mymymai

ITB: It smells clean, slightly cologne-y with lingering trails of opium smoke swirling around.

Wet: It's thick and smoky with opium tar and vetiver with earthy patchouli, musk, and a hint of tonka. Oh, this is nice!

Dry: After 16 hours, the scent is very faint a combination of frankincense, tonka, and musk.

ITB: Spicy, warm, resinous - pure sumptuousness to my nose. It reminds me of dark velvet.

Wet: It smells like there is my beloved ambergris in here, but I know that it isn't here. It must be the combination of tobacco, amber, and labdanum. I also get clove, a touch of spicy carnation, and a hint of rose underneath. This is swoon-worthy!

Dry: This is still so delicious - honey, amber, incense, tobacco, sandalwood, and a touch of rose. I think I need additional bottles of The Masque.

ITB: I get fougere, but it's almost a lemony fougere plus mint and warmly steeping tea

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Wet: The mint is stronger on my wrist and I'm also getting hints of juicy mandarin with the fougere and tea and musk. This is sophisticated, actually.

Dry: Once dried, it reminds me of a cool evening with gentle hints of fougere and tea.

ITB: It's slightly perfume-y due to the reins with a smokey undertone from the vetiver.

Wet: It's very similar to the scent in the bottle, but the myrrh and vetiver are just a touch clearer. If I concentrate, I can pick up the sweetness from the tobacco and a faint whisper from the sage. I like this so far.

Dry: Yum. Tobacco, dark musk, swirling myrrh, rich opoponax, faint vetiver, and a pinch of hemp make this a complex and alluring scent.

ITB: I was expecting lots of mint, but it's a warmer scent than I had anticipated. I think it might be due to the olibanum, niaouli (has a slightly sweet, fresh scent), and carrot seed.

Wet: It's a bit woody, slightly minty like natural toothpaste, and faintly resinous. Interesting.

Dry: Herbal , musky, and earthy. It's faint even after roughly an hour. I wanted to smell more omph!

ITB: Blood orange, amber, and a touch of agarwood. I was expecting the blood orange to be much, much stronger, but it doesn't show off or outshine any of the notes I can detect so far.

Wet: Faint blood orange, amber, wood...very nice.

Dry: After a couple of hours, the scent becomes frankincense and very light blood orange. I just wish the blood orange was stronger.

ITB: Oh, strong leather and vetiver with a complex sweetness from the hiba wood and the opoponax makes this an alluring and slightly dangerous scent.

Wet: There's a bit more hiba wood, clove, and opoponax here, but the vetiver and leather are still delicately sexy underneath the sweet resinous-ness of the top notes.

Dry: The opononax and clove take center stage, followed by the hiba wood, very light leather, and faint laurel. IT's absolutely gorgeous - dark, brooding, comforting, yet sweet.

ITB: It smells like oak leaves with a dash of rhubarb and chamomile tea.

Wet: It's earthy, but in a very appealing way. I can pick out each of the notes, which are relatively balanced. It reminds me of a wood cabin in late fall for some reason.

Dry: The oak recedes to reveal a candied fig and rhubarb scent laced with gentle chamomile. This is rather pretty.

ITB: There are a whole hosts of musk in here, along with a sweet red tone from the rooibos and a bright and slightly biting wasabi note. It's really interesting.

Wet: The wasabi jumps out on my skin, but there seems to be a golden musk and now heliotrope keeping it from being too green and too spicy.

Dry: The scent dries to mostly musk and a touch of rooibos and heliotrope. It's closer to what I'd envision as "good" rather than chaotic.

ITB: This reminds me of The Bodyshop's Dewberry scent for some reason, but with a little more soapiness (in a very positive way) and a touch of resin.

Wet: Oh yes! It's dark, rich, foreboding, but powerfully attractive. Of course, I'm in love with ambergris, so that's part of it. However, that note paired with the plum and kush is sweet, while the tobacco and opium tar give it a brooding tone that is simply divine. And talk about significant throw!

Dry: Gosh, this is amazing. Ambergris, tobacco, opium, and plum swirl into a heady mixture that makes me want to swoon. Ack, I need much more of this.

ITB: The metal is quite clear - a newly polished armor scent, which compliments the frankincense and bright leather. I like it so far.

Wet: The leather is a bit stronger here, but the frankincense and polished armor are still evident. The bourbon vanilla is very faint at this stage on my skin.

Dry: It's a lovely, resinous, and slightly sweet blend.

ITB: What a lovely and deeply brooding set of resins. The frankincense, olibanum, balsam, and oleo gum resin are distinctive and prominent, although the dragon's blood resin functions nicely in the background to add some depth.

Wet: The dragon's blood is almost bubble gum-y in quality on my skin for some reason, but the other resins keep it from being too sweet. I'm still loving the woodsy balsam and frankincense here.

Dry: After 12 hours, it's lightly resinous - frankincense and olibanum with a faint hint of dragon's blood resin. Lovely!

ITB: It smells like very supple and worn leather rubbed in a dab of pitch and a sweet green note, which I think must be the hemp.

Wet: The hemp is a bit stronger and maybe a little too sweetly green for me as it overpowers the leather and rosin.

Dry: The hemp has dried down significantly to reveal a really pretty leather scent. I don't get the rosin as much, but the gorgeousness of the leather note more than makes up for it!

ITB: Hello, myrrh! When I try to concentrate more, I just get the impression that this is a light white scent, fitting for a cleric.

Wet: Balsam and champaca have become dominant, but I can still detect the myrrh and now rose amber in a small quantity.

Dry: The myrrh is sweet and alluring when combined with the frankincense and rose amber. I don't smell much else, but what is on my wrist is beautifully soft and resinous.

ITB: It's woodsy but pleasantly resinous.

Wet: Pine, juniper and patchouli are the strongest notes when I first apply it. It could stay this way and I would really enjoy this scent.

Dry: It's a bit sweeter once dried, but the sense of lush juniper and pine-laced woods filled with incense does not dissipate.

ITB: A dusky musk with sandalwood, but also slightly bitter. Hmm, not bad.

Wet: It's very similar to above, but there is a slight perfume quality to it, which might be fragrant steeping tea leaves.

Dry: Musky, woodsy sandalwood. This isn't bad and would be really nice to blend with a sweeter scent or something more florid.

ITB: It smells like woods and juniper berries. I love clean green scents and this is one of them so far.

Wet: Aspen leaves, juniper berries, hawthorne trees with a thick blanket of moss underneath.

Dry: It's woodsy, musky, sweet, and slightly floral. Most of the notes of melded together, but it's a beautiful combination.

ITB: It's woodsy, but not the forest, more like sparse woods right before a field mixed with oiled leather and...hay? How odd.

Wet: It's oddly hay-like and the leather strikes me as saddle leather....and zucchini. That's part of the odd green scent I was getting in the bottle. I'm not getting much smokiness, though.

Dry: Zucchini musk, hay, and finally just a touch of vetiver and faint leather. I wish there was something a little more masculine to this scent.

ITB: This is much better. Seductive opium, supple leather, and delightful bay rum mingle together to form something intoxicating.

Wet: It's sweet and spicy on my skin, mostly from the bay rum, but a touch from the massoia bark. The opium is still there along with a little leather.

Dry: A spicy, decadent, and lovely blend. It stays true to it's form on my skin and I'm so thankful for that! It's delicious and I want to wrap myself in this scent.

ITB: Lemongrass, fig, old patchouli...it's an odd combination to my nose for some reason.

Wet: The lemongrass is a bit soapy on my skin and the fig when combined with the earthy patchouli reminds me of the Garden of Death. The leather starts to come out as it dries, but I'm still leery of this scent.

Dry: Now it smells like soapy lemongrass, sandalwood, and worn leather shoes with a touch of fig. I like the leather here, but that's about it.

ITB: It's sweetly dark and complex, but not threateningly so - coconut, vanilla amber, champaca, and a touch of vetiver.

Wet: It's sweet, resinous (slightly), and a bit floral. I'm getting coconut, champaca, orchid, vetiver, a dash of peach, some currant, and something else that is a little green.

Dry: It's more floral once dried from the orchid, but it's tempered by the champaca,coconut, peach, and now oude. Very nice!

ITB: Oh, it's herby, acrid, and bitter. I wasn't expecting it to be quite so...pungent.

Wet: Wasabi, balsam, bitter betel nut, spices that remind me of nutmeg and turmeric, and a bit of citrus rind and petitgrain. It's interesting and a bit more agreeable on my skin.

Dry: It's very similar, but I can now smell the java-like wattleseed and coconut (although faint). I'm still up in the air with this one.

ITB: I get lily and a light musk here.

Wet: Very strong lily, diaphanous musk, and faint hints of osmanthus. I'd like to smell frankincense at this stage, but I'm just not getting yet.

Dry: Well, the lily certainly steals the show here, although the frankincense and osmanthus are present, they are mere wall-flowers to the lily's show.

ITB: It smells like damp cobblestones and a dark and dangerous men's cologne.

Wet: It smells almost like a fougere with a touch of anise and something floral. However, it's dark and musky, fitting of stone and darkness.

Dry: It really does seem like there in anise in here as whatever it is is stronger on my skin along with the dark musk. It's an intriguing scent.

ITB: It's very floral in the bottle - lilac and dianthus with a touch of cedar.

Wet: It's a bit more green on my skin and reminds me in some way of Mandrake Charm a little bit, but as it dries, the blue musk and neroli make the scent much more enticing.

Dry: It dries to a lilac powder with a touch of musk, light herbs, and ozone. It reminds me of sweet whispering around twilight.