Diesis

I will be adding to this review once I finish testing this scent, but I just wanted to put up the small review from someone who tested my decant the other day & wanted to send me their review which includes a small quote of what I said they smelled like (since I know I used to base my buying on reviews, the more the better for someone unsure): I'll add my thoughts once I test it later. But she did smell really good when we went out for Mother's Day. The only time I tried it, I smelled like milk bread & anise, so maybe I'll do better now that it's more settled... once can hope.

For the 2020 blend: I honestly can't do my normal version of a review.I can't even figure out the notes. Whatever is in this that is not working on my skin, I now have an idea of what people who dislike the "poo" note that oudh can get. I could barely get my hand near my face. After about a half an hour, all I could say was it finally had some floral, but it was basically a poo garden, white very few flowers. I have no idea what note or combo of notes decided to go so badly, but I wish I could figure it out, because this is the first BPAL where it's not a matter of just "personal preference, I don't like it" it's an actual, "I cannot be near it." Which makes me sad. It had so many notes that do work on me & in the bottle it had a light floral with what seemed to be the jonquil coming to the front.

Was given a surprise decant of this & gave it a try. In the vial: Sugared strawberries. It reminds me of my mum eating cut up strawberries she would dip in sugar as a dessert. Wet: Candied strawberries. It's very strawberry, but not that artificial sweetener scent, nay nay. Proper strawberries. Nice & sticky with sugar. Dry: It's coming together really well! The Violet Crumble version I never knew I needed! Having had a lemon honeycomb chocolate bar once, this now has firmly made me want a strawberry one! It smells like I could eat it. The honeycomb note is the perfect sticky golden syrup sugar scent (I can almost hear the cronch) & the strawberries are still juicy sweet & fresh. After a few hours, the scent stayed pretty steady & very summery, but slowly morphed into an almost candied glacé scent. Sugary & no longer fresh fruit, but a candied one. The honeycomb has sort of melted into it's more base components of golden syrup & sugar, which is fine. Wear & Throw: It ended up being viable as a scent for about 7 hours & the throw was pretty solid for about as long. On me? It is unisex to perfume, but in the end, it's a candy scent. Final thoughts: I'm not sure I need a bottle. But I think I really need a Violet Crumble.

Normally, I’ll do long reviews, but since this has plenty of reviews & it’s one of those scents you have to go looking for, let’s do a purely from an enjoyment stand point! This is so good. Oh my gods. The anise & allspice are just *chefs kiss* & the nutmeg & gingers make this like a soft gingerbread scent (gingerbread loaf?). I cannot stop smelling it. The drydown brings it more into a really dark, soft spice scent. The anise & brown sugar are in the front & I love it. The whole thing as a mellow, almost amber coloured vibe to it. It’s very comforting & I’d wear this as a sleep scent because as it dries, it really stops being gourmand in anyway. It’s more like living near a bakery, getting subtle ideas of scent or hints of ingredients, but not an aroma of a whole. I do not know how this would have smelled on me at release, but it’s aged in a really spectacular way. I’d wear this to bed, or over to a friends house for a do nothing visit. Mostly though, I’ll just wear this for me, as both a comfort scent & an enjoyment scent. No one ever has to smell it & that’s fine with me. Even better if it helps bring me a bit of luck in the coming times.

Look, it was funny to make a crack at ℬrown Jenkℹ︎n because that’s based on a monster. I know better than to go for a god of any culture. Coconut & I have agreed it’s best if we live in separate universes & I made the mistake of crossing the line that says “my side.” So, I washed it off. However, to use a quote from the person who got it after me, “I don’t know why you hated it, it smells like a perfect day on the beach. The coconut was like haupia! It had the perfect amount of milk & coconut, with whatever that note was for the water. I loved it! I want it in the hair stuff they do! That would be amazing!” So, that will have to stand in. *Haupia is a coconut dessert.

A frimp from long forgotten times… In the imp: I’ll be honest, everyone was talking about this being a comfort scent one day & I was envious, so when I realised we had an imp of it, I didn’t stop & smell it, I didn’t even know what it SHOULD smell like, I just put a test patch on & immediately… Wet: ...regretted a lot of my choices in life. Being impulsive & covetous is one of those things. It’s two, but look, that requires me to do more soul searching than I want to do. The drydowns: After 15 minutes, I washed it off, because look… [let’s pretend for a second we’re on a recipe site & you have to endure my annoying life trauma before I tell you how to boil an egg] when I was young, I was ripped away from all I knew & forced to live on an island. Now, some people might be like, “But Lamp, kids love the beach! The ocean! That sounds great! Eternal summer!” Nay nay, I say [yeah, I watch her, shush], I was a fine little specimen of many generations of Irish & Welsh stock. There were some other cultures in there, but they were just as pathetically burnt by the great fire in the sky, so they weren’t gonna save me. So because of this, I was LOADED with sunscreen. LOADED. Like a little potato smothered in sour cream. It didn’t help. So, very quickly, I learned to just stay out of the sun, but this did not stop the scent of suntan lotion, oil, or even sunscreen (helpfully scented!) from reaching my little pre-beeple nose. So! Is this a comfort scent for me? I think we can answer that with a simple look at the notes. Even my love of incense cannot save this. The coconut is there. It creeps along like a ghost of white sandy beaches & it will burn me like the witch I am. So, 15 minutes was actually an impressive amount of time to let it linger. In all honesty, if I had stopped to really think about the name “Brown Jenkin” & the fact that there is a line of perfumes that come from the nightmarish world of Lovecraft, I should have just stopped at that point, but no. No, I was like, “I too want the love & comfort other’s find with this.” My hubris was rewarded with exactly what it deserved. So, in regard to its namesake? Well done, Beth. It’s not even a golf clap, it’s a full out, clap so hard my hands hurt. Wear & Throw: Don’t mock me. On Me: Look, let’s just stop. This isn’t even a real review anymore. You know it, & I know it. Final thoughts: You like coconut? You like those other notes? This little monster is for you. (For the record, this is not a bad scent. I've been told this is being over dramatic & "extra." I've been told it's actually a very nice floral coconut. For their betrayal, that person is definitely not buried in my garden, no. They are probably on the beach. With a Pina Colada.)

A long forgotten frimp from the lab.... I do not know when I got it, it was in my mum's vanity. In imp: Grass Wet: Grass & what a cucumber tastes like. If you could smell bright green, which some people can [but I doubt it smells the same to all of them], it would be this. In the drydowns: It doesn’t really change much. It pretty much declares it’s a cucumber & doesn’t really change it’s position on that. Which, I don’t know what I expected, given the name. Maybe I’m grateful there was nothing to give the idea it was squirting anything. It remained a cucumber. Wear & Throw: It stayed a cucumber for a solid 4 hours, then it sort of rolled away to be a figment of a cucumber. The throw, thankfully, was low. I was going to make a squirting pun, but it even grossed me out. On Me? It’s unisex. I mean, I don’t really know what else a cucumber can be. I guess you could make a cologne pun, or even a perfume pun, but in the end, everyone can have a nice time with a cucumber. Final thoughts: I won’t judge, but I do not want to smell like a salad bar & that’s the kind of cucumber it wants to be. Not a fancy spa where they put slices on your eyes, or in fizzy water. It’s a gas station salad bar & that’s not my thing.

I want to just pitch in for "Figure in Attic Window" as an atmospheric one. It is a very peaceful sort of scent (to me) & reminds me of walking up long paths ways in the gloom with wind rustling trees. Very autumn in the North West, or just anywhere it gets cold & has seasons. It's a very grey-purple scent & I love it. Also, Jack... love it. Very traditional scent notes in there & cozy feeling. I'd also throw in for Nosferatu. I always describe it to people as a mulled wine, autumnal scent & I always think of it as more of an apple cider than a wine scent (maybe because I've never had good wine to save my life, just those fruity wines). Blood is also a good autumnal one, very clove forward (to me, maybe it's not quite for others). Perversion is listed among my fall scents (I believe I have it down in my notes as "autumn goth cookie candle"). Those are some of my long standing "get in the spooky mood" favs that are always around (save for the first one, that is a brand new love that I need 80 of).

Sadly, this is all coconut with a bit of tobacco as a hint of backing to it. Like a suntan oil someone wanted to make smell bespoke. I tested it without checking the notes but knew there was coconut as soon as it was on my skin. Not much more I can say on this review as even an hour out, it’s still just a different smelling coconut tanning oil. At least my mum likes coconut oils in her oil burner. Not all is lost!

I wanted to get this done & up while the Weenies were still up on the site because I absolutely love this one!! (This was a bit long, because I personally like reading longer reviews.... but I put it behind a thingie so it shortened it up. Final Thoughts: Gorgeous scent! This may be one of the more perfect star anise, as well as bergamot, scents I’ve tried. Everytime I caught a whiff of it, I did a quick sniff of my wrist (it was on my inner & outer wrists, inner elbows, & decolletage to test it for a third time to write this up) like some kind of star anise bloodhound, but I also found myself thinking it smelled like a really pretty grey-purple. Like being outside just after sunset in the winter & walking up a long drive or road with trees on both sides making that shivering noise in the wind (that's the leaves telling secrets). None of it scary, but quiet & peaceful & I loved the scent even more. I metaphorically ran to buy a back up (or 7).

In bottle: Booze. It's just booze. Wet: It's musky booze now. Someone had sex in this booze. Dry: O.K. now it's very naughty musk mixed with honey & totally smashed. After a few minutes: There's an orgy & everyone is drunk. Bees. Drunk bees. Drunk bee orgy. I'm not here for this. After first hour: Much like the Bright Red Dildo, I have tried three times & this is as far as I get. The very last time, I made it past this because I was convinced I was going to keep this. CONVINCED. After two and a half hours: I am not convinced. Final Thoughts: You know what? Life is too short to keep TRYING to like a perfume. This is just dirty musky booze. There is honey, but it’s always overwhelmed by the boozy musk. Not the kind I like, it’s very sweaty, after sex skin musk. Which can be uber sexy, but when mixed with the booze, I just want a shower. The honey just makes everything feel sticky. I tried to love you, but I just can’t. This was a one night stand at best & I let it drag out. Even if this was phrased like a shunga "Bees in orgiastic drunken revel" (which I would buy, just as foolishly hopeful), it still wouldn't work out & I love bees & honey & the idea of bees being REALLY happy. But in the end, this was part of the Halloween 2020 collection, so a horror story is what I got myself stuck in. These are bees wearing paper devil costumes & that honey is a drug that turned me into a shadow with teeth & no one is happy about any of it. (That last part is a game reference & it's just as much of a horror story about honey as this was with my skin chemistry... I hope that makes the review less sad & more like "This person has a very weird life" entertaining.) Wear: No thank you. Throw: As far as a bee will take it for me. But otherwise, about an arms length. On me? It's a unisex leaning to cologne scent. That's not to say it is only that, but if this were marketed by a typical perfumery, I'd be demographic for that skin chemistry. (I'm only including this because it's a thing I always want to know.) (It's mostly unisex, but I'd also say it's more cologne leaning based of how it smells on me or who I'd rather smell it on. Also, this does not denote a gender or person who cannot wear it, but the feel it gives off to me.)

2020 Version In bottle: A murky honey with a subtle leather. Wet: I've made a terrible mistake. Dry: I've said my safe word, please stop. After a few minutes: O.K. I'm gonna level with you all, I never make it much past this, but on my third try, I gritted my teeth & tried. After the first hour: I didn't make it past this. Final Thoughts: So here's the thing about leather... I don't like it. I don't like it as furniture, or clothes, or anything. I have a black purse that I love made of leather & that's it. I thought I liked it in BPAL, but I think it was a single perfume from like 2012? That was it. Since then, I have learned I amp a lot of the leather notes & I don't like any of them. This one in particular. You shouldn't have to fake it when you're alone, so you shouldn't have to try so hard to like a perfume when you're the only one smelling it either. So, I will be putting this on the "Please leave." pile like it's an ex that keeps calling & I need to block their number. tl;DR: It smelled like sticky leather. Leather from an expensive car where everyone is very hot & the AC is broken. Yeah, that wasn't the kind of hot I meant... I meant musky hot & this doesn't list musk. Wear: I don't know. It's not that kind of dil... I washed it off. Throw: Pretty far. The bottle is small, so I mean, you can really build up a good fling with it. Scent wise, about 6 feet, so... it's impressive for that. On me? It's a cologne scent. That's not to say it is only that, but if this were marketed by a typical perfumery, I'd be demographic for that skin chemistry. (I'm only including this because it's a thing I always want to know.) (It's more cologne leaning based of how it smells on me or who I'd rather smell it on. Also, this does not denote a gender or person who cannot wear it, but the feel it gives off to me.) I hope we can appreciate how few innuendos I made. Also, I did not ACTUALLY throw the bottle. At some point it will be listed for sale/trade/whatever. I am against perfume abuse.

2010 version In bottle: A creamy peppermint, maybe? Wet: First off, no. A cologne? Something woodsy, pine forest. Would love this on a SO. Not sure it’s working on my body chemistry. I see why some people said it smelled like pine though. No snow notes anymore. Dry: It just gets worse?!?! After a few minutes: O.K. now it smells like very cheap shaving cream. That imitation pine & mint. With a sort of soap backdrop? I'm not sure. It's not what I would think of for the description. After the first hour: I want to wash it off, it's just shaving cream. Final Thoughts: I washed it off. It was not playing well on my skin AT ALL. I have no idea why this was so wrong on me, but wow. Wear: N/A Throw: A solid 3 or four feet. On me? It's a cologne scent. That's not to say it is only that, but if this were marketed by a typical perfumery & I was the scent model. (I'm only including this because it's a thing I always want to know.) (It's cologne leaning based of how it smells on me. Also, this does not denote a gender, it is just a scent grouping.) Judging by the reviews, also by my own poor history with the snow notes of the past, this had to be down to my skin chemistry. Tried it twice, two weeks apart & it never really faltered to turn into shaving cream. Away with thee!

Y’all... my Pumpkin Pie Musk is about dead. What is the closest I can get to it? I already have Jack (who vanishes faster than a will o’wisp).

Wow! This is gorgeous! (sorry for the length, I'm someone who wants to know more about a scent before buying, so I was trying to be detailed) In the bottle: Something sweet, something spicy, something a little floral. It all blends so nicely. Wet: Right on, it was very sweet, but in a spiced sugar way. Then it sort of went a little sour in a strange way (I almost thought it had oudh, but it wasn't quite that). After a few minutes, it calmed down. Bit more of that sweet spice note again, with the fruit coming up. Dry: Wow, this is so nice! It's very evocative of a dark night that still has a moon out. The frankincense is the most notable note with the sweet fruit note of the blackcurrant accompanying it. Together there's a nice spicy, sweet, lightly fruity scent that feels like spiced tea on a cold night. But the caramelised amber is keeping it from drifting into a summery or spring night with that heavier powder scent that's almost a sweet honey note. The amber isn't turning into the almost perfume powder I'm used to, it's more of a honey dust powder. This may be the first time something with the black note hasn't slowly morphed into a leather note on me.... There is a sort of night blooming flower note hidden under it all, but I have no idea what it is. Looking up 'mottia attar' is just.... not helpful as it says it's a type of jasmine & there is not hint of jasmine I am familiar with. A few hours later, it's this great sugary sweet incense note (almost what I wanted 7 Word: Lust to be) with a really lazy, floral note under it that reminds me of night blooming flowers around my house (though not the night blooming jasmine I know, which is great, because I loathe that tree). Leaving me with what feels like a dark night, not moonless because the flowers wouldn't bloom, that has some old god of dark things bringing me flowers & I do not mind at all. Throw is not bad, about a foot. Shouldn't bother anyone & hopefully the right person will lean in for a better smell... Note: It layers really well with a lavender sleep oil (a light one). PSA: Just learned what "mottia attar" is! It's something called "Jasmine sambac" & it's a night blooming flower. Not night blooming jasmine that I am used to, no (it's not real jasmine, come to learn... it's jessmine or poisonberry). But it is a flower I know. It's the flower that grows around my house that I mentioned. We call it "pikake" & make lei's out it & I almost threw my phone when I finally ran across that piece of information because I almost said above, "it smells like pikake leis." The more you know.

I wanted to like this so so so badly. Mainly because with the fig as one note, I figured it had to be something I'd like. To be fair, in the bottle, it ALMOST smelled like a strange fruit cake & I was down for that. It wasn't what I wanted, but it was not bad. Wet: O.K. well, it's not fig cough syrup, but it's not really fig anything. I'm not sure it's cherry either. My skin has turned it into a sort of sticky molasses smell that might be expired. Dry: Nope. No thank you. It smells like tyre rubber & I would like it to go home. To give it a fair shake though, I waited an hour. Around then, it morphed into a tyre that someone had braked too hard with & I decided I needed to drive it home, it was drunk. I washed it off my wrists, inner elbow, & one shoulder (a surprisingly good test spot if you don't have to cover it any time soon). Decent throw, though. No one was around for the test, so I couldn't get a second opinion. (For anyone who saw my post about being able to smell now, this is after that. The note prior just said, "In bottle: Smells like a cherry cake. Should be lovely." It has nothing else, so I assume I promptly forgot I owned it.)

Wet: Not frozen, not blood. It almost smells like a flower? Maybe a very generic floral deodorant? Dry: Still has a floral insinuation, but there is something else there. Something dark & a bit sharp. I want to say blood, but it’s closer to actual copper. Copper & some kind of night flower, maybe mottia attar? It’s not strong though, so I don’t hate it. It’s all subtle & quiet. Like the silence of driving at night when street lights flicker over head. It smells like that. Maybe that isn’t a smell to anyone else, but it is for me. Also, there is nothing cold about it. This is more like Blood Showers Bring Bleeding Heart Flowers. Warm, juicy, you’re-probably-bleeding-out blood. Nothing frozen at all. About 3 hours later I almost smell a medicinal fruit. Something really tart, like a lingonberry or pomegranate, but closer to lingon. The medicinal sharp crack is almost like when you walk through a hospital & you’re in the “family friendly” areas. Waiting rooms, the front entrance halls. The places they want to look nice & when they clean them, they sometimes have a scent or they spray the air? When I was in hospital, they always had this odd floral cleaner. I could never figure out what flower the cleaning company had smelled & then thought, “Let’s try for that.” Somewhere between a lilly & a very cheap candle that only thinks it’s a rose. Weirdly enough though, it still smells good. Like… it’s not gourmand, but I wanna lick it. I WON’T but I want to. Maybe this is that point it becomes a blood popsicle. Still no cold notes, but I do want to lick it. It stayed this way till it disappeared after about 8 hours (in the times I’ve worn it, it’s gone from 4 at the shortest to around 9 or so at the longest). Throw is ok, nothing far. Wear length is average, around ~7 hours. Final thoughts: I like it. It’s not my normal fare, but it’s very strange & interesting. I’ve had a couple bottles over the years & really, it can vary depending on hormones, but for the most part it stays within the same idea of the review. A few times my body chemistry was weird enough to swing it more blood notes or the complete opposite & it was a very weird meat flower.

Oman frankincense, cistus labdanum, white sandalwood, and liquidambar. This was a review of the second release, on a slightly aged bottle (about 2 years): Wet: Subtle, nice. It smells a bit like dry dirt. It almost disappears entirely, actually. Still there, but barely. Hidden. Which is odd for the wet stage. Dry: About 10 minutes later, it decided to show back up. Which seems oddly appropriate for a scent about being in a temple. Faith, gods, even commitment to anything in a temple can sometimes come & go. It starts out coming back very dry & powdery. Fairly sure it's the sandalwood with the frankincense attempting to overpower. About an hour later, surprisingly, it's the liquidamber that comes out on top. The sandalwood is still there, but that lovely honey-like resin of the liquidamber took over & mixing with that spicy sort of wood note that sandalwood can have on me, it's quite divine. My little temple is throwing well too. Not too far & still a subtle scent, but I can smell it with my arm outstretched. I like that it wants to be oman frankincense, but it doesn't have that funny little citrus? snap to it (I don't know what else to use as a way to describe the difference of frankincense to other things except it wants to have a citrus snap in it & not just stay as a sweet woodsy resin that screams "I am in a censure"). I can't find the cistus (bummer, it's a favourite of mine & I quite miss rock roses where I currently live... the scent isn't the same, but it's a nice reminder), but that's O.K. In the end, it's definitely a temple & not a church. I cannot take Hozier here. Decent wear time too. Almost 12 hours. Final thoughts: It feels like a temple with torches flickering. A place you'd be at night in a place you wouldn't really understand. A place far away, in time & not just distance. I've always thought this was beautiful (this is my fourth bottle) & I have no idea where it fits in the movie (I've seen it once & I don't remember it beyond loving Tilda Swinton's hair), though I've heard the song a number of times & it matches the tone of that perfectly, but I can imagine the idea of two ancient creatures in an ancient place for no reason other than it reminds them of something that isn't there anymore.

In The Bottle: It smells very soft & quiet but otherwise, I can't identify it beyond a "perfume" smell. Wet: I have no idea, but it's gorgeous. I love it. I may wear this everyday (though a few of my staple scents might cry). Dry: Still perfection, but I am noticing SOME scent notes, but not easily. This is blended so well on my skin chemistry. I amp elemi pretty easily (it's a fav scent too & it it pulls the bergamot up a bit, which is nice as it's another favourite scent), as well as juniper. So I can smell both (though they are mixed in well). I can also find moonflower, iris, & the general woods scent. I have to hunt for all & it works best if I can smell the item then the perfume on my arm. So, it's easier to trigger my brain to remember those scents & find them, I can't for the others. Otherwise, it's just a wonderful blend that invokes a cool night time walk that makes you wonder what flowers bloom at night (it also made me think of a big of night blooming jasmine, but those are so much more cloying). Wear: About 4-6 hours. Throw: Seems about a foot for the first few hours, then gradually reduces & the last two hours or so, you need to be right next to me. Final thoughts: Love it. When I bought it, I was so worried because that's a lot of things in a scent, but they blend so well. It's just perfection.

(I'm reviewing this as a scent, because ultimately, that's how I plan to use it. The intent it has is best served to me as a scent, & not just a feeling aspect) In The Bottle: I am no good at this game & all my mum said is "flowery." She said it with concern though, like I wasn't sure what I was getting into. I was wearing it out for my birthday & it was the one she chose out of the three options she was offered (I had just received my order.... on a Sunday..... what kind of black magic..... anyway....). Wet: Pretty, I can smell the honey & the frankincense (I always find that). I can smell the lovely green of the violet leaf in there as well with an undercurrent of the benzoin. Also, I can't help but notice there may be rose in this. Dry: Yeah, I am pretty sure this MAY have rose in it. This is not a knock on it for me, but for those of you who do not like rose, you MAY not enjoy this if you amp rose. I usually do not. So, that has been a bummer in some other BPAL scents with rose as I like rose. It was there, but I kind of had to "listen" for it. This? No. It slapped me in the face like a kinky Valentine & it DEFINITELY called me pretty. It is not the rose of my elders, it is more a soft, sensual rose as the honey is still there to stop that powdery tip over. This also stays free of scents from days past because of that background greenery that just warms you up. The Balm of Gilead, Franky, & the violet leaf. All quietly humming a little green tune in the back. The benzoin helped pull them all together a bit more & I think it maybe what shut down the orris so much (usually that's a huge floral on me) & it barely showed up. Maybe as this ages. Wear: Well, it's about 12 hours later & it's still insisting on explaining it has rose in it. But all that is left in the bar with it, is frankincense. Throw: Right now? No clue! For the first 2 hours... no real clue, but the whole house smelled like roses & "a hidden Christmas tree." I don't think my mum knows what Gilead smells like (maybe to some extent the benzoin), but she can obviously smell it more than me. Once we got to where we were going, a solid 6 feet. We were outside at one point to watch the ISS fly over & one of the people who said I smelled pretty was at an appropriate social distance & could smell me. Final thoughts: I like it. As arose scent that is properly rose, it's very nice. I got told three times (bar my family) I smelled pretty, so WIN! It definitely met the "gentle pick me" & "sensuous aspect." I'd like to hope that maybe some of the other things will happen with a few more outings of it (deserving happiness, especially). I could use that. (Sorry this was so long. I'm still awake & I really do like it, so I thought I'd try to be a better reviewer.)

Got this at some point in the last 6 months as a frimp. Just tried it (dumped most in a bath, so very diluted, but all of me smells lovely!) & saved a bit for wrists. Really like it! I try not to read about scents before trying (some scents will auto make me pass, but I've found a few I would have passed on I liked & some I would have auto-bought as awful) so I wasn't sure what I was picking up. I kept thinking it seemed like something you'd smell in the autumn. The name told me it was most likely not made for any season, but that was what my brain thought. Something dark, but warm. I couldn't quite figure it out but after a bit thought it was kind of sugar cookie, but not quite (not foodie smelling enough, but sugar cookie was all I could come up with). I still am not sure what I am smelling & why I like it, but I saw someone on here compare it to a holiday candle & I realised, that's it! What candle makers think a sugar cookie is. Or what my holiday cocoa & marshmallows body wash is similar to. Whatever that undercurrent is. What stops it being foodie is the leather. I seem to amp that. So, it's a naughty sugar cookie candle (that's fair, better than coal!). Either way, very pleasant! I don't think I need a bottle, but enjoyed it!

I got an imp of this a few months ago. I just tried it last night. Imp: Clove. Just clove. But I'm rubbish at noticing things in the bottles/imps. On My Skin: Myrrh & Clove (I am not sure what Dragon's Blood smells like, but I amp resins, so that might be that extra oomphy behind the clove or amping the clove?). The knowledge (now) that this has cherry? I would have told you you were joking. I never smelled cherry (it's been about 18 hours & my wrists are just a subtle clove). I also like that the clove feels dark & smooth & not like I am a pie. I dumped it in a bath. So, basically, I smelled like this for a few hours (diluted, but that clove stuck it's landing, with myrrh cheering). I absolutely love it! It's on my wishlist for a bottle of it.