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Solstice Scents – Kitchen I love Fall.  It’s my favorite time of year.  Of course, along with Fall comes those traditional scents that we associate with the season.  Kitchen does a superb job of fitting the bill for replicating those wonderful olfactory joys. As with the previous Solstice Scents I’ve sampled, Kitchen is another “what you smell is what you get” fragrance.  And with the others from this brand, that’s a good thing.  Aptly named, Kitchen gives you the wonderful smells of a kitchen in Autumn.  You get pumpkin spice and vanilla sugar cookies.  You get spice breads sitting on a cooling rack as a cool breeze blows through your curtains.  You get sticky sweet (but not sickening sweet) danish sitting on a plate on the table with luscious caramel slowly dripping down the sides from the remaining heat in the dough. Kitchen is a opus of everything wonderful about Fall baking.  And if you close your eyes and sniff deeply, you ...
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Solstice Scents - Jack & The Devil EDP Jack & The Devil is described as an amber/tobacco/earthy/spicy on the Solstice Scents website.  It’s much more than that.  This is my first purchase from the company and they’re off to a great start. This fragrance opens with THE scent of Fall – pumpkin spice.  In a single inhale, you get the perfect replication of pumpkin spice.  The note is bolstered by vanilla which adds a touch of sweetness.  I get a beautiful tobacco (yes tobacco can read as beautiful) just behind the pumpkin spice accord.  Oakmoss, amber, and a clean patchouli help to round out this fragrance and give it body.  There is a decadent richness to this scent.  The drydown is absolutely stunning as the beautiful spice is retained and the oakmoss comes a bit more to the forefront. I applied this scent at 3 pm in an afternoon and was still able to smell it, ever so lightly, the next morning.  Notes: Vanilla, tobacco,...