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Carnaval Noir/Limited Edition
BEARDED LADY A seductive and flowing exaltation of femininity: Turkish rose, stargazer lily, violet, honeysuckle, amber, star jasmine and vanilla.   5mL    
BED OF NAILS Sharp, shining, metallic: rubbed iron with a dry wooden base.   5mL    
FIRE EATER A glowing red and flickering scent: warm, lurid, seductive. review   5mL    
FREAK SHOW A strange, disconcerting embrace… to some, alarming, and to some, intimately familiar: fig, pomegranate and cocoa bean with lemon, bergamot, vanilla, mellow honey musk, calamus and tonka. review   15mL    
GEEK

A snarling, feral scent, ever-so-slightly slightly deranged: hot leather, opoponax, cedar, pine needle, mosses, dry grass, patchouli and cinnamon bark. review

I am dumb. I have had this bottle on my shelf for months now, and this is the first time I've even tried it. To my credit, this just seemed too wintery to wear until now (and now it's snowing! motz.gif ), and today seemed like the day.
In the bottle, it's very piney. Slightly woodsy.
Wet, more pine. A little more wood. Slightly sweet, maybe the "dry grass" element.
After a few hours, the sweetness disappears and the aroma develops into the Skadi-type of pine mixed with the mossy-woodsy-patchouli of Samhain.
Now after hours and hours and hours, I can still smell this (score!) and it's less piney, and more smokey. The cedar & cinnamon bark are a touch more noticable.
This is amazing. Now I'm going to have to hunt down extra bottles!

  10mL    
GYPSY QUEEN A heavy-lidded perfume, the quintessence of beauty and power shrouded in mystery, swathed in a deep, velvet-clad cloak of dark omens: Romany incense and candle smoke mingling with an alluring, body-warmed whiff of bergamot, neroli, Bulgar rose, carnation, and amber musk.   5mL    
HOUSE OF MIRRORS Antique amber frames a series of distorted, eternally warping clear crystal and glass notes. review   15mL    
KUNSTKAMMER A sensory jumble, a true cacophony of odors: black pepper, benzoin, blood orange and olibanum.   10mL    
MEDICINE SHOW A veritable miracle, I tell you! A scent that soothes the spirit and stimulates both the libido and the mind: tobacco, balsam, ginger, elemi and rosewood, with a touch of opium to fuddle your senses. review        
MIDWAY A bombardment of edible carnival indulgences. Funnel cake, caramel apple, cotton candy, salt water taffy and sugar tart. review   25mL    
SHILL Gloriously innocent and guileless: pure buttered popcorn! review   15mL    
SNAKE CHARMER Sensual, sibilant, sexual and hypnotic: Arabian musk and exotic spices slinking through Egyptian amber, enticing vanilla, and a serpentine blend of black plum, labdanum, ambrette, benzoin and black coconut. review   25mL    
TORTURE KING The King of Pain, the Famed Fakir. Frankincense and sweet clove, mandarin and bourbon, lemon peel and leather, grasses and smoke, lime and vetiver, ambergris and deep musk. review   10mL