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This has a few minutes of being too much wood, but dries down to a rich, fruity red.

Dark, smoky, earthy - a campfire in the woods at night. A very interesting scent, but not for me. I think I'd really like it on a man (though my man won't wear scents for anything).

Too tobacco-y on me. (Though if cigarettes smelled like this I wouldn't so much mind people smoking around me.) The tobacco mellows down after a while and then the Caribbean flowers come out faintly in the background like the scent is wafting to you on a breeze. If you are good with tobacco scents you'll like this, I just can't get past the initial strength of the tobacco.

Nice floral. I would consider it a white floral, but without the oversweetness that most whites are on me. I don't get the dark, shadowiness. It will be a good spring scent for me.

Warm, dusty, and glowing. Great interpretation of coyote habitat.

This perfume is an interpretation of the Hanging Gardens by night, based on further accounts of its fruit and flora: date palm, ebony, fir, pomegranate, plum, two pears, quince, fig, and grapevine with plumeria, three gardenias and dry rose. Floral and fruity. Very ripe fruit scent, good for summer.

Aquatics are usually the kiss of death for me, but this one worked. It's like walking on a boardwalk by the sea - sea air and wood smells, with a bazaar on the other side from which wafts florals and powder. It's a keeper.

This smells like a volcano to me - smoke, dirt, rock, with a bit of damp tropical jungle/floral in the background. Very interesting. I won't wear it out, but I may wear it at home when I want to be, um, interesting.

The scent I've tried that says upper class to me is Manhattan. I like it, but it's a bit too cold and upper class to be me. I have a sister-in-law (married to the richest man in our family) that I think it would suit to a tee. It felt/smelled like what you are describing, but it all depends on your skin chemistry.

This is lovely. I'm a fan of musk. I like how the lab differentiates their musks by color. This is definitely a pale scent, not quite white, not quite clear. It makes me think of a cloud's silver lining. I found it very peaceful. If this has staying power on my skin it will be worth a bottle just for the calming and uplifting effects.

Very light, sweet incense. Nice but I like my scents stronger.

Um, I wear clothes, though not necessarily shoes. It never occured to me to pick a partcular scent for gardening. I'll have to give that idea some thought.

Bewitched is mentioned a lot. It was much too sweet for me. I prefer Glasgow, it's like sun-warmed blackberries still on the plant. Swank is listed as pomegranate, but it smells like raspberries on me. Hollywood Babylon has strawberry and black cherry. It's very nice, though I get more general fruitiness than berry.

This was a frimp. At first I didn't review it because I couldn't detect a scent other than sweetness, like I had sugar-water on my skin. I kept getting drawn back to it, though. It's a light purple scent - violets? - like flowers smelled from a distance. Since it's named I Died For Beauty, maybe it's what flowers would smell like if I was the one in the casket, distant from the physical world. The more I use this perfume the greater depth I sense in it. I find myself enchanted by this scent. A bottle will be on my next order.

It really depends on body chemistry because what works for sqwook sure doesn't work for me. So I guess get lots of ideas and then check the ingredients for what you like. 51 - I'm not sure why this always makes me smile, maybe the mystery and lightness Swank - effervescently bubbly (at least on me)

This blends so smoothly that I can't pick out the individual notes, but it evokes elegance and success, high-rises and expensive shops. It is subdued but sophisticated.

Very masculine. Green, woody, proud.

Strong geranium and plenty of dirt. Not for me.

So much depends on body chemistry. Santa Eularia Des Riu unexpectedly dried down on me to a scent that reminded me of the cleaning fluid that is used to get the motor oil off mechanics hands. I don't know if that's what you are looking for, but your question reminded me of it.

Initially this evoked an exotic, foreign, open-air marketplace. It dries down into a slightly sweet, spiced cedar. I've been wanting something foreign and exotic. I'll have to try a few more times to see if this is it or if it's too much wood. I keep sniffing my wrist because the spices are delicious.

Freshly sawn sandalwood and cedar. A pleasant wood-working shop smell, but not something I want to smell like.

Aah, this one has me breathing deeply. It's incense wafting through mountain shrubbery on a summer's evening. Very nice.

Full-bodied red rose with a hint of darkness. It isn't my favorite but I'll use the imp since it's a rose that doesn't make me itch like most roses do.

Fruity and bubbly. Almost a nose-tingling effervescence. A very happy scent. I like this one much more than I expected!

51 has the smell of desert dust in it. Perhaps if you layered it with a light aquatic. Though it's more of desert cactus flowers in bloom than sage brush.