Elrianra

In the imp? Hmm. I'm not actually sure... wine and animal musk with a touch of kindling smoke. On me, this is fresh kindling and a soft breeze dancing through the leaves with just a dash of animal musk in the background, like horses just upwind of you. Pleasant and refreshing if a bit cool. Warming... OH! *loves* This suddenly turns very animal... horses with a touch of a doggish scent... very much like the fields outside of the stable I used to frequent. Oh, this is... this is outside in all senses of the word. There's a smokey-ember to this as well... Oh this is just lovely.

Sharply minty with a dash of icy aquatic note, this is chill but refreshing in the bottle. On me, this gets disturbingly "chewing gum" foody. Suddenly there's a berry-esque flash and then I start thinking of Nuclear Winter... but more bubblegum-y. This has a nice dry down, but maintains a sticky berry-sweet that is a little disturbing to me. Still, it mellows nicely and finally settles into a pale berry bubblegum. Cute, but not at all what I was hoping for.

OOOH! In the bottle, honeysuckle and amber with a touch of vanilla frosted roses. YUMMY. Wet? Oh, that's nice - roses and violet with a hint of jasmine and amber with honeysuckle - this is sweet nectar all over my skin. As it dries, the vanilla takes the mainstage, sweet and a bit dusty but pleasant and with a good solid floral bouquet base; the amber kinda melds nicely with both the vanilla and the florals as a good medium note for this. Absolutely yummy. It stays a little powdery (as I'm finding lily does on me) but the amber is thick and keeps this from getting icky. A tad bit strong but I did slather it on, I adore this and can definitely survive the typical "OMG PERFUME" moments when my hand is close to my face. After a while, the powdery effect fades out and leaves a crisp bed of sweet florals toned and flavored by amber and vanilla. This is a really really FEMALE scent, but not girly. It's not the heady robust red roses of a vixen like in Blood Rose or the arrogant red roses of Peacock Queen but it's feminine and sweet, with a slight shyness to it. It's a woman's scent and reminds me distinctly of late spring weddings. Hmm. It's really very nice.

This was a frimp from a purchase... I'm hesitant but curious to try this one. Hmm, spicey boozy notes with a faint sweet sugar... reminds me of Gingerbread Poppet - scorched. This is sweaty, thick and unpleasant in the imp. On me? It smells... it smells just like Gingerbread Poppet, actually. Interesting. As it dries, this gets a faintly "overcooked" Gingerbread Poppet smell to it. I really don't see a difference between the two scents which is fine with me. I don't mind Gingerbread Poppet and I diDevil's Night't really think I'd like Devil's Night. Dry and warm, this is peppery, reminding me of Three Witches layered over Gingerbread Poppet... sweet but spicy and ... very interesting. Still... this isn't for me.

In the imp, this is sharp and has a striking resemblance to Snow Moon ... but also a good deal colder. Whereas Snow Moon was soft and clear, with crystalline ice lace around the pretty edges, this is clear cut and exact. Wet, this is a cool floral - reminiscent of both Black Hellebore and Moon Rose, but at the same time very different. Again, it's colder than those scents but reminds me of chilling those scents to get this one. The lunar oils are as always, sweet with an amber-y resin tone to them. Dry, this reminds me so strongly of Snow Moon that I cannot see any significant differences save that this has no pine/wood smell to it and instead is more amber-ish. A little sweeter, more honey than resin. Very pretty and very disorienting as it changes. Even on die-down, this has a mellow chill Moon Rose tone to it. Which is quite lovely but not at all what I was hoping for. *sigh*

In the bottle, softly floral with herbs and a touch of heated wood... very pleasant if a bit "girly" to me. Wet, honeysuckle and pansies with blackberry and possibly oak or birch. As it dries, there's something softly woody and sweet - like a honey wood... OH, it's a light amber, I see now! Odd, by the time this has dried, there's only a very faint trace of berries and florals left on my arm - this one doesn't even live 20 minutes on me. How very disappointing.

In the imp, this is spicy cranberry punch: the cranberries are tart but still sweet while the spices and ginger are bursting with heady power - even the musk makes me think "somebody spiked the punch!" on this because it just ADDS to the heady aroma of this punch. This is entirely too foody, I was hoping something more... I don't know, exotic. Spiced punch? DRAT! This turns to spiced ginger candy on my skin - and I'm not a fan of ginger. As it dries, the ginger fades nicely into a bittersweet medley with the cranberries and musk, leaving a spice-dipped bouquet of lilies behind. This is dark and heady and very very potent, but pretty. Unfortunately, it also makes me feel like eating my own arm just to save myself from the consistent sneezing fits... clearly something in the spices of this one likes to offend my nose.

In the imp, this is a blast of honey and then milky-oats. On second thought, this reminds me heavily of grits ala Mom. She'd boil grits and then stir in lots of cream, butter, and honey before servinve... this is homemade creamy honeyed grits. Once on my skin, it becomes a superbly sweet watered down honey blend, lots of sweet smoothness. Almost heady enough to get you drunk from the smell of it alone. As it dries, the milky tones come back and blend into a cream and honey mixture that may sound nice but wasn't actually... not on my skin... not on a warm day. Sticky and overly sweet, this had the after effect of laying in tar on my sense. Luckily, it also only lived about 25 minutes on my arms... I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not yet but I don't think I'll try it again.

In the imp, vetiver and gardenia in an overwhelming 'WHEE I'M SOAPY' manner. Ech. On, leather and roses... wtf? It gets tolerable - almost - after it begins to dry. Dry, it is dusty, worn leather and heavy-petal red roses. I can almost stand this but there is something in this so emphatically... well... MALE that my brain actually hurts trying to visualize this in response to myself. This is utterly and totally not for me, but is incredibly diverse, I do give it that.

Tangy, tart salty woods with a dash of rum in the imp... the leather is a nice smoky over-laying cloy in this. On? Rum! Lots of clear light rum with a dash of salt and a nice woody base; the leather is vague at best at the moment. Unfortunately, I start getting a headache almost as soon as I sniffed this... so I don't know how long I can stand it. As it dries, this gets a very dry aged wood note to it, something sharply clear - pine I think with possibly cedar in it. And the rum is still very crystalline and high. A dry sharp salt-edged wood with a dash of alcoholic bit to it, this is interesting but certainly not pleasant to my nose. It burns actually, and makes my eyes water. A shame, it's a brilliant blend but obviously not for me.

Oh, this is a bright green woody berry with a dash of geranium and jasmine in the bottle. Wet on my skin, there's a flare of floral that I call the geranium as it is entirely different than any jasmine has ever been followed by a soft green smoothness. Oh, this isn't foody at all but it's absolutely delicious. As this dries there's something tangy and the jasmine gives this a mildly spicy tone. The geranium is a clear white floral with just enough throw to make this a floral one as opposed to the green waxy berry smell that it first had. Oh, and then it changes all over again!!! Now it's tangy sweet like a candy but not... the juniper berries are shifting from green to red... somehow they're purple right now. Lovely!!! This keep shifting perceptional colors: bright holly green in the imp and then deep forest green then on to a clear crystal blue and now a deep velvet purple with a shifting haze of maroon and mahogany blending into a sunshine bright amber... oh, this is just... oh. I don't have words. This is PERFECT. What a shame this is a discontinued scent. I must have more of this!!!

First sniff at the imp is patchouli and sandalwood - a grey smoky haze... then a moment later, clear sharp lemon verbena. Interesting. On me wet, this is sharp cedar just soaked through in verbena. Tangy and citrusy with a darker wood note to it. Dry this is all aged cedar - none of that spicy sap-oozing redwood, but a dusty smoky patchouli and sandalwood coated cedarwood. The lemon verbena has POOFED. Which is a crying shame because I adore the verbena's bite and it was the reason I was so despereate for this one. After it fully warms, this is a pleasant sandalwood and cedar incense. Not too strong, not too vague just... pleasant. However it isn't the sharp outline scent I expected but rather a hazy dusty blend.

Something lightly soapy but crisp, the moonflower is very prominent in the bottle with the musk and benzoin. Ozone as well, burning my noise in a soapy manner. I have a body wash that smells a lot like this... interesting. On? Wet this is all moonflower with a spicy musk and iris mix, the ozone is sharp and tangy while the moss and jasmine are nowhere to be found... the benzoin hovers somewhere in the background of this one. This one was soapy in the imp, and it stays soapy on my skin. Not exactly unpleasant and this would be good to make a glycerin soap with but it's not a PERFUME or SCENT type of blend. It's too... sterile. Cold and crisp and really unchanging. I like change in my blends. This doesn't have the nice tang of jasmine and the dusty flare of moss that I was hoping for.. the ozone drowns everything but the moonflower out and I'm not a huge fan of moonflower as it stands. As it dries and warms, it finally gains a touch of the musty moss and musk that I was hoping would be the predominant portion of this scent. The musk is light and clever in this one, but the soapy overnotes ruin the intricate melding of musk and florals in this. What a pity...

In the bottle, this is honey and tobacco with lotus and hibiscus... a faint dash of musk rose and a tiny sip of wine. On, however, there's a breath of something entirely different: cassia and roses with tulips and balsam and a faint touch of honey just for added sweetness. This smells very much like a tea I used to drink - damned if I remember the name or brand though... Dry, this has a very soft florals over chocolate flavor that I find very nice. Reminds me of Godiva shops. Nice. It stays soft and floral with something dirtying it up just a little for most of it's life and then suddenly POOF! a dust of hibiscus and it's all gone. Byebye.

Picked up as a frimp, this isn't something that appealed to me at all to begin with. In the imp? Bubblegum flouride like the stuff they subject you to at the dentist as a child. When they say bubblegum, the DO mean it. On me wet? BUBBLE.GUM. With a cherry candy coating like those Blo-pops we all adored 10 years ago. (Whatever happened to those?) A minute later there's a touch of perfume and citrus oranges... but still... the bubblegum lingers. Oi vey. Ickyickystickygooeyguminmyhairmemories. After it dries, the overwhelming OH MY GOD bubblegum note fades to a nice sweet but solid background which the orange and cherry have followed and lost the sweet... now there's a faint fruity mix of this but it's almost all gone before it's even dry. Hmm, no great loss, really.

In the imp, this is very almond and buttery... reminds me a milder form of Hellcat, actually. On me wet? EW. Ewewew! This is all almonds. I don't like almonds. Ew. Dry, the musk overlays EVERYTHING and makes this very smoky and heady. Not so bad now... Really after the wet phase, this is just smoky with a touch of buttered nuts to it - nothing identifiably almonds at all. Pleasant but a little too sweet on me, in that not-good sweet way. Alas.

This one is sweet in the bottle, there's a berry in it that reminds me of some sort of candy that I feel incredibly daft for not being able to name. On me wet, however, this gets a rancid note to it... sickly sweet and there's a hard wood note in there, as well as musk? Incense? Hmm... Dry, this is all incense and powder. Ugh. This just gets all dusty and soapy on me as it warms up. This is depressing!

Dark, medicinal... very cloying in the bottle. Wet, it's sticky and green and rather oppressive. Dry, this is powdery musks and leather with a lot of dried herbs. What the bloody hell, is my first reaction to this. It's just sharp and cloying and particularly unpleasant. I don't know what it's doing on my skin, but ew.

In the bottle, this is sticky sweet but spicy as well... dragon's blood I think, with cinnamon and cherries. A very strange and potent blend, both fiery and sensual. Wet, this has a tangy sweetness as the cherries really play up with something floral but dusty... roses and, yes I think poppies. After it dries, this is all sticky cherry candy with a bitter whiff of spices that I think is cinnamon and possibly neroli. Warm, this has shifted to dragon's blood and a moss or lichen... dusty with a subtle spice to it. Quite lovely but a little odd in the sudden change... upon OCD level wrist sniffing, the cherry is a very faint sweet sticky note in this. How odd. It hovers between spicy and sweet with a resonant undertone that makes me think of sandalwood and sage at the same time... possibly both? In the end, this is too vague - too mutable - for me to truly comprehend anything from it.

In the bottle, moss and pine needles with a dash of cinnamon. Wet, leather and patchouli and cinnamon bark - not as spicy, more dusty... the moss and cedar are just below the leather, like the frame of a really old seat and the pine needles and opoponax are sharp and tangy. Remarkable, this is disjointed and yet so well blended that I have trouble pulling out just one note or scent at a time. As it dries, this gets a nice spicy-dusty cinnamon bark and mosses over leather blend going and I'm dangerously close to licking myself again. This is sexy. At the same time, it is in fact a little deranged... this is one of those blends that doesn't sound like it should work nearly as well as it does when you first read it and when you first sniff it, there's a slight doubt. But leather is leather is leather and as such, I will try anything once. I'd just like to add, I'm glad I got a big bottle of this or I'd be going nuts. *grins* This settles into a nice spiced dark leather and just goes on for hour after hour... this is utterly intoxicating. Wheeeeeee~

In the bottle, this is absolutely true to the finest definition mistletoe. It's amazingly exact!!! Wet, it's green fresh picked, sticky leaved, mistletoe... there's just... it's just mistletoe. It stays the same as it dries and warms, and it breathes that nice slightly minty-green scent that mistletoe has. If I were a huge holiday person I'd probably love this scent but it's amazingly the same and unchanging on me and while I love how perfectly the Lab captured this scent... I like a little bit of variation in my scents. A shame but at the same time, I'm sure I'll find somebody who will love this one FAR more than I.

I got a third of an imp from a fellow forumite... it's a shame this is an LE. In the imp, this is slightly soapy with a strong leather(?) note that drowns out everything else in the imp. On, this is dry woods and dusty dried berries and herbs. There's something cool and frosty about this and I agree with all the others that it has a very exact crystalline sensation, but there's also a lot of sharp contrasting green and browns in this... and I still think I am finding leather. Hmm. Warm, this is faint but lovely! It has a nice refreshingly calmness to it that is surprising considering how very complicated it seems... everything melds so perfectly that I can't nail down any one single note. Pine and oak and possible birch notes with sage and moss and something fruity?! Berries, I think... blackberries... that's it, chilled blackberries, yes. Hmm, that's a lovely touch for this. And yet another Lunacy blend that I just hate to not be able to get my hands on more of. This is absolutely delightful.

On first whiff, this is all dark powerful patchouli with a dusty note to it that I recognize as oakmoss... and the myrrh in this is spicy. Wet on me, this is all myrrh with a subtle patchouli base. Dry, this is... strange. The berries come out now and mix with the myrrh and oakmoss making a bitter and slightly "off" scent... like berries just going bad. It hovers somewhere between confusing and disgusting on my skin which is a shame because it has such a nice impact wet... After this has had (lots and lots) of time to breathe and warm, this gains a nice balanced tone that is at once somewhat smoky and spicy. Very nice but not exactly for me, I think.

Of which I only managed to procure a half-imp decant through blatant begging... heh. This is a big bowl of freshly cut fruits with a dash of sugar on top! In the imp, I'm getting citrus and berries and orchard fruits with a spice of exotics: kiwi and pomegranate and guava with just a breath of mango. On, this is peaches and pears and limes with kiwi and raspberries and strawberries over it. Oh my! Oh this is just... EDIBLE. I want to like my wrist, it smells so very lovely! This one is nice and vague, there's just so many different fruits and berries in this but the lunar oils are a nice light and airy base for this, which keeps it from getting overwhelming and is instead soft and whimsical and not the overwhelming foody scent it had the danger of being. It really does breathe fruit and berries and just hovers close to my skin, letting me just lap it up. YUMMY. This one just gets softer and softer but never loses an ounce of it's sweet conviction - even my mom commented that it was nice! It's such a tragedy that this was an LE... I'd love a nice big bottle of this (even though I have no idea when I'd wear it).

Very medicinal in the bottle, once on there is a camphorous smell with something citrusy as well.... Wet, the citrus note really isn't there now and has been replaced by a dry red wood like cedar. It's at once spicy and earthy, makes my nose itch. Dry, red wood and patchouli with a dollop of something green... olive leaf I think. Interesting~ Once warm, the green goes away. I have cedar, spruce, and patchouli slathered on my wrist. No. Thank. You.