goddessrobyn

This is very musky on me... and not in a "mmmm sexy, musk" way... more like in an "oh wow, musk ox!" way

after 30 minutes or so the musk dies down and the honey comes out and then it's very soft and sweet and lovely... very sensual, sexy and sweet...

I want to lick my arm to get the taste of it

but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't taste very good

I'm not sure if I want to keep this for the swoon worthy scent I get now or swap it for the musk ox scent I get in the beginning

being in the 7th page of reviews, I don't have much original to add - it's very light, crisp, and beautiful... lemony ginger... I don't get much tea except in the bottle. As others have said, it fades very quickly. I tried it in my scent locket and it didnt seem to help it's staying power

This was part of a switch witch gift and my witch picked the perfect scent for me (I'd never tried it and she sent a 5mL... ) I'm glad I have a lot of it becasue I've been slathering it on every day since it arrived!!!

Beth, if you can create something similar with more ginger bite and more staying power you will officially have taken over my checking account

Okay...

I have been seriously dreading work lately - ready for the holidays I guess - but I thought that since this is a short week (I'm working today and tomorrow then going on vacation until January) I'd apply some Determination.

I'm still not terribly focused on work, but am suddenly quite determined to get back on the diet and exercise wagon (which is a good thing as I have "recently" gained like 10-20 pounds and none of my clothes fit correctly anymore...)

I think the smell is wonderful... am seriously considering buying a big bottle of this as I would wear it as perfume regularly... I admit, it's kind of nasty in the imp, but on the skin it's sweet, resinous, and has a nice faint lemony undertone - sort of the smell of a Lemon Drop - which makes me feel happy and light...

In the bottle, this smells DIVINE... dark and sultry... sexy... powerful... exactly what you'd want the Great Sword of War to smell like...

for the first 30 minutes, I could not stop sniffing my wrists (which made getting dressed and eating breakfast quite interesting...)

then... suddenly and without warning... my perfume turned into Blood Amber... seriously... I smell exactly like I'm wearing Blood Amber... which I like but does NOT go with my mood for the day... luckily it smells nice under a liberal spraying of Perversion...

I recieved this as a Frimp in a Dark Moon decant circle. I didn't remember reading about the scent at all and as such, had no idea what it was supposed to smell like.

So... I tried it on.

At first... it smelled like my father. I swear, it smelled so much like a cologne he used to wear that it made me want to cry. I put this on and it was my father getting dressed to take me out to dinner.

This scent is a mans man who's going out for a nice fat steak dinner... and then... where ever the night takes him. Its the scent the Marlbro Man wears when he cleans up for a date.

So... finding this both comforting (becuase of the memories of my father) and sexy (because, well, its so incredibly manly...) I immediately attacked my husband (who was incredibly good natured about the whole thing considering he told me LONG ago that he was done with the smelly thing... just keep ordering him Wilde and leave him alone with the "testers")

And... ... it smells the same on him...

My husband is now officially the sexiest man on the planet... and I'm going to stop writing this now

and go attack my hubby

I'm a believer in the power of Perversion!!

Desire, Old Scratch, Wanda, and Chimera also have gotten hot and sweaty results.

I agree with everyone else's violet soap comparisons... which is nice... except it appears that I'm horribly allergic to violet soap... I put this on and got about 4 sniffs in when I went into the most awful sneezing fit EVER... and then promptly drug myself into the bathroom to wash it off and cover up what was left with something else. Nice scent, tho not particularly chilly IMHO, but definately not for me...

I am in love with this scent!! The amber is definately prevalent... its warm and inviting... the tonka combines to give a chocolate-y richness... the lavender and rosewood add a but of femininity to it but not enough to make it "girly" just enough to insure that its neither foody nor overly masculine. It has an incensey flair to it as well... reminscent of a NOLA voodoo shop I visited on my trip to Mardi Gras many years ago. I think this is an amazing blend and I'm soooooooooo glad I swapped for it as I will wear this one all the time (cannot stop smelling my wrists... even licked them, but fyi it doesn't taste very good). I also think this would be awesome on the right guy... so I'm going to attempt to get it on my hubby (though he detests being a bpal guinea pig)

Beth, you are amazing and totally did it again!!

I bought this bottle 2nd hand after a meet n sniff... and I must say that I don't get any of the aquatic that most people seem to mention... its buttery in the bottle... a little animalistic but not stinky or masculine...

on it almost immediately goes floral... but not sweet... theres still the undercarriage of the butter that keeps it grounded...

this is definately a good scent... and even though it was a winter moon, I like it just fine in summer!

mmmmmmmm... this is to the nose what massage is to the muscles...

it is very green... a bit on the masculine side... but still neutral enough that I love to wear it...

its really hard to type with nose glued to wrists... I can't pick out any notes in this - not that I'm particulary good at that to begin with - but this is a true blend... nothing sticks out they've all come together in harmony...

I will wear this frequently during the summer... and wish like hell I'd gotten more than one bottle...

oh well... that's what swaps are for

I love this scent so much. its this amazingly heavy scent that somehow doesn't overpower you. The sage sits underneath the fruit and floral (i smell a lot of rose in this one on my skin) and musk and amber and is present just enough to calm you down and say "this is all going to work out... you smell fabulous"

this is a very sexy, very serious scent... it really turns the hubby on...

I am sooooooo glad that I swapped for a 5ml of this...

This is definately one of my "going out" scents

my favorite sexy scents are Perversion, Desire, and Wanda... the first makes me feel super sexy and the hubby loves it... the second 2 I can't apply before we leave the house or we won't actually LEAVE

Le Petit Mort is another good one... I find that Beth takes great care in aptly naming her blends... if there is one with a sexual name it will have a sensuality to it... beyond that its just a matter of finding one that works for your chemistry

I'm with Northernminx on this one... the scent is amazing in the bottle... and as a Southern gal myself I do love me a mint julep on a hot summah's day... but unfortunately once this hits my skin... my mint julep turns to powder... and I'm a-smellin' like a baby's bottom (a clean and powdered one... )

I will have to keep this to sniff in the bottle... and maybe see if it'll make a nice candle or other room scent...

I was so excited about this one as I amber...

Unfortunately this goes from a wonderful amber smell in the bottle to an interesting lemon soap scent... to just soap.

the amber seems to be coming out a little but more now... I can almost smell it under the soap...

I'm very diappointed that this blend doesn't work for me... but at least I smell clean

ETA: One of the things I really like about Beth's blends is that they teach you things about scents and perfumes...

this one teaches patience...

about 2 hours after I wrote this review... my wrists were glorious golden amber.

I don't know if I can wade through the soap phase to wear this one again... but the amber is so delicious that I'm definately going to have to try

I wasn't really a fan of this in the bottle... but on its just lovely...

the rose and the cactus flowers come out to play

I'd say this scent is on the dark side of feminine...

I don't like rose normally... but this one might just make me love it.

I really like this and will definately add it to my big bottle list!!

~robyn

In the bottle this is pure butter... like warm butter cookies...

As soon as it hits my skin, though, the butter disappears... nothing... zip... zero... nada...

this is FLORAL with a capital F... really really sweet... like the boquet the flower girl carries... innocent... almost... cute... but really really really really nice

A light daytime scent... very springtime... very fun... flirty...

And I thought I didn't like florals...

who knew...

thanks, Beth!

ADDED June 9:

I cant remember if I've reviewed this or not... so here goes (again??)...

On me this is every little girls dream perfume... grown up enough to not be "young" but without any sort of overt sexuality. Its a nice light floral (sadly on me none of the yummy buttercream i smell in the bottle...) which I normally don't like... but this doesn't get heady or cloying the way some florals do... its quite literally as if I were walking through a meadow of spring flowers... all day long

I bought 2 bottles of this prepared to love it...

but there is something (the coconut???) in it that is the same as Snow White... and after about 10 minutes of lovely Andes Mint... it turns to this fake plastic coconut smell...

after about 30 minutes... its just plastic... like the molded animal toys I used to get at the zoo when I was a kid...

this will be going up for sale as soon as my heartbreak subsides

I just got the chaos run amuck swap so I'm planning to edit this as I try them to add on to my reviews...

I tried one labeled 22 (so I gues thats XXII) today and though it smelled wonderfully floral in the bottle... by the time I drove to work (about 30mins) it was pure powder

more to come...

Previously reviewed by inkstone.

I got this a a gift from my birthday Sprite and OMG I love it!!!!

its the perfect mix of cinnamon and floral... the perfect blend of sugar and spice... the ultimate duality of a feminine scent...

LOVE!!!

totally going on the big bottle list~!~

I was sooooooo excited about this one... bought the big bottle unsniffed... and am really disappointed

This has MUCHA PIMIENTA (that's much pepper to you non-Spanish speakers)... I can pick up the ginger and the black tea and a bit of the milk... but no honey and no vanilla...

As it dries it sweetens up some... I get other notes a bit but not like I had hoped for...

I tried this yesterday and this morning I can still smell a VERY faint whiff of it on each wrist... NOW I get the blend I hoped for... Sudha Segara with a kick... Dana O Shee for the diabetic set... but unfortunately unless one were to glue one's nostrils to my wrist in an attempt to inhale them... nothing...

I'm not tossing it in the swap pile just yet... I had such high hopes for it that its going to get at least one more trial... but... I fear its not long for my collection...

This is my favorite BPAL

It has that very feminine floral scent to it... but there's a wonderfully seductive spruce undertone that makes it very sophisticated and very... grounded??... don't know if that's the right word...

This is the scent that makes me want to get all dressed up for a night on the town... its high heels and little black dresses... and loads of glittering diamonds...

its what I thought Snow WHite would be for me... but she's not... but this is!!

I LOVE grapefruit so I thought I'd love this... but No... it smells really... uck! on me... dead flowers is the only description that comes to mind...

Smells exactly like it does in the bottle but MUCH stronger... gives me a headache...

will swap when I have regular internet access again...

was nice to try though...

So I finally got a little net access... and what do I do... reviews!!!!

I KoD but as someone said he doesn't last long

He starts out like what I remember CKOne smelling like (its been a while...) fresh and clean and citrusy but not like the orange isle at the local grocery store

Then as he dries he's wonderfully peach-y...

Its nice... soft... very CLEAN smelling... will be nice for days when I can't smell overly smelly

um... this scent makes me want to be naked... and preferably not alone...

this is divine!!!!

sexy, spicy, buttery, ...

this is the smell of the New Orleans Hotel Room when Elliot and Lisa get kinky with the croisants in Exit to Eden...

I tried this this weekend (got in a swap....) and I could not stop sniffing me... I actually (after a few or 12 glasses of wine) found myself licking my wrists...

I turned the imp into a spray with my perfumers alcohol so that I can refresh more frequetly to savor the wonderfulness all over again...

This is my new favorite perfume!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had my first reaction yesterday... Dragon's Tears caused major rashies on my arms... so bad that I had to make the husband pull over at a gas station so that I could go scrub it off...

I know for a fact that I don't have sensitive skin... I wear cinnamon blends all the time... and have worn several other things with dragon's blood so I know its not that... I can only assume its the "aquatic notes" (which if anyone knows what those are please PM me so that I might avoid in the future...)

On a totally unrealted note... I use Lubriderm to mix my oils into when I want lotion... I've only done 1 or 2 but so far I like...

~robyn