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Wet she is super fresh, cut open green herbs and apple. So clean and alive! Drying down the greeness turns to the red side of the apple, and becomes a bit spicy...like when I am making pie: sliced granny smith apples with cinnnimon, maybe some clove...but before the sugar and crust. Dry it is still a bit spicy, the apple nearly gone, but a rich darkness holds on, like the stem of the apple. The base is what really makes this one a keeper for me. It makes it mysterious, a little dark, and oh, so wearable. I feel like I could wear this anytime in any season.

Hellcat is Grog's drunk twin! Super boozy...it smells on my skin like rum does in the bottle and just keeps on going with lots of throw. Definately not wearing this one to work...I love the nuttiness: it smells raw, freshly hulled, and bitter. MMMM, spicy and naughty. The sweet cream comes out in the drydown. This is a winter party scent for me.

At first I have no idea what I am smelling. Something powerful, potent, commanding. Then it dries down and is almost floral, but very spicy and earthy. Then it is so vertivert, pepper, and baby powder. A very odd combination. This is what I think the Dutchess in Alice in Wonderland might smell like. I am going to have to try this again when I am in a "Big Mamma" mood!

In the bottle, it reminds me a lot of Snake Oil. Spicy, but deep and exotic. Applied it is like smelling fine, fresh insence before burning it. On the drydown, the musk gives this scent a noteble depth. I love it. It will definately be my bellydancing perfume!

A strange, disconcerting embrace… to some, alarming, and to some, intimately familiar: fig, pomegranate and cocoa bean with lemon, bergamot, vanilla, mellow honey musk, calamus and tonka. Oh, how I have waited for you, Freakshow! And I am not disappointed... Very chocolatey and citrusy, sweet, musk on the application. Chocolate fades fast, with the quick squirt of the lemon, and then appears a pinker, sweeter fruitiness-Ms Pomegrannate! I am so glad I found a pomegrannate I can wear. The drydown is delcious! Sweet, but still slightly sour and a bit woody and dark. The tonka is FAB, not too masculine...sweetened with the vanilla, and is super sexy with the musk, which I do not usually adore. Into the top 10...

Soft, light chocolate...my favorite. The cirtus' is right behind for a moment, giving a playful bite, but they are soon gone. The sweet berry and floral combo emerges, like a table set for a romatic afternoon tea. Dry, it is soft and sweet. The perfect chocolate scent for me to wear in the day. Wish I had bought a big bottle

Wet and fresh smelling in the vial...I am very excited. I am wanting this to be like my "daytime" Bordello. I wish that the green stayed longer than 2 seconds on my skin. Now there is blackberries. Yum. Definately see the dewberry connection. It is funny...it must be the combination of herbs and black musk...but this smells on me like I have on Bordello, Yggdrasil, and a trace of Snake Oil. The initial brightness is gone within minutes...I am left alone in the deepest part of the forrest, disoriented, covered in blackberry juice, and while the darkness is sinking in, I can hear chanting...

Candy shop. Really. It is SOOO sweet and edible in the bottle, it seems almost silly to put it on my skin instead of in my mouth. Seriously creamy and nutty in the most delicious way. I want to find a cream cake that tastes like this smells. It has a good amount of throw, but fades pretty quickly. My skin tries to turn the booze into an insense, but instead I get a snuffed candel smell in an hour or so.

Dark, delicious and evil! DH and I both love this on eachother. Really chocolatey in the bottle, but as soon as it hits the skin it is dark red wine, insence and blood-metalic and spicy. On the drydown it is kind of fruity, but it is still dark and warm. Definately a keeper. DH calls it " Aztec Pudding" b/c we can't pronounce it!

Tobacco is rich, thick,sweet and dark. It dosn't smell like a cigarette to me. My chemistry really amps up florals and it is about all I get from Kali untill it is dried out and almost completely faded away, then I get some cocoa with a fruity sweetness (the osmanthus and honey...).

I'm freaking out because I LOVE figs, and I am eagerly waiting Freakshow...but Gomorrah and Nemisis are smelling the same on me, and I can only assume it is the fig~!My skin is ignoring eveything else and amping up a pencil shaving scent that I can only assume is the fig (never thought fig smelled like an art box before... ). I hate giving a lame review but that is it on my skin...no depth, no unfolding... I smell like a pencil.

In the bottle: very spicy and buttery! Wet: As above, but the butter creams out into pumpkin pie. Drydown: The peach emerges. It is pleasent, but I'm a little nervous. I had a bad experience with peach oil before... Dry: Oh, it is love. I don't feel like a candel or a craft store. This is beautiful....rich, spicy, and decandent...everything is blending beuatifully. The peach gives the scent a nice lift that makes it very wearable, especailly on this warm late summer day. There is a darkness holding it all down...It is getting me ready for my Halloween update order, for sure! All afternoon I kept noticing a heavy throw of peach...it is just too much! When I sniff my wrist, it is spicy, creamy...? Off to swaps with you...

My husband has smelled my 30something imps, and the only one that I wear that I get a sly "Mmmm, don't you smell good ", is Bordello...

Very cinnamony in the bottle and while wet. As it dries down, there is a very complex spicy smell, and I cannot identify them all...very spicy, but not foody...just a dry golden orange scent~mysterioius, oriental, but not overly sexy. There is not a creamyness like Chimerea. I wonder if there is some sandalwood holding it down...It fades fairly quickly on me. I would feel very comfortable wearing this to the office.

Would someone please compare and contrast verandi and the hesperides for me? Editied because I am a spaz...

Omen and Nemisis and Yggdrasil are all similar to me...I was expecting Nemisis to be more fruity.

I was thinking that this one would be very herbal and standoffish, but I was mistaken. The lavender and penyroyal sit at the top of my skin (I am not getting lemon~perhaps it is only adding freshness, and slightly transforming the lavender). It is not reminicent of sachets or bug spray for me, nor is it overly manly. There is a sweetness, a creamyness that must be the black musk. I have a tummy ache today, and this one is really comforting. It is not too "perfumey", sweet, or manly. Have to try it on DH...

Perhaps this is just an old imp...but it smells like old perfume: very rosey and dusty. I cannot wear this~my skin usually amps up florals, anyway, and this is just too much.

You would think that I would have tried this one right off, seeing as how I am such an Alice...collector. But I was wary of the bergamot and rose and carnation. I am more of a sweet/resin/wood lover. And I have smelled Alice scents in the past (the Disney version is particularly nauseating). But she came up in a swap and I could put her off no longer. Oooohhhh! I thought the bergamot would overpower on the top, but it blends with the rose and they morph into something delicate...and a bit old fashioned, but still timeless. The carnation must just be spicy, because this is not nearly as floral as I imagined. She dries down to a creamy sweetness with a tad of spice. This is similar to Morocco in character, but cleaner and less sweet. Curious, mysterious, surly like only pre-pubescent girls can be, I find this one to be the girl power that is put through the trials during the blooming of womanhood. I don't think it smells like a little girl, though...it reminds me of myself, yes, as a young girl, when things were fresh, delcious, and new; but I was not afraid of anything and was not in the least self concious. Thank you, Beth, for another beauty...

For some reason this is smelling to me a bit like nemesis without the fruit, which is odd, because I don't know of any notes they share. It is very earthy/chypre...masculine. Like a dark cave where no one can find me...

I got this one in a swap, while Freakshow is on order, because they seem to have similar notes... I want to give you a breakdown of this one, but I can't. I immediately think "My art school tackle box!)~For 4 years my "purse" was a tackle box with charcol, colored pencils, oil pastels, chalk, erasers, paints...plus trail mix (nuts and dried fruit, mostly), and what few costmetic items I wore (chap stick/lipgloss, maybe powder). I had my head in there all day every day for what seems like forever...selecting the tools to express my desires, fears, ideas with no words...trying to make sense of my life...knowing that the time out was time in, and that there had to be a balance. "she whom none can escape'... and her primary duty is to punish hubris and mankind's offenses against the natural order with inflexible, remorseless and raging fury".~the Lab Reading that, I am thinking that is what art should do... It dosn't have much throw, though. I'll make a spray and that will cure that, I am sure. DH loves it on him, too. Glad I have a 5 ml!

Yes. It smells just like a pomegranate martini. Sharp, sweet, and fruity, almost lemony. Bright and sparkly. Just not something I can wear.

I wanted to love this. I love chocolate and fruity... But the associations are too great... The orange blossom is very apparent, and I had a body wash that I used during the time of a very uncomfortable breakup...(I don't want to think of that daily) If you love orange blossom, get your hands on some while you still can. The cherry is almost medicinal, and I have just spent too much time with children's tylenol these days... But the chocolate note is lovely!

She has been on my wishlist for a while, and I received her as a freebie in a swap...oh, the kindness on this forum overwhelmes me! Since I have moved to the South, I have fallen in love with the mimosa trees. In the early summer, they produce Seus looking, pink, puffy blooms that are sweet, bitter, tangy and fruity smelling. Really quite a happy smell. I have never found a perfume that could capture it. I find them here...darkened Masabakes is a Southern graveyard filled with Witches. It is sweet, sour, spicy, and resinous...macabe, wise, and sultry. I am in awe.

Hamadrayad!