patina

Close to The Forest at Sundown. or whatever that one was that had pink amber. A very nice amber and pink rose with enough spice to prevent it from turning too soapy.

I get the red amber and leather with dark musk. It's not spicy, just red. There's an oily and animalistic sense to this, like leather smoked with incense and rubbed with some slightly odd smelling grease. Plus amber.

This is my favorite of the eclipse scents I've tried. The golden chypre and clove along with the tobacco give it an early autumn feeling. In fact, I'd say this would fit right in with the Weenies fall collection. Similar to In the Time of Plague (if that was the one with the clove tobacco and roses.) This is smoother if I remember correctly. Edit: after testing: I do get amping rose, tobacco, clove from both. My skin must be doing that. However, Mabel is perfumy and smooth while In the Time of Plague has big nasty rough dark wooden teeth. They do have a very similar edge to the throw though.

Full floral realistic honeysuckle with loads of powdery yellow pollen. Though mostly realistic, it's also not unlike a honeysuckle candle I had once. If anyone had the Pat the Bunny book as a child, this flower smells like that book. Medium to light throw, becomes light but still present after four or five hours.

Alternately brown sugar and herbal lemon at first. Resolves into spices, herbs (not especially lemony), pumpkin and wine. Like VioletChaos said, very autumn without being pure pumpkin spice

Do not smirk as a hearse goes by, For you may be the next to die. They wrap you up in a big white sheet And throw you down six feet deep. They put you in a big black box, And cover you up with dirt and rocks. All goes well for a week or two, Then things start changing; all is new. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, The worms play pinochle on your snout. A big green worm with rolling eyes, Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes. Til your blood turns mossy green And oozes out like Devonshire cream. Worm Moon marks the season of rains, when the worms scuttle forth, aerating the earth with their movements and enriching the soil by digesting waste in organic material, which creates organic fertilizer. Pink and wriggling globs of grapefruit syrup clotted with congealed moss-green blood, rotting coffin wood spattered with soil, decomposing organic matter, and a gruesome burst of overripe blackberries. In the bottle grapefruit, moss and dirt. On, this is a fruity moss scent. I expect the moss to get stronger with aging. I can't tell what the "green blood" is though the moss smells green and my throat gets slightly scratchy when I smell it too closely. The blackberry backs up the grapefruit wonderfully, adding depth. On the whole the scent is slightly sour but not unpleasantly so.

Milky coffee at first and nothing but that. Then there's some chocolate syrup and banana. Not a lot of banana but it's there. There may be some papaya or something and there's definitely tobacco. Is that rum? Probably not because otherwise it would be taking over. But it may be sweet coconut. I don't get a whole lot of fruit but it's there lending a sugary feel. I don't get curry, just a ton of rich chocolate syrup. Medium to light throw.

Ginger ale with lime and plastic. Not burning plastic, just plastic. The lime is sweet rather than sour.

After applying: Refreshing. Cucumber with bright lemon. There's a hint of dill maybe or even salt, which is a little worrying but it soon morphs into a green aquatic cologne. The green fougere with lemon reminds me of Virgo 2016. Like that scent, LORDY is also bright and uplifting, but it's aquatic rather than earthy. Not as lemony either. I was a little worried about the leather and coffee notes, but somehow they don't clash horribly. Maybe because I barely notice them. The coffee/ paper is like Misketonic U on me. Only a tiny bit of coffee. The leather provides a base note, coffee provides faint spice. (Disclaimer: My skin eats leather.) One word: Spiffy. I like it but I may not be neat and stylish enough to wear it.

That's definitely some vetiver there. It's not chemical on me, but it's fairly smoky. I also get the deep, thrumming, resonant, almost resinous dirt from Alviss. There could be opoponax here? That could be what smells like asphalt but almost grapey. At times the vetiver can be a little overwhelming, but I love the parts where it steps back a little and allows other elements to appear. It can be almost suffocating at times, comforting at other times. Just like being under the earth. Edit: Soapy undertones eventually.

Lime shaving cream and... I want to like this but all I'm getting is a big whiff of powdery laundry detergent, as if I just stuck my nose in there and snorted it. Not for me.

Amazing. Soft white and lavender flowers (lilac? wisteria? kudzu?) soaked in cold water. They smell a little grape-like. The water is radiant, practically glowing with white light. Sadly the drydown is cloying white florals and dryer sheets. Not for me.

This is a scent I ignored after reading the notes. A few years later, I get it as a frimp and actually try it without remembering what the notes were. I couldn't tell there was leather there, I just got an old parchment scent with vetiver, tobacco, faint incense and crumbling herbs around the edges. I'd never liked most of the book scents I tried, but this one was different. The scent is manly to me, though the sort of man who wears lace collars, traffics with spirits and obsesses over old manuscripts. It seems more like Aziraphale than Aziraphale's actual scent did. On reading the notes, I can definitely tell that there's leather. My skin tends to eat leather so it makes sense that the Tonka and wood would nearly cover it up. This was perfect for the summer heat, maybe due to the rosewood/ incense/herbs/ what other reviewers call aftershave. The tobacco wasn't amping nightmarishly as it sometimes does in summer. My only complaint is that it sticks so close to the skin there's barely any throw.

I ignored this scent for a while because I thought it would be too simple and I wasn't that interested in foody scents. That was a mistake. The currants here are more perfumy than foody to me, but that's not a bad thing. The red ones are tart and almost spicy and the black ones balance that out. And the cake...it's the softest most delicate vanilla cake ever.

Mostly faint, not very sweet honey mead on me. I get something almost fruity as if there were apples or something citrusy in the mead, but it's not strong. Then the musk and wood come out. This scent reminds me of Shadow's unfavorable impression of mead, although I don't get pickle juice. Not bad, but not for me.

This didn't smell very promising in the vial. Not bad at all, but sort of a scent I'd smelled before, maybe Faustus. On it immediately smelled like frankincense, with patchouli and a floral, but it develops into a beautiful resin scent that never quite loses the violet, but isn't overwhelmed by violet. I predict this will be more gorgeous once the patchouli has had a chance to age. Strong throw, average wear length. Probably will be good for fall. Edit: It does in fact have a strong asphalt/ black rock smell.

In the bottle I get baby oil, pretty much straight up. Must be the vanilla, amber and honey. As I apply it I get a rush of spices but those almost disappear on me and instead the dry cacao comes out. Maybe a little caraway. Very homey. This reminds me of pale apricot colored silk sheets or (somehow) desert sand. A lot of people will find this very sexy.

Thank you Marilyn Eyre, those were wonderful and I'd thought of Villain for Nygma too. All of them fit well. I'd never thought of The Center for Harvey but it works. Another I think fits Poison Ivy is "Give Me Your Breath Sister" from the Lilith LEs. Honeyed carnivorous plants. Or Pisces 2016 for Fish. It's got red musk like the red lighting in her club and vanilla with salt air from the docks.

Clove and then cassia bringing a slight craft-store tinge to the whole thing. There's something that smells like tobacco ash at the beginning. This dries down softer than I'd expected it to: a faintly ashy clove. I love clove, but I think I prefer it with some kind of resin.

Mary Shelly is ozone with soft Victorian oriental perfume. Mostly ozone labdanum and pale faint white rose on me. Stormclouds on the Midway is smoky, sugary ozone with wormwood. Steel smells a lot like ozone to my nose and it doesn't go so "dryer sheet" as other ozone. Fighter is a bit like Macbeth and the Witches in that it has leather and steel (but also a little blood.)

Gotham TV show anyone? Fish, Penguin, or the Iceberg Lounge's atmosphere in particular. (I won't complain about more general recs for the main universe Batman rogue gallery either.)

This is a lot like Ketkrokur of the Yules but I like this better. The labdanum is strong, doing a scotch-tape/ bitter green thing at first. The musk is more candylike red than dry, coppery blood musk. There's a little darkness from the frankincense, maybe a smoked feel. I think the frankincense is what's keeping this from having a huge, huge throw. Instead the throw and strength are medium. On drydown I'm surrounded by the scent of pink marshmallow and resins. Nice. Reallynice.

Sugared pineapple, maybe with papaya. This is not what I expected and at first I wondered if I'd gotten The Jeweled Spider by mistake instead. But no one else got the same scent I did.The "cold iron" note in Baba Yaga also does this to me and dragon's blood can be a bit fruity. I can see how someone would get a fir note from this too. I can pick out tobacco if I try. On the drydown the metal becomes more metal-like but still mostly fruity. I thought this would smell like SkekUng. But no. At least it's refreshing. After resting a day it seems less fruity, more mentholated tobacco, fir. It still resembles pineapple, but now that note could almost be a ginger. Still refreshing. This just might eventually age into actually smelling like cold metal and tobacco.

I'm weird because the salt here makes me immediately think "aquatics." This isn't an aquatic, but it smells clean to me. I could see that either getting unpleasantly soapy or helping to make the Snake Oil a lot less "dirty" for people who don't like musks. It's an oddly clean vanilla and salted caramel scent for when you want to wear snake oil but don't want to amp it so much. Pleasant but maybe don't wear around people with nut allergies?

Fruity? Mostly fruity with some rose and generic floral, something dark and leather and ink like underneath that. It has a medium throw. May just be an illusion, but sniffed close up it smells like a kaleidoscope, as soon as I identify one note it blends into another. On drydown, fruit and incense. But the effect's more like "FRUIT AND INCENSE!!! ...and also something that vaguely tickles my nose."