Galena

March Hare?

I'm really quite fond of this.

it's warm, a little spicy, a little incensey and soft sweet rose-ness.

it's a sort of slightly soapy warm skin scent.

this would be great to have in an oil burner while telling ghost stories at midnight on Halloween, you think?

not so very far from where I live (Cornwall, England. okay this place I'm talking about is in Devon, but not far from me all the same) there is a place called Lydford Gorge.

at the end of the Gorge is a chamber, water worn from the boulders, called The Devils Cauldron. you walk along a metal bridge type thing into the heart of the chamber and you are entombed in the Cauldron. it's very Earth Womby. the rock curves around you with only a very little daylight through a chink at the top. the water roars below you, white and fast and cold. the rock is wet and cold, and you can taste stone in the damp air you breathe. mosses and lichens cling to the walls and drip.

it smells a lot like this.

The Devils Cauldron, Lydford Gorge, Devon

and another one

Oooohh this is lovely.

initial sniff.

pure creamy vanillary milky loveliness.

like the bit in Chaste Moon, on it's own without the red fruits and pink flowers.

and there's mint.

do they have Murray Mints over there? creamy hard mints. there's a whiff of them.

it's buttery, creamy, butterskotchy, fudgey, caramel, and ... coconut. and sometimes we get on, sometimes we don't. this time we do.

after a while....popcorn? yup. toffee popcorn. no wonder Mr Galena likes it.

I love this. I'm so glad I bought 2 bottles.

Milky perfumes love my skin.

so I'll second Milk Moon and Chaste Moon, and add Dragons Milk.

I swear I smell coins.

not joking here, this is the metallic smell you get on your fingers when you've been counting and bagging up your small change.

and you get the taste in your mouth too, when you sniff it.

I have high hopes for this ritually. I have a good little money spell, and I think this will find its way into it.

Mint, Lemongrass, maybe Sage. Eucalyptus.

not Rosemary? I'm not sure, but I don't think it's there.

I don't think I'd wear it, but I'd probably keep it in my bag to sniff at if I was drowsy or congested.

I still can't get over how well she does leather. there's cheap kinky leather, there's soft well worn leather, like a good quality coat, and there's this.

really raw leather. not long off the cow.

this reminds me so much of somthing. there is resin and spice mostly for me.

a touch of mint, but not likely to go bad on me (skin is already occupied so sniffing from bottle)

Dragons blood? or Amber?

maybe some cinnamon, but not so as it would take over.

but definitely resin. touch of mint.

really hefty floral there too, but mostly resin.

I get a lot of compliments on Dragons Milk and Chaste Moon.

and I've never had an unconsumated wearing of Sacred Whore of Babylon.

Mr Galena goes on heat at the slightest waft.

I really like this.

a lot more subtle and gentle than the name would have you believe.

a lovely red red rose floral with warm leather, more like the leather of saddlery than of bondage straps.

really nice and warm

is there anything in the world like Chaste Moon.

because I'm gobsmacked how much I love this. it's not my sort of thing at all. so I have only one. and it's too beautiful.

I do like this.

initially it's a bit sweet, like a fruitier aunt caroline, or the enormous Candy Fluff ballistic Lush made a while back. and then it goes a touch incensey.

all in all quite lovely.

I smell Geranium.

I like this, it's pretty and light and very sparkly floral.

this is gorgeous Incensey and outdoors. nightime and Fire adn Earth.

love it.

and love the little Witches hat on the bottle

Pure Rosemary on me. but really lovely and bitter/fresh.

Definitely Centzon Totochtin. it's just gorgeous bitter bitter cocoa.

I don't get any butteryness.

this is SO pretty. it's delicate without being faint.

I get Vanilla and Milk and lovely fresh crisp florals. a touch of coconut maybe.

it's a wafter too. you just get fluffy little clouds that every now and then sneak up on you.

I really like this a lot. I normally like stronger heavier smells and more in your face and sexy florals, but this is just so lovely, that I very often reach for it.

WOW!

This really is something quite special and unique.

dark dry bitter bitter cocoa

this makes me think of those lovely truffle chocolates that are rolled in cocoa powder. yummy. in a very grown up, and not at all sweet way.

the other notes in it come through a little later, and soften the cocoa just a little, very delicately sweetening it.

but still bitter bitter bitter.

I'm one of those perverse people that like my chocolate as high percent as possible. chocolate so harsh you can barely nibble the corner off a square, adn the bar lasts weeks, because it is so severe

this is the bitterest, most sublime cocoa and spice

a darker cousin to Lush 13 Rabbit bubble bath.

for chocolate heaven for grown ups, bath with 13 Rabbit and Sonic Death Monkey, and annoint with Centzon Totochtin.

Zombi has that rain on dry dusty Earth smell. you know, the smell just before it hits.

however, it also has rose. so I guess that would come under floral

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

Cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon...

*some time later*

...Cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon...

nope. this doesn't work for me.

I'm sure for other people it is all those lovely things.

on me, it's pure cinnamon. in fearsome nausea and headache fullness.

shame.

like 3 Witches, the Cinnamon is too much for me.

and I like Cinnamon, honest.

okay, I have a fruit problem.

it either dissappears within a few hours or less, or turns cats pissy.

but this one doesn't.

the warmth of it holds the fruit there, and stops that nastiness turning up.

I think this one is a success for me.

although it does need reapplying a few times a day, but not as much as most of the fruities (at least the non felinewiddle ones) do.

I get coconut too. thought that was just me imagining it.

I don't find this at all kinky or sexual.

but I find it very comforting.

this isn't leather like whips and paddles and bondage gear.

this is leather like your boyfriends old well worn leather jacket when you snuggle into it for a big warm friendly hug.

warm sweet lilies. but not too sweet.

on my skin I get a sense of Amber Resin. don't know if it's in there or if it's just the honey talking, but this is a warm and rich and golden scent.

I like this a lot.

to me this isn't a heavy damp Earth smell (which I love) but really really DRY.

it's DUST!

but like that dusty scent you get in the air when it's been dry a while, and the rain is coming.

and I love that smell.

I find this a very peaceful but very melancholy smell. I couldn't wear it if I was feeling fragile, I know that.

and after about an hour, I get the very first hint of rose. old dried roses and dry Earth.

this is such a sad smell. but I love it.

this isn't the sort of zombi that shuffles about with an appetite for brains, that's for sure.