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Mmm, spicy vanilla berry sex. Erm, yes. Thank you. I shall be having with this. My only, and I mean, only, reservation about this blend is that it is not the most long lasting if the Snakes. Many of them will last a full 10-12 hour day, but this is but a hint of lovely sweet spice after lunch now. But oh, it is lovely.

Really beautiful flowers, none of which, other than the lily and the sandalwood (which is not a flower, but just looking at the notes), are quite my speed. Still, this is a beautiful, wearable blend, but not one I'm broken up over skipping.

I was soooo looking forward to this blend last year, as I love dragons, dragon's blood, and was getting along well with the Asian Moons. Oddly, I wear this a lot less than you might think, even though I do like it. This is a light dragon's blood on me, with a lot of the other notes, which make for a very nice, pleasant, fruity, fresh coctail of fruity tea with a shot of DB.

Wow. This is a lot less OMG FLORAL than I had initially feared. There are definitely a lot of flowers in here, but I smell as much vanilla and fruit (peach?) as I do anything. A really beautiful, wearable blend that I sort of wish I had a bottle of for spring...

Definite aquatic base notes with swiftly swimming undertows of citrus and bergamont. This is absolutely perfect for Neptune. And I loke it on a lot of levels, but I'm on the fence about whether it is wearable for me.

Sweet floral resins. This is absolutely lovely! I'm not a huge fan of the particular florals in this, but they blend absolutely beautifully with the frankinscense, and the amber and chamomile add a lovely lightness to this. I would never have picked this as a winner for me, but it really is.

Honestly, I've never had a mystery imp...that would be kinda fun! But, what this does seem like as good a place as any - what does it smell like? What do you think it is? Inquiring (work avoidant) minds want to know!

Very fresh - fresh like I had never imagined Snake Oil could smell. The mint is very light on me, and my nose is interpreting the tea and bergamont as citrusy. This is a light, slightly spicy, mint/honey/green earl gray tea to my nose. Quite lovely.

This is a werd mixture of wet and dry to my nose - perfumey and herbal. Part of me really wants to like it, and another part is recoiling from something...ah, there's that pesky jasmine. The jas is not overpowering in this, but it's enough that this blend is just off for me. It smells oddly masculine in a way that doesn't quite appeal (this from someone who loves the Wildmen and the Living Skeleton, go figure), but I'm going to send this over to my husband's box for a couple days and see what happens.

This is a very dark, heavy rose scent - I can definitely scent out the musk here. Amber I'm not so good at. Either way, this would be a beautiful blend for rose lovers. I like rose, but usually the lighter variety, so this is a touch heavy for me, but as others have mentioned, it definitely does hep channel the Victorian Goth within...

This is a very incensey/resin scent on me, but it is bright sunny resin, not dark church incense. I would guess that there is some light amber and maybe a touch of citrus in here, but I can't really identify specific notes. But I like it.

Mmm...green Snake! This is Snake Oil with a coiled green brow - fresh and light, with a splash of citrus. I can definitely see the comparisons to Holiday Moon, except that where HM smelled wonderful in the bottle but a bit musty on my skin, the Snake in this one coils round my wrist and gives me all of the bamboo, freshy goodness, with the sultry vanilly goodness that is the Oil of Snakey love. Another magnificent creation from the Pit. That Fazia, she's got some lovely companions...

In the bottle (which is oh so lovely), this is a sweet aquatic, and smells oh so lovely. On my skin...it is aquatics of doom, like so many aquatics that amp into masculine cologne, with the added fun of jasmine. Oh poo.

Very sweet, almost caramelly on my skin. Sadly, I have a difficult time getting past the thick syrupy sweetness that this becomes on me and I really cannot smell anything else. I tend to sometimes interpret Beth's sugary notes this way, so for folks who can wear things like Sugar Skull and the other uber sweet ones, this couls be a real winner - I could see this as SS with flowers instead of fruits...

I want to love Arachnia, oh yes I do...I adore spiders, and have the black widow tattoo to prove it. And I love each and every note in this - current, patchouli, musk, lily, tobacco...except for the dreaded poppy, which my skin amps like crazy. All in all, this is a nicely sweet floral blend, that definitely...draws you in. Alas, the poppy just punts it for me.

After almost two decades of protests, my alma mater, the University of Illinois, has decided to retire its mascot "Chief Illiniwek". They will retain the name "Fighting Illini", desipite the fact that tribe that gives the state, and the Chief, and the sports teams their name, the Illiniwek tribe, were a peaceful tribe that didn't fight - which probably helped account for the fact that they were completely wiped out in earlier centuries. I'm taking the time to write about this because it is in part, the culmination of years of effort that I was a part of back in the early 1990s when I was a student at UofI. As a freshman and later I marched against the Chief, I met with the off-campus protesters. Somewhere I have the Daily Illini photo, not online, alas, of my sophomore year roomate and I holding up a banner bearing the admonishion - "What if the Pope were our mascot?", complete with little pope mugs and t-shirts. I think I still have the mug cut out somewhere as well. Robert Novak and his ilk are up in arms about the PC police and caving in to political pressure. But what this really should be about is basic respect. Respect for the people around you. Respect for Native Americans on campus and for the tribes who are portrayed in the Illiniwek dance. It's about time. And it's overdue.

Mmm. I get lots of the good stuff from this - the bourbon, the bay rum, the tobacco...ocassionally I get a whiff of something odd, the aftershave and cologne, I guess, but really, this is almost entirely a rich, wonderful, longlasting spicy boozy delight.

Very bright, very super sweet, very fruity, with almost nothing to weigh it down - I kept thinking that I might smell something musky underneath all of the crystalline sweetness, but I wonder if that was just my brain playing tricks - like there was supposed to be something like that there. This is a very fun, fruity blend.

Okay, of y'all do move to DC, we are totally having your "welcome" dinner at TMP. That is one of my absolute favorite favorite total decadence restaurants. sweetheart.

I should love everything about this. Well almost everything - sometimes caramel scents get a little syrupy on me (Red Lantern), and muguet...well, I don't know anything about that one. Turns out it is the "delicate floral scent of lily-of-the-valley" and I evidently spin it as jasmine and amp it like crazy. Sob.

Mmm...this is one of my unexpected favorites from the first round of CD - rich and mysterious, with just a hint of opium smoke (which can be dodgy with me), the eponymous blend is chock full of sultry night flowers, shot through with tartness (the lemon, which doesn't really register as "lemon" so much as tart on me in this), and sweet (the coconut, similarly, more of a hint than a pure note). I definitely get the whiff of coffee someone else mentioned as well. This is a somewhat cacophonus blend, but a perfect manifestation of the delights of the Carnaval - the Diabolical one at that.

Check out the Bottles/Containers/Supplies thread in beyond perfume - a search for "wand" within the thread should get you what you need.

I love my little impsie of Oof...just a whiff and it helps open my sinuses and eases pain and pressure like nobody's business and it is ever so much more pleasant than anything I could go buy at CVS. While eucalytpus is definitely a dominant note, there is an earthy, herbal naturalness here that is very soothing. And an imp fits wonderfully in a pocket.

In the baggie, Oof has a fresh eucalytpus scent, much like its namesake oil. In the bath, it fizzed super fast, and made for soft, fresh water that felt super nice on my congested chest and sinuses, but that was not as moisturising or overtly fragrant as some of the other Booms I've tried. I might keep a couple of these on hand for serious sinus issue days, but this is probably not a bomb I'd choose for a general purpose.

Embalming Fluid is a scent that gets a lot of props from the newly pregnant - the mint element helps keep it light and wearable even in the queasy times. I would definitely thoroughly read over the link to the FAQ thread re BPAL and Pregnancy as well, as it contains not only some scent recs, but moreso, issues re oils that should be avoided and overall safety issues.