Review: Geek Fire Labs - Geisha Girl
Description: The scent of cool waters and green florals create a clean base for delicate snow blossom, tea leaf and jasmine . Brightened with yuzu and softened with the aroma of pink sakura petals. Soft, feminine and fresh.
In the Bottle: Snow blossom, lightly flora and feminine
Wet: Snow blossoms, jasmine and yuzu.
Drydown: Light jasmine and yuzu.
Throw: Low
Wear Time: 2.5 hours for a single application.
Verdict: Wow. A light and fresh scent without being heavy or smelling typically "floral". Feminine, spring scent.
Geek Fire Lab's sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Secret Perfumer - The Temptress
Description: "The Temptress" is a unique, custom-blended perfume inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting "Proserpine". The dark sultry scent of Bourbon Vanilla, with Labdanum, Coriander, Rose, and Ambrette Musk. This Eau de Parfum is a blend of fragrance and essential oils (including Rose Absolute) in a base of organic cane alcohol.
In the Bottle: Musk and Vanilla
Wet: Amber musk and labdanum
Drydown: Amber musk and labdanum
Throw: Medium
Wear Time: 2 hours for a single application.
Verdict: This began so well but ultimately, it ended up too amber-y with a sharp note of labdanum.
Secret Perfumer's sample vial is a stoppered 15 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - A Rosy Colour Paints Her Claws with Honor
Description: Scales of gold, rose-tinted with red musk, bourbon geranium, and vanilla absolute.
In the Bottle: Red Musk and geranium
Wet: Geraniums with an undernote of red musk
Drydown: Geraniums with musk and a light top note of vanilla
Throw: Low
Wear Time: 2.5 hours for a single application.
Verdict: Another scent that's just "nice" on me. Geraniums aren't really a floral I am fond of so this was just "nice". The red musk and vanilla did help to sweeten this and make it sexier.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came from a decant circle, clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - A Thought From Propertius
Description: Sweet honey, white apricot, and a touch of cayenne pepper.
In the Bottle: Sweet Apricot with Pepper
Wet: Sweet Pepper
Drydown: Delicious sweet pepper
Throw: Medium
Wear Time: 3 hours for a single application.
Verdict: This was delightful, sweet with the apricot and honey, without being cloyingly sweet with honey or super fruity with the apricot. Just a nice mellow sweetness with the spice of pepper under it. Just wonderful.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came from a decant circle, clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Solstice Scents - Nightgown (Valentines 2015)
Description: Vanilla, White Chocolate, Tuberose & Tiare Flowers
In the Bottle: Vanilla and tuberose
Wet: Vanilla, chocolate and tuberose
Drydown: Vanilla, chocolate and tuberose
Throw: Medium
Wear Time: 4 hours for a single application.
Verdict: Wow, a second rose scent that I like. Actually, I love this one. Its adult, its sexy with a hint of gourmand with the chocolate note. The roses are light and sweet rather than heavy. It's floral without being that cloying type of floral.
Solstice Scents' sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Midnight Gypsy Alchemy - Darkness Divine
Description: A dark yet sweet decadent scent created with Cocoa and Rose absolute, Amber, Myrrh and Labdanum resins infused in Rose petals, and real Cocoa powder.
In the Bottle: Cocoa and roses
Wet: Cocoa
Drydown: Cocoa with a hint of myrrh and roses
Throw: Low
Wear Time: 2 hours for a single application.
Verdict: I was thrilled to find the patchouli didn't come out in this blend on me. It stayed very cocoa the whole time, though I caught whiff of the myrrh and roses every now and then
Midnight Gypsy Alchemy’s sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Midnight Gypsy Alchemy - Mi Corázon
Description: A fragrance that embodies an essence of romance made with Frangipani and Vanilla absolutes, Patchouli and Cinnamon Leaf essential oils infused in Patchouli leaves and Vanilla beans.
In the Bottle: Cinnamon and patchouli
Wet: Cinnamon and patchouli
Drydown: Cinnamon
Throw: Low
Wear Time: 1.5 hours for a single application.
Verdict: This really only stayed a whisper of sweet cinnamon. While it smells good,it was a huge disappointment of time and throw. I was thrilled that the patchouli didn't become an overpowering monster.
Midnight Gypsy Alchemy’s sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - Aglaea
Description: Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle.
In the Bottle: Peach wine and musk
Wet: Peach wine
Drydown: Sweet peaches on top of musk
Throw: High
Wear Time: 5 hours for a single application.
Verdict: At first this was kind of overpoweringly sweet with peaches, but it dried down and mellowed into sweet peaches on musk. It reminded me of late hot summer nights. I really enjoyed this, plus it lasted forever. I think the musk helped keep the ambers from being the main note as they usually are on me.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - Brisingamen
Description: The amber necklace of Freyja, Norse Goddess of Love, Sex, Attraction and Fruitfulness. Her magnificent necklace was bough from four Dwarves [Alfrik, Berling, Dvalin and Grer] at the price of four nights of her passion. When Brisingamen graces your throat, no man can resist your charms. A glittering mantle of rich golden notes: five ambers, soft myrtle, apple blossom and carnation.
In the Bottle: Amber and carnation
Wet: Carnations
Drydown: Carnations with some amber
Throw: Medium
Wear Time: 2 hours for a single application.
Verdict: Ugh. I was really looking for the apple and mytrle notes to come out but unfortunately this ended up as some of the yuckiest notes on me - amber and carnations. Amber just doesn't work with my skin chemistry.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font.
Review: Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs - Cleric (RPG Series)
Description: Rose amber, frankincense, myrrh, champaca flower, Peru balsam, cistus, palisander, cananga, hyssop, and narcissus absolute.
In the Bottle: Myrrh and champaca flower
Wet: Amber and myrrh
Drydown: Amber, myrrh, and some sort of ashy floral note
Throw: Low
Wear Time: 1.5 hours for a single application.
Verdict: This just died down to amber and myrrh with an ashy floral note. I couldn't get a read on which of the floral notes it turned out to be because the ashy note overpowered the floral.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s sample vial is the standard stoppered 1 ml vial. It came clearly labeled with an easily readable font. *The seller I purchased this from wrote in pencil on the label.
