AlaskaSnows
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Wet: It has sort of a superpowered jam-packed about to explode rose smell, like it is a perfume you reconstitute in water. LOL. Dry: Giant cabbage roses just this side of rot. I smell a tad of incense and cinnamon, but mostly a huge bouquet of roses whose petals are about to fall off.
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Wet: Very berry. Something a little astringent, and maybe something a tad peppery. Dry: Berry. This is not a fat bursting sugar laden berry, this is a real berry on the bush.I don't get quite just cranberry, because there is a sweetness, maybe a cran-raspberry. It's fun and light.
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Wet: Pine, orange. A nice cleaning fluid. Or maybe an aromatherapy. Dry: OH YEAH!!!! WOW!!! I love this! I know this scent, but cannot place it. I would classify this a citrus men's cologne, with definite aromatic overtones. A bit powdery. VERY nice.
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Wet: This smells like.. embers. Firey, ashy, embers. There's some sort of nasty smelling background, took me a while to realize it smelled like uncleaned birdcage. Okay. Dry: Pure unadulterated uncleaned birdcage. I have no idea how that happened but it is unbearable. It reeks. I imagine it's more meant to have meaningful ingredients than a meaningful scent?
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Wet: Leathery, tobaccoey, sweet. Like a vanilla flavored tobacco in a leather pouch, warm and manly and comforting and yummy. Dry: Close to the same, but a tad less sweet and more leathery. Iago is a man's man. Iago is Marlboro Man. Iago is really very sexy and compelling.
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Wet: Fresh oranges and something that says to me... Spa Day! It smells like a spa, it's very wonderful. Dry: The Spa Day is over and I have a dried cloved orange and some incense to take home. This makes me think of a long day getting treated with aromatherapy oils, lounging in a fluffy plush bathrobe, water with a cut orange slice in it, massages and pampering. I love this.
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Wet: Bright sour lemon rind and a hint of floral. Dry: Wow. Far more than the sum of its parts. Airy, bright, delicious in every way. It's yellow green and sometimes bitter, sometimes floral. Amazing, and for extreme spring days, for me.
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Wet: Totally and screamingly Eucalyptus backed by stinging pine. Dry: Yes, the orange comes out and mingles and calms everything way way down. The pine and eucalyptus are around the edge giving a bite. It's like eating a meal with orange sauce, duck a l'orange maybe, outside in a pine forest. It's interesting and VERY fresh. This would make the world's best spa fragrance.
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Wet: Dragon's blood with a very real and strong whiff of leather. Dry: Mostly just very smoky, very real and raw leather. Not like a fine purse, like it was truly just ripped off a dragon, or a very tobacco steeped old man. It's one hell of a visual fragrance, evokes exactly what it says it will, but I would never ever wear it. I wouldn't even want a man to wear it because it does kinda conjure old man smoker breath.
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Wet: A lot of chocolate, and Sin. Dry: A little chocolate and Sin. This is exactly like Sin with a tad of chocolate. it was immediate recognition. So if you liked Sin, you will like this.
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Wet: pumpkin with a wavering astringent note. Dry: Smells like a woody plant pulled up by the roots, and pressing your face into the base, and smelling the rich warm dirt along with the living bark. Much more a living breathing alive wood than most of the woody scents, which I find dry and one dimensional. This has tons of character. Mixing this with some other scents could be awesome. I like it a lot, but wouldn't wear much alone. The pumpkin is very much a warm background note with this.
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Wet: Well, basically it smells like Jack and Pomegranate. Dry: This is very well balanced! I get a very mellow pomegranate with all the too tangy bits mellowed by the pumpkin, and all the too sweet bits of the pumpkin taken away by the pomegranate. I like it better than PP#1. But it doesn't have much throw, for me.
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Wet: A delicious gourmet hot chocolate mix, with some nuts. A bit of alcohol. Dry: gentle chocolate and nuts being nosed out by the pumpkin, but the coexist very beautifully. I adore this.
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Wet: Nothing like dry, I smell the pumpkin base and a bit of green, and weirdly, it smells a lot like PP#1, all spicy and appley. Dry: Utterly gorgeous. Like sticking your face in an ivy plant. There's the wood, and the glorious glorious greens. This smells simultaneously like Fall AND Spring. It is not too woody, nor too sweet and pumpkiny, in fact for me the pumpkin almost totally leaves and becomes just a warmth behind the green. I utterly adore this.
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Wet: Mostly Jack, with a spicy apple back. I find the PP pumpkin base to be exactly like Jack, which is fiiiiine with me!!! Dry: Not appreciably different from wet. It's very sweet, I get more baked apple with spices on it immersed in Jack than the people who get fresh apple. For me the apple is very subtle. Strangely for me this is the PP that works least, when I expected it to be the one I liked MOST. But it is very nice, especially after a lengthy dry-down when the notes finally stop warring and a gentle softly spiced sweetness starts.
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Wet: Kind of like Sugar Skull, sweet, a bit of fruit, and some smoke and a cherry cough drop. Dry: Unfortunately much like when wet. The smoke smells nasty and the cough drop smell is just not ignorable. Just not a good match with my skin.
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Wet: Almost indescribable. Air, men's cologne? Alcohol and flowers? Intriguing! Dry: Air and spice, cinnamon. Maybe some smoke. This clings tight to my skin. It is basically air and dry cinnamon, and things come out and stay a moment and leave, like sugar and flowers. It's as unique as it gets, it's a perfume that's more feeling than scent.
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Wet: Rose, musky and slightly spicy. Dry: The rose mellows into a cool floating scent, rose, but a watery cool rose flotaing over a base of musky spicy incense. Later if becomes one lone cool watery rose floating above a pit of scent which alternates between musk and spicy incense. Sometimes that rose turns pickley, sometimes the BPAL roses do that to me, I have no idea why.
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The sticky sweet scent of candy corn! Wet: Caramel tinged sugar syrup. Dry: Like they took the syrup leftover from making Sugar Skull, and boiled it way down til caramelized. There is smokiness, and it's more adult and less outright SUGAR!!! than I thought. It's quite nice!
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Wet: Cinnamony wood. Dry: Cinnamony wood. Well, that was easy.
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Wet: All fruity osmanthus with a light background of tuberose. Dry: A spicier floral, warm, a sort of low calm background smell close to the skin.
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Wet: a cold, distant, gentle floral, airy, and soooooo lovely. Dry:This comes a lot closer, and gets a lot less airy. It gets a sort of semi spicy musk to it, and a warmth over the initial scent. it's still lovely, but not as nice as it is when wet.
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Wet: Indescribable. Fruit? Flowers? Fruity Flowers? Creamy delicious juicy flowers. Dry: Smells like jasmine, but I guess it's the peony. It's sweet and luscious. The tinge of sage and cucumber behind it balances it and gives it some bite, but it is mostly a sweet floral.
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Wet: A very biting wood with a sophisticated men's cologne. Dry: Much more mellow, but IMO still a male scent. This is woody, with some spice, and to me this smells unfinished, like it needs aging in the bottle, which I shall let it do.