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- Today
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a true wild card in my little imp collection! i love eating all sorts of mushrooms (not wild ones, only commercially farmed unfortunately) but i’m not sure how i feel about smelling like them. ooh. a mouth full of hay in the imp. a very dry scent, very wood and hay heavy in the imp. hm. smells like chewing on a 2x4 fresh from the home depot lumber aisle. or snorting a line of sawdust. a LOT more wood heavy than what the name would lead you to believe. there’s a slight hint of sweetness underneath the pile of wood, but whether that’s the slight natural sweetness of presumably hiba– or the mushrooms, it remains to be seen. hmm, it kind of reminds me of the natural dry sweetness of cinnamon? i mean, cinnamon IS tree bark after all. there’s a very dry subtle sweetness that’s reminiscent of cinnamon. i don’t detect any ginger root or ginseng in here. just pure woodiness. not what i expected going into it, but i kind of dig it.
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ooh. floral bomb. and most florals that land quite outside my comfort zone once again. soapy… with a slight spiced bite from it, presumably from the lily of the valley. more sniffs reveal a sort of, laundry scent to me. this kind of just smells like snuggles detergent but not nearly as sweet. not the sort of scent i would envision when i think of what grief would smell like, but to each their own interpretation. grief smells like dryer sheets apparently.
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hmm, three notes that i don’t usually go for, so this is quite outside the realm of my comfort zone. but i’ll give it a try anyway. the wine and the rose vie for equal attention in the spot light, with the dragon’s blood resigning itself to the backstage. it oscillates between wine and rose before eventually coming to a truce and settling down into a wine and rose scent. the wine is a sweet one, this blend isn’t a dry one– probably due in part to the rose. although it does lean quite soapy to me, or very perfumey. like in the after smell when i pull away from where it’s applied on the back of my hand, i can feel a sort of soapiness lingering in the back of my nose. oh! i was wondering why this was so familiar to me– it smells like a GC version of carved wooden bridal shop from last year’s yules! it’s less fruity than CWBS but i think the rose note used is the same– if not very similar. overall, it’s an unoffensive, albeit soapy rose scent, but i think i prefer CWBS more than this one.
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[muscadine, black and red patchouli, cereus and nag champa] most definitely grape with a bite in the imp! like wine but sweet. oh lord, it’s like a grape scented bomb went off on the back of my hand. the initial grape blast dies down pretty quickly, although it still definitely lingers within the blend. the patch in here kinda smells dirty, earthy, unlike the patch in my beloved SO. on the extremely quick dry down [VERY quick, like a dew seconds, quick] the grape skedaddles out of there and it’s only the patch and the presumably the cereus and NC that give it a little bit of sweetness. with a little more time the patch smooths out some more and it’s a little better, the grape peeks its head back in here and there but it’s no where near as present as it was in the beginning. the nag champa is unfortunately not anywhere near the spot light, which is a shame, as i love the smell of unlit nag champa incense sticks.
- Yesterday
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my brain refuses to parse this as pancakes, but I love it so much. I keep wanting to check the notes for marshmallow fluff or powdered sugar, it has just the right amount of sweetness to it. I assume the blob on top of the stack depicted in the label art is meant to be butter, but what if it is marshmallow? what then!? there is definitely a warmth to it that suggests browned/baked batter, tho, and altogether with the sugar and the spices, it is delightfully comforting. so sure: it's absinthe pancakes. exactly what I didn't know I needed. order up!
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Knowing that there is at least one variety of sandalwood that reads as pickle to my nose, I was a bit worried I'd find it in this blend. No danger here! Sweet sandalwood dominates on the bottle and on skin, slowly trading places with the tobacco as time and body heat play their part. I also detect a bit of cassia and/or cinnamon here, kicking the spiciness up a notch. This is men's deodorant and/or body wash adjacent, and incredibly strong. One small dab fills whatever room you are in, and sticks around for 12+ hours. A scent impression remained even when I woke up the next day. I have to put it aside for a bit and come back to it. I like it, but the potency is overwhelming and I need to figure out what the right occasion is for wearing it. To be continued!
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2025 version. I got my Batty Snake Oil two weeks ago and at first, still suffering from mail shock it was furious: strongly medicinal without anything softening or gentle. I let it rest for a good while. Still in the bottle it's quite harsh leather and nothing else! After applying it morphs really quickly much, much more pleasant. Snake Oil is wonderfully beautiful in this one. Spicy, musky vanilla with soft leather. This reminds me a lot of Snake Skin but I haven't compared them side by side. After some time, maybe an hour or so I really can't recognize leather any more. It's mostly spicier Snake Oil with stunningly lovely dirty vanilla. I think Batty SO might be one of my favourite SO variants now.
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low throw pancakes (vaguely batter foodie) with cardamom (spice) and light mint and anise, get more mint the longer I sniff. Nice and interesting but short lived and low. I really wish this had better staying power on my skin, as it's not too foodie, but it's different and interesting.
- Last week
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huh, I open the decant get a lovely brown leather and something that's almost but not quite Vicks. maybe minty? mothballs? I am unable to place this scent, but it is the dominant scent on my skin, which wears like a cloud sniffing my wrist up close I get sour leather and clover. It mellows some as it wears and even turns a bit dusty/powdery, but I do not notice it without the close sniff.
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I was a bit unsure when I first sniffed the imp, but I went back and got a whole bottle because it smells amazing on my skin. I get a solid mechanical lubricant/metallic smell, underlaid with sprite and a bit of ginger, maybe a whiff of bubblegum as it dries out. It's fizzy and, on me, pretty masculine in a lighter/greener way. I didn't expect to like this as much as I do, or that this type of scent would work as well on me as it does. A few friends I've shown it to liked it, thought it worked well on me, but most said it's not something they'd choose for themselves.
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2023. Refreshing? Green-yellow? I can see that it's a floral but it does come off as a scent like Embalming Fluid. I'd guess straw, chrysanthemums, chamomile, aloe, but not the actual ingredients. Must be the funeral bouquets. Maybe candlewax? I get a little incense in the background that comes out on drydown. A tiny bit of bitter tobacco, but that's it.
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Got this as an imp. I got roses immediately, then the musk. My husband think it's nag champa in it, it certainly has a spicy feel to it. This is gender neutral. The rose is a bit soapy on me, but I don't mind. Floral without being overly floral. Could absolutely full size this at some point.
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2019 Version Creamy, almost pastille-like rose and jasmine in the bottle. The jasmine definitely slides into the drivers seat when applied, but the vanilla foam floats in to keep it from becoming too much. Mallow is a weird note for me; sometimes it goes woody, but here it almost has a kettle corn quality to it. I do not get much, if any, rose once applied. By the time it dries down, a general powdery sweetness is all that really remains. As often happens, aging has smoothed out the hard floral edges and left behind something prettier and better balanced than how it originally started. Low sillage in the end, with 5 hours of good wear. Although this is a Yule, it feels like an honorary Luper and a perfect fit for Valentine's Day.
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In the bottle, Snake Oil, kraft envelopes and, impressively, a slight note of adhesive. I do not get any of the wooden crates until it hits my skin; some have said it's cedar but my mind agrees to call it pine instead. There is also now a much more easily identifiable paper note that must be the cardboard. Now I think I can smell a rubber band?! I don't know how the Lab did it, but I swear it's there. I'm laughing as I write this because the first and best word I can use to describe this is FUN. It's fun! The scent notes and description perfectly match to form a mental scene and physical experience. If the Lab ever did a Golden Ticket style giveaway for a tour of their maker space, this is definitely what the shipping room closet smells like. Paper and patchouli rule this scent from start to finish for me; although I don't like the paper note in Miskatonic University at all, I really like these cardboard and label notes here a lot. I do get some red musk, but it isn't overpowering. I suspect the Snake Oil will outlast most of the top notes as the bottle as it continues to age. This has strong projection for 6 hours, then dials back to moderate for awhile longer. I can smell it on my wrist the next morning and it's still terrific. I hope this comes back someday as part of a Carved Wooden Reunion Tour.
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Frankincense, Bourbon Tobacco & Tonka Bean
SmellsPrettyGood2Me replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This tickles my nose brain in all the right ways. Deep sniffs from the bottle bring up all three notes, with the frankincense taking the lead. There's no booziness here, just a dark sweetness. I dabbed some on, sniffed again, then dabbed MORE on (not because I had to, but because I am a sniffy piggy when it comes to tobacco and can never get enough). The warmth of my skin blooms all of the notes, and they waft up in delicious three part harmony. Others who have called the frankincense golden are spot on - there is a mild acidity here that really conveys brightness rather than smokiness. Now I am starting to get a touch of the bourbon, and the tonka bean comes in alongside it. The tobacco is toasty and caramelized in a very photorealistic way. Despite a double dose of how much I would normally apply, the projection does fall off a cliff at about the 1 hour mark, and sillage remains low for another two hours or so before it mostly fades away. If she lasted at least 6 hours, I would have zero notes. This triad is perfection in tone, balance and enjoyability for me; I would take it in hair gloss, lotion, bath salts, beard oil, really any format offered. I just wish she wasn't in such a hurry to move on when we only just met. -
Time has made this blend gentle and accommodating, like the final faint strains of music that you hear as the carriage pulls away from the palace after a long night of fervent glances, swishing skirts and hopes both met and dashed. The iris is present, but faint. The black tea has been lost to the years. Largely, what remains are pretty, powdery resins sitting alongside a dry, light patchouli and amber duo. Whether it was despite the age of the fragrance, or because of it, I got 7+ lovely hours of wear with low-to-moderate sillage. There is absolutely something romantic here, appropriate for soft, quiet nights, with or without company.
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Vintage Kitty Blow Molds is primarily a mango scent on me, although it reminds me of something more like a mango curd than a mango sorbet. The clove in this is pretty tame on me, which is weird since I feel like I tend to amp that note (but it would be fine if I had, as I love the note). So it's mostly a tangy mango scent on me, with a dash of clove, until the end of the day, when it's morphed to the plastic-y bright amber that's the blow mold part of the scent, made a little fruity by what remains of the mango. I think I'm going to keep the decant, as I think this would be fun to wear while it's still too hot to wear my autumnal scents, but everyone's stalking Weenies. I'll have to retest it to see if I need more of it before it goes away.
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This smells like cheap chocolate on buttered pumpkin bread. I say cheap chocolate because of the waxiness of the sprinkles, although Dutch hagelslag sprinkles are completely unlike American sprinkles, aren't hard or waxy, and taste way better (and there's also a vlokfeest version that's like chocolate flakes instead of sprinkle shapes). I totally get the choice to use a note more akin to American sprinkles, though, as most people wouldn't be familiar with the Dutch stuff. Eventually, the chocolate fades away, and I'm left with a syrupy sweet pumpkin scent by the end of the day. I thought I was going to prefer this to Pumpkin Zucchini Bread, but I actually think that I like that one better! Still, if you want a pumpkin and chocolate combo that isn't heavily spiced, give this one a try.
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Dang this has sexied up over time. At first I get harsh evergreens, no happy little trees, but mean massive trees. Later, the dark evergreens recede, and in a strange twist of fate, warm sandalwood and tonka emerge, and this smells more glamorous. The scarlet musk, expected to be a strong, growly, slightly indolic red musk is softer, sweeter. I don't get much florals or orris, but perhaps they're also softening the edges of the sandalwood melding with the tonka (it's not heavy on the tonka, either). Overall, the effect is a fresh, cold, soft sandalwood, with evergreens a ghostly presence in the distance. I picture a glamorous lady at a New Year's party stepping onto the porch for a breath of icy air, peering into a dark forest.
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RoseThornAndOak replied to tart's topic in Recommendations
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This was a success for me, it started put kind of weird and chemical-like for a few seconds but as soon as it settles on my skin it smooths out tremendously. The frankincense is very polite and is there just enough to provide a nice backdrop for the merlot. After a while the wine note is becoming fuller and rounder, with a little more fruity sweetness. I think wine scents are good but I don't often reach for them. I will enjoy wearing this from time to time. I have Montresor from years ago and I suppose it will eventually lose potency or age out, and this scent will be a good stand-in (I haven't tried them side by side, they are probably more different than I'm perceiving right now).
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I was wary of honey but lured in by everything else and just the idea of a cozy SO variant. This smells pretty good at first, and for about a half hour it is indeed a cozy SO variant. For me it kind of falls flat after that and turns into a blurry faint kind of scent that just sits on my skin and doesn't really project or do anything exciting for me. There is nothing bad or off-putting about it, it just doesn't really do anything, I guess this is a case where my skin just eats up most of the scent. There's a little bit of whiskey and SO in there but overall not a success for me.
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Decant from last year - this is intensely sour at first, and I'm blaming the rosey rosé, as some rose notes do this to me. I really didn't like it for the first hour or more but then eventually it calmed down and some sweet orange peel came through. At this point it's a slightly sour sparkly citrusy scent, I feel like I'm not even sure if rose is here, and no clove to be found which is unusual for me. It's not bad but Welcome Unto Thee is my favorite champagne/sparkling wine scent so I will stick with that. I do wish I got some of the good qualities some of the other people here described!
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I think this one is 2008. immediately bitter green cut flower stems. Then I get a tiny bit of tobacco. On drydown it's copal, with a little bit of wood and tobacco under. Best for cold weather, I think. Edit: I can sense rose but only after being told it’s there. I think my nose is partially non functioning
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Somehow I am not getting the spice in the pumpkin. It's a very foody scent. Pumpkin with chocolate? It does remind me of a 13th scent but with pumpkin instead of chocolate
