sofiaviolet

I can't identify any of the notes! I think I might be able to recognise either neroli or carnation. This is a very sweet white floral on my skin. I can tell that the apple blossom is there, but I'm not sure how I know that. I think I must also be able to smell carnation at the very edges, because this is kind of spicy.

A light floral. The rose isn't as strong as I had expected and I can't smell ylang ylang at all. The sweet pea is the strongest note on my skin. This has very little throw.

Cypress and orange blosson smell awful together. They don't improve on my skin, either. It's very off-putting, and I'm almost nauseated by Melpomene. Ack.

I mostly smell lavender and verbena, perhaps because these are the notes I know best. The other herbal notes come through a bit more strongly on my skin, but those two are still very prominent. Lovely.

Sweet and slightly floral. On me, this becomes an old lady scent. I am surprised that the lemon is not more apparent. Not bad, but not me, either.

I received a near-empty amber bottle with Hex on a little dot on its lid, so I'm guessing this is Hexennacht. I smell something kind of woody and musky, but it has so little throw and staying power that I have lost the scent almost the second it touched my skin.

Patchouli. Erk. I think this is the musty/piney note that has been present in (and ruined) so many scents. It completely strangles any other notes, from cradle to grave. Maybe the peaches are lending that little bit of sickly sweetness, but that is it.

This smells like cardboard. I'm not even kidding. Eau de cardboard, in imp form. I can tell there's cinnamon in it, though. It tingled a bit when I put it on. Underneath the cinnamon, the cardboard still lurks. My nose is weird.

Plain old neroli. I really hope the other notes come through on my skin. Unfortunately, they don't really. The neroli is still dominant and still too unpleasant.

I definitely smell the jasmine. It's got something sugary about it. I don't smell the lime at all, and the berries, just barely. I wish I had more than a sniffie of it.

Oooh, heliotrope and strawberry. The vanilla comes through on my skin. This is supersweet. And tasty (not literally, do not eat it, please).

This is just weird. I swear I smell grape juice. It fades quickly on my skin. Just put it on and I can barely smell it. I had really hoped to like this.

While this doesn't have much throw, it smells exactly like a real carnation. Mmm.

Whoa, that's some amazingly powerful musk. It actually smells pretty darn good on me; weird, I'm used to only liking white musk. This is a really hippie kind of smell.

Mmm, smells like Vicks! I have a wee collection of BPAL that clear my sinuses in a similar manner, and I think I'll be adding Jabberwocky to it. Alas, this hasn't much throw. It is very effective at close range, though.

Caveat: I don't have the faintest idea what bay rum smells like. This is really masculine. It smells ever so slightly familiar, but I can't place. I smell a bit of vanilla in there. Just a bit, but it's the only note I can identify. Okay, now some clove, methinks. I couldn't wear this as perfume, but it's pretty awesome and I'll be keeping my imp for other purposes.

... Her scent is the warm, dry parchment of scrolls, lavender for critical thought and analysis, the solidity of heavy woods, ornery patchouli and glib benzoin, and superstar-splashed orange and amber. I don't smell any of the notes in the description! No lavender, no woods, no orange. And it doesn't fade the way every other scent with amber has. It's kind of sharp and floral. Very bizarre.

First impression is of woodiness and something sour. It becomes even more sour on my skin. Kind of rotten. I have no idea what that note is, but it really hates me. As I wear it, that note fades a bit, but it's still present with the violet and wood.

This is very dry. The sandalwood is quite dominant, which is pretty unusual because my skin amps dragon's blood. It's a nifty scent that I may try layering with other, lusher smells like Blood Rose.

Lemon, wow. The musk comes through a bit on my skin, but it's still all lemon, really. I can't smell any lemongrass, good thing as I don't like it. No grapefruit, either. This is like June Gloom, but GC.

Geranium rose and rosewood. The rosewood comes through even more strongly on my skin, but the flowers are really sharp, almost like carnations. It's quite nice, but I wouldn't wear it on its own and I already have Seance for layering with other roses. EDIT: And it's making me sneeze. Aw hell no.

In the imp, this is very incensey. On my skin, it becomes kind of stale. I guess my chemistry didn't like it, because it doesn't seem to like most of the darker incense blends. Oh well.

I wanted so badly to love this. I'm a big fan of roses, and a bigger fan of London. It's my home, no matter where I live. But London's rose is the kind that makes me sneeze. So disappointing.

This is a plain green tea scent for me. That's the only note I can distinguish. It smells like "green tea" scent, though, not an actual cup of tea. I happen to really like that smell because I find it very clean and relaxing.

I don't think of De Sade as my sexy leather scent - that's Loviatar. Instead, this is the scent of an old leather jacket from a thrift store, very comforting. Yes, I know it's De Sade. I still think it smells comforting.