparkles. It will be perfect for my summer needs. I think I'll search out another bottle of it. EDIT: I just realized that I reminds me of tropical fruit Life Savers candy. You know, the pale yellow pineapple one, and the white coconut one mixed!

I just got a bottle of this today. I've been dying to smell it, and now looking over the reviews, I feel lucky to have gotten it. When I opened the bottle I got a big old wallop of sweet cream. The initial waft reminds me of the sweet cream ice cream you can get from Amy's or Coldstone Creamery. Not vanilla, but a rich, sweet milkiness that is vanilla-esque. It also reminds me of Milk Moon '05, but where Milk Moon was cooled by a slight mintiness, Glowing Vulva is warm and rich. Maybe the warmth comes from the amber. I touched it to my skin, lifted my wrist to sniff, and said "Holy S**t this is perfect!" The creaminess of this blend immediately fell back close to my skin, and the amber rose up to meet me, pushed along by some sweetness that I think is the lotus. Grounding the entire blend is the dry teak. But where the amber might become too powdery, the lotus too sweet, or the teak too sharp the cream just mellows everything out. It's not highly noticeable on my skin except as a smoothing, softening influence on everything else. I can't stop freaking sniffing myself. As time passes, I'm keeping a sharp nose out for this blend to go all powdery on me, like amber and wood blends have a tendency to do, but it doesn't. It continues to get more and more cozy on my skin as time passes. Hours later, I can still smell it, but it's now a two-notes better than skin scent that is just as gorgeous as the wet stage. I want to smell like this all the time! I am now another of the army of admirers that Glowing Vulva has. It's so well-balanced, and well blended, and happy on my skin.

Wet in the bottle, this had a burnt caramel sharpness that I didn't particularly love. So I put off trying it for a few days. Then I got the guts to try it out. Wet on my skin, it's initially exactly that sharp burnt sugar that I was afraid of, then five seconds later it morphs, and smells like-blueberry skins. It's hard to explain, but it's dark and sweet, and a little bitter. Not bitter in a bad way, just the contrast you get between the sweet flesh of a berry and its skin. Then it resolves into a more true blueberry note, but not fresh blueberries, dried ones, sweet but not juicy. Under the dried blueberry scent I pick up a fresh muskiness that I'm loving. Dried blueberries, and clean skin. This scent is sweet, but so dry there's no creaminess or juiciness. It must be the woods making it so. I'm not really getting the florals, and I'm sniffing for them. There's a slight softness to the dry woods that makes me think violet, but it's not overt. I also get a hint of something green, but it's definitely an undertone to all the blue-violet smells wafting around. Dry, the berries fall off, leaving only sweetness, the lovely musk, and the nice slightly dusty woods. I love it. What I thought might be too sharp and sugary for summer turns out to be clean, powdery and perfect for a warm day.