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On me, it's super smooth: a sugary, sweet vanilla and medicinal patchouli (I think someone said old-books sort of patchouli above, and that's spot on). I only have a vague idea of what hemp smells like, and I'm not getting any of that. After about 30 minutes, it's dried down into a syrupy vanilla with a hint of patchouli. Honestly, it reminds me a lot of Snake Oil, but without the musk. And like Snake Oil, it is strong stuff. But wow, is it amazing.

According to the boyfriend, Perversion smells like honey and sex. So there's that. The Infernal Lover and (of course) Snake Oil are my go-to sexy scents, though, for when I want to feel outright sexy. But must admit, I get a really good response from the boyfriend whenever I wear super foody scents (Beaver'versary, other cakey scents). Those lean more toward the innocent/pseudo-innocent sexy spectrum, though.

What order verification are you talking about? If you're looking at the CC Now date, that's what we tend to refer to as the harvest date. Basically, it means your order has been pulled from the CC Now queue for processing. It does *not* mean your order has been shipped. I don't know what sort of lag time there is between CC Now harvesting and shipping because I use PayPal for all of my purchases (it costs the Lab less money to accept PayPal orders than CC Now orders), but I do know that there is at least a few days (and I'm thinking more like a week) between the two events. In my experience, the time between harvesting and actually getting a CnS is usually about five days to a week.

Mr. Nancy is lime and cookies on me. Like key lime cookies.

Thirteen (13): April 2012. I love it! If you can't tell, those are flowers (someone with more knowledge of flowers could probably say what particular flowers they are) in the 13. Very appropriate!

It's definitely one of the Beaver Moons, though which one, I'm not sure. I've only ever tried the 2005 version, and that's straight cake on me. Beaver Moon 2005/Beaver'versary Beaver Moon 2007 Beaver Moon 2010 Beaver Moon 2011 I'm pretty sure that's all of them.

I put on Silver Phoenix (Opalescent orris shimmering through a blend of mallow, moonflower, wild pear, iris, starwort, juniper, and mugwort) today and had the thought that it would be perfect to wear for a wedding (as the bride). It's so shimmery and soft. Really, most violet or orris scents conjure up the image of tulle for me, so maybe that's the connection.

Well, I know The Unicorn and Cottonmouth shared linden. I looked through, and I saw a few had ylang ylang or various types of sandalwood, so there could be some sort of specific sandalwood or ylang ylang component that's no longer available.

The Night-Raven (Indigo musk, wild plum, rose geranium, benzoin, night-blooming jasmine, and patchouli) is the scent that really evokes this feeling for me. I really wish I could think of something non-floral for you, but I seem to be drawing a blank. :\

To me, this smells like a mixture of sugared grapefruit and Loosening of the Obi (the two share a lot of notes, but I think I'm mostly amping the vanilla and the rice wine). At times I pick up a sort of cookie scent, which I'm thinking may be the ginger candy. Overall, it's a soft scent that somehow manages to be both cool and warm at the same time. I really like it, and think it'll definitely join my rotation of spring and summer scents.

To Keep: Absinthe & Lace Alice Anne Beany Autumn Lace Aziraphale The Antikythera Mechanism Bakeneko Banshee Beat Bastet Beanman & Beanwoman Prepare to Attack the Vagina Beaver Moon 2010 Beaver Moon 2011 Beaver Moon 2012 Beaver'versary Berry Moon 2009 Blackberry Jam and Scones Black Cat Black Pumpkin Floss The Black Temple Burlesque Troupe Blood Lotus Blue Moon 2012 Brown Thrasher Butterscotch Balls and Black Beetles Candles Moon 2010 Candy Corn Coated Candy Apple Ceanothus Silkmoth Chintamani-Dhupa Clockwork Couture: Female Cottonmouth Cupcake Splatter Pattern Analysis Dark Pumpkin Mead Deadly Nightshade Honey Defututa Delight and Consternation Devil's Night 2009 Diamond Star Dragon's Milk Dungeon Crawl Eldritch Dark E Pluribus Unum Eden Evil Fairy Wine Fighter Fledgling Raptor Moon Fruit of Paradise 2007 Goblin Market Good The Gorobble Great Vampire Bat Green Tree Viper Gypsy Harvest Moon 2012 Harvest Moon 2013 Hellhound On My Trail Heroine Holiday Moon 2005 Hony Mone 2007 Huesos de Santo 2008 Hungry Ghost Moon 2011 Hunter The Infernal Lover Inganok Jewelers Jailbait Jester Joyful Moon Lady Lilith Lick It Softly Lil' Menes' Feline Entertainments Lilith's Tea Party Lionheart (TAL) Little Egypt Loosening of the Obi The Malignant Dreams of Cthulhu in Love Mason and Jenkin's Port Jelly Mead Moon 2008 Miskatonic University Mme Moriarty, Misfortune Teller Monster Bait: Bloody Mary Moon of the Terrible 2012-13 Morocco Mother Shub's Spiced Lait de Chevre Mr. Nancy MVJBA: Pancake Breakfast Nikephoros Oceanus Procellarum Our Lady of Pain Paladin Peach I The Phoenix in Summer Pickled Imp Pomegranate IV Pumpkin Latte Pumpkin IV 2009 Pumpkin V 2009 Punkie Night 2010 Question Mark Quintessence of Dust Raven Moon 2012 Red Lantern 2006 Red Moon 2007 Samhain 2010 The Shadowy and The Sublime Shub-Niggurath Sibyl Silver Phoenix Single Note: Ambergris Accord Single Note: French Tobacco Single Note: Golgothan Myrrh Single Note: Madagascan Vanilla Rum Single Note: Spanish Red Carnation Sleipnir Smoky Moon 2012 Smut 2013 Snake Oil Snow White 2012 Southern Cloudywing Spanked Revisited Star Promenade Strawberry Moon 2012 Suck It 2012 Sugar Moon 2011 Sugar Skull 2005 Sugar Skull 2012 Thirteen (13): April 2012 Thirteen (13): December 2013 A Thought From Propertius Tiki Princess Time Does Not Bring Relief TKO (x2) Trick or Treat 2009 Ultraviolet Under the Harvest Moon The Unicorn Velvet Velvet Nudie Violet Ray Weeping Branches Moon Werepuppy WILF Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse Witch Dance Womb Furie 2010 To Sell: Eau de Ghoul Giallo Ma'at v17 Empties: Elixir IX: TKO Lionheart (TAL) Smut 2010 Lamia Pink Snowballs On the Way: Giant Vulva

Oh, no it's not. I don't know why I was reading some of the other posts as saying that they were getting CA sales tax when they weren't in CA. Sorry about that! I should not be posting when I'm only half awake, haha.

Which shipping destination option are you choosing? I use the generic United States one, and I never get CA sales tax. Edited for clarity.

Note to self: DO NOT put Snake Oil on right after getting out of the shower. My neck...it burns.

Random comparison: Lady Lilith (Climbing rose, vanilla cream, vanilla flower, white tea, mandarin, red and white musks, opium poppy, Parma violet, and opoponax) and Time Does Not Bring Relief (Parma violet and leather accord with beeswax, Egyptian musk, orange blossom, white tea, lavender, myrrh, and copal) are insanely similar on my skin. They both have Parma violet and white tea, so that could by why they're so similar. TDNBR is not quite as strongly floral as LL, though. I'd say it's creamier, which is weird, since LL is the one with the vanilla cream in it. Also, LL (obviously) lacks the awesome sweet leather drydown of TDNBR (though I seem to be one of the only people actually getting leather from it...I do amp leather, though, so take this as a definite YMMV comparison). Anyway, just a quick thought, in case anyone was searching for an alternative to TDNBR.

Miskatonic University for me today!

If you can find some, definitely try Gypsy (from last summer's Metamorphosis update). It's sexy in an understated way and definitely a crowd-pleaser. Its notes are bourbon vanilla, Egyptian musk, tonka, white sugar, and cardamom.

How would you compare and contrast Door and DNHoney? On a totally unrelated note, I think Tzadikim Nistarim smells and feels a lot like Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse. I know this was directed at VioletFemme, but...on me, Door and DNHoney are pretty much identical. Both very "green" honeys, rather than sticky-sweet like O. YMMV, of course.

So pretty! I agree with hkhm: it's a beautiful dark floral. A sugared dark floral, if you will. I do get the strawberry and the plum nectar, but they're not overpowering at all. Overall, it kind of reminds me of a floral Sugar Skull 2005. Also, this violet musk? Absolutely amazing. ETA: The drydown, several hours later, is very similar (on me) to the drydown of Berry Moon.

I've been wondering: Is there anything similar to the original Tiger Lily (Reviews here)? It's absolutely gorgeous on me, and all I have is one little imp.

When I first read the description, I was terrified to try it. Absolutely terrified. But then I read the reviews, and they weren't that bad...so then I just got curious. Well! I finally tried it...and at first it smelled like straight-up Sprite. That went away, and now it's a seriously amazing ginger ale scent. I do get a mixture of the dirt, cinnamon, and the clove and maaaaybe some leather underneath the fizzy ginger ale...but, yeah. Mostly ginger ale. Awesome! I'll definitely be keeping this one around. It'll be great in warmer months!

In the vial, it's maraschino cherries. And, at first, it's the same on the skin. But then...THEN. It turns into amber and jasmine of doom! And there's possibly some sort of rose in here? In any case, they all strangled the cherry. Needless to say, I had to scrub this one off pretty quickly. :\

Ozone, dry cinnamon, and hot sand. Some resins of some sort, too. Frankincense perhaps? And maybe a little brown sugar? The ozone is similar to The Phoenix in Summer, but Ma'at v17 is much, much drier. I think I prefer TPIS for my ozone blend. Sad, because I had such high hopes for this one. ETA: After going back, it seems to have changed into some sort of sweet-spicy scent. Weird.

To me, The Coil was more cologny-clean and Ultraviolet was more shampoo-clean. They both did weird things on me, though, so I can't really comment much on the overall similarities.

On me, the sagiest sages I've found are Mabon 2010 (blackberry wine and apple with hops, English ivy, rosemary, hazel, sage, chamomile, sweetgrass, oak bark, wild nuts, and myrrh), Drink Me (cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast), and Bewitched (deep, luscious green and berry scents that evoke images of woodland witchcraft and the raw power of nature: blackberry, sage, green tea, wild berries and dark musk).