Ahania

This starts out mostly as a melon scent on me. As it dries, the melon fades down some and the lavender starts to come up and balance it out. There's also something making it smell darker as the melon fades (yarrow?). The lavender is definitely there, but it never overwhelms. I don't really get any woodiness in here. This is a complex, solemn scent, and one that is perfectly suited to the artwork. I'm very taken by it.

I've been reorganizing my CDs and was inspired. Chocolate Heaven Bliss, Boomslang, Velvet, Centzon Totochtin, and Gluttony. A bar of chocolate or a tub of chocolate body paint, and the Putomayo CD "Music from the Chocolate Lands." The Big Easy New Orleans, Bayou, Jazz Funereal, Voodoo, #20 Love Oil, French Creole. Strings of beads and a Louisiana music sampler CD, and, if it's to be given in person, Bloody Mary mix with green beans for garnish.

I'd be in the Severin club if it didn't make me sneeze... I think it will be Les Fleurs du Mal, my favorite scent for sexy evilness.

I ordered this at the last minute, after seeing the phrase "Thin Mints" tossed about repeatedly. I don't usually go for mint- I usually run away from mint- but it's so popular, I figured that I'd have no trouble swapping it if it didn't work. And yum! In the bottle it smells like thin mints with caramel. When I put it on, the caramel scent goes away and it's pure choco-minty good. It's milder and softer than I expected, and it doesn't really change much over time, besides the fading. I'm surprised and pleased to say this one is a keeper for me.

I'd try Shub. It lists herbs, but doesn't smell herby to me at all. I think it smells like spicy cotton candy. ETA: Thanks, ivyandpeony!

Mmm! This is warm, fresh, rich, and creamy, but light enough to be nice for summer. I get a light touch of coconut and sweet figginess. I would have guessed milk or cream rather than almond milk, I don't get any nuttiness in here. Sandalwood is hit-or-miss with me, and in Eden, it's definitely a hit. It provides a warm base without asserting itself much. Eden smells very similar to this year's Milk Moon to me, only less pina-colada-y.

Deep mahogany and rich, velvety woods lacquered with sweet, black-red cherries and currant. The moment I opened the imp I fell in love. Rich, sweet, bright red cherries. I put it on, and smelled like deliciousness. Lovely, happy, cherry deliciousness. Way too soon, though (maybe 15 minutes), the cherries dried away and left wood. Pencil wood. Hamster cage wood. I wanted the Red Queen to be my new best friend, but she just won't play nicely with me.

Tintagel is the only other one with hawthorn listed in it- check out the reviews and see if people can smell it in there. (All I got from it was dragon's blood, but that happens with anything that has DB in it, so I'm not much help reviewing it. )

In the imp, this smells like smoke, but not any particular kind. Definitely not wood or incense smoke. On, the smoke note is still there, but a sharp cedary note comes out as well. It kind of burns my nose, and it won't wash off. As it fades, the smoke note goes away, and I smell like hamster cage. I was really excited to try this one, but it just doesn't work at all.

Wow. Wet, this is super-sweet hazelnut candy. As it dries, it blossoms into this perfect caramel-hazelnut-chocogoodness. It smells exactly like Toffifay tastes, and I loves me some Toffifay. It doesn't change much over time except the fading, and it lasts a lot longer than most scents I've tried. I don't really smell the hops, but there is a complexity that I don't think I'd find if they weren't in there, cutting the intensity of the sugariness, probably why I don't find this sickly even though it is incredibly sweet.

Sweet, creamy, happy, peachy peach! I don't get much musk from this at first, and it doesn't really even have amber scent, except for giving it that gorgeous creaminess. It slowly fades into a light creamy musk. I don't get the myrtle at all, which is fine with me since it's so lovely how it is.

Mmmmm. I just keep smelling myself and don't want to do anything else. Wet, it smelled a lot like Aizen-myoo, enough that I thought it was grapefruit or yuzu in there. After a couple minutes, when that first burst of fresh sharpness mellowed out, it turned into mild lovely orange and jungle. Not floral at all. It makes me picture a rainforest with thick green leaves dripping water, but it's not an aquatic note, either. It's also very mildly creamy. I think this may be the summer scent for me. Straight to the bottle list.

When I first put this on, I got a bloom of fresh cucumber with a current of something darker running underneath. As it dries, the freshness fades away, and the tobacco really takes over, with a little juniper making it go strange. I don't really get the pepper from it at all, or the honey. I loved how this smelled on application, but it changes from a fresh and complex scent into a heavy, oppressive one.

This starts out too heavy with the musk and poppy, and turns into plastic with a hint of juicy fruit gum. I think spiders are cool, but Arachnina and I just aren't meant to be friends.

Wow, super sweet chocolate. I love sweet smells, and I love chocolate, but when they're together, I want a little something more. I don't see myself wearing Bliss alone, but I think a little drop of this would be gorgeous with tons of other things I have. For all those florals I like, but want more richness, Bliss is going to be just the ticket.

A festive, dazzling blend, layered in mystery and intrigue. Patchouli, ambergris, carnation and orange blossom. As soon as I put this on, it was so deathly awful that I wanted to run right to the bathroom and wash it off. It was harsh, acrid, and cedary. Fortunately for me the over timer went off, so I waited to wash, and it turned completely different, sophisticated, and luxurious. It smells very Roaring 20's to me- I can easily imagine Zelda wearing this, it's lively, festive and expensive but with a hint of coming madness. I absolutely love it, but I'm not sure it's me.

Oh, this is simply heavenly. It starts out a little sharper than I'd like, but then after about fifteen minutes, it blossomed into this gorgeous pina colada- cream scent. Not too sweet, not too aggressive in the fruitiness, not too heavy on the cream... simply divine.

This smelled like a shot of whiskey in a cup of beef broth. I like whiskey ok, but smelling like meat... ugh.

In the imp: lemongrass, lime, lemongrass, and did I mention lemongrass? It's not quite the sensory assault that I got from Phobos, but I didn't get much of anything except the citrus out of this, maybe a little musk, but definitely no coconut or florals. Hologhost's review of the aged stuff sounds lovely, though, so I may keep this one in the back for a while and try it again. *crossed fingers*

This was very warm and creamy on me, but in a completely different way from other warm-creamy BPAL I've tried, cozy but mysterious, too. I'm guessing sandalwood, amber, and a little vanilla, and maybe a teensy bit of leather, even. I don't get any incense at all. It's very faint, and fades away completely in less than an hour. I'll have to try it in my scent locket- if it does better in there, I'll be buying a bottle.

I got an imp of this in swaps and was very sad. All the lovely cocoa and vanilla and sandalwood somehow turned into acrid cedar. I don't like cedar at the best of times, and I certainly don't want to walk around smelling like a hamster cage. Quite the little heartbreaker, aren't you, Velvet? You're just going to have to go away to the back of a drawer for a few months until you've grown up and learned that other people have feelings, too, and then we'll see if you can play nicely.

Thanks so much, both of you! I followed those directions and it didn't work, but they gave me a phone number to get a human being (it was amazing), who figured out the rest of what I had to do. (Delete CC with old address, enter CC with new address, reset it as home) and pow! It actually removed the old one.

I moved a few months ago, and followed paypal's directions for adding a new address. It uses my old address as a default, but lets me click on the new one to specify that I want it used, instead. This wouldn't be a problem, except my last three orders, after I click on the new address, it goes back to the old one when it sends the information. My box of 13 is now sitting on a doorstep in California, and I'm in Colorado, and I had to send emails to the lab and the trading post asking them to correct the addresses they have for my next orders. This started when they fixed the problem of the blank emails. Paypal's FAQ doesn't have any info on deleting an address, and customer service isn't writing me back. I hate to use CCNow and have the lab get charged a huge fee, but I don't want to pester them with emails every time I place an order, either. Has anyone else run into this? How did you fix it?

I put Katharina on before I looked up the notes, and was amazed to see apricot. Now that I'm sniffing the imp, I can smell it, but on me, I don't get any fruit at all. What I do get is a warm, rich, fresh and sweet scent- like gardenias, only without the sickliness. The musk is light and well-balanced. This one is going on the bottle list!

Check out Lampades. It's got a similar feel to Blood Countess, for me. Also check out Scherezade, for something close to Morocco. I second the suggestion of a scent locket, too. I have no hope of anything lasting, otherwise, and I get more throw, too.