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I am so in love. This is actually smells even MORE sexy than normal Snake Oil on me! Who knew!? It's like a less sweet SO with a kick of frankincense and copal. I am not really picking up the Orris yet, but hopefully I will. It of course has longevity like all of the Snakes, at least it does in my opinion. I will definitely be on the hunt for more!

I am REALLY going to have to take the time to read all of the reviews later, as I am curious if anyone had the same reaction as I did. In the bottle, it actually smelled really faint. Sugary with a hint of unidentifiable fruit. When it was first applied it just smelled faintly sugary. I thought there was NO way that ANYONE could smell this on me. I.Was.Wrong. Within a couple of minutes it continued to get stronger and stronger, until it enveloped the whole room. I had only applied it to one arm at this time. Just on the front and back of my wrist. This smells nice, but I swear to God it reminds me of Posset's Peeps oil! Seriously! Which I love. Only this is stronger, and the oil base with Possets has never been awesome on me, it makes it smell off after an hour or so of wear, which is why I normally use them in scent lockets. Anyway, this isn't a total twin of it, but it is so very similar to me, and even to my family. This also reminds me of things like circus peanuts. I really amp the "candied fruits" and I definitely smell confectionary sugar.I really like this, but not sure if I will wear it often, as it seems to go really overpowering on me. Time will tell whether this is a keeper for me. This is still a great blend and I can see why so many people love it. I love the fact that it lasts hours and has amazing throw with only a little put on. I figured it would be faint. I love blends that I do not have to reapply often, they save me so much money!

Upon opening the bottle, I nearly had a nosegasm. It smells that good in the bottle! It smells like fancy, rich, milk chocolate. Then you smell the amber, which makes it smell even more decadent. It smells exactly like the description when I first applied it. Hubby didn't smell the amber on me well, but said I smelt like "chocolate biscuits". Unfortunately, within 5 minutes of applying I started getting some baby powder. 10 minutes on and it was STRONG baby powder, and no more chocolate I am confizzled as amber (even BPAL ambers) play well with my skin. I am hoping this is hormonal and I am going to try again once I am a bit less hormonal. I really hope this doesn't have to go to swaps for me as initially it smells so damn good! Baby powder doesn't smell badly of course, but I don't get BPAL for people to think I have covered myself in baby powder After several hours of wear (and this wears for a REALLY long time, I put it on last night and this morning I still have some light throw!) it is closer to the way it was when originally applied, with the baby powder notes kicked down and it's a soft, slightly powdery amber with a bit of chocolate. Only a bit though. So, like I said, I will keep trying with this one, but I have no doubt that many other people will find success with this one and I would still insist on at least trying it, if the description sounds nice to you. Obviously many people have found success with this one, or else there would not be so many glowing reviews and an annual return

I had never tried this before, thinking it was silly when I owned both Snake Oil and O. I am now glad that I did try this, and hope to acquire more. If you like the smell of SO once it's on your skin and also the scent of O, but generally find them both too strong and cloying, I would suggest giving this a go. It is not nearly as spicy as I was expecting, so the name didn't really seem fitting and in that respect it was a bit of a letdown. I was expecting the spicy snake oil to play lead and the honey to just be a character actor, there to give it more substance. In my opinion (and it is possible I got a dud, I suppose) it is the complete reverse. The honey is definitely in the foreground and it is very similar to, but not exactly the same as O. I understand it says three types of honey, but to me they all meld together. The Snake Oil is there, but just enriches everything and makes it all oh so much sexier. There is good throw, but not the kind that can give people headaches (as Snake Oil has done to family and friends even when I have applied very little) and it lasts for hours. I can definitely see why this is a favorite. Layering Snake Oil and O just won't cut it for me anymore.

Smelled great in the vial. Really strong candied apricot with a nice floral undertone and I also detected the skin musk. The jasmine ruined this for me within a couple minutes, or less, once I applied it to my skin. It then smelled of apricots and a slightly floral and wet baby diaper. Jasmine is hit or miss for me, and I guess this time it just wasn't meant to be. If it hadn't turned on my skin it would have totally been bottle worthy.

I am so glad I tried this, and once I have the funds I will be ordering a full bottle! It definitely is unlike anything I have ever tried before, and at first sniff I wasn't completely convinced it was for me, even though it smelled nice in the imp. It melds perfectly with my skin, which I was really worried about, considering the lettuce note. After about 2 minutes on I just could not stop sniffing my arm! And there is something in here...the way all the notes mesh together...that brings to mind a time from my childhood. Not a specific event, but it evokes FEELINGS I had in my childhood...Maybe the lab has figured a way to bottle innocense? There is also definitely something soothing about this as well. If I inhale deeply and try to pick apart all of the notes, I can pick up most of them, but the dominant notes on my skin are creamy sweet lilac petals, white chocolate, coconute and orris. I love, love, love it!

I was really looking forward to this, and it failed on my skin so horribly. In the imp it was really fresh smelling and there wasn't as much lilac as I thought it would be. I'm always on the hunt for good lilac scents that aren't fake or overpowering. It smelled really nice in the imp even though it wasn't what I expected, but as soon as I put it on, the grass amped to extremes and then there was this soapy floral sharpness underneath that...and underneat THAT there was a nice bit of sweet lilac, but not enough to deal with the soapy smell, which lasts forever. So sad I have never really had such a soapy undertone come from any BPAL I've tried and this HAD to be the one it happened with. The upside - Someone will be getting this through swaps soon (and there seems to be quite a few fans of this) and I saved myself a good chunk of change as I nearly ordered the whole bottle before I decided on trying before buying

I got this as a frimp in my latest order. I was shocked. I had debated about ordering this before, seeing as how I LOVE the BPAL Beeswax note. It does WONDERFUL things for me, and I get glowing compliments when I wear Giant Vulva or Hanerot Halalu. This reminds me very much of HH. I don't have my bottle of HH on hand with me now, but this is the closest I've ever come to HH. So Happy! Ordering a full bottle of this when I have the funds. Now, for those of you that haven't tried HH and don't know what I'm talking about, The Lights of Men's Lives is the most gorgeous sweet beeswax note with some added sweetness (I'm assuming in the form of vanilla or maybe even honey? I could be wrong, but I don't care, this is gorgeous!) and a nice smokiness that on my skin comes out to play the longer the oil is on me. It is reminiscent of blowing out candles on a birthday cake and blowing out the hand dipped beeswax candles we'd light for the holidays as a kid. It's a little imp of nostalgia, but as much as it makes me recall my childhood, there is something sexy about this as well, even sexier than HH. I have gotten the most compliments off of this one oil than I got out of ANY of the other oils that were in my package. The only downside is, there is a hint of powder in it, but it doesn't always seem to be there, and when it is it isn't overpowering or turn the whole oil to smelling like a fresh baby's bottom. Definitely a keeper, and a must for anyone looking for a great beeswax scent. This could be your HG!

Gorgeous in the imp. Chocolate disappears right away on my skin. The wine is the dominant note. It's nice, but I'm not sure if it's for me. The wine fades and I'm left with a bit of a generic floral perfume. Nice, but not my style. Think this will find a new home.

I am also getting the cleaner smell from this. More specifically, I am getting a nail polish and remover smell. Straight from the imp. It calms down a bit on my skin and I can identify most of the notes, with the exception of the beeswax, and that's a big reason I bought this one. Love beeswax in any amount. Even though it smells better after it has sat on my skin, I don't want to go through the first phase of chemical grossness to get to the pleasant bit.

Ugh. This smelled gorgeous in the imp. I could smell almost all of the notes. Then I applied it to my skin. I now smell Pine Fresh. Not in a good way either. and it has amped to such epic proportions that it is now giving me a headache and I think it is too masculine for me. I'll try this on the hubby, but I don't think it's his thing. This sucks because this was the main imp I ordered for, aside from halfling. After a bit some berry comes out but that's it, and then the trees come back out and dominate. Reminds me of cleaner and air fresheners.

In the imp, I was afraid of this. But once it's on the skin it's a lovely warm oatmeal cookie type fragrance. Fresh Baked! I just hope it sticks around on my skin!

Definitely a Pink Scent! It was much sweeter in the imp, and that sweetness is now toned down on my skin. I think I have finally found the perfect Jasmine scent for myself! It's perfect and blends with all of it's other components perfectly. It's girly, creamy, slightly sweet, very pink but still a little sexy all at once. This is only with a few minutes of testing the scent. I could very well change my mind, but fingers crossed that it doesn't, because it's rare I come across such a girly, pink, jasmine scent that doesn't make me either sneeze, feel like i'm 12 years old or make me feel like i'm 70 years old.

This reminded me of Cockaigne at first, in the vial. Once I put it on it started turning to powder. It seemed like it was going to be a less sweet version of Cockaigne and I was kind of hoping for that, but it's not meant to be. At first I smell...burnt...something...no idea. Then it all goes to powder. Boo I was SO excited to try this one, but I see a lot of other folks love it so maybe it won't be too hard to find this one a home.

I was so excited to try this. When I opened the bottle, it was gorgeous, and I thought that if it didn't morph too dramatically on my skin that it would definitely be a keeper. In the bottle it is a most gorgeous cocoa scent with a drizzle of honey and lots of nice soft sandalwood and patchouli with a hint of something fruity and spicy. Must be the Cubeb and the Cardamom? It dries down to just the spicy fruitiness. I smell a little bit of sandalwood still and something else slightly powdery. However, the yummy cocoa and even the patchouli (which normally amps on me like crazy) has vanished. Within less than 5 minutes. I'm now left with a slightly powdery, slightly spicy and slightly sexy bowl of froot loops. Lol. It's interesting but this will probably be finding a new home, because I just can't see myself wearing it

Ok, I ordered on the 13th of May for a bottle of 13 and an imp pack. I know that orders sometimes take a few weeks, I've ordered quite a few times in the past, so I didn't think anything of it until today. Honestly I wouldn't have thought of it anyway last week, with having a death in the family and everything else going on, but today I sat down to check my e-mail, my debit card account and so on and thought I'd check on my order status. I've had no CnS emailed to me and I've looked everywhere, even in my junk mail. I did however click the "check your order status" link in the original e-mail I got from CCNow today and was told that my order supposedly shipped on the 15th via USPS. It's been over a year since I placed an order, so am I forgetting something? Is it normal for CCNow to say shipped and it still not be here? Or to still not have a CnS when CCNow claims it's been shipped? I'm starting to worry. It would be a slight pick-me-up if it ever comes, God knows I could use one, but it was around $50 with shipping, and now that we have one less person in the household and bills mounting up, losing a $50 order is really going to sting.

I had been lusting after a bottle for ages now and someone awesome swapped me one. At first I wasn't sure it was going to work. When I first applied it, it mainly smelled like caramel candies and something fruity. Once it's dry, I can detect every note listed! maybe it's just my imagination, but I can swear that I even smell lint! It does smell like a pillowcase stuffed with all the best types of loot. I feel nostalgic when this is on, it makes me yearn for the days that I could trick-or-treat. It seems to stick around for a good length of time, so I don't think I'll have to constantly be reapplying. The only way I would swap or sell this would be if it starts to go funny on my skin, and that's happened before...so fingers crossed it keeps working out!

How many potential witchees have an iPod, or download MP3s? I don't have an ipod, but I do have a really kickass mp3 player capable of storing pics and video and it also has radio. It's a sansa and I got it for a fraction of the price of an ipod. I've never had an ipod, but I've used my cousin's ipod before, and I actually prefer my little sansa to hers. Unfortunately, I managed to lose my mp3 player recently. I'll find it eventually, but until I do, all music is downloaded and put on a cd. I love new music, and I'd definitely love it if you burned a cd with your favorite music. is there anything from the US you'd love that you can't get where you live now? Well, I'm from the US, but I've seen US people posting what they'd like from other countries in response to this question sooooo.....Any foreign candy is great. Especially European chocolate and also candy and snacks from the UK. I ADORE Cadbury's Crunchie bars and love pretty much anything Cadbury. Tea is good as well. Oh, and any kind of cool flavored chips ....or "crisps" as some of you call them. This could also be a good idea for anyone that's American but lives near a specialty store that sells imported goods I love candy and food from different places and love to try new things! What kinds of crafts does everyone either enjoy making or enjoy getting?Do you have a certain type of handmade item that you love to collect? Socks, boxes, jewelry, dolls etc? I experiment with making jewelry and bath stuffs (bombs, melts and soap) and i would enjoy getting anything like that. I love handmade boxes. I'm not really into socks. I wear them when I have to. I'm not into dolls so much either. Clearly, vegans are not into soaps with honey or milk, etc. But, if you're NOT a vegan, how would you feel about soaps made with emu oil? Squicked out/concerned about animal cruelty, or willing to try them? I'd be willing to try them. My grandmother uses emu oil, it's supposed to help with arthritis...but I don't know how much it's helped her. Are there any of the BPTP bath oils you adore (particularly ones that you cannot get anymore). What about the room sprays? I've never tried any of the BPTP bath oils or room sprays, but they sound interesting. I love bath oils. I'm not big on room sprays, I prefer tarts, candles and incense. How would you feel about an ultra-girlie shawl or wrap in summer-weight (lace)? Those really are gorgeous, but I wouldn't be able to use them much. I'm very very hot natured and if I weren't so self conscious (and if it were legal) I would run around naked during the summer. I can't stant to be hot and can't stand anything on my arms in the summer. knitted socks? If you've made it this far, it's quite possible you already know about my dislike for wearing socks except to keep my feet from sweating in my sneakers. I kinda HAVE to wear them then, or else I'd have to take off my shoes a mile away from the rest of the household. But yes, knitted things and I don't usually get along unless it's in the dead of winter, just because I overheat so easily.

Dear Witch, I hope that this is helpful to you and I'm sorry that it's so freakin' long. I apparently do not know when to stop I'm really looking forward to being "witched" by you Here is a link to my bpal wishlist And here is a link to my non-bpal wishlist ___________________________________ ~Other things I'm interested in~ I love animals. I don't really have a favorite animal, but I'm very partial to cats and have two of my own. I do not like snakes. I must be a kid at heart, because I still have all of my stuffed animals and I still get new ones from friends and family. Other "childish" things I like include : Sanrio Characters, Disney Merch and Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Teddy Ruxpin, TMNT, Every single Tim Burton animated film (I love pretty much every Burton film though) and I love animated films in general. I still watch cartoons sometimes...and I mean other than south park and everything on Adult Swim. I sometimes watch Cartoon Network during the day when it's directed at kids, lol. I still love stickers. I really like quirky pens and stuff like that. I still write with Gel Pens sometimes I love incense and i could actually use a new incense burner for stick incense. I love hockey. My favorite team is the Carolina Hurricanes. I collect Hockey Pucks. It doesn't have to be a Hurricanes puck. I love to star gaze and am currently really interested in astronomy. I'm a history geek. I love anything to do with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass. On the subject of Alice, I have always wanted to play American McGee's Alice (the pc game) and never got around to it or couldn't afford it...and now I can't find it. Anything Dickens and anything Poe I would love. I also love Mark Twain. I seem to favor classic male authors the most for some reason, although I do love Austen and Alcott. I love music and am always wanting new music to listen to, so "mix tapes" are awesome. I love love love to read and I gave a lot of specific info about that on my SW questionnaire, so I'll save you the boredom of reading it here, lol. The fiance and I are currently being old fashioned romantics and writing each other actual letters on paper while we're apart, so stationary is great. I'm obsessed with lip balm and lip butters. I constantly apply it. I can always use more. My cats LOVE feline greenies. Their favorite flavor is ocean fish, but they love them all. And of course, catnip is a huge hit in this house, even I use it! I can always use herbs for herbal remedies. I have a lot of health problems right now and have to take a lot of pills, so anything that i can help soothe without using pharmaceuticals is great. I mainly use herbal remedies to help treat my PCOS symptoms and to help with my insomnia. It's nice being able to feel like you can help control something yourself without the help of pharmaceuticals. My favorites are scullcap, damiana, valerian root, chamomile, red raspberry leaf, hops, wild yam, passion flower and dagga leaf essential oils are also something I always like to keep on hand and I can NEVER have enough lavender essential oil. I also love to keep cocoa and shea butter and other plant butters on hand. I have many uses for them. They're great in the bath when I use a bomb or bubble bar but want some added moisture. I sometimes make my own bath melts and also use it when making bath bombs. I use them plain as moisturizers or make my own massage bars/lotion bars even though I also use lotion and commecial body butters. I'm obsessive about having soft skin. I've really been wanting to plant some flowers here, and I want to grow them myself, but I haven't gotten around to getting the seeds. I'm really interested in growing some night blooming flowers as well as some honeysuckle since our new yard doesn't have any. I'd also love to start an herb garden and I would love to grow my own lavender, so seeds are good I love love love honey and put it in and on pretty much everything. I really love it in or on hot milk, hot chocolate, teas, oatmeal, some cold breakfast cereals, icecream, yogurt, biscuits, toast, english muffins, peanut butter sandwiches, fruits and I love to bake with it. I also use it in homemade facials that I do from time to time I also love honey of different varieties like lavender honey and cinnamon honey. I can also always use earplugs. Seriously. These days I'm often a light sleeper and my family is VERY VERY loud. Everyone is on a different schedule as well, so to get any sleep around here I need ear plugs. They're also useful when I go to hockey games and concerts and also when I have to stay in the hospital. I can never ever have enough ear plugs. I could always use decanting supplies since I'm getting into that now. It's really hard for me to narrow down my favorite movies because I love SO many. I love these movies and anything to do with them though : Lord of the Rings, Labyrinth, The Wizard of Oz and pretty much all Tim Burton movies. I'd love anything to do with Buffy, Supernatural, Doctor Who, Family Guy, South Park, Lost and Pushing Daisies. I forgot to mention this in the questionnaire, but I collect unique rocks, shells and crystals. I also forgot to mention my favorite drinks in the questionnaire...I think I focused too much on food. Food is on my mind a lot latey My favorite drinks are cider, pepsi, orange soda, strawberry banana nectar, raspberry juice, teas of all varieties except green and hot chocolate. Of the alcoholic variety I love wine and Bailey's and mixed drinks of all kinds. I also love hard cider but I absolutely despise beer. I'm obsessed with shakes and smoothies. I love anything weird or unusual. Most people think that I don't make any sense, because my tastes are all over the place. I like girly and cutesy things yet at the same time I'm accused of liking things that other people say are "morbid". Heh. On that note, I love cemetaries. I love all things european, especially anything from the Uk, russia, czech repub, sweden, holland, latvia, greece and italy. I also love all things Egyptian and all things Indian. My fiance loves a lot of Japanese stuff, and I think a lot of it is cool as well. Fantasy Bath - Splash, Aloha, Bora Bora Bound, Mango Tango, Paradisio, She Sells Sea Shells, Sun moon and stars melts, Bayou Voodoo, Blackberry Brew, Cashmere, Days of Lime and Roses, Delish, Dryad, Enchantment, Heart's Desire, Into the green, It's my birthday, Jamaica Me Crazy, Lorelei,Peppermint Ice, Summer Soother, Wylde Child. I love anything having to do with my favorite old tv shows...and I mean very old! I love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke and All in the Family. Carved wooden boxes are awesome.Any cool boxes are awesome though. I love chocolate, but I also love other candy. I am CRAZY over pop rocks. I love freeze dried ice cream and the other freeze dried novelty foods you can get, if that counts as candy. I love Chupa Chups and they're hard to find around here. You used to could find them everywhere when I was younger, but it's almost impossible now. I love banana laffy taffy and banana now and laters. When it comes to incense I will burn stick incense of any kind, and sometimes cone incense. I do love me some Fred Soll's incense though. I also burn resin and can always use frankincense tears, dragon's blood and pretty much any other resin as well as things like sandalwood chips to burn. I can always use charcoal tablets. I've recently gotten into graphic novels. I've only read Neil Gaiman so far, but I'd be interested in trying anything! I love to dye my hair, even if it's just to put streaks in. Funky hair dye is always welcome. Manic Panic is a fave of mine. Any of the blues, purples, pinks or reds. I love snowflakes. I love pewter fairies and would love to start a collection. I love mythical creatures and have an interest in mythology of many cultures. My favorite color is blood red. My favorite color combinations are red and black or purple and black. I love to try new etailers and I LOVE LOVE LOVE samples. Samples are the best. There are so many etailers I still haven't tried yet. I'd like to try Nocturne Alchemy and possibly Conjure oils. I've also had my eye on MoonaLisa, Fantasy Bath and Cocoa Pink for awhile now. ~Things I can't really use~ I know it's summer, but someone might want to send socks or scarves or that sort of thing to prepare me for cold weather...I kid you not when I say I am VERY hot natured. Even in the winter. I bundle up when I absolutely have to, to keep from getting sick...but other than that I always have bare arms and I only wear socks with my shoes. Green Tea. I just don't like it. I love other tea, but I don't like green tea at all. Licorice and licorice flavored or scented things. Anything super strongly floral and most rose scented things. Earrings. I don't have pierced ears. Coffee. I don't drink it and I'm really not supposed to anyway. Every once in a long while I will have a cappucino or something. I hope this was some help to you, witch!

I did not think I'd love this so much. When I first put it on, I thought it was too strong and was gonna go to total powder. Within minutes it settles down on me though, and becomes one of the yummiest scents ever. I can pick up every note in this except for cinnamon, but I can sort of feel it's presence, because this is a sort of warm scent. In my opinion, this is very much like O. I love O, so I can't say which is better. They're both awesome to me. It's not EXACTLY like O though. I suggest everyone that likes O try this and those who wanted to love O but didn't, well, you need to try this as well. This is a smoky and floral O. Incredibly sexy!

So. Disappointed. I normally love every single not listed in this, so I thought it'd be heavenly with them all together. On me, this is total baby powder and generic perfume. What the heck!? I can't even detect many of the listed notes when I sniff it in the vial, but it really turns bad once it hits my skin

I wanted to try this, but wasn't sure because of the rose note. Roses normally turn into total grandma perfume on me. This was a lovely surprise...for awhile at least. This is a musky and somewhat smoky and warm sweet floral. This is VERY sexy. However, this seems to turn on my skin after about a half hour of wear, and because of that I'm on the fence. While it's still in it's yummy stage, I mainly seem to get some roses (but this isn't an in your face rose, and it blends in perfectly with the other notes) with jasmine intertwined with some other florals that I can't really pinpoint. There's a bit of a sweet musky vanilla and I can sense the peru balsam in with it, lending this a creamy feel...which I love. I think this is what makes the rose work on me. Last but certainly not least is the opium, and it gives this a somewhat dark and brooding feel. The opium smoke swirls all around the other notes. If I concentrate and inhale deeply, I can get a little leather and champaca and a bit of sandalwood. I don't detect any mandarin in this, but that's ok. After half an hour of glorious scent with a moderate throw, this then starts to smell like wet diapers on me. Seriously. I'm hoping it's just my hormones this week, but it honestly smells like a wet diaper...complete with a bit of baby powder. Thank God that it no longer has much throw once it reaches this stage. Overall, this is a gorgeous fragrance, but it doesn't seem to work with my skin. Maybe I'll give it another try in a week to see if there is a change.

In the imp I could smell a light rose, some greenery and something slightly fruity. On my skin this turned into a very fresh rose fragrance as it kept some of that green to it. The fruitiness vanished quickly. This smells nice and would be a nice rose fragrance for girls and young women since it doesn't have that old lady perfume thing going on. I won't be keeping this though because it's just not my cup of tea. It also doesn't last very long on me. I'd say 2 hours max.

Faiza broke my heart I got a small decant of this, just enough to try out. In the imp it smelled so dark, green and damp. It smelled of fresh green leaves, a little cut grass, gardenia and light creamy florals, black amber and clusters of ripe blackberries and other fruit. I could have sniffed the imp all day. Once it hit my skin it immediately started to go downhill. The fruit immediately recedes into the background and then completely out of sight. It just disappears. The greens start decreasing dramatically. The creamy florals trade places with an overly perfumy and floral ginger. I'm left with a LOT of ginger, some black amber and what I think is caraway, but not much of it and the slightest hint of something green. This is gorgeous in the imp and I reckon it's gorgeous on a lot of other people...so I recommend trying this, especially if you can get hold of a decant. Sadly, this just didn't work for me. Maybe I'll try it as a room scent in my oil warmer or pass it on to someone else that might have better luck.

First of all, I love Snake Oil, so I figured if this just turned to plain SO on me then I'd be fine with it because I LOVE SO. Also, I swapped for this. I couldn't justify spending so much for one 5ml and and then so much to ship one little bottle. So I was prepared for however this would turn out. In my mind it was either going to be an extra bottle of SO or something even better. I got something even better This is SO yummy. It really is chocolate Snake Oil! When I sniff from the bottle I mainly get cocoa (think like cocoa powder..and someone mentioned something about tootsie rolls, and I do get that a little) and Snake Oil. I can detect a little teak in the bottle, but I'm not really getting the rice milk. If it's there, I think it's just helping to mellow out the herbal tinge that Snake Oil can often have. As much as I love SO, when I put it on I have to let it get through it's herbal stage, which on me only lasts 5-10 minutes. Don't get me wrong, snake oil smells good straight out of the bottle but it's FABULOUS when that herbal tinge mellows. Boomslang on my skin is pure Snake Oil completely covered in cocoa with a little added sweetness. It's amazing, and anyone that likes or loves SO has to try this. The WORST that could happen is you're stuck with more snake oil This is sooooo sexy. Even sexier than SO on it's own. It lasts hours and hours and the scent stays true... at least, it does on me. Well, after about 5 hours or so I can't smell much cocoa anymore, but the SO is still there going strong.