mymymai

In the Imp (ITI): I get smoke, vanilla, wood resin, and musk.

Wet: The rosin (pine resin) is a bit more clear here, but now I'm picking up something that reads as orange along with the musk and the vanilla.

Dry: It smells like honey, cocoa, and teak wood. Odd but interesting.

In the Imp (ITI): I get sharp ginger, smoke, and sarsaparilla with something that is a little citrus-like.

Wet: Wet and spicy, like ginger in a rainforest. There's some effervescent qualities to this scent. The sarsaparilla and ginger to transform to a quality ginger beer amalgamation

Dry: Powdered ginger with peppercorn, light sarsaparilla, and a touch of smoke. It's a bit darker than I had anticipated it would dry down to.

ITI: its green and herby with sweetly steeped tea and a light floral. It's a little more pungent than I expected, though.

Wet: It stays true to the ITI scent while on my skin, which is refreshing.

Dry: It's soft and sweet, like tea cakes at high tea. What a fitting scent for the scent's name!

ITI: Rich olibanum, myrrh, and wisteria. I thought the wisteria would be more abrasive, but the blend of notes is rather pretty.

Wet: The olibanum is much softer on my skin, leaving the myrrh and wisteria to flourish together.

Dry: It's soft and sleepy from the myrrh and Spanish moss, while also lending a contemplative note from the wisteria. It's a lovely scent, actually.

ITI: It's masculine, but pleasingly so. It reminds me of a nice man's cologne.

Wet: The musk, galbanum, and olibanum are certainly strong, but it's the immortelle that starts to peek through and soften the scent about a minute after application.

Dry: Once dried, it sits very close to the skin. The myrrh and musk take over a bit, but the galbanum and olibanum are still dominant elements here.

ITI: It's strangely green and sweet, like walking into an romantic garden. I can pick up the soil, but there's something that's reading as cotton candy to me.

Wet: Damp, sweet loam, faint strawberries, and a hint of green. It's a rather unusual scent.

Dry: Yum, now I'm getting light wood, strawberries, chocolate soil, and a touch of green. If you want something more complex, I'd give this scent a try.

ITI: My first impressions: the scent is sweet and floral, but like a candied sweet. I get lots of pomegranate followed by myrtle and peach blossom. I don't pick up the aquatic and I'm so thankful for that.

Wet: The pomegranate and peach blossom come to the forefront, although the rose is now peeking out. A few seconds in and yes, there's the aquatic and of course it turns into bathroom sanitizer on me.

Dry: Ok, at least the aquatic has toned down some. The peach blossom is still going strong about 10 minutes in, and the pomegranate juice has become much less artificial. I can now pick up the melilot as well. Overall, it's a sweetly balanced scent once it dries.

ITI: Oh, that's really nice. The vetiver is bright and citrusy here - more lime than anything else. It's softened by the musk and the myrrh somewhat, but not enough from making this an uplifting pick-me-up scent.

Wet: Oh yea, that's lime alright. It reminds me of a lime cooler. Delicious!

Dry: The vetiver has toned down to light lemongrass surrounded by soft, brown musks and myrrh. It's such a pretty combination.

ITI: I get lavender with just a hint of lemon verbena.

Wet: Strong lavender like lavender fields waft from my skin. Even without the verbena showing up, I still really enjoy it.

Dry: There's the verbena again - strong and clear, flanked now weakly by the lavender. It's still a lovely scent.

ITI: It's oddly chocolate-y with something that reminds me of faint neroli.

Wet: I still get cocoa or chocolate, but there's something sweet in her too aside from the slight citrus, like sugar or vanilla. This is confusing me. It should be floral!

Dry: After it's dried, the chocolate settles down some as does the sugar aspect; however, I can detect just a smidgen of floral now.

ITI: It's rather foody, like caramel popcorn (suet perhaps), berries, and buttered bread with sweet cooking spices. It's warm and inviting, actually.

Wet: Artificial berry jam, plum, suet, and just little baking bread.

Dry: I still get the berry jam scent (which still might be the brandy-soaked raisin), along with a grainy mid tone. It's interesting, but it makes me hungry.

ITI: It's oddly sweet like cough syrup - I think this might be from the red musk, honey and elemi.

Wet: Yea, it's the Honeybucket honey again. I can't smell much else beside it on my skin.

Dry: The honey is much less offensive (thank goodness), and now I can pick out the cedar incense, the patchouli, and the champaca. It's so much better dried.

ITI: It's dark and incense-laden, which I love. I can pick up a little of the violet and leather, which adds some complexity to the scent overall.

Wet: The lavender is strong on my skin, overshadowing the incense a little, but enough enough so that I cannot make out the myrrh and copal.

Dry: The lavender has softened and sweetened, as has the incense It reminds me of an apothecary shop with a breeze blowing though it while beeswax candles burn in the back. Delicious and soothing!

ITI: Oh yeah, that's fresh, dewy rose with a little green in there. It's a light green, like grass.

Wet: That's very much grass to my nose with rose and perhaps honeysuckle. It's pleasant, but it is rather green and floral.

Dry: It stays pretty consistent here. I'm still getting grass, rose, and the lighter floral of honeysuckle.

ITI: It's a flight, white floral with something sweet - perhaps coconut or white sandalwood.

Wet: For me, it smells it smells like faint chocolate, gardenia, coconut meat, and powder (maybe sandalwood, certainly not the honey powder note I get).

Dry: This faded too quickly on my skin. After some dry time, I can pick up super faint coconut and vanilla.

ITI: It's certainly hemlock, but I get a bit of astringent pine, like juniper, in there as well.

Wet: It's a little more smoky than I would have expected on my skin. It's just a faint impression, but enough to surprise me. It's still very herbal but now I get lemon rind also.

Dry: After a 16 hour work day. only a faintly soft, slightly powdery scent remains. It's significantly different than wet or even dry earlier in the day, but it's still rather nice.

ITI: It's sweet and uplifting from the combination of the orange blossom, honey, and sandalwood. I just hope the honey behaves on my skin.

Wet: Well, there's the honey getting all weird on me. At least it's a little more of a powdery honey than A Thought from Propertius. I can also pick up some rose and orange blossom as the honey begins to calm down a few minutes in.

Dry: It's gone rather powdery with soft rose, sandalwood, and orange blossom making a pleasant and feminine scent.

ITI: Ah, that's better. It's resinous and lightly floral from the geranium patchouli, benzoin, and musk. There is a slight hint of cedar that adds some depth here.

Wet: It's wet and earthy from the patchouli, slightly astringently woody from the cedar, and floral from the bourbon geranium. So far, it's a beautiful scent to my nose.

Dry: It's soft patchouli flanked by resinous benzoin, sweet musk, and light geranium It's gorgeous!

ITI: The honey is super sweet here, like honey infused with sugar. I go get a little apricot, but no cayenne. I'm hoping that comes through on my skin because it is otherwise too sweet for me.

Wet: Oh, yea. That's still really sweet honey. It almost reminds me of the over-scented bathroom stall deodorizers. I'm fighting the urge to wash this off immediately. On second application, it smells better - more cayenne and apricot, but I'm still weary of that honey note.

Dry: I still get bathroom deodorizers, so it's in the trade pile for this imp.

ITI: It's sweet, astringently piney, but slightly soapy at the same time. My interest is piqued.

Wet: It's somewhat pine-like (cedar note), with musky animal scent (ambergris), opium tar, and tobacco with sage. It's an interesting combination and I wouldn't have normally associated it with a butterfly.

Dry: After 14 hours, it's sweetly lemongrass centered with hits of wild plum and ambergris accord.

ITI: Super sweet, almost foody. It's like myrrh, cherry syrup, and hairspray. It certainly is dark, but I'm confused by the sweetness.

Wet: When I first put the scent on my wrist, I was struck by how sweet it was. I was hoping it would shift on my skin - more floral or otherwise.

Dry: After it dries, the sweetness dissipates some. I can finally pick out the narcissus and myrrh, which is nice, but a little cold.

ITI: Interesting. The frankincense, oakmoss, and cypress are evident and nicely green while still being pleasingly resinous.

Wet: Oooh, strong cypress franked by swirling oude, oakmoss, and frankincense. I don't get the hazelnut distinctly, but there is a dry, warm quality to the scent which might be from it.

Dry: It's a balanced combination of woodsy green and incense from the frankincense and oude. It's dry, complex, and could be used as a unisex scent.

ITI: It's more airy than I hand anticipated. I was dreading the spikenard, but the frankincense and galangal seem to take the show at this point.

Wet: There is a little bit of spikenard up front, but at least it isn't doing odd things yet with the frankincense and galangal. There is just a touch of hyssop and olive, but they are undertones at best.

Dry: I wish the frankincense was more prominent, but the hyssop has emerged and melded with the galangal and spikenard to form something that reminds me of grandma's perfume.

ITI: Lily or gardenia, dragon's blood resin, and something that reads as a little fruity to me.

Wet: It's exotic, slightly resinous, while still being a heady floral - either lily or gardenia, although I'm leaning more toward gardenia. There is a slight baby oil quality to it, but it's nice. Yep, that's gardenia.

Dry: Faintly vanilla'd dragon's blood infused gardenia. It's pretty and alluring, but not overpowering.

ITI: It smells like blood orange rind, jasmine, and a touch of oudh. I wish it was a little fuzzier, like with tonka and fig, but it's a pretty scent so far.

Wet: It's softer on my skin, but blood orange is still dominant, although I am getting vanilla bean and lighter jasmine.

Dry: The jasmine reemerges as a strong top note, followed by light orange blossom and super faint vanilla bean. It's pretty, but it's not as warm as I would have liked for this moth.