white_jenna63

This is my first experience with amber, so please, be gentle. I wanted to like this from all the great reviews. On first application, it reminded me very strongly of Sudha Segara (the spices, maybe?) I never cared for Sudha Segara. As The Lion dried, it became spicier, but still wasn't anything I wanted to keep, and I never got any of the dry grassy impressions that other reviews mentioned. I passed it on to my fiance (who has my imp of Sudha as well).

I got a little apple and lemon on first application, but it immediatly morped to rose. A soft, utterly lovely rose. That stayed for hours. Truly a beautiful rose. I don't like smelling like rose. I can fully appreciate it's a great rose perfume, but it's not *me*. Even asked myself if it could be me and I've just been resisting florals all this time because I hadn't found the right one, and, nope, still not me. Oh, well. Kudos to the Lab for this scent, though.

In the bottle and on very first application, I get yummy, bright fruits. It quickly settled down to a very strong floral powder with a lot of throw. After a couple hours, it became a nice, soft floral powder...which is not me at all. It was still going strong after three hours, at which point my fiance begged me to wash it off. Into the swap pile it goes!

I'm not familiar with several of the listed notes, so I can only say in the bottle and on first application, it was a sharp, oriental scent. Within about a minute, it turned to pure powder. And there it stayed. This is the first scent with rose in it that I've tried, maybe that's it. One for the swap pile!

Let me start by saying that I got this as a frimp in a swap, with part of the label taped over. So as I quickly (excitedly) try to read what it is, I get "orbid ruit". Which could be some diety or mythological character I'm not familiar with. However, I finally figure it out (go me). On first application, this is a very heavy, stinky, floral. I'm assuming lotus? It lasts this way for a good hour and a half, gradually decreasing in strength. Eventually some soft fruits similar to Kuang Shi come out. All in all, not a keeper for me.

As soon as I opened the plastic bag, never mind taking the tape off the imp and opening it, I got a blast of sweet nuttiness (no comments about my personality, please). When I did open the imp, I could pick up a little bit of pine underneath. Wet on the skin, the butter-toffee-nut continued. After a couple minutes, I AM THE MIGHTY PINE! So strong it made me jerk my head back and fear this may have to be swapped. But then it faded quickly and diappeared within ten minutes. Now it's still butter-toffee-nut, could almost be caramel corn. Very nice. And it *does* work lovely as a room scent, as the wand bounced out of the imp and scented some of the carpet.

I'm not familiar with several of the notes, but I'll give it my best shot. In the imp, Freak Show was chocolate with a rich, red fruit (I'm assuming the pomegranate). Very nice. And it stayed that way for about the first five minutes on my wrists. Lovely! Then it started getting sweeter and "lighter", with the chocolate disappearing. Okay, I like vanilla and lemon, so we'll see how this goes. Within a half hour, it had turned to powdery old lady perfume on me. Burned all the way up the sinuses. It was so bad I had to wash my wrists. About three hours after that I did get a nice, light vanilla from whatever was left, but certainly not worth it. So, it got swapped for Hearth 2005, which is much better.

I'm new to scents, so I can't identify everything as well as I like. In the bottle and on first application, this is chocolate with a little orange. It would be lovely if it stayed that way. However, it dries down to a powdery chocolate, which is okay, but not great. I'll definatly use my gifted imp but I don't think I'll be getting a bottle.

I'm new to scents, so I can't identify everything as well as I like. In the bottle and on first application, it's very sharp and bitter. Then a burst of mangoyness. On me this dries down to a soft fruitiness that I absolutly love. I did have to reapply after about four hours and my skin seems to have eaten up the second application. But this is a wonderful keeper!