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    What do bottles and labels look like?

    I love the new scroll/parchment type labels for the GCs. To Tramp and Twilighteyes, thanks for the pics! The Box of Chocolate ones are soooo pretty. I don't collect bottles for label art, but those might change my mind.
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    The Flower Song

    Pomegranate wine! This is pomegranate juice - sticky and sweet with a boozy edge. All of the blends I've tried with the pomegranate component have been extremely sweet. Perhaps I just amp out the sweetness? In any case, not entirely crazy about it, so I think this will go to a more loving home.
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    Spawn of the She-Demon

    Diabolical red and black musk with rooibos and mango tea. Musky mangos! At the beginning, the black musk was all I could smell, but as it dried the mango has come out to play. It's a musky/mango blend. The rooibos adds some additional fruity teaness to this. This is like Corazon but without the sage, which ruined Corazon for me!
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    Beaver Moon 2005

    This review is for the Beaver'varsary edition. It did smell very much like strawberries and cupcakes when I first applied. And now that it has dried, it's more of a cake/cheesecake blend, more vanilla than the original and it has like a burnt sugar edge to it. From my recollections of the original, this one doesn't go to plastic on me. But I'm still not sure I like it.
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    Buck Moon

    This one is definitely a soft skin musk blend. On me, when it was wet it sort of smelled like a soft vanilla musk, and oddly enough made me think of does, all pretty and delicate. As it has dried, it has gotten to be powdery. So I smell like soft vanilla powder.
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    Hollyberry & Mistletoe

    Oh man, when I first applied this it was like a spicy version of Skadi. I had a GIANT fir tree and a tiny hint of berries with LOADS of snow, but you could smell the cinnamon. It's dried down to this cinnamon berry blend, which is nice and Christmassy, but nothing like it was on wet. Grr.
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    Holiday Stress Relief Bath Oil

    This stuff is fantastic. Take the Winter Stress Relief Elixir perfume, and make it something you can soak in. The geranium is one of the things I can smell the most --- but it's so relaxing. A hot bath, and you can literally feel the stress fall away from you in waves. It was the most calming bath, EVER. Loved it. This is a fantastic investment, and I can score more, I will totally try and get my hands on more!
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    Scorpio

    This one oddly enough smelled like a mixture of jasmine and spicy Dragon's Blood Resin. The jasmine disappears after an hour, leaving behind a warm, musky smell that is a teeny bit powdery. I kinda like it at this point.
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    Shadow

    I got the faint whiff of lemon on top of cedar at the beginning, but it has essentially dried to a patchouli/cedar blend, which oddly enough, just smells like dirt. Wet potting dirt. Dirtier than say, Graveyard Dirt. Pass.
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    Invasion of the Flesh-Eating Reindeer from Uranus

    Mmm. Gingerbread cookies with an extra jolt of sugar. This fades on my skin into a faint vanilla cake smell though. I wish it had a longer life span. SAD.
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    The Head of Holofernes

    This one was a sweet pomegranate wine. It actually smelled like there was a bit of cherry and almond in it. I didn't get much of the blood accord in this, which is fine with me. But yeah, sweet pomegranate wine.
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    Sloth

    Mmmm. Smoky bacon musk. ... Yeah, so not for me.
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    Baron Samedi

    This smells like rum and dirt. More of an herbal rum than say the butter rum of Grog. It smells like it has a purpose. The kind of stuff you offer up to a deity before you ask for something.
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    Serpent's Kiss

    This has got to have juniper in it because it smells like spicy gin. ... I know, right? Pass.
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    Blood

    This one is a spicy clove cherry, the spiciness due to the dragon's blood resin. It isn't overwhelming as it tends to be. It's actually my favorite DBR blend I think. Which is encouraging, since I'm about to tackle the Ars Draconis line.
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    Moon of the Terrible

    I definitely got the initial fruity blast with huge lychee overtones on top of the lavender. All of that calms down and it's a nice lychee/lavender blend with a bitter, herbal edge to it. RATS.
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    The Gladdener of All Hearts

    I think the baby powder is too much for me... and this smells like a pretty baby, very floral, very powdery. Not overwhelmed. I guess me and babies aren't a good match.
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    Nocnitsa

    This one is a nice, dark pine/fir blend that isn't too Christmassy. The associations in this blend --- I think given the dirt and moss notes, is more of a dark Eastern European forest. The kind that houses things that go bump in the night. It has enough of airiness and a touch of sweetness to make it a nice wintery blend without any holiday connotations. That dark, snow, trees and infinite air.
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    Sacred Whore of Babylon

    JASMINE OF DOOM. This is the fabled apocalyptic Jasmine that destroys everything. Including nose hairs. And strikes fear in the hearts of everyone. [Hyperbole aside - this is dirty, musky jasmine. Jasmine to the 10th degree]. I tremble in fear. And hold my nose not to smell.
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    Xiuhtecuhtli

    This one is a very citrus floral. I definitely get the plumeria, but it isn't as intense as in other blends (I'm looking at you Thalia!). I sort of enjoy how it's got this bright citrus edge, you can smell the plumeria, and something incensey in the background. It smells kinda of exotic, and I think I smell the jungle blooms which is a counterbalance to the plumeria giving it a slightly bitter, white floralness to the blend. Very nice. And yes, it does make me think of Mexico.
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    Thalia

    Oh, this is plumeria and pear making sticky sweet love. Because this is a giant sweet plumeria floral. Like candy sweet. Pass.
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    Gluhwein

    Warm red wine spiced with cinnamon sticks, cardamom, vanilla beans, honey, clove, lemon and orange rind, bay leaf, and honey. Wooo. Strong, boozy, spicy wine. And really sweet. Kinda like a dessert wine. Mmm. Tasty.
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    Humbug

    Vanilla licorice. I get the anise and the vanilla... and it smells pretty yummy... but the vanilla is one of the types that goes to plastic on my skin chemistry. Other than that, it was this licorice candy. SAD that it didn't work out.
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    Herbert West

    It's been a while since I've tried Embalming Fluid - and I agree with the crisp lemon comparison. Definitely masculine. This one is a nice bright chypre - less 'heavy' than Pollution, but in the same vein. Brighter, crispier, more lemony. I'm going to introduce Herbert to my husband and see if they get along...
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    Wicked

    This one is a heavy jasmine and myrrh blend, with just a drop of rose. Unfortunately, I get the dreaded cat pee from the sharp jasmine, so I'm going to have to pass on this blend.
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