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I did not get any lemon! When I first put this on, I got huge clouds of creamy honey/honeycomb wafting from my wrist. The Snake Oil puffs itself up slowly, but soon swallows the majority of the heavenly honey. I get tiny gasps of it but am reminded that I am not a Snake Oil girl as a rule. It has strong sillage and I can still smell it faintly 12 hours or so later. In this batch of Lupers, I find I am falling in love at the beginning of some scents only to fall out of love a too-quick hour or so later. How apropos.

This starts as a very different, surprisingly bitter and sophisticated scent. Mostly I get caramelized sandalwood with the cassis appearing early and disappearing fairly quickly. I think the tonka is what sweetens the sandalwood. It has little throw and not much longevity (and I slathered). It's not me.

Bourbon vanilla, preserved apricot, and cardamom. Not sure why I never reviewed Aristocratic Couple but I rediscovered it today. It's so lovely. Not too fruity, despite the apricot, which is the primary note. It's just rich and feminine and opulent and gorgeous. It's not as much of a skin scent for me, but if it were, I'd be willing to slather to get many, many huffs. Lurve.

Smooth wood, sweet pipe smoke, tonka, and Irish coffee. I suspect many people (including myself) bought this one hoping for a close variation of Pinched with Four Aces. Since tonka replaces cinnamon in the scent, I was even more excited--I LOVE tonka! In the bottle, the Irish coffee dominates, which is just how I like it. But within seconds of application, the pipe smoke takes over...and it doesn't seem all that sweet to me. After a few hours, the coffee returns and the scent is perfectly lovely. Wear length and throw are both average. All in all, this is not the Return of Pinched for which I was so devoutly praying. I suppose you could say this is closer to a straight than a royal flush. It's definitely not two of a kind.

This actually reminds me of the exquisite Eggnog Latte. Except insanely better. This lasts FOREVER and has throw to spare. This may be the best scent ever, Okay, that's crazy talk. But if you like rich, creamy, hardly-boozy-at-all Irish Coffee on the rocks...you will love this. It's like a sweet, thick surrealistic cloud that stays with you for hours and hours.

Wet: This is chocolate and brimstone Dry: Less chocolate, but still chocolate-y...but the bonfire becomes a kind of Lamia-like cinnamon-y thing...but coppery, too. I only have an imp of this and considered whether I might need a bottle. But I don't like the coppery thing as much as the choco-cinnamon.

This would be like the sugared violet candy my Uncle Morris used to give me except for the blackcurrant bass line that gives it a little fatback. It's very sweet, very very jeune fille. It may be too much so for an old lady like me, but I do dig that blackcurrant. ETA: Lasts for hours and hours. I can still smell traces from early last evening's application.

I love love love this. Mouse's Long Sad Tale revisited is the best way I can describe it. No amber to ground it, though; it's just a sweet, beautiful, ultra-feminine and somewhat traditional scent. You can wear this one anywhere, especially if you are playing the role of sweetheart with a secret smile. Average sillage, but not much throw. I end up sniffing my wrist on a regular basis. It makes me feel like a young girl again.

I was gifted with a half-imp of this, and I'm glad, since I otherwise would not have tried it. It is surprisingly similar to Green Tree Viper, because the "ice" seems to be minty. But it's a bit more antiseptic, significantly earthier and less sweet. I like it, but I have a bottle of Green Tree Viper, which I prefer. Thebe is more unusual, though. Average throw and longevity.

This is a lovely scent--the magnolia note is potent and the scent has lasted for the last seven or so hours. And it has serious throw. I can see me wearing this a lot to social functions. It's mainstream without being dull.

I started here as a straight up Honey Girl but my tastes have morphed a lot over the year. Still, if the other notes intrigue me, honey is always a plus. Lime and lilac are also big attractors, so this was a bottle purchase, a rarity for me because so few scents work on me. The honey is very strong, the lilac almost as, and the lime is, sadly, a bit overpowered. But even with that disappointment, this is beautiful. It's what I imagine heaven smelling like. Wow. Pure love. I want to live in this scent.

I love apple, but this is apple bubbles on me. Way too soapy. Sad.

I don't always like candy-sweet scents, but I had to have this one. It is whimsical--more pink cotton candy than peppery, but it is also creamy. Like a creamsicle that is less orange. Throw is good to medium and it lasts for hours and hours. I agree that it is like a very upscale summer drink, but more of a warm, slightly orange cream milkshake. Not too sweet, and eminently huffable.

In the bottle: This smells a lot like the released version of Underbed, but more heavily spiced. Not sure if it's cinnamon, cardamom, or clove (or all three), but it's red hot under that bed. Wet: This is a lot sharper and less sweet than the original. There's a definite edge and it's not nearly as chocolate-y, hazelnutty. There's also no buttery beginning. Dry: This has amazing throw and wear-length. As the hours pass, it smells more and more like the original on drydown. I like this version a lot, but the edge goes to the original.

VENUSIAN PHOENIX HEAV’NLY, illustrious, laughter-loving queen, Sea-born, night-loving, of an awful mien; Crafty, from whom necessity first came, Producing, nightly, all-connecting dame: ‘Tis thine the world with harmony to join, For all things spring from thee, O pow’r divine. The triple Fates are rul’d by thy decree, And all productions yield alike to thee: Whate’er the heav’ns, encircling all contain, Earth fruit-producing, and the stormy main, Thy sway confesses, and obeys thy nod, Awful attendant of the brumal God: Goddess of marriage, charming to the sight, Mother of Loves, whom banquetings delight; Source of persuasion, secret, fav’ring queen, Illustrious born, apparent and unseen: Spousal, lupercal, and to men inclin’d, Prolific, most-desir’d, life-giving., kind: Great sceptre-bearer of the Gods, ’tis thine, Mortals in necessary bands to join; And ev’ry tribe of savage monsters dire In magic chains to bind, thro’ mad desire. Come, Cyprus-born, and to my pray’r incline, Whether exalted in the heav’ns you shine, Or pleas’d in Syria’s temple to preside, Or o’er th’ Egyptian plains thy car to guide, Fashion’d of gold; and near its sacred flood, Fertile and fam’d to fix thy blest abode; Or if rejoicing in the azure shores, Near where the sea with foaming billows roars, The circling choirs of mortals, thy delight, Or beauteous nymphs, with eyes cerulean bright, Pleas’d by the dusty banks renown’d of old, To drive thy rapid, two-yok’d car of gold; Or if in Cyprus with thy mother fair, Where married females praise thee ev’ry year, And beauteous virgins in the chorus join, Adonis pure to sing and thee divine; Come, all-attractive to my pray’r inclin’d, For thee, I call, with holy, reverent mind. A blessing of beauty, passion, and kindness: red rose, benzoin, apple blossom, lemon verbena, red sandalwood, rose mint, sweet cherry, hibiscus, cardamom, tonka, tomato leaf, and vetiver. This is a remarkable scent--if you like CB: I Love Perfumes, this will be right up your alley. You can literally smell each individual scent: the red rose is the strongest in the bottle and on first application, but little by little, each individual note comes out to take a bow--the lemon verbena, the tomato leaf, the apple blossom, oh, there's the rose mint...sweet cherry. They are like musicians warming up pre-symphony. It is a very complex and morphing and subtle perfume. It is not for me, but as I said--there will be people who can't get enough. My first first review.

This is not a super juicy peach, but it's not weak, either. It's just softened by the honey and the tea. I'm a neroli freak, so I would like for it to be more aggressive, but it just sits back and sniffs this gently perfect scent. It is the kind of scent you could wear anywhere, but especially on late spring or early summer evenings on the porch--it's both relaxing and reminiscent of old-fashioned elegance, without having any old-ladyish ickiness about it. Sadly, I bought this in Winter, and delicious as it is (and it is delish), I am going to save it for spring and summer when it will be la perfume juste.

Wowza! This scent has throw from here to Canada! I am a long-time L.M. Montgomery fanatique, so I had to buy the two scents that were inspired by her poems. This is by far my favorite of the two. In the bottle: a teensy bit of ozone that indicated snow to me, plus some florals shooting up Wet: Lilies, lilies, and rose (which I amp) and some other florals. No snow. The bouquet is amazing and complex and I imagine Maud outside in a winter garden sniffing this with her entire imaginative self, pleased and romantic. Drydown (early): A certain floral stagnancy appears, not pleasant but not awful. Drydown (later): Stagnancy gone, this is still going like gangbusters. A bit less complex, but very very pretty. Verdict: A very feminine and almost-traditional scent. You could wear it to the opera, to tea, to a tea dance. Just be sparing in your use of this baby, because it's a powerhouse of a scent.

In the imp: Your grandma's handbag--a sweet, unassuming, kinda old mishmash. Wet: LOVE LOVE LOVE...it's a rose scent like I have never come across--like in a garden with the morning dew and hay and other scents surrounding it. I love it. Drydown: HATE HATE HATE...back to the handbag. Maybe it's the chamomile, but the scent becomes sickly with a sour edge. Ylang Ylang and Lotus often do this to me, but those notes aren't in Eve...When I think about this scent, my mouth and nose squinch in remembrance. It lasts fairly long (8 hours at least), but you don't want it to. On my skin, anyway.

In the imp: Spicy (cayenne) honey. Slurp! Wet: Sharp and hot cayenne overpowers everything else. Do not like. Drydown: The first half hour this stays hot, but then mellows into a lightly-fruity honey. That sounds better than it actually is, because there's almost a plastic-y note. This lasts for hours and the longer it stays on, the more it becomes a pure Honey SN, which is, as you can imagine, lovely. However, I am not willing to smell though the two or three hours before the SN Honey comes to stay. Disappointed.

In bottle: a mellower Juicy Fruit gum Wet: Juicy Fruit Gum in your face Drying: Oh hai, honey. You're home! And smothering the Juicy Fruit with sweet kisses. Dry: A beautiful honey-fruity scent. Wrist-huffingly delicious. Throw: medium Lasts for at least eight hours, lovely mellowing. A really big winner for me.

In the bottle, this is honeycomb playing the part of Diana Ross and Apricot and Orange Blossom are the backup Supremes. Wet: Mostly honeycomb. Peeps of Apricot. Dry: This is a lot like Honey SN was on me...the longer it wears on me, the less complex it becomes. It doesn't have killer throw, but has lasted for a good five hours.

Amazing red rose from the GC catalogue--Black Rose.

Well, Hello Dolly! You're smelling swell, Dolly! (Someone had to write it--why not me?) I have weird skin, so keep that in mind. Very few scents work on my skin, so the ones that really do make me slaver with joy. Dolly Kei makes me a slavering slatherer. From the get-go, it's boldly vanilla with a bit of nicotine to make it worldly instead of sweet. Throw is amazing and, on me, it lasts forever. The scent stays true pretty much for hours. Thanks to my scent angel who sent me a tester...now I'm waiting on my bottle with great excitement. ETA What Dolly Kei reminds me most of is Black Lace, but sharper and more powerful.

Lovely in the imp and on my skin...but upon drydown...soap. Sad.

This is one of the most beautifully blended BPAL scents ever--and one of the most accessible lunacies. Normally, I eschew all musk, but white musk, for whatever reason, is gentled by the plush-but-not-creamy vanilla. None of the floral notes stand out but they are there, serving as a quiet chorus. I have a few imps of this scent, but not a bottle so I forget I have this. I hope I remember now, because it's a perfect scent for summer. Not perfumy, but nothing off-putting either--a great scent for public events. Love me some Joyful Moon.