dragon's blood spiked with black pepper, clove, and cinnamon.

Sometimes I love dragon's blood in a blend, sometimes I don't. This one? I don't think I liked it too much.
This goes on smelling like a overripe/slightly rotten-fruit Coppertone. I have NO idea why it smells even remotely like Coppertone, but there you have it.
The dragon's blood gives off kind of a weird fruity-tangy scent. In this instance, while wet, I don't really like it that much. After about 3 minutes after the initial application, I get a brief rush of cinnamon, then I'm back to the fruity note. For some reason, there is only ONE blend that has clove in it that has ever even remotely smelled of cloves (March Hare)... I don't get it here either. Pepper? very vaguely, but this is almost 100% straight up DB on me.
After wearing it all day, the dragon's blood finally stops being so slightly-off fruit and starts to become a milder powdery scent. I like this stage a lot, but it took 6 hours to get there, and none of the fun spices really showed up on me. I think I'll have to give this one a miss, sadly.

Nobility and haughtiness befitting the Antichrist: sage, carnation and cedar with lavender, vanilla, white musk and leather. review

I was very excited about this one, and yay, it is here!
I slathered it on this morning and it was instant super cologne! Eieeee. The leather note morphed into something really weird & funky, just like Les Infortunes did on me. Like the smell of vinyl furniture in a heavy smoker's house. A few minutes later it started to smell like pizza sauce.
I swear I'm not making this up!
I went & reread the notes for this, then went & put more on. Suddenly & magically, it fixed itself. The second application didn't go all funky & it started to smell more like the notes. It became very woodsy & slightly spicy. The cedar & lavender & carnation were the most obvious at the wet stage. As this began to dry, the vanilla & musk notes took over for the flowers. NOW I am totally in love.
This is like the bastard child of an orgy between Golden Priapus, Dee and Les Infortunes de la Vertu. Sexy and warm and woodsy and UNGH. Liquid sex in a bottle.

Mandarin, tonka, saffron, black tea, cocoa, tobacco leaf, sanguine red musk and five classical herbs of conflict. review

This reminds me a lot of Cerberus, but not as heavy. Not so much 13. I get more of an almost artificial, saccharin kind of orange from that. This is much zestier citrus. The mandarin (maybe in conjunction with the tea notes) is brighter and sharper than I'd expect; it smells more like lemon. The tea/tobacco combine as well, so it's brown-smelling. Not quite dry, but a bit acidic maybe? The cocoa kind of lurks and peeks out slightly, but I am not lucky to get a full blown chocolate aroma.
It's unusual, but I like it.

Thin, dark, and shadowed. A scent that offers no sustenance, comfort or satiety: lemon peel, white sage, frankincense, lavender fougere, sandalwood, vetiver and labdanum.

The End of All Things: empty white musk and mint seeped with solemn lavender, doleful patchouli and vetiver, scythe-sharp yuzu and lime, with geranium bourbon, white sandalwood and calla lily.