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Agh, that sucks. Wonder if the big Wholefoods branch in London would be an option....? No idea about Wholefoods, but I would have thought at least one of the more esoteric shops in the Covent Garden/Seven Dials area might be a good fit (Mysteries & Treadwells come to mind)

Initially: Green. Bizarrely saliva-inducing (not drool-worthy, more that my mouth is trying to clear itself of the 'taste'!), unrelenting, chewing-on-grass-clippings *green*. Thoroughly reminds me of the "Stranger in Camp" scent from Dogs Playing Poker - so possibly my skin has a weird reaction to pipe tobacco - I think that was in both... Next up: Leather. Possibly only because I'm looking for it though - it's struggling to come through, because of the *green*. Over the next few minutes, it increasingly starts to win the battle, and I can recognise this as a cousin of De Sade & Loviatar. As the green calms, there's a sweeter, creamier, muskier note coming through. Musk/tonka/ambergris? Musk & ambergris are certainly listed notes. I'm liking what this is becoming, although musk+leather+smoke overlaps with several of the other scents I have & like - and that initial green note is really rather off-putting to me...

Wah! A werewolfy scent that really isn't good on me! *sobs* It was interestingly aquatic when it first went on, but it's rapidly gone all to talcy, soapy, floral! Like Nanny's bathroom - cleaned to within an inch of its life, with some Crabtree & Evelyn talc nevertheless sneaking in the white-on-white corners, and the window open just a crack blowing a breeze across whatever flowering potplant is sat there on the sill, primly perched on its little lace doily. Possibly worth trying a second time, but I fear it's on to the swap pile for this one...

I KNEW there had to be someone else on here familiar with these - on me, Dance of Death is a dead ringer for Parma Violets. Even when still wet, it's exactly that crumbly sort of powdery, pastel-purple soapyness. Bleh! I'm going to re-try it having read the reviews, since some people have listed an initial violet scent that matured into something else, so maybe I was too quick to judge - but the initial scent certainly isn't good on me...

**RAGE** OK, Labbies, I can tell you where all the rage has gone - it's right here at my desk! I've tried my imp of this before, and it's been fine - a touch on the sweet side with my skin chemistry, perhaps, but dragon's blood, amber and my skin are happy companions - plus the oil is a gorgeous, carnelian red that makes me smile with its vibrancy. Except today. Just going back to work after the lurgy, hormones also playing the merry fandango, shove on some Rage - and YUCK! The overly-sickly-godawful-teenybopper-bodyspray BERRY has taken over! *RAGES* Washed what I could off to tone it down, and after a couple of hours at work it's less offensive to my nose, but I am NOT amused. *grumbles* Anyway, the point of this rant is that Rage does seem to be one that's sensitive to hormonal shifts (or possibly to immune system skullduggery) - so if it didn't work for you first time, it may be worth a second try another time... (I'll edit and review it properly once it's not being SMUG BERRY on me!)

Hrm - maybe I shall have to have another try at this one! "Yeeeuch, that smells like toilet block!" was the boy's response on having the imp wafted under his bottle - and yes, to me, when I put it on, it was similarly pungent rather than pleasantly perfumed...but maybe I just need to have more patience with it, rather than washing it off a few minutes in. Other than the overpowering _blue_ toilet cleaner/ozoney-disinfectant smell, about all I could catch was a whiff of lemony-citrus, and, oddly, a weirdly metallic smell - not the 'red' scent that iron and copper taste of, more like a silver or steel grey-blue sort of smell. (No, I wasn't licking my wrist, it's just one of those really odd smell sensations that make more sense in colour & taste) Certainly a synaesthesia-tastic scent, but I'm not sure it's 'me'!