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Tenebrous Love: a shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves. Oh man, this one may be a winner in my book. It has a strong leafy note but dries to a vanilla/amber blend. It's sweet on the drydown, cozy and reminds me to a cross of Blade of Grass and Tattered Lace. Warm, cozy, vanilla.

Woodsmoke, pine and fraknincense. This a dark and stormy sort of blend. The kind you wear out in fall thunderstorms. Powerful, dark, rich.

Very green and planty, with a base of sandalwood. Unfortunately, my skin eats this up. And after 10 minutes I can barely smell anything.

Boozy banana flan and a smattering of sugared flowers. There's a bitter burnt edge to it though. Floral, caramel, warm.

Sweet linen, smoky cologne. I like the blood-tinged tobacco musk in this. Masculine, dark, streaky.

Calavera Catrina started out promising, with heavy notes of marigold and autumn leaves, and has devolved into a chamomile-rose blend. Which while pretty, is kinda generic and definitely not 'autumny' on my skin. Clean, pretty, light.

This one definitely reminds me to Sea of Glass, with the deep, watery note in it. Which sadly does turn slightly laundry detergent on me. Really nice smelling laundry detergent. Clean, watery, cool.

This one has vetiver and sandalwood, or even perhaps cedar. It ends up smelling like smoky, masculine pencil shavings. Odd.

Ta-ta, you have such a promising start. At the beginning, you are hints of carnation, coffee and a teensy bit of leather. And then the leather comes out and smashes everything to bits. Arabian Dance + LEATHER.

Patchy cocoa and hay. With hints of black pepper. Spicy, dark, dirty.

Cotton candy and wildflowers! It sort of reminds me to Jailbait, but better. Way too sweet for me, but I can see a young girl liking the candy sweetness of this.

Dark, rooty. I get an almost bitter/motor oil to this blend, which I wonder if it isn't the mandrake + myrrh working on this. There's a slight floral tinge to it, which I expect comes from the linalool. Dark, spicy, oily.

Leafy greenness gives way to green peppers and dirt with a hint of poppy and iris. Fun, feminine, mysterious.

Lime, LOADS of cedarwood and a hint of dragon's blood resin. Warm, rich, smoky.

Bitter pomegranate and rose. It dries down to a rose with anise tinge. Interesting, but not for me. Womanly, dark, powerful.

Smoky cinnamon marshmallows. Which totally get eaten by my skin. It's yummy, but very very faint on me, even on wet. PASS.

Red musk and clove. Clove clove. In some ways, it reminds me to deep, sultry scents like Madame Moriarty or Smut (neither of which I can really wear). It's a heavy perfume, and I can see this being worn only on cold nights/winter time. Spicy, sultry, deep.

Butterscotch and plastic pumpkin. EPIC FAIL!

I amp up ALL the florals in this blend. So I get mainly jasmine, poppy, lavender with hints of linen and honey. None of the vanilla or dark fruits, which is what I really wanted. Feminine, floral, clean.

This is a softly spiced pumpkin. Sadly, I don't really get a coffee note out of this. BOO.

Oh Sogg. You start out so promising with the tart, bright grapefruit but you drydown to mossy bog water. EPIC FAIL.

Sandalwood, ambergris and some red rose. This is a nice, muted, warm blend.

This one is way more floral than I anticipated. I get pom on wet, with hints of roses and lilac. The roses and lilac get stronger as it dries, and I get a touch of frankincense and honey. The rose note is a 'green' rose, almost sappy. I like the lilac whiffs I get. Dark, sophisticated, heady.

Boozy vanilla and almond white cake. Yes, thick creamy frosting. Sadly, the vanilla veers into plasticky territory on me, so it ends up smelling like a really awesome DOLL. This is the smell of girlish dreams, when your doll could talk to you, and you'd have fabulous adventures in the blink of an eye. With your purple plushy unicorn, whose name is Hubert.

KPX130 is an intense lemon. And I agree with Little Bird, and think it actually has lemon grass. I think there's some light musk, and aloe on the drydown. Clean, bracing, refreshing.