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Congratulations, and welcome to the addiction.  Your soap looks pretty good for a first try.  In the future, if I were you, I would lower your water amount - you have almost a 3:1 ratio of water to lye and that's pretty high.  Bring it down to a 2:1 ratio and you will like it better.  When you stick blend, keep it at very short bursts.  Stick blend for 5 seconds, hand stir, stick blend for 5 seconds, hand stir, etc.  The more you stick blend the thicker your trace - you can do less, but you can't take it away - so be very conservative with your stick blending.  Some of the scents you mention: Sweet Tobacco and Leather for example are definitely not essential oils.  They are fragrance oils.  It's not possible to get essential oils from those substances.  Your silicone liner may continue to retain a fragrance odor (mine does for sure) but I have never had this transfer to a new soap. All in all, a job well done.  I like your curing set up.