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In the bottle: wow, this smells complex. A foodier scent than I expected, actually - warm, spicy cherries. On me: Whuh? All I smell now is marzipan. As it dries, it becomes a powdery marzipan, like someone peeled off all the icing from a wedding cake and left it lying about for a week. I guess I should avoid almonds. Grumble. Edit: a week later I tried this again, as I still had the imp lying around and, hunh, not so bad after all. Still a faint hint of marzipan, but it's playing nicely with the amber and cardamom now. Pleasanter, but still no real wow factor.

In the bottle: hmm, a light rose, not too sweet. Very promising. On me: stays a light, delicate rose - almost a shimmery pink rose scent, very fresh but with a hint of depth. Very pretty, very subtle, a scent for wearing when you want to smell nice but don't want *too* much attention.

In the bottle: acrid, thick, dark smokiness. On me: As it dries, it sweetens. Spices and cloves overlay the peppery smokiness, until it becomes a scent very like a well-made chai. Oh man, this is good. A great scent to wear on a cold winter's day, because it feels so warming and comforting. Conclusion: didn't smell as expected, it smelled better. Wonderful.

In the bottle: hmm, incensey and sweet. On me: Ouch, instant powder explosion. I smell like someone dropped a thurible on a very clean baby. Fades down to a not unpleasant but still incense-dominated scent, a bit too sweet for my taste.

In the bottle: hmm, violets, roses, I love both of those. Violets hate me, alas. Oh well... On me: ah, there we go. The violets become cloying and overpowering, a morass of sticky sweetness, and the roses are nowhere to be found. The scent sticks around all day, and it's very strong. Urgh.

In the bottle: Oooh, this is sharp, but not so sharp I recoil. Lemony and light. On me: this scent does not change much at all on me as it dries, and that's a good thing. It stays a delicate, subtle citrus, and doesn't tip over into floor-cleaner or air-freshener. Very light, very pleasant, and it'll probably be lovely in the heat of summer - my only real complaints are that it fades a little faster than I'd like, and it's such a light scent that a fair amount is needed so that I can smell it from further away than a millimetre from my wrist.

In the bottle: wow, my nose doesn't know what to think. Sweet violets or cold mint? It's an overpowering scent, but it can't seem to make up its mind. I'm not sure I like this. On my skin: it still can't decide at first, but both scents get rapidly sweeter as it dries and the violets do that explosion thing they do on me. Parma violets and mint chewing gum, mixed together. I wish I'd been able to smell the metallic scent, but alas, it ended up smelling like a very limited sweet-shop. So sweet it made my teeth ache. I had to go and scrub this off my wrists.

In the bottle, this smells sharp and acrid, like the smell of pine needles crunching underfoot. I can't smell much of anything except pine. It didn't work on my skin at all - it turned to sweet and slightly rancid baby powder, which is not the most flattering of scents. Ah well.