Little Bird

I love the artwork and the trading card that comes with this <3. The card says: "What a terrible sound these things make! How can it be that a plant screeches so? Truly, this is the weed of ill-omen." The artwork with the three little leafy-headed roots with their mouths wide open is too cute. The scent itself is also lovely. Screaming Mandragora is my favorite fragrance of the Wunderkammer set. In the imp, this smells wooden, warm, dry, and slightly sweet. It reminds me of coconut husk. I also get a tang of something fruity underneath the strong woodsy note, and it smells sort of like red fruit punch. On my skin at first, the woodsy aspect of this amps up even more. It smells like coconut husk, maybe some sandalwood and/or dry cedar, and a hint of black cherry. The fruitiness starts off a bit tart on me, but dries down to a gorgeous, clean smell. After fifteen minutes, this smells like coconut husk and a fantastic, clean cherry (almost like cherry shampoo, but not soapy, just clean and gorgeous). Wet cherries against dry, golden, sweet woods. Half hour in, it's still reminding me of coconut husk and clean cherry, but there's a creamy sweetness to it as well, like creamed coconut or vanilla on my skin. This is really gorgeous, and I love how it plays out on my skin. It's all very soft and muted on me, though. It doesn't have much throw. It disappears entirely on me after about an hour. It's the sort of scent that I want to slather on and reapply, so I'm sad that I can't get a full bottle.

I was hoping for the fizzy lime and violet that other reviewers have mentioned, but Wiley's Swamp goes instantly to super-clean soap on my skin. It does have a bit of citrussy sharpness at first, but I don't know that it smells like lime to me. It smells watery at the start, and then dries down to, well, a dry soapiness, like floral breeze scented dryer sheets. I usually have better luck with swamp type scents (I love Whippoorwill and Dunwich, and liked Bayou), but this one might just be too aquatic or something for me.

I've been loving the Stimulating Sassafras. I don't think that it smells like a rootbeer float, exactly, because the vanilla isn't strong on me, but I think the vanilla adds a smooth bit of sweetness to this that makes it smell like the perfect rootbeer. It goes on smelling like rootbeer candy, and then dries down to smell like really good rootbeer. Oddly, I don't get any butter from this while I wear it, but if I wash my skin where I've applied the oil, it smells like pure butter (ie: if I put this on my wrists and then lightly wash my hands, it smells like butter). Thankfully, I love that smell. I'll definitely need a couple bottles of this and I have the urge to put some of this oil into unscented lotions. I want to be able to really slather it on . The staying power of this isn't great on me, probably only 1-2 hours and it doesn't have a lot of throw. I don't mind re-applying, though, because this is a great pick-me-up scent.

Sticky Pillowcase is like a mix of Sugar Moon and Treat #1 for me. It starts off like musky sugar and dries down to zingy lime sugar. I was hoping that this would be saltwater taffy and marshmallow on me, but I guess all I get is the 'rock candy dust' and 'spun blue sugar.' I hope that the rock candy dust has lime in it, because I get tons of lime from this scent, lol. This has a lot of throw on me for the first couple hours of wear. After that, I can smell it all day, but only if I press my nose up against my skin & get close to it. I'm glad to have a bottle of this, since I recently ran out of Treat #1, and this is a similar scent.

I was worried about the florals mentioned in the description for Huesos de Santo, but I don't smell any florals at all in this blend. It's sort of like a moist, buttery spice cake (I dunno where I get spice from this, but it's a light, warm yumminess) with vanilla cream frosting, studded with orange hard candies. Unfortunately, this is a really light scent on me. It only lasts about three hours, and has very little throw. Still, it's a delicious and comforting smell. I'll love wearing this on days when I want a foodie fragrance that's more subtle than most of the other blends I own.

I love the 05 and 06 versions of Harvest Moon. This 08 HM is just okay for me. The only notes that I can smell in the bottle and on my skin are the black cherry and wine. It's dark and fruity, but it also has a warm, perfumey quality to it. At first I thought that I could smell something like pepper, but the drydown is all black cherry wine on me. It smells rather boring on my skin. I'm surprised (and disappointed) that I can't smell any of the other listed notes

As most everyone else has said, this smells just like green grass to me, in the bottle and on my skin. Fresh, green glass clippings. It's the scent of mowing the lawn, in a bottle. It has a lot of throw on me. One tiny drop has me smothered in green grassy goodness, lol.

In the bottle, I smell warm, maple oatmeal. On my skin, oatmeal and, um, candle wax? It's like sniffing a puddle of hot candle wax next to a bowl of sweet oatmeal. Weird. I don't get any carrot, apple, woods, or musk. For about five hours, this is just warm, sweetened oatmeal and candle wax. It's a very light scent on me. It clings close to the skin. Gunpowder is interesting. I have a partial bottle of this for now, and I think that's all I need of this blend. I'll be interested to see how this ages. Oatmeal & molasses scented wax isn't unpleasant, but I don't know if I want to smell like it.

Sniffing this in the bottle, I immediately wanted to dump it into my oil burner. It's warm, cozy, perfect apple cider. I figured that my skin would amp up the spice in this and give me a headache, as I'm pretty sensitive to spice notes. This is definitely a spicy cider, but somehow I just love it. It stays warm and soft on my skin. The spices don't overtake the apple and hint of orange, they just simmer warmly underneath the fruitiness. I seriously want to lick my arm when I wear this. I never get my hopes up about apple cider scents. Before Fearful Pleasure, every apple cider scent I've ever had just went to cinnamon mess on my skin. With this, the apple actually sticks around. I love this. I'm definitely going to purchase a couple bottles of Fearful Pleasure. I can see myself wearing this constantly for fall and winter

Brom Bones smells better in the bottle than it does on me. In the bottle, it's sexy, dark leather, with almost a touch of spice to it. My skin chemistry sometimes warps leather scents into a smoky mess, like leather on fire. Brom Bones is insanely smoky on my skin, in a suffocating sort of way. It smells like black, new car leather, set on fire. This isn't even particularly masculine on me. It's sort of perfumey and warm. I'll have to try this on my boy before it heads to my swap pile, but it's not something that I think I'll ever wear. I like a little more complexity to my leather blends, and a little less smoke (though the smokiness is more the fault of my skin chemistry, I think), lol.

In the bottle, this is red apple goodness, and perhaps a hint of something smoothly nutty. On my skin, this is spicy apple, and I'm not sure where I'm getting any spice from. There's also something of a musky, perfumey quality here. As it dries down, the nutmeat returns and the perfumey sharpness backs off. It's apple, a mix of nuts and dry leaves, and a cool twang of night air. 15 minutes after first application, this is mostly a clean, ozone scent on me with a very faint suggestion of nondescript, dry, harvest foodiness in the background. Salt ozone and fruity spice. And then it disappears before it hits a full half hour on my skin. I like "To Autumn," but it fades so fast on me and morphs into a salty sort of ozone rather quickly. I guess the "mist" takes over the blend for me.

In the bottle, this is like peppered cream with a hint of musty wool. On my skin, it's canned milk, a bit of warm tea, and a sweet, honeyed quality from the beeswax. This actually smells a lot like the original Milk Moon did on me, but not quite as sweet. There's also a hint of perfumey floral in the drydown, which I suppose is the muguet. I'm not as crazy about Ichabod Crane as I thought I would be. It's an okay, milky scent on me, but I have similar scents that I like more than this one.

The Witching Time of Night is an odd, forgettable sort of scent on me. It goes rather powdery on me, with a bitter, dark greenery that I don't really care for. The florals are a little bit sweet, and the sweetness seems out of place. Mostly, though, this is baby powder and just gets more powdery over time. I don't like powder scents, so this is a dud for me.

There's not much to say about Katrina Van Tassel, as it's a pretty simple scent. I love the white rose in Parlement of Foules (one of my all time favorite blends), and it's just as pretty here. I don't get much of the cream or honey, but there's just a touch of honeyed cream rounding out the edges, like an extra sweetness to the rose. This is a soft, sweet rose. I love it, and I'm glad I have a bottle.

When I read the description for this, all I could see was 'cocoa leaves.' I love chocolate scents. Unfortunately, this isn't really a chocolate or cocoa scent, lol. In the bottle, I'm not really sure what this smells like... something like exotic florals dressed up in tobacco and cocoa leaves, grounded with honeyed beeswax and slightly powdery sandalwood. It has a nice sweetness to it, and I'm pretty sure that I smell cocoa, but it might just be wishful thinking on my part. On my skin, this is very floral. A dry, warm, perfumey sort of floral. It has that musky sharpness to it that makes me think of cheap drugstore perfumes and gives me a headache. In the drydown, a bit of sweetness creeps in under the florals (and smells a little bit like suntan lotion on me for some reason, like honeyed coconut, though it morphs into honeyed baby powder after a while). Day of the Skulls is mostly just an overwhelming, heavy, sharp floral on me. It's the sort of floral that I can't wear without getting a headache, so I had to wash this one off and add it to my swap pile.

I agree with previous reviewers that describe this as a green-white scent. It does smell very much of a pale green to me. I like bpal's dandelion note, but I don't get a ton of dandelion from this. In the bottle, it's soft greenery, a hint of dandelion, and a touch of smoke. On my skin, this is like clover single note at first. It's a sweet, clean, pale sort of smell. I thought that it would go soapy at first, but it doesn't. After about fifteen minutes, that woodsmoke smell returns and I'm not crazy about this. The School-House is like pale clover and the scent of pine logs being burned while they're still green. Over time, I can definitely smell the fir. I'm not sure if this is a blend that I'll want more of. I like the clover and the fir, but I'm not sure I'd go through a whole bottle of this. I'll definitely keep my decant, though.

The 'chilly night air' in this worried me, as ozone always turns to dryer sheets on my skin. The Goblin Rider doesn't smell soapy or at all like dryer sheets on me, though (yay!). Mostly I get a crisp, clean pine smell from this, mixed with the dry cedar and a smooth, resinous quality that reminds me of Cathedral. Cedar sometimes smells awful on me, but I like the dry, almost spicy type of cedar that's in this (reminds me of clean hamster bedding, which is a smell that I actually like). I tend to really like blends of woods, incense, and resins, so The Goblin Rider smells great to me. The resins are smooth, the incense is a bit sweet, the pine adds a great chill, and the cedar adds a warmer, spicy sort of quality. I only have a decant of this right now, but I'm definitely going to get a couple bottles of this before the Halloween blends leave town.

In the bottle, this smells very evocative of an old, secluded church with an overgrown and not-often-visited graveyard. It somehow smells like cold stones to me, overgrown with dark green plants and thorny, dark roses. I also smell a hint of the fruity blackberry leaf and something incensey. On my skin, this instantly goes sharply perfumey and soapy. I had hoped that this would be my ultimate dark floral blend, but I get high-pitched, bright, happy, laundry soap. Thankfully, the drydown is a lot better. Fifteen minutes after first applying this, The Churchyard is awesome. It's not at all what I was hoping for or expecting, but it's great in its own, surprising way, lol. I get mostly the rose and blackberry from this. The rose is soft and clean (less outright soapy and more just an overall clean, soft scent), and the blackberry adds a touch of dark sweetness. I like that this smells both clean and a bit dark to me at the same time, and the overall touch of sweetness really pulls it together and makes it wearable for me. I'm glad that I bought a full bottle, even though the initial soapiness is a bit scary. I have a lot of rose blends, but I don't have one that smells anything like The Churchyard, so this is one that I'll definitely keep .

The foodie pumpkins wind up being way too sweet for me to handle (and I usually love foodie blends), but I tend to love the herbal, woodsy, earthy pumpkins, so I was super-hopeful for The Shattered Pumpkin. Unfortunately, there's just something 'off' about this blend. In the bottle, this smells like lightly spiced pumpkin rolled in black dirt and dry leaves. It smells pretty wonderful. On my skin, it smells weird. I amp up the spices (my skin always does), but they're actually not that bad. The spice is warm and fall harvest-y, but it never overwhelms or threatens to give me a headache, and I'm very spice-sensitive. The spice is gorgeous, but there's something very funky about this blend. It has an aquatic plants and seafood sort of smell, and something that's a tad lemony. Perhaps the water weeds are to blame. One of the notes in this just goes very weird on me, and it doesn't mesh well with the spice and leather. On my skin, The Shattered Pumpkin dries down to smell just like someone smacked Quincy Morris in the face with some spicy pumpkin pie filling, and maybe a drop of lemon (why? I do not know). That alone might be pretty good, but the weird, aquatic something keeps popping back in and mucking things up. After 3 hours, I do like this blend of soft, foodie, lightly spiced pie filling and soft leather, but it's hard to get through the hours of aquatic weirdness... This probably isn't a blend that I'll wear ever again, but I *love* the label artwork <3 so I'll keep my bottle anyhow, lol.

Crushed violets, red currant, patchouli root, and Spanish moss. I think that I would love this blend if it didn't have the moss in it. I think this smells so unbelievably beautiful in the vial, and it's nowhere near as good on my skin. In the vial it's dark, bruised, perfect violet with the best red currant smell evah - juicy, dark, tart, and delicious. I would be so happy if I could get just the violet and currant. On me, I would never guess that this even has violet in it. It's mostly moss, of a sour and bright green sort of variety. Wet, swampy moss rather than dry moss. There's the tiniest hint of earthiness from the patchouli root. And it's all rounded out by a tart fruitiness. Over time, the patchouli perks up and teams up with the moss to get rid of the currant. I'm left with hyper, psychotic, sour moss and the patchouli. I can't pick out any violet. It smells rather spooky and interesting on my skin, but it's probably not something I'll find myself wanting to wear that often. I keep sniffing this in the vial and wishing it were that good on my skin. I might keep my imp and age this and hope the moss chills out (or disappears). Bruised Violet Compound is fantastic, but my skin chemistry just butchers it

I was afraid to try Lucifer, because I remember reading that it had red patchouli in it, and red patchouli hates me. On me, Lucifer doesn't really smell like it has any patchouli in it at all, though. It goes oddly powdery and sickly on me at first, reminding me a little bit of the nasty woods and vanilla powder smell that I got from Glowing Vulva. I don't smell any patchouli, fig, or vetiver. The initial drydown is like baby powder, dust, a sickly smelling sweetness, and rotting wood. The amber and woods are going very bad on me. Lucifer isn't the sexy, dark, earthy fig scent that I was hoping for. It's more like baby powder and a plasticy vanilla that doesn't agree with me, with some rotten wood thrown in . The weird sweetness makes me kind of nauseous (after a half hour, it's reminding me of play-doh, if play-doh were amped up to a scary degree with sickly undertones)... Unlike most of the salon scents, this sticks around on my skin and has decent throw. I'm glad that I tracked down a decant of this before springing for a full bottle, because it really doesn't agree with me. Lucifer is not something I'll be keeping around.

In the vial, all I can smell is bpal's wonderful carnation note (smells like true carnation to me, with its hints of spicy sweetness) and a lovely, sweet clove. It reminds me of LUSH's "Potion" fragrance, but better. On my skin, the patchouli makes a light and brief appearance, adding a touch of earthiness to the clove and carnation. It fades quickly, though. I love the mid-stage of this where it's mostly carnation, a sensual heat from the pepper, and a hint of clove. The carnation and pepper combo is gorgeous. Black pepper in perfume always intrigues me, and I find it wonderful and wearable here. After a half hour, this is still good, but not quite as good as it was. The pepper disappears and a slightly astringent tea note pops in. It morphs into mostly tea with a background of carnation and a hint of clove on me. Clémence is a heavy scent on me with a lot of throw. It clings to my skin and amps up like crazy. It's a scent that would give me a headache on my sensitive days, but I'll like it on days when I'm craving a warmer, spicy, heavy sort of floral. I really do like the carnation in all of its stages. I wish the pepper would stick around, though.

There's a soft musk, pulpy greenery, and slight herbal tone to this that always reminds me of Buck Moon whenever I first use it. If I guess at the notes in this, I'd say it smells like honeydew melon, soft musk, and some type of earthy, slightly smoky, dry tobacco leaf. Maybe some dark, green herbal notes and teak popping out in the drydown as well. It also comes off as very masculine to me. I love the initial spray and first few minutes where this is sweetly green and softly musky, but the initial drydown loses a lot of its sweetness and charm for me. It turns darker, sort of bitter-herbal, and smells more strongly of tobacco and teak. After several hours, the soft, lovely musk and sweeter green notes make a reappearance and leave a light, pretty smell on my linens, though. Still, it smells pretty manly. I might purchase a full bottle of this if it's ever available, though I'm not sure if I'd need a big bottle. It's a nice scent, though - exotic, sexy, masculine, rainforest-y sort of goodness. I'm just not completely crazy about the earthy/wood notes that I get, and it might be too masculine to get a lot of use from me. It strikes me as a scent that would be great in a bachelor pad, lol.

I've tried this a couple times now, and Galvanic Goggles just doesn't seem to agree with my skin. I think that I smell soapy, dryer sheet ozone and the sharp musk, drowning out the other notes. This also comes off as very masculine to me, in a cheap cologne sort of way. In the drydown, this gets really musky on me, and I don't care for the musk in this. The musk bothers me in the same way that cheap, drugstore brand white musk bothers me. It sort of smells like sharp hairspray & chemicals on me. After a couple hours, this softens and is a clean, soapy muskiness, not quite as sharp as it is in its earlier stages, but it's still not that great on my skin... I think that Galvanic Goggles goes a little too sharp and soapy for my tastes. I have a hard time pulling off certain musk scents & ozone, so the Indian musk plus ozone in this is probably a little too much for me...

I love apple scents, so I was super excited about having a frosty apple fragrance. In the bottle, SGA smells fantastic - just like chilled apple slices, crisp & juicy. I think I can smell a bit of crisp mint underneath the apple. On me, this doesn't smell like apple at all . This quickly morphs into something like an earthy mint scent. It's sharp and makes me want to cough when I smell it. It reminds me of Envy's herbal, earthy mint. After fifteen minutes, this is sharp mint devoid of any sweetness. It also smells a bit like burnt rubber on me. Snow, Glass, Apples is heartbreak for me. It really smells awful on my skin, with no apples to be found.