Wanderlust
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Luminescent, glowing, and otherworldly: green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats.
Melony aquatics drying down to Sea of Glass. Not worth keeping around. (My forum review).
Amsterdam
Tulips, peony, fresh flowing water and crisp green grasses.
Lovely and light crisp green floral peony, but it fades swiftly on me. (My forum review).
Baghdad
Amber, saffron and bergamot with mandarin, nutmeg, Bulgar rose, musk and sandalwood.
Beautiful mellow soft spice-and-sandalwood blend. (My forum review).
Bengal
Skin musk with honey, peppers, clove, cinnamon bark and ginger.
Milky cinnamon tea, doused in honey. Softly and sweetly spicy. Alas, so very faint. (My forum review).
Crossroads
A chill twilit garden of blooms over dry earth and mosses, heavily laden with incense and offertory herbs.
Dirt and soapy jasmine - not actually nasty, but not my style. (My forum review).
Danube
Rhododendron and bellflower petals swirl through deep, cool, dark aquatic notes.
Ends up as grapefruit-and-floral soap, sigh. (My forum review).
Eden
This oil contains the innocence of the Garden, coupled with the Truth and Erudition found in the fruit of the Tree of Evil: fig leaf, fig fruit, honeyed almond milk, toasted coconut and sandalwood.
Coconut and fig cake, very sweet and moist but still, too cakey for me. (My forum review).
Florence
Elegant iris, bright berries, gilded amber and velvety spices.
Foody-sweet fading to stale powdery weirdness. (My forum review).
Glasgow
The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
Sweet powdery floral herbiness - not nasty, but not worth keeping around. (My forum review).
The Hamptons
The scent of a Cosmopolitan cocktail.
Ends up as lemony sherbet, via booze-and-fruit marzipan. Bleh. (My forum review).
Hollywood Babylon
The essence of innocence shattered: glittering Egyptian amber and heliotrope, infused with the sweetness of strawberry and vanilla - dragged into debauch by lusty red musk and a dribble of black cherry.
Sweet cherry-medicine fading to musky strawberry vanilla. Faint and *just* too sweet for my taste. (My forum review).
Kathmandu
Saffron, blessed sandalwood, Himalayan cedar and the miraculous lotus of the Buddha with chiuri bark and Nepalese spices.
Cedar and sandalwood and spice, light and sweet and sort of mediciney. Nice but not outstanding. (My forum review).
Kostnice
Frankincense, rosewood, lily, and geranium rose.
Argh, soap. I think that's the incense notes. Or possibly the lily. Dammit. (My forum review).
Kyoto
A gentle, soothing blend of cherry blossom, white sandalwood and star anise.
Licorice allsorts. If I liked licorice, I suppose I might like this better. (My forum review).
London
Venerable Victorian Tea Rose... twisted, blackened and emboldened with wickedness.
Big, juicy, ripe yellow roses in full bloom. Rich and heavy and maybe a little oversweet. (My forum review).
Machu Picchu
Sweet tropical fruits burst through deep, wet rainforest boughs, enormous steamy blossoms, over thin mountaintop breezes, mingled with the soft, rich golden scent of Peruvian amber.
Started off bold and tropical and then died to a rotten fruit in rain scent. (My forum review).
Manhattan
A meeting of modern, sleek elegance and rich, passionate history: sheer amber, black leather, white mint, lemon peel, white tea, grapefruit, kush, teakwood and orchid.
Like Nihil in the imp, but a little more citrusy on the skin. Probably as close a match as I'll get in the GC. (My forum review).
Manila
A tropical, humid, lush scent, with a faint echo of Pacific breezes, jungle blossoms, and deep wet woods. Sampaguita blossoms, banana leaf, palm, and narra.
Urgh, man, tropical fruit bubblegum gone mad. Too sweet and plasticky for me. (My forum review).
Morocco
Arabian spices wind through a blend of warm musk, carnation, red sandalwood and cassia.
Smells like warm rasmalai, but can be faint at times. Very nice spicy foody scent. (My forum review).
Niflheim
The House of Mists, a land of icy fog, shadowy darkness and soul-chilling cold. Dark, damp blossoms winding through an impenetrable, murky gloom.
Turns into that celery-ish note I really dislike. (My forum review).
Paris
Sensual, decadent, and enigmatic. Lavender, softly underscored by lotus and spice.
A bit cloying. Fades down to a softer floral, but nothing amazing. (My forum review).
Pontarlier
Swiss ferns, lilac, blackcurrant, Gallic rose and lavender with a dollop of sugar and absinthe.
Dries down to a generic floral talcum powder, bleah. (My forum review).
Port-Au-Prince
The rich scent of buttered rum flavored with almond, bay, clove and sassafras.
From cherry-marzipan to a slightly washed-out sassafras-clove-rum combination. Laudanum is better in this scent area. (My forum review).
Prague
For Jenny, with love. Crocus with snowdrop and three lilies.
Sweet light melonish florals but then there's something rotten underneath, alas. (My forum review).
Rome
Refined, austere and graceful. A recipe gleaned from Classical Rome: cypress, juniper, chamomile and rose.
Sharp tangy rose-and-herb, fading to a rose soap. Alas. (My forum review).
Santa Eularia Des Riu
Piquant citrus tempered by jasmine, soft Mediterranean herbs, lavender and orange blossom.
Dear god the cleaning fluids united to form a MEGA-CLEANING-FLUID scent. Aieee. (My forum review).
Shanghai
The crisp, clean scent of green tea touched with lemon verbena and honeysuckle.
Very like Embalming Fluid - maybe a bit sharper. If I didn't already have that, I'd love this so much... (My forum review).
Sybaris
Bright violet with sweet clove, Mediterranean incense notes and tonka bean.
Mmm, a surprisingly spicy and clovey scent, although with incense and violet it should just be a swampy sticky mess on me. Crazy. Fades very quickly, but nice while it lasts. (My forum review).
Tenochtitlan
Amber, hyssop, coriander, epazote, Mexican sage, prickly pear and Mexican tulip poppy.
Pear chewing gum fading to pear - redundant when I have Thalia. (My forum review).
Versailles
Gilded red and gold citrus with amber, ruby roses, jasmine and orris.
Even the citrus can't stop the jasmine from making this explode into powderiness. (My forum review).
Whitechapel
White musk, lime, lilac and citron.
Mmm, lime and lilac and musk. Very delicious yet menacing. Totally awesome. (My forum review).
The Isles of Demons
The scent is of wet, dark greenery, carnivorous flowers, volcanic gas, and the hot black musk of the demons and wild beasts that populated the islands.
Like wearing Nihil at Geysir - musks and florals over wet greenery and volcanic steam. (My forum review).
Jezirat Al Tennyn
The Dragon's Isle: smoke and fire, earth and wind. The rage of the elements blasting over a primordial paradise.
Very like Undertow with traces of the other Dark Elements. Intriguing but probably not worth keeping. (My forum review)