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[No additional description provided.] Green tomato leaf, oakmoss, and a touch of dead leaves. This is more of a summer vine green blend. Nice green, touch of leaves.

Oudh, frankincense and a whiff of dead leaves. It's a resinous oudh and dead leaves blend. Good throw and wear length.

Hint of mint, and dead leaves. This one coded as a greener dead leaves note in general. Green shoots and dead leaves.

Strong ginger on wet, with whiffs of a sweeter dead leaves blend. Gingery, sweet, dead leaves.

Chew caramel toffee, with patchouli, coffee, and whiff of clove. This one smells like a nice latte. A sort of comforting drink that you would need after a long day of work in the rain or the cold. And sometimes its less about the taste but the warmth that you feel originating in your hands, and by the time you bring the drink up to your face, you can smell the caramel and the coffee, and you drink it and the warmth slowly slides down your throat, warming your insides. Yeah, this is what this feels like. It smells like warmth, and kindness, and the recognition that while there is some horrible things going on, the human capacity for empathy and kindness is real and it still exists. And that it is worth to take our tired selves back out there, and fucking scream our hearts out until our throats are raw, our eyes sting, and our hands feel numb from carrying the same sign for hours on end.

Gingerbread with a hit of fresh ginger. Its much more noticeable on wet. It dries down to a gingerbread blend after that. Medium throw and wear length.

Chewy tobacco with a swirl of baking spices. Chewy, dark smoldering tobacco. Great throw and wear length.

Lemony ginger with a touch of incense. Soft spicy and lemon gingerbread. Medium throw and wear length.

Creamy lavender with a whiff of spice. So yeah, its mainly lavender, with a bit of gingerbread coming though. Mmm, sleepy Yule blend! Good throw and wear length.

Gingerbread, spices, touch of vanilla and coffee. It get mainly a vanilla-gingerbread with just a dab of coffee beans. I honestly hoped for a stronger coffee note on this. Medium throw and wear length.

Fuzzy grey woodsy-earthy - I get swirls of sandalwood, nagarmotha, cypress, ambergris. In general, much more pleasant than I expected. Sophisticated. But yes, grey. It's a very grey blend. Medium throw and wear length.

Cedar/patchouli with a whiff of vanilla. It dries to a vanilla-patch-with a touch of cedar blend though. Nice, golden, warm. Good throw, good wear length.

Amber, peach musk, and a whiff of almond. This is a nice golden amber blend with peach, musk, and almond shot through it. If you like sweet amber blends, give this a try. Medium throw, average wear length.

Champaca, green tea and vanilla. It dries down to a champaca, vanilla and a touch of pink pepper. Medium throw and wear length.

Honey, sandalwood, and salty patch. It dries down to a honeyed sandalwood. Good throw and wear length.

Gin, moss, and a touch of wood and then the black musk starts to come through, and it ends up a spectral sort of musk. Icy and yet deep dark musk. Good throw and wear length.

Sweet smoky incense, touches of pine, wood and almond. It's mainly a woods + incense blend. Medium throw and wear length.

A ton of blueberry jelly and a whiff of pastry. If that's your sort of thing, than my friends, look no further. Good throw and wear length.

Every leaf tells a story. Hod, is that you? I get mainly red carnations over Dead Leaves. So Hod does Halloween Leaf Piles? Yes. That. Medium throw and wear length.

Soft lavender with whiffs of sage and patchouli. It's a very nice lavender, tending toward herbiness with the patchouli bringing some earthiness to it. I get almost no wear length on this scent on my skin though.

A TON of cinnamon, nutmeg, and whiffs of cardamom and coffee. This is mainly a very nutmeg-cinnamon blend. Spicy. With a whiff of coffee in the background. Great throw and wear length.

Sweet smoky mahogany, whiff of paper and vaguely touch of spicy fur. This smells like an older library. With cats. Medium throw and wear length.

A sweet reward for a worthy deed: caramelized sugar and sweet cream. This smells like a caramel (the sweet). It's sticky, sugary, and caramel. For those of you that enjoy caramel-based sweets, give this a whirl. It's everything you have ever hoped for.

Light floral honey with whiffs of dead leaves. Pretty light honey blend. Very autumnal.

Smoky incense, truffle, and spices. This one is a deep somewhat earthly spicy scent on me. It has some herbal tones to it, which I am assuming is the truffle. Good throw and wear length.