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Wood and Dragon's Blood. Hmm… DBR not florally obnoxious. I actually kind of like this one, and I wasn't really expecting to. It's warm and woody. Second try: hm, not really all that jazzed on a retest, it dries a bit sour. I like the woodiness, but not so much the sour of the DBR.

Vanilla, and some astringency? I can't decide whether I think the astringency is anise or not. But there's also a softness that reads as vanilla, I think. Kind of creamy. This is not my type of scent really, but it's not bad. Hm.. As it dries something begins to read a little as latex. Later still woody anise resolves out of the mix. At final dry-down v5 & v7 smell very similar, sort of chemical-latex vanilla.

This one smells even more strongly of roasting meat than BTOD1 did, and without any coffee. I am not a fan of the roasting meat smell.

1st try: Nail polish remover? Hrm, drying to scented toilet paper. WTF? 2nd try: still a little weird but not as bad as before. Some vanilla, possibly ginger or maybe one of those spices that is foody but not a typical spice, like saffron or cardamom or something. It's foody but not really buttercream sweet. It's familiar somehow, but I can't place it. 3rd try: still coming off like some scented toilet paper... some kind of vanilla definitely. Not thrilling me. I really tried to like this one, but it did not like me back.

Sort of burnt nutty cakey from the vial, pretty faint on my skin. The smell reminds me of a buckwheat wrap I have that you heat for use as a compress, it has a scent like this… almost oatmealy, light spice, bready like a bran muffin or something. Ok, but not really something I'd wear... bread smells are good in my kitchen but not so much on me.

Woah, disappointing. Smelled nicely woody-resin from the vial, but blooms into fancy soap on my skin. Something in here violently disagreed with my skin.

Sniffing from the vial I think I can maybe just catch the coffee everyone talks about in here, but mostly this is super stanky perfume smell. Heavy florals, thick and damp, maybe a touch of something green, but mostly smells heavy and perfumey like cheap makeup.

Very light, almost disappearing floral. Quite faint, not offensive, but not too sure what it is. Almost a woody quality. Floral quality strengthens as it dries.

Strong floral with a powdery top. Very perfumey, harsh chemical tones, headache inducing.

I had really high hopes for this one based on the notes, but it went horribly awry on me, and it didn't wait to hit my skin to do it. Just sniffing from the vial makes my throat close up... there's something very harsh and dry in here. I think perhaps I'm not a fan of paper notes. This is sort of dusty/scratchy. I get a high wood/pine-ish note that would be the balsam, plus the vanilla, and the leather. They just don't combine very nicely. It's sort of high-pitched and almost chemical [the leather, maybe?]. Very off-putting, and not for me.

I had the opportunity to smell this at DSWC. I didn't even need a test, because just a sniff and I knew how this would play on me. I can't wear green scents because they go soap on my skin. Man, this smelled like Irish Spring even just at a sniff. I guess that's appropriate! If you enjoy green scents this one will probably be for you. Not so much for me I'm afraid.

Pale, soft, watery and green. I tend to amp green or aquatic notes, so that is mostly what I'm getting. Not really plum or fruit on me. I do get a sour milky undertone as well, so it's watery lettuce over sour milk. Not a scent for me. But thanks to the Lab for the gift and XOMom for the will call I received it at. I have passed it on to a far more loving home, where it can be appreciated as it should.

Cider apples, pine trees, smoke, and spice. Delicious. Similar to Ho Ho Ho but cidery instead of winey and with the pine. Lurve. Thank you so much to the Lab for the gift and to XOMom for the will call that offered the chance to obtain it. This is awesome on me, and my bottle will be cherished.

Bright, soapy, almost perfumey. Some sort of musk in here I think. High-end soap is pretty much all I get. Based on how different my review is from everyone else's my guess is that there is a floral in here that I amp to the exclusion of everything else. I wish I had gotten the resin-wood-spice scent that everyone else seems to have smelled [because it sounds divine!], but I so did not. I tested it twice to be sure. Foo on my skin.

From the bottle it’s got that honey-wax scent that I always find a bit too sweet and cloying. The instant it hits my skin it gets much worse, turning strongly powdery and heavily perfumed. Reminds me somewhat of the Nepthys v3 proto, only without the orange. It’s a similar perfumey-powder note though, heavy and sour. Ugh, ugh. Once fully dry I no longer even smell the wax. I had to wash this off, it was giving me a headache.

Hm… weird. At first I thought wood, but after a couple of seconds it turns sour, and just gross… rubber, and ancient sticky Coke stains and dried puke, like someone didn't hose out the Tilt-a-Whirl car for 1000 years, and then scraped up and bottled what they found coating the floor. Along with some of the rubber floor mat. Nasty. Possibly even nastier than Scorched Carousel. And reading the reviews above is just baffling to me; I had a completely different experience with this one I guess. I can only guess it must contain something that clashes violently with my chemistry. This and Scorched Carousel are two of the worst-smelling perfumes I've ever tried. I'm actually hesitant to try either of them again to see if it was just a Bad Chemistry Day, because if it wasn't, I don't want to smell like that again. Ew.

Wood and popcorn? Something foodyish… not terribly sweet, but definitely a food smell of some kind. Popcorn, or maybe muffins. And a touch of cologne. As this dries I’m beginning to think the food is nuts. Nuts and cologne. The cologne is ok and doesn’t turn soapy, but overall this just isn’t really doing much for me. I don’t tend to like nut smells I guess.

Cologne… a bit soapy. Turning ever more Irish Spring as it dries. This means something green and/or floral, and because I amp that kind of evil, I can't tell you if there's anything else in here or not.

Dirt, the damp moist kind, and something that is probably white flowers because it is soapy and slightly powdery on me. Similar to how Ol’ Roswell Cemetery dried down on me. Turning perfumier with an added sheen of sweetness as it dries.

Dirt, and possibly vetiver. Also a cologne-like layer. Drying to sour, cologney dirt.

Wet: very, very soap on me. More soap than floral. Just perfumey soap. Ooh, as it begins to dry I can smell the flowers… and cut stems! They are trying to crawl out from under the soap. As it dries more the soap strengthens and the whole thing gets sharper. I didn’t think it was possible for this to have gotten worse, but it did. I apparently kicked some flower's puppy in a past life.

The first impression is sourness. Wood? Vetiver? I’m having a hard time with this one. But I also think there might be some red musk in there somewhere; I can smell it from the bottle and on wet. Dried sour, and a touch perfumey, so probably a floral, but still hard to pin down.

At first, strong fruit, I think it might be raspberry, although if I sniff up close it’s perfumey. The fruit makes me think of Slurpees, it’s sweet and syrupy. Turning more to heady florals as it dries. Not one for me I'm afraid. I should just change my user title to "does bad things to flowers."

This is dark and perfumey and sour. It’s hard to pin down… dark wood, a mix of perfume and cologne, sour sweat, and dust. As it continues to dry a strong powdery floral resolves out of the mix… the source of what I think of as the “perfumey” smell, no doubt. Heavy, powdery, and dark on me. Flowers hate me.

Vaporized sugar. The scent of walking into a sweets shop and taking a deep inhale. I got mostly white sugar a la Velvet Unicorn/Sugar Skull [no burnt/caramelized tho]; it seems to be in the family with those scents. There could be some sweet fruity notes lurking about in here as well. It's not as fruity as VU though. If there is cake it's not buttery on me; it's more Angel's Food.