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1. Gingerbread Sin - Gingerbread, amber, sandalwood, black patchouli and cinnamon. / Gelt - Dry cocoa and golden amber 2. Prosperous Flowers of the Elegant Twelve Seasons - Patchouli and honeyed saffron with labdanum, leather accord, and wood vanilla. 3. A Measurement of the Soul - Wild fig, cedarwood, venerable ti leaf, and white sage. 4. Serving Tea After Coitus - Green tea, heady honey, white plum, ambergris accord, and vanilla flower. 5. 51 - Green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats.

Wet this is SO POMEGRANATE. Fruity mcfruit fruit. After a while it's a powdery rose, with barely a hint of that ruby red fruit (you have to hunt). Rolls down again hours later into that almost grape Smut musk. Overall, too much feminine punch in the first and second stages, and too much soft kid grape at the end.

Yep! Honey is predominant, with fruit right behind it. I can smell the fig. The honey is strong, and maybe a little too deep + bitter, with the fruit a little too cloying. It's a shade more pleasant once it's dried down, and is a more mellowed, nice, powdery fig and almost, I'd say, almond...but not the lab's cherry-almond note, but what I would expect from an actual sugared almond. Oooh, final drydown is a soft cocoa powder. :9 yum!

My favorite is Mars Rigonemetis (Dark musk entwined with ivy, black pine, birch tar, cypress, black cedar, and black pepper.) If he liked Jabberwocky, I'd definitely look at eucalyptus scents.

Starts off just with a generic pumpkin smell. Later in, I did get a bit of fig- and that stage was nice, but I can't tell if I was imagining it. Late late in, it's pumpkin with cedar/wood. I normally like all these ingredients, but together it's a bit strong. Not sure if this is the pumpkin blend for me.

Ahhh, fig! As others have said, the smokey vetiver is strong at first, but quickly melds beautifully and smoothly into the fig. Fig always smells a little like a christmas craft store to me, and is a warm, spicy fruit. The "meaty" review scared me off from ordering a decant, but I shouldn't have second-guessed myself on this one. Sweet, sophisticated, a little smokey and wonderfully-blended fig.

Never got into Snake Oil, but love love love love love love Sin. Gingerbread Sin was my first introduction to amber, and it's the same gorgeous note that keeps me coming back for more in almost every blend it's in. Sin is distilled, warm delicious vanilla with a hint of cinnamon. The patch deepens the blend and adds a great dimension to it while not being individually detectable. No soil, no earth, this is all golden goodness. Trying this without the Gingerbread? Still great. Amazing. Probably my favorite GC, and I'd try it in every combination of everything. Sin x Pumpkin, Sin x Bonbon, Sin x Gingerbread, Sin x Snake, hell I'd lather it with anything and everything. I only wish there was some way to have Gingerbread right up there along with it in the GC list (so I could blend my own occasionally), but as it is I love amber and I love this smell. Haunted is gorgeous, the Lion is a little 1 dimensional, Sin is perfect. Sandalwood and patch usually do something awful on my skin, but not here. So good. Soooooooo good.

Sweet resiny-incense + smokey. A little too sweet. Underlying note is...cinnamon, sticky gum, brown sugar, and the faintest whiff of soap flakes. I think I prefer Rumpelstilzchen. Was in the mood for something with a little more smoke, ashiness, and soot! I wanted to be roughed up. Definitely enough smoke to satisfy, too much resin.

Popping the cap off this was like taking a whiff of a big old bag of potting soil. Yep. Dirty dirty dirt. My eyes say oil, but my nose says that nearby there should be a thick black warm heap of compost. I don't know if I'm brave enough to put this on. ...Maybe later. I'll...edit if I do.

Quite good! Berry and violet with a woodsy feel (almost pine) that blends in seamlessly to something light, fresh, and pretty. Definitely enjoying this one!

Lemon and occasional hints of chocolate dust! A bit like fruity pebbles! Yellow chewy lemon swirled into a vanilla yogurt cup? The lemon dust off a lemon lollipop? Very sugary, perhaps a bit sweet for me. I'm having the same "skin is eating the chocolate" problem.

Milky, delicious chocolate! Cocoa powder. Something in this is making it a bit...musky, naughty, and dirty? But it compliments the chocolate well. This smell makes me blush. I'm not much of a chocolate scent person, but I like the additional darkness.

Really! I don't even like frankincense (so I thought!) on first sniff I thought for sure this was champaca with some beautifully mellow and blended tropical fruits . Apparently, aged 3 years, something extremely pretty happens. What's in this that's so light, sweet, and gorgeous? Color me surprised.

Very soft and faint. A bit of rose, maybe a bit of soap, but pleasant. Gone after...an hour?? Yep. Hm. |: That didn't last.

I love the smell of fresh, full gardenias, and was hoping this would be something like that...for me, no dice. Big, sharp, headachy mess. It was too much, and it was not nice, and I did not like it. I'm not sure if it was the frankincense or what. But nope. Nope nope nope nope. Actually hurt my sinuses to wear, and whenever I smelled my wrist I suffered pangs of regret. Sharp chemical astringant flower cloud of pain. It is apparently doing something beautiful for everyone else out there, but for me the only oil I've had such a bad reaction to is Vital Fluid. This was Literally the Worst.

Um. This is amazing. Orgasmic. Auuuugh, first putting it on its bright and fresh and beautiful, like a floral tea. Gorgeous and soooo sexy. Honeysuckle, if this is you, yes please. I'm not even a feminine scents or florals kind of person, but this is like having my nose pleasured. After a while amber comes around, and it's an amber tempered by a mild juicy warm orange-peach. Doesn't lose hints of the delicious gorgeousness of the wet phase either. I could wear this all day, and then to bed. I don't know what crushed diamonds are but they're worth every drop. Wow. Bottle. 10 bottles. Edit: Full trial run today! Was great! The dry down (which lasts most of the day) is a little similar to Tamora (amber/peach), but it's everything that I wished Tamora was.

What flowers are in this?? I tested this one blind, and looking at the ingredients, I'm not getting any peach or amber at all. I don't think I could even identify the other listed notes, (not EXACTLY sure what galbanum, jonquil, and vetiver smell like) Instead, I would have guessed tea rose, green tea, lilac, jasmine?... it smells similar to that particular *something* that I loved in Spirit Board, Serving Tea After Coitus, and MAYBE Venus Genetrix. One of those french florals has got to be some kind of rose. Just that smell. Right on my wrist. Heavenly tea-and-rose, that sort of citrusy bittersweet tea flavor with a lush rose. Anyway, this is great. If the smell holds out, it could be a great GC replacement for two of my favorite LE blends.

Very strange, but I like it! Cigarette smoke, vanilla spice cake, and fruit? Can't identify the fruit. Reminds me a little of Dragon's Hide (although not as firey) and Santo Domingo (probably the rum + tobacco), but while something went a little soapy-citrus-sour with Santo Domingo, this is the right balance and blend of yummy, smokey weirdness. No leather, as far as I can tell. Smokey, spicy, sweet! Not what I was expecting at all.

Wet on my skin, this is rootbeer with a hint of vanilla. (Must be the sassafrass!) Away from my wrist, it's mostly the vanilla that permeates. Wow, cedar chips are definitely coming through! It's like I'm in a hardware store! Mmm, cedar. (still with that vanilla) Very rugged. Annnnd back to vanilla root beer. A bit of cedar, sometimes.

Wet: YEP THAT'S PATCHOULI. Sort of a warm sweet-smokey bonfire smell. I can smell a hint of honey in the background, like you were smoking out a bee nest to harvest it. Oooooh getting a spicy floral light sweet smell behind the smoke? Mmmm, now that is quite nice. All of a sudden there's this lurking, bright and fresh. Thing. Still quite a bit of smoke. Mysterious! When my nose isn't pinned to my wrist, it is all a really fragrant, sweet, bright, beautiful smell, almost fruity smell (although no fruit I can identify) that's not patchouli at all!!!! Mm, with a nice honey/vanilla. Very intriguing, though. One of those "how is this doing this??" scents, because the things appearing alongside each other are so contrary, it's crazy. I think I'm adding honey to my yes please list. :9 Still might be too much patchouli for me. Nose on my wrist, this is all patchouli bonfire! I might come back to this one, because it's so unusual. Edit: Tried it again! Lasts me most of the day. The dry down is a bit of the slightly naughty milky chocolate from Gelt, weirdly. The vanilla is very, very nice.

))))))): I was really looking forward to this one!! I LOVE HAUNTED. I have never had a bad reaction to amber, ever. It warms up to my skin and cuddles there like a super happy orange kitten. I got just a hint of what could have been while wet. Five seconds of dark, rich chocolate and citrus, when POOF, I get a nose and face full of baby powder! Really, really strong powder. Like I am drowning in this stuff. I could have just powdered my whole face and stuffed it up my nose. I waited for it to calm down, but no. This makes me the super saddest. I'll...try it again later. Maybe my chemistry that day was funky, or the soap I used interacted with it, or something. Deep sadness. Harrowing sadness. Why now, why this Bonbon.

Big fat warm-from-the-oven cinnamon sugar christmas cookies, with red/green sprinkles. Has a similar "sexy christmas cookie" vibe to Gingerbread Sin, must be the amber! Definitely getting the toasty! I could swear there was a dusting of cinnamon, and nutmeg/brown sugar in this. Good and yummy, but a little hokey, I feel like how a Christmas store smells. (none of these are the notes listed...sorry, list of actual ingredients) Dry (an hour and a half later) it's a faint spicy-sweet ghost of its former self. I'm sad to see it go. ): Warm, rounded, and yummy Amber is still there if I look for it, because amber is a bro, but it's fading by the minute. Maybe now there's only a light spicy vanilla cream. Very, very, light. This thing is going, going, gone. If I had to describe the amber, I would say brown sugar whipped with a hint of melted butter (not strong like the buttery popcorn other folks are describing, just a small, enriching portion) and turned into a slow-poured golden molasses. It's not a sweet smell, but much deeper, brown-orange, warm and bakery smell.

In the bottle this is warm and gooey, on my wrist it because a lot lighter, brighter, and sweeter. Definitely a creamy vanilla with a side of apricots. Soft and pretty.

Instead of tea (and maybe I'm just used to green tea) I get oranges? Yep. Citrus warm fresh nice mellow orange, while fresh. Dried more of that creamy-type champaca comes forward, but not enough to offend. Just makes it milder/creamier. This is Paramatan without the banana or suntan lotion, and I like it better! Not head over heels for it, but a pretty nice and smartly blended/pleasant scent.

Starts off smelling a little like vanilla coke? It has a "fizzy" tinge. I hate to say this is dark musk, and maybe it isn't, but it feels like there's something similar in there to that slightly (not quite) citrus lemon-lime sprite smell. A friend who smelled my wrist said she got "all vanilla". Drying down, it's more skunky caramel and an intense amber. Dried and on one of my wrists, I can FINALLY smell a smidge of tobacco and smoke, and that smell is pretty dreamy- on my other wrist, there's no tobacco or smoke whatsoever. Auuuuuugh with the smoke, it's so, so good y'all. But overall, not sure what to think about it. I love amber, I love dark, but when I'm not picking up on the tobacco (on my other wrist...why do my wrists have different chemistry?) this may be a little TOO intense and skunky for me.