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KABUKI
ars amatoria
lab description: Compelling, complex, and utterly enigmatic: a luxuriant, exotic blend of cherry, red musk, and star anise.
Cherry is dominant as I wearily put a little on my wrist, and it smells so good I slather it all over myself without waiting for the drydown-changes.
This is BLACK PHOENIX territory, only with licorice that comes out when it dries a little and stays. In a good way though, it's not like in AQUARIUS where it gets a little nauseating. Here it is all good and gorgeous and a definite new love.
KHRYSEÊ
limited editions
lupercalia 09
Golden. Vanilla amber and orange blossom.
When I put it on I'm thinking creamy orange and maybe a tad too much but when it dries it turns into a subtle SMUT with a twist. Gorgeous. This one came in as a replacement for MILLER VS CALIFORNIA that was more expensive than I realized before I sent the order. But I think I'm happy with the result. No I know I am.
Oh man yeah I am, because MILLER VS CALIFORNIA was horrible on me (I got a decant). I haven't actually used KHRYSEÈ much though because the vanilla amber went a little wonky on me at some point. But I'm trying it again now (months later) and it's absolutely wearable. It's spicy vanilla with an orange, but not citrus, overtone. Mmm.
KRAMPUS 06
limited edition
Anything BUT jolly! Draped with chains and bells, wielding both whip and rod, this rag-clad, horned, red-skinned, soot-covered leering creature is both the companion and the antithesis of rosy-cheeked and ebullient Kris Kringle. He is called by many names, and, in a myriad of cultures, he is seen with different robes and faces, but he is nevertheless always a sinister and fearsome instrument of Santa's wrath: he wields a switch on all irredeemably naughty children before tossing them into his large black sack and whisking them away.
Be good, or Krampus will toss you in a river! Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches.
Krampus has turned out to be one of my favorites. Krampus is my friend when no one else is. I don't know why because at first he really does smell like old dishwashing cloths, but only for a second. He dries down to the most gorgeous red musk/leather combination.
He never gets on my nerves even when I have the migraines and can't really stand perfume at all. I have a back up bottle coming in the mail. He is limited but I found one at the forum. Unused and straight from the will call store. Yay, lucky me. :)
KRAMPUS 07
I can't detect any difference between the two. 07 is my back up bottle now