jolarocknrolla

Bamboo reed, palm frond, and hibiscus. MY first impression is that it smells a lot like Lush "avobath" bomb. Really fresh and green, almost citrusy and light. The bamboo is reconisable from Holiday Moon and Tamamo no mae so if you liked those two scents you will LOVE this. I couldn't pin down the palm frond, and the hibiscus is in the background.

Honeyed myrrh and sweet flag. Wow, not a lot of notes here but very unusual and hard to put your finger on. I get a resiny (almost balsamy) sweet scent with hits of inscence and a very clear sweetness? Spicy-sweet, slightly floral honey more like clover honey, resin-woody but overall a feminine scent. Balanced but more resinous out of the bottle and more of the floral sweetness comes out on drydown. I have the feeling this will smell very different depending on who wears it.

Claustrophobic pathways of neglected boxwood and thorny rosemary intersecting at impossible angles, twisting into itself. Heady, overpowering green woody scent ... deep dark woods scent with a deeper sweetness throught. I expected Rosemary and sort of dreaded it since it has a tendency to smell medicinal on me, but what we have here smells more like a juniper bush with a bit of cypress greenery. There is a "perfumey" quality to the greenery, with a very strong initial throw. I also get just the slightest hit of aquatic in there that reminds me of BLITHE HOLLOW. The scent sweetens up but never loses the big green-ness of the wet stage, it just sort of receedes in throw hour after hour but doesn't morph much outside of amping the perfumey sweetness a bit.

... because the holidays can be really, really frustrating. Blueberry slush with a hint of lime and blackberry juice. Same snow note as Nuclear Winter, very high-pitched and cold/ozone. I also gets lots of lime and that is quite complementary to the snow note. I do get a bit of blueberry up front, but it fades quickly on me (which is fine, blueberry always smells just a tiny bit fake IMHO). There is a slight underlying sweetness and what I would call bitterness, more like blackberry leaf rather than sweet blackberry juice. The sweetness does balance out the cold note a litte but that slushy cold is what stays with you long-term. What is funny to me is that the cold note has a strong throw and the juicy/sweet notes have a short throw so when i bring my wrist close to my nose i get a lot more juicy sweetness but from far away i get more snow. Fun scent

Tangerine, gin, passion fruit, guava, and tonic. For those of you that shy away from the more "boozy" scents, this might be a lovely option. Sweet fruits are most of what i smell, with just a very light wash if gingery flavor. Despite guava generally being sweet on me the fruits here stay very well behaved - I can pick out the tangerine and passion fruit too. Just lovely juicy summer fruit on a faint background of ginger.

Old, yellowed parchment paper, tattered leather bindings. There's a distinct warmth to the scent, though it is ancient and brittle. Sorry guys, this is going to be the worst review ever of a scent because ALL I CAN SMELL is Leather. It is all leather, leather and nothing else. Leather heaven. Leatherama. Leatherpalooza. If you love leather, this is for you. Ok, it may also have a slight "dry" note to it, and something that vaguely reminds me of the Oak Leaf note in Black Annis?? On dry-down it also has an almost coconut-husk scent overlaying the leather (maybe that is supposed to be the "warm" note?). Like black coconut mulch? I may be crazy though.

Blood red holly berries and mistletoe accord. a little pungent in the bottle, but a very fresh and surprisingly sweet scent on drydown. The sweetness is very much like the sweetness of Cypress. I'd say it's a balance of green cypress and sweetness that i can't place (guess it's the holly berries) - it hasn't morphed much since i put it on.

Dead leaves and cold, moist breezes set at the edge of a forest of maple, pine, cedar, and cypress. I get the wonderful "dead leaves" scent which i have always thought was very green (if you have smelled the Autumn Grove atmosphere spray from the BPTP you know what i mean) - more like freshly mown grass, it's sweetened up by the cypress note and the other woods must be very well blended because i can't pick them out. I'd say that despite that, i get more of an aquatic scent overall - a clean (almost citrus) aquatic note. Not a morpher on me really, though the aquatic note does calm down a bit in the dry-down and more of the nice woodsy scent comes through. I would highly recommend this as a more "masculine" scent, very airy, watery and green with a touch of sweetness from the cypress.

Papaya, blueberry, lemongrass, and gin. The lomongrass and gin keep this from being too syrupy and sweet. The blueberry reminds me of bubblicious blueberry flavor and the papaya gives this a more natural and sweet sort of tone. there's a light gingery top note here giving it a nice duality, not too sweet, not too "bright".

Pumpkin candyfloss with neroli, pink grapefruit, blood orange, and petitgrain. Disclosure: I have no idea what petitgrain smells like. I do know that this is a most delicious scent and it smells mainly of oranges! In fact, it smells like warm orange cookies or Panettone w/ lots of orange and lemon zest <3 The wonderful, wonderful orange does calm down and get a warm, buttery sort of feel to it (it's that lovely grounding note of neroli and pumpkin), there is also a tiny hint of bitterness balancing out the neroili and the end result is almost spicy. I'm surprised there isn't any clove listed in the notes because i get something on drydown that is slightly spicy with just a ghost of citrus.

Lavinia Whateley is famous throughout the Miskatonic Valley for her inimitably delightful and suspiciously spicy dread bread puddings! delicately sweet and maybe just slightly boozy (could be brandy, but might be almond which sometimes smells boozy to me), it has an almost floral sweetness to it like i've smelled in BPAL's rice-milk. Just a hint of spice in there, it is a sweet but not overpowering scent once it dries down - again, delicate and well behaved.

(Jean-Siméon Chardin) Peach with tonka absolute, walnut hulls, velvet red musk, oudh, black patchouli, smoked clove, and a hint of black grape skin. At first I get a bit of watered wine and a bright fruity sweetness from the peach and tonka. Fresh the grape-skins are very prominent at first but this smoky and sort of sexy undercurrent comes up after a while. The musk/patch/clove could have been really overwhelming here but they are really smooth and well behaved ... and more of something where you catch the ghost of musk and a hint of sweet, velvety patch. Beautifully blended, very wearable, somehow both freshly sweet and sensual. My favorite of the Dragoncon hair glosses!

Candied Kadathian orange peel and R'lyehthanese rum give Mother Shub's a little extra pizazz! Rum balls! omg so rummy up front I don't get much orange at first because OMG RUM, but it rounds out the middle of the scent and takes the super sweetness down a notch. Smell slightly brown-sugary and cakey and maybe slightly nutty but very very much a rum-ball scent with the orange coming through towards the end. Very well blended after the rum settles. Love it, totally a festive foodie scent. EDIT: An hour later the scent is almost entirely gone! But that just means i get to re-apply and get more rummy goodness

Thick Turkish coffee, cardamom pods, Damascene roses, and buhur. Out of the bottle all I smelled was strong, sweet and slightly spicy coffee and that impression carried very much through the wet stage. After a few minutes you get some of the rose but it is not a fresh floral rose to me - it is more like Turkish Delight or arabic rose paste. In the background you get a tiny bit if inscense (is that what buhur is?) and you get more of that on drydown. In the end the coffee mellows out a lot and you get more of that sweet rose paste and inscense ... it is powerful when wet but the throw becomes more moderate on drydown. I know musk wasn't listed as a note but the inscense has a slight muskyness to it i think. Lasts a good long while on me.

Dragon's blood is pretty overwhelming on me, warm and spicy. I don't get much coconut or vanilla, just neroli, the sweetness it has just sort of supports the dragon's blood a bit (your mileage may vary due to skin chemistry).

Floral & Apricot, light and fruity with an undercurrent of sharp lime. I don't get a ton of red pepper as Hammy did ::shrug:: but i also did not get a ton of musk or vanilla. Fery fresh summery.

I get a lot of nuttyness and warm spice! Delish.

Sour gummies, lemon drops, jujubes, and lollipops scattered on a broken patch of cement and dandelion-dotted grass. Well, i'm going to go out on a limb and say the lollipops have to be cherry lollipops because i get a ton of cherry candy here, as well as lemon candy which reminds me of Lemon Sticky Bat oil Sad to say i get something a tiny bit plastic too, like instead of a torn candy bag it was one of those pumpkin pails that had the candy in it! The "dandelion" is very well blended and is most like "Roadhouse" only without the booze, the cherry and lemon candy predominates so you almost don't smell it though, it is very much in the background.

Oak leaves falling through a haze of kyphi, champaca, and blackened pomegranate rind. Sweet and warm and resinous-woody with a sweet sort if incense throught. I've never smelled Kyphi so I can't exactly pick it out, but the whole thing is quite exotic - dry and warm with woods, spices and thick sweet smoke. Totally intoxicating!

tons of lily, totally and overwhelmingly floral. I also would have said there was jasmine in this but I don't see it as a listed flower (unless one of those is actually jasmine in disguise).

Chilly vanilla peppermint twirled with dark, sweet blueberry juice. Very pepperminty! The blueberry is sweet more like blueberry jelly. Strong scent (my bathroom still smells like peppermint an hour later) and the peppermint lasts longer on the skin. I really didn't get much vanilla here, it is probably what is sweetening up the blueberries but it somehow doesn't scream vanilla at me.

Red patchouli, sage leaf, Darjeeling tea, smoke-scarred sandalwood, green tobacco, and oud. The Patchouli is strong at first to the point of being very very Patchouli, then drying out i can pick out the sweetness of the sandalwood (which is fairly incense-y to me). I'd say the sage might be the slighly medicinal aspect that comes through in the dry-down (it's a nice herbal scent not pungent at all) and it morphs later to mostly sandalwood and tobacco. After a half hour the Patchouli is almost gone, at last on my skin. I couldn't pick out the oud and tea but i think that might be part of the woodsyness you get on drydown mixes with smoke and inscence. a wonderfully comforting masculine scent actually!

ok, i'm usually not a rose/floral girl but this is sexy as hell. Very deep dark rose and the patch grounds it ... come to momma! More of a Valentine-s day scent IMHO.

Like Tativa I also get very little peach - it's all grass, cedar and orange blossom, but it does have a lovely warmth to it that makes me think of Indian Summer. Totmato Leaf adds a tiny touch of green spicyness to the blend and the verbena keeps the florals from being cloying but the sweetness of peaches doesn't really push through those notes at any time. One of the great grass scents however and a very interesting and pleasant.

dirty leather (this is not a bad thing), patch is very much in the background bit it adds the "dirty" part to a VERY strong leather scent. I also would have guessed theer is vetivier in there due to the woody sort of note, but that is also in the backgound. No vanilla to my nose. Mostly LEATHER.