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This is the other sample that I got today, and I seem to be having one of those 'it smells very different on me than in the bottle' reactions. In the vial I get lemon and chamomile and tea notes; on my wrist, it smells more floral/herbal-soap-and-baby-powder, like the poster whose family thought of Dove. I'll have to try it again later, because I looooooove tea...

I got a sample of this today and aside from smelling delicious it's got a fascinating sense of 'space' in it. What I smell most of all is marshmallow and graham crackers and a little cinnamon, which would presumably be in your hands; the smoke is a little more distant, since you're not sitting 'in' a bonfire, and the woods are farther back still. (At least, that's what it does on me.) It's like there's an entire portrait in a few drops of oil...

Sounds like I need to add Winter Solstice to my "the next time I have a budget for bottles" list too. ^__^ I got the bottle I ordered today, along with samples! Sugared Bonfire and Sugared Iced Tea. Yum in different directions. And since I knew I had a bottle coming, I gave my mom the sample vial of Autumnal Equinox that got me hooked to start with -- let's see if I get her hooked too!

Yeah, it's totally too easy to get addicted to these! I've already had to put myself on a monthly budget for 'em (and I gave myself a belated dispensation for a budget allotment for January because I hadn't found here then. ) I love hamantaschen the cookie variety too -- my boss (or, more accurately, his wife) makes them for us every year and they're wonderful. I've tried to reproduce her recipe but never quite get it the same somehow... different hands, I guess. (That's one of the things that drives me nuts about baking: it's so much more precise chemistry than cooking, and even if you follow a recipe to a T, totally out-of-your-control variables like the humidity level and whether your hands are warm or cold can make a huge difference in the final product!) On the topic of inventing scents -- have you guys done 'sugared merlot' or 'sugared brandy'? Something that involves wine's extra notes over the grape base? Or maybe sugared whiskey -- I discovered in Scotland that I can't drink the actual stuff because it tastes like battery acid to me, but it smelled intriguing up until that point...

Brand new addict here -- I got my first set of samples from a friend this weekend and Autumnal Equinox was one of them. I fell madly in love with it -- there were several others in her set of samples that were also nice, but this one made me run out and buy a bottle today. I want to come up with some kind of butter-pecan-pumpkin muffin recipe so that I could have something as tasty to eat as this scent smells! Unfortunately I'm much better at experimental cooking than I am at experimental baking, but I am verrrry tempted to try... Has anyone ever tried to come up with a recipe to match a scent, by the way?