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In the bottle, this is pleasantly sweet. On the skin, wet, it's edible sweet plum with a hint of syrup. After an hour, the syrup smell fades but the smooth, sweet fruit stay true. Sometime around hour two, though, the amaretto comes out and starts screaming at me -- I think I must amp it. Almost headache-inducing if I'm too close to it. Very fruity, very smooth, very sweet, doesn't work on me.

Wet, this scent is AMBER. Almost solely. Nice if you really like amber, but too strong for me. Half an hour in, that tapers off and morphs into an addicting sniffable like floral, strong on the apple blossom and carnation. Unfortunately, around hour three, it faded to powder on me, and was gone by hour four. I wish it stuck around, the floral stage was great!

I agree completely with Drae -- this is so ambery/incensey/patchouli-y it may not smell just like her car, but like every car. I get a generic "car air freshener" scent off it. Smells exactly like a hippy shop. I didn't think I absorbed vanilla, so I'm not sure what's up.

At first: After a couple minutes of VANILLA!, no wait, PUMPKIN!, hey there's a whiff of coffee, then CINNAMON, PUMPKIN PIE, this settles into a creamy vanilla-hot-chocolate-and-pumpkin-pie smell with only a faint hint of coffee, that's probably the bit making me think hot chocolate. All I know is, I am strongly tempted to lick my own arm. 1 hour in: vanilla and pumpkin pie, still. It's a strong, spicy vanilla, though, like Stephen's vanilla hot chocolate, if anyone here is familiar with that brand. Delicious. If there's any coffee, it's a bare wisp I smell only pressed up against my skin. Due to an accident with the imp, this was tested only an hour or two before bed, so the end of the review is the post-sleep scent, about 7 hours after application: Now it's coffee, but a sweet, vanilla coffee with cinnamon and nutmeg. Delicious.

At first: In the bottle, this smells very, very, very earthy to me. Not sure if that's the nose or the perfume, since on the skin (I had an accident opening the imp and got a solid smear) it is a crazy one-note-chorus of VETIVER for the first minute, after which some sort of floral/fruit comes through that I suspect is wine. After a couple minutes back-and-forth it settles into something that smells pretty strongly of sandalwood, with some rose thrown in. It may be my skin, and it may be an uneducated nose. It's very warm, somewhat musky, and very, very womanly. I don't think it's my favorite, since the sandalwood smell smells a bit like cheap touristy hippy shops to me, probably due to the crazy vetiver. 1 hour in: Okay, the spice has settled out into a very strong clove with hints of vetiver, on me. Behind it, there's something nicely creamy. I don't get the cherry, at all, but I think the cream might be honey. It still smells like roses to me, as a thread through it all, but all in all it's very pleasant. Still not my style, but for a nice, warm, spicy smell like autumn without the foodiness of something pumpkin, this is it. On my skin it verges on old lady perfume but it sophisticated enough to not quite go there. Due to an accident with the imp, this was tested only an hour or two before bed, so the end of the review is the post-sleep scent, about 7 hours after application: Blood Kiss is now much a very warm, spicy vanilla. Very, very nice.