AlaskaSnows
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Wet: Light dry tea and a gentle fruity scent. Dry: Pretty much the same. This tea IS a leaf, it isn't a cup of tea, like Phantasm, or a dry tea mix, like the Sprirts of the Dead. There is some gentle herbal and something almost like a sweet dried flower. This is remarkably addictive. I love the way it smells, herbal enough without being aromatic, floral enough without being too flowery, sweet enough - just a hint. YUM!
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Wet: Sweet bud roses. Dry: Dried roses with a touch of lavender? The rose is a lovely nice rose but whatever is overlying it adds a bite and a touch of rot. Doesn't work on me.
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Wet: Hmm I smell something that is similar to celery and salt water on top of strawberry. Dry: Delicious ripe sweet red berry, with a strange salty hint. Also a nice floral bed cushions this berry. This is fun, juicy and full of life. I find it sweet but not too sweet because of the salty tinge.
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Wet: Sweet orange and some white flowers. Fresh. Dry: Yeah this is delicious!!! The juicy fresh orange melds perfectly with the flowers, creating a ripe heady, fresh fragrance. Very sexy. Smells a lot like Akuma, to me, but sweeter and the floral richer and more noticeable. A keeper.
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Wet: Sour pithy orange. Dry: A sweeter orange, but more dry, like a whole orange rather than a section. And the more floral neroli comes out. This is like a citrus perfume rather than a natural peice of fruit scent, more sophisticated. I find it extremely nice, though there is little throw.
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Wet: Soapy flowers and sweet fruit. Dry: Some overconcentrated flower, smells more like tuberose to me than jasmine. It is so strong I smell nothing else. I LOVE florals but this seems overly potent to me, maybe a dilution would help?
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Wet: Ashes. But not nice wood fire ashes like some people get, I smell chemical fire and burnt paint and house, and something very caustic. It hits me, this is the smell of a tire on fire. Dry: Now it is more like wood smoke, I only used a DROP of this because I knew it wasn;t to my taste. It does smell more like a normal fire now, but like a wood fire someone threw a paint can in or something. I will swap this on, it's an imp everyone should smell once.
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Wet: Almond. Dry: Sweet orange, mild spice, and almond. But luckily just a teensy bit of almond, mostly orange and a very mild spice. I am very glad the almond faded, I really hate almond. I like this very much, and will possibly buy a big bottle.
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Wet: Honey, clove and cinnamon. Dry: Honey, clove and cinnamon, but mostly cinnamon, a bright red-hot candy type of cinnamon, though, not the dry woody cinnamon of some blends. Sometimes I get a whiff of pur straight out of the jar honey which makes this totally worthwhile. I will keep trying this and see if the cinnamon ever mellows, and if it does, this is big bottle time.
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Wet: A handful of fresh dirt you just leaned over and picked up. Now I know where the rocky note in Black Opal comes from! Dry: Stronger dirt, just dirt, no apricot. I guess this will be a swap.
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Wet: Bitter orange and the tiniest patchouli hint. Dry: A hint of sweet orange with a healthy serving of bitter rind, which somewhat overpowers the patchouli. I can smell the patchouli but it kind of gets stuck in the rind note and makes it sharper. I like this very much! It isn't too sweet or too fruity, or too patchouli, it's very well mixed. A keeper.
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Wet: Musky men's cologne. Dry: a very subtle musky I don't even know how to describe the notes but it smells like perfume, kind of like Obsession. A VERY subtle, close to the skin musk with the teensiest sweetness and patchouli ovetones.
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Wet: Grapefruit, just cut. But it also, for me, has neroli overtones. Dry: Grapefruit, with a soft mellow sweet kind of floral back. Great spring day scent. Very clean and tangy.
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Wet: Soap and a white mixed floral. Dry: A sweet, fruity well rounded floral. It is rather vague, I can't pick out many elements of this. It is pretty, but probably too sweet even for me.
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Wet: Mild creamy mineral like scent. Hard to describe. It is sweet and it smells like a wet rock. Best I can do. Dry: Sweet creamy vanilla, with that wet rock smell just behind it. This is a strange description, but it is the best I can do, it smells earthen but not of dirt. The mineral smell rounds this out, makes it sparkle. This is lovely and could be easily worn day or night. It is sweet but not cloying. It's a scent I would wear on a happy day. This turns into vanilla powder on me. Luckily I still really like it.
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Wet: amorphous fruit notes (melon?), alcohol, flowers of indistinguishable variety. Dry: Almost exactly the same. There is a mixed flower bouquet, coexisting hand in hand with a juicy sweet fruit, possibly melon. There is also a sharp stem note. This is very fresh and airy, in fact the fruit note could be that dryer sheet sweet note. In fact as time goes by it almost entirely becomes the smell of a sheet of Bounce. This smells a lot like Dirty to me.
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Wet: Chocolate Walnut brownies. Dry: Chocolate Walnut brownie mix, gets that drier powdery smell. Utterly love it, and so does the Man.
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Wet: Tangy berry candy! Dry: It's tangy and sourish and a bit of sweet, and there's a hint of green. This could be interpreted berry or plum. It's juicy. I am not entirely sure it reminds me in any way of the winter holidays, but I do like it. Not much throw.
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Wet: A rose on the bush, with plenty of green. Dry: a PERFECT just out of bud single red rose, with a long thick green stem. One of those whoppingly expensive ones. This isn't overripe like some other BPAL roses. It is THE perfect rose. Gorgeous. This embodies hothouse rose without a single blemish. I don't find this haughty or aloof at all, just extremely refined.
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Wet: Rum and cookie dough. Dry: Rum and some spice that has an edge which makes the cookie dough smell somewhat burnt. It's nice, but that spice was put in in too large a quantity maybe. or maybe this needs aging. I will wear this, but I am going to let my bottles age and stick to last year's Poppet while these age.
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Wet: Cake, sweet frosting (no creamcheese when wet) and a hint of something alcoholic. Dry: Carrot cake, minus most of the carrot. Sweet and delicious and smells like cake perfume rather than like I strapped a cake to my wrist, it's really lovely. Yes, it's foody but foody in a gorgeous scent way, not like I smeared cake on my body. As time goes by the cream cheese note goes away and there is just regular frosting on cake. I love it.
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Wet: Aqua Net hairspray and champagne. Maybe a tad of floral. Dry: Hairspray and champagne, a real, dry champagne. There is a tinge of floral, like fading perfume. There is also a bitter note, like drugs. I definitely agree this is a clubbing scent. It's like bottled essence of danceclub, complete with tons of alcoholic beverage. the longer it dries, the more floral comes out, though, adding a bit of depth to the glittery hard veneer of this scent.