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Dorian (almost colorless with a yellow tint) Imp: slick, sweet, clean and light. Skin: Now I know what the hype is about. There is a very faint touch of lavender, but Dorian is mostly vanilla tea. Its sweet, but it doesn't smell like a girl, a definite winner for boyfriends. I tried Theodosius before Dorian, and both are very similar. Theo was more grown-up and manly. Dorian is sweeter, gentler but deceptively. I didn't get much throw; Dorian melted right into my skin, and became like a second flesh. Decadance in a bottle. I am in love. An all-year round, snuggle scent for the pretty boys dressed in lace.

Gluttony (light yellow oil) Imp: Toffee, butter, caramel. Skin: It starts with a strong nutty caramel scent, the chocolate wasn't as strong as I thought it would be. The buttery scent in the imp was also nowhere to be found. I got more of the hazelnut praline out of it. Bloated and sweet indeed! The drydown isn't as gourmand as the beginning - It develops a heavy veil of smoke. The nutty caramel stayed right till the end. A gooey, sugar-loaded sticky scent. Toasty, heavy, Autumn and Winter.

Mme.Moriarty, Misfortune Teller (orange oil) decant: a bit perfumy, can smell the patchouli, and it smells aquatic too. Skin: Can smell the earthiness of patchouli, with a slight bitter edge. What amazes me with Mme.Moriarty is the depth. Its dark, deep, sweet but not cloying in the least. Mostly it is patchouli, vanilla, musk and something exotic...the fruit is just enough to give the scent with a reddish character; I cannot pick them out individually. Sophisticated and mysterious, this smells like a woman with many secrets. I sniffed Crypt Queen before I got this, and they have a similar vibe. Crypt queen was mossier, sweeter, and is not dark, but melancholic. A scent for gloomy/lightning days.

Green Tree Viper (deep yellow oil) Decant: Smells like the creamy green bits in mint chocolate. Skin: Wow, the mint whacks you on the head! It doesn't smell as foodie as it did in the imp. Its very cool and bright, almost cold, but there is a certain creaminess to it where the vanilla lies. The mint dies down in an hour or so, and I am left with a very soft, smooth scent that makes me imagine a cream green colour. I didn't get that much vanilla residue like I got in Temple Viper. medium weight, middle pitch, all year round scent

Temple viper (yellowish orange oil) Decant: Sweet vanilla, a bit perfumy and airy. Yum.... Skin: Walking in a hippie shop with a bag of vanilla candy. Hee. Its sweet and incensy, I think a lot of people will like this. When the oil dries, the hippiness fades and its dry and spicey vanilla with just a hint of wood. I haven't sniffed snake oil yet , so I can't really tell if what I am getting is pure snake oil or not, but its nice. Will edit this later when I know what pure snake oil smells like. About the grapey comment - yeah, its really strange but after wearing this for a while, the scent does morph into something familiar to a grape fanta. But when I stick my nose close and curiously sniff it, the notes kind of seperate out, and I don't smell the grape anymore. warm, low-pitch, medium weight blend for autumn/winter.

Tanin'iver (reddish brown oil) gImp (Thank you!) : sweet and syrupy, with cassia. Skin: Its not sweet like it was in the imp. The cassia is strong, very spicy, and once the oil drys there is that thick and creamy dustiness from the resins. I didn't get the pomegranate, or the mimosa, and can barely catch the patchouli. Very stable, and lasts a long time!! It smells exactly like a Nikki-ame (cassia candy). A thick, toasty autumn/winter blend.

Red Lantern 2007 (yellow oil) gImp (Thank you!): toasted coconut, almost cookie like (is it the caramel?) with Tobacco. Skin: Toasted coconut and caramel, with a hint of tobacco. When I suck in deeply, I can smell an airy floral laced with spice. Once the oil sets, the initial sweetness is softer and the opium hits! The coconut is not so foodie, the floral note is stronger and the effect is seductive. The end is a sweet, spicy oriental smoke. It fits the image of Shanghai 1930's opium den perfectly. Heavy weight, warm winter/evening scent.

Bayou (yellow oil) gImp (Thank you!): Sour, a bit powdery and a touch of jasmine? Skin: This will be an review of aged Bayou - because the label on my imp is different. First time I've seen the old version! I'm chuffed! On skin Bayou is floral as can be. It is also powdery, but has a certain brightness to it - I am not getting any swamp or earth vibes out of it. After leaving it to dry, it is very soft and womanly. When I suck in deeply, it does has a reminiscence of once being earthy - but only very, very gently. I am interested to know how this is fresh.

The Coiled Serpent (deep yellow oil) gImp (Thank you!): acrid, nutty, and a tad sour. Skin: The moment it hit skin, acrid and nutty went away. I got cedar wood, some patchouli, a touch of vetiver, a whiff of benzoin. A very woody and dry incense blend. The stongest note on me, was the same cedar found in Kathmandu. Very stable. Lasts like crazy! Heavy weight, skinwarm wood blend, for evenings.

Schwarzer Mond (orange oil) Bottle: aquatic, earthy cola. Skin: I got this because of all the previous reviews saying it smells like cola. And I'm glad I swapped for this, I love it. It starts of as a patchouli-cola, and it dries down warm and spicy. Beautiful resins, very deep and compelling. A man would smell sexy in it, and a woman would smell handsome in it. Its a scent I would wear like a black cashmere sweater. I know I will finish the bottle. A dark, warm autumn and winter night blend.

Arkham (light yellow oil) Pfrimp (thank you!): soapy, and a bit sharp. Skin: How strange. This has a clean feel to it, but not a buffed up polished clean; more like drink this detergent and you die! kind of clean. The woods were so subtle, I would almost call this a complete floral scent. The drydown isn't as harsh, its much gentler, but retains a poisonous air. Quite sweet and longlasting too. A perfume for a dangerous woman. Heavy weight, cool to touch, winter and spring scent.

The Caterpillar (yellow oil) Pfrimp (thank you!): head shop incense and jasmine. Skin: While wet, its jasmine with a trace of floury incense in the edges. As it dries, its all jasmine and neroli on me! And it gets sweeter and more high pitched as time goes by. I get more floury too. The incense had disappeared during the middle stage, but at the very end, it made a comeback and I could smell it as aftertrace. Who ever thought the caterpillar was such a feminine creature? Powerful stuff, however, and you could smell it as if you were tasting it through a hookah. Has to be applied lightly. Heavy weight, body temperature, evening scent.

Calico Jack (orange oil) Pfrimp (thank you!): sweet marine note, muscular. Cologney. Skin: While its wet, its waaay too musky and spicey, but when it dries its very well behaved. I get a spicey aquatic blend with a touch of wood. The kelp adds such a nice roundness; as for the leather, its so faint, it didn't bother me at all. Dries down into a very soft spiced marine note. I think this will do nicely for men, but women can wear it too! A sensual marine blend. Middle to heavy weight, breezy warm, Summer scent.

Delirium (almost colorless yellow oil) Pfrimp (thank you!): exactly as the description says. Skin: Lemon! lemon lemon lemon...apple? Straight off I got lemon, with only some apple coming through now and then. I didn't get any roses until the drydown. Something in the lemon was really choking powdery on me all the way. This turned out to be a bpal that didn't agree with me. Heavy weight, room temperature, Summer scent

Jester (pale yellow oil) Imp: fruit candy with a twist. Skin: Fresh berries, with an aftertaste of neroli. This is such a bright and playful scent - this isn't one of those scheming, eerie jesters we get in horror shows. Its one of those good-natured jesters that simply like to see people laugh. I smiled when I took the initial sniff. In the beginning the berries are stronger, but as it dries it balances out with the neroli. This is such a happy and bouncey scent, its perfect for little girls. Not something I would wear myself, but I would think of giving it as a gift to my little nieces. Middle to light weight, sunnyday, Summer scent.

Zorya (light orange oil) Imp: jasmine, soft powder, and a hint of sourness. Skin: I found this very similar to "Midnight", with a definite jasmine note plus musk. It dries down to a soft floral powder, but somehow gains a cool and airy feel. I also felt a very slight hint of something salty that made it much more pallatable than superfloral jasmines. I liked this better than Midnight, midnight went a bit sour on me. This managed to be dainty and glamourous at the same time. Middle weight, slightly chilly, Winter scent.

Kitsunetsuki (light greenish yellow oil) Imp: Smells like a fruity hairgel. Skin: A touch stem-green, maybe from the orchid, yes jasmine, yes daffodil...Where's plum? Ah well. *leaves it for a few minutes* AaaaH, plum, THERE you are!! Plum needed some time to come out, but when it does, its sweet and juicy just as I imagined it would be. One thing that I didn't like in the scent was the musk. It was far too strong for me. light weight, room temperature, Spring scent.

Snow Moon (light yellow oil) Imp: sugared fir. Skin: This is like a uberfeminine dracul sweetened up and put in a pretty white dress. I like the sweet chrysanthemum I catch every now and then! I never imagined fir and flowers would smell this good together. There is something almost vanilla like in the sweetness. Sadly I got something raw and a hint powdery...I'm guessing its the narcissus, because that smells funny on me, but even so I thought this was beautiful. It doesn't smell cold, but its snowy in a sense that it has something similar to the feeling you get when you step on a sheet of fresh snow. Its so hard to describe. I like this a lot, and am thankful for my sniffie! Light weight, cool to touch, Winter and Spring scent.

Dian's Bud (colorless oil) Imp: watery, green and sweet. Skin: cucumber and aloe with a clear fruity sweetness. I wonder what fruit it is? ... a whitish green fruit, anyway. Its pleasant and cheery, although a bit too sweet for my tastes. There is a dash of flowers, but "green fruity sweetness" is the strongest impression I get. And, yeah, I can imagine this being a bubblebath scent! Light weight, breezy, Summer scent.

Urennyaya (pale yellow oil) Imp: Smells minty cool and floral. Something nostalgic about this... Skin: Sweet mint and palmarosa, palmarosa being the strongest note. The florals, rose in particular, dance at the edges. I didn't get any apparent sandalwood, except for hints in the palmarosa. This is calming - I wouldn't be surprised if somebody used this more as an aroma oil than perfume. It has a sense of tranquility about it. I relaxed and sunk into my beanbag after sniffing this. Good for stress! Light weight, gently cool, Allyear scent.

The ghostly White Women of the Scottish highlands. They seduce unwary travelers by night with their unearthly beauty and mesmerizing dancing. They engage their victims in a wild, hypnotic dance, and once they reach exhaustion, the demonesses exsanguinate their partners with their vampiric kiss. Talk about a quick courtship. Grapefruit, white tea, apple blossom and ginger. Baobhan Sith (yellow oil) Imp: grapefruit and tea Skin: While wet, this screams GRAPEFRUIT! Like biting into one rind and all, very acidic. Ugh! And it stays this way for a while - I can smell the tea and ginger trying to fight their way through, battling grapefruit for half and hour. After they claim their victory, the scent is round and mellow. The acidic sharpness is gone. Its really, really pretty in this stage!! However there's something in the back that doesn't work for me that leaves a trace of bitterness in my sinuses. If this wasn't there I would have considered a bottle. Light-weight, Middle to high pitch, Summer scent.

Ecstacy of Infatuation (almost colorless yellow-green oil) Imp: watery cherry with a slight citrus twist. Skin: Grapefruit, grapes, cherry and flowers. Its beautiful. I agree with alicia, the fruit doesn't smell foody, it blends in beautifully with the flowers. The verbana is just a touch, and as for the ginger...well, I didn't catch it This gets quite musky in the finish. Before the musk hits, this smells clean and romantic. Like being 14 and in love with someone you haven't even talked to before. Light weight, breezy cool, Spring and Summer blend.

The perfumed garden (Yellow Oil) I am guessing this is the 2006 version by previous reviews. frimp (Thank you!) : Sweet and high pitched flowers. Skin: Jasmine! But its not the heavy bitter note jasmine, its the well behaved jasmine. Creamy, and slightly sour on the edges, but beautiful. I can smell some apple too. This lightens it up a few levels, usually I find jasmine quite heavy. In the drydown there is something softly woody; maybe this is the sandalwood? But it is so gentle, almost unnoticable. A feminine, soft and round jasmine blend. heavy to middle weight, room temperature, Winter and Spring blend.

Sundew (Very yellow oil) Imp: Smells a bit sour and soapy. Skin: This blooms on skin. Not sour at all!! While wet, yes it did have a sour tinge to it...but when the oil dries, its a happy bouquet of yellow. Smells very clean and floral. Like stepping out of the shower after using those small yellow, creamy bars of soap wrapped in thin white paper. Sadly for me, there must be a type of Lily in it because I got powder in the end. But till then, it was very pretty. Middle weight, sunshine warm, Spring and Summer scent. Same sunshine as Et Lux Fuit and Jacobs Ladder.

Wolfsbane (?? colored) Post Frimp (thank you!) : Spicy and woody incense. Very dry smelling. Skin: while wet, it had a slight aquatic feel to it, even a bit nutty, but when the oil dries its cedar and vetiver on me. Plus spices. Its sweeter than it was in the imp. This is pretty strong stuff, and needs to be applied with a light hand. My imp was actually broken when it arrived, so I didn't have enough oil to check the color, but the contents scented my parcel as if I had received my goodies in an expensive cedar box. I didn't get any pine notes from this, so I'm hoping its not as if a few notes evaporated before I tried it Heavy weight, room temperature, Autumn blend. I put this in the same family as Gomorrah, Ouija, Kathmandu.