Solstice Scents review

Foxcroft
Ozone, Rustling Leaves, Rich Black Soil, Chimney Smoke & Woods

Moss! Rich black soil! I get both very strongly. As if I fell, face first, into the moss surrounding an old oak tree deep in the woods with a rich black turned up soil. How peculiar. Never smelt anything like it. I'm not even sure this is wearable. Perhaps as a base for something. I think this also smells like if you stick your nose deep into a gigantic bouquet of babys breath. Or fresh, turned up soil with ripped up chunks of green moss on grave at midnight in new england. Very weird, unique and interesting scent. I recommend you pick up a sample just to try it out. It's pretty creepy.

10 minutes later: Still pretty much the same.

20 minutes: It chillled out. It's not so in-your-face wet soil and moss but more of an undertone. Not sure if this is because it's faded almost completely or if it is an intended.

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Manor
Woody-Vanilla Musk, Vanilla Accord, Glorious Black Agarwood & Exquisite Aloeswood

Smoky vanilla laying on a richly scented just hewn block of wood. Nice scent, not too complex just a cuddly but sophisticated vanilla mix.

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Cocoa Mallow
Devilish Dark Chocolate & Fluffy Sweet Marshmallows

Wow hot cocoa!! This smells great. Heck if I know what a marshmallow smells like because all I smell is a great big steamy cup of hot cocoa. Almost like Serendipity II in NYC. Not sure on the throw and lasting power but this is great stuff.

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Witch's Cottage
Warm Baked Goods, Dried Herbs, Sweet Annie, Soft Woods & Fragrant Hearth Smoke

Oh yummy. Cinnamon buns and warm loaves of bread. I smell the rich wood like an old butchers block with old herbs on it. I smell a touch of cinnamon but a nice earthy touch, not strong and I usually amp cinnamon. The brown sugar starts to peep out and it does settle into a soft woods and hearth smoke scent. And wow. I actually love this. It's very comforting. I'd reorder this.

10 mins later: Wow.. morphy. This is settling in to almost a clean but yummy scent. Not much throw and not really that strong. Still enjoy it.

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Kitchen
Pumpkin, Sugar Cookies, Peach Preserves, Spice Breads, Danishes, Caramel, Vanilla & Sweet Wood Smoke

Mostly I smell the peach reserves in this. Which is a little disconcerting. And the peach leans towards smelling like celery on my skin for some reason. Not my favorite.

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Cafe Mallowmel
Rich Coffee Flavored with Decadent Caramel & Sweet Marshmallow Cream


Has the same musty smell that seems to be a theme throughout the majority of the scents I received. I'm really not sure what it is. I do smell the coffee (black) if I press my nose against my wrist. No throw and this didn't last long (maybe a half hour) I will say that I do enjoy the coffee smell and I wish it was stronger and I could live without whatever the musty basement smell is.

10 mins later: it's settled into a rich coffee smell. Still very light.. still no throw. Shame because I'm enjoying the scent when I stick my nose against my wrist. The musty smell seems to be gone now.

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Harvest Moon
Apples, Pumpkin, Butternut Squash, Roasted Chestnuts &  Spices

I smell a bit of apple mixed in with a fresh pumpkin smell (not the spicy pumpkin pie smell). I smell a little of the chestnut and what I assume is the squash mellowing out the whole mix.The spices also. Hmm. smells basically how it is described. If you're going to buy this you need to buy it now. What is left on her website is the last of this forever unless she reformulates.

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Jack & and the Devil
Vanilla, Tobacco, Oakmoss, Amber, Patchouli, Sweet Pumpkin & Soft Spice

Patchouli. That's what I smell right off the bat. I do smell a bit of the tobacco entwined with the patchouli. I smell the mustyness that I've picked up in some of the other oils. I smell leather for some reason. I don't smell any of the pumpkin or spice. On me this smells like basically straight up patchouli and tobacco with a hint of what I guess is the oakmoss.

10 minutes later: still patchouli. I dont really like patchouli.

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Samples of: 

Nightgown
Vanilla, White Chocolate, Tuberose & Tiare Flowers

My favorite. This is utterly lovely. Strong rich buttery flowers. Didn't last on me as long as the others but who cares. :) I plan on ordering a bottle.

Cenobite
A Deep & Rich Vanilla

I'll have to come back to this in a future update. My nose feels like it's going to explode.

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My favorites from this bunch are Nightgown, Witch's Cottage, Harvest Moon, Manor and Cocoa Mallow. In general I haven't found any of the ones I tried to last very long and no need to apply sparingly since they aren't that strong to my nose. More of skin scents.

What's even weirder and I haven't run into this before is that all of these scents had a very graceful cycle of morphing. They all seem to smell different from the start to the finish when they finally mellow out.

Do I like anything, yes definitely. Do I LOVE anything. No, not really. But you may find something you love.

Nice company with super nice owners who were more than accomodating with me on my questions. I'd recommend checking them out.