eleventhousand

i am looking for a strong, sweet cardamom scent...

thanks y'all! spanked is out because i hate leathery scents. the truffle one is out because i am generally anti-booze when it comes to fragrance. i am not anti-booze with regards to beverages at all... can anyone tell me more about mama-ji? all of the reviews seem to contradict each other. gypsy moth might be just the thing...

i am going to let this one age a bit and revisit. the long drydown is quite lovely, but it is dissonant for a good few hours on me at first application. i think time will mellow it and allow the notes to sing.

i love this...it is just what i'd hoped for. musky-sweet honey that doesn't get too sticky/cloying, magnolia, maybe a bit of honeysuckle and greenery...lots of greenery. it's sort of a stem-sap scent. i can't really discern the lavender from the general herbishness, so it's not a really sharp lavender. it makes me think of ivy and more succulent, watery plants...like parsley and chickweed and watercress. i don't get any mint, rosemary, or thyme (thankfully, thyme is SO strong on me) or anything on the spicy end of things. sweet, green, and shady. a skin-scent for a dryad.

full disclosure: this gave me a headache that put me to bed and no inspire-y goodness. damned allergies. review: reminded me of a plummy version of follow me boy...jasmine, dry herbs, musk, some sort of citrus, and succulent summer fruits. i got the fleeting initial sense of magnolia as some others did, but i think it was the jasmine and the fruits combining into that particular aroma. didn't discern any ginger or lavender, but it did have an incisive bite that was reminiscent of either of those notes. the scent was pleasing. i wish i'd been able to endure it long enough to reap the benefits...

In the vial it smells a bit overwhelming and with a faint chemical tang. On my skin this is lovely...sweet and heady and true to the flower, but with a faint buttery coconut note. A slightly wilting hot-house flower... I love it!

jezebel?

psyche might be perfect: Bulgar rose, Chinese white musk, lavender, orchid and frankincense. sooooo regal/womanly and not sweet at all.

i find 51 to be a dead ringer for Clinique's Happy, if that helps at all. & Privilege is very weedy and harshly floral.

i love dorian, but the weirdest thing happened when i wore it. after the first few times i couldn't smell it. AT ALL. everyone else could though. and since i wear perfumes to please myself first. i sold my bottle. the same thing happens with egyptian musk on me...but if i take a break i can smell it again. snake oil i love as well. it is warm and cozy, salty and deliciously dark. i love lavender, lily, and fennel. i LOVE lilith victoria. it smells strongly of lavender-infused dorian (i can smell the dorian!!) resting on a bed of snake oil. it smells like a vintage perfume bottle. it is a little sharp but in a furry sort of way. like the needle-y teeth of a puppy.

i'm agreeing with 'follow me boy'. after about 5 minutes it is lemon poundcake on me.

hay moon has broken my heart. it has all my favorite things and smells like none of them.

i just received a decant of this from a kind forumite! lemon juice, lemon verbena leaves, sugar, orange and lemon blossoms, purple iris...a few other mysterious blooms. i really like this! but then, i love lemon and flower essences together. right now i'm drinking rosewater lemonade. this has a similarly refreshing feel...

oisin!

I really liked the old Hex, but it gave me a headache. New Hex smells nothing like old Hex to me. It is piney pine with a side of pine and pine sauce. If you adore pine, this is the oil for you. ETA: It is lovely in the deep drydown, and it is growing on me.

Truly the scent of autumn itself -- damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein. Water, saponified organic fair-trade palm kernal oil, coconut oil, soybean oil, organic fair-trade shea butter, castor bean oil, jojoba oil, sandalwood powder, Samhain fragrance, and alkanet powder. I don't think I've ever reviewed something first! Samhain has a beautiful paper wrapping with leafless trees and grave stones printed on it. Dry: its scent is much mellower than the scent of Samhain oil. This may start a riot, but it smells quite a bit like Hexennacht actually. I'll report back after a shower... In shower: its scent is very faint once wet, but the lather is creamy and delightful. A slight play-doh note can be detected in this stage. After shower: just barely lingers on the skin.

Hail unto thee who art Khephra in Thy hiding, even unto Thee who art Khephra in Thy silence, who travellest over the heavens in Thy bark at the Midnight Hour of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Evening. Thick resins with pepper and sage. Very savory.

Mr. Bubble! ...anything with violet smells of Mr. Bubble on me.

Powerfully sharp and oozingly syrup-y. It hurts my nose!

Dirt? Dirt! Dirty, dirty dirt. *shrugs

I got this as a frimp...I like it and I wouldn't have ordered it for myself. Initially this smells warm and strongly of lemon poundcake. It becomes sharper before it mellows into soft florals...like Black Moon a little. Curious, but tasty!

Chocolatey-ambery-spicy and awesome. It reminds me a lot of Burlesque from Arcans Soaps that smelled beautiful in the bottle and cheesy (really!) on my skin.

I try so hard! This sounded so lovely and perfect, but I cannot wear the lab's gardenia which is a crime because I LOOOOOOOOOVE gardenia, it is my favorite flower. The lab's has a buttery note that tramples everything else to pulp. Something in this also has a smokiness that reminds me of opium. Weird. Weird and tragic, for I am a swan maiden that adores gardenia.

This is almost identical to Blood on me, just slightly drier. That's OK though, as Blood is a favorite.

Incredibly stank, but in a truly fascinating way. I get bitter baking chocolate and curry at first. Like a Naga bar from Vosages only bitter. Then it gets all mossy and ferny and foresty. This is a scent of a very bad man that you would like to do very, VERY bad things to you.