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I have so many imps I need to test, I am going to try to get through 2 a night for a week! (That won't even put a dent in it, but it's a start. Wet: Sweet orris and smoky vetiver, in equal measures. I don't really get the DB, but it is sweet and resinous. Not that floral, high pitched DB, at any rate. Mostly vetiver right now. Pleasant, but not something I want to wear. Going to post this now and update after dry because I have a feeling my power is going to go out (wind storm). ETA, Dry: This dries somewhat strange. Still smoky, but also sort of..waxy? Plasticy? I don't know how to describe it. Strange. Not for me! Glad I got to try it though.

I have been longing for a lilac HG. With these notes, I am not expecting lilac to come out on top, but I had to try it just in case it does. OMG it's totally lilac dominant at first! The rose then comes through, but you can still totally smell the lilac strongly. I worried ylang ylang would be super strong, but it's just some added sweetness in the background. I can't pick out the other two florals, though it does have a very faint "tropical" vibe, maybe the plumeria? What a lovely spring floral scent, and I am so glad the lilac is really strong in it. Still somehow overpowering that rose! Wonderful. If you love lilac, don't be scared off by the other notes.

I totally could not resist these notes! I love hay, and sandalwood. This kind of smells as you would expect! Nutty, sweetly fruity with a hint of tang, slightly woody, and a touch of perfumey hay. It's lovely! Very different than anything I have. I wasn't sure I would be able to identify kukui nut, but it's that same nutty note from Halfling, very identifiable. Actually I can see wearing this together with Halfling. Lovely and different! Glad I got some.

I love pink pepper. I love honey. I love blends of a couple simple notes. This was a no-brainer for me. Wet: Warm floral honey, warm spicy-floral pink pepper. This scent glows. It's gorgeous. It somehow reminds me of A Thought From Propertius, though without the fruit note. Love it. It's interesting to me how floral both the honey and pink pepper are. There is almost a sugar note along with the honey. This isn't the honey of say, O. It reminds more of the Rappaccini's Apiary honeys. Dry: Gorgeous. Honey dominant, with spicy floral pink pepper notes. It's a very sugary honey, if that makes any sense. I love the simplicity of it. I adore honey scents, it's one of my favourite notes, and I am so happy to have this. Other honey lovers should give it a go too. The honey is almost musky - not quite a honey musk note, but almost. Gorgeous.

Wet: I always worry about milk/cream notes. They aren't always great on me. But this combo of milk and honey reminds me of both Alice and Dana O'Shee - it's lovely. Warm, comforting. I want to say maternal, as well. The almond comes through strongly on me while wet. From experience, that will likely fade. I can't smell any fig or ambrette seed yet. Hope they come through later, I love both notes. Dry: Soft, warm and comforting - the honey and milk come through in equal measures. I really can't detect any of the other notes, sadly. I do enjoy this, but not sure I love it. May see if aging brings out the other notes.

I got this hoping that the canine musk would be similar to the musk in Canis Major which I adore so much. I also love grass and cardamom. Wet: Oh! Oh. What is THAT? It's almost effervescent. Tickles my nose a bit. No clue what is going on here, I can't pick a thing out. As it settles, I get hints of something warm, sweet, and woody. Also hints of grass. It's a super interesting scent, entirely pleasant, and like nothing I have smelled before, so I am having a really hard time defining it. Doesn't actually smell like dog, if you were worried. I have realized I don't really know what yew smells like - that may be the warm woodiness I am getting. Oh! There's the cardamom. Mmm. This is a really neat scent. I feel like it changes every time I sniff it. Dry: Sweet, very light musk, slightly fuzzy, and grass. It's quite different and very nice. Makes me smile. I will wear this outdoors all spring, it's that sort of scent.

I feel like this is either going to be a disaster on me (pine and oudh) or be pure magic (musk, amber, tobacco) Wet: A moment of disasterous cat-pee-pine before the amber swoops in and saves things. YESSS. Now it is sweet, realistic pine (no poopy oudh yet) with just a touch of tobacco. Totally wearable, so far. Doesn't WOW me, but quite pleasant. Dry: This dries to a LOVELY amber and woods scent. Seriously, it's lovely. I adore amber. Amber with just a touch of forest makes me even happier. Winner!

Wet: Dark, rich. Tough to describe, initially. It's velvety smooth darkness, with small pinpoints of brightness, like stars in the night sky. I get no violet, which is what scared me about this blend (thank you so much to my Decantress for the free sniffy bottle, otherwise I never would have tried this!!) There's a hint of spice. but I wouldn't have identified it as clove. More like...white pepper? Maybe I am smelling a part of the chypre. This is SO INTERESTING. I have been fascinated with chypres since Mabel. This is kind of incredible. I keep sniffing it and sniffing it. It's rich, resiny, sweet from the labdanum. Hints of the moss come through very faintly, giving it an earthy quality. I can barely detect a whisper of lilac, but no violet still. But mostly it's that gorgeous chypre which I find so utterly ineffable. Glorious. Dry: This goes through a bunch of phases on me. None as good as that first, wet stage. The middle stage is high pitched and quite floral and perfumey, though the floral notes aren't recognizable as either lilac or violet, really. The end stage is still perfumey, but also very mossy, slightly earthy, and somewhat soapy. I know that sounds weird, but it's still totally pleasant and intriguing. It's just not the total glory that was this scent when I first put it on. I may give it another go in a few weeks, see how it does with some more settling.

Wet: Lots of leather, but the smooth warm worn leather that I LOVE. Reminds me of Unicorn and Ram, Hochelaga. Has that sort of feel. It's a warm snuggly woody leather scent, with rich resins to sweeten it up. Lovely. Unisex. Dry: This is so lovely and comforting and snuggly. The leather is to die for - soft, well worn, almost sueded. It's warm and rich, slightly woody, slightly sweet from the resins. Really nice. It really does somehow remind me of Unicorn and Ram - I need to do a side by side. I may have to have more of this!

I immediately thought of Silkybat when I saw the description of this, so I had to at least try it! Wet: Yes, this is like someone pinned Silkybat down and smeared lemon buttercream frosting all over it. It's a bit sexy, a bit fresh. Sweet and tart at the same time. Dry: Once dry, this turns a bit powdery on me. Powdery lemon, plus the patch from Silkbat. I am not the biggest fan of lemon, so I won't need more of this, however I imagine I will use my little decant-in-bottle occasionally. If you do like lemon, and you like Silkybat, GET THIS.

I adore red sandalwood, and am forever in search of more scents where it shines. Wet: Ermagherd, red sandalwood and glorious chewy tobacco (like French tobacco SN type tobacco). I can now die happy. Why didn't I just get a bottle of this? Gah. There's something spicy happening here too. Almost peppery? I dunno, I am not familiar with palo santo. It may be copal I am smelling.Yeah, that's sweet resiny copal. There's something a bit incensey about this. It's fucking glorious. Excuse my language, but I am THAT excited. This is really different. BUT THEN the Frank starts to happen. Echo my ass, that`s a shout of Frankincense. *sigh*. Dry: I LOVED this, when I first put it on. And then Frank bullied his way in and stomped all over everything and ruined it for me. It`s still good. I just don`t LOVE it when it`s dry.

Wet: Sweet rose and tart orange. The orange dominates at first, then the rose quickly takes over. The benzoin adds a rich thickness to the scent, if that makes any sense. It's quite lovely. The orange has stayed true on me so far. Dry: Wow, this is lovely. I can't believe how good this orange note is on me, usually it turns to powdered bathroom cleaner. I wish the rose came through stronger now that it's dry. It's mostly orange on me. I do like it, but can't picture wearing it. If you're an orange lover though, totally worth a try.

Wet: Tea rose comes out the strongest so far. Very pretty. Sweet and delicate. The other notes are just providing a base, and I can't really pick them out individually. The whole thing smells pink and girly and pretty. Dry: Sadly this fades to almost nothing, and what is left is a touch soapy. Not my fave of the dozen roses.

I was excited to snag this off Etsy. I love the smell of apple, but I don't really want to smell LIKE it, so I figured this would be perfect for soaking in the tub (which I do a lot). This is exactly as advertised - gorgeous sugared apple. It's more complex than that though, the sugar is almost caramelized, and the apple has an almost floral note behind it. And maybe some citrus? Or it could just be the tartness of the apple. Anyway, YUM. Really happy I got this, it's perfect for spring.

I always enjoyed BPTP bath oil, but recently I have totally fallen in love with it. I now use it both as a moisturizer any time, and also pour copious amounts into my baths. My skin thanks me for this. I love that there isn't a ton of chemicals in it. This scent is gorgeous. Lots of really sweet lavender, that immediately puts this in the "bedtime scent" category for me. Hints of lovely florals. Lovely and honeyed. I don't get any sandalwood or orris. This is all about lavender, honey, and a bit of peony. Gorgeous. Good for daytime also. Very springy. I love it.

Wet: I LOVE white rose, it is the epitome of nostalgia for me. This is sweet and lovely, as I expect white rose to be. The oakmoss gives it earthy depth with a hint of aquatic (oakmoss always smells damp to me). Super happy the oudh isn't the stanky kind, this is just earthy and woody. Dry: This dries very faint. Mostly sweet white rose with a hint of moss. It's nice, but it doesn't wow me, with so many other rose scents to choose from right now.

Wet: Lots of earthy patchouli. I usually like patchouli with currant, but this needs some aging I think. It's very dry and somewhat bitter. The rose only barely peeks through. At least the oudh doesn't smell like poo? Dry: This dries more as I expected - fruity currant and patchouli with rose. I think it will be really great with age - in the same vein as Black Moths. I think I will wait and test it again in a few weeks before I make any decisions - the patch is still a little dry and dusty for my taste.

This was the rose I was most excited to try out of the dozen. I need both more fig and more apricot in my life. I ALMOST blind bottled it. Almost. Wet: WTF? This smells like none of the listed notes on me. It's earthy, and kind of bitter. No sweet fig, no tart apricot. I don't even get much rose....? I don't know what I am smelling. Something super earthy and a bit green. Dry: This goes through many stages, none of them smelling like anything I would have expected. The end stage is a powdery fruity scent that I am having trouble pinning down. I sure don't love it. I got a 1oz of the HG in this scent also, hopefully it's better in that format on me.

Wet: Oooh that's pretty! I have to agree with Roseus, this is a bright warm rose. Sweet and rich as well. I was worried about the Frank. It's likely to amp up as it dries and ruin this, but right now it's lovely and balanced. The rose is golden, the Frank is golden, it's all very golden and glowing. Dry: This is actually really gorgeous. Sweet rose and rich vanilla. The Frank doesn't steal the show for once, just adds to the richness, sweetness, and glowing quality that this has. I kind of love it. May need a bottle.

Thank you to the lovely who sent me some of this to test! <3 Wet: Mmmmm. I LOVE the smell of the woods. The actual woods that I hike in. Nothing makes me happier. The smell of "woods perfumes" though? Typically cat pee on me. But this. THIS. This is everything. It's so real. It's so rich, and warm. I really wish I knew the exact notes (I am not missing them somewhere, am I??) so I could know which evergreen this is that DOESN'T smell like pee on my skin. It's not pine. I don't get cedar. Maybe cypress? A hint of juniper? I am guessing. I thought maybe some opoponax for a sec, because there was a hint of that wonderful "cola" thing it does, but now I am not sure. Maybe galbanum or olibanum instead - regardless, something resinous. This is making me want to be outside so much! (We had an ice storm this weekend, I am feeling really cooped up. Maybe making me appreciate the scent even more? Hmm). Dry: This is amazing. I think it's red cedar. That's what it reminds me of. There's a path in Presqu'ile Provincial Park that I love. It's lined with these old red cedars and it smells amazing. That's what this reminds me of. I could be totally crazy, but who cares. It smells wonderful and I am getting a bottle or 6. I did not expect to love this, I am so happily surprised! My wallet, however....

Wet: Much more pear than I was expecting! And soap. Pear soap. Candied pear soap? Hmmm. Orchid is coming through. It's a much sweeter orchid note than I am used to from the Lab, and a bit high-pitched. Nope! That's the gardenia mixing with the orchid that I am smelling. Gardenia loves to do this "hair spray" thing on me. This is full-on eighties. I kind of dig it. Man it's sweet though! The pear really smells candied on me. Dry: I wanted to love this. I don't. It dries down to essentially a pretty fruity pale floral. It's not bad in any way, it just doesn't wow me. At this point I am so overrun with perfume that something has to wow me to make it into the collection....

Love clove and mahogany. Back musk is iffy. Worried the patchouli will ruin this on me. Wet: Wow, this is a dirty (in a good way - like naughty dirty) clove scent! Really gritty. Black leather and clove cigarettes, for sure. Makes me really want a cigarette, actually (not that it smells like smoke!). Wow, there is so much spicy clove in this that the spot where I am testing it is warm. Not a full on reaction, just a "warming" sensation. I have never had any reaction to clove before. It's getting warmer though...and I am getting worried. Smells great! Clove mainly, I don't really get the other notes. It's sweet though. Dry: The musk finally comes through, bringing this into full on sexy-man territory on me. Very sexy, clove cigarette smoking man. Mmm. I love it. I have no idea if I want to wear it. But I sure want to smell a man wearing it....I think it's a keeper.

Wet: Soft powdery honey skin musk with herbal notes swirling around. Interesting. It's very light. I love that honey musk note, but something in there is bitter and peppery and making me wrinkle my nose. And it's taking over. Dry: I don't love this, but I don't hate it. Kinda "meh" about it. The honey musk is utterly lovely. But there's something else not great in there. Needs a full day wear.

Wet: This is such a beautiful warm, glowing scent. I get a lot of glowing amber and some warm woods (oak? reminds me of Haloes). I get hints of a cleanish vanilla as well. Maybe it's a vanilla musk. This is so so beautiful. I like it way more as a perfume than I did as an atmo. There is something musky in this. Reminds me a bit of Lyonesse - maybe ambergris? I think that's where I am getting the clean vibe from (or maybe "fresh" is a better word?). This is exactly my kind of scent, I put it in the same category as Edith Cushing - that elegant, refined, more than just a "vanilla" vanilla perfume. Dry: This is pure heaven on me. Doesn't morph really as it dries, though perhaps the amber and woods die down and the vanilla and musk/ambergris come forward. A generous soul gave me a tester of it ages ago. I tested it (but somehow didn't review it, which is not like me) and fell in love and was immediately DISO. I am so grateful now to have a bottle, but I love it SO MUCH that I know I will be seeking out a backup. This type of scent is as close as I get to a signature scent. It's so beautiful, and I am so happy to have it.

Wet: Lots of opium. Like, tons of it. ALLLL the opium. And a bit of plum. I thought the violet would be my issue, instead it's the opium that is crazy strong, and not particularly great on me. Dry: This calms down a lot. The plum comes through nicely, and it sweetens up. It's still a lot more opium than I typically wear, but I do kind of like it! Reminds me of a less "clean" version of Stormclouds Over the Midway, which I love. I think I may keep it and see how often I reach for it. I also ADORE the label art for this series. Makes it harder to give up on a scent...