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I loved the description of this, but there's a sharp/bitter note in it that overpowers everything else for me. It calmed down a little after a while, but I still felt like I wasn't sophisticated enough to wear it, somehow - like trying to dress up in some 40s femme fatale's clothes and looking silly. Ah well. Edited to add: I kept the imp, I've tried it a few more times, and Noir's bitterness has grown on me. It smells glamorously cynical. It's still more sophisticated than I am, but I can wear it now. (And since it's been discontinued, I'll have to ration out my mostly-full imp, so I'm glad it's not an everyday scent...)

I adore this - it's the most "me" scent I've found yet and I could wear it all the time. Not too sweet, comfortable and unassuming. I don't get any lemon from it, just a shady deep green tea/moss/fig smell...the combination makes me think of curling up with a book on a mossy stone under a tree. Can't wait for my big bottle to get here.

I have a poster of the painting La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee on my wall, and I tend to keep my distance from people, and I love green/clean scents, so I love this. I definitely get that air of chilly disdain from it. It gets slightly sweeter and less prickly as it fades, but it's never cloying.

I was really looking forward to trying Unseelie too, but alas, I am one of the people for whom it just smells like baby powder. Possibly very slightly evil baby powder, but baby powder nonetheless. Sigh.

On me this smells exactly like the name/description - roses, but darker/more sinister than normal roses - shadowy, dry, and not too sweet. I really like that extra darkness. It's quite heavy and not something I'd want to wear every day (it seems to demand a certain level of drama), but I'm definitely hanging on to the imp I have.

I was all excited to try this after reading about it, but on me it just smelled super-sweet and candy-ish, like a sticky red lollipop. I could smell the pomegranate when it was in the vial, but never the rose.