skyelyric

I'm not sure it's wearable, but I love whiffing it! For me there's really no honey to this at all, it's very green, and not sweet, the smell is a fascinating combination to my nose of tomato plants and bell pepper. Actually, I take it back, I will wear this, just likely not out and about. This is a *fantastic* gardening scent. eta: dry, it's still green plants, but I do get a bit of sweetness poking out now.

Doll's Eye reminds me a lot of an imp of Severin that I picked up a bit ago, which is to say it's got that faintly citrus-but-not-really packaged handwipe (like you get at restaurants with messy meals) scent to it. This blend, however, also has a hint of menthol that catches me in the back of my throat like an aftertaste to the sniff I just took. It's interesting, but not a wearable for me.

So, so faint on me! Door starts as a clean, softly wildflower-type babypowder-ish scent on my skin, and it's pretty other than being so faint I have to have my nose adhered to my wrist to smell it. Unfortunately, something in the blend doesn't jive with me and I end up with superfaint, vaguely plastic powder.

On me this is all leather all the time. It's a very nice leather, kind of a warm, well-worn saddle type vibe--no horse, just the saddle leather. Hunter is a comforting smell to me, but not something I'd wear. And I'd say it's entirely unisex.

I will second the adoration of Delirium. It's actually the only rose scent I can wear, and it makes me smile every time I catch a whiff.

Blood Lotus, Blood Amber

I was generously gifted an imp of this in a recent wishing well swap. In the imp it is heavenly--the herb/resin/wood thing almost has a cinnamon-y vibe to it, I don't smell any citrus at all, but it's really lovely. Eagerly skintested only to find after about half an hour that if there's not white musk in this there's something that mimics its behaviour exactly on my skin, and I'm left with a noxious sweet cloud, so, so sad after the gorgeousness in the imp. Back into circulation it will go...

I do find them very similar - crisp, pretty and simple, if there are other notes in there I don't pick up on them. And since it's GC it's an easy, low-cost & low-risk investment to pick up an imp in a lab order or via swaps. Seconded. They smell super close to me, but I think BPAL's is to be preferred.

Honestly, this is what I'd hoped Envy would smell like. This is straight-up green fields. I'm not sure if I want to wear my imp or just keep it around so I can have that delightful outside smell anytime I want.

might help to know which you've tried, just to get an idea, and of things you'd like to smell like. Kumiho, Aizen Myoo, Sudha Segara, and Baobhan Sith are a few I'd suggest right off. They're all more clean/tart/fruit scents to me. I also like Aglaea a lot but I don't know if you'd amp/sweeten the amber, it's like peach wine on me.

Seconding Thalia and Tamora, and I like Aizen Myoo as well

Ultraviolet. At least on me there's a lot of that icy menthol smell

I never thought I'd buy a bottle of a floral, but this did it. I had a tester of I'm guessing aged Marcilla, which ended up a gorgeous creamy lily-of-the-valley scent. My new bottle is much more complex. When wet, the first thing I get is nectarine with a little of the beeswax, it's almost like an orchard with the floralfruitypollen thing going on. It settles into a beautiful complex creamy floral centered around the lily of the valley to my nose.

When first applied, Dorian is sweet, rather foody. I get granuated sugar, a tiny whiff of lemon, creamy tea, and something faintly cake-ish. However, as I feared, pale musk=white musk. Half an hour in and all I can smell is the foul, cloyingly sweet haze that is white musk on skyelyric. I could even catch hints of the musk haze after several hours and a shower. Le sigh. It *was* a pretty, edible scent...

<runs off to look up the Raven> Body chemistry is some crazy stuff...Like on me, Bastet is a lovely rich spiced almond, Asp Viper's a good almond too...Queen of Sheba? Corn chips. /hijack

Kumiho is a good example of ginger. This was actually one of my a-ha! blends, because I picked up Sudha Segara and went 'this smells really familiar...ooo...Kumiho! Ginger! Got it!' Tombstone is a good drywoody blend to get a feel for. Dracul is good for piney-type woods. I'd say Phobos is a more straight-up lemon than Embalming Fluid. Ultraviolet is very strong on the violet (go figure) if you want to try for that flower scent. In general too, remember the old standard 'your mileage may vary.' Some things smell very distinct but not like they're supposed to due to skin chemistry. You might start recognizing notes by realizing that X and Y perfumes both do something absolutely godawful on you. I found out what white musk was when Katharina, Phobos, and Whitechapel all turned into the same nauseating haze around me. Mostly it's a good idea to test and cross reference, figure out what has a similar smell, then look at the notes, and start figuring out what they have in common.

Ooo....or something like Havana comes to mind. And damn, I wish I had the legs to wear that. Love it.

Ordered an imp of this because I love palm in other blends, and I wanted to try some of the leathery/tobacco blends. I don't get much in the way of leather, well, at all, really. I get some tobacco, sweet woods, and something a little plant-like, but in a humid-breeze-with-a-hint-of-something-tropical-blooming-in-the-distance way. The floral tainted breeze note dies off over time, and the end result is just smooth and mellow. Havana might be going on my 'love' list in short order. There's also something very nostalgic about it, to me this is a hot summer night back in Florida.

Wow. I amp the living hell out of this. I put like a pinprick sized drop on my wrist and WHOAPERFUME. I smell a lot of tobacco in this, but it's like sweet, rich vanilla-scented pipe tobacco. Overall this is a very oppulent scent, I get the woods blending in behind the tobacco. I'll have to hide my imp for a while and see if it mellows out any, I have a feeling it would be stunning if it weren't trying to climb up my arm and kill me.

On me at least Habu is heavy on the bamboo, as is Autumn Coolness. I personally love Embalming Fluid, but my favorite mainstream perfume is Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea, which is almost a perfect match for it to my nose.

Anyone else get sweet grassy meadow out of The Gibbous Moon? I just happened to try some on and went 'whoa, cut grass and flowers.'

This is such a fascinating scent on me. It's syrupy sweet/tart in the bottle, but as it dries down the tobacco and some spicy notes come out to play and it turns into something goldenand...guava paste and sweet spices! Autumn Moon *almost* strikes me as a holiday scent, but not quite, and it's definitely not like anything I've smelled before. I think I love this.

in the imp and wet this is like good spiced rum with pieces of fresh coconut and a little sugar. on the drydown the rum fades, the coconut gets richer and sweeter, and the scent gets really warm and rounded, which i'm guessing might be the tobacco? i think intrigue is still my favorite summer island scent, but elegba's a brighter, equally pretty cousin to it.

The East out of the Stardust series.

This totally makes up for the Clytie decant epic fail. In the imp and wet there's something sharply herbal and astringent, it's like piney tree sap in the sun to me. I tested this as soon as it got here, and it was more of the same, gorgeous sweet spicy pine/fir (maybe the copal and cedar blending?). I put a small test spot near my elbow, and I could smell it constantly, for HOURS, through a shower. Great throw, great longevity, very masculine-smelling to me, but I couldn't stop sniffing it. So of course I jump on a bottle on the sales page, then go to wear my decant again and it's changed! After settling for a couple days it's lost its throw. I smell the same bright astringency wet, but it dries into something much softer and smoother, and much more private. Although I loved my aura of spicy trees, this gentler, quieter Helios is much more everyday wearable.