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In the bottle, this is 100% the scent of cheese Danish filling. Never would have guessed how badly I needed to smell like this, but here we are. On the skin, the vanilla and lemon sweetness both come out - it's sweet, VERY sweet, with rich plastic undertones that I love. Drydown is vanilla custard.

Oh man, finally a savory foodie scent that's meat-free! This starts off heavy on the caraway and rye, slowly morphs into a mildly sweet buttered bread with caraway, and disappears into the warm memory of bread baking. Close to the skin and incredibly wearable.

This is what I always WANT to smell like after hanging by a campfire. I'm not getting any chocolate or graham, but that's cool because this is pretty spot on smoky burning marshmallow. I think it will pair beautifully with other chocolate-forward scents.

Was hoping for more marshmallow but I get a little Fruity Pebbles, a little Sugar Skull.

PEZ candy all the way. A straight up combination of the lemon, orange, and strawberry varieties.

I am a pastry chef, and I made king cakes this past Mardi Gras. This is exactly the scent of what came out of my oven. I'm kind of shocked and disturbed. But mostly happy I blind-bought two bottles. I may have to pick up a third. If you are a foodie, you will need this scent. My boyfriend said "you smell like breakfast." Trust me, that's a compliment.

This starts off as a light berry scent with warm doughy notes. Not sure I can find any pumpkin at all. My skin turned it into those little violet pastille candies, with just a hint of berry. So weird!

Dry chocolate, butter, and LEATHER. I'm in love.

This is a combination of Hard Cider Cake and Grog for me. I can't find any chocolate in this but I do get a hint of banana and/or pineapple, depending on my mood.

Whoops, this one's all faint powdery old lady perfume on the drydown for me! While eating a milk chocolate candy bar. Possibly with raisins in it.

Beautiful hot buttered popcorn at first sniff, but the drydown is similar to Obatala, though not quite as sickly sweet.

This reminds me of a commercial perfume, not sure which one since I haven't sniffed them in years. Or maybe it just reminds me of them in general. But all the notes blend smoothly into one single scent very nicely. It's not for me, but I can see how many people will love this. Certainly gender-neutral. I could also see it layering nicely with a chocolate blend. Will have to try that.

Not a candy/foody blend to me at all. In the bottle it's much sweeter, but wet on the skin it's dried pink flowers and the dreaded bpal rose note on me. If you're a rose lover, you may want to try this as that's almost all I get once it's settled onto the skin.

Bottle: Licorice like crazy! Smells pretty much exactly like an open bottle of Anisette. Drydown: The vanilla slooooowly starts to creep out and it's very very pretty. I told my bf about the blend, how it was ZOMGLICORICE! and he was like hrmmm I'll have to smell that on, so I had him sniff it about 3 hours after application and he agreed it was really nice (and by nice I mean he said and did other things, haha). It's neat because while it does smell like vanilla and licorice, it DOESN'T smell like I'm covered in vanilla and licorice. It just smells GOOD. Basically... I love this.

All boysenberry! Berry berry berry! Crazy amounts of berry! Dried it has a little bit of that plastic note that most people fear yet I love. Really, a keeper.

In the bottle: All I'm getting is a sweet incense. On: This one is hard to figure out. The scorched baseball fields are definitely there, but in the background-- it's much like One to Tie Two to Win with the grassiness and Scarecrow, but not nearly as strong as either of them are. The coffee is slowly coming out. I'm not really getting any pancake residue, but there is a certain lingering sweetness that it must be. Definitely a little too grassy for me, but otherwise quite an interesting scent! Dried: it totally smells like a "residue" on me. It's like I'm wearing a grassy/herbal perfume, but I ate pancakes with maple syrup and haven't washed my hands, haha!

I actually wouldn't call this a foody blend. The amber is incredibly overpowering. Wet it's all chocolately cocoa, but if you sniff a little harder, and once it's dry on the skin, it's a dusty, sneeze inducing amber. It's strong, like the scent of very old books. I was planning to buy a bottle at Will Call last night because it really is a great scent, but I just can't see myself wearing it that often. I prefer el dia de reyes so much more for a yule chocolate scent.

First sniff: Pear and cinnamon Wet: Spicy pear. I really don't want to say apple cider because it's NOTHING like the other apple ciderish scents. It's not strong or yankee-candle-smelling or anything like that. It's really light and clings very closely Drydown: I'm really getting pear... smells just like a juicy pear jelly belly with a cinnamon jelly belly. That's definitely the best way for me to describe it. I totally love it... and my mom loves her bottle too! RAWR I CAN'T STEAL IT! lol

A perfect combination of Egg Nog and Miskatonic University, dead on. ETA: Just wanted to add that after a day of wearing this, it smells even more like Misk U. It doesn't have the cloying sweetness the way Misk U does, but it has the coffee and even a bit of the irish cream/alcohol, after all, egg nog does have alcohol in it. I stand by my statement that it is a combination of Misk U and Egg Nog. It certainly doesn't smell exactly like either (it's missing a lot of the milk and the coffee is WAY in the forefront for it to smell anything like Egg Nog) but that would be no fun if it smelled one way or the other, right? I still think it's hypothetically what Egg Nog and Misk U would smell like together if they each had the same throw/wearlength and were blended perfectly. And yeah, that's my opinion.

In the bottle: Heavy, dense, syrupy almond Skin: Almond and orange Dry: Orange, just a tiny bit of cinnamon (this isn't ow burny cinnamon at all) and maybe root beer or cola?! Either way, it smells like a soda. Sugary and rich. I loves it!

My favorite man-scents (in my little imp box labelled "man scents" haha): De Sade. I can only sniff this whenever I want to turn myself on. Seriously, the scent goes straight to my vagina these days, ahahah. Wow would I love to be with a man who wears this! Krampus. WARM man! I've yet to test it on a guy but I expect only goodness. Baron Samedi. Foody, yummy man! The Organ Grinder. Doc Constantine. A little too aquatic/herbal/fresh for my tastes, but manly nonetheless. Fenris Wolf. Post-coital man. Haha, sorry but that's the image I get! Vechernyaya.Metrosexual man! Really, it is. Al-Shairan.Not really sure how I feel about this one, but it stays in the category still. and finally Count Dracula. Man who will fuck me up. In the fucking good "fucking" way. Fuck, that's good.

Wet: My nose searches for leather first, and I certainly found it. It's muted by a definite wood note (but not the same gross pine that every other wood note turns into, score!) Then the ginger pops in, but it's not fiery, it's almost sweet. The clove, cinnamon and black musk all add a wearable-ness to it-- turning it from "omg leather and wood!" to "omg, leather and wood COLOGNE!" I'm not catching any bad patchouli, and that's good, because patchouli is usually awful. Dry: Wow, totally a scent for a man who will fuck you up tonight. In a fucking good way. Damn. Please, Count Dracula, come over and suck my blood?

Watered down, red dirt. I was interested in this blend for the basil mostly, and I don't detect it very much. But it's still so interesting! The wormwood comes out strongly, with the dragon's blood right in tow. I think I would absolutely love this on a man. It's sweet and dark, and definitely sexy dirt, as tamburtaine said. And it definitely clings closely to the skin. This scent is a turn-on like crazy... you'd have to get really close to someone to smell it, and man would I be happy to be that close to someone who smells like this.

Boomslang + Smut. It's all I can say. WOW! Smut was always a little too dirty and too smutty for me. And Boomslang is a little harsh on the chocolate and patchouli feel. But this is like a combination of the best of the two-- sweet and red smut, bitter and dirty chocolate boomslang. Omg, so good. But it fades really fast on me... oh why!?! :D

Wet: All berries and booze! It's definitely blackberry or black currant-- has the Monsterbait Closet feel. I'm not getting any spice (no cardamom at all) but rather, it's like a crumpet batter... with overripe berries in it so they all got bruised and oozed into the batter and changed its color, haha. Dry: Now it's baking! It's that sharp jolt of scent that hits you right as the batter begins to cook. It's floral-sweet. Not "floral", but not like spicy-sweet, or sugar-sweet, or gourmet-sweet. I think that's just the nature of the fruit in it. A very fruit/floral sweet blend! Lovely.