Vanilla, two ambers, sweet pea and white sandalwood.

In imp: vanilla and amber, a vague sweetness but also slightly nutty-smelling to my nose. Not too foody, relatively pleasant.

Wet on skin: slightly foodier, vanilla is out, and the sweet pea is more prominent as well. A clean scent. Not as nutty now, and I can get hints of the sandalwood. It's ( Read more... )

A phenomenally powerful attractant. Sexual and commanding in the extreme.

In imp: Eh? It's very faint, I can't smell anything. There is a sliiiight sweetness in the air, but also a slight plasticky note. I don't get it.

Wet on skin: Clean, herbal, and faint. I still can't detect a lot, and it can't be my skin eating it up when I couldn't smell ( Read more... )

Wild strawberries, strawberry flower, vanilla-infused sugar, early summer grasses, and milky dandelion sap.

In decant: straight up strawberry. I can't catch the other notes, they're all pretty well blended together into the sweet and tangy strawberry scent.

Wet on skin: well, guess what? Strawberries. It's slightly minty to my nose, bright and ( Read more... )

Her scent is a bounty of golden honeyed almonds and a whisper of African and Middle Eastern spices.
In imp: quite tart and spicy--it definitely woke me up when I smelled it. I'm not able to pinpoint the almonds, it seems like a fairly even note with the spices here. My nose is not experienced enough to know what those spices are, though.

Wet on ( Read more... )

Lustrous, sanguine, soft and lavish: soft orris, blood musk, and coconut.

In imp: my notes say, “booze! wine! liquor!”, because I don’t drink and thus I’m not totally sure which is the best word to describe what I was smelling. It’s an interesting scent, quite sharp, and something I didn’t expect at all.

Wet on skin: it started off as sharp as ( Read more... )