Limited Editions
Abhisarika
Damascus rose, African orchid, cream accord, and Kashmir musk.
Very bland, store-perfumish faint roses and aldehydes. Meh. (My forum review).
Ace of Hearts
Purest white lotus, white rose, rain orchid, rose gardenia, freesia, and Bulgarian rose.
Very bright, white, pure clean watery rose scent. Lovely, but not indispensible. (My forum review).
Alone
Patchouli and cardamom with bright mandarin, labdanum, muguet, red sandalwood, angelica and gardenia.
Dry-hot cardamom with a trace of cinnamon, a little sweet and quite tasty. (My forum review).
The Atrocious Attic
The air of the room is dusty, laced with the scent of a child's perfume and the remnants of a dried, crumbling bridal bouquet: tea rose, violet, white sandalwood, French lavender, and Calla lily.
Australian Copperhead
Snake Oil with acai berry, amber, cardamom, neroli, and smoked vanilla.
Enh, it just went kind of boring on me - warm and sticky but uninteresting. (My forum review).
Bad Luck Woman Blues
Keep that bad luck woman away with a blend of Spanish moss, black pepper, mullein, sweet sage, vandal root, cypress, cigar tobacco, and a puff of goofer dust cloaked by a swarthy cologne of vetiver, lime, dark musk, caramel accord, and lilac.
Caramel and salty moss and dirt, with dry pepper on top. No. (My forum review).
Banded Sea Snake
Snake Oil with oakmoss, sea moss, and olive leaf.
Yuck, the basic plasticness of the snake oil just totally overwhelmed this. (My forum review).
Beatrice
A fragile, winsome, poisonous blend of rare, precious and graceful flowers, rich blossoms and spicy perfumes that passes heavily, as a broken heart, across the borders of Time.
One of those florals is almost certainly jasmine, and frankly the whole scent just goes mad on my skin. Yecch. (My forum review).
Berenice
Stargazer lily, white musk, clear aloe, blonde amber and winding-cloth linen.
Antiseptic hair-spray and dryer-sheets. Airy and light and weird, not for me. (My forum review).
Black Ice
Lovely, dangerous, slick, and bitterly cold: chilly white sleet-like notes with a hint of vetiver, a breath of smoky asphalt, and winter wind.
Ozoney aquatics become aquatic soaps, alas. Okay but a bit, well, soapy. (My forum review).
The Bloody Sword
A distillation of force, conquest, power and fury: dragon's blood, myrrh, black pepper, labdanum, benzoin, leather, fire, and steel.
Sweaty oily leather and metal - but I'm no blacksmith. (My forum review).
Bonfire Night
Beer, woodsmoke, tar, and treacle.
Boomslang
Snake Oil with cocoa, teakwood, and rice milk.
Carnaval Diabolique
Straight from the twisted alleys of Dis, by way of the City of Angels: opium smoke, lemon flower, heliotrope, tuberose, black musk, vanilla, coconut, apricot flower.
Lemon curd lightened by coconut but still a bit too sharp-sweet for my nose. (My forum review).
Chaos Theory 3: CCLXXXIV
Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Coffee and hints of chocolate fading to coffee with hints of caramel. What I thought Misk U would be like. (My forum review).
Chaos Theory 3: DCXVIII
Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Sharp powdery orange-cherry candy and then CIVET urine blech. Ew. (My forum review).
Chaos Theory 3: DCXXVI
Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Like a monster bait - thick boozy caramel-and-coconut cake. Nice, but someone else will love it more. (My forum review).
Chaos Theory 3: DCXXXI
Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
This one went weird and celery-based under the rather nice fruits. Oh well. (My forum review).
Chaos Theory 3: DCLXXVII
Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Strawberries and cream candy with a plasticky undertone. (My forum review).
Chaos Theory 3: DCCCIII
Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Soapy orange-blossom-rose-and-ozone. Not enough citrus for my taste, I think. (My forum review).
Chaos Theory 3: MXII
Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Lots and lots and lots of sandalwood over a little resin. Much like Shroud. (My forum review).
Monster Bait: Closet
Bourbon blackberry buttercream over red velvet cake.
Buttery creamy caramelly cake with a dash of alcohol. Very nice - like a mix of Jack and Antique Lace. (My forum review).
Cottonmouth
Snake Oil with linden blossom, calla lily, passion flower, and narcissus.
The Death of Autumn
Dark amber, dead leaves, khus, saffron, bitter clove, chrysanthemum, camellia, galangal, and a drop of oud.
Dark Delicacies
It is a heady and darkly romantic blend of devil's trumpet accord, black orchid, tonka, coconut meat, fruit gums, osmanthus, smoky resin, myrtle, and Indonesian patchouli.
Very very like Mme Moriarty, but less musky and more floral-creamy. (My forum review).
Dolce Stil Nuovo
Our interpretation of Dolce Stil Nuovo is a blend of rose otto, carnation, vanilla flower, lavender and jasmine with the clarity of crystalline white musk and the warmth of golden amber.
Lavender and vanilla, weird and intriguing until the powdery jasmine takes over. Sigh. (My forum review).
Door 13
Bat's Day exclusive, no description given.
A very bright, clean ozone and wet-river-pebble smell. With laundry soap. Nice, but I won't wear it. (My forum review).
Dreamland
Stargazer lily, white musk, clear aloe, blonde amber and winding-cloth linen.
Pretty light airy white-florals - very nice, but not worth chasing up more of. (My forum review).
Dr John Seward
Penetrating and gifted, vulnerable, with just a hint of opium-blurred delirium: poppy smoke, champaca flower, tonka, sandalwood, ginger, white pepper.
Weirdly repellent fruit-and-smoke ickiness. (My forum review).
Enraged Bunny Musk
A snarling, slavering, buck-toothed, fluffy, floppy-eared, horny-as-hell Springtime beast. Soft cotton blossom, white musk, baby's breath, clover and pale powder notes.
Oooh, light slightly lemony white musk. Very faint, but very pleasant. (My forum review).
Enraged Groundhog Musk
Cranky groundhog musk sweetened up by chocolate-covered black cherries, cardamom, French vanilla, and caramel.
Ew, the dryness, the hot dry acridness. Burns on my wrists. (My forum review).
Et Lux Fuit
Golden amber, heliotrope, vanilla musk, carnation, daisy and sunflower bouquet, neroli, lemon peel, ylang ylang and honeycomb.
Vividly golden-orange, somehow. The sharp citrus and the sweet sugary honey and ylang ylang wind around each other intriguingly. One to test out at various points in my cycle. (My forum review).
F5
Aloe, white musk, lime peel, fresh mint, seaspray, verbena and green tea.
Slightly soapy and boying Embalming Fluid, with incredible throw. One to sneak onto Iain? (My forum review).
Faith, Siamese Twin
Hope is sugared rose, Faith is sugared violet.
Didn't go to baby powder, or at least I don't think it did, but it's too faint to really tell. (My forum review).
Fire Pig
Peony, China's national flower, with bamboo for flexibility, plum blossom for perseverance, courage, and hope, tangerine for wealth, orange for happiness, lychee for household peace, pine resin for constancy, golden kumquat, pussy willow, and quince for prosperity, narcissus and King mandarin for good fortune, and peach blossom for longevity, with a splash of blazing red of dragon's blood... to help you scare away the rampaging Nian.
Fruit Moon, blending down into a mix with Peony Moon and Hungry Ghost Moon. Designed for Iain's nose, apparently. (My forum review).
Gennivre, L'Artiste du Diable
Hyson tea leaf, pale mint, sugar cane, orange blossom, lemongrass, and honey.
Syrupy honey and citrus. Not my taste at all. (My forum review).
Gingerbread Poppet
Warm, cozy gingerbread spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon.
Much as promised - gingerbready foody loveliness. (My forum review).
Green Tree Viper
Snake Oil with four mints, bergamot, and green tea.
A party of mint sexiness slithering sweetly and tastily on my wrist. (My forum review).
The Haunted Palace
The scent of captured glory, of glowing pearls and rubies, of golden sunlit joy and regal grandeur: red rose, Tunisian amber, blood orange, toasted vanilla, heliotrope, gardenia and red musk.
Oversweetened ylang ylang and orange fading to faint oversweet orange and baby powder. (My forum review).
His Station and Four Aces
Lilac fougere, white musk, and leather accord.
Ended up as a rather ordinary leather scent, and so isn't really bowling me over. (My forum review).
Hope, Siamese Twin
Hope is sugared rose, Faith is sugared violet.
Over-sugared, alas - has that dry, tickly, fizzy feel to it, and the rose is soured by that. (My forum review).
Johnathan Harker
A respectable gentleman's scent: lavender, iris, white tea, verbena and white sandalwood.
Light and airy citrus/lavender, but too faint to be much use. (My forum review).
Jólasveinar
Their scent is a mishmash of snow, dirt, Icelandic moss, marsh felwort, and the smushed petals of buttercups and moorland spotted orchids, with the barest hint of the scent of pilfered Christmas pastries.
Mossy snow and dirt, but not really the scent of Iceland for me. (My forum review).
June Gloom
A bouquet of bright summer flowers dampened by the scent of morning mist and rain.
Utterly lemon cleanser on my skin, right down to that residual scent in drydown. (My forum review).
Kataniya, the Clockwork Woman
Gentle flowers over hot metal, shocked to life with electricity.
Dryer sheets and a little of the hot dryer, too. Meh. (My forum review).
Kelly Pool
Worsted wool, teakwood, and bois du rose.
Oh, it's like Numb with added rose. Bleah. (My forum review).
Khajuraho
Honey, date palm, tuberose, davana blossom, amber, white sandalwood, vanilla bean, Damask rose, and champaca flower.
Nice for a while, but fades fast and leaves a weird honey-powder scent. (My forum review).
King of Diamonds
A white chypre shot through with shards of translucent musk.
It reminds me a lot of a masculine Ode on Melancholy, warm yet fragile. (My forum review).
Krampus
Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches.
Hot dusty red-musk-and-leather blend - nice, but Iain dislikes the dust. (My forum review).
Lady Luck Blues
Lady Luck, please smile down on me. A melancholy scent, aching with longing, created to appease Fickle Fortune. Honeyed Bulgarian rose, vanilla flower, benzoin, tonka, black plum, peony, and iris.
Sweet roses really just stopped working on my skin, huh. This isn't nice on me. (My forum review).
Leo
Fixed Fire: the essence of pride. Egyptian amber, walnut bark, chamomile, frankincense, and saffron.
Warm, gently spicy-gingerbreadish-resin. Rather tasty! (My forum review).
Lick It
This is a candy cane perfume, minty, sweet and sugared.
Holy wow peppermint vanilla gorgeousness fading to Antique Lace. Worth keeping for the wet phase. (My forum review).
Lick It Again
This is a new take on last year's Lick It - a peppermint candy cane with an extra jolt of sugar.
The extra sugar doesn't have much impact, it's still yummy. (My forum review).
Lughnasadh
Lughnasadh represents a rest from toil and a time of reflection. Fertility magick is practised, as is agricultural magick used to ensure a bountiful Autumn harvest.
Soft autumnal clove-cherry-apple scent, and if there were no apples I'd love it. As it is, well, glad I got to try it. (My forum review).
Luperci
Raw, down and dirty patchouli, Gurjam balsam, and essence of Sampson Root sweetened with the heightened sexuality of beeswax, virile juniper, oakmoss, ambrette seed over honey and East African musk.
Faint honey-oakmosss-musk, nice but barely there. (My forum review).
The Lurid Library
The incense-tinged scent of forbidden tomes and the musk-laden remnants of infernal servants.
Lydia
Convergence XIII exclusive.
Wurgh, this starts off pretty but ends up sort of diapery. (My forum review).
The Masque
Honey and carnation, rich incense and rose accord, myrtle, red sandalwood, amber, jonquil and clove propel you through the revel, finally seating itself in the final, patchouli, tobacco and labdanum drenched darkness of the blood-tinged western chamber.
Meh, dries to powdery faint carnation. (My forum review).
Midwinter's Eve
The perfume of sugared plums over a breeze of winter flowers.
The sugared plums were too sweet, and made my nose fizz. (My forum review).
Miskatonic University
The scent of Irish coffee, dusty tomes and polished oakwood halls.
Burnt caramel over alcohol and dark, grainy woods - not much coffee. One to retest, I think. (My forum review).
Mme Moriarty
Red musk, vanilla bean, pomegranate, patchouli leaf and wild plum.
Yum. Red musk and vanilla bean and patchouli leaf and plum, mmmmm. Sexy. (My forum review).
Montresor
The black fruit and vanilla oaken notes of fine Medoc and De Grave, but not a hint of the elusive Amontillado.
Smells like a glass of Kir. Not my style. (My forum review).
New Year's Eve in Dogville
Flirty perfume, dapper cologne, and effervescent champagne.
Oh, no, no, no. Soapiness and sour perfumey notes with a sprinkle of fizziness that doesn't save it. (My forum review).
Nuclear Winter
The ice, desolation and barrenness of nuclear devastation shot through by a beam of radioactive mints.
From intense mint and pine in the bottle to watery airy cucumber on my skin. Really cooling, probably great for summer. (My forum review).
Numb
A singularly chilly, delectably ice-rimmed perfume. Revel in the gelid polar frostiness that is Numb, and forget about the heat for a moment.
Soap! This smells so exactly like soap I may have to reconsider any prior descriptions of scents as soapy. (My forum review).
The Oblation
A stirring blend of dianthus, French lavender, blackberry, and white honey.
Lavender and blackberry jam, I guess. Nice, but perhaps not my style. (My forum review).
One To Tie, Two To Win
Dewy grass, summer breezes, and dandelion clocks.
Very green dandelion-and-grass, indeed - but there's something weird with those florals, and a tarry smell behind it. Evocative but probably not wear-worthy. (My forum review).
The Perilous Parlor
Faint echoes of laughter and the distorted music of a harp drift by, along with the scent of soft white pear and sweet vanilla.
Parlement of Foules
White rose and soft resins.
Weirdly like a liqueur of some kind, alcoholic and sticky. Yick. (My forum review).
The Peacock Queen
A blood red, voluptuous rose, velvet-petaled, at the height of bloom.
Pure, ripe, red, full-bloomed rose. Possibly too pure on its own, but might be good to layer. (My forum review).
The Phantom Calliope
Ghostly, glowing, sweet and dark: black cherry, patchouli, cassis, cardamom and verbena.
Ew ew the verbena wins and kills everything else except maybe some marzipan. Rar. (My forum review).
Pinched With Four Aces
Colorado Maduro tobacco wrappers, cinnamon bark, coffee bean husk, and dry woods.
Very mild coffee-toffee ice cream, sweet and sugary and soon gone on my skin. (My forum review).
Pink Phoenix
Vanilla bean, honeycomb, sugared pear, sweet pea and a dribble of strawberry.
Starts off promising but goes icky-palstic-sticky on me. (My forum review).
Poisson D'Avril
Innocence spiked with a little bit of foolishness: Lenten rose, crested iris, Virginia bluebell, primrose, moss phlox, blue crocus, daffodil, and dewy tulip with a touch of sugar blossom and honey.
Slightly soapy and very faint sappy scent. (My forum review).
Pumpkin Patch #1
Pumpkin with apple cider and mulling spices.
Becomes an icky, sour, rotten mass. Yecch. (My forum review).
Pumpkin Patch #2
Pumpkin with cocoa, hazelnut, and walnut.
Cookie-scented candle wax smell. Iain hates it. (My forum review).
Pumpkin Queen
Regal Egyptian Amber, red ginger, orange peel, mandarin, cardamom, fig leaf and warm pumpkin.
Too greasy, though the spices are nice. Alas, no cardamom and no peel. (My forum review).
Purple Phoenix
A regal, majestic, and somber blend of myrrh, plum blossom, African violet, cognac, fig, orris, lilac, wisteria, black plum, and Burgundy wine grapes.
Ha ha like violet an orris together wouldn't make this a powdery hell. Sigh. (My forum review).
Queen's Salon
Bat's Day exclusive, no description given.
Musky carnation-spiciness with some plum in here too. Yummy. (My forum review).
Quincy Morris
Rough on the edges, but possessing the true essence of valor and nobility of spirit: tobacco, vanilla, white pear, cedar, rugged musk and saddle leather.
The pear and cedar together smells weirdly mouldy to my nose. Blech. (My forum review).
Red Phoenix
Red musk, tonka, Chinese cassia, mandarin, patchouli, benzoin, wild plum and tobacco.
The cassia makes this a bit too dry, along with the tonka - Blood Moon is a better red musk. (My forum review).
Shanghai Tunnel
Convergence XIII exclusive.
Surprisingly pleasant, damp stone and dry woods and springtime. (My forum review).
Shub-Niggurath
The lust incense of a corrupted Astarte. A blend of ritual herbs and dark resins, shot through with three gingers and aphrodisiacal spices.
Too cakey a ginger for my skin, not sharp enough. Kumiho is a far nicer ginger scent, though less heated. (My forum review).
Smut
Three swarthy, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes.
Smells like an aftershave my father used to use. Not unpleasant, but I don't think I'll be wearing this myself. (My forum review).
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.
Powdery dry honey and BO, yadda yadda, bah. (My forum review).
Snow-Flakes
The radiance and desolation of winter.
Slightly sweet and creamy mint mingled with watery cucmber - Nuclear Winter Mk II, hooray! (My forum review).
Snow White 05
A chilly, bright perfume: flurries of virgin snow, crisp winter wind and the faintest breath of night-blooming flowers.
Augh my nose - hideous urine-like apple smell. (My forum review).
Sol Invictus
A radiant blend of solar oils: golden amber, saffron, heliotrope, hibiscus, citron, frangipani, frankincense, tangerine, mock orange, and orange blossom.
Bitter bitter dusty dry heat but the frankincense makes it soapy. (My forum review).
Spooky
A maddeningly festive blend of warm, buttery rum, cocoa, coconut, vanilla and a jolt of peppermint.
Peppermint-cream-filled chocolate, with hints of vanilla and coconut. Warm, rich, delicious, rare, sigh. (my forum review).
The Sportive Sun
Heliotrope, amber, almond flower, frangipani, cedar, and calamus.
Nice warm woods in the imp, went baby-powdery on my skin. (my forum review).
Stardust
This scent reflects the futurism, self-indulgence and excess of the Glitter 70's: champagne, hyacinth, tuberose, ylang ylang and flashing white musk with jonquil, tobacco flower, white sandalwood and a pale poppy.
Hairspray and smoke and cheap perfume and stale booze, yick. (My forum review).
Stranger in Camp
Evergreen, damp grass, woodsmoke, birch bark, cedar, and Terebinth pine.
A butch aftershave-ish pine and cedar scent, rather nice but only for sniffing, not for wearing. (my forum review).
Sugar Skull
A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits.
Talvikuu
Skeletal limbs of birch and fir coated in a thick, impenetrable blanket of snow. This is the death of the year personified.
Citrus, fir and resin. Meh. (My forum review).
Taurus
Fixed Earth: the essence of possession. Rose, daisy, apple blossom, violet, poppy, columbine, thyme, and mint.
A light airy floral but the violet feels unstable and about-to-powder on me. (My forum review).
The Tell-Tale Heart
Blood musk, cocoa, black pepper, allspice, dragon's blood resin and vetiver.
Lovely warm spicy cocoa, but incredibly faint. (My forum review).
Theodosius, the Legerdemain
Earl Grey tea leaves, a white fougere, jasmine leaf, pearlescent white musk, and vanilla bean.
Oh god the sexy tea of manliness. Sooooo gooooood. (My forum review).
Thirteen
There are thirteen lucky and unlucky components, including white chocolate, tangerine, currant, mandarin, white tea and iris.
Chocolate orange nausea. Iain really dislikes it. (my forum review).
Thirteen '06
Cocoa and vanilla beans, Mysore sandalwood, star fruit, orange rind, red amber, fig leaf, mimosa, rooibos tea, bourbon geranium, rose otto, nutmeg, and lavender.
Chocolate-vanilla-orange undercut with warm sandalwood, but it went poof on my skin. (my forum review).
Thirteen '07
A base of cocoa absolute and white chocolate with thirteen baneful and beneficial bits: cardamom, fig meat, grains of paradise, rice flower, chamomile, sandalwood, catnip, clove, and a bundle of five blessed blossoms and herbs.
Cannabis residue! With some chocolate and cloves. Weird. (my forum review).
Monster Bait: Tokyo Stomp
A sweet and crisp vanilla mint!
Mint humbugs, all the way. A bit sweet for my taste in mints, but rather nice all the same. (My forum review).
Tulzscha
A crystalline, cold green fire: six mints with white pepper and cucumber.
Smells like mint humbugs, then becomes very like Nuclear Winter. (My forum review).
Monster Bait: Underbed
Cassia-caked cocoa coconut over angel food cake.
Dry, stale, coconut cake, with a hint of almond. Not compelling. (My forum review).
Monster Bait: Underpants
Sexy sugar-smeared saffron sandalwood over lickable vanilla cream with a splash of butter rum.
Went too sweet and cloying on me, and makes my throat feel dry. Alas. (My forum review).
The Unheavenly City
Convergence XIII exclusive.
It started off nicely floral-foody, and then seemed to die violently on my skin. (My forum review).
Usher
A faded genteel light musk and fougere, heightened by hectic white mint, gleaming mandarin, ethereal tea leaf and gritty blackcurrant brushed by the scent of the tarn that surrounds the House, and the gloom and decay of the walls that hold him.
Wow, androgynous light bright musky-floral-tea-citrus-mint-ozone scent. If Iain likes this I may have to beg, borrow, or steal a 5ml from somewhere. (My forum review).
Virgo
Mutable earth: the essence of analysis. Fennel, valerian, maidenhair fern, carrot seed, honeysuckle, and myrtle.
Western Diamondback
Snake Oil with leather, tonka bean, red sandalwood, and sage.
Whippoorwill
Spanish moss, cedar, black pepper, oakmoss, juniper, bamboo reeds and cardamom.
It ended up more aquatic and less moss. Dammit. (My forum review).
Wilhelmina Murray
Tea rose, white sandalwood and a flurry of pale, virginal blossoms, smeared with a smoky, blood-soiled blend of myrrh, hyacinth, Daemonorops resin, dark musk and blackcurrant.
My skin gobbled up the tastiness and left me with nothing special. (My forum review).
The Winter of our Discontent
Embrace your villainy: balsam, myrrh, mandarin orange, bitter clove, artemesia, rosewood, nutmeg, dark musk, smoke and cypress.
Astringent and baby-powderish. Sigh: awesome name, but it ain't for me. (My forum review).
Yuletide '05
The juice of ripe, bursting, blood red holly berries.
Holly and spices and warmth, with a waxy plasticky aftersmell. Laudanum is better on me, but this is still good. (My forum review).
Zarita, the Doll Girl
Soft, yet sociopathic: white carnation, iris, orange blossom, and sugared cream.
Orange blossom to faint orange-spiced-cookies. Nice, but too faint. (My forum review).