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I really disliked this in the bottle, but on skin it settled down really nicely into a warm woody green scent that was nice on me but I think will be amazing on my husband.

This is very strange on me... kind of like wood chips and bubble gum!

A gentle, contemplative fragrance: lilac blossoms, violet sugar, orris root, stephanotis, and osmanthus. On me, this is a sweet, light, soft floral. Whereas the sugared violet in Faith turned very cloying-candy on me, this sweet violet stays wistful and romantic. I like this a lot for daytime wear.

This reminds me very strongly of a commercial perfume I've smelled, but I can't place the name of it. Regardless of that, though, it is a very pleasant scent, soft, warm florals (I guess the warmth must be the white musk or the blonde amber?) with a hint of linen underneath. "Dry and white" is an excellent description. Unlike other blends with amber that I've tried, this one isn't turning powdery on me; more research shall have to be done. Guy Test: This is not a passionate perfume on me and it got a mild reaction: "That smells nice."

I'm very impressed by this one- it really does smell like a garden. You get little whiffs of fruit and flowers and wood and green leaves, as though it was being carried past your nose on a gentle spring wind. Yummy.

In bottle: a powdery, slightly sharp rose Wet: Rose with something sharp/spicy underneath Dry: Stays rosy with an elusive hint of the sharp/spicy note- I'm guessing this is the "wickedness"- for a few hours, then becomes a powdery rose. Throws fairly well for a while and then lingers close to the skin; at the end of the day I can still catch whiffs of this on my wrists. Verdict: I like this a lot, but I'm not sure it's my One True Rose. I have a lot of other rose blends to try first.

In the imp, this has a sweet, slightly sharp scent- some reviewers say grape and that could be it. The instant I put it on, though, a softer scent came in- almost powdery but not in a bad way. To me it smells like a bouquet of white flowers and damp green leaves, laid on a freshly laundered linen tablecloth. It's a clean, soft, calming sort of scent, and I like it very much. I don't know that it's enhancing anyone's opinion of me, unless it's their opinion of how I smell, but it smells great. I'll definitely use my imp... the jury is out on if I like it enough for a big bottle, though.

I smell... cinnamon? And stuff. Cinnamon and stuff. Incensy, spicy sorts of smells, I think. It isn't terrible, but it doesn't love my skin- far too strong and pungent for my taste, though the lingering soft scent that remains once it's worn off is actually quite pleasant.

Eh. It wasn't horrible on me but the floral was too violetty. Old-lady perfume, kinda.

This one was cherry, cherry, cherry, cherry on me, a sort of artificial-smelling cherry... until about an hour and a half after I put it on, when it suddenly did an about-face and turned into chocolate. The chocolate stage is nice but I think there are better fruit scents for me than the Cherry! stage.

This is beautiful. Primarily it smells fresh and clean, with a teeny bit of sweet flowers and water. Linens seem to be working well on me so far.

This is a wintry scent, though not really a Christmassy one. The sweetness of the fruit does a good job balancing the sharpness of the evergreen on me, making a nice balanced scent that wears down into warm wood.

This one just didn't work for me at all. It didn't smell bad, per se, but it smelled like incense, and I have never liked the smell of incense (is that the myrrh, I wonder, or the sandalwood?). Additionally, as time went on, one of the notes increasingly went powdery on me, so that I ended up smelling like a baby-changing table in a headshop. Not my cup of tea. My husband likes the way this one smells. I wonder how it would do on him. I fear, however, that my hatred of incensey smells would still overcome any nice thing his body chemistry might do.

Really pleasant on me, a dry green floral with a little warmth as it fades.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Roses! A dimensional rose scent, underscored by the grassy smell - it's like going through a blooming close-grown rose garden while the grass was just cut in the yard next door. Only lasts a few hours on me, though. Very nice. Another rose for my collection!

When I first put this on, I really liked it. Then I thought, hmmm, this smells familiar. Then I thought, it smells like... food? Like.... cereal. Some kind of cereal. Some kind of FRUITY cereal. What am I... OMG. It smells like FROOT LOOPS. So, no, not so much. Interestingly, my husband thought it smelled like potpourri. Pity, that.

Should I find it disturbing that I like this so much? I like the dry antique tea rose of London but I think I prefer the lush wet rose of Whip, at least in certain moods. I don't think it smells all that much like leather on me- there's more than just rose but it comes across as a bit of a grounding of the floral more than its own note. Funny because a friend told me it smells like a leather coat on her! This is definitely going into the rotation of rose scents.

I like this, but I want to like it more than I actually do. One of the notes goes a little off on me, I think. Still, I'll probably keep the imp. Perhaps I'll try it a few more times and see if it grows on me.

The black narcissus in this was utterly foul on me. A sort of shrill, thin, sharp floral - a harridan of a flower that completely overcame the vanilla and orangeblossom, which I think could have been nice- after the narcissus started to fade I liked the scent more, but the narcissus sadly never really went away.

Well, I CAN smell the pear. But it's mixed with something sour and kind of funky. It smells like some sort of pear syrup that's gone off. Doesn't work on either me or my husband, alas, but I do like what I can tell of the pear note. I'll have to try some other pears in the future.

This starts out on me with a delicious rich fruityness. After an hour or so it starts to get mellower and spicier; after several hours it's a lovely, slightly sweet spice. This one is very autumnal to me, warm and foody but not TOO foody. I wear it a lot when the weather turns crisp and the leaves start to turn. One of my favorites.

Wet, it smelled like a delicious raspberry cocktail, and I wanted to drink it. Delicious. To my dismay, though, once it dried down a bit it started to smell like very artificial berry- in fact it smelled for all the world like a Strawberry Shortcake doll. I could even smell that soft plastic smell behind the fake berries. Sad- I wish it could have stayed in the yummy adult beverage stage forever!

I didn't notice much change in this one over time, except that my skin takes one of the notes (or a combination) and turns it into powder. I am hazarding a guess that it's the amber, because I had a similar reaction to Black Lotus (except that this was floral powder and that was powder in a headshop!) and that is the only note they have in common. I liked this in the bottle, though to me it smelled very much like a perfume my mother used to wear. I think it was from Estee Lauder. On my skin it shifted, and turned into a powdery floral, but with no strong single floral note. I didn't get much peach, just a tantalizing glimpse hiding under the flowers; it was in those moments that I liked this scent the most. As time wore on, it got more powdery on me but also more well-blended. It's still clinging to the skin of my wrists many hours later, a pleasant scent, but not one that I think works particularly well with my body chemistry/tastes.

... This oil blend is a serene, soothing Indian blend, created to bring calm and joy to the heart and peace to the spirit. Sandalwood, jasmine, rose, patchouli, cedarwood and lemongrass. On both me and my husband, this smelled exactly the same - like lemon dish soap. It isn't unpleasant, per se, but - I don't need perfume that makes me smell like Lemon Joy. Oh well!

Sadly, on me this was almost all herbs and nearly no berries or tea. It smelled very antiseptic on me, like some sort of cleaning solution. A pleasant smelling cleaning solution, true, but a cleaning solution nonetheless.