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Okay, the growly Godzilla on the bottle is killing me, hee. And the idea of colossal robots will always make me smile. But once that bottle's open, OH MY GOD. Mint, yum, vanilla, wow. On initial application, my first thought was: Holy hell, I smell like a THIN MINT. So, yeah, I can see the comparisons to a York Peppermint Patty, too, or even Junior Mints, but that's where my mind is. The mint in this is less like a sugary pure blast of peppermint than Lick It. I'm thinking that the vanilla might have something to do with making it cookie-like. As it dries, the vanilla (which I totally recognize from the Vanilla Bean SN, but stronger, thank god, because that faded completely on me within five minutes), comes out more and more, but then the mint makes a comeback, and it dries as a wonderfully smooth blend of the two. If this is what Snowblind is like, no wonder people who've tried it are after more of it all the time. Good throw off a single dab. Once it's dried completely, the vanilla has come out on top, but I have no problem with that! Especially since it hasn't killed the mint, just taken it down. ::dances:: And because it's not that hit of candy-cane, this is actually something I can picture wear year-round.

I'm not sure that I've ever posted a review here before, but I just had to start with this. In the bottle, it's almost entirely different from the original Milk Moon; that's straight-up sweet milk, and this is...well, the milk is still there underneath, but waaaaay underneath. My first short sniff of the bottle, I didn't get any milk at all, just pomegranate and grape, with a bit of deepness that might be the honey or the figs/dates. I had to go back for another sniff before I said, "Oh, there it is." There's no real change at all when it hits my skin. But as it starts to dry, the milk appears. The fruits smooth out so they're not spurting all over the place like you just bit into them, and the milk shows up as a slick coating under the sharper, stronger scents. The honey/fig/dates also get a bit stronger, so that the scent is deeper than in the bottle. It reminds me of Pumpkin Patch 3, actually. It's not the same, because the rest of the notes are different, but the pomegranate has that level of strength to it. In fact, if you liked that and milk doesn't amp on your skin like a crazy thing, you should really give this a try. At the final drydown, the milk is about back where it was in the bottle, and the big difference is that the fruit is deeper thanks to all the fruits and honey coming together with nothing really claiming single-note dominance. There's more than decent throw off a single dab, and since the original had incredible staying power on me, I expect this will, too. There is not enough "yum" in the world to express my joy about this one.