sofiaviolet

In the imp: I just smell the rose.

On me, wet: This is still mostly rose, but now it's kind of soapy.

On me, dry: The soap is stronger now. I'm going to swap it as it doesn't get along with my chemistry.

In the imp: A Christmas tree! Albeit a rather dried-out one.

On me, wet: The tree is a bit fresher.

On me, dry: This is a great Christmas smell. It doesn't suit me as a perfume, but I might keep my imp for a room scent.

In imp: It smells like most other honey scents.

On me, wet: The milky note is kind of sour.

On me, dry: It's very faint, as all honey scents are on my skin. Mostly it smells like milk that I spilled on myself.

Verdict: Definitely not for me.

In the imp: Cherry Twizzlers. Pure sugar.

On me: It's now a cinnamon Red Hot.

Verdict: Cinnamon burns my nose. Off to the swaps.

In imp: I smell the water and the peony. Very aquatic.

On me, wet: I don't actually know what tulips smell like, but I think that's what I smell behind the aforementioned notes.

On me, dry: It's mostly peonies. Like a GC version of Peony Moon.

Verdict: I'll keep my imp.

In the imp: I smell sandalwood and white musk. Also a smidge of mint, maybe some lavender and lime. No sign of vetiver or patchouli, yay!

On me. wet: The patchouli and vetiver are coming out. My skin amps them both. The lime/lavender/mint is still present.

On me, dry: On the bright side, the notes I loathe have died. But so have the good ones. I can barely smell it!

In the imp: Eau de bug spray. I am not liking it.

On me, wet: Now it smells extremely aquatic.

On me, dry: A powdery aquatic. Makes no sense, I know. It's like talc with an aquatic fragrance.

Verdict: Wearable, but weird. I think I'll swap it.

In the imp: I can smell the olive leaf! It's very interesting. My mother says it smells familiar.

On me, wet: Not too bad. My skin is amping the vetiver, though. Fortunately, it's also amping the cedar.

On me, dry: Holy cow! The vetiver isn't really present any more! God, I hate that note. But yay for Alecto. The cedar is very strong.

Verdict: This would make a good winter scent, and it might layer well.

In the imp: A pale pink floral. I smell all the notes, but they are very well-blended.

On me, wet: This smells warm. The frankincense is a bit more prominent.

On me, dry: Richly floral and incensey.

Verdict: I love it. It's the more sophisticated older sister of Rose Cross.

This is fairly masculine, but I can still pull it off. I can smell a little leather and some wood, sandalwood I suppose. I don't smell the red wine. This has rather little throw. While it smells good on me, I think it might smell even better on my boyfriend.

In the imp, there's a slight chemical tang. On me, it is scorched plastic. I am sad, and confused because Zero was so pretty on me but smelled like real gardenias. Oh well. I'll swap it.

This is like a pomegranate single note! I don't get any booziness at all. Just lovely sweet pomegranate smell. I. Love. It.

I'd kind of like to compare Swank to Pomegranate SN to see how close they are on me, but I'm probably not going to be able to get any Pom SN, so never mind.

Simultaneously sweet and spicy. Mostly sweet. It kind of smells like I would expect a bag of gummy bears with a couple of red hots tossed in to smell. It's really cool, but it's making me nauseated like eating that candy concoction would. Into the swaps with it.

This is kind of fruity and sweet, with a sour edge. All the Springtime in Arkham scents I've tried so far have been misses. Cthulhu is pretty heavy on the soap. It smells like Irish Spring. I do happen to like that smell, but not for my perfume.

It smells like soap. Like Dove soap, maybe.

On the bright side, it has good throw.

Somebody sent me a sniffie of this.

Val Sans Retour smells very sharp and medicinal. It's chilly. Unfortunately, I don't really want to smell like that. I already have hospital smell clinging to me when I leave work, no need to accentuate it.

According to my mum, this smells like apple pie! Reading the list of notes, that makes no sense, but I find myself agreeing. I'm not really keen on pie or apples, so I'll probably swap it, but it's a fascinating scent!

I mostly smell the lotus and opium. It's really warm and, well, golden. I was very worried about the amber because most scents with that note vanish the second they touch my skin.

Unfortunately, a few minutes after I wrote the above, I sniffed my hand and Lotus Moon was gone. Foiled again!

CVI (106) smells like burned apple pie. It doesn't change much on my skin. I'm loving the Chaos Theory philosophy, but I'm not loving CVI.

LIX (59) smells like a fruity candy. It stays pretty true on me, and I'll be keeping it.

This smells like aloe-scented baby powder. Reading the description, I am very confused. It's pretty, but I think I will swap it because I have GCs that smell similar.

I had high hopes for Blood Amber, but I was yet again foiled by amber. It always becomes very faint on my skin, and all the other notes with it. I simply can't give this an objective review because I can barely smell it.

In the imp, this is nose-curlingly sharp. On me, the vanilla comes out. I don't really know what narcissus smells like, but I suppose I smell that, too. It's a warm scent.

And the name has just made me giggle. As I'm sitting here reviewing today's arrrivals, my stomach is rumbling.

I think this could be Dorian's less innocent older sister. However, it has no throw. I'm undecided about whether I'll keep my imp.

The first time I opened my imp, I smelled nothing. Sniffing more deeply, I detected a very faint musk. Wet on my skin, there is a burst of nauseatingly sweet candy-smell, but as it dries down, this becomes kind of icky. Like sweat, but not sexy sweat. It is July in New Orleans; it's that kind of sweat. My skin chemistry doesn't like La Petite Mort.

While this does have lavender in it, the lemony herbal part of the scent is overwhelming. I don't really like that, and neither does my mother, who is the Queen of Lavender. As Quietude dries down, the lemon freshness goes kind of sour. This definitely doesn't work with my skin chemistry and I don't like it enough to use it as a room scent, so off to the swaps it goes.

It's really sharp. On me, the sharpness dies a sudden death, to be replaced by the same sort of scent as Black Phoenix and Elegba, with the addition of what I think is cinnamon. I feel kind of nauseated by whatever it is those three blends have in common.