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This is Misk U -- one of my faves -- spiked with pumpkin spice and maybe sprinkled with some heavy cinnamon on top. I love it!

I love this; it's like huffing the most delicious cardamom and vanilla latte. It's warm and soft and so so comforting!

Wet: So much patchouli! So much patch! Wow! I can smell the clove and carnation being spicy lil buddies under that but whoa is that a lot of patchouli. My cat recoiled when I walked past her. Dry: whew, the patchouli fades off, leaving a spicy-warm scent that's basically clove and carnation having a chai-tea party on my wrist. It's what I wanted from this, and it delivered once the patchouli had run its course. Delicious.

I mean I know I'm years late to the party but this is incredible on my skin. Like a chocolate brownie spiked with hot ginger, spices and coffee beans. I will treasure my imp greatly. Unf! (I have all of the Bag of Coal imps, but this was the one that called to me the most and it did not disappoint.)

I'm basically a sucker for coffee AND for chai-resembling blends, so this was a no-brainer blind bottle buy. It goes on warm and spicy and with a hint of bitter coffee, a really rich and indulgent smell that I adore. Then the warm, rich tobacco note comes through, but it's not very long-lasting--within an hour or two the scent is the merest suggestion of my having walked past a shisha shop recently. I may need to scent locket this one!

My bottle says 2019 version! It's all sweet fruit on my skin at first, and then the incense comes through as it dries. The fruit is quite sharp, and the incense is a touch powdery, but together they make a very pleasing warm-soft sort of scent that has very low throw but what scent there is sticks to the skin for hours.

This is Dorian served with slightly more sugar in the tea! It even does the Dorian thing of vanishing on my skin in about an hour. It is gorgeous, though, even if I have to keep reapplying.

Gosh, I bought this because all these notes sounded good, and it turned out they all work on my skin together and make this into something warm and sweet and gentle and delicious. The honeysuckle is prominent first, and then the amber comes forward, and then the other blossoms bloom and it all merges into a soft floral skin musk. Yum!

This is a sweet, soft, golden-blonde floral. It's got less of a spicy kick than I'd expect from chrysanthemum and cinnamon, but it definitely has a warmth to it. It's such a delicate blend, somehow never tips into too-sweet or too-woodsy or too-heated or too-floral. Gorgeous, and I'm very glad I managed to get a bottle!

It went on very dust-heavy, but it's dried down to soft, old woods and moss. The berries are here, but they're faded, adding only an edge of sweetness. I don't quite know how I feel about it, really.

At first, when wet, this had a strong 'dirt' sort of component to it that made me wonder if I would be better off donating it to a friend who has significantly more appreciation for dirt-ish blends than I do. Thankfully, when dry, that earthy smell dissipates, leaving me with a light gingery-resiny scent that is much closer to what I'd hoped for! It's warm but not cloying, and the spices are so gentle they just sort of accentuate the gingery notes.

I'm not sure which version I have, but it's a pure blast of peppemint layered over sweet vanilla. It's a little more vanilla than the original Lick It, I think, but it's equally delicious. An ideal Yuletide scent!

Warm, smoky-sweet incense with hints of almond? woods? saffron? I can't tell but none of it is bad. I like this a lot; it hugs close to the skin, but has all the comforting autumnal-associative feeling I want in cooler weather.

These notes are a DREAM combination for me, I won't lie, and so I was a bit disappointed to put it on and for it to smell like warm, spicy burnt plastic. Mercifully after drying down it's lost that burning plastic, and it's resolved into a melange of spices and heat and tea that's quite lovely. It's not quite how I imagined it would smell from the description, but it's going to be a great scent for autumn.

Sharp, sharp sharp yuzu at first, blending down into a really glorious musk-and-sweet-florals mix. I can just about detect--or maybe I'm just imagining--the citrus and tea in the background of it, but the transition from ALL CITRUS SPIKY to the musky florals is very dramatic on me! I love both ends of this.

A gentle, light fragrance, the carnation is a bare whisper of warmth under the creamy-honey scent. Usually the lab's honey note does unspeakable things on my skin, and rose is often a powder-bomb, but here they both just suffuse the scent with sweetness. Delightful and unexpected.

Lush, spicy carnation. Very warm, very resin-y. Turns a bit powdery after a few hours but not in an unpleasant way.

This is the purest, most delicious cinnamon-encrusted churro scent! I bought a bottle entirely on a whim, after buying a decant that isn't even here yet, and I'm so glad I did because I want to eat my own wrist oh my god.

This is super well-blended on my skin after drydown, a really nice balance of musk and citrus. A very summery, shimmery sort of scent.

Goes on pure gingerbread, dries down with increasing patchouli and benzoin incensey-ness. The coconut is adding a hint of freshness. I was hoping for the gingerbread to be more obvious but as this dries the ginger sort of disappears.

In the imp: hmm, this is quite faint, and sort of dark-green-ish to my nose. On me, wet: ....very very faint. whispers of oakmoss and that faint tinge of plasticky snake oil beneath it. On me, dry: nope, that plastic killed the rest of the notes. I can just about sense an aquatic note fighting madly underneath, but it's a losing battle. Verdict: Blech, no, alas. I wanted the mossiness and it never really came out to play.

In the imp: huh, berry-citrus drenched in honey. On me, wet: Very sickly-sweet but that sharp berry is cutting through it a fair amount, and the neroli is helping. On me, dry: hmm, there's the vanilla and amber, and those sharper notes have mostly faded. Verdict: Enh, this isn't doing much for me, to be honest.

In the imp: augh strong dry patchouli by the shovelful. On me, wet: so so so much patchouli, with a sprinkling of coconut meat. Kind of sticky to my nose. On me, dry: okay, it's sweetened and smoothed out a little now - it's creamier and less dusty-dry. But it's still very patchouli-prominent. Verdict: Alas, no, I think not.

Ocean mist, kelp, ambergris, amber, white pear, osmanthus, freesia, and seafoam accord. In the imp: wow, that's.. yeah, seafoam. and freesia. and that bamboo-ish wateriness. On me, wet: yup, still sea-spray - aquatics and slightly soap saltiness and lots of watery florals. On me, dry: mmmm. the pear is sweetening it, and the amber and ambergris are warming it, and while it teeters on the edge of ocean-themed-soap sometimes it doesn't ever topple. Verdict: I have a fondness for aquatics, though I rarely wear 'em, and this ticks all my buttons for a nice aquatic. The imp can certainly stay here.

In the imp: very thick and heady florals and incense with lots of soap. On me, wet: soapy incense - it's weird, sort of smoky-clean. On me, dry: soft floral soap. Sigh. Verdict: The chances of this working on my skin were miniscule given the note list, but I love the poem. Ah well. Swap pile anyway.