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So much fabric going on here! The cotton and silk are prominent. I noted in my review of Gloomily, Gloomily that it was a scent with texture. This one is even more tactile, somehow. It brings to mind Dorian, Tattered Lace, and They Shut Me Up in Prose.
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This smells like I crushed up those hard meringues and a porcelain doll and mixed all the powder together. And then I took a taupe suede leather poof and patted it on my arm. At first it was definitely powdery, but then it began getting a bit more creamy as it warmed up on my skin. I may need a bottle of this. It's weird and nice all at the same time. Edit to add: It reminded me, as I wore it, of Batty Lace, but without the caramelized leather....that did not work on me. But it's what I thought Batty Lace would smell like? It has a brittleness to it that makes me think of bits of hardened lace breaking.
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It's just so damned cozy. I agree with the first review that this really smells like its color scheme, grey and pale pink and lavender. It also has so much texture, soft and with a plush nap. Major synesthesia going on. The lilac gives it sweetness, the soft musk gives it depth, and the rain/moss keep it from going powdery. The lavender is my favorite kind, sweet without the medicinal sharpness. I want to bury my face in my skin right now. I don't get much gloom from this, but maybe some wistfulness. This is not my usual style of scent, but I really love it. I have a feeling this will be wildly popular.
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Black Butterfly Moon: Vanilla and Tobacco Flower
Frills replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I don't get a dirt note at all. It's warm and clean and a little floral. -
Bruised Violet Compound
carrioncupid replied to Leopard403's topic in Doc Constantine's Pharmacopoeia
i don't know for sure what i'm smelling. i have limited experience with violet, and, quite honestly almost all of the other notes in this blend besides the patchouli. it's green smelling? i think if i had to say i don't really get any of the so-called violet. it's the patch and the moss i think, there's nothing fruity or floral in this blend on my skin. stale green moss and patch? i don't care for it. -
War of the Roses? Not anymore! After years of fragrant hostilities, BPAL’s Reigning Yule Queens, Snow White and Rose Red, lay down their arms. Two beloved Yule blends are bound together at last: frost-bright petals and deep, blood-warm rose, entwined with winter air and the green snap of freshly cut stems. A hard-won peace, sealed in perfume: cold beauty and velvet warmth.
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I’m honestly not sure if this is actually a New Year’s card, but for the sake of this project, let’s say it is. Your ancient ones are welcome? I misunderstood the card when I first saw it, and my brain translated it to an invocation to the Great Old Ones, Outer Gods, Elder Gods, or Dreamlands’ Great Ones, so let’s run with that, too. This scent is no mere nut of hearth and harvest, but a squamous chestnut, born of ancient groves whose roots knot through strata older than memory, necrophagous and ravenous, sucking nutrients from long-buried carrion. A whiff of roasted shell, scorched coffee bean, and smoldering husk billowing in tenebrous clouds of nutty, cacodaemonical incense. Beneath this lies a resinous sweetness, dry and fungal, as though the chestnut had ripened not beneath familiar suns but under a swollen, unwholesome moon. A paean to the dad jokes that the King in Yellow tells his kids, this chestnut’s warmth carries the faint echo of a pun told too many times and the comforting dread of knowing the punchline before it lands.
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minty… herbal… almost medicinal in quality. it reminds me of my mom’s tiger balm. ooh. there’s two scents entwined within one another, a woody scent and a fruity scent. there’s also a slight smoky quality that lingers beneath the fresh scent. it’s mainly blackberry and pitch pine. there’s also a slightly spiciness that comes from the tomato leaf, although it doesn’t smell like tomatoes. it’s very interesting. not my preference for scents but it’s certainly one that may be good for warmer months. becomes a lot gentler on the dry down, with the only thing really remaining is a blackberry musk. all other notes fade a lot into the background and it’s just like you got done eating a whole blackberry bush.
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Boldog ujevet! Bubblegum musk, fermented plum, and strawberry brandy in a white candyfloss-dusted fairy ring of ruby-capped mushrooms and marshmallow cream.
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Golden hay and sun-warmed straw, soft brown fur musk, ripe banana peel and green fig, steamed rice and almond milk, mimosa blossom, and pale yellow chrysanthemum.
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eh. grandma-esque soapy florals that also irritated my skin 😕 smells familiar to me, i think there might be another BPAL blend similar to this. if i had to say i think it’s old powdery florals. oh yes, it’s the drydown of carved wooden bridal shop, that specific rose note is prolific in many blends it seems. not much to say about it, les fleurs du mal is probably named that because of the skin reaction it gave me, and not the scent itself.
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A scandalous affair between silk-furred conspirators: tails entwined beneath tables, furrrrtive glances stolen and held too long, stolen hours, arched backs, and the scent of unfamiliar catnip rubbed on jeweled collars. An indolent purr of cream-soaked shortbread biscuits, cracked cardamom, pink pepper, smoked vanilla bean, and cocoa powder.
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May you skillfully dodge all of life’s chamberpots while the blessings of the new year splash upon ya. Clean snowmelt touched with lemon peel, clover leaves, sugared almonds, and glimmering amber coins.
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Wishing you and your cocks a happy new year. Red peppercorns and gingersnaps.
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Here’s hoping 2026 is less an endless replay of spectacular wipeouts and fail videos and more a year that finally sticks the landing. Leather tack, saddle soap, bay rum, carmine wool, black silk, crushed winter grass, a billowing cascade of pipe tobacco, and a shot of adrenaline.
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Once in a while, I am truly at a loss for words. Oat porridge and cream, smoky treacle, clove bud, crushed sugar cookies, and pink currants.
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“O father, see yonder! see yonder!” he says; “My boy, upon what doest thou fearfully gaze?” — “O, ’tis the Erl-King with his crown and his shroud.” “No, my son, it is but a dark wreath of the cloud.” A dread shape forms in the mist: chilled white musk, rain-soaked earth, and a gleam of blackened steel.
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Hi ho, we're finally live with a Beaver Moon + Wolf Moon double Lunacy, plus some stowaways and stragglers! Since all this might be hard to keep track of, here's one link that contains everything just launched: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/december-2025/? This includes our three new Junji Ito Collection scents, a series of NYE Creepers, a bonus ACLU fundraiser oil, and expansions of Skull Maskerade and The Erl-King. Whew!
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Agree with others about the greige/pink vibe of this scent. The dead leaves are there but staying in their lane, not pulling citrus but feeling light and fluttery and just a tad husky. As far as DL blends go it reminds me of October or October 32 but in a musky vanilla direction that opens cool and airy and dries down to something like a felted millennial pink frosted cookie on a wooden table. Cooler and thicker than October; leaner, more outdoorsy, and less soapy than October 32. I thought this lacked interest at first but the more I wear my decant the more it is growing on me and feeling more complex and interesting in its surprising woody nuances.
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Bombastic Subtropical Turquoise Cream Pie
Champagne replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
I am reviewing this while drinking coincidentally a bombastic tropical juice mix. I can smell the pie, the pineapple is trying to steal the stage as usual, I amp pineapple to heavens normally, and I can sense a sweet sweet mango in the background. It’s very playful and it gives me orange impressions more than blue. All the notes are well seamed, and I’m sure that the next reviews will vary wildly. I like it! -
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Matcha Latte Cream Pie
Champagne replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
If you prepare at home a healthy version of the classic matcha kitkat, it would smell like this. Rich, buttery, matchy (is it a word?), and a breeze of ghost chocolate and mint. It is good, sophisticated and gourmand without falling in the ultra sugary territory. I love gourmand, I love matcha, it’s a complete win for me. Edited to add that there is a smokey tobacco leaf note in the dry down. It fits well and adds an adult sexyness to the blend. -
This is delightful as it sounds: more than a pie it’s a delicate victorian sponge cake with a sugared earl grey note that dances with a pale lavender, stealing each other the stage and alternating themselves on the wrist. Throw is near to skin, I slathered it a bit and I’m living the dream of this lilac fairy cake. I would buy gallons if I could.
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I've had such a strange experience with this dragon, if I'm honest. The first time I introduced it to my skin, this dragon was overwhelmingly heavy on molasses (that don't actually appear in the notes). Syrupy, dark and at times almost a little bit smoky smelling, with only the tiniest hint of oatmeal underneath. At this point, Greige Dragon gave me the impression of somebody who really, really enjoys topping their morning oatmeal with a solid 15 second pour of molasses straight from the bottle. These molasses never wavered, either, and blessed me with their presence until the point where I was no longer able to perceive this dragon at all. Strange! Granted, I'd only given it a few days to acclimate after it decided to make it's home in my apartment, so I decided to grant Greige Dragon another two weeks or so of rest. Now, I no longer perceive any sort of molasses. None whatsoever. Instead, Greige Dragon is now a slightly foodie cross between oatmeal and rice pudding (I do distinctly get rice pudding from it - the kind that's traditionally eaten on Christmas day in the Nordics) with a distinct starchy undertone, resting on plenty on soft wool and accompanied by an empty cup of black tea that was consumed approximately two hours ago. It's cozy and comforting, warm without being spiced in any capacity, and foody in a way that even someone who struggles with gourmands like me can appreciate. This never teeters too far into gourmand territory on my skin at all - the starchiness and the wool make sure of that - but for me, it's the perfect balance between foody and.. conceptual? It certainly does feel very greige.
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This is so pretty! The black velvet reminds me a bit of the sleek black musk from Black Silk Orchid, and the red lame reads as red musk to me at first. This is an unoffensive rose, and for someone who does not get along with rose all that often, this is STUNNING. I don't get anything plasticky. It's well balanced.
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The mulling spices are definitely there, but paired with the dead leaves base, this reads both as spiced holiday punch AND ALSO as a murky yet vivid landscape in oil, probably from the Hudson River school - something along the lines of Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church, or On the Hudson River by Jasper Cropsey. The spice notes flame out like a vivid New England autumn awash in scarlets, golds, oranges, browns, and russets.
