Boiled leather, carnation blossom, coffee absolute, and tobacco.

In tester: ooh. Coffee and a hint of carnation. Smoky, creamy, and soft and rich. Very nice, and quite promising. I'll have to watch that carnation though.

Wet on skin: uhhhh. Cologney, chemically, and alcoholly? This is quite disconcerting. I think it might be the leather. Other ( Read more... )

Pine needles, wildflowers, and cotton candy.

In tester: whoa. super sweet syrupy cotton candy, a touch of pine and faint flowers. Quite dead on.

Wet on skin: hello, cotton candy! This is far too sweet for me, for sure, although it's a very pleasant cotton candy smell. The sugary-ness has faded a little from the tester scent to let the pine and ( Read more... )

White sandalwood and twining ivy.

In tester: oooh, nice. Green and resinous sandalwood, somewhat smoky.

Wet on skin: sandalwood and ivy. Simple, somewhat smoky in feel. This is a very nice and uncomplicated blend, although I'm not yet too sure if I'd wear it.

Dry: a nice, soft, gentle green scent, grounded by the sandalwood: a simple and almost ( Read more... )

Black sandalwood, woodsmoke, Terebinth pine, blue cypress, styrax, frankincense, chamomile maroc, and nutmeg.

In tester: resinous and woody, by far. Somewhat incensey, definitely masculine.

Wet on skin: resins and frankincense, whoa. A bit difficult for me to pinpoint which note is which (I don't have a lot of experience with wood notes), but ( Read more... )

Blonde wood, linen swaddling, pumpkin rind, and bourbon vanilla.

In tester: wood, pumpkin, and vanilla.

Wet on skin: mmmm wood. The blonde wood here is very nice, reminds me of Glowing Vulva. Lovely vanilla, too. Yes, definitely reminding me of GV. The pumpkin kind of takes a backseat for me here, which is just as well.

Dry: oh, this is ( Read more... )

Vanilla-soaked linen accord with lavender, opium poppy, Moroccan jasmine, golden amber, white honey, and blackened fruit gums.

In tester: linen, vanilla, dark fruits, lavender, jasmine...uh, well, reading through the scent list, I can pinpoint each of the notes, but on its own I would probably have difficulty describing the notes. It's floral, ( Read more... )

A soft, resinous indigo musk with black currant, ylang ylang, Tunisian jasmine, opoponax, rose otto, benzoin, Tahitian vanilla bean, and opium tar.

In tester: dark and boozy, with the black currant and resins front and center.

Wet on skin: black currant and florals, and faintly resinous. As it dries, the red currant burns off a bit and the florals ( Read more... )