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A surprising win for me. I get right away the praline and some hints of cacao. As soon it hits my skin, Caramel Vulva warms up and becomes so comforting and gives way to this subtle spicy peppery aura. The caramel part is never in your face, but i can tell that it's very well blended together with the praline milk and hazelnut. There must be an unlisted spice note in there, because i smell some kind of pepper ot something else.
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An interesting apricot bergamot crossing. The apricot is dominated by the bergamot and never leans the sweet fruity way. After some time the apricot is merely a shadow, leaving way for a bright musky bergamot haze.
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A citrus neroli with hint of bitter lemon peel. Neroli kind of hovers above and dominates everything.
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imp from 2017. wet I get the mossy licorice smell and when it first dries down it really is evocative of sitting down in a wet mossy hole 😂, but I think either the age of the imp or my skin makes this one disappear quickly so it's probably going in the to-go pile.
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I’ve never tried a cardamom forward perfume before, and it is such a lovely way to smell. In the bottle it’s a little more creamy/gourmand blueberry but as it wears it becomes a dry, warm smell. It reads as mostly cardamom to me, throw is pretty big and it also lasts throughout the day. I really loved catching whiffs throughout the day.
- Yesterday
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Beaver Moon: Green Tea & Cookie Dough
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
When I first tested this, I couldn't smell the green tea at all. I get a very strong almond note from this that's giving me cherry almond vibes. I haven't tried it in a while, but I think it's kind of reminiscent of the cherry/almond cookie scent I got from Lilith the Explorer. Some days later, I tried it layered with its moon, and I could smell the green tea in the layering combo. And now that the scent has had plenty of time to settle, I get both the intense almond-y cookie dough note and the green tea, with more of almondy dough than tea. Maybe this is supposed to be like sugar cookie dough, but the baker's hand slipped and they added way more almond extract than they had intended. I was really hoping that this would feature the cookie dough note from Pandemic Vanitas. I don't dislike it and will probably keep my bottle, but it's not my favorite duet from the Beaver Moon 2025 collection. (That award goes to Lime Blossom & Amber Sugar.) -
When I grabbed a decant of With Care and With Joy, I had hoped that it would smell like the milk and honey note from Alice. Alas, it did not! But I think this one does! It has amazing throw and staying power, even lasting between a few hand washes before reapplication. I tested it against Alice by applying that further down my arm, and my bottle is super aged and more about the carnation, but I do believe they share the same milk and honey notes. It also reminds me of a milk and honey liquid soap -- maybe Softsoap? -- but I haven't smelled that in ages and cannot be sure. The combination of the two notes is heavenly -- no funkiness from the milk or the honey! I'm going to need a bottle.
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As a black licorice FIEND, I've had my beady eyes on this one since it came out, and I finally indulged. And yes, it's VERY licorice, though, not my favorite version of the scent. With the grey amber and black pepper notes, I was expecting something with a gritty or powdery bite. Something a bit more sophisticated or avant-garde than the typical licorice offering. Surprisingly, this is just the opposite. This is a sweet, thin, shiny, (plasticy, one might say 🤔) and simple. This makes me think of rootbeer barrel hard candies.... if the were black licorice flavored. ( I would be all over these.) This is NOT a bad thing, but just not what I was hoping for. However, it's a fun scent and definitely fitting of the perfume's title, and if you want to smell like shiny licorice whips or hard candy, this will sure do it for you! It also strikes me as a fun note for blending. I could totally see mixing this with patchouli or vanilla or even a popcorn scent to great effect. I tried it last night with Snowy Circus Peanut to my delight and possible contraction of diabetes.
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On my first encounter, I thought Drowsy Voyeur was just "ok." A dark plummy poppy + patchouli blend that felt a bit familiar after trying other darkly fruity patchoulis over the years. But then I kept going back for more... and the decant has rested a bit... and it really has gotten under my skin, to the point that now a bottle is an absolute must have! The guava is much more perceptible to me now, and it's not reading as overly tropical exactly, but it's twisting and warping the plum into something a little less familiar. The indigo musk, opium poppy, and patchouli all swirl together hypnotically and taking a deep whiff from the vial feels like the scent gets "stuck" and echoes of the scent reverberate and linger. On the skin, a black tea note comes out and makes it feel surprisingly clean and clear-eyed for such a nocturnal scent. Not getting much tobacco, but I wouldn't be surprised if this continues to come into its own as it ages.
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This is not about the cacao or black tea. I kid you not. It's about the steam, but the steam of oolong tea and what's even more interesting is that upon further development this morphs into the scent of a body lotion/ face cream/ hand cream. I'm still can't get over this peculiar transition. I smell hand lotion/ body lotion on the spot where i applied the tiny dabs. I get the smell of light floral body beauty product. Some teas can give off a light floral profile and this is IT in body/ hand lotion / face cream format.
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This is a woody spicy take on oud. On y skin i get no honey. The oud isn't indolic or poopy. BUT, the drydown reminds me a GREAT DEAL of Ponophobia from the Yule 2019 collection.
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Soft, clean, pretty floral, very similar to Hanami to me. This goes on largely plum blossom and white musk, with a little hint of sharpness that I could see reading soapy but doesn't strike me in that way. The lilac and cherry blossom both come out on drydown, and it's a very balanced blend of the notes. Distinctly floral but at a little bit of a remove, like a painting of the flowers rather than the flowers themselves. After a while it turns mostly into cherry blossom, and it's a really lovely, pink, pretty cherry blossom. I like this, and will definitely keep and wear my decant, but I don't think I'm in love enough to get a bottle.
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Ohhh, I was hoping I'd like this one. No cream to bring things down! Plum blossoms! Clean white musk! But all I got was cherry blossom-tinged generic soap, which was just boring. Scrubbed it off and put on Cluster of Cherry Blossoms instead.
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This apricot is pleasant but subdued, kinda jammy with a touch of smoke. did not get much soil. the hay blends in gorgeously with the amber and fruit, and there is a subtle mentholated chill to the scent.
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I got a bit more of the orchid the first time I tested this, but on 2nd test, it lurks in the periphery with the earthy tobacco flower while the vetiver and oud take center stage. it's not a barnyard oud, the vetiver is a grassier one, and although the composition does lean toward a standard vetiver fragrance, I think the orchid keeps it interesting.
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This scent is so delicate that in the bottle I don't get much impression. However, on my skin it has incredible throw & opens up to a light floral with a slight skin musk moment. I really need 3 more bottles. Haha! Right up in my top 5 favorites. Deeply in love.
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This is a very masculine cologne scent on me. It's a heavy and earthy floral that would do well on an Edwardian gentleman. I am really enjoying it and I'm going to test it on my partner too.
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This is mostly about the Embalming Fluid and the leather. The clean, lemony green tea of Embalming Fluid is the strongest aspect of the scent at first, with the leather increasing in strength over time, still doused in some Embalming Fluid. I swore that there was some dusty white sandalwood in this when I first tried it, but apparently, there is not! There is an aspect to this scent that I get after several hours of wear that I think is the white satin curtains -- I thought maybe there was something fabric-like with hints of orris and vanilla during one of my tests, but I think that was a fluke, as I didn't smell that during subsequent tests or when I tested this on my partner. (I'm guessing that another scent on my arm was interfering with this one during that test). So there's a softness to the fabric beneath the leather doused with a splash of Embalming Fluid by the end of the day, but there's nothing in the accord to take it out of clean Embalming Fluid and leather seat territory. I like this and will keep my partial bottle to wear when Weenie season is approaching and it's too hot to wear Weenies, but I still want to wear them. However, I don't think I need a full bottle, as I don't think there are many occasions where I'd prefer Embalming Fluid plus leather over straight up Embalming Fluid.
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This has CRAZY throw on me. The incense is unlisted, but there's a LOT of incense, some very sharp lily, and spicy-sweet ylang ylang. The sharp lilies die down after a couple of hours, and Flower Moon remains floral incense, with a hint of something sweetly balsamic, on me for *hours*. Seriously, I'm on hour 8 over here and still going strong. The projection's died down since this morning and it's definitely closer to my skin than it was, but it's still very noticeable. I went to try Flower Moon's accompanying hair gloss a minute ago, and I figured I'd reapply a drop of the perfume oil so I could better understand how they complemented each other. Possibly this was a mistake: the little drop of Flower Moon I reapplied has BLOTTED OUT the Passionflower & Wild Plum Hair Gloss. I feel like a walking cloud of incense. Whatever incense accord this is, it would appear I amp it. I wish I'd gotten more of the florals and earth notes! It was definitely a pleasant smell, just not what I'd been hoping for, and probably a bit too incensey for my tastes. I'll give my decant a month or two before I retest to see if it calms down at all.
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Terrible Moon: Coffee Bean and Cinnamon Stick Hair Gloss
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
Treat this as more of an impression than a review as I haven't sprayed it in my hair yet. Alas, I didn't get around to properly testing this before it came too hot here to be wearing coffee scents, so I decided to spray it on a paper towel so I could at least share some thoughts on it before it goes away this week. This is exactly what it says on the tin: coffee bean and cinnamon. However, this reads as more perfume-y than a true to life gourmand to my nose. Both of the notes are prominent, but the coffee is the stronger of the two. I think this smells nice, but I'll content myself with the decant since I already own a bottle of Hunter's Moon: Coffee Bean and Incense Hair Gloss. -
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Sweet without being sugary, and creamy/vanilla forward without being foody. The saffron has a note that smells like rubber or plastic for a few seconds, but ultimately calms down into something that grounds the entire scent and makes it gender neutral. It's not for me, but I'm glad I got to try it.
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Roses have been woven into magic and folklore for thousands of years, and this oil reaches past the lovely sweetness of petal and hip. In addition to the rose’s association with love and romance, the rose's spiritual depths encompass blood, rebirth, resurrection, and immortality. The root carries all of this in concentrated silence: love that is not fragile, love that has come back from the frost, love that grew itself back from the cold, shadowed death of winter. The rose is an emblem of Venus, deeply associated with love, passion, and friendship across cultures, but she is also sacred to Aphrodite, Isis, Hekate, Inanna, Ishtar — goddesses of the underworld as much as the bloom. She lives at the crossroads of beauty and power, and her thorns and roots have always been part of its power. An earthy, patchouli-touched rose oil with a hint of oakmoss and vetiver.
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An oil for cultivating plant knowledge, green witchery, and deepening relationships with and understanding of plant materia. This oil sharpens plant communication, deepens your relationships with the green ones in your care, and to honor the long lineage of people who passed this knowledge forward through dark centuries so that it could arrive in your hands. Anoint your hands before harvesting, wear it when you study your materia medica, anoint your ritual tools when communicating with earth spirits. Contains: frankincense, hyssop, mitti attar, clary sage, milky oats, comfrey, oakmoss, patchouli, and hay absolute.
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Strawberry Moon: Kyphi and Sweet Cream
feyofthefellwood replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I love lactonic cream scents, so this was a win for me: heavy fresh cream with a golden, sweet incense note (almost strawberry ish? or maybe the name is just influencing my brain's interpretation). It reminds me a little of Aeode, Melete, Mneme, another favorite cream scent. -
My experience is not gourmand, but sugar crystals and sweet vanilla crusted over a distinct woodsy note that reminds me of the current mainstream mania for basso cedar/oudh blends (e.g. Dior Sauvage, although I would NOT call Slippery Elm Root a cologne). The longer it wears, the more SER separates into two layers: one woody and dry, one sweet and also dry. It's an interesting experience, and I'm keen to read other reviews now.
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