sarahmarie

A frothy, cold coconut perfume, pure and sweet, with gentle wafts of plumeria, pikake, and ala ala wai nui. This is my new favorite summer scent. Tiki Princess so SO GOOD, people. It's perfect. It's a creamy coconut and lush tropical blooms on me, but it wears nice and light - not overbearing at all, which is sometimes a problem for me and florals of any kind. The flowers never sharpen or turn "perfumey" on my skin, and the coconut stays true and lovely. The coconut is also cool, rather than rich, if that makes sense. It's creamy, but still cool and light. The scent is very pretty, summery, not too much even in the crazy heat, and perfectly named. Even if you have past troubles with some of these notes, as I do, give this one a try if it is remotely interesting to you. It's really spot-on.

This one really does smell like purple! It's deep and sweet and kind of crazy. Definitely floral, but that's obvious. It wears sort of bright and very purple...how can I explain the purpleness?? As it dries down, it becomes a darker, slightly muskier lily scent. Pretty, but totally not my thing. Definitely fun, though!

Oh whoa! Fresh out of the imp and on my skin, I get a big solid smack in the face of lemon-y gingery peppertastic spunkiness! Not what I was expecting at all, but fun and bright. As it dries, the honey is coming out more. The major tang of the lemon and cubeb balance the honey really well, so that it's not a big gob of sweetness all at once. I really like it, and if I use up the imp I may want a bottle.

This is such a cool scent. Well, actually, it's warm - and I get chocolate and plum right away. It's evocative of rich, deep velvet- reds and purples and browns. As it dries, I get a slight bit more fruit, the undertone of chocolate remains, but no ginger really ever develops for me. I like this one. I might really like it, but it's hard to say. I think I'll have to wear it again to be sure. On the right person, though, I bet this is 100% knock-out gorgeous and sexy.

I get pine from this when wet. Once the pine is dried down, it's...something I don't usually wear, but I LIKE IT. Is it sandalwood? Is it some kind of resin? I am unsure. But it's warm, and sort of vaguely spicy, and the pine is still there a little bit, but it's more blended in now. There may be a smoky element, too. Whatever this is, I really like it! It's a great winter scent.

In the bottle, this has that...thing I don't like involving cream. I don't know, but the cream notes sometimes smell odd to me in the bottle. It's overwhelming! But not to worry, on my skin that vanishes right away. On my skin, I am surprised by how nicely the notes blend - tea and chocolate almost become sort of one, and I can detect both if I think about them but they blend together perfectly if I don't. I get the berry too - which made me nervous at first, because sometimes berry can go really weird and plasticky on me. It does, briefly - but then it mingles with everything else and it's fine. Now, hours after application, it's still present on my wrist - a feat, for me! And it's so well-blended. The musk has come out a bit, and it's nice, if a little bit sharp, and I think it's helping the scent stick around. The berry, a teensy bit plasticky due to my chemistry, is there, but soft. There are things about it that aren't perfect with my chemistry, but it's good enough that I don't mind that. This is a really nice, beautifully-blended scent that does actually tell a bit of a story.

I am not really sure if I like this one. On me, it's very, very soft - like, almost indetectable. It's creamy and spicey, and vaguely coffee but not much. I'd like to get more coffee from this, and if the cream wore better on me I'd like it more. I'll try it a couple more times before I decide.

It is indeed reminiscent of Snow White, with the vanilla coolness and the lightness of the scent. Combine that with a whisper-light, but still quite detectable and noticeable soft, pink rose scent...and you have Pink Snowballs! This has both a creamy softness and a freshness that make it perfectly balanced. It's a nice, gentle rose that won't hit anyone in the face...they may have to get nice and close to get a good sniff, but they will want to. It's very inviting and pretty, and I think I will really enjoy it this winter. In fact...it might be a huge hit with me. I love Snow White, an I also love Rose Red but have found that rose a bit overpowering at times. This is like a perfect combination of the two, though it is also very much its own scent. It's beautiful.

This scent is really just...perfect! It is everything I've ever wanted in a scent like this. I see a lot of people drawing parallels to marshmellow, cotton candy, etc., but to me, this is just exactly a light, sweet cream scent. I have never had much luck with cream scents before, and often the sugar scents don't work well (either too light or too heavy, usually) - but this manages to work for me! Not only does it work, it's *beautiful*. It's got throw enough that I can smell it a bit around myself as I go through my day today, but it's light enough that it's not cloying or sickening. It's just really lovely, and even though I'm not usually someone who gets backup bottles (I can't afford all the BPAL I want to try, let alone multiple bottles!)...I might want to this time. If it holds up on my skin over time, I bet I'll be wearing this one a lot.

Sexy and suckable: black cherry brandy. It's funny that others are saying this scent had no throw or staying power on them, because...WHOA is it eveer strong on me! We've got big, heady cherry booziness here, straight up and very strong. It dries down to something with much less volume, but it is still quite definitely there. This scent probably just isn't my thing...it's a bit much for me. But if you like fruity, boozy, candy-sweet scents, you are going to love Suck It. It's a big, dark, rich cherry with a nice hit of alcohol. BAM.

I never would have guessed it based on the notes, but this oil is AMAZING on my skin. I've never been able to wear amber/oud/resiny type scents very well, but this is beautiful. It's sexy and light and quite unisex, but still wears very prettily on my skin. I wonder if this is a pregnancy thing (meaning, it smells great on me right now when it usually wouldn't because I'm pregnant) or if this is just Special. Either way, as soon as I can buy perfume again, I'll be getting me some more of this. I tested it at Healthy Living and I can't stop sniffing myself.

oh! I was not expecting this to be so spot-on, since other strawberry scents have failed miserably on my skin - but wet on my skin, this guy is precisely white chocolate and strawberry! I love it! I really hope it holds up on they drydown, because if it does, I will want to marry this scent. GOOD LOARD. Dry: aww, the strawberry has turned slightly, the way it does on my skin, to a slightly plasticky scent. It's not as dramatic as it has been in some blends, and I only smell it that way if I sniff my wrist directly. However! It's still very good, and I am totally willing to wear this in my hair or in a scent locket to make it stay perfect. If this scent sounds appealing to you, you should probably get some - it's truth in advertising, for sure.

On me, this is fruity, but very evenly tempered - something that I often can't say about a lot of fruity scents, which tend to go sharp or fake on my skin (though I always want to love them). It has some depth, a light muskiness, and the sweetness of vanilla. It's nice, and I'm really happy that a fruity scent wears well on me, but I'm finding it hard to describe otherwise- perhaps because it's surreal. I'm probably happy with my imp, but I am glad I got to try it!

I LOVE THIS. Straight out of the bottle, it's wine wine wine-o-rama. My only real complaint, actually, is that there isn't more of that on the drydown. But what I end up with here is a beautiful, warm spiced honey scent, with maybe a touch of the wine. It lasts a long time, and for me, a little goes a lonnnng way. (My spouse has issues with the scent of honey, so I have to wear this carefully - but wear it I will. )

I didn't review this either? Weird! This oil, in the bottle, is completely lovely. It smells like bright, warm, slightly floral honey to me - it's really comforting and delicious. In the bath, it becomes more amber and carnation, and while I don't like that as much as I like the oil in the bottle, it's still a very summery and pleasant scent. I just can't use very much of it at a time, due to sensitivity to amber-y scents. It is great as a moisturizer applied while the skin is still wet - I just use a teeny bit, and it leaves me soft with a pleasant, summery scent.

I can't believe I've never reviewed this! It's like, my favorite thing ever. I have chronic pain of various and sundry types, and this oil is so soothing. It helps with the muscle aches and tightness, and the smell is good no matter how I'm feeling. It doesn't feel greasy, just nice and slick for the massage and light afterwards. Even my extremely oil-averse husband, who hates touching oily and greasy things,w ill use this oil on me because it's so relatively pleasant and so obviously helps me. I could not recommend this oil more, and I sort of want gallons of it to keep around. May they never, ever discontinue this stuff!

I didn't buy a bottle of this because I have Skadi, Talvikku, and Jolasveinar and I figured I was set in the snow-and-pine department. But I did get a partial imp of this, and I'm glad. It has that same snowy-piney goodness of the other guys, but with new and different company. It turns out, I really like the snowy-piney scents, as they are very evocative for me. This one has a more...feminine feel than some of the other ones, less room-scentish and more *perfume*. (Not that all of the above aren't beautiful as perfume, they're just more..foody or atmospheric to me, where as Frau has that musk-and-floral thing going on that makes it feel more traditionally like a perfume.) I haven't decided if this one stands out enough as a good match for my skin chemistry that I should get a bottle, but I am definitely going to enjoy my imp.

On me, this was almost perfumey-green at first, the way some green scents go on me. It was pleasant, but a little bit too perfumey for my tastes. After an hour at the chiropractor's office, I smelled my wrist again - and got a perfect kiwi scent, complete with the sort of tongue-tingling tart...spikiness? of the *flavor* of kiwi. It's awesome. I want to wear it again and look for that wasabi note, since I didn't really pick up on it and would actually really like it to be wasabi-y. I'm not sure how "me" it is but I'm going to hang onto my decant at least for now, just to enjoy that kiwi goodness. But yes, this one is definitely interesting and I recommend if you like fresh, green, and KIWITASTIC scents!

Like rotting leaves, earthy and full of roots and plant material. There's a sweetness to it, but the prevailing scent on my skin is that of autumnal ground. I love that, because I love the fall and this is extremely evocative of the season. That said, I won't want to wear it much and am happy with my decant.

After a few minutes on my skin, this guy is really cool. I don't know if I'll ultimately like it or not, but it's really interesting! I smell fresh carrot peelings. maple, apple, and oats! Oats! It's so weird! Oh, and there's the hay. This scent is very fun, for sure. The drydown leaves me with a sweet oatiness, which is really likable, but there's also a sharpness on my skin that I don't particularly like. I'll have to give it some time and another try to be sure how I feel about it.

I have never had luck with a pumpkin scent, but this one is SO GOOD. It's smooth and sweet but not sickening - it's a grown-up sweetness. I really like it, and I think I need a bottle of it.

Oh oh oh. Um. I am taken aback! This is pretty great! It's light in terms of the weight of the scent, but perfectly evokes a windy, autumnal darkness. It reminds me of Alecto, but without the heavier sweetness and foodiness of that scent. If you have ever liked an airy, woodsy scent, you should definitely try this one. It's amazing.

I didn't expect to, but I really, really like this one. It's sort of...ethereal, very much a garden at night sort of feeling. It's very hard to describe, and isn't something I would normally pick out...but I think I might want a bottle of it. It's pretty and clean like soap, but without being actually soapy or sharp like many scents of its ilk are on my skin. I'm sorry, I know this review is lacking, but I'm having trouble finding any specific words to describe it!

Mantastic! I believe I sniffed this and said something like "whoa holy manliness!" It's quite powerful, quite in-your-face, and very, very fitting for Brom Bones. This little review is based on a bottle sniff only, I had limited skin space to test on and um there you are.

Okay, all I get is strawberry goo - or, more accurately, strawberry pop rocks is what it makes me think of. It's pink like whoa, tart and sweet, and totally not me. If you like strawberry candy, though, I would totally steer you towards this guy. It's fun, it's just not what I want to wear.