Marion

On me it´s coconut meat and shea butter. Not too sweet and not like a suntan lotion. I am a bit wary of coconut, but I like it a lot more than I expected. It´s fresher when wet, but other than that it doesn´t change much over time. It doesn´t have as much of a throw or last as long as I´d like, but I also don´t have to be afraid of spilling it all over myself. Many of my favourite scents are the kind I don´t necessarily want people to be able to smell on me and I don´t often like such simple inoffensive scents, but it is lovely and would also be appropriate for a small child. It is very comforting and I would love it as hair gloss or bath oil.

That´s probably why those two work better than any sweet scents I have - they don´t remind me of food, but give sensory satisfaction when food doesn´t. (My goal is to avoid foods that make me sick or raise my blood sugar too much, unfortunately two large separate groups that added up don´t leave me a lot of choices). I didn´t like Manhattan, but I´ll look at the others, thank you.

I expected to find a much longer and more recent thread on this? I´m looking for scents to help with food cravings. Strong, distinctive, non-foody ones seem to work best for me - out of everything I´ve tried, Queen and Muse were most helpful, much better than any sweet scents. But it´s not what I look for normally - I don´t even know what it is in those two that does it.

At first it is mostly rose with a hint of carnation (and possibly lychee? I don´t think it´s the cedar). It´s okay, but I prefer carnation to rose, so the ratio is wrong for me. After a few minutes all the notes mix and in the end, for the next 4 or 5 hours, it´s all honey. I love the last phase, I want to bathe in it.

In the imp and freshly applied, it´s like a commercial perfume. I can´t pick out any note, but it´s floral and sweet and nice. I don´t remember liking it so much when I first got it, which is why I still have the (at least five years old) imp. However, after a few minutes, it starts to smell faintly of halva. For the next five or six hours (on me that´s a good staying power) it´s mostly halva with a touch of flowers. It´s not bad, but it reminds me of the feeling of having sweets sticking to my teeth.

Hi, I´m ordering for the first time in years and would welcome suggestions. 1. Valse Finale et Apotheose (three honeys, white mint, and apple blossom) 2. Frumious Bandersnatch (Bandersnatch musk, redolent of spicy carnations, wild plums and chrysanthemum) 3. O 4. Perversion 5. Aunt Caroline´s Joy Mojo I liked Eat Me, Mouse´s Sad and Long Tale, Snake Oil, Prague and Thalia, but not enough to get a bottle; Brisingamen didn´t work for me, unfortunately (too much amber, I think, and no apple blossom or carnation) and I hated Vixen and Seraglio; I already ordered Womb Furie.