KikuPeach

In the Imp: Juniper maybe? And something sweetish, but tree-y. I get a birchy feeling, but I don't really know. It's interesting - not woody, but tree-y. Wet: Junipowder? No, but still something Needly green and lovely. Is that some sandalwood in the background? Behind the fresh boughs of pine and birch and . . . Mmmm! Dry: still those gorgeous green branches. And a slight muskiness- is this the buckskin? It doesn't seem like most leathers I've smelled, but warm and skin-like, but more. And that dry sweetness- if that's the BPAL hay note, I need to buy Bram Stoker immediately. This scent is beautifully blended, with a light-medium throw and a nice long wear time, though the juniper berries faded in and out, along with an herbal smell- almost like lavender, if it wasn't purple. Played hide-and-seek a bit, whatever it was. The entire is making me regret not knowing more synonyms for 'wonderful' and 'amazing'.

On me, this starts off as a brassy pumpkin-and-chocolate party. The pomegranate? AWOL, but I don't mind. As it wears on, though, everything seems to fade away from the chocolate and cream, until it smells like a syrup-heavy Hazelnut latté. Good smell, but no pumkin on me. Then again, I'm having trouble catching it in number One, as well, so maybe my skin just eats up pumpkins like a big hungry troll. Nom nom nom.

In the imp, this is too much for me - I almost couldn't stand it. Tenatively, I tried it on anyway, and after a moment of diabetic shock, it smoothed out ointo a maple-y, sugary, sweet foodie deliciousness, with a creamy sort of undertone. While I love it on it's own, it sweetens up and slightly ramps down the OMGPUMPKIN of the pumpkins I ordered. May have to buy two bottles of this stuff. 5/5

hunger is like Darkness' little cousin on me (probably that narcissus) - with that sheer sweetness that is nonetheless completely untrustworthy. (I have daffodil issues) This doesn't smell like lust to me. More like deception - a dame in black with a veiled hat, crossing her long legs while the light through the Venetian blinds throws stark bars across the room. This smells . . . noir. This and darkness are like a woman and her grandmother, seperated by century (late nineteenth and mid-twentieth, respectively, but so similar in just what maneaters they are. The sadder but wiser girl.

(This is a review without my notes handy, so indulge me.) Antony smells clean and sexy the way a guy in a well-worn flannel shirt over jeans with two day's growth of stubble does. He smells of outdoors, but not 'woodsy' per se - in a word, gorgeous. The leather and ambergris really ground this, and the basil really greens and cleans it up, keeping it from being muskmuskMUSK with no respite. As great as this smelled on me, and as much as I will purchase more in the future (probably in imps, though, as it's not my 'signature' at all), I gave this one to my brother, who also smells great. Masculine without being harsh, very classical, very Shakespeare. Recommended.

I ordered a bottle of Boomslang, and am loving it. When I first tried, it gor sucked up by my pre-menstrual skin like water by a tribe of Bedouins. Now, it floats very nicely around, perhaps not quite as chocolatey as I had hoped by the description, but floating over my beloved Snake Oil. Next on the list? Definately Candy Butcher, and further down is Centzon Totochtin, an imp of which my beloved Big Sister/Fairy Godmother Ahania sent to me, and makes me feel absolutely deadly. Boomslang is my 'Everyday Temptress' scent, Alice or Y'hanthlei for when I'm playing innocent. :P/ Thanks for all the recommendations - my wishlist has ballooned outward at the speed of sound (that may have been the popping sound I heard), curse every one of you enablers! Thanks again. Chocolately yours, Kikupeach

Oooh! In the imp, it is a DAFFODIL OMG smell, which is okay, I guess, but there's flowers I prefer, and frankly, I'm not much of a floral girl anyway. So it was with trepidation that I continued. Wet on my skin, it seemed actually very spring-y. The daffodils had calmed down a bit, a little bit of spicy that reminded me of paperwhites came out, and I wasn't much fond. I liked the spicy, but this was far to bright for something called "Darkness". Dry? Oh, sweet fancy Magi in sequinned-green turbans! Now the daffodils are those ghostly white ones, stock still in an overgrown 'Secret Garden'-style walled bit of ground, only slightly lit by the smallest amount od moonlight coming through the enormous tree, supporting a swing too rickety and full of sad memories to bear weight. Actually, I have a short story idea, coming out of this perfume. Evocative. Nostalgic. Untrustworthy. Gothic. Romantic. Darkness. 5/5 - one of the few florals that make me cheer. Somberly. Very somberly.

Imp: Warm/sweet Wet: Whoa. Sweet like vanilla sugar, but very powdery. (Vanilla powdered sugar?) Maybe too powdery? I'm losing the sweet underneath . . . Dry: There's the sweetness. So much sweetness that I'm having trouble picking out the honey or amber. Even the vanilla is just a whisper of a hint. This is sheer and sweet, but so light I'm not catching any of the lauded sexy. I'll try again later in my cycle, but for now this is too light and too simple. Here's hoping it's just me, since Honey is my favoritest note ev-ah!

Oh, wow. Ahania sent me an imp of this and sweet Moses on the Mountain, this is amazing. It smells like sweetness with just a little sandalwood under it. I am so distraught that this not only isn'[t available, but is apparently super-rare.

Huh. For how dark-colored this is in the bottle and on my skin, it's a really light smell. The cocoa note is gorgeous, but I have to ram my nose into my wrist to smell it, and the Snake Oil (which I adore) is nowhere. I'm hoping this is a 'wacky hormones eating my perfume' thing, as I can tell that I will love this if it sticks around and stops being such a dreadful little tease. If not, I'll just stick Snake Oil over Centzon totochtin. Le sigh

Ick. Frimp with my Boomslang/Alice order, and it's so far the only scent that I can't find a redeeming feature in, not to mention the first I actually had to wash off of my skin. The roses are nowhere, and I can't tell whether I despise labdanum (what is labdanum, anyway?) or the wild orchid note. I like the smell of orchids, but that's AWOL as well, with only this harsh, icky smell. A swapper. Most definately. Bummer.

Try the 'Picnic in Arkham' scent Y'ha-Nthlei - it's aquatic but sexy, very . . . sinuous? The ambergris adds a fleshliness to an otherwise turquoise-green, shimmer-scaled oil. It makes me feel like a mermaid every time I wear it.

Whoa-oa-oa-oa! *pant* The bunnies, how they toy with me . . . Yesterday afternoon: Centzon Totochtin in it’s imp is unfathomable – it smells dark and bitter but I couldn’t pick out a note. It somehow smelled . . . gritty. I continued, with trepidation. Yesterday Afternoon a few moments later: Wet, it smells salty. I smell like salty peanuts. Like chocolate and wine, being buried in a huge deluge of dangerously salty peanuts. Weird. Yesterday afternoon, a few minutes after a few moments: oh good Lord in heaven. Deep, dark wine, bitter cocoa, dark like espresso. Boozy, sweet and bitter, and darkdarkdark. This is how the Rolling Stones song ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ should smell. I love it. Thanks for the imp, Ahania!

I can afford *one* bottle next paycheck. I want it to be chocolatey. Having done some research, the short list is come to these three: The Candy Butcher Bliss Boomslang I like deep, dark chocolate. This is something for my not shy days. Something with a big throw would be excellent for my hungry skin. Suggestions? Experiences? What made you smell like you were 70% gourmet cocoa?

This is lovely, though I didn't/don't really get individual notes from it. It's a musky, mixy myrrhlike mess, and I adore it. I feel like reading Lawrence and jumping on people. I can't really say more, except that the ylang-ylang is, if anything playing wallflower to the concept, which is great for me, because it can go nutso on my skin. Now I don't want to work. I want to go and live up to my perfume's name.