unxolve

Starts out alluring, spicy, there's a warm citrus orange tang coloring the scent. Delicious and bewitching! That lasts about...all of five minutes before it settles in my skin and turns straight to a strong baby powder, and stays that way forever. =_=

Fresh, blue-green beach soap that you'd use washing off sand in a wooden shower stall. Not a sharp, lyeish soap, just that fresh desirable beachy clean smell. Salty, fresh, cool, well-blended. I have had so many aquatic disasters I was going to give up hope, but this one is superb. Love it, only happy feelings!

Rumplestilzchen! (smoke and bbq) and Dragon's Hide (smoke with a drop of juicy sweetness) are my favorite smokes.

Volcano in Springtime (THE BEACH with a scoop of vanilla ice cream), Brown Jenkin (sweet, light, beachy, woody), Paramatman (suntan lotion with a creamy orange-banana milkshake)!! Also love Sin (not heavy in the sandalwood but a gorgeous, rounded vanilla-spice amber!) and Gingerbread Sin (...the perfect christmas cookie...)

A SUGARY ROSE. A CANDIED ROSE, a perfect, delicious, pretty, pink rose! Settles down to a cuddly, slightly rosy vanilla. No complaints! Super cute, delectable, and balanced.

Fresh: CITRUS. A creamy, flowery, citrus shampoo. I can smell that hint of good lavender. Fun, and sweet with a twinge of bitterness (maybe wood?) that keeps it from being too sweet. Drying: MELLOW, citrusy, and wearable! Starting to get the mulled wine thing, too! Definitely wine. NOW we're in a Tavern with a busty lady. Quite like it good experience all around.

Serving Tea After Coitus is a gorgeous green tea with a healthy helping of honey.

Wet: Super generic smoke smell. :/ Not even that nice of a smoke, just kind of a...patchouli/tobacco thing. Even though there's no patchouli? I don't smell any of the listed notes, what the hell. Dry: COMPLETELY different? NOW I can smell a bit of the dry woodsy sandalwood (barely a dusty hint of it), and MOSTLY a lot of inexplicably sweetened/lightened slightly vanilla dust myrrh, which is kind of barely fruit. "Sweet dust" was an accurate description. I like this better than the wet smell, and it is definitely the lightest myrrh I've ever smelled, the sandalwood is keeping it pretty nice. Not my super favorite, but nice enough to keep around.

Wet: Hella almond, which means hella cherry. It's...a NICE cherry. As far as cherry blends go. Like a cherry on top of a scoop of vanilla ice cream with toasted coconut. The vanilla cream note sure is a sweet talker. Buuuuuut cherry though -puts this tentatively in the nope pile- Dry: =_________= This is the EXACT same yummy vanilla cream note from Volcano in Springtime. I'm going to stick with Volcano, but if you want that with a light almond/cherry twist, then this is your blend.

Freshly applied: SANDALWOOD, I LIKE IT. This is what I was craving! Smooth, light, dry, sweet, balanced. This is the perfect summer and beach scent. For a second, I thought it was primarily musk, and was like WOW, I thought I hated musk but call me a musk fan! Nope, the sweet cool thing going on here is sandalwood. The coconut is contributing to this. Augh, this is beautiful. It's subtle, for sure, not a big loud scent, but what it has is very pure and very suited to skin. THIS IS NOT the smell of rats, or dust, or dirt, or fur. THIS IS the smell of summer, tanning oil, woods, coconut, and skin. It is primarily bright, light, fresh, cool and clean (but not too bright, still dry). I hope it stays like this smell forever. T_T

I really like the idea of an imp pack! Notes I think of for a groom: Chocolate (for the groom's cake!) Tobacco (cigars) Fougère (sophisticated man smell!) Notes I think of for a bride: Vanilla (the whitest of scents!) Floral (that bouquet), Summer fruit (peach, apricot) A general "cake" scent would also be fun.

Wet: FIG, GLORIOUS FIG. This was a frimp. The person who frimped me is THE BEST. I thought maybe it would be MOSTLY DIRT so I had steered clear but I was so, so wrong and it's mostly fig. Ahhhhhh.

Salt, woods, warm spices! A little bit of soap which is sad but it goes away on the dry down. A less fruity cousin of 51! I like it!

At first I was worried. Strawberry Sufganiyot is my FAVORITE strawberry, but by itself? Maybe too much. I'm not much of a musk fan either, really? But here? Mute, sweet, creamy, pink. The most sophisticated treatment a strawberry could get. Subtle and pretty. Seconding that it feels expensive. And everything that's good about the strawberry peeks through a lacy veil. Really feminine and beautifully balanced!

Haha, well here's some literally sweater/lazy ones: Autumn - Overlooked My Knitting (For my knitter posse! A warm scent, as delicate as lace and as soft as cashmere, and as cozy as wool, punctuated with red currant for the blazing red of cochineal and surrounded a border of soft grey ambergris and a swirl of autumn leaves.) I only had a tester of this, I remember it being pleasant and fruity. Hella sweater. Stekkjarstaur (Wooly sugared marshmallow root.) A warm, skin vanilla that lasts the day! Super cuddly. Sloth (Thick, dark, sluggish and heavy with indolence: vetiver over black myrrh.) Of course! How could you leave out Sloth when it comes to being lazy? Dark and pretty. For me personally: The Second Morning After Christmas (A crackling fireplace, pipe smoke, fir needles, and a flutter of snow.) This one feels like a place AND a boyfriend's scarf.

There's been a lot of florals this update, and most of them have been too teenage girl for me. This one smooth, tangy, creamy, slightly spicy, and adult. SN Easter Lily was too much for me, but here the flower is tempered into a just-right pitch by all the other stuff in here. I don't like MUSK, usually, and this HAS musk, but its also grounded by the amber. The combination Just Works. Definitely feminine, definitely spring. Putting it with Hidden Pearls as cute, spring floralish scents that I actually like! (:

FINALLY a lavender scent that's the sleepy, clean, beautiful smell I've been looking for. You can almost feel the coldness on the back of your throat, if this is a forest it's a winter one. All the "green" notes are very nice. It is a GHOST of aquatic soap, but so, so light and very close to the skin. Maybe it's the rose and vanilla sandalwood keeping this so pretty? This is the room when a husband has just hopped out of the shower at the beach. Um, this makes me feel like a very sexy, calm, clean gentleman. Keeping this one. .______. Yes.

Wine and vanilla! Mainly this is a dark, red, fruit smell. The tobacco is very faint, but gives this a rich, satisfying bitter edge that keeps it from being too sweet. The peach makes it warm and light. Really, a very nice blend.

Cranberry Shampoo! With a bit of a...waxy note. There's no way to describe "waxy" until you smell a wax plastic thing and then you smell this. It's not powdery, it's just...whatever that sort of good, sort of sweet, definitely fake swoop is. It's interesting, but I wish there was more cranberry :9 ...and less shampoo? (...even though it's a nice shampoo...) The name is pretty accurate for me, a cranberry lover OTL

Whiffing the bottle was FOUL. I half gagged and half lost my shit laughing about how bad it was. Oh my god. Applied it anyway. Okay this DOES smell like the skin of a honey-baked ham. That note is definitely there and prominent and hilarious. But there's also a weird...I swear, chocolate??? Smell. I was going to keep this anyway for novelty value but....I don't...hate this....? It's a gritty, naughty chocolate. Kind of a "savory" perfume? I think I like it. .___. ham, honey, spice, and chocolate. The other notes really compliment the ham. It is unlike anything I've ever smelled. Who knew. Edit: Dry/a few hours in, it's mostly chocolate. I may even...wear....this....? If I feel like smelling like delicious chocolate ham. But I'm not sniffing it straight out of the bottle again. That was a mistake.

No peaches, no pie. For me this is Original Bubble Tape Bubble gum. A really accurate version. I can even smell that powder that is on the gum as you roll it out. ...I feel like I'm going crazy. Is this real life?

This one I'm actually getting some flaky pie crust (which is everything I wanted!) Light, cooked, spicy and sugary apples. Pie-wise, this is a winner for me!

Yep, like LizziesLuck, getting almost a clove single note. Cinnamon red hots. Maybe a few other spices, but mainly that one.

I tried the Bear Prince: Loved the rose, didn't care for the weird dusty animal "bear" smell. 8T This is a GREAT ROSE with a little light, sweet snow. Snowflakes is about right. There's only a barely detectable edge/hint of a sweet/cold smell, don't expect to get smacked in the face with an avalanche of mint. Hopefully the amber will give it some longevity. Mmm! Yes to these roses!

Classy and sweet with cedar/wood. Definitely Aziraphale among the bookshelves! Warm. It's really almost a SN wood with a subtle "something" (occasional sweet drifts from a pretty musk?), and it's not too remarkable (as things go) but for some reason I like it!