batsy

In the vial: apricot booze! Yes! On the skin: Now this is a sophisticated clubbing scent! Oh yeah baby! I don't know why I passed this over before -- considering I love Swank and Juke Joint, you'd think I'd be all over the booze ones... this is, like I said, sophisticated. The upper crust cousin of Swank. It's sweet but dark, sensual. Oh yeah, this is a keeper!

In the vial: cherry and wine, lots of wine On the skin: It's really funny how scent triggers memory. This one triggered my childhood trips to the pet store. No, I can't explain that at all. I'm assuming the musk and cherries did it. I'm just not big on cherry. Oh well, it was worth trying though!

In the vial: spicy On the skin: I was worried, since I read a lot about "cherries" because I really hate cherry... but this wasn't really "cherry" to me. It's very Egyptian-like, especially with the myrrh, but I love the amber so it works. It's a plesant surprise, really!

In the vial: Yeah, that's lily... On the skin: I've been having so much trouble with finding the right lily. Everything that has lily that I've tried either has something in it I can't stand or goes wrong. But this is a lily that works. It's warm and not too chloying, sweet and simple. Oh yes, the MTP wins another victory for me!

In the vial: holy crow, sugar sweets... I can feel my teeth rotting! On the skin: I'm amused that this was the first of the SDS I've gotten to try. It's exactly as the notes listed. A glut of almost choking you sweetness. The toffee and hazelnut really stand out for me. I really like the smell, but it's almost something I wouldn't wear... just more like to smell when I'm hungry. It's exactly as described. Wow. I woder how it'd mix with Shill and Midway...

In the vial: hrm, vanilla cedar wood. On the skin: This is foody. You can totally smell vanilla and sassafras. I like vanilla sometimes, but it has to be a right combo to capture me. This I think would work for once in a while, when I wanted something different than my normal staples. It's a rugged vanilla, if that makes any sense. I like Cedar anyway.

This was a frimp from the Lab -- the honeysuckle and carnation made this sickly sweet/sour combo for me. Honeysuckle and I do not get along. I'm sure there was a hint of iris, but the honeysuckle... Thankfully, my friend liked it!

And so, I basically open this blog (which just gives me yet another place to write, yipes) with a list of what I've tried and if I like/didn't like it. I'm trying to keep track, and this seems pretty much the logical place to do so, yes? Like 13, Absinthe, Beaver Moon, Black Opal, Black Lotus, Brimstone, Brisingamen, Chiroptera, Coyote, Devil's Night '05, Dublin, Fallen, Grog, Hades, Hunger, Jazz Funeral, Juke Joint, Lady MacBeth, Lampades, The Lion, Lilith, London, Midway, Shill, Swank, Two Five & Seven Didn't Like Akuma, Amsterdam, Baron Samedi, Bayou, Casanova, Crossroads, Dragon's Musk, Dragon's Tears, Eden, Euterpe, Hell's Belle, Hellfire, Juliet, Kyoto, Languor, Lightning, Lolita, Loralei, Lucy's Kiss, New Orleans, Santo Domingo, Shanghi, Suspiro, The Coiled Serpent, Vice -- Next up: revamping the wish list based on what I've tried. Lord, that'll take forever. Might as well ask -- can anyone please recommend things based on my "Likes" list? I just get overwhelmed trying to find stuff based on notes... Oh yeah, I just got in on a decant of Monster Bait: Closet! Woo! Hopefully it'll come in before my birthday; I need to know if I want it before 5/1, and my birthday is 5/5 so guess who's ordering in April...!

In the bottle: Burned tobacco and incense, almost like a "clean" scent... On the skin: This is very manly to me. It's almost sweet with the tang of tobacco, and the musk deepens it. I like the smell -- it's almost a grandfatherly scent for me, but it's not something I'd wear.

I really like the rum scents I've tried (Grog coming to mind here) but the florals in this one didn't agree with me. It might have partially been the tobacco too -- it's a heady scent, sticky sweet and bitter.

In the bottle: sticky sweet oranges. On the skin: One enemy I have is honeysuckle. Guess what. What's funny is, on me it smelled like a freshly opened box of Fruit Loops, which I adore but can't imagine wearing as a perfume. This is really crushing as I wanted this one to work. Dang.

This was a frimp from the Lab. I couldn't even wear it, let alone smell it. It's like lily and honeysuckle explosion. The one good thing was it confirmed what I can't wear.

In the bottle: warm and spicy On the skin: The musk and amber are warm, and the dry grass and doeskin... it's really a rich warm scent that reminds me of old bookstores. I love this one! I totally got a sign from Coyote to buy it, so this totally works out. I love amber too much.

In the bottle: Vaseline Intensive Care lotion... On the skin: I can smell the salt and it does come close to the smell after/during a rain storm, but I still smell lotion... bummer.

We're painting the roses red, painting the roses red... In the bottle: Walking into a rose garden in full bloom in sunlight. Yay! On the skin: There's so many types of roses I can't pick them out individually! All I can see is big red and white roses mentally crowding around me singing but I really love it. It reminds me of our small rose garden we used to have on the side of the house. I was worried about the grass (being allergic to freshly mown grass) but I can't detect it at all! Just gorgeous roses! Whee! This is the rose scent I was looking for!

In the bottle: Something about patchouli and me needing to breathe don't mix. I couldn't even get this on my skin. Luckily it was a frimp, so no love lost.

In the bottles: big juicy berries! Wheee! For some reason I like berries and had no idea I would! On the skin: It's like fresh raspberry fruit roll-ups with wine. Oh my! It's sophisticated yet powerful berry. Yum! I wanna eat my arm again... Yay for a frimp I would never have tried otherwise! I need a bottle...

In the bottle: Lotus and amber. Ooo! On the skin: Sandalwood and myrrh. It's a smokey scent that's for sure. Very heady and exotic. The lotus is pungent and this is almost a watery scent for me. A womanly scent, for sure. And my mom just stole it from me!

In the bottle: Oleander! Whoa... On the skin: Ok oleander... oy. I can't smell anything else. As it dried down, I could pull out the magnolia and musk, but the oleander was pounding my sinuses. Damn. At least it was a frimp...

In the bottle: baby powder. On the skin: musky baby powder. I don't smell any dragon's blood (which is fine, it doesn't like me) but this is very sweet. Reminds me of times spent working with babies, a million freshly changed babies. Nice, soft and fresh scent.

In the bottle: spicy, warm, smokey and sweet On the skin: Normally I can't tolerate sandalwood and musk in huge doses, but this is so light that I like it. The amber blends and warms it more. it smells more woodlands then floral. It's not heavy, and it doesn't throw far, but I like this. It was a frimp from the Lab, and the first frimp I'd gotten that I fell in love with without having ever been interested in it. I really want to mix it with Brimstone.

In the bottle: sugary booze! On the skin: Mm booze. In a heavy heady way but good. As it dried down it got fainter, but sweet and not so over-powering. I didn't like it at first, but the dry down made it much better. Smokey sugar booze. Just like every Devil's Night should be. Now I need a bottle...

In the bottle: Butterscotch rum! On the skin: Oy. I tried to eat my arm. It's like liquid butter rum lifesavers. Delicious! Highly sugary sweet, but with a big shot of rum.

Honeysuckle. Watery wet honeysuckle. Honeysuckle and I do not get along.

In the bottle: I don't know if it's neroli or ylang ylang... but it's very much one of those! On the skin: It's almost too girly for me. I think it's the neroli -- I remember it from Akuma, but it was way lighter there then it is in Loralei. There's a sickly sweet undertone to it that reminds me of people I don't want to remember... Oh well.