Poenari

Gahhhh this is so gorgeous! In the decant I initially smelled vetiver, but once applied this becomes a smooth and slinky scent. I understand why this is referred to as cashmere patchouli because it is truly soft feeling but warm. After a short while on my skin, the plum and oudh come out to play. I adore all of these notes, and this is blending them in a new way. This shadow is wafting around me, now a hint of patchouli, now plum, now oudh, each note playing off the others summoning me towards the darkness. Definitely upgrading this decant to a bottle in my next order!

I can't figure this one out at all. Based on the notes, I would have expected something much stronger, but that is not the case. I can't pick out a single note, but together they make a dark and stony scent. I agree with Absinthetics that this is like black marble, and not a green scent. But after about 30 minutes on my skin, it's more warmed and not a wet marble. I wouldn't turn to this often enough to upgrade my decant to a bottle, but I'm glad that I got a chance to try this!

This has notes that I love, so I had high hopes. On my skin, the teakwood is noticeable and the blood musk gives it a slightly spicy tinge. It is exactly as I had hoped, although my skin tends to eat it up. After an hour I can barely smell it. I really want to upgrade my decant of this to a bottle, but I will have to test it again. If it continues to fade so quickly on my skin, I will be disappointed because it's so perfect in every other way.

I am not a big fan of snow or mint scents, but there is no way I could skip smelling and trying THE namesake perfume of this series, so I got a decant rather than my usual "go for broke" blind bottle buys. Initially on my skin the snow is the dominant note, but it's not at all sharp the way some (most) of Beth's snow notes hit my nose. Snow White is headache-inducing on me and I can't wear it at all, and the Lick It scents also don't work on my skin. But this is softly falling snow, slightly minty, cold but not "freezing my brain" cold. There is a hint of something earthy, but there is no prominent earth, clay, or wood that I can detect. Definitely no scent of decay. In my mind, I had imagined the blood-red clay as including a blood note, and the decay as including a dirt note, notes which I love along with wood, but I really don't get them at all from this. It's very well-blended but remains snow-dominant throughout the wearing. After 30 minutes, this has dried down to a lovely soft mint on my skin. I'm now waffling over upgrading to a bottle. The only wintry snow blend I have is Skadi, which I actually loved enough to buy a backup bottle. This is different enough to give me an alternative, and I might even try this as a sleep blend.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind: pearlescent vanilla musk with white sandalwood, grey amber, white patchouli, ambrette seed, and oudh. Sweet vanilla, soft and gentle, and pretty. I only wish it didn't disappear so quickly on my skin.

I took a chance on Lucille because of the darkness in the character, even though I usually avoid florals. But dark amber and plum musk are notes I love, and I was hoping that faded roses would mean the kind of rose I've had success with before, as in Crypt Queen and OLLA Eve. Lucille does not disappoint! This is a darkly pretty floral, and I can see how it reflects her character so well. While it does smell of soft dried roses more than anything else on my skin, it is a beautiful dark fruity floral. Not my usual kind of scent, but that's also what I said about the OLLA June 23, 1868 and I have backups of it! So this is another great floral even for those who don't normally wear florals.

This is gorgeous! A dark fougere due to the amber. Lavender dominates the fougere at first sniff and upon application, with a hint of sweetness to this blend, but not a sharp lavender. Then the amber comes out to play and sticks around. This is not too masculine at all, and I will wear the heck out of my bottle.

I am also surprised at Palmyra, in a really good way! Frankincense tends to amp on me, and like stellamaris I was expecting more of a resinous blast from this perfume. But this resin is soft, gentle, with a hint of sorrow. This is a great scent for those who wish they could wear leather but can't. For those who fear cinnamon, I detect no burn here. It's so well-blended that none of the notes speak out individually, but they are melded into a gorgeous cozy resin. This is a warm fleece blanket on my lap, with my kitty purring softly as she lays on on top of the blanket. Beth has once again created a beautiful scent for a wonderful cause! But this, everyone!

I love this! I've been on a search for apple scents recently, and this does not disappoint. The scent is primarily applesauce on me, but the tobacco and tea give it a depth that I enjoy. A great scent for a great cause! It goes great with the Honeyed Apple bath oil and the NYCC Red Apple hair gloss.

Oh dear- Zombie Moon I wanted to love you, but you are making me gag. I sprayed some in a spot near where I am sitting, and it is URINAL CAKE MOON! An hour later, I gave up and tried to cover the smell with something else that I thought would be strong enough to work, The Demon's School, and Zombie Moon Urinal Cake is bleeding through. Major fail, this one. Please fade away soon!

OH MY! I only ordered a mini- decant of this because I usually avoid creamy scents, but I adore pumpkin so I had to at least try this. This is as the name says- the cheesecake and especially the cream cheese frosting are spot-on perfection. This is a very foody scent, and reminiscent of carrot cake in it's mild spice, rather than the overly spicy typical pumpkin scents we get. I NEED A BOTTLE STAT!

I got a mini decant of this because I love all of the pumpkin things and needed to at least try this, but my husband hates chocolate scents and I use all of my bath oils as moisturizers, so there's no sneaking them past him, I gave up trying after he complained about Pumpkin S'mores bath oil and my beloved Red Velvet Truffle. On my hands, this is all chocolate at first, so that seals it for me not buying a bottle. . Bliss is the only chocolate scent that was too cloying even for me, and I had to wash it off. So I was a bit worried at first that this might be the same kind of chocolate. Fortunately, this is more like cocoa and the pumpkin kicks into the blend very quickly. This is pumpkin hot cocoa, not a heavily pumpkin spiced drink, but cocoa with a hint of pumpkin. I like this a lot. Curse you, husband's nose.

Sniffed in the bottle, and upon initial application on skin, I get strong pomegranate. It is quickly followed by the red musk. The woods, pepper, frank and myrrh are well blended and meld into the pom and musk, grounding them and making this a gorgeous dark red blend. Although they don't share many notes other than the pom and black pepper, this reminds me of a non-patchouli version of my beloved Crypt Queen. It's not the same, but has a similar feel that makes me happy. I rarely buy or wear lunacy blends, so I'm thrilled to have found one that I can really love and enjoy.

Ah-hah, thank you! It has to be the July 2007 after reading those notes. /makes note on cap label 13 July 2007 has a pink label with green 13. 13 June 2008 has a green label with a pink 13. http://www.bpal.org/topic/37412-what-do-bottles-and-labels-look-like/page-111?do=findComment&comment=2430239 Also, twilighteyes has an amazing Flickr with tons of beautiful pictures of bottles and labels. She has them set up into many sets, but here is the link to 13 June 2008. https://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_twilight/2780192722/in/album-72157606843865390/

I love the Lab's pumpkin scents and have amassed quite a collection of them. The only pumpkin scent I ever had trouble with was The Shattered Pumpkin, which was just too vegetal and sour for me. The Witches should be exactly what I love from the Lab. But on my skin, it amps into a cumin-like scent, which does not smell good on me. I'm disappointed that I get none of the pumpkin cream, honey, or vanilla on its own. But I have found that if I layer The Witches with something else containing bourbon vanilla or spicy pumpkin, then I can wear it, so I'm keeping my bottle.

I love this! I'm a huge fan of the Lab's dead leaves note, and last year's Autumn Leaves and Haitian Patchouli is one of my favorite hair glosses. I wore it so much last autumn and this one, even though I have so many other glosses. Dead Leaves, Red Musk,& Neroli is another gorgeous autumnal scent. The red musk sweetens the leaves and it smells so good on my hair that I keep huffing the ends that can barely reach my nose. I can't identify the neroli, and I usually don't care for citrus, so it must be well-blended into this. I love having a sweeter alternative to my Autumn Leaves/Haitian Patchouli. Another wonderful hair gloss scent from the Weenie collection! We all already know how wonderful the glosses are for our hair.

I'm going to a pagan wedding being held in a cemetery on Halloween night, so although I won't be wearing a costume, the occasion itself is calling out for me to wear Samhain. Maybe layered with a hint of Graveyard Dirt.

I bought a bottle of this scent because I adore Lilith Victoria, and need another bedtime blend with Snake Oil and Dorian. Need, I tell you! I wore this last night. In the bottle, this is reminiscent of LV without the lavender. At first application, I can smell the Snake Oil, but as it dries down I get hints of the Dorian too. When dry, the sweetness comes forward from the cotton candy, followed by the slight spice of carnation. This is a gorgeous scent, but has much less throw than LV and also wears off more quickly. I didn't detect remnants of it on my wrist this morning. However, that is not a problem for me, as I plan to keep this one for bedtime use. Although I can't help but compare this to LV, I love the fact that LV was Beth's ode to infant Lilith. This scent definitely reflects Lilith's personality as she grows up before our eyes. I love it, and the label is one of my favorite pictures of Lilith.

Another stunning perfume with Beth's leaf note. This time, the leaves are very well-blended into the vanilla and myrrh, and don't stand out as sharp at all, making this less of a strictly autumnal scent on my skin. The vanilla and myrrh are prominent and comforting, and this is very much a cozy sweater-wearing scent. I'm thrilled that I got a bottle of this, as I can see wearing this one throughout the winter instead of just in autumn.

La Femme de Satan - so far, no cacao, caramel, or leather, just red musk and clove. My skin does amp red musk whenever it's found, so that's not surprising. But this is exactly like Mircalla Lite. I rolled my bottle first to make sure it was well-blended. This is not bad, but I adore Mircalla (enough to have 4 backup bottles of her.) If this doesn't age into something too different, it will be a less "in your face" version and therefore wearable in more situations than I can wear Mircalla. I'll be setting this bottle aside for a while to age, and will be interested to see what happens.

This is exactly what I had hoped for! I've been layering Luxuria bath oil with Pile of Fallen Leaves perfume to get a preliminary idea of how this might smell, but I am not an alchemist, nor do I play one on TV. This is so much better than my experiment! I love Beth's leaf notes, and this is the one that I love the most. Red musk is one of my favorite notes, and blended with the leaf note it sweetens the blend to perfection. Herb Girl described it perfectly, with the mention of Bloodbath minus the patchouli (I never got any floral from Bloodbath myself.) The musk keeps this scent from getting that cologne smell that I picked up from October, and keeps this scent barely on the feminine side. However, red musk also smells great on my man, so I can't wait to have him test this. I can't wait until my hair gloss arrives and I can drench myself in this from top to bottom. I might even need a backup bottle of this one.

I know it's been suggested by others, but I really think you should give Sugar Skull a try! Since it has reappeared most (but not all) Halloweens, it should be fairly easy to locate a decant from someone. Then you would have time to buy a bottle of this year's version. It really doesn't change much from year to year, per my bottle collection of various vintages. It has great throw, is long lasting, and ages beautifully. Edited for autocorrect fail

Hello strawberries! I don't think I've ever tried one of the Lab's strawberry blends before, and I am amazed at just how much this smells like a bowl of fresh strawberries. In fact, that's all I smell. Maybe because I'm not used to it, I don't know, but it is beautiful. I can't smell peach at all, nor the other notes as distinct from each other. It's just a lovely bowl of sweet strawberries, but after a while it has the barest hint of peach. Ah, there is finally some sandalwood emerging. This is not "my" kind of scent, but I am really glad to have the decent and will definitely wear it. I think it will be a nice scent to apply first thing in the morning and sniff while I sit and drink my coffee before my shower.

I tried this without first re-reading the notes. I knew from the color of the oil that it was the one with red musk, so that was a good start. Upon application and while wet, I smell peach first, not red musk. Huh! This is surprising, since I amp red musk whenever it's in a blend. But immediately following the peach is something else... I can't quite decide... something green, almost foresty, I look up the notes and aha! It's the cypress! This is interesting and not what I expected. After drydown the red musk finally shows up and starts to amp, as expected. Later on, this is all fruity red musk on me. No signs of myrrh, patchouli, or vetiver in this blend, each of which I can easily identify. Don't be afraid of the patchouli or vetiver, for those who don't care for those notes. They aren't identifiable, but probably help to keep this a grounded scent and balance out the sweetness of the peach and red musk. This is a lovely scent and I'm glad that I got to try it. Fortunately for me, I have many other gorgeous red musk blends so I don't feel the need to chase after a bottle of this one.

This is a great dirt scent and very reminiscent of one of my favorites, The Premature Burial. They share the dirt and cypress, but Midian is a gentler scent, with a touch of the blood and incense faintly present. I am happy to have this as another dirt scent in my collection. Lovely and wearable, very autumnal.