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Wet: Oh wow, very unique. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but this isn't it. It's much...darker than anticipated. It's very rich. The teak is gorgeous. The amber really does have a glowing quality. I was a bit worried about both the cream (goes sour sometimes) and the lotus (gross bubblegum of doom) but both are very restrained in this. This is really all about the amber, on me, as it dries. It's a bit powdery - not in a bad way, more in that classic, elegant, slightly nostalgic way that I like. This is so different. I haven't smelled anything like it. It smells "antique". Like if someone described this as "antiqued amber" it would be bang on. Dry: This is difficult to describe. I find it really sensual. It wears very close to the skin on me. I really like it. Not sure if I love it enough to justify how much I paid for it, but I will need to wear it for a full day before I will really know. My skin also seems dry right now, it seems to be really soaking up oils, so that may have also impacted the strength and throw. This has also made me even more excited for this year's Lupers, which should drop any day. I sure hope there is a new Vulva!!

I have a ton of tobacco scents. A ton of clove scents. I COULD NOT say no to both of them together. Wet: Deep, dark chocolate and chewy rich tobacco, giving way to intense, almost-but-not-bitter clove. YUM. This smells raw and dangerous and sexy. A wild and naughty girl, indeed. Dry: This dries down to a really dark, gritty blend of tobacco (a dry tobacco, hardly sweet at all), dark chocolate (again, without sweetness) with dry earthy patchouli and hints of clove. I cannot convey enough how DRY this blend is. It would need to be sweeter to really suit me, but that being said I do kind of like it. Having learned my lesson about scents that have promise, but aren't quite "there" yet, this will ago for a while before I make a final decision.

This is soooo good! I love the amber in this. The lavender is gorgeous. Amber and lavender is a fave combo of mine (Good Morning, London and The Air and the Ether). If you love either of those scents, you need to give this a go. Perfect for spraying down the bed linens.

This is really yummy! The Lab's gingerbread doesn't work on my skin, but this is stellar. I don't get any champaca that I can detect, it's all about the gingerbread. Really strong ginger, not too sweet. Great!

The Language of Crows from the Post is also an amazing tobacco scent - brown sugar and rich chewy tobacco, mmmm!!

[No additional description provided.] The dead leaves is the non-cologne, non-aquatic note that I like a lot. The black musk only comes through faintly, but it's good too - dark, rich, almost....sooty? With maybe a tiny hint of anise? Could just be the dark imagery. I like it, but it's very simple, and I do wish the black musk came through stronger.

This is very woodsy, and I really get the "roaring fire" aspect, but more like an outdoor bonfire in the woods. The leather is subtle to my nose, more like suede. The spice is subtle as well, but detectable. I can't say that I can pick out the chestnuts. Overall, a lovely outdoorsy sort of scent.

Wet: Mmmmmmm, gorgeous sweet chewy tobacco with sugar and woods. Lovely. Dry: Another GORGEOUS tobacco scent. I have so many tobacco scents! Yet I always seem to find room for more....I am strongly considering getting a bottle. Or several. I love how sweet this is, and how rich.

Wet: Oh man. I love opoponax. I love dirt. I LOVE the two of them together! And the woods work really well with both notes. This smells like a hike on a gloomy dark day - the kind of day where I manage to get spooked out in the woods, even though I know them like the back of my hand (I actual enjoy the feeling of being spooked, and grin at myself as a startle with every noise). This is really atmospheric, and I like it a lot. Dry: I friggin love this. It is so dark and rich and menacing, but also lovely and haunting. I will for sure be wearing this in the spring and fall when it is damp and gloomy outside. And just in case it wasn't clear - opoponax + dirt = amazing!

Wet: Mmmm. The honey fruit, and hints of gorgeous tobacco are stunning. I love this tobacco note. It's sweet and almost spicy. Gorgeous. Dry: SO GOOD. Sweet, spicy, bright tobacco with fruit and honey. This is such a "me" scent. Really happy I finally got off the fence and bought a bottle.

Wet: This reminds me of Ice Princess bath oil right away (not a bad thing!). Frozen fruit, hints of woods and mint. Absolutely lovely. So wintry and pretty. I don't always love mint, but this is perfect. I don't always love woods, but again - perfect. Ditto with fruit. This all just works, and I can for sure see wearing it on a winter hike. Dry: This is really lovely. It's cold and wintry, but also bright. I can see if being a great "transition scent" into cold spring days as well. I will happily wear this while I traipse through the woods.

In my head, this was going to be like a mix of Banshee Beat and Antikythera. I realize reality will likely be much different, patchouli and I struggle to get along.... Wet: Oh wow. I actually wasn't that far off! This is a sexy, slightly gnarly patch. And the tobacco and woods do remind me of Antikythera, especially with the sweet vanilla. This is good! A little grittier than I would like, but that may round out with age. Dry: Nada - it disappeared. I will be aging this and trying again. Sadly, I have struck out with pretty much all the Phoenixes (and I have tried almost all of them). Only Paper and Salt have really worked on me.

Wet: Oh this is so interesting! Lots of Dorian at first, then the wine comes through, then the apple really amps up. I have never tried Snow Glass Apples, because I don't love apple, but this is like an apple incense, and it's lovely. It's sexy, actually. I get the whole sexy vampire apples thing now. Opium, maybe? I dunno, something is dirtying (in a good way!) this up. Dry: This turns into a very clean, fruity scent, only remotely related to what it was like when wet. I don't know what to think. I may age it and try it again, see if that brings the Snake Oil and Dorian combo out more. Currently it's mostly apple.

Wet: LOTS of really strong new-smelling leather. It's the type that often smells of disgusting chemicals on me, but is actually behaving itself here, which is nice. I testing Leather Phoenix on my other arm, and I feel this would have been more suited to that name, it's got so much leather! Metal is also a note that is usually horrific on me, but it's just the tiniest bit here, and hasn't amped up (yet) to kill the whole thing on me. I am actually really appreciating this for how evocative it is. I don't know why, but this scent makes the show Firefly come to mind. Weird, right? The hints of spice and smoke are amazing. This would smell BAD ASS on a dude. Or a woman more capable of being badass than I am...lol. Dry: This is a very rugged smelling leather scent. It's really nice, and I am not even a huge leather fan. Leather lovers should not miss this one - it will age like a dream. Kinda makes me want to be a cowboy....

Wet: Chocolate and gin. Yum! The gin was super strong at first and I thought it was going to be dominant, but the chocolate is actually winning. But barely, and each time I sniff something different is coming out on top. For something called Leather Phoenix - I actually don't smell any leather. Dry: Dry this is all about the gin. It's sweet, but I can no longer identify the chocolate. It's a really nice scent. I don't know if I would wear it, but if you want to smell like gin, this is an awesome option. Just as a side note - it lacks the effervescence of other gin blends I have tried.

I agree with my fellow Liz ^ - this is identical to the perfume. I too have found that often scents smell just slightly different in HG format (I am looking at you Mme. Moriarty, Strawberry Moon and most especially, Tricksy). But this is true Dana - glorious honey, hint of milk, and something that always smells sort of like almond, to me. It's perfect, glad to have it.

OMG that grey amber note is EVERYTHING. Reminds me of Shadow from AG. Whereas Shadow is a "cool" scent though, the nuts and patch give this a much warmer vibe. It's fantastic and I love it. The patchouli is different than most of the Lab's patch notes - not too dry or earthy, not gnarly either. It goes beautifully with the other notes. This one is simple, but also stunning. Really glad I got a 1oz instead of just a 5ml tester - wondering if that will be enough.

Umfg,,,this stuff is amazing. The hay (which is always this beautiful perfumey, slightly spicy scent on me) is prominent and backed up by the chestnut milk, which does smell different to me (less sour) than the Lab's usual milk note. The honey doesn't overpower at all, it just adds a lovely sweetness to the scent. LOVE this. I have been wanting a hay HG to wear with Hay Moon and the few other hay scents I have, and this is it.

Cicuta is a gorgeous smoky rose, and is also GC and worth a shot!

I hike several times a week, in the woods by my house. There have been several afternoons this winter where I turned around a corner and was struck still by the beauty of the snow on the trees with the sun going down behind - the feeling of the cold still air. There's nothing like it, it brings me peace like nothing else can. Anyway, I remembered there had been a scent called "The Forrest in Winter at Sunset" and I thought how wonderful it would be to wear a scent by that name on my hikes. So I tracked it down, and here is hoping it works! (I wish I could share a photo I took the other day with all of you - it sums up the name of this scent perfectly. But I have yet to figure out how to share photos on the forum without a great deal of effort and frustration.) Wet: The amber is gorgeous. The oak is slightly sweet, not too dominant, and lovely. The moss is a little sharp - hoping that settles. I also yet some faint pine, though it's not listed. It's not great on my skin, and I am hoping that settles too. So far it does smell very forresty, but not quite what I was hoping. Pine smells like cat-pee on me, and this is doing that, and making me want to cry. Dry: This settles into something beautiful. The moss gives it a slight damp edge, very realistic of a forest blanketed in snow. The amber is warm and glowing, like the faint kiss of heat from the sun as it sets. I will be so happy to slather in this before my hike tomorrow. <3

Wet: Blarg - all neroli (the only note in this I don't like, of course) aka soggy cardboard. Hoping it settles. Currently it's awful and I am saaaaddd. Dry: Yeah this is all bitter neroli on me. SO SAD. I love all the other notes, but I can't smell any of them. If you like orange blossom/neroli give this a go, otherwise - be warned. It may break your heard.

Wet: Warm sandalwood and hints of resins. It smells damp, also. Like the woods on a warm but wet day. It's quite atmospheric, and I like it so far, though it's not instant love. Dry: This is an interesting one! The sandalwood smells green and damp, rather than dry, to me. I do quite like it, but I just can't imagine myself wearing it. I bet it ages really well though.

Wet: This smells exactly like the all-purpose spray cleaner I use. It's an all natural one, so it's not terrible or anything, it's just not anything I want to smell like. Dry: Yeah, citrus scented cleaner. Not for me!

Wet: Mmmm. Snake Oil with almond and something.....breezy? I dunno if that's the right word. Yeah, breezy - I'm going with it. I don't even like almond usually - it smells like horrid fake cherry to me, even in the bottle, most of the time. This actually smells nutty, like almond paste. And it's utterly amazing with the Snake Oil. Currently reminds me of a less silly, more refined Snake Can. Dry: Having a tough time with this one, now that it's dry. The Snow White has come into play, and something about this is not playing well on me. I am nowhere near ready to give up on it though, so I am going to age it and see what happens. Snake Oil needs some age for me anyway.

I waited a bit to try this - in theory so I could let my bottle settle, but I think I was also quite nervous it wouldn't live up tot he hype I had built for it in my mind. Wet: (insert expletives that I typed and then erased so as not to be crass...) WOW. Dorian and AL's love child is a beautiful thing. The lavender comes through stronger in this than plain Dorian. The custardy aspect from AL is going strong too. It manages to smell like tea and cakes and sex. Yeeeaaaaahh, buddy Dry: Mostly Dorian (though a slightly different Dorian - having a hard time pinning down why it's different) with some gorgeous Antique Lace vanilla. It's really lovely. And one can never have too many Dorian-like scents. (Especially if you are like me and Dorian is a comfort scent).