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I'm a little confused by this, honestly. It's pleasant... but it smells exactly like Atlas , minus the mallow. It's got the sharp, woody smoke I love in both Kit and Atlas, and a sweet musk... but then it dries down and is a complete dupe for both. I'm super confused. Guess I'm not keeping it...

My bottle is mostly magnolia and honey, which runs a bit too sweet for me, but the tobacco grounds it nicely. Good for a day when I want to feel feminine and classy.

This is smoke and soft almond? I love it on the drydown but the wet stage is noxious powder.

Strong, fresh ink and so much pepper I actually curled my lip up when I sniffed. I'm glad I only ended up with a tester of this... it's super strong. I can't imagine wearing it, although the concept is interesting.

Holy crap this is incredible. Bluestblood was wonderful enough to send me a bottle before I could scrape up the cash, because I've been dying to try it. It's heaven. Smells exactly the same in the bottle as on skin, wet or dry, but that's a soft sweet marshmellowy woods with just a hint of coffee. I need to wear this forever.

I tend to go for lighter and more masculine scents in the heat of summer, unless I'm going dancing at which point I pick sexy things that amp in the humidity. This summer, my favorites were: Spider Twenty One 51 Crow Moon 2013 Planting Moon/Karme The Rose Ehecatl Kumiho

This is really interesting! When I first put it on I was worried it would go soapy - that was my impression in the imp - but it dries to a creamy mandarin and musk. There's a tiny bit of mint that I'm guessing will amp more when I'm in warmer air but right now it's grounding and subtle. I wasn't planning on buying bottles of any new shunga but I might have to get this one.

In the bottle this is all warm spice, but it disappears off my skin so fast I can't get an impression. Weird.

This is delicious! I swapped it from a friend, hoping it would be one of the few vanillas that works on me. And boy, does it. It starts out all sharp and green in the bottle - very astringent and strong, with a very alcoholic vanilla tinge. On drydown, though, it just turns into soft, sweet balsam with a dusty vanilla base. Very subtle, very woodsy with a slight amount of dust. I'm hoping as it settles and ages it'll get sweeter, but I love it just like this (I put it on immediately after the package and an hour later had to slather more on!)

This starts out smelling kind of like an apple Herbal Essences shampoo - pleasant, but not what I expected. As it dries the grains come out and for about ten minutes there's a really nice mix, horsey and warm. At the end of the drydown it's all oats and molasses with a hint of carrots. Yum!

Wow, this is gorgeous. It just came and I couldn't wait to test it - I wonder if it'll settle out differently. Wet, it's all sweet honey and tobacco flower with a little hint of bergamot. I don't get a lot of the sandalwood but I can sense it lurking around in the background. Dry, it's very light honey with a nice spice to it - but it's so light I can barely smell it! It just continues to fade away... I'm definitely going to have to let it settle and then do a slather-test. So far I love what I can smell but there's not much of it. Edit: Even having just settled for 2-3 days, wow, what a change! It's much spicier now, and as it dries the sandalwood comes out beautifully. It does stay pretty muted on me, but I'll catch wafts of it for hours after application. 5/5.

This is one of the classiest scents I own! Definitely absinthe from the get-go, wet and dry both, but when dry there's a really nice gentle ozone backdrop and just a little bit of spice from I think the victorian perfume. It's much more subtle than I tend to wear, but it's wonderful.

...this is cheap jellybeans. Pure jelly beans. 0.o

Om nom nom. This is the first red booze that's worked for me! It's everything I wanted A Game Called Yes and No to be on my skin. Red, fruity and sharp without being sweet with just a tiny bit of spice to it. Oh man I'm going to wear it forever.

The scent I get from this is amazing, but so confusing compared to the notes. It's sweet men's cologne, fresh and clean. I get hints of... aquatics? and mossy earth? from it when it's wet. As it dries it gets lighter and sweeter - maybe that's the beeswax, and what I'm getting as 'earth' is the books. Either way I love it and need more. Edited: A few weeks later, this is still one of my favorite scents. It's very subtle but it still has an amazing throw on my skin - a single drop rubbed between two wrists wafts past me every time I move my arms. I'm definitely getting more of the beeswax now, and it's less aquatic. It's amazing and I'm so glad I picked up a partial.

I love roses, but I'm very picky about my rose blends. This is maybe one in three that I'm willing to wear! The vanilla leaves it smelling oddly musty on my skin after the drydown, but it's not old lady... more dried rose petals. Delicious and dainty, although I don't know if I need more.

Foody, bready scents never work well on my skin, but even so I took a risk with this one (I can't eat cookies, but maybe I could smell like them? Please?). Sadly, it doesn't get along on me. I get some sort of stale cookie batter and some funky citrus, and then it vanishes pretty fast altogether. Sad.

Wet: very bright cranberry! Maybe what my nose interprets as 'chemical' is what everyone else things is fizz? Dry: All the spices! I can't even pick them apart, they're so well blended, with a nice sharp dry cranberry note behind it. Bright but not too foody, and not overwhelming. Yum.

All delicious red musk! I wanted some of the peat, but sadly, it was not to be. This smells on my skin exactly like Helle's Belle, so I guess there's no point in getting a bottle. Maybe the decant will age nicely? It's very sweet already, though.

All I get is sharp, bitter snow and ozone. It doesn't change as it dries, just gets stronger. Off to swaps!

I'm slowly learning that I like honey notes at lot more than I thought! I was hoping to get more of my beloved white sandalwood out of this than I do, but it ends up drying from a cloyingly sweet foody honey to a soft, delicious fig spiked with almond and nuts. I can't pick out the rest of the notes but they keep it smelling ethereal instead of foody. Yum! What an unexpected hit.

In the bottle: Cough syrup. Wet on skin: Very fake, chemically berries with a sharp ozone note. Dry: ??? gone??? Oookay then. You don't exist on my skin after ten minutes. It was so chemically I'm not entirely upset.

Whoof, this one is green! It's sharp and bitter when wet. Dry, I don't get much vanilla. There's something in the leather/patch combination that produces the same stomach-churning note that made me get rid of Haute Macabre that takes forever to fade. The sharp coffee beans have turned less bitter, but they're still very green and in your face. I think this would do wonders on other people's skin, but it's very much not my chemistry. To swaps.

I'll say straight out: I'm a cardamom nut. Obsessively so. Remember the vanilla spice lattes starbucks had last winter season? Heaven for me would be just the spice topping in a spoon. That's exactly what Bezoar does on my skin. Wet I get a giant whiff of cardamom and balsam. As it dries the cardamom just amps and amps but stays grounded by the hay, and the balsam fades. I'm so in heaven.

I am so conflicted about this perfume. Is it worth a kind of noxious dry-down to get an amazing final stage? Wet, I get mostly blood-musk, which always registers as a little sickly and too sweet. Lilacs are not my friend. Dry, at first, it's all clove and oppononax. It smelled so similar to Mopsfledermaus that I totally wrote off keeping it, because I already have a lot of Mops. It doesn't help that Mops hasn't been going well on my skin lately, so it just wasn't speaking to me. Then... two hours later... somehow it's absolutely amazing. I forgot to scrub it off and suddenly the leather blooms and the pepper pokes it's nose out and it's subtle but absolutely beautiful. I couldn't figure out what scent kept catching my attention but I needed so much of it. At the end, it's violet-colored and metallic with just a little clove.