GC Imps - Keepers: All Night Long Antikythera Mechanism (travel imp)* Bastet Bensiabel The Chicken-Legged Hut Chimera (travel imp)* The Deep Ones Eclipse Elf Half-Elf Haunted (2) Jack Jezebel orange blossom honey & okay-ish rose on hair. Will trying it on skin produce bad!rose sorrow? ETA: No! Is also okay on skin. Miskatonic University No. 93 Engine (2) Obatala* Paris Red Rider (2) Redoul Honey* Skuld Smokestack Tamora Tenochtitlan Tezcatlipoca Titus Andronicus
GC Imps - To Test Anathema (tested - honeysuckle & vetiver take a while to play nice together) Centzon Totochtin Chokecherry Honey Daphne Honey Dragon's Milk (sweet & cloying, must re-test) Grog Harlot Hedylogos - alas, Hedylogos is the bad rose Scarecrow Snake Oil (re-test after aging)
LE Imps - Keepers: Mars Ultor Two Old Men* The Avenue* Beanman and Beanwoman* The Gift* Hidden Pearls* Priala the Human Phoenix Saw-Scaled Viper Boomslang (must test on wife) Australian Copperhead Western Diamondback Death Adder (maybe will improve with age?)
LE Imps - Not keepers Impressions of the Floating World Faiza the Lady of Serpents Behemoth
GC Imps - Not Keepers Alice^ (gone) Al-Shairan^ Beer from the Marsh Woman's Brewery Bewitched Black Rider^ (aged) Blood Rose Bon Vivant Brown Jenkins^ Calico Jack^ Cheshire Cat The Coiled Serpent A Countenance Forboding Evil Dana O'Shee^ (gone) Death Cap^ Deep in Earth^ Defututa Destroying Angel (aged) Dragon's Heart^ (aged) (gone) Dragon's Musk (aged) Embalming Fluid (aged) (gone) Endymion Evil Fire for thy Stepmother's Daughters^ Gaueko The Ghost Gomorrah Hedylogos^ Kali Laudanum Mary Shelley (gone) Masquerade Mata Hari (2) Neutral (2) The Night-Raven Nyx Queen Alice Queen Gertrude The Raven Satyr Sherlock Holmes (gone) Sin Squirting Cucumber Somnus Sybaris (gone) Vial of Holy Water (aged) (gone) Wicked (aged)
All bottles bought from the lab unless otherwise specified. Pink text for faves.
Bottles Owned: GC: O (aged 4 years) Tombstone (aged 3 years) - Tombstone backup (aged 6 months, BNNU) Velvet (aged 3 years, nearly empty) empty Black Pearl (aged 2 years, nearly empty) - Black Pearl backup (aged 6 months, full-to-shoulder) Chimera Drink Me Antikythera Mechanism (aged 1.5 years, 1/4 bottle) Light of Men's Lives - Light of Men's Lives (back-up) Redoul Honey Cockaigne Obatala (2016, full-to-shoulder) Mouse Circus (2016, BNNU)
LE: Pumpkin II 2014 She Perishes That She May Live (burns skin) El Dia de Los Reyes 2014 (1/4 bottle left) - El Dia de Los Reyes 2015 (backup, BNNU) Lovers and a Fan ('15 Lupers) Mars Ultor ('15 Lupers) Clement I's Phoenix Bartholomaeus Angelicus's Phoenix Dead Leaves, Vanilla, and Myrrh (triggers asthma, must get rid of) Gone! Frosted Pumpkin Spice Cookie ('15 Weenies) Satan Summoning His Legions ('15 Pickman's Gallery) Thirteen (13) November 2015 (TOL) Palmyra Channukiyh 2015 Giljagaur ('15 Yules, TOL) - Giljagaur backup (BNNU) Stekkjarstaur ('15 Yules, TOL) Adrastea (Moons of Jupiter Jan '16, TOL) - Adrastea backup (full, bought from forumite) Love's Philosophy ('16 Lupers, TOL) - Love's Philosophy backup (BNNU) Dark Chocolate, Black Tobacco, and Vetiver ('16 Lupers, TOL) - Dark Chocolate, Black Tobacco, and Vetiver backup (BNNU) Beanman and Beanwoman Climb Genital Mountains ('16 Lupers, full-to-shoulder) - Beanman and Beanwoman Climb Genital Mountains backup (full, bought from forumite) Volcano in Springtime ('16 Lupers, full) Blossoming Vulva ('16 Lupers, full-to-shoulder) Hidden Pearls ('16 Lupers, full-to-shoulder) The Avenue ('16 Lupers, TOL) The Initiation ('16 Lupers, full-to-shoulder, like but don't love) The Bride ('16 Lupers, full) The Two Old Men ('16 Lupers, full) Bunraku Theater ('16 Lupers, full-to-shoulder) Pumpkin V (2012 Weenie, half bottle, bought from forumite) Wooden Bullet (OLLA line, 1/3rd full, bought from forumite) Mommy Fortuna (Last Unicorn, age unknown, just below top of label, bought from forumite) Fresh and Blooming as a Rose (Trading Post 2015 Yule, full) - turns into soap on skin, swap/sell The Strange Old Woman (Trading Post 2015 Yule, full) Bulgarian Tobacco single note (full) Thirteen (13) May 2016 (full) Europa (Moons of Jupiter, May '16) BNNU Ganymede (Moons of Jupiter, June '16) Full-to-shoulder Guatemalan Coffee Bean single note BNNU Amicitia (Liliths '14, bought from forumite) Callisto (Moons of Jupiter, July '16) top-of-label Meshkenet the Vulture Maiden (Carnival Diabolique '16, 1/4 bottle, from forumite) swapped SN: Haitian Vetiver (1/2 bottle, bought from forumite) The Malignant Dreams of Cthulhu in Love (1/4 bottle, from forumite) Giant Vulva (2009 Lupers, TOL, from forumite) swapped Priala the Human Phoenix (Carnival Diabolique '16, full-to-shoulder) SN: French Vanilla De Vos's Unicorn (Unicorns '16, BNNU) St. Clare (Unicorns '16 BNNU) vanishes in minutes on me, need to swap swapped Allegory of Chastity (Unicorns '16 BNNU) Wulric the Wolfman (Carnival Diabolique '16, full-to-shoulder) Lilith and the Four Sons of Horus (Liliths '16, full-to-shoulder) Honeyed Apple ('16 Weenies, full-to-shoulder) Caramel Apple Cookie ('16 Weenies, full-to-shoulder) Samhain ('16 Weenies, full-to-shoulder)
Disc. GCs: Tobacco Honey (partial, age unknown, bought from forumite - chemical/cleaning fluid smell, not the honeyed tobacco of my dreams)
GC Bottles Needed: Antikythera Mechanism backup Bensiabel? Velvet Mouse's Long and Sad Tale? (Delicious vanilla & sandalwood) Bow & Crown of Conquest (snuggly vanilla-leather) bought!
CD bottles Needed: Wulric the Wolfman bought!
Unicorns Needed: Allegory of Chastity bought!
GC Imps Needed: Tested, need more, contemplating bottle- - Moar Jack - Moar Miskatonic University - Moar Titus Andronicus - Moar Paris (is fresh as good as 4-year-aged? Will it last longer than 1 hour? fresh not as good as aged, still short-lived) - Moar Smokestack (do Black Tobacco & Vetiver, Priala, and the new 13 fill the smoky resin spot enough for me, or do I need more?) -Moar The Lotus Tree - Moar Bow & Crown of Conquest (delicious but do I need a bottle or do Tombstone & Blood & Judgement suffice?) - Another Old Demons of the First Class(why did I give it away to my cousin before retesting?) Never tested, want to try - Brown Jenkins (coconut husk) No coconut on me, only musk Shub-Niggurath ("evil gingerbread") Shoggoth (coconut & lime) Too much lemongrass. Gave to my mother. Robotic Scarab & Galvanic Goggles (because there seems to be no Steamworks blend that isn't amazing except Aeliopile) Hellfire (tobacco & leather) Hellcat (gourmand to end all gourmands, apparently) All almond, all the time Bordello (plum, currant, wine) cherry musk and bakewell tarts, like but don't love Intrigue (black palm, cocoa, wood) inexplicably smells like stale sweat Athens (honey, wine, flowers) Eden (honey, almond, fig, coconut) cloying - damn you, almond, you do this every time Dragon's Milk (vanilla/milk,but will the dragon's blood ruin it?) tested unsure about Bard (cousin scent to Antikythera Mech?) Gnome (ginger ale/rootbeer, nutmeg, machine oil?) tested - mostly ginger ale, effervescent and crisp but not for me Halfling (pastry) oatmeal raisin cookies! Good (sugar/honey/vanilla, but reviews mention baby powder, also worrying mentions of lemon) Faustus (frankincense & cinnamon - GC cousin to Priala?) Roses, Pearls, and Diamonds (will it be the good rose, or the bad rose?) (good rose) How Doth the Little Crocodile (chocolate and mint, for wife) Mouse's Long and Sad Tale (vanilla) Delicious vanilla & sandalwood. Bottle-worthy? Tlazolteotl (cacao, copal, maize) Kurukulla (rose & lotus, is it the good rose or the bad rose?) Lawful (fruity oak, tried at NYCC but need to get imp for full-day test) Katarina (apricot)
GC Imps - To Test: Eat Me(cake!) Centzon Totochtin (chocolate & wine) Perversion (rum/tobacco/leather/champagne/tonka) - tested, leather takes over Penitence (frankincense & myrrh) - tested, starts off funky but becomes soft/powdery sweet and comforting (but similar to Clement I's Phoenix which I already have) Baron Samedi (bay rum)
GC Imps Tested (Liked but don't need bottle): Bengal (glorious but burns skin) Elegba Eclipse Kill-Devil (meh when fresh, improves with age) Bastet Red Rider (leather single note) Jezebel (good/okay-ish rose & orange-blossom honey, glorious on hair) Tezcatlipoca Tenochtitlan Tamora Haunted Fighter (harsh, new leather) Halfling (delicious oatmeal raisin cookies) Chicken Legged-Hut (horse feed/hay/sweet feed) No. 93 Engine Hunter (Neverwhere) half dry grass and dusty-warm cat in the sun, half lovechild of The Lion and Bow & Crown of Conquest
GC Imps Tested (Okay, but not *great*): Queen Alice Black Rider The Lion Al-Azif Elf Half-Elf Dragon's Heart Dragon's Milk Morocco The Deep Ones - an aquatic I can actually wear! Azathoth - weird combo of orange & vetiver. Not sure I like it but can't stop sniffing it. Antony - amazing when wet, vanishes within half-hour Bordello - half sexy leather-tinged berry wine, half bakewell tart Penitence - morphs from weird stale/funkiness through decent church incense and into cozy soft/warm powder Perversion - leather with hints of rum and tonka, dry-down is entirely leather Door (Neverwhere) - gentle honey-chamomile-scented LUSH bathmelt
GC Imps tested (Disliked) Aeliopile (orange-scented dish detergant/floor cleaner) Alice Endymion Dana O'Shee (too cloyingly sweet even for me) Spellbound (the bad rose) Defututa (jasmine ruins everything) Al-Shairan Dragon's Bone Calico Jack (aquatics = not for me) skekNa the Slave Master (harsh leather) Sudha Segara (raw, fresh-sliced ginger, no milk) Fire for thy Stepmother's Daughters (starts out lovely fruity white musk, ends up dryer sheets) Intrigue (smells weirdly like sweat) Shoggoth (lemongrass too strong)) Y'ha-nthlei (soap and dryer sheets) Great Sword of War (citrus and red musk take over everything, avoids floor-cleaner effect but still not great)
LE Imps Tested - liked: My Baby and a Baby Goat (wonderful! Snuggly fur musk and honey!) The Vine (smells like fresh, juicy pear when wet, turns into delicious sweet/sticky BPAl honey as it dries) Boo (vanilla cream and clean laundry) Mother Shub's Spiced Lait de Chevre (goes on tangy yogurt, dries to warm milk with clove syrup, gentle and soft) A King Pursued By a Unicorn Good Morning London (lavender & amber) My Little Grotesque (sweet/creamy cardamom SN) O the Joy of My Spirit (hazelnut/tonka/pine) First Cry of the Warbler on the Plum (wisteria, plum, and honeyed green tea, lovely spring floral) Poor Monkey (pleasant creamy fig/lotus/ylang-ylang that almost smells like there's coconut in it, but bad during shark week)
LE Imps Tested - (Okay, but not *great*): Joyful Dalliance in the Underworld - dead ringer for pit barbecue Faiza - surprisingly pleasant for a white floral-type scent but burns my skin Australian Copperhead (all acia-berry, all the time) Leda (like a less complex De Vos with strawberry instead of apricot & more white musk) St. Clare (too faint & fades too quickly, not as sweet as I'd hoped) Himalia (like a less-sweet Chicken-Legged Hut) Spiced Apple Cider ('16 Weenie) A Commentary (apricot and vetiver and red musk, like a less-barbecue-ish Joyful Dalliance)
LEs Tested - Disaster: Delight and Consternation - horrible floor cleaner/cleaning solvent scent The Unicorn Rushing... - Lovely in the imp, turned feces-like on my skin (first jasmine to do so) LEs and Discontinueds I'm Curious About: Blood and Judgement so Well Commedled (really nice and pleasant) Avunculus Apple I In the Time of Plague (buy before it's out of stock or be strong?) All That I Possess (buy before it's out of stock or be strong?) Amicita (everything sounds good except the carnation) - glorious! Tarantula Fascinator Captain Cully The Lilac Wood The Last Unicorn Mommy Fortuna (The sexiest BPAL I've ever worn. Sticky honey & salty gunpowder) Aristocratic Couple Arana Haloes (as a Dark Delicacies blend, might as well be a disc./LE for me) (like the lighter, spring/summer version of Antikythera Mechanism!) Adante con Fantasia (why did I not order a decant when I could?) Ivory Vulva/Glowing Vulva (haha, good luck!) Katrina van Tassel (yeah, like that's gonna happen) Question Mark Atlas Moth Gypsy Moth Grievous Swarm - wonderful gritty vetiver/myrrh, my holy grail vetiver scent Bjugnakraekir Perilous Parlor
Notes that ruin things: Jasmine (star jasmine is apparently a different plant) Dead Leaves note/accord Carnation (except in Bow & Crown of Conquest) Ozone/aquatic notes Narcissus (the most cloying white floral of them all) Lily of the Valley (except in Audumla) Patchouli (very occasionally okay if the other notes drown it out/you can't smell it in the blend) Nag Champa (bad "headshop" associations) Hemp accord/Weed (reeeeaally bad associations) Lemon verbena (horrible lemon cleaning solvent of doom)
Notes that are iffy: Rose (wonderful in Adrastea and Lush's Rose Jam, okay in Jezebel, Roses, Pearls & Diamonds, and Allegory of Chastity, awful in Hedylogos, Harlot, The Rose, and some other rose blends) Ylang-Ylang (sometimes okay, sometime too white floral-y) Orange Blossom (same as Ylang-Ylang) Champaca (will it be too reminiscent of Nag Champa?) Lily (high risk of soap) Lavender (will it remind me too much of my mother's bath products?) Dragon's Blood (was this the note that rendered Dragon's Heart too perfume-y?) Red Musk (or was it this one?) White Musk (high risk of dryer sheets) Black Musk (possibly what turned Black Rider into baby powder?) Basically all musks except "skin musk" nope, all musks White sandalwood (similar effect to white musk) Most florals "Dirt"/"Loam" etc. All citrus notes Oude/oud (can smell sour/fecal)
Notes of Like: Leather (like but amp) Vetiver (would be under "love" if Joyful Dalliances in the Underworld hadn't smelled like pit barbecue and Death Adder hadn't been... weirdly and inexplicably unpleasant) Cocoa (love but can vanish or be cloying) Almond (like but can be cloying) Cake Cinnamon (love but amp liek woah) Clove (love but amp) Coffee Pumpkin Peach (like but skin eats it) Pear (hard to find, often paired with icky florals) Lilac Frankincense (like but skin eats it) "Resin" "Smoke" "Spices" "woods" Beeswax Hazelnut Orris/orris root + coconut Sage Fig Oak Lotus (possibly the glorious crisp, fruity note in the wet phase of Paris, possibly also what caused Paris to vanish off my skin in under an hour) - confirmed, Lotus is the wonderful crisp/juicy sweet fruit note from wet/freshly applied Paris.
Notes I Amp: Leather Cinnamon Possibly Rose Possibly Clove Possibly Honey? Possibly Jasmine (or maybe I just hate it enough that any jasmine is too much jasmine)
