Malaena

This one is very weird on me. At no point do I detect ANY of the listed notes. I smell musty wood and root beer.

I managed to get my hands on a tester of this. In the imp it smells like lemon juice with extra sugar and tang. On the skin it's sweet lemon but on dry down it turns into Lemon Pledge. Arg.

Iulia starts off with a blast of tea and sugar. It smells very clean with some lemon balm peaking through. The blend is then taken over by a flower that I can't identify. It's definitely not orange blossom and to my understanding rockrose is not a floral scent. It smells like an old-lady floral. Icy and stuffy. A good bit of musk underlies this.

This is VERY odd on me...it's like a cross between vanilla taffy and plastic. o.O

Devilish temptation, as sweet as sin: blood orange, neroli, and raspberry. This one is very strongly soap on me. When I sniff up close I can pick out a bit of raspberry. It reminds me quite a lot of Froot Loops...soapy Froot Loops! Bloody hell, I wonder what it is that my skin is mangling!!!

This one is very hard to describe. I can picked up a burnt smell but I am not very familiar with saffron. I swear I can smell a wee bit of red musk!! This one reminds me of one of those fancy soaps that are for looking pretty but not actually using.

I've allowed this to settle for a few months as when I first tried it it was screamy dirty patchouli. I'm happy to say it's mellowed but into non-screamy dirty patchouli. Arg!

Flowers hate me so much. I get nothing but floral death from this one. I think it has jasmine in it - that note always does this!

Wet - Cherries! Drying - Sweet cherries bit a bit of an almond feel. It reminds me of red vines and I want to eat my arm. The red musk gives this one great throw and makes food sexy! Verdict - Houston, we have a winner.

Wet - Peanut butter. wtf? Drying - Ooh, this smells like Voodoo without the pine or almond. Uh oh...here comes the myrrh. It turned into all myrrh all the time. Verdict - I guess I amp myrrh. Bla!

I was really hoping the banana wouldn't be prominent. I was wrong!!! Wet: Disturbingly artificial banana. Drying: Same with a little powderiness.

Wet - Super sweet grape soda or grape candy Drying - It wafts grape soda and patch. Up close it smells like ambery grape soda. I get occasional wafts of beer. Verdict - I can't stand the scent of beer and I'm not up for smelling of grape soda. This one is just weird. I'll give it a second test later on to see if my skin is wonky today.

This is the third blend this week that has turned into rotting flowers. I'm starting to think they just don't like me!!!!

Oi, the flowers in this one come together in a melange of rot. Ay dios mio!

This is Snake Oil without the drydown to powdered ass. I'm quite happy! All you folks regaling us with tales of Czernobog ickiness can just slide your imps my way.