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FENRIS WOLF
diabolous

The raw, untamable power of chaos. Rosewood, amber, red musk and a dribble of red sandalwood.

smells very good on me, very long lasting and it reminds me a little of incense. a little male maybe, like the second-day aftershave of someone i knew but have forgotten.

FIRE PHOENIX
limited edition
anniversary 08

Enterprise, adventure, restlessness, impulsiveness, and dynamism: Chinese musk and red musk with hyacinth, cactus flower, cubeb berry, galangal, tobacco, pink pepper, and sarsaparilla.

Huh? Lemon? I so wasn't expecting that. But it's good, I like it, I just didn't expect it in a red musk scent named fire. It changes during drydown though, oh this is a morpher and it's on the good side!

After a while I get the red musk and when several hours have gone by it's reminding me of THE GREAT SWORD OF WAR a little. I have to add that this isn't an ideal testing because i'm cleaning the kitchen so all kinds of things interfere with the actual scent. I will test more later but you know, I couldn't wait...

 

FLORENCE
wanderlust

Lab description: The pearl of the Italian Renaissance. Elegant iris, bright berries, gilded amber and velvety spices.

oh wow this one i love. warm and ambery like i love it, so deep and sweet it makes my head spin and yet with a light little note in there. it's so perfectly balanced i want to keep my nose at my wrist at all times. mmm...

it ended in berries. oh man i loved every stage of this one.

it's alredy on my next order list. thanks for the frimp! this worked very well on me! :)

FREDERIC x 2
limited edition

For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as
a rule are plenty,
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.
Through some singular coincidence – I shouldn’t be surprised if it were owing to the

agency of an ill-natured fairy –
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the
twenty-ninth of February;
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover,
That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays,you’re only five
and a little bit over!

Alas, poor Frederic the Leapling! -- bound to the merry Pirates of Penzance until his twenty-first birthday.

As his birthday comes around only every four years, so does his scent!

Victorian whimsy and piratical romance: a reluctant seaman’s chypre sloshed with a mix of bay rum, patchouli, amber musk, dark woods, tea rose, and red currant.

At first I get wood, the sharp smell of wood floor with tar, or tjæra dørk, to put it in sailor norwegian. Or tarred deck is closer to it because I get a whiff of salt sea air too. Not as much as in other pirate scents I have tried but i can sense it there in the background.

As it dries a little, a citrus note rises towards the sky and disappeares, leaving a sweetness behind. Now i get the rose but it's very faint. No booze though. Looks like my frederic is a sober man.

After drydown it's a gentle but spicy rose scent with a lot of air. And I love it. I had no idea it would end up here. Man am I glad I got this one!