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Strawberry milk! Pretty, cute, pastel pink fluff! It stays pretty solidly and softly in that scent nature. I always think I need a strawberry candy blend. I never do- they just don't last on me. But very pretty for those it does! I think I need a violently strong strawberry >

In the bottle it was ricy goats milk. Soft and drinkably creamy. On skin I get no carnation and what was a potentially deep scent immediately turns to vanilla plastic on me- within minutes. Not for me!

The notes, initially, are really exciting and beautiful! The coconut and peach are evident from the bottle sniff. On skin, it's an incredible dark coconut, vetiver, myrrh, and the vanilla orchid mixing with amber. On skin, it instantly dries down to a weak coconut/vetiver with vanilla amber. It's still quite gorgeous...BUT it's so weak, and only after five minutes! I only have a partial, which I'm glad of at this point, so I'll definitely use it up, and maybe the more I wear it the more I'll notice it, but for now I wouldn't repurchase based on sillage and longevity at all

This is a golden incense scent. This is one of those that are blended so well that you can't really differentiate the notes without previously knowing what's in it. Looking at the notes, I realize there is a leathery edge, and I can smell the champaca sweetening the sandalwood, which is indeed golden. The wafts of coconut are few and far between. On me, this isn't head shoppy in the slightest. This actually has a more perfumey, mature aspect- one I associate with CP's Shadow in the Elevator. Not that it shares notes, but that is has the same highly blended perfume quality, and rather smells like something a little more mainstream. I no longer have a Shadow in the Elevator so this'll do well!

Lilac fougere is a slightly cologne-ish, mature, lovely lilac scent. This leather smells sort of buttery suede to me- not black. Or maybe the tonka is just warming it up that much. With a touch of the idea of Dorian (they're both different enough between the lavender and lilac) this is a beautiful scent! Low throw, a tad more masculine than Dorian...but still unisex I believe. The leather pushes it over the masculine edge.

This is fresh Snake Oil, (personally I love both fresh and aged) and it's ravishing with leather. In the bottle, leather. On skin, instant LEATHER and Snake Oil. An exotic hardware store. However that sounds...it smells INCREDIBLE. At some points during the strong, long wear I smell opoponax...which is what Snake Oil and leather mixed together kind of becomes. Between that result from the equal joining of the two, the wear resembles an iridescent snake skin...moving it back and forth or smelling it this way and that gives you a range of scent. It's magnificent. If Snake Oil is an important scent to you at all, unless you hate leather, this is so edgy and sexy. I think I might like it more than Snake Oil. @_@

This is a light, sweet, refreshing scent! But not abrasively refreshing- as I found Sexual Knowledge-- to be with its wasabi and green tea. This begins with a lovely blueberry musk. Real blueberries! But it has a slight skin musk feel. Immediately on skin it blends into the sweet lotus...but the green tea prevents it from becoming bubblegum as lotus usually does. I'd say this is a dead ringer for a blueberry green tea drink, which is one of my favorite things anyhow. The green tea in this is so clear and delicious! It's a blueberry tea with a little sugar on top (from the lotus). It's got close to the skin wear, and little throw, but you attain a sweet aura about you throughout the day. The blueberry does actually stick around on me for a cool, blue edge.

Wow. The review about this comparing to Light of Men's Lives is spot on- except... I LOVE Bard. LoML is heavy on the beeswax to me, and because BPAL beeswax translates to Parmesan cheese on my skin, the adaption of wood and honey, as well as the bay rum (which translates into vanilla coconut- why most people probably think there is vanilla though it's not listed) almost becomes a more grounded LoML to me. It doesn't morph, and becomes a woodsy/honey coconut scent. When on, the twang of copper tickles the back of my throat. I'm a fan of the copper! It's lovely! The strongest of the RPG scents I've tried so far.

First on: beautiful stemmy rose incense. Make no mistake- this is a 'rose scent.' This is a fresh cut rose, and the sandalwood is smoking slightly, directly over it. The patchouli registers as light earthy dirt strewn across the stem of the rose, and throughout the wear the patchouli gets a little stronger, which definitely grounds down the sandalwood for me. Lovely, lovely scent. Full bottle definitely! Revisiting these GC's and I am finding some serious keepers!

In the imp it's a pretty vanilla, mandarin, almond, and light floral as described. I actually really enjoy the almond and vanilla at the start, because it's a little strong on the almond, and I think that gives it a poisonous edge :3. However, the entire scent fades down within mere minutes to a light vanilla lotion scent. It's still nice! I just don't think I need to scrounge for an expensive bottle now that it's OOS. Not unique enough!

This is a beautiful scent...craftily blended. For what I can add to the reviews- this is the purply blue plum version of Penny Dreadful on my skin; both are fantastically femme fatale. Lady Lucille has no linens or old clothing to permeate her scent...this is pure dark, glimmery, long lasting 'perfume.' If you're looking for a dupe, and don't mind the dirt...try PD.

Wolf's Heart is a warm, less sharp dragons blood type incense. It's a very pulsating and smooth scent. Reminds me of spirit shops in New Orleans. No fear if you're not a fan of Dragon's Blood though, it's really not as sharp and hot of an incense like that. It also has the tiniest bit of warm greenery. Very comforting. Full bottle A+. ETA: One of my favorite scents of all time now! Dragons blood- always a sexy and unique scent, with greenery and jasmine. Very fantastical on me. Incredible and long lasting.

This is a very light scent on me, but with ever present essence. Definitely a purple colored scent. The coffee is the initial note upon opening the bottle, but it strays from the duration and doesn't end up being noticeable at all on me. I guess this is the opium, but it turns into Black Lily GC on me. Which I assume to mean that I have found the secret ingredient in Black Lily that makes it so dark...opium!!!!! After the coffee fades off, I'm left with the lightest vanilla, just rounding out the scent creamily, but not in a foodie way. The indigo opium is definitely purple, like purply chalk without the powder. I wouldn't call this a coffee scent. More of a purple version Black Lily GC. I think I'm pretty in love with opium. ETA: Mm. Strong coffee note. Not entirely black, but definitely coffee shop scent. A little milky and creamy. Once on, the coffee takes the base seat. Wafting over top is a thick and pretty cloud of purple opium. The description is none truer, and the notes play so nicely together it's fantastic. Opium is very strong here, as usual. Warm, lovely purply coffee brewing in a deep opium haze. A sweet, spicy, chalky scent. I can almost taste it.

This is a scent transporter. I feel like an entirely different human wearing it, or at least a version of me somewhere else, sometime else. Cafe Mille is high on the spices from in the bottle. Cardamom, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon. I can sense all of them. It's not heavy on the coffee, but the coffee is the base of the scent. It's like a cold thick brew coffee in a shop dripping, while the glass fills containing all the spices for the drinks are open and waiting. There is a little sweet smoke them at really starts at strength as mid wear, and that is the shisha waiting at the table beneath your hookah. Cold coffee remains strong til the end. The wear on me is all day. This is a strong scent. This is perfect, and brilliant. I searched for a bottle because it was one of those I knew I'd be in love with, and it is so incredible when it agrees!!!! This is my favorite coffee blend scent I've ever tried!!!!

In the Garden of Paradise, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, bloomed a rose bush. Here, in the first rose, a bird was born. A pale pink rosebud, wet with the dew of the dawn of creation. A blind bottle purchase because I love fresh roses! I thought this might be a pinker, delicate but still juicy fresh Rose Red, but it's more of a sharp tea rose kind of scent. Perfumey and not my type of rose. Couldn't detect any cold dewy notes. I wish I could've loved it, but eagerly await my other anniversary decants!

Pretty straightforward blend- dirty incensy roses with tobacco. Smells a tad cologne-y. It's the same church vibe rose/incense as Rose Cross, just dirtied down with tobacco!

SUPER BEESWAX. Very prominent. Single note beeswax in bottle. Beeswax on my skin usually turns into Parmesan cheese. ? On skin: very thick wax, with a tinge of purple smoke. Only when I waft, however. It wears rather close to the skin. I think I'm smelling some sort of rose, but it's very hidden beneath the wax. It's a golden, flickering sort of scent. It provokes a scene rightly named. The smoke is so barely there, or maybe just blends so well naturally with the smell of wax that I hardly notice it. Really, it's better in my skin than Light of Men's Lives, the only other blend I've experienced with wax because of this growing, purple, creamy and sweet rose scent! It's absolutely flickering in and out of the overall blend, but when I do catch it it's interesting! I don't get any tobacco at this point, but I'm hoping it'll peek out more as it ages. So purply sweet beeswax. With a hint of smoke. It's pretty. Sadly no tobacco for meeee

I swapped this away because I didn't get much of what anyone else was getting...it turned into generic white lotion that gives you the sniffles. Hardly any sweetness! Don't know what happened

A lot of these OLLA scents are heavy on myrrh and incense. I LOVE THAT. This is a very strong oil, and it first it's a blast of myrrh and black musk...which translates into a fuzzy black incense. Then the motor oil, and MAN is this sexy. I will FOR sure always be tracking down a bottle of Streets of Detroit! Top faves. This is an incredibly sexy scent.

Powder porcelain cognac-vanilla! Soooo delicious! This may be in my top scents of all time! Definitely agree with the 80s perfume feel. It sticks around a long time and is fragile and pretty, but with good throw. It's not powder-baby powder per say, but the crumbling dust of porcelain when cracked intermingled with the vanilla cognac. The tobacco I haven't noticed yet, but I think it serves to earthen put the scent. Can't wait to see how this ages. Will be ordering lots of bottles!

I LOVE bourbon/whiskey...I nightcap nearly every night. It's just a comfort...and strangely I've never even tried to make a hot buttered whiskey! I'll have to now! In the bottle it's very warm and buttery...delicious! On, the whiskey sort of comes out beneath the hot butter, and I get a banana scent! Just me though. Personally, it doesn't smell to me anything like coming out of a bar or smelling like a drunkard. It's too foodie and perfumey for that. I'd say that this was a yellow Love's Philosophy. Love's Philosophy + banana. That is exactly what it smells like on my skin. It gets a little plasticky toward the end, but I got a half bottle from a decant circle and I'll probably use it all. It's nice and warm for the holidays - the plasticky part. But once it's on for a while the plastic turns into buttery spice again, so it's alright.

This is definitely Snake Oil and Madame Moriarty, which causes the red musk to be tempered by the vanilla spices...and add in a little dark plum, and some smoky coconut, and you've got it! It is really beautiful. I've been finding Moriarty to be a bit too hot and dry for my tastes lately...(although I always come back to her) so this is a PERFECT substitute. I wish I had been around when it was live...if it ever comes back I'll hoard it.

This is initially delicious, goes on almondy, then milky and creamy oats. I think this is definitely a slather type scent, because in the imp it goes way too soft on my skin after only a few minutes! I'll use my whole imp because it's beautiful, and hopefully I find it to last a little longer!

Fresh out of the mail... Application...orange/tangerine scent? Not what I expected at all. Very citrusy in Orange colored fashion. I smell the edge of musk...maybe the perfume of the Rose...but it's too light to tell. I don't get much vanilla. Not even lemon. Just orange fruit. How peculiar. A tad like my earl grey and bergamot I think. There's a slight ozone like coolness. I think I was expecting a cold vanilla tea smell. I did not like this upon application, and I was disappointed. The more I wear it, and the more it settles I smell tea strongly, that I like, with a rose perfuming the edges, though not detectable enough to call it a rose scent. The dry down has no fruity twang...and it altogether becomes a perfumy floral.tea, an expensive department store type. Fancy. Adult and feminine. Can't yet tell if it's a keeper since it has such a citrusy bite for me. ETA: The dry down is what I hoped The Unquiet Grave would be! That vanilla orchid...

Vanilla type fragrances are usually my go-to's, but recently I've realized my collection of vanillas is thin! I tried a Lyonesse sample today, and mmmmm that golden, crunchy, floral vanilla! It's the biggerCritters vanilla, the Underpants vanilla...LOVE. Wet on skin is that vanilla with a sandalwood edge. Wet, I can smell the soap of the lily, but the vanilla is so strong that it just becomes a clean vanilla. Only on the dry down can I sense an aquatic vibe, and even then it is paced by amber (grey amber, which seems to not be powdery at all, only golden and light). My favorite stage is the beginning, with the cold but golden and crunchy vanilla, and luckily it stays around long enough to be the main scent for me. When my imp is through I might get a bottle, if I don't have enough vanillas coming in the mail to take its place first. My favorite GC vanilla besides Snake Oil at this point though. Even with the amber, I'd consider this a 'cool' vanilla.