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Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo (Voodoo Blends) - Bottled happiness. Helps reverse misfortune, brings light and laughter to even the most troubled and discordant place, and aids in alleviating the stress and discontent that accompanies so many of life's daily trials. In the Imp - Light, hint of sweet almost like the powdered sugar coating on piece of bubble gum to me. Possibly a citrus/fruit, but I wouldn't say orange. On my wrist it's still a hint of sweet and clean and sugared bubble gum but also something... cotton candy? Reminds me a bit of an old Strawberry Shortcake doll.
Black Rose (Rappaccini's Garden) - Exquisitely melancholy. The background scent to an ancient exequies. Heavy, dark and floral: a blend of roses, with a touch of amber and musk. I adore roses. One of my favorite scents. But this? It's a sharp rose in the imp. There's something else there that's cutting the roses and making it very WHOA in your face. And then it puts it on its skin and suddenly it's just annoying. Musky amber and a vague whiff of unpleasant "too Rosy" rose, like it's trying too hard.
Two, Five & Seven (Mad Tea Party) - A huge bouquet of squished rose petals: Bulgarian rose, Somalian rose, Turkish rose, Damascus rose, red and white rose, tea rose, wine rose, shrub roses, rose, rose, rose…
…and just an itty bitty bit of green grass. In the Imp it's sweet roses. On the skin it's immediately faded, light floral. Perhaps something my grandmother would wear (nothing wrong with that). It's a nice sedate, almost generic to me, rose scent.
Van Van (Voodoo Blends) - A venerable voodoo blend, used for purification of the spirit and to amplify positive personal power. I opened the imp and immediately my nose crinkled and I was ready to pop the cap back on and put this in the eww pile. But then this gorgeous lightly caramelized sugared vanilla appeared. On the skin there is almost no vanilla, just an undertone. The majority is a fruit smell. Like a lot of the scents I label "clean" I get the oddest impression of Sea Breeze (the astringent, not an aquatic wind) even though it may not actually Smell like Sea Breeze, probably something I associating with cleaning my face as a child.
May I just say that individually the four scents above aren't bad, but together on different bits of skin all around the same time? I smell like a cheap French bordello. Even the dog keeps giving me looks like "Seriously, I can start eating less if that will save us some money, you don't need to resort to the street walking. At least expensive yourself up a bit, woman."
Black Rose (Rappaccini's Garden) - Exquisitely melancholy. The background scent to an ancient exequies. Heavy, dark and floral: a blend of roses, with a touch of amber and musk. I adore roses. One of my favorite scents. But this? It's a sharp rose in the imp. There's something else there that's cutting the roses and making it very WHOA in your face. And then it puts it on its skin and suddenly it's just annoying. Musky amber and a vague whiff of unpleasant "too Rosy" rose, like it's trying too hard.
Two, Five & Seven (Mad Tea Party) - A huge bouquet of squished rose petals: Bulgarian rose, Somalian rose, Turkish rose, Damascus rose, red and white rose, tea rose, wine rose, shrub roses, rose, rose, rose…
…and just an itty bitty bit of green grass. In the Imp it's sweet roses. On the skin it's immediately faded, light floral. Perhaps something my grandmother would wear (nothing wrong with that). It's a nice sedate, almost generic to me, rose scent.
Van Van (Voodoo Blends) - A venerable voodoo blend, used for purification of the spirit and to amplify positive personal power. I opened the imp and immediately my nose crinkled and I was ready to pop the cap back on and put this in the eww pile. But then this gorgeous lightly caramelized sugared vanilla appeared. On the skin there is almost no vanilla, just an undertone. The majority is a fruit smell. Like a lot of the scents I label "clean" I get the oddest impression of Sea Breeze (the astringent, not an aquatic wind) even though it may not actually Smell like Sea Breeze, probably something I associating with cleaning my face as a child.
May I just say that individually the four scents above aren't bad, but together on different bits of skin all around the same time? I smell like a cheap French bordello. Even the dog keeps giving me looks like "Seriously, I can start eating less if that will save us some money, you don't need to resort to the street walking. At least expensive yourself up a bit, woman."
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