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:love!: I've never tried TKO, but now I'll have to, asap. It's wonderful, cool lavender sweetened by vanilla and melon, not herbal or sharp. I can't smell the flowers at all. I've been spraying it nightly on my pillow and it seems to actually help a bit with my insomnia, as a plus I can still smell it in the morning & it makes getting up a touch less traumatic (I'm *grumpy* in the mornings. Think ogre-like mutterring and grumbling). It's a strong, long-lasting AT, and it has joined Templum Victoriae as my favourite go-to-sleep spray.

I've been wanting to try this since discovering I love the lab's dirt, and it did not disappoint. I don't really get the flowers, to my nose this all earth, sticks and leaves with the slightest trace of greenery, like falling asleep in the woods, and just a bit of orange marmalade to brighten things up. It's lovely, even if it's not as strong as some of the other sprays. I was hoping for a bit more orange (goblin of yuletide present is my HG room spray. Scratch that, it's my HG scent) but this works well as it is, a great outdoorsy scent, very soothing and versatile, I can see myself scenting the whole house with this without worries of offending anybody's sensibilities as sometimes can happen with too sweet or flowery scents. Verdict:

I can't believe I forgot to review this one, considering that it's in my top ten o_0 I got an imp of this as an aftertought, mostly because I was curious to sniff the lab's dirt note, and I had no idea what to expect. In the bottle: sweet, wet soil, really perfect, like gardening after the rain: there's something green and that spicy smell i get from wet earth. Wet: It blooms on the skin and becomes more herbal, but the wet earth grounds and sweetens it. It makes me want to go to Egypt just to check if it really smells like this after the flood. I don't pick up the different notes unless I really look for them, to me it's just glorious, rich, spicy earth. Dry: It's...well, a bit drier, but it really doesn't morph much. I did't think such a strong scent would work well for the summer but it gives its best on the hottest days. I remember wearing this last August and feeling all sexy and exotic and just...it took me to a better place than Turin in the high of summer. Plus, this is the scent that completely enabled my mother I remeber visiting at the hospital where she was assisting my grandmother, we were talking quietly when suddently she started sniffing the air and wondering what smelled so good. I left her my imp and she said it made her feel like being outside again (she loves to garden) after spending days of being locked outside looking after my grandma. It's still her favourite, followed by Morgause and Scherezade

After sniffing Samhain (extra-strong evergreen with a side of patchouli ) I was too scared to try a big bottle of this, but I love autumny scents so I couldn't resist and snatched a decant from the forum. Boy, am I glad I gave it a try! This is nothing like Samhain to my nose: freshly sprayed it's all lovely wet leaves, then it warms as the sugar and cinnamon come out, plus I can't smell the evil patchouli at all At times it's almost too sugary for my taste, but it's always balanced by the leaves and evergreens in the background. Wafts of sugar aside this is mostly a fresh scent, very outdoorsy and a bit spicy. I rarely associate a color to a scent but this is greenish blu to me, close to the feeling I get from tea scents. I *think* I can smell hints of apples in there but I'm wearing Lamb's Wool so it's difficult to tell (it may be May, but it's been raining for three days straight and it's freezing, perfect weather to try out fall scents!). It's a strong, comforting, long lasting smell and I'll hoard my decant hoping to see it again next autumn.

Oooh, roses! Lush, velvety roses without a trace of greenery in sight. Once sprayed, beneath the roses I smell...soil? It's not anywhere in the ingrediests list or the reviews, but I could swear it's there o_0 Maybe my nose is broken It's wonderful all the same, I love earthy scents -this is very close to what I hoped Zombi would be. It's not as strong or long lasting as other sprays I've tried, but soft and lovely, perfect for spring.

Ooh, this is wonderful I didn't expect it to be, with 2 ambers (powder problems), sandalwood (headache problems) and vanilla, but somehow it works. It's sweet and slightly powdery, and while I can't pick up the sandalwood (yay!) you can tell that it helps ground what could otherwise be a too bright, super sweet scent. Instead it's almost smoky on me. The sweet pea is wonderful, the vanilla is not candy-like the way it is in Dorian, which turns to pure vanilla extract on my skin. I don't find it foody at all. It's a simple, warm scent with *very* good throw.

:love!: I can't believe the first time I tried this I was all "Mm, nice, but kinda faint" and just forgot about it for months. I dug it out from under my pile of imps when I went to see Alice in Wonderland and haven't stopped wearing it since. In the bottle it's sweet and spicy, almost (but not really) almondy. On the skin the almond disappears, I can smell bergamot, milk and honey warmed by carnation. As it dries the rose comes out more and pushes away the bergamot, but it's never shrill or overwhelming. I'm so glad the bergamot is a prominent note because while I love orangey scents the ones I've tried from the lab were either candy-sweet or not orangey enough for my taste, and I love being able to actually smell the milk in this -it cools everything and completely changes the feel of the honey, making Alice a perfect scent for spring. I'd happily drink something that smells like this next time I have a cold...honeyed milk, orange peel and some drops of rosewater maybe? With just a touch of spice...mmmm.

Meliai was completely different from what I expected, sadly. I'm a big fan of the lab honey, so as soon as I red the description I knew I had to try it -only, instead of sweetness and resisns I got...greenery and aftershave The honey gets a bit stronger in the drydown, and the aftershave disappears, but the throw is now so faint I have to keep my nose attached to my wrist to catch it. I'll let it sit a bit to see if it changes, but for now Meliai is kinda made of Fail on me *pouts*

While this is not love at first sniff it's not bad at all: light and sugary, with that fresh feeling I always get from tea blends. My skin usually turns cream (especially when paired with other foody notes like cake and bread) into a strange, burnt smell with a side of liquorice, so I was expecting it, but the tea and general cleanness keep the liquorice in the background, the butter is there, and the sugar balances it all quite well. I wouldn't say there's bread in here without looking at the notes, but looking for it I can almost pick it up behind the other notes. It's a simple, comforting smell, surprisingly suited to spring and summer -I think I was expecting a warmer smell- and though I don't like it enough to put on the bottle list it's quite a success for a foody scent, considering my weird chemistry.

Mmm, honey & flowers I'm deeply, madly in love with this oil. I use it as a moisturizer and it leaves me cocooned in honey for hours, scenting everything I wear. It's a soft, sweet honey scent -not cloying like Tomoe Gozen or Athens- with hints of orange blossoms. Almost creamy. It makes me feel mellow and sexy, and I'm ridiculously sad that it's a LE. Why, oh why did I only buy one bottle? My sensitive, dry skin loves it as a moisturizer, it sinks in quickly and leaves me soft and pampered.

Used as a moisturizer this is way too storng & perfumey for me. I amp sandalwood (but thankfully this is not the headache-inducing kind) so much that it's almost all I can smell, with a faint background of rose. Used in the shower it's much more friendly, the sandalwood backs down a bit and I can smell the blackberry. It's a warm, comforing scent. While the scent doesn't make me crazy my dry, sensitive skin seems to love the oil in itself.

This is *love* in a bottle. Spicy, sexy love I have a soft spot for the lab's honey note so I ordered this even if I've never tried O (I was afraid of the amber since it turns to powder & old things on me, but now I'll have to order an imp asap) and the one time I tried Snake Oil it was fresh and turned to vanillay play-doh on me. Womb Furie is wonderful honey with a spicy background, warm but not cloying, with just an hint of powder that makes it soft and cuddly. It doesn't morph much and lasts a good while with a great throw. I like my perfumes sweet but not cavity inducing and I was afraid that between vanilla and honey W.F. would be too much, luckily I can't smell the vanilla at all. I'm so glad I've ordered a bottle, but I'll have to try and layer O and SO sometimes, in the hopes of recreating Womb Furie and never having to worry I'm going to run out.

This is all booze and tracle to my nose, with just a hint of spicy carnations. I was hoping for cider and carnation with traces of treacle. unfortunately on my skin the treacle clubbers everything else to death after doing the usual amazing morphing trick of turning into burnt sugar with a side of burnt rubber. It would be a no-no all on its own, but coupled with the booze that reappears after a while it made me really queasy. Off to the swap pile it goes

I had such high hopes for this, every single note seemed a winner. Unfortunately I'm learning that pepper does not love my skin. Well, black pepper does, white or pink pepper? Not so much. Every blend I've tried with those two ended up making me feel kind of high-strung and unconfortable. This is way too sharp, all kumquat and pepper, with maybe a faint trace of tea and no orange blossom at all Much too sharp and bubbly to be me *off to swap*

Well, this was a total gamble for me, and I mostly decided to give it (and Diable en Boite) a try because I wanted to get more familiar with red musk after discovering it *isn't* bound to turn into sickly sweet head-shop-ish fail on my skin. I love ylang-yalang, nutmeg, honey and petitgrain, and even though caramel is a note of doom for me I thought I could deal with just a tiny bit of it. Then the first reviews came in, and it was all CARAMEL! Super caramel on steroids! When I received the imps I had convinced myself my half bottle would go into the swap pile at superspeed. But after the first sniff...this was true caramel. Yummy deep caramel, not the burnt sugar with a side of rubber I got from, let's say, Red Lantern. And after the caramel came the red musk, yalang-yalang, patchouli and nutmeg, and....a really, really sexy scent. Spicy sweet and musky and slightly floral, with a dribble of honey, without much change from wet to dry aside from a slight amping of the musk. A Harem full of stunning (and scantly clad) beauties eating caramelized fruits and honey-covered pastries? A brothel with heavy red velvet drapes and too much perfume in the air? A bit of both. After sitting for about about a week it became even better, with the red musk gaining strenght (but never that cola-sweet hippy feeling I got from other blends) and the caramel toning down a bit. Now the first sniff is not pure caramel but a heady mix of caramel and musk, with the caramel more noticeable in the trhow and mostly red musk if I sniff directly from my wrist. As the reviewer above said: sexy, sticky and gorgeous, and today my half bottle has been joined by a back up