HennaFairy

bottle: fruity floral wet: light sweet floral, slight ocean/marine scent. Soon the sweetness dies down slightly and the herbal notes come out - an interesting mix of masc/fem notes. dry: dry, the notes oscillate between a marine scent (almost too masc.) to an herbal scent with a hint of floral. Less girly than before, but still a really nice blend! A cross dresser of a scent that doesn't know who it wants to be at any given time. overall: love it! rating: 8/10

bottle: vanilla and pumpkin wet: mild pumpkin with a different kind of wood - very well balanced, neutral. dry: smells like I expected PP4 to smell like! I like it much better. overall: much nicer than PP4, I like but don't love it! rating: 6/10

bottle: woody pumpkin wet: sandalwood and pumpkin. Spicy in an herbal (not foody) sense (guess that's orris) dry: same. Not foody, but fairly masculine. overall: not crazy about it. Had to wash it off. rating: 3/10

bottle: I wanted to say patchouli, but I guess that's jasmine. wet: sweet and spicy jasmine, some fruit too? dry: considering I just put tarot: the moon on the other wrist… this is similar, without the musk, and a bit on the lighter/sweeter side. All the good stuff! Ah yes, ginger is there. What a great blend! Eventually it's mostly ginger, but the soft girly side of ginger. overall: great summer scent! I love this one! rating: 9/10

bottle: musky, a little fruity wet: musky. Spicy jasmine (or magnolia… a floral) dry: still musky. Still hints of florals, fruit, and spice underneath. But I can't get past the musk. overall: I don't like the musk (or whatever I'm "reading" as musk) in this rating: 3/10

bottle: trong floral musk. Not what I'd go for but I'll give it a chance! wet: musky floral… strong rose dry: the muskines goes away - I can smell the orange blossom and roses. Still a stronger floral than I prefer. Eventually the rose takes a back seat, and it's much more pleasant. overall: I like it a half hour later, but it's just not me. rating: 6/10

bottle: fresh green, herbal wet: tea notes, light and fresh dry: lovely light clean scent! Yum. Reminds me of the good part (non soapy meaning!) of shanghai. overall: Love it, grab a bottle if possible! rating: 8/10

bottle: herbal and green wet: same - with a touch of a wood. dry: yum! Not fluffy herbal (cooking herbs) but green, like leaves and stems. A hint of cedarwood… yum! A very light neutral (almost masculine) scent, drydown a little like kathmandu's! overall: one of the top of my list! A lighter greener version of the drydown for kathmandu. Love it! rating: 9/10

bottle: fruity floral wet: there's a hint of something menthol in there… a stronger white floral/fruity scent dry: dries into jasmine and other floral notes. Where midnight and evening star are light versions of a moonlit garden, this is the stronger version, in an exotic location! overall: the "menthol"ish note at first is strong and not entirely good, but it morphs into a nice floral blend. Maybe a little strong (jasmine) for me, depends on the mood. rating: 6/10

bottle: floral (strong) and musky wet: floral with a touch of fruit/sweetness, and incense/patchouli dry: what started off as too strong has mellowed. Not sure how to describe it, but it's a nice sexy blend. A little like shadow without the lemon. It's an incense with depth and character. Eventually, it gets VERY slightly soapy. overall: I liked it until it got soapy. sigh. rating: 5/10

bottle: green and woody wet: green/fresh wood, and white flowers… really nice and light dry: same - very nice green floral, with some grounding wood notes behind it. Very fresh for summer! overall: lovely!!! rating: 8/10

i lied. 3 more. (I came back later with these 2) and one more again... ok really. done now. i mean it. i'm going to bed!!! also, i got my underpants today!!! eeeee! i can't decide what i think about it. it is more foody/sweet than i'd like, but after the drydown, there are times i love it and times i think "eh". i'll wear it one more time, and share with eviltemptress and everyone at the meet & sniff, and i'll reconsider whether i want to keep it or not! eta: i may keep an imp, but i am going to trade/sell the rest, eviltemptress and people at the meet & sniff have first dibs, and i have a buyer lined up for anything that's left over.

yay! a new favorite!

i don't need ultraviolet, if you want to sell/swap it! catherine you can sell/swap as well. i do like undertow enough to have a spare imp, and I'll try the rest! i have 5 waiting for you - maybe more by friday! talvikuu delphi red lantern delight and an imp off my bottle of the perfumed garden (which if you don't like, i'll take back and either keep or sell...) eta: you'll get tarot: the moon too. just tested it and don't like it!

well eviltemptress has been so good at the icons i've been intimidated... but i have a new favorite scent tonight, and so i made an icon for it! edited to add another one! or more... usual disclaimers, do not hotlink, save to your own site (photobucket.com rocks!)

bottle: light white florals wet: same - very nice (may be similar to midnight?) definitely smells "white" dry: not much change again! Very mild, I really like it. overall: another light floral that I like! rating: 7/10

bottle: sweet, vanilla & candy… wet: smells familiar… like a yankee candle shop or baked goods & crafts shop in autumn... ah looking at the listing, it's the caramel. That's all I can discern, although there is a depth/spice to it, and I think I can sense the amber. dry: smells like a craft barn at an autumn fair, caramel apples, potpourri, and scented candles. Doesn't seem nearly as exotic as the description. Good for a room scent, but seems sooo… artificial to me. Like a yankee candle. (which are great, but not the same class as BPAL!) gets better with time, but i'm not sold. overall: eh. Would be ok for a room scent but it's just not my thing. rating: 5/10

I did henna on two boxes but i can only show you one! (one's a gift for somebody!!!) anyway - my "test" one was a smaller box i already had on hand. it doesn't fit bottles, only some imps if they are laying down. anyway, it was a good practice run! i'll let the henna sit for a a few days, then remove the paste, wipe ammonia to get the henna stain to darken, and stain or seal the box! more to come... goodnight!

it's a big photo. lol! it's a very "flat" box - i was putting imps in it when i first got them, it may hold 10 or 15 but laying down, not standing up. it's approximately (going by memory now) 4"x6"x1.5" exterior dimensions.

bottle: light honey, touch of floral wet: very light scent, almost a lemon edge to it…. And honey, but not as prominent as I expected. dry: Faint lemon which fades, then light honey, with some florals in the background a VERY light scent, unless you slather I suppose (but with this hard to find one, no slathering here) overall: Not quite what I expected - very lovely, but I won't be paying an arm and leg for more, I'd rather have O. rating: 8/10

bottle: men's cologne (ozone-y) wet: very masculine, ozone-y. does smell like rain. dry: as it dries, it gets less masculine, ok there may be a hint of floral… this is a standing in a thunderstorm kissing a hot guy (who's wearing cologne) scent. The drydown is more mellow but I can't get over the feeling that I'm wearing men's cologne. overall: smells really good, but really masculine, not an everyday scent. (I'd be all over any guy wearing it though!) rating: 6/10

bottle: rose. And fruit? wet: fairly strong floral. Bright, exotic floral notes dry: same. Nice, but strong for my taste. Does tone down eventually, and changes notes quite often! overall: really nice but not my cuppa tea. rating: 5/10

A pale, delicate, truly angelic blend. A scent created to emulate Adonis' halo of beauty: fragile, distant, and radiant. Rosewood with Sicilian lemon peel, red Mysore sandalwood, pale musks, sweet mountain sage and a dusting of lily, night-blooming jasmine and orris. bottle: musky floral and incense wet: incense, some citrus, a little floral… dry: the citrus came out strong just as it dried, but now it's backed off. A really nice blend, incensey mostly, but a little fresh/sweet from the fruit/floral notes. Not long after, starts to get a little soapy… and then almost disappears. huh? Strange one… overall: moments of pleasantness, but not meant for my skin. rating: 4/10

Finished my first two!! They are both even prettier in person - the blue one has glitter on the top, and some on the paper inside. I just have to decide if/how to seal it. I'm thinking a spray finish very lightly, just on the top/outside. Here's one - it came with dividers (it's actually for tea) which i painted white, they just aren't dry enough to put back in yet. (you can see them in the photo of the previous post, that's this box open before i started.) i'm probably keeping this one for myself!! And the second - I made dividers out of balsa wood. a pain in the ass, but they work!!

So I decorated my ammo imp boxes - i also purchased a bunch of bigger boxes that will hold bottles too and started decorating them! Here are some photos of the two ammo boxes - paper, acrylic gel gloss, and gold leaf (buddha themes - from a japanese art book and a postcard from thailand) wooden boxes waiting to be decorated! (sale on unfinished wood at AC Moore! I have a lot in plan for these, some paint, some decoupage, some henna... fun!!)