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Juicy, happy, bright fruity floral. It's reminiscent of kitsune-tsuki but leans more fruity. It's got a similar vibe to orchids. Mostly, I smell sweet plum, cherry blossom, and sweet citrus. There's a dash of pine in the back just giving the whole thing a bit of a scratchiness. I don't wear this one all that often, but it's still an enjoyable part of my collection.

Yay! Glad to be of help! Also, @Estamets, I have one more recs for you. It mind be hard to find a bottle (because it's so good) but Unicorn Junk is well worth a sniff if you aren't adverse to lilac. (Coconut foam, Siamese benzoin, Himalayan cedar, translucent petals, lilac milk, and mallow) Think Obatala with gorgeous lilac and marshmallowy sweetness, tempered slightly by the cedar. ?

So, without looking at the notes, I would have sworn this was a lavender and green musk scent. Apparently, the herbal quality of the violet leaf is tricking my nose. There's a warmth grounding the fragrance that must be the ho wood. I'm guessing the carrot seed adds some wistful sweetness, but for me, it's blending in with the green musk. Green musk amps on me - a lot. It's not quiiiite taking over completely, but pretty close to it. This is not for me, but the initial herbal/floral quality over the musky warmth was pretty. I'd be curious to get the impressions of lavender lovers to see if I'm just crazy.

This is a VERY aged imp, so I'm not sure if it's held up. There's only enough perfume left for a test or two, and chemical changes happen more quickly with a smaller amounts of liquid. What I'm mostly getting at first is sort of non-descript, powdery dark floral. I do start to get a bit of dark plum, and there's definitely some murkiness from the resins, which become much more apparent as this warms up, but alas, I'm not getting any sort of complexity from this scent. Honestly, it just kinda smells like the resins have kept going, but the top notes of escaped. Perhaps it's just my chemistry. Dark, dark resins, with a hint of plum, and the memory of powdery floral.

I'm going to agree with torikitty that there's some dirty jasmine going on, but on me, it's blending with the other notes and ends up being pretty interesting. The pine sap adds sort of a gritty, forest vibe to everything. I don't really smell vetiver, but I'm guessing it's darkening things. I don't get anything fruity. Maybe my skin eats those notes, or maybe they've aged out from my decant. Overall, I like Conical Beast. It's sort of a earthy, forest-floral with a bit of funk. Brooding but playful.

These aren't notes I'm super familiar with, so always fun to try something new. My first impression is weird green tea, with sort of a warm, resinous vanilla slithering through it. Definitely the Snake Oil making it's presence known. It's weirdly discordant, but interesting. I don't get the bright, wet greenness I associate with dandelion sap, but there is greenness. It's becoming more resinous as it warms up, more of a sweeter Snake Oil with and herbal edge. It's quieter than SO though, lighter, and more aimed at summer. It seems like a sister to Green Tree Boa, but is different enough to make having both worth it. Yup. Once this has settled in, the weirdness becomes a good thing. The sweetness also tones down. This is an herbal with a bit of sexy slink, a cup of green tea swirled with a spoonful of warm resins. Very nice.

Whacky. I was really thinking this had cedar in it, and the cedar was really behaving itself for once on my skin. I guess that's cause it's actually patchouli. ? I'm getting fruitiness up front, mostly the mango, with a backing of woody patch that becomes the most prominent note as Tweedledum dries down. The mango isn't super sweet or juicy to my nose. Maybe that's b/c it's an older imp, or maybe it's because it's "green" mango, but this give me more of a sun dried mango sort of smell. I'm guessing the fig is deepening to overall frutiness. By the time everything has settled in, I get an earthy, spicy, cedar smell, with just a hint of warm mango adding complexity. I never get any green tea vibes at all. This seems like it could actually work on a guy really well, if he has any interest in fruity smells (Again, this imp is well aged.) or for someone looking for a different sort of mango from the typical fruit punch sort of thing. For me, I think it's not quite patchouli enough, or else not quite in your face, fruity enough to be a win. It's pleasant though. I'd love to see this blend of notes without the patchouli - as a more buoyant, juicy sort of summer scent.

So, a lovely forumite frimped me a sniffy of this a while back, and whenever I give it a sniff, then look at the notes - it blows my mind. Up front, this is the figgiest figging McFigster of a scent ever. I just can't fig--ure it out. I get NONE of the other notes until after about 20 mins of wear. As heavy as those other notes are, I'm really surprised, when they do finally show up, they are barely peaky out from behind the bossy fig. Tiny bit of pitch and a titch of frankincense. That's it. The rest is all fig. I wish the resins played more of a role on me. I agree this is the same fig as in Lola Lee Loo, and it is reminiscent of Gomorrah, though that fig seemed a little jammier. The fruit is too bright and tart on me to think of this as a dark scent. I'm thinking of figgy fruit roll-ups. I'm thinking I amp the hell out of fig. Weird.

Salty! VERY salty. A bit of wood, a bit of floral, and maybe ... some vanilla going on?? Woah! Found some green musk in the dry down. Hmmm.. okay. Retesting and looking at the notes. STILL salty! I think I'm smelling opoponax, which I have mixed feelings about. It always smells sort of treacly thick and sickly sweet to my nose. Maybe that's what is reading as vanilla-ish as it mixes with the benzoin. I still can't identify the violet, though I do think I smell the sort of astringent, clean-floral davana going on, and the ambergris is giving me Lyonesse vibes. I don't sniff much squid ink, so I'll have to leave that one to the judgement of other reviewers. I might like kelp? I DO like salt, and apparently, these kinds of aquatics work with my chemistry. There's a threat of soap in the beginning, but then things decide to behave themselves. I like this. I wouldn't purchase a bottle, but it was super fun to try it out, and I'd use an imp. A salty, dark, semi-aquatic, with resins and green musk. Definitely unique.

Lol. I know how you feel. Hard to only pick 5. And especially since one of your extras is cat related - you are forgiven. ? The scents that jumped to my mind are: GC - Goblin, Black Pearl, Eden, Black Phoenix (a lot of people seem to smell cherry, but I get almond, myrrh and roses), Jolly Roger, Mary Read, The Sea Foams Milk (if you're interested in aquatics), and How Doth the Little Crocodile (cuddly, slightly foody cedar) Unimpable GC - The Organ Grinder, Kamau Kogo, and Death Adder (if you can handle vetiver) LE (if you feel like hunting them down) - Materialization (like a fancier Obatala to my nose. The honeysuckle's not super prominent.) and Ghost Faced Bat (snuggly, creamy and sweet) You might also try to get a sniff of "Leave Her, Johnny" from the Sailor Shanty Anniversaries. I haven't smelled it, but seems like a lot of notes you fancy. Possibly Luperci? and Cheerful Oxen. I'm not real familiar with Queen, so I didn't give any recs to scratch that itch. @Smoochadore The only thing that popped into my head was The Spotted Cat - White ginger, green mandarin, ti leaf, cedarwood, chocolate mint, bergamot, and sweet vetiver. Not super masculine, but not really feminine either. Cuddly, a little mossy, a little citrussy, and a bit like How Doth the Little Crocodile.

@Llanval Pink champagne jello? Wow. That is NOT what it did on me. ? That's one of the things that's cool about fragrances though, they actually smell different on different people, AND our noses pick up the various chemicals differently. If you spot someone in the reviews who seems to smell things the same way you do, keep an eye out for them. It can be super helpful if you are buying bottles blind. Some decant circles will ship internationally, some won't. Usually, they'll say so up front. If they don't specify, you can always ask. ? Shipping to Canada is less trouble than over seas, so you probably won't have too hard a time finding a circle. I do international packages. Tennis Match is on my wishlist. Lol. I missed that one too. Never got a sniff. You might also like Smug Yale, although it's not by any means a loud fragrance. Very nice though.

This smells less like soil and more like the top levels of humus. It's got a damp sweetness I associate with composting vegetation - dead leaves, rich soil, grass clippings, and maybe a smidge of ripening berries on brambles winding through the pile. The patchouli is present, but smooth, slightly sweet, and well blended with the other notes. Gender neutral with a slight tilt toward feminine. Brood X is very "forest floor," but has a pleasant sweetness that people who aren't hard-core into smelling like a forest will find accessible. It smells like a cicada's home rather than an actual cicada, and if their homes smell so lovely, it's no wonder they so rarely come out ? Reminds me a wee bit of Woman at the Edge of the Wood, 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster, and Forest Reverie.

Vibrantly green and fresh. This is how the vibrantly glowing green of rainforest moss SHOULD smell. It's velvety and plush, with the faintest hint of sandalwood grounding it in the background. It's beautiful. I just wished it lasted a little longer. I might still hunt down a bottle since, hopefully, the sandalwood might get it to stick around more with some aging. ETA. Wanted to add, something in it also reminded me of Emerald Lace, though, when comparing the two, the tobacco and lace of EL make the two pretty distinct, but maybe it's just how Imayo really does smell so emerald green.

I really loved this year's green perfumes, and this one ended up being a bottle buy for me. It's got a camphorous thing going on at first that's a little off-putting, I think from a mix of the cedar and cardamom, but after a few minutes, this begins to settle down, and something tart starts to creep into the mix, along with a hint of sweetness from the tuberose. This is not a floral, but I think the florals add a lot of complexity to the overall scent, even as they lurk, barely noticeable, under the moss. There's also a good bit of smoky incense going on. There's just a lovely, smoky, scratchy sort of texture going on that I really love. I'd say this one's is pretty gender neutral, and is a fun and unusual green incense sort of smell, overall. Complex and unusual.

@Llanval I frick'n love Shungas, hence why I usually run a Lupercalia decant circle. ? I'll say, stand outs will depend on your taste, BUT sometimes fragrances are so good or unusual, they just seem like crowd pleasers. Last years Shungas were full of beautiful soft incenses, which had me squeeing in ecstasy. This year, the green perfumes really stood out to me as being lovely. If you love smelling like a garden, you should be really happy this year. Green smells, and my thoughts: Inspecting the Lantern - This one was lovely, mossy, and lush. I ended up with a bottle. Imayo Irokumi - Sort of in between Dancing Penises and Shadow pictures as far as weight. Juicy, green, pretty, fresh. I'm still dithering on whether I need a bottle of this one or not. Ecstatic Dancing Penises - really nice, but leans strongly towards masculine, so it depends how comfortable you are with that. I'm a woman, and some of my favorite GC's are listed on the Men's sampler pack. I don't smell like a man when I wear them. I smell sexy as hell. ? So it's all up to your choice. Shadow Pictures - the freshest of four. Really lovely, but it didn't last long enough on me for a bottle purchase. If it had though, I probably would have grabbed it. (And I realized while writing these, several I haven't reviewed. I'll try to do that this weekend. ) Lovely Surprises: A Karasu Tengu Copulating .... (I expected this to be super rosey, but it's really a lovely, foresty incense with just a bit of rose in the background. Really lovely IMO Adventuresome Encounters - super fun comfort scent. If you want to dip a toe into foody territory, I'd highly rec this one. Gokugetsu - a lot more gender neutral than I was expecting, and unusual use of red musk Underneath the Foot Warmer - LOVED this one. Had no idea what to expect, and I was really happy. The notes just blended into something I haven't smelled before. Unsubtle Euphamism - This is very foody. You will smell like bread. It's very fun though. Crowd Pleasers: Peach Vulva (didn't do it for me ) Adventuresome Encounters Vaginal Tales from the Nocturnal Palace Bottles I bought: Underneath the Footwarmer, Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace, Lighting the Lantern, Fracas with Eleven Kabuki Actors (keep in mind, I had leftovers from running my circle or I might have bought more. ? You said you're not big on florals, but you might still look into Blissful Domesticity, which is made very green by the juicy green apple up front. Florals and fruits covers an enormous dearth of scents and you might find yourself surprised. Butterfly Dancer seems to do different things on different people. I could appreciate it, but it wasn't for me. I would say go for it if you're comfortable with heavier, lusty, incense smells. And no, you will not smell like Victoria Secret. Hah. Possibly a high dollar French Escort. It did not got into poop territory for me or most people, I think. P.S. If you have decant circle questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Strong on the violet, but there's a sharpness that made me thing lavender, and I would have thought white rose rather than tea. The chamomile makes this feel gentle and somber. It's fitting for the poem, but a bit too perfumey and mellow for my tastes, though I do enjoy violet. I enjoyed getting to test this one out though.

Thanatos is a somber, resinous rose on me. It's rather gentle smelling, but has depth. I think myrrh plays heavily in this, and myrrh is a note that often barely registers for me. The imp I have has aged quite a bit, but I don't recall this one ever being loud or heady or opulent. This is the smell of dried roses laid upon a forgotten tomb. ETA wanted to add, this does seem like a pleasant, if unconventional sleep scent.

This strikes me as a very nice mens' cologne. Smooth sage up front, with something warm and earthy perceptible underneath, which I took for subtle patch, but is probably a combo of frankincense, cedar, and nutmeg. The other herbs add complexity, and this smells dusty green. There's a bit of a sharp cologne edge I associate with the cognac note and hopefully with soften with age. I don't get root beer at all. The cedar is mild and well-behaved. I get gentle, fuzzy, herbs, dried by summer sun but still growing in the field. And I get handsome man in a classy but casual pullover.

Luscious king mandarin right up front that does feel a little more red than orange somehow. It's a deeper citrus than this year's earlier offerings. There's a cleanness present that reminds me of geranium, and the frankincense creeps up after a few minutes, adding a warm incense underneath the mandarin. I don't get much floral, and I think this is fairly unisex. I'd say this smells like grown up fruit punch, but I don't want to undermine it's complexity. A very nice example of the mandarin note, with enough going on to make it unique and dare I say, elegantly proper.

This is really, really pretty at the start. A green, dewey smell, well-balanced with a light, but somewhat perfumy rose. On my skin, the dewiness starts to go a little soapy, but it's still very nice. Very freshly showered rose. It's simple, feminine, and clean and strikes me as a perfect rose blend for casual summer days. After about 20 mins, the dandelion is full center stage, and the rose has been freshly showered off. At this point, it's pleasant, but not something I would wear. The earlier stages remind me of a less fussy Asses Plus Long but they're also plenty different. If you are a rose lover who does well with mist and dewey notes, check this one out.

Reminds me somehow of Antique Lace, but paler and mixed with a strange dustiness that evokes old stone. The grey amber is most prominent to me, reminding me of the one in Gloomy Day. Something smells vanillic to my nose as well. This is pretty, but understated and a touch somber.

Woohoo! Thanks to the amazing @GoldenRubee and her kittens, I managed to get my grubby mits on a bottle of this. So, Endless Corridors was almost a bottle purchase. I managed to resist, but adding red musk proved my undoing. I was expecting a beeswax scent with a little splash of red musk, but I get a lot of musk. Also, a stronger honeyed sweetness and more bitterness - that metallic tang @starbrow mentions. I can see the comparison to a darker, thicker Bard, but where my brain jumped was " if Quintessence of Dust and Sanguinum Menstrum had a baby." I'd also say it's a distant cousin to Smut. Right now, this smells promising, but I think it needs to settle a while. Once that bitter edge has smoothed out, I think this is gonna be reeaal nice. ?

This is a murky, clove incense on me. My bottle has had about 5 years to age. There's a thick, syrupy undertone to the scent that I associate with myrrh, but I guess it must be the patchouli, sweetened very slightly by the florals. The florals are only vaguely recognizable in the bottle, and perhaps for a flash on my skin, then it's all about the clove.