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I am SO loving this!!! I almost bought a bottle unsniffed but I didn't because I was scared of the leather. HAVE NO FEAR! Wet, the resin and honey is very zingy, slightly woody. The leather is smooth and sweet, like kid gloves. The tobacco is rich, dark, and sweetened by the honey. Dried out, this is a very complex blend that is both clean and sweet. I love, love, love it, and my skin does, too!! It really reminds me quite a bit of how the Illustrated Woman feels on me, which makes me very happy!

Ecstatic Revelry...oooh, la, la!

I always make sure I wear LOTS of STRONG, SWEET, PATCHOULI, and MUSK all the time, especially when I'm in enclosed spaces!!! I highly recommend Snake Oil. And by LOTS I mean: turn the bottle on my wrist 3-5 times and rub from my head to the backs of my knees. Seriously. Even people in elevators drool. I can hear people through doors or at the end of corridors asking what smells so good in the building all the time.

I'm an O lover and have to also 2nd: Haunted, Womb Furie, Dragon's Milk, Bastet, Lights of Men's Lives and will add Thousands of Lights (it's like Bastet light, to me-super snuggly) Door-for a punchier honey Tobacco Honey-smokey, sexy honey

My thoughts, exactly. Words like "frankincense", "nutty", and "citrusy" were scaring me off but I love this. It's my favorite Yule this year. It's like the breath of Bastet and Lights of Men's Lives come together with this unspecific "holiday" smell in the background-kind of spicy and incensey in that special Christmas way. Frankincense tends to get high pitched on me, but it's really behaving itself here. It's a soft, creamy, saffrony, incense scent that just...smells like the golden lights of the season. Perfect in every way I was hoping (I immediately sought out more than my decant).

Thank you all for your suggestions and well wishes!

I'll go look up Snowblind. He just said, "Mommy you stink like a too clean hospital. You don't smell like you". AWH! He says that Snake Oil wouldn't make him sick!

Dragon's Tears/Heart

This is like Satan's pumpkin pie! It's reeeally spicy-I won't be putting it in my bath or on freshly bathed skin for fear of my cinnamon sensitivity acting up. The pumpkin is buttery, and honey is musky and sweet (omg love, love, love), and the spice and booze keep it dark and sexy. All dried out, though, I can see where Aldercy gets bannabread!! What a morpher.

I love Chantilly. My Gran wore it all the time, and anyone who knows me knows I LOVE grandma scents! I still use the dusting powder in the summer. To me, it's a musky, powdery, floral. She feels like kin to Haunted, Snake Oil (but SO's way sweeter), Inez, and Antique Lace. I want to add All in a Golden Afternoon for some reason, but I've only sniffed it once.

Blood Amber is sweet, too.

I LOVE Dragon's Heart and Dragon's Musk. Add Le Lethe to the list of hellasexy!

Mix any of the above with Lights of Men's Lives and you're good to go. The Blasphemer's Reliquary came down with the Carnival but hopefully will be back with it's kick ass myrrh. Phantom has a bit of dark rose, but the incense notes are creamy and awesome.

Snake Oil totally rocks (my "If I could only have 1 fragrance for the rest of my life" scent), but I believe you will be tempted to search further, as well, due to it's being it's own being, and the lack of soft woods. Don't worry-the madness is bliss... You might want to try: Antikythera Mechanism: teak, oak, tobacco, and vanilla. Similar notes, but can come across as a bit astringent at first. The drydown is nice, creamy, dark vanilla woods. Glowing Vulva (it was an LE...is the bath oil still available?): Cream accord, amber, teak, and lotus blossom. Morocco: Arabian spices wind through a blend of warm musk, carnation, red sandalwood and cassia. This one FEELS more like Un Bois to me. Vanilla isn't listed, but it's regularly noticed as a primary note. The woods have a similar lift that Un Bois does, and it tends to feel sheer.

This scent is a lovely, epic journey across Canadian wilderness. It's very outdoorsey: it smells of a melange of trees and dried flora under the foot of one sexy ranger. I'm slathering it on my man! For all the dry notes it dries down to a slightly spicy, creamy, woody scent. The man likes it when a scent goes on fresh and bracing-ready for WORK!-but then dries down snuggly for after hours. This is one o' them day to nighters.

Heiteare is dark, chewy fig!

So many favorites of mine here...but I have to add Blood Kiss, the Caterpillar, Tzadikim Nistarim, Shub, and Phantom.

They should be ok. It's not good for them to get hot/be hot for long periods but for just one morning...hell, they often sit in mailboxes for a while. Don't worry too much. Give 'em some lovin', maybe put in another order...

I had to stop in and give some love to the pine. Illustrated Woman turned my heart and now I have to go revisit scents with pine that I may have discredited too quickly (looks at Black Forest).

Eve and Florence.

No 93 Engine is almost completely frankincense on me.

Creamy, powdery floral with a ton of throw and crazy sex appeal. This is NOT your gradma's nor your baby's powder.

Yum, yum, yum...this is reminding me of Raven Moon but thinner and woodier. I'm glad it's GC.

Sweet honey musk! I was expecting a very red smell from the berries and resins but not so much, really-it's more of a blush on skin. It actually smells like a more femme version of Hand of Glory which I am really thrown by and more than pleasantly surprised. It must be the musk that smells kind of leathery. Total win!

YUM! Fruity rose, deep spice, and creamy sweetness. I thought this would be just Eat Me with roses but it really has a different feel. It's less foody, more spicy, with a very voluptuous, velvety rose. It's very much like a loukhoum fragrance without the overt nuttiness that generally makes those scents a no go for me. I love it! Off with his head!!!