Tangerine, lemon peel, sugared pink grapefruit, and vanilla cream.

In decant: definitely fruity. I immediately thought of Lemon-Scented Sticky Bat mixed with other fruits: it's predominantly a foody lemony citrus blend, with very lovely vanilla cream. I expect it will turn to plastic on my skin...

Wet on skin: gosh, this is so yummy! Like lemon ( Read more... )

Daisy, pink carnation, pink pepper, and sugar.

In imp: very pink! I'm getting the slightly spicy carnations and pepper, a kind of sweet dusty sugar scent. To my nose, it feels rather fizzy.

Wet on skin: low throw, quite faint. I'm getting sugared daisies now and some fizzy pink pepper. The carnation has gone quite faint, but then again the whole ( Read more... )

Lightning splits the sky, illuminating the skeletal skyline of the carnival rides: sugared incense and night-blooming flowers.

In tester: yes, just as it is's described. Night blooming cool flowers, and sugared incense. Beautiful!

Wet on skin: whoa, for a second it went crazily soapy! It's still a little soapy, it must be something in the flower ( Read more... )

Hope is sugared rose...

In decant: sweet candied rose. I don't think there's much else I can say about it; it's candied rose but not highly/airily sweet.

Wet on skin: yep. Rooooose. A red rose, deep and VERY floral, with an almost-creamy sweetness. Very pretty, and at this stage the powder is kept somewhat in check, which makes me wonder if this ( Read more... )

Faith is sugared violet.

In decant: sweet violet, like candy, but not an airy sort of candy; the sweetness is full-bodied.

Wet on skin: sweet violet. Honestly? I wasn't expecting a lot from this, I actually started to test the twins as I expected to just set them aside. But--I actually like this. Sweet and beautiful, simple but not plain, and ( Read more... )

The embodiment of Victorian funereal elegance. A delicate sugar-spun vanilla cream cotton, stained by tobacco and incense, Indian musk, and drops of cognac.

In tester: funereal and heady; that first whiff reminded me solidly of Annabel Lee. Elegant and almost aloof; creamy but also cologney, somehow. There's that definite incense and Indian musk ( Read more... )

Red musk, tobacco, red sandalwood, dried pomegranate, patchouli, dusty frankincense, and raspberry clotted over blackened sugar-spun vanilla cream cotton.

In bottle: sexy! I'm getting vanilla, and faintly fruity, sweet, and musky notes. I started writing "yum", but decided that this isn't "foody", but it IS almost yummy. Very nice, and promising!

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Bread, lightly buttered, with weak tea, cream, and a lump of white sugar.

In imp: bread! and some butter! I want toast now, from smelling this blend. Yum. There is a sugary sweetness at the end of my whiffs.

Wet on skin: nom nom nom. Toasted bread with butter. I'm getting a bit of the tea, but only in the background--weak tea is the right phrase ( Read more... )

Guava, orange peel, white pepper, spun sugar and apple blossom.

In bottle: woo, sweet and sugary fruits! This is definitely sweet, but not cloying, or foody, or boozy. Very prettily fruity apples and oranges and guavas--the apples and guavas are very well blended, sometimes I think it's a guava and sometimes I think it's an apple.

Wet on skin: ( 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... )