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Sweet milk and honey, with a touch of cereal. This one is super super soft on my skin.

White rose, velvety brown oudh, and a touch of moss. Soft, silky, and velvety. Medium throw and wear length.

Black roses with a touch of apricot and fig. Medium throw and wear length.

Bay rum, oak, oriental perfumes, and a whiff of aftershave. This smells like an expensive Victorian parlour. Sophisticated, regal, and underneath all that silk, a lot of naughtiness. Medium throw and wear length.

Smoky vetiver patchouli that dries down to a sugary patchouli with a smidge of smoky honey. It reminds me to Silkybat in that sugared patchouli sense right now. Good throw and wear length.

Rose, apricot, and honey musk. On wet, its much fruitier but as it dries the rose starts to assert itself, and then its a honeyed musk at the very bottom. Feminine, wily, honey. Good throw and wear length.

Tobacco, patchouli, cognac, and a whiff of vanilla. This one is a very heavy tobacco/patchouli blend, and it sort of reminds me to Ms. Bunce (sans amber), but again a very dominant tobacco. I got more patchouli on wet, but then the tobacco really comes in. Great throw and wear length.

Cool, refreshing peppermint, a touch of herbs, and then something that really smells like nuclear winter. It's very clean, and very minty, and sort of clinical in the same way that a sociopath is sort of clean and clinical. Minty fresh.

Luscious tobacco, amber and vanilla. I am not really getting the Black Vanilla & Cardamom comparison because I am getting a ton of tobacco, amber, and a whiff of tonka which really makes it its own blend. In fact, for me the cardamom is MIA. It is however utterly a sophisticated tobacco blend. I might have to hunt some of this down.

Sugary cherry and strawberry. And I mean sugary. There's a touch of pink peppercorn, which is enough to keep this from being 100% sugar cherry/strawberry. For all of those of you that love sugary blends, candy blends, or strawberry candy, this one is for you.

Sweet red wine, red musk, and a dash of oudh. This one is a very RED blend - red wine and red musk battle it out for dominance. Just a dash of oudh to keep it from being too wine or too musk. If you're a fan of either, you'll like this.

Champagne, candied citrus, and a touch of vanilla. Sweet, fizzy, champagne. Nice and light. If you've been looking for a champagne HG, this one is it.

Giant hit of khus on wet, and then it dries down to a smoky tobacco/black musk blend with a touch of opium. When I first smelled it, I didn't really like it because it was so aggressively dark and smoky, but as it dries, the blend definitely develops. For me it's a slightly masculine blend, and I tend to like my tobacco a little sweeter, and black musk is not my favorite type of musk either. However, it smells like a very expensive manly type of tobacco cologne. Good throw and wear length.

On wet, you get a ton of champagne fizz. As it dries, you get a honeyed apple and amber background with a bit of the lingering champagne fizz. This is one hell of a sophisticated blend, and has a very 'honey/golden' aura. Fun, flirty, and very art nouveau feminine. You know, the classy slinky curves with a flowering headband. Medium throw and wear length.

*squints* Hellhound, is that you? I am getting massive hits of bay rum, cedar, pepper and other spices. This one is rummy, voodoo-ish, and just very much like magical bay rum deliciousness. Slightly masculine, but you know, I'm willing to go with this because it's just so good. For those of you that are a fan of bay rum, Hellhound, OR voodoo-esque scents, GET THIS. Hell, I need this.

You get snow when you first spray it, but as it dries its more of a moss/greenery blend, with just a whiff of snow. It's definitely very Yule-appropriate. It smells like the moss you see after a snowy wintery morning. Cool, green, watery. Medium throw and wear length.

[No additional description provided.] This one smells like cinnamon-dusted sugar cookies with a touch of egg nog. There is a very definite 'egg' note to this. Soft, foodie, vanilla cinnamon cookies. It's actually got a decent throw, but almost no wear length on my hair.

Green tea, moss, tobacco, patchouli. This one is a complex green tea mishmash of things. It feels like HOVERING OVER A LEDGE. You're standing on it BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT THERE'S A F*CKING DROP ON THE OTHER SIDE, because otherwise, you wouldn't be standing there. Obviously. I don't know if its because you weren't paying attention or you're foolhardy. Or both. Or maybe, you like to live like Han "Don't Ever Tell Me the Odds" Solo. It's cheerier than you expect as it feels like you're about to plunge into an abysmal disaster. Good for: projecting tragedies, IDGAF attitude, attempting to navigate an asteroid field successfully.

Soft clean honey with a kick of pink pepper. It's a nice mellow honey, but with enough pink pepper to prevent it from being just dull. Medium throw and wear length.

Sugary lemon, a hint of buttercream and patchouli. The patchouli is the type that you find in Silkybat. So whiff of Silky Bat mixed with the Lemon Sticky Bat scent. BATS FOR EVERYONE. Sugary bats. Medium throw and wear length.

Lemon grass and white roses. It's a very lemony rose. Bright, cheerful, and citrusy. It smells like light, innocence, and purity. Good throw and wear length.

[No additional description provided.] Cozy warm gingerbread and a large smear of honey. Foodie, honey, gingerbread. Good throw and wear length.

[No additional description provided.] This one is a fizzy winter berries with a dash of beer. It's nice, light, and with some spices also in the mix. Medium throw and wear length. Festive.

This was a surprise frimp like Tiny Genital People, Bitumen Pits, etc. etc. that was in a few BPTP post orders a few years ago. I finally got my hands on an imp, and finally got around to reviewing it. It reminds me to Strawberry Sufyanigot and Snake Oil mashed together. You get that red strawberry jelly from the SS and then a base of Snake Oil, together with that fried dough bit that you get from Midway and a few of the other carnival fried goods type blends. Overall, it ends up a bit plasticky on me, which I attribute to the vanilla base in the Snake Oil. Medium throw and wear length.

Benzoin, leather, and a whiff of pepper. This is mainly a resinous leather blend. Gender neutral toward masculine. Medium throw and wear length.