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Very robust, dark coffee dominates the scent while wet in the bottle, with the usual BPAL pumpkin spice note, and a hint of creaminess from the nog. On skin, the spice and coffee notes switch places, and the brown sugar syrup appears in the background. There is definitely a thick, non-lactonic dairy element present that reflects custard as well. By about minute 30 that oily, silky coffee note has pretty much disappeared completely. The nutmeg and cinnamon are perfectly balanced, and the brown sugar syrup gets even nicer post dry down. Projection is quite bold, so apply carefully. I could still catch whiffs of it over 10 hours later! If you're wary of coffee fragrances, this one didn't smell like coffee for very long on me at all. All of the notes were extremely photorealistic, which was refreshing because I recently had a not-so-great encounter with a butterscotch note that sent me reeling. What really made this fantastic was the eggnog note; it smoothed everything out and tied the whole scent together. I can see wearing this nonstop between October and March, it's that good!
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A fragment of a discarded summer scent concept from a few years back.
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Olive green jelly with a warm orange glow and pink and green reflective sparks.
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May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us — yes, establish the work of our hands. Also known as salep root and Helping Hand, this orchid root has been used as a tool of success, wealth, and good fortune, bringing blessed luck to everything your five fingers can touch. It’s a gambling root that blesses risk-takers, but is also a tool for craftsmen, laborers, artists, and all who work with their hands. A deep earthy perfume entwined with orchid petals.
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Frosted cedar, moonlit amber, black plum, vetiver, smoked oakwood, violet shadows, and feathery incense. Ohara Koson
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Smoked beeswax and blackened amber, incense ash and antique myrrh, and tears running rivers down ochre stone. Odilon Redon
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White Sandalwood and Cacao.
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Steamed Milk and Marzipan.
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Terrible Moon: Pistachio and Vanilla Buttercream
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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Honey Dust and Toasted Oats.
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Coffee Bean and Cinnamon Stick.
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Cardamom and Black Amber.
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You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. – Maya Angelou Under a terrible moon, tides still answer the pull. Roots still find water. Breath still moves from body to body, unseen and unstoppable. To keep breathing together is to refuse erasure and deny despair. Authoritarianism thrives on isolation and fascism feeds on hopelessness. We are living through a terrible moon, indeed, but we are not alone. You are not alone. Every breath you take is an act of defiance. Every hand you reach for refutes the lie that you stand by yourself. We will get through this together. A protective, communal scent to call one another closer and stand united against the darkness. A scent to remind us that even now, especially now, we rise. Smoldering beeswax illuminated by honeyed amber, an embrace of skin musk, body-warmed wool, cacao-dusted sandalwood, and cardamom milk.
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A green and spicy slip up while reblending Funnel of Love.
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A new year’s blessing! Peony, China’s national flower, with bamboo for flexibility, plum blossom for perseverance, courage, and hope, tangerine for wealth, orange for happiness, lychee for household peace, pine resin for constancy, golden kumquat, pussy willow, and quince for prosperity, narcissus and King mandarin for good fortune, and peach blossom for longevity, with a splash of blazing red of dragon’s blood… to help you scare away the rampaging Nian.
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A bedtime anointing oil for the prevention of nightmares. Contains: lavender, frankincense, chamomile, willow leaf, rue, hops, star anise, bourbon vanilla, and lemon verbena.
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I haven’t had much sleep lately, so this is the best I could do for a name. This scent is part of an unreleased comedy/horror animation project, based on an illustrated character concept of a dapper skeleton. White sandalwood, white pepper, orris root, angelica, and chalk.
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I tend to be wary of oud and this didn't sound like my style, but I was determined to try the whole Erl King collection and I'm very glad I did give this one a chance! On me it's dark, regal, imposing, and very cold, like deep black ice. There's strong incense and a complex woodiness given a sense of sophistication and remove from the ambergris and icy notes; the eucalyptus increases the chill, clean feeling, but does not pull it too herbal. This feels very effectively atmospheric to me - I can picture some kind of dimly lit, icy throne room for a dark woodland king, redolent with incense - but at the same time the muskiness of the ambergris keeps it feeling like a perfume, like something belongs on skin. I am fascinated with this one, which seems to be a reaction I've had to a number of scents in the Erl King collection. I want to spend more time with it, and this review feels a little premature for that reason, but since there are so few reviews of this one it felt worth sharing initial impressions. I don't think it's one I will find much occasion to wear often, so I doubt I will need more than a decant, but I feel very struck by it and glad to have the chance to try it.
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I think I like this more than Dead Leaves and Apple Pie. The baked apple seems slightly tarter, the coffee really brings out the apple. Light throw. I suspect it won’t stick around too long, but so good otherwise.
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Dead Leaves, Scorched Clove, and Red Cedar
Lucchesa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Halloweenie
Wet the scorched note is prominent, and it smelled alternately like scorched clove, scorched cedar, and Dead Leaves on Fire from 2020. This settles down fairly quickly into a skin scent on my late middle aged skin. It’s a pleasant if subtle balance of clove, cedar wood, and DL. I like it, but there are so many weenies I love… -
I love me some blackberry scents and this is no exception. In the bottle and when first applied the blackberry is very tangy and combines well with the thick creamy cream cheese. There is a bit of morphing as it settles then finishes drying down in the skin, and I agree with the poster that mentioned Four and Twenty Blackbirds as a cousin to this Sufganiyot. Where that one had a thick brown pastry crust, this has the trademark Sufganiyot fried dough experience I love. For me, there's room for both in my collection. Some of the tang returns after drydown has come to pass and the end result is a tasty blackberry jelly donut situation that I am pleased to have in my collection.
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This is a delicate, simple spring floral. I get all three notes clearly; the wisteria is probably strongest on me, but the sakura/cherry blossom and ume/plum blossom temper the wisteria's sharpness, balancing it out very nicely. This feels like a rare blend in which I can really get the sakura and ume notes without the fruitiness of cherry and plum proper, and I enjoy getting to revel in that. It definitely has a perfumey quality that for me differentiates it from the lab's more photorealistic florals, and I would prefer if the notes felt slightly fresher, though some of that I imagine is its age. This feels to me like a scent for a fancy daytime garden party, if you wanted to smell like flowers but also hold a sense of formal self-presentation. It feels like pale pink with just a hint of purple. I acquired a very low partial of this, just about little over an imp's worth, and I expect to enjoy and use all of it, especially in the warmer weather, but I don't think I am heartbroken at not having a full bottle.
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In the bottle, this is indeed a milky caramel. Caramel notes sometimes go flat on me, if they're too much about the sugar and not enough something to balance that. If this one holds, it'll become an instant favorite. 🤞 As it warms up, the milk is indeed still present, but shifts toward being a warm-milk-with-sugar situation instead of an integrated caramel as it was in the bottle. It's still good, but not this "oh man I'm going to gnaw my own arm" kind of good. In full drydown that whisper of coconut reveals itself to be similar to the Coconut Tree single note- not suntan lotion and not foodie but more of a dried coconut husk. It's not gourmand, but frankly, I think it's more interesting, providing more gravitas for the other notes. To my astonishment, the fried-dough note that puts the "Suf" in nearly all Sufganiyot blends, is entirely absent here! I don't know if the other notes, being so rich, are somehow shrouding the dough or if it's just not so present in this blend, regardless, it's not really accounted for. In all, a low throw daytime scent that is right at home in any nice gourmand collection and an interesting addition to the Sufganiyot universe.
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In the bottle, I get the sweet fried dough aspect that is a hallmark of all the Sufganiyots, and with that a very candy-ish strawberry. This is not the tart, fresh strawberry of the original Strawberry Suf, nor the fluffy strawberry of the Buttercream variant. This is strawberry licorice whips or Twizzlers. I don't dislike it- in fact I'm impressed, as usual, with Beth's artistry. Who else can create so many variations on a theme and have each one be really distinct?!? She never ceases to amaze me. Once it's warmed and come to its drydown, some (but not all) of the licorice aspect dissipates, replaced with a strawberry lipgloss, reminding me intensely of the sort my friends and I wore in 7th grade, obsessively licking it off so that we could reapply some more. The dough is still present, and while they could seem to be strange bedfellows given my account, they work very nicely together. In all, a low throw daytime scent that is a fine addition to the Sufganiyot family. ❤️
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This scent is such a treat! If Faith and Hope had a visiting cousin whose older sister was TKO...Donkey's Tail would be that scent. Its delicate sugared French lavender after full dry down has been reached, and yet somehow more complicated than that. I agree with the prior review that there's something akin to a touch of peony in the mix and yes, that decidedly *pink* silk as well. It's really a lovely, delicate thing. I of course layered it with its cohort, and I'll copy below what I had to say about it in my other review: LAYERED WITH GLOOMILY, GLOOMILY: The French lavender and vanilla when added to Gloomily, create some additional punch for sure, transforming that scent from something extremely ethereal into a more grounded iteration of itself. The combo also brings out something that, to my nose, smells like a hint of fresh garden rose? 🤷♀️ which is baffling as that's not in the notes. I suspect some magic combination of the rain and thistles remind me of a very fresh cut bloom. Regardless, I'm not mad about it. ❤️ 🌧️
