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I'm getting an impression of pink & golden floofiness, like a big ruffled peony flower - very pretty & light-hearted. I thought it had some fruit in it but I guess that's coming from the sweet pea. Though it's not my usual type of HG scent, I can see myself wearing this in springtime. And I must plant some sweet peas this year!

I get some fairly decent Rose incense, with no evidence of baby powder or poop (though my hair did seem to pick up a slightly funky note the day after applying, it's not terribly off-putting & is dominated by the incense). Not my favorite rose HG but not bad. Certainly worth trying if the notes intrigue you.

Yum! I agree this is mostly spices with the eggnog taking second place. I also get an occasional waft of something smoky which is very pleasant.

To me, this is reading as sugared lavender and incense. Not sure why - I'm not noticing the pear or bergamot or sandalwood as such & would have guessed there was a bit of champaca or something along those lines. Huh.

I'm very fond of the Blueberry Pie HG & Blueberry Pumpkin Muffins HG gets used heavily, too, so I knew I had to try this one. Apparently I love the smell of blueberries in my hair, because this is also a winner on me. The dry dead leaves & the chypre cut the sweetness of the blueberry note so it's a good choice for when I'm not in the mood for too much sugar.

I get bright sugared plums with nary a wisp of incense. Quite pretty, though, and the plum seems to develop a berry tone as it dries. Raspberry maybe?Definitely light-hearted.

Something with vanilla perhaps? It would sweeten the scent & hopefully reduce the high-pitchedness plus it tends to work well with lavender & rose.

Samhain smells like Samhain but there's slightly less apple in the Hair gloss than the perfume. Still good, though, now that it's the proper season to wear it!

Dark and sinister woods with sweet red fruit & spicy carnation. As it dries, the fruit loses some of its sweetness & an inky note washes across the dark wood. The patch in this is tempered by the musks so that it is deep, rich & smooth. I wasn't expecting this to scent to be my favorite of the Flowering Lines set but it does indeed win!

I was pretty excited about this one but I should have known better - lilies and roses rarely work together well on me. It starts out bright & fruity with the apricot, then the lilies & roses surge forward with a blast of strong, slightly high-pitched floral, the sweet pea makes itself known & the scent starts veering off in a heady tropical direction (I thought there was tuberose or something like that in it) with some spicy carnation anchoring it all. An interesting journey but not for me.

I enjoy the citrusy aspect of the first stage of this scent but the gardenia & tuberose become a little too prominent for this to work on me. It's not overpoweringly loud or anything, just not to my taste.

One of my favorite categories! Apple Pie (BPTP, cinnamon heavy) Lamb's Wool (bit of creaminess) Fearful Pleasure (quite the oakmoss drydown) Goblin Cider (cider with plenty of ginger) Punkie Night (strong tartness from the cranberries) Pumpkin Patch #1 (2005 & 2006 versions) possibly my favorite of all the spiced apple scents Samhain (this scent is Autumn to me & I always get quite a bit of apple from it no matter the vintage) Apple Cider Single Note didn't work for me but might be better on you - I got a cherry note from it On me, Autumn Cider & Spiced Autumn Cider are more fruity than spicy & the apple isn't the dominant fruit, rather a mixture of fruits but they would be worth trying - some people get plenty of spice & apples Apple Orchard Atmosphere spray is awesome if you can find it, as is the Samhain one. Apple Pie also came as a Hair Gloss and a Bath oil, I think.

It's the minty snow note, not the slightly citrusy one that reminds me of 7UP which I prefer. Oh well!

I keep meaning to recommend Dia de los Muertos (... This is a Mexican paean to La Huesuda: dry, crackling leaves, the incense smoke of altars honoring Death and the Dead, funeral bouquets, the candies, chocolates, foods and tobacco of the ofrenda, amaranth, sweet cactus blossom and desert cereus.) I don't really get many of the individual notes - just a loud, sweet, festive floral that makes me happy smelling it. Since it's a scent that appeared numerous years as part of the Weenies, you shouldn't have much trouble finding some to try.

Bast from American Gods would be worth trying: a desert wind alight with myrrh and golden amber, cardamom and honey, bourbon vanilla and cacao. It ended up smelling quite a bit like Morocco plus honey on me. Exotic honeyed musk.

I hope you like Miskatonic University - it smells like butterscotch on me Eat Me is definitely worth trying, as is Dorian which has unfortunately been out of stock for a while now so it might be a bit hard to find, but I'm sure it'll come back eventually. You might like Bengal which is a lovely spiced honey, or Morocco which is more exotic than foody but is very popular. Hellcat is like a very decadent dessert (hazelnut, buttercream, honey mead, rum and sweet almond). It was too much for me but it might work for you. Keep your eyes open for Sugar Skull (A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits), a limited edition Halloween blend which was offered a number of years, so it shouldn't be hard to find a decant on the Sales pages. Sweet with just a hint of fruit - I find it incredibly comforting. Anything with marshmallow in the notes would be worth trying because it usually means a strong vanilla note, like Breathless Chuckle, Stekkjarstaur or Marshmallow Cookie Pie (all LE, sorry!). I feel I should mention that the Swap & Sales pages are a great way to try a lot of things less expensively & to find ones that are not currently available as well as a good way to re-home the scents that don't work on you. It's also a good idea to post a wishlist in the appropriate thread because you never know what people might gift you in a package.

I was expecting this to be herbal, rooty & bitter but it's actually quite a nice blackberry scent. There's a bit of greenery peeking out at times & a fair bit of patchouli in the dry down but berries for the win!

This does totally smell like summer! More specifically, it smells like the lane near where I used to live that had a long fence covered with honeysuckle & the scent would waft way down the block. Lovely scent memory! Honeyed & sweet, yes, but not too cloying. Now I wanna plant a honeysuckle

Fruity roses with a bit of stone & hint of bitter ivy. Very nice! This is my new favorite rose spray - not too perfumey or overly feminine. I keep spritzing it into the basement stairwell & then I notice it as I go up or down the stairs. My DH likes it, too.

My decant of this spray is very soil dominant - I notice some sweet fruit at the beginning but not the sandalwood which is disappointing. I was hoping for a dry cool sandalwood with some supporting fruit & a slight bit of graveyard dirt but I got the opposite proportion. Dirt lovers rejoice! The bruise-purple fruits seem a bit like creamy raspberry to me which I find odd rather than creepy but YMMV .

This is great for Springtime! I love citrus & tea scents so I had high hopes for this one & it does not disappoint. Very refreshing without being strident or coming across as a cleaning product. I notice the black currant in some tanginess at the beginning & perhaps a hint of berry but it melds well with the lemon verbena & mandarin. I don't really sense the green tea but it probably adds to the citrus impression. The japanese incense shows up in the drydown but it's still pretty citrusy. Lovely! If you were wondering how it compares to All Souls with the black currant & incense, I would say it is much lighter & brighter all around with a completely different incense note. So, not very similar

Another one CXXIV (#124): The person I got this from thought it was Dorian & patchouli & I agree there's a little patch in here but overall I get an impression of golden woods & creaminess. Smooth yet rugged & sensual. On the masculine side but could be worn by wood lovers in general - I could easily see this belonging in a Shunga series.

Decant of #273 (also reviewed by Gwydion above) Burnt sugar or sweet smoke, little jasmine, spice, either clove or carnation, possibly vanilla way behind. Nice spicy gingerbread phase, then it goes plastic, which on someone else's skin might be incense-y but not on mine. edited to add: Final drydown is incense-y with some creamy sweetness behind. I just never stuck it out past the plastic phase before.

Decant of 317. Pale amber beginning & then tropical fruit - I'm leaning toward pineapple. Quite heady & sweet, maybe there's a hint of honey?

Decant of #73 Never would have pegged this as a fougere: though it starts out with a light musk, it quickly becomes honeyed & sweet, even rosin-like without any brighter citrus or mossy notes. It stays at this stage quite a while & then becomes something very similar to a light version of Snake Oil. But this is better because it doesn't do the "baby powder of doom" that real Snake Oil does on me (so probably no black musk). I think this really belongs in the Oriental category but I'm happy to have it!