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This is definitely a very soft scent, with the most gentle of lavender. It does go a little powdery on my skin, but that’s OK, because it works so well with a lavender that it just feels like the coziest moments of childhood. I’m excited to use it as a sleep scent tonight, and I imagine I will have very sweet dreams.
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Pink pink pink! This smell radiates the color pink, when I smell it I can see pink beneath my closed eyelids. It’s sweet without being overpowering or powdery it does kind of give off a bubbly effervescent effect like the champagne scent note in other perfumes. It’s a very young, youthful, bright smell. I think strawberry is the most prominent note but honestly it’s so pink and there’s so many notes that start with pink that it could be any of the things that start with pink.
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It Was But the Wild Blast As It Sung Thro’ the Trees
Mufasa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Yules
Extremely unique! This is a gourmand that I wouldn’t consider to be sweet, I know there’s been some savory-gourmands in existence for a while but I’ve never smelled those because I thought if it wasn’t sweet why bother but this changed my mind, it’s really nutty from the hazelnut that’s the most prominent note and it’s so warm, I can smell the heat on it which is really fun. If I was told this was a roasted hazelnut single note I would believe you. It’s a close to the skin smell no aggressive throws just warm and subtle and really nice. -
This one’s pretty wild, it’s very sweet. It kind of gives a hard candy vibe. Like the ricola cherry cough things with a slight bedusting of powdered sugar. I don’t really get any of the scent notes on it which is weird. I’m not a great connoisseur of smells by any metric but I can usually pick up at least one of the scent notes. Maybe it’s the lemon verbena that makes me think fruit hard candy but I don’t know. It’s so unlike white rabbit which is more what I imagined in my head but I like it because it’s still light and refreshing.
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This is nice, the vanilla and buttered toast is the most prominent for me. And there’s something about it that’s a bit powdery I would assume that’s the cotton stuffing. It’s not my favorite I think it’s the combo of the butter and the slightly powdery laundry of the cotton stuffing. It doesn’t work as well on me as I imagined in the sense that I can’t decide if it’s a gourmand or a your-skin-but-better perfume. Like it’s both heavy and light at the same time which confuses me, I don’t know where I’d wear it to because it’s too much heavy gourmand to wear around the house (it’ll hurt my head in close quarters) but it’s not the strong throw show-stopper I’d wear to a party either.
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Absolutely amazing! Easily my favorite of the collection. It’s a tiny bit spicy and creamy and sweet. Something about it reads woodsy to me like a hint of fir or general tree smells. It’s very subtle, close to the skin not very much throw but in a great way like your skin but better. I would say the cardamom and the milky musk are the most prominent notes I don’t really get the other things and the cardamom is a little more subdued than it normally is for me but the milky musk is perfect because it’s not too dairy or tangy nor is it the kind of powdery smell that I get sometimes with musk, I love it and it’s cozy and a perfect daily wear perfume.
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The Lab has a couple of ways licorice can go, one is rooty and deep (my preference) and the other is lighter and fruity in tone, distinctively candy, and this is the second. It reminds me somewhat of haribo licorice wheels at first, very bright and sugary, with a hint of saltiness, but as it dries and fades, the gray amber steps in and makes it gentler. I never get a lot of pepper, though it’s there, and at times it can tickle my nose and the back of my throat. It’s fine, but as a person very fond of deeper licorice scents, it’s not my favorite. I place it near Licorice Bats (also the lighter, candy licorice) in terms of how licorice it is. Mild throw, shortish wear length that fades gently into a soft blackish wisp. I might try layering it with something that could use a little uplift of licorice, though, and it might deepen up with some age on it, gray amber sometimes does that.
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Oh my gosh, this is everything to me. I get the hazelnuts first, just beautifully toasted, and then the butterscotch rum softens and sweetens it. The winter oak feels like a witness to the dance of the other two scents, grounding it, but on my skin it's very gourmand and truly lovely.
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Does exactly what it says on the tin -- if you've ever had lavender mead, this is it! The honey is well-rounded, with just enough of an edge to let you know that yes, the alcohol is lurking in there somewhere; the lavender floats on top, leaning slightly more towards the herbal than the floral side but just enough so to balance out the honey. Really lovely! (and oooh, would I drink a whole lot of this if it were an actual drink...)
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For me this reminds me of laundry in the best way. Not detergent or soap, or even clean clothes, but the way it smells when you walk out into a cool autumn morning and someone nearby is running their dryer, and how the air around that home smells warm and cozy and clean. There’s a sense of lavender, but not a specificity; this scent is very grey and pink. Compared to Gloomily, Gloomily, it does feel like a flanker-type scent. They share an atmosphere and similar notes, but this is a little sweeter and brighter. I think it could probably stand on its own, but it does smell delightful if you wear a bit near, but not necessarily layered with, Gloomily. They complement each other beautifully.
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Well, I rolled in to write something but found that it had mostly already been written. All my notes, including comparisons/related scents, line up with doomsday_disco’s. It’s smooth, it’s woody, it’s leather-bound old books, it’s nutty — the macadamia isn’t as aggressive as some other nut-notes can be, especially almond and chestnut — the wax is mild (I was hoping it would be stronger, tbh, but in the end I’m glad it’s not), the pun is delightful. Teak is a note I don’t love, it’s usually quite sharp and unpleasant on me, but this is one is lovely. It has excellent staying power, lasting fully overnight and into the next morning, faded but still complete. I, too, thought I’d hit capacity with book scents, but this one is different and beautiful enough to earn a permanent place in my collection.
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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.
- Last week
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Wishing you and your cocks a happy new year. Red peppercorns and gingersnaps.
