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Maybe it's waiting for me at home! I hope... If not I'm giving Canada Post until the end of this week then I'm going to make noise. Thanks for the well wishes on my AWOL smellies. :-)

I'm still waiting for my order to come in the mail. It was a pretty tiny order and my CnS was on the 14th of June. It's almost been a month. Argh, stupid postal strike.

Upon sniffing Night's Pavilion the first thing to my nose is the white musk that often tends to attack my nose right away in some blends. The flowers here are present but they are hiding out behind the white musk. On application, I get an immediate flare of white musk that starts to mellow out soon after leaving a gentler fragrance behind that's distinctly floral with a light touch of frankincense. There is nothing sweet in this fragrance. There is a bit of a bitter note but I don't notice it too much. The bitterness adds a bit to the florals and sort of deepens the scent for me. The scent has a very interesting life cycle. The dry down starts very early on this scent as I get the frankincense coming up a bit more, not really overtaking the florals but rather balancing them out before Night's Pavilion disappears entirely within four hours.

Upon first whiff my initial reaction was akin to, "Whew! Josie! My sinuses are cleared!" This is a really powerful scent with tons and tons of concentrated peach and honey goodness. The magnolia lends it a very slight floral edge giving it a depth beyond peach and sweetness. On me, I immediately get the peaches mixed with magnolia. The honey is still there, adding a lot of sweetness to the scent and bonding the peaches and florally-goodness together. On drydown, Josie ends up losing the peach note after a few hours. A normal thing for me as my skin usually eats the peaches first. This leaves me with honeyed magnolia, a beautiful full floral with excellent lasting power. The initial application of Josie is really strongly scented but when it mellows out as the hours go by the scent comes closer and closer to the skin.

Sharp musk in the bottle mixed with ylang ylang and beautiful amber to mellow out the muskiness with a breeze of orange blossom to give the scent a floral note to make it a musky floral instead of just straight up musk. For a moment I can smell the ambergris sweetening the whole deal. On my skin, the first thing I am is the sharp white musk that practically screams before its throat gets dry in about 5 seconds. It fumbles into a raspy gasp letting the rest of the scent come up for a visit. Orange blossom with the creaminess of coconut milk is what I get now. The ylang ylang is still a very present entity. The ambergris gives this a slightly sweet edge as the scent starts to mellow out a few hours later. And to think, I thought this scent was going to be light and airy! It clings to me like crazy as its notes start to fall off one by one. First was the sharp musk, then the ylang ylang then what I'm left with is a sweet golden and creamy floral. Very pretty. Very girly. Great lasting power on me.

White florals with the barest hint of green on me. Very clean and very girly. It has this touch of powder to it that doesn't take away from the scent but adds to it. Strange seeing as I'm the only one who gets powder from this. I think it's great though. It's a beautiful, floral scented powder that gives off a squeaky clean feel. This scent stays very close to my skin and does very little morphing. The only thing I notice is the disappearance of that powder-like quality a few hours into wearing this.

Tart and sweet cherry jam. It's almost candy like red cherry candy. On wet it has a slightly astringent quality (in a good way) where the cherry overpowers everything. Upon dry down I start getting a bit of pastry but the jam is still in front and remains in front until the scent starts to fade. Then the cherry quickly goes away and I'm left with gentle hints of flaky pastry. This scene makes me think of a warm breakfast on a snowed in day.

Lick It One More Time is all prim and proper peppermint candy cane in the bottle. It has a nice and delicate tingliness to it that reminds me of Christmas, coziness, and childhoods spent in the classroom getting and eating candy canes until my stomach hurt. On me, it sheds its peppermint skin rather quickly and blossoms into the love child of vanilla and sugar. As it is with most peppermints, the scent is fleeting and the tingling I get is as well. This makes me sad because I love peppermint. If I could smell like peppermint all the time, I would. Oh boy, I would. But hey, I loves me some vanilla and sugar.

I really love Snow White 2009's label. The colors and graphic treatment of the image is very well done. The composition is most eye catching to me. I want another bottle not just for the scent but for the label art.

Peppermint through and through all the way from the bottle, to wet, to drydown. The peppermint fades a bit on me upon drydown and I get a touch more sugariness at the end but this is just plain gorgeous. I smell like a candy cane. Lick It Til It's Sticky is the only Lick It I have. It reminds me a lot of Bath and Body Work's Twisted Peppermint. Not surprising since both scents have many people likening them to candy canes. Unlike Twisted Peppermint, Lick It lasts longer has a stronger peppermint presence and I just love it.

I know I'm a year and some months late but after having tried Morocco, I cannot get over the fact that it smells extremely similar to Burberry Brit. The thing with Morocco is that on my skin, it shifts and changes on the dry down, making it a deep and sweet vanilla spice when dry whereas Burberry Brit stayed an almond vanilla with a minute spicy nip all the way through. I suppose the difference on dry down between the two is that Morocco has a stronger spice scent to it when dry and that it morphs a little whereas Burberry Brit on me pretty much stays static. However, the two scents when wet and in the bottle are practically the same.

Upon first sniff my immediate reaction is that Morocco bears a very close resemblance to Burberry Brit. I used to wear Burberry Brit every day for a number of years and still do wear it on occasion and Morocco reminds me so much of it. On application, the spice warms up on me. This scent tends towards sweetness, a touch of foodiness with the bite of spice at the end with what I want to say is an almost peppery note. But, I can't be too certain on what it is. It still reminds me of Burberry but it has its own edge to it, a more spicy tendency with a hit of exotic where Burberry was just a young, sweet scent. Morocco dries down to a less intense heat with a touch of spice and cream or milk.

This smells like pumpkin spiced coffee with rich cream. Someone needs to stop me before I drink this! After a few hours, the vanilla and the pumpkin are going strong and they are the only two notes that I can still detect. Even the ginger has left me momentarily and I'm feeling a little like a pumpkin creme topping. This scent makes me hungry up until it fades leaving me with a slight pumpkin note and a little bit of zing from residual ginger.

It smells clean and floral with a nice gentle kick of aquatics in the bottle and upon first application. But, a couple of minutes in and I get this strange hint of something musky and dark beneath the clean floral scent. About an hour later on the dry down, it smells dark heavy, a bit dirty and oddly enough, sour. This is a really weird morphing scent on me and I really don't like its dry down but love its wet stage.

Great big hit of citrus upon first application followed by a citrus fade into a warm, very dry--almost raspy kind of spicy scent. This scent reminds me of those days between summer and autumn when the leaves start to turn. It's so incredibly dry, spicy and warm that it invokes a wonderful mental image. This is a great scent that I didn't think would work well on me because of the amber. Although I get mostly myrrh and amber from this with a faint whiff of the blood orange and florals, it is gorgeous.