jenett

On me, this starts more green and herbal, and then goes through a series of rapid changes as it dries, bringing out different notes as it does so - I like what I think must be the rock sea-lavender particularly, and there's also some nice thistle. I get almost none of the scent of autumn fires, but I do get a good dose of sea-salt aquatics as a base, but faint, like mist rising up from the actual water. Then, it disappears entirely for a little while (20 minutes? 30?) and then slowly comes back to a faint herbal-floral, very much (and not surprisingly) like standing in a fall meadow on a cliff over the sea. There's a sweetness in there (and I'm not sure exactly where it comes from: a higher floral note, but mixed with greenery and grass.) It settles very close to the skin, too. Other reviews have described a 'dirt' scent - and I don't get that at all. delicate_fangs has a horrible reaction to it (it goes to mint and mildew on her, which is so not a good perfume combo), which means the bottle is mine!

Wet: As others have said, a lot of herby greenness. Then, on me, it disappears for a bit as it dries (10 or 15 minutes, maybe?) When it comes back, I get what might be best described as "a garden outside the library window" - it's soft, subtle, and with hints of the different plants. I get none of the fennel, and a lot more of the fern (lots of green), with the carrot seed (sweet slightly-carroty), and whiffs of the honeysuckle and myrtle. I don't smell the valerian note in an identifiable way, but I think it helps give the sense of earth. This one also is very much about the 'mutable earth' part of Virgo: I find it changes (subtly and not so subtly) fairly frequently, and different notes come out and retreat. (I got it last night, and am wearing it again this morning: it seems like they come and retreat in no particular pattern, and that they come back again.) It stays quite subtle: easy to overlook, but with unexpected depths, which fits Virgo rather nicely, really.

One I haven't seen mentioned is Carnal. My experience with it is that it's a lovely mingled mandarin and fig, heavier on the fig, which seems to do well on my skin. It isn't quite in the same family you're asking about, but the overall effect is close, and the spark from the mandarin keeps it from being either too sweet or too dark.