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This has become my new favorite oil from the lab. It's more than I could have ever hoped. Wet: Some kind of sweet flower with incense underneath. Dry: EXACTLY like my favorite opium incense. Really, it's exactly like it. It smells like I somehow condensed the smoke into an oil and smeared it all overmyself. And, this has more staying power than any other perfume I have ever experienced. I work in a place where I get really dirty, wet, and sweaty, and wash my arms a good dozen times a night, and I still can smell it on my wrists when I get home. Wow, I really love this stuff!

Death . . . This is by far my favorite oil. This is pure me in a bottle. Dark and mysterious and musky and I find as it starts to age (the bottle I have is already at least a year and a half old) a sharper metalicy something is starting to come through. I like it as it seems to add to the . . . hostility of the scent, though others don't find it as pleasant; a coworker remarked the other day that I smelled like paint. I also find that it doesn't go sweet and floral like many other reviews have commented, it fades and gets a little softer, but I've still yet to find the sweet. And I'm rather glad about that.

I have to disagree with quite a few people that have posted about this scent and say, it doesn't smell exactly like the real thing. I even went downstairs and smelled the bottle vs. my arm. It does, however, give you the same feeling when you smell it (if that makes any sense). It has a ton of anise, like the real stuff, but has an added lemonyness that I've yet to encounter in a bottle of absinthe. The perfume also seems to have toned down the raw herb smell that reminds me of Vic's, making it much more suitable for a perfume. I love this perfume, though it is not anything that I wear on a regular basis, I enjoy smelling it on others.