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Just got this and had to try it right away , so unsettled slather here we go … I love it , I had Kamisuki years ago and miss it and this …. Def has the same family vibes for me . I immediately smell the cherry rose petals on initial application and a very soft marshmallow , then the white tea faintly . I don’t get any amber but don’t mind . Love this one and will backup bottle 👌 kamisuki: Cherry blossoms, white tea, vanilla orchid, and a drop of strawberry
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2024 version: I get a nonfussy, nonindolic, soft, white floral opium with a little vanilla and tobacco giving it intrigue. Not too fruity, but there is a sweetness that reads purplish, if that makes sense, making this feel nocturnal. It is similar to the Winter Night, Figure on The Bridge, but without the swoon inducing snow and blackened lilac. The musk makes this more clean and polished. The figure came inside and cleaned up after vibing on the bridge. I prefer Winter Night's complexity and depth, but there's nothing I dislike about this at all, and it gets better as the day goes on.
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Death Moon: Absinthe and Lavender Tar
belladonna99 replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
For me, this opens with strong, sharp lavender, then quickly turns into licorice. When it comes out, the absinthe is pretty realistic. I don't think I'll get a FB, but it's a nice scent to have as a novelty. -
Boney Moon: Brown Sugar and Oak
Elspethdixon replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Brown Sugar and Oak is great on first application - it’s the same dry, clean oak note that I love so much in Antikythera Mechanism, lightly sweetened by what smells less like brown sugar and more like one of BPAL’s sugary musks. Sadly, it quickly goes fuzzy/almost soapy on the drydown and loses the oak note. I’m going to chalk this one up to a skin chemistry failure, because the oak is still detectable on my hair, where there’s no fuzzy soap in sight. -
I don't care for rum as a perfume note & since I found this to be super boozy at the outset, this wasn't for me. Though the drydown is quite nice, I'm not willing to wait for it. I prefer Snake Oil Hot Toddy when it comes to Snake Oil + booze variants.
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Cold Moon: Jasmine Absolute and Champaca
theseagrows replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
for me this is a slightly dirty, spicy jasmine. at first it leans sliiiightly mothball, but then that goes away. i guess the spiciness is coming from champaca? i am unsure, but this is a pretty, heady jasmine. maybe it's incensey as the reviewer above said. it just adds a bit of depth to the jasmine. -
When I first got this bottle, the pine came out full force and if I sniffed hard enough, I could whiff the barest hint of cookie. The first skin test brought about a sickening mix of pine cleaner and cookie. I set it aside, determined for a cookie scent, to see if it changed. Braving the first sniff today, I get a mix of cookie (like the crispy edges of a baked cookie) and pine, but the pine isn't some horrific sharp cleaner anymore. On skin, it goes down as the same mix, but the pine burns away to leave a soft vanilla cloud with a hint of cookie dough. Unfortunately this doesn't linger for very long for me - maybe 2 hours at most. My friend: It smelled like creme brulee, but now it smells like vanilla candle and millipede.
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I can't explain it, but something about this is reminding me of a department store. Upon application, the woody notes are strongest, but the berries quickly come out. There's a sweetness that I'm guessing comes from the chestnut? I'm not getting much floral at any point, but I think I can tell it's there, supporting the scent in the background. Probably not a FB, but I'm glad I got a decant.
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Tobacco flower always smells like perfumey white floral and soap to me, and I strongly get that scent here. Weirdly, I don't smell any tea at all, but it is musky, and something here reminds me of gritty tobacco and hazy white smoke after a while. Clean, smoky, perfumey floral.
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I’m getting mostly the sugared lemon and vanilla cream on my skin, though it’s definitely not something I’d describe as gourmand. Bonus points for having a soft lemon that doesn’t seem to go cleaning product! It’s very much a soft skin scent, but I think if you enjoyed The White Cat, you’d probably enjoy this as well, as a less-sweet cousin.
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2025 Version This is a lovely sugary rose! It's in the same family of rose as Rose Quartz Bedroom. If you loved that one, don't sleep on this. I can't separate out the cotton candy and vanilla notes, as they all meld together to create a lovely sweet rose. This is not high-pitched at all. Would also be a great scent for a younger fem person who wants to try something with rose.
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The ink in this smells more chemical and sharp than usual, and it's weird mixed with the powdery amber, cream, and powdery, sweet florals. Something about the whole thing comes off as unpleasantly sour (the citrusy white tea and ink?) and slightly soapy on my skin. I love scents like Pomegranate Ink, but I'm not loving inky florals with soap and powder. As it dries down, there's a little smokiness to the ink that starts to remind me of incense, but I still dislike the powdery and soapy tones.
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Battledore is so strange. It's intensely sour to me, very soapy in a harsh way, with creamy lily undertones. The peony milk and lilac are nowhere to be found. There's an electric green, sour feel from the tea (I often find that bpal's green and white tea notes smell more like citrus than tea) and then soap and lily. I dislike this one strongly.
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A grape popsicle and a fudgesicle melting together with a drizzle of honey. It's very sweet & strong, and most of the notes don't show up on my skin, so it's not as complex as I thought it would be.
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This is really nice! Maybe because it is now very aged, I don't get any candy-like top note. Wet and dry it is a really pretty sandalwood vetiver blend, blissfully pencil shavings free. Sits close to the skin and fades a bit more quickly than I would prefer, but I like it a lot.
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Couple Engaged in Intimate Acts as the Man Pours Tea
theseagrows replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
this opens with rice and smoked vanilla. its very toasted smelling, i guess others read it as buttery? i can see that as well. i get a slight hint of yuzu after maybe 5 minutes, then i get jasmine tea a few minutes after that. it dries down to primarily jasmine tea and vanilla. thankfully, the rice fades more to the background over time. this is very pretty, i am loving the jasmine lupercalia perfumes this year. -
this opens with orris root and dewy lilac, so it's very springy. after about 10 minutes i get a hint of magnolia which grows over time, but still the lilac is a bit stronger on my skin. it seems like a lilac soliflore almost, which has happened with other BPAL lilacs, so i think maybe my skin amps this note (?) which i am not complaining about because i love lilac. finally, deep into the drydown, i get more magnolia, which adds a bit of creaminess to the lilac though the lilac is still quite prominent. this is so pretty for springtime.
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at first i get mostly green tea and mint with a hint of a mildly indolic jasmine, followed shortly by some sweetness from the lotus. after awhile it's a creamy jasmine with hints of lotus and violets. this is gorgeous and i think i need a bottle.
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This goes on with the amber, heliotrope, almond blossom, and ink being the dominant notes, although the white tea is briefly there when freshly applied and then quickly retreats to the background. I'm not familiar with golden lotus, but nothing is jumping out at me as being similar to the bubblegum-like sweetness of pink lotus or the wonderful, airy blue lotus from Blossoming Vulva. The almond blossom adds a sweet creaminess to the scent and helps tames the heliotrope, which is somewhat sharp and perfume-y in this blend, but didn't turn go powdery on me for once. The ink note is on point and most noticeable during the wet phase of the scent and about an hour afterwards, but then it becomes mostly about the heliotrope and almond blossom cream, resting on a bed of amber. I like this and am pleasantly surprised the heliotrope didn't ruin this for me, so I plan to keep the decant. But I don't think I need more of this since I feel like almond blossom cream has popped up a lot lately, and there's a scent combo with an ink note that I really love and probably should have gotten a back-up bottle of (Neglected Calligrahy).
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The buttercream smells like the best buttercream frosting. Buttery vanilla with a whipped, airy quality to it. It doesn't smell like store bought frosting or sickeningly sweet. The rose is persistent on me, as it always is, but it smells like I've plucked the petals off a fresh, dewy, red rose and mixed them into this heavenly buttercream. The dark musk doesn't come out for me at all, but the suede is a barely there whisper of soft leather underneath the buttercream and rose that makes me want to lean in and smell this more deeply. I keep thinking that this could be a girly version of Quincey Morris. It smells very romantic. I've been hating on rose and vanilla rose scents pretty hard lately, but this is one that I actually love.
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This is such an odd yet enjoyable fragrance. It reminds me of watermelon candy, but wrapped in a super creamy, vanilla taffy-ish scent with creamy, cool, white petals and green stems all around. Not overly sweet at all, but also not super green or aggressively anything. It smells like natural spring flowers, stems and all, that somehow also smell of juicy watermelon candy and lots of cream. Pink, creamy, fresh flowers and stems, but also candy. I will at least be keeping my decant of this one. It doesn't remind me of any other fragrance, and it feels very spring and joyful. It gives me a feeling of a cool breeze on the same day that there is warm sunshine.
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Cloying grape candy, intensely perfumey/ sharp / musky floral with a soapy undertone, and a whiff of incense smoke. I had to scrub this off, as the fruity grape was so overly sweet that it was making me ill, and I don't like this type of floral at all. Nothing about this reminds me of guava.
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Eternal, unwavering loyalty: coconut milk, lavender buds, vanilla bean, white sandalwood, and hazelnut. Very floral coconut milk when applied wet, with a spicy hazelnut underneath. I don't get any lavender at all, unfortunately. This has moderate to strong throw and really great longevity (8 hours in I still get a whiff every time I move my arm). I did not enjoy how flowery it was when wet but liked the dry down a bit more. Well executed and suited particularly for a cold, raw day when you want to pretend you are on a sunny beach somewhere in a sarong, sipping on a something in a coconut.
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What a warm, lovely scent! Honey can be difficult to wear in summer, but the dust keeps it from being too sweet. I swear I detect a hint of orange blossom in the dry down, even though this note is not listed. The sandalwood is just barely there. Agree with others who said this is perfect for a date, or really any situation where you want to smell nice in an unobtrusive way. Low medium throw and lasts about 6 hours before starting to fade.
