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Cheshire Cat
Bottle: Grapefruit with resinous behind it
Wet: This is sweeter and more aquatic-seeming than Tweedledee.... cats may hate water, but not the Cheshire, apparently. Ah well, he always was a contrary sort of beast. This is, to my mind, in the same family as Bayou or even R'lyeh, just with a grapefruity kick. It's not a 'salty' aquatic like Black Tower, though... it's sweet with... I dunno, magnolias or jasmine or something. (I'm not looking at the description, so you're just getting what I smell. :D )
Dry: Hmn. It's almost like Mad Hatter minus the mint. Sweet, fresh, not quite so citrusy anymore. Over time, it develops an almost incenselike quality, though it's nothing like an "incense blend" as such... just a bit of what I associate with an incensy note. I do rather like it, but I think the fractious feline falls a bit shy of my 'top' list. It's a bit too much like Mad Hatter, and I think I like the mint edge better overall. But yay for its return to the catalog, all the same! At least I got to try it.
Eat Me
Bottle: ...Drink Me smelled like food. Eat Me smells like... booze. Are these backward, or what? XD Eat Me is VERY sweet and foody (like you'd figure), though a richer (and as I said, boozier) quality than Drink Me had. It reminds me quite a bit of MB:Closet, all chocolate with red-wet-sweetness under it. Yes, I know, it's supposed to be 'white cakes and vanilla', but I think it smells like chocolate. :P
Wet: Chocolate-covered cherries...the sort with hooch in 'em. Less of the chocolate thing though, and maybe it isn't cherries per se, but more like maraschinos. For some reason, it makes me think of Halloween. (Although that might be because I have it on the brain right now...)
Dry: Mmmmmmmmrrrrrrrrrr. I think this is going on my love list. It's a deep, dark, 'red-black' sort of melange of dark chocolate and some kind of fruitness, sweet, but not nauseatingly so by any means, and the cocoa notes appear to be resisting going to 'dust' as they so often do. It's not nearly as foody as one would expect of something called 'Eat Me' (although I'd still put it in the category of foody scents), but it's a deep, sexy scent, not something childlike. It also doesn't get on my nerves as some of the foodlike scents do. It also still reminds me of SOMETHING I associate with Halloween, but for the life of me, I don't know what (and no, it's actually not the candy...) In its very final drydown stages, this ends up a -lot- like Candy Butcher.
MXCV- 1095 (wow, high number)
Bottle: Wow, this is a toughie. Well, what I -can- say is that it's neither foody nor floral. I suppose I'd call it a 'wood-note' blend, though I couldn't say what the wood is. It's definitely not that 'polished teakwood' that's in Ouija or anything evergreen, but rather a sweetish, 'gender neutral' woodlike scent.
Wet: It remains woody, though on initial application it develops a very faint evergreenishness. Not pine needles or anything, it's still wood, and not cedar either. It makes me think of holly actually. Like...some sort of Christmas-candle that is neither in the 'pine' nor' baked goods' category. As it starts to dry, it goes even sweeter, almost like...sugared holly, if that makes any sense at all. (Isn't holly poisonous?)
Dry: This becomes a -lot- sweeter when dry. I still can't shake the 'Christmas candle' connection, though that's only when I get right down on it. Close in, there's something about it I don't like much, but the throw seems to lack it; the 'holly-or-whatever' quality doesn't age well on my skin, but it also doesn't reach far. At this stage it also develops a distinct cherry note. Eventually, the 'odd' note fades, leaving a warm anonymous sweetish cherry-wood scent behind. I think I'm going to wait a couple weeks and give this one another go...I -almost- like it bunches, but the jury's still out.