Cimorene, I am going to go out on a limb here since I only received my imps yesterday and haven't had time to test most of them yet...but maybe Jabberwocky for you? It's a unisex, and very light so one problem some people seem to have had with it unfortunately is that it fades away too quickly. Personally, I don't like to feel drenched in scent, I want something that works subtly with me, and I am loving Jabberwocky and it works A-MA-ZING with my skin. My preschooler son was interested in all the little vials so I let him try one on last night and I applied a little Jabberwocky to him. On him, it smelled really brightly foresty, you could clearly pick out the Eucalyptus and Pine, but it didn't smell aseptic or medicinal at all. I was really surprised at how well it worked on a four year old boy, ha ha. But then this morning I tried it on myself, and it is fantastic on me, too, a woman in my late 30s. It smells very different than it did on him--on me it is warmer, more citrusy, there is less eucalyptus and I can really only smell the orange and evergreen. It really sank into my skin and it's my favorite of the three I've tried so far, even though I was expecting to strongly prefer White Rabbit for the tea scent. Anyway, it's a highly unusual scent, modern, confident and I think feminine but without being cloying or "pink" at ALL. If you like forest or citrus at all I'd say give it a try.
White Rabbit, which I was expecting to be my favorite as I love complex notes and tea scents, is a little too complex, or maybe it just doesn't love my skin. On me it's less tea and milk, more ginger and pepper. About four hours later it faded to a tea with honey and parchment and I LOVED it, but it took four whole hours to get there. Anyway, those are the only recommendations I can make since my experience is so limited so hopefully that was of some small use to you.
I'd love to impose further for recommendations for myself, now that my other thing is covered.
I'm in my latter 30s, but people still think I'm in my late 20s as long as my hair's been recently colored, ha ha. I'm very tall, and full-figured, plush, but I do work out so I'm not really as soft as I look. Long dark hair, fair skin, freckles, blue eyes. My heritage is Celtic and Native American and I got the Celtic coloring but the Native bone structure. I grew up in a marine, urban environment, shrouded in cool fog, surrounded by a lot of alternative culture. I have always been a bookworm but I had a wild, somewhat dark youth, traveled a lot, experimented and screwed up a lot, fortunately usually managed to learn from my mistakes. Throughout my late teens and 20s I never had a job, an address or a boyfriend for longer than 2 years, I was restless and moved a lot, lived in several different countries and tried on a lot of different career options because I always figured I'd fall back on my writing. I studied writing, music, languages and the biological sciences. I've worked with computers, in creative fields, and with children, animals, the elderly. I speak three languages besides English, but I'm honestly pretty rusty with them now. I've had a plethora of interesting pets, cats, iguanas, snakes, dogs, fish. I was specially licensed to care for endangered tortoise species, I can't have them at the moment but I probably will again. I had a lot of piercings and purple hair and dressed in velvet and leather a lot at one stage. Then I went corporate chic for a while, had to for work. Now I'd say my style is more casual bohemian, if I had to pinpoint.
I'm quite a bit more settled now. Happily married, a mom. I spend a lot of my time momming around, so the heavier, more lush, more seductive perfumes I used to enjoy don't see as much use now that I spend so much of my time at playgrounds, the beach, the library and farmer's market. I still have a streak of that wild dark girl in me, though, too. I'm still a little bit of a cynic and a smart ass, but I'm kinder, way more mellow. I live on an island now, I spend most of my time windswept and in jeans. I work in my garden a lot, getting dirty growing food and flowers, I take the kids for nature walks in the evergreens and the redwoods. I go sailing or on the ferries when I can, not often enough. I beachcomb on the beach in chilly weather. Once in a while I still glam it up to seduce the hell out of my husband on date night, or to go out with my friends and remind myself that I've still got it, but I don't do the bar scene much anymore. I love my island beach town but I miss living in a city and I still go there often to go to museums and art galleries,sometimes to the opera or to a small venue for a live show, not the huge concert arenas where I'm going to be crushed by a bunch of bros. I love going wine tasting. I read a lot, I drink an inordinate amount of black and green teas, I am a bit of a sci fi geek and an Anglophile. I only ever watch the BBC or sci fi stuff on TV, and I'm the one who turned my stepdaughter into a rabid Whovian. I still love to travel...the big exotic trips are fewer and more far between now that there are kids to accommodate, but we manage it once in a while, and a lot of smaller, long-weekend getaways along the coast or in the woods, or a romantic weekend up in wine country. I am still a struggling writer, and I work in writing and editing. I do a lot of volunteer and charity work with abused animals and adult literacy programs. And, just throwing this out there, my fella tells me my skin naturally smells like slightly sweet paper.
I loved the help on suggestions for my stepdaughter so I'm hoping people will be generous enough to come back with suggestions for me. Cheers.
