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Loviatar

The slap of slick, hot leather punctuates the warm, sensual embrace of black amber, red musk and dark, lascivious myrrh.

In the bottle: Wet leather with a cinnamon undercurrent.

On the skin: Definitely leather. The musk comes up quick for me and is very headachey. After about 5 minutes it's dominating the leather. (which I think is the opposite of how it's supposed to be). After another 5 minutes, it's rebalanced again. It's like cheap musky perfume under a leather corset. Not for me. Luckily, this one's just visiting me on the way to someone it does work for.
Later note: tried this again when I was horny, and it smelled a lot better. :) Still not for me though.



Santa Eularia del Riu

Piquant citrus tempered by jasmine, soft Mediterranean herbs, lavender and orange blossom.
In the bottle: Herbal lemonade.

On the skin: Lemon groves on a humid day. Fruit and leaves. Lemon peel screams at me for about 5 minutes, then settles down and I smell mostly lemon herbs, verbena and lemon balm and bee balm and petitgrain. This appeals to my inner bee – it smells ready to go pollinate! Dissapears pretty quickly, though.



Mi-go Brain Canister (LE)

pink pepper, peony, jasmine, mango, kiwi, pomegranate, pineapple, white ginger, serene white tea and light musks.

In the bottle: Tropical fruit.

On the skin: Pineapple jasmine, with a bit of peppery (Mexican?) mango underneath. Delicious and not too sweet and syrupy. Fun!


Honey Moon (LE)

contains five different honeys, ranging from pale and sweet to deep and heady, with hints of jasmine, white gardenia, Hawaiian white ginger and thyme.

In the bottle: Honey with a medicinal cherry note underneath.

On the skin: Initially, this is honey with a sharpness like new mown grass. It immediately puts me in the mind of women's ritual, chewing honeycomb and singing chants in someone's backyard. After about 15 minutes, it settles in to a scent that exactly matches my memory of the “dirty beeswax” I used to get at Greenstar Food Co-Op in Ithaca, big slabs of honey scented brown wax with dirt and burnt bits and bee parts floating black in it. So wonderful! It doesn't have a huge throw, but after a full 15 hour day on, my wrists still smell of beeswax when I sniff them closely.



Monster Bait: Underpants (LE)

Sexy sugar-smeared saffron sandalwood over lickable vanilla cream with a splash of butter rum.

In the bottle: Vanilla rum custard.

On the skin: The woody and saffron notes fill in underneath, without really changing the custard scent too much, but making it very, very sexy somehow. This smells like a pretty girl eating custard cake with her hands and flirting with you.