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Fresh from the mail this smelled exactly like lavender dryer sheets. After about a week of rest, on me it's become an herbal lavender version of Fleece Skeleton Onesie. On my husband it still has a bit more of a laundry-adjaceny quality, but it's more like fragrant steam coming off of the dryer than any real laundry product. Wearing this to bed is quite snuggly and cozy. Time will tell if I need to upgrade, but so far I'm really enjoying my decant.
- Yesterday
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I hate fabric softener. As in, when I absolutely have to walk past the detergent and fabric softener aisle at the store I have to hold my breath or I get an instant stuffy nose and start sneezing. I have told my husband that if he wants a divorce but doesn't want to directly tell me, he should just start using fabric softener on his clothes and I'll get the hint. That being said, Lavender Apron is what I WISHED clothes straight out of the dryer would smell. It is clean, cottony, and warm, with an almost powdery sweetness that doesn't bug me AT ALL. On my skin, it is a perfect clean scent for people who cannot stand traditional clean scents. This scent is all snuggly and warm, and smells like a big pile of soft laundry straight out of the dryer in the best way possible.
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I love it. It's very gentle and stays close to the skin. It reminds me of the recent Blackberry and Violet Chiffon duet, only the blackberry is swapped for a light pear and a little coconut milk that then fades to a beautiful vanilla.
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This was a blind bottle purchase that I was 99% sure I'd love, and I do. It's all ruby chocolate and red musk and berries. If you like those notes you will love this. It's great. ❤️
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This is gorgeous. I'm getting the ruby cocoa plus something almost smoky, but not smoky if that makes sense. It could be the combined notes of oak moss and blood musk. I gets little whiffs of all the different notes and keep thinking how good it smells. This was a blind bottle purchase because of the ruby cocoa and it does not disappoint!!
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This is a delicious Halloween treat. Peanut buttery pumpkin with boozy chocolate. I really like it! Whenever there’s a peanut butter note I have to try it! It’s a rare but delicious note! So is this scent! 🎃
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I think this is the first time that the variety of lavender in TKO has been mentioned in a description! Anyways, this was an instant bottle for me, since I adore TKO and love lavender and chocolate together just as much as I adore lavender and vanilla. I am here to report that there is NO CACAO SLUDGE in my bottle (which is a little sad for me, but those who were hoping for no sludge can rejoice about there not being any globules of cacao absolute in this scent). I've slathered this one on before bed twice, and I swear it's like a TKO even more amped up on sugar than chocolate. Like, the chocolate is there, but it really is just a dusting of cacao on me... so this isn't even as chocolate-y as Wulric, the Wolfman or Lavender Brownie. I'm not sure if that is just my skin amping up the non-chocolate components of the scent or not, but in any case, it is still a lovely TKO confection and I recommend it to someone that would love an ever sweeter TKO.
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This smells exactly like the listed notes. The root beer barrels and chalky, wintergreen-y candy cigarettes cozy right up to each other and are pretty evenly balanced for the first few hours of wear, but the candy cigarettes do overtake it after a while, making it a chalky, minty scent with the ghost of root beer barrels, before eventually settling down to a cheap vanilla (which makes sense for the root beer barrels) with a hint of candy cigarette by the end of the day. It has been decades since I've had a candy cigarette, and I couldn't remember if they were just chalky and sweet or if they had a flavor to them, but as soon as I smelled this, I was like, yep, those are candy cigarettes! And the wintergreen from those goes well with the root beer barrels. I do think Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener is even more root beer barrel-y than this, so if someone tries this for the root beer candy and doesn't want the candy cigarette component, try that one if you haven't already. Although I wish the root beer barrels lasted as long as the candy cigarettes did on me, I appreciate the scent and the nostalgia it evokes.
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What am I smelling? I am still not sure, but it's very interesting and unusual. Freshly applied, this is bright fruit hard candy of my childhood. Maybe those bonbons in a tin. The scent is fruity and sweet, with a tart hard candy edge. On the skin, after 15 minutes, I detect a sweet woody scent. It's in the vanilla family, but not quite. Akebia, is that you? Then, guava comes to play. Green bergamot gives the scent some sharpness that interplays with the fruit accords. Sandalwoods come out last, and remains on the skin as a barely detectable veil. Definitely interesting, unusual, and very pretty.
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Got this as a frimp, and I pretty much immediately extra special loved it. I need a bottle! In the imp: Not the most pleasant, but hard for me to place. Kind of sour, maybe some of the sassafras? Wet on skin: That scent in the vial doesn't carry over to bring on my skin. I mean there is some sassafras, but it's quite lovely, and a buttery but not very boozey rum. As it starts to dry I get more clove, it's a bit spiced now, but still with the sassafras and maybe the bay, I do smell something a bit herbalish behind the rest. I'm not getting much almond, but it might be blending in. As it dries, a couple hours later, the cloves back off a bit but are still present. The rum is mostly gone but it's still a bit present. Still no almond. I think the sassafras is mostly gone too. Maybe some bay? The throw is less than it was. Doesn't last very long, but long enough, and it smells amazing on me!
- Last week
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Emmaya joined the community
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Dear God this is so pretty. I knew I was gonna love it, being an unrepentant hoe for lilac, but holy crapola is it good. It does remind me of Cottonmouth! Like Cottonmouth but stuffed with big glorious lilacs. It has that same kind of smoothness. Between this and L'Homme Fut Solitaire BPAL has been killing it with the lilac scents this year. Stunning. I'll be thinking very hard about a backup. Great throw!
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Agreed with above! It vanishes on drydown but when I first sniffed it I wondered why tf I bought so many strawberry scents lol. The buttercream note is so pretty and does make me think of icing roses on a cake. The drydown is indeed a warm, skin/cosmetics type scent. Kinda 'effortlessly glam' type vibe. If I sniff directly I can pick out a suede note, but this isn't a typical leather note. Really decent throw though. I put some on the back of my hand to test and I'm sitting here playing vidja games going "oh! oooh!" every time I get a whiff.
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Beaver Moon: Blackcurrant and Iced Lemon
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I full bottled Blackcurrant & Iced Lemon after trying a sample. It smells masculine to me, but I love wearing scents that give off manly vibes, so that's all good. I was worried about the 'iced' part, but the iced lemon smells like lemon sorbet tastes and that part only sticks around for about a half hour on me anyhow. It's not a snow, aquatic, or ozone ice (nothing minty, sharp, or soapy to my nose). After a short while, it's all black currant, but not the usual, syrupy, jammy, sweet black currant that I tend to go for. This smells like black currant found in a dark, chilly forest and then dried and turned into a black leather. It's gourmand like fruit leather candy, but it also literally smells like a black leather jacket soaked in black currants. It's really good and doesn't remind me of any other bpals in my collection (though it's a bit like a very stripped down version of Mancera's Cedrat Boise with a stronger black currant). It also has impressive throw and staying power for a fruity scent. I'm really glad that the 'iced' in the name didn't scare me off entirely because I've really been enjoying this blend. -
Onnagata Making Love at a Tea House as Mane’emon Watches While Holding a Kite
OxfordComma replied to Jenjin's topic in Lupercalia
This is so pretty and sunshiney. Like a golden sunbeam on a perfect, sunny, not-too-hot day. Sweetened citrus-y orange blossom floating over a very friendly patchouli. The floral notes leaned towards laundry for a bit, without tipping into full dryer sheet territory on me, but I honestly fuck with it. Just adds to the breezy summer day vibe imo. Throw was really good and it lasted several hours until I showered. I could see this being fantastic for spring or summer when it's not so horrifically humid. -
I was torn on this one because jasmine... and it does have a kinda pee vibe in the bottle, but not HELLA PEE like it can be. The sandalwood incense is apparent immediately upon application however, and tempers the jasmine quite a bit. This feels like a classic perfume all BPALed up. Kinda sexy in a hazy, sketchy, speakeasy way. The purplish florals and incense notes remind me of something, but I can't put my finger on it. The word "vintage" comes to mind. Wears fairly quiet on me currently, surprisingly! Eta: Longer drydown pulls out the labdanum more, which I'm always a fan of. Still not a ton of throw, unless my allergies are running interference. The jasmine reads more 'heady floral' now without the indolic hint.
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La Dame Aux Pamplemousses
Brianna Gemini replied to doomsday_disco's topic in The Edward Gorey House
Delightful. Marshmallow lovers must have. Cosign Amoraexcena review above. I'll add this one went in and out of my luper cart several times, grapefruit is always sketchy for me. This is a marshmallow lover dreeeeeaaaam. alot of the popular commercial marshmallow offerings now are musks and have a very red and purple fruit element. This is a straightforward but extremely well-done marshmallow. The grapefruit gives it a fresh crisp citrus snap to keep the marshmallow from going too sweet, imo. I'm glad I grabbed it. In dark times sometimes I need these joyous bright sweet offerings to keep me balanced. -
Century Guild is publishing a new book exploring witchcraft and the occult through vintage paperback cover art, so you know we just HAD to get on board with that! Two new scents available exclusively via their Kickstarter rewards: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/spell-bound-vintage-witchcraft-occult-hardcover-art-book?ref=profile_created&category_id=45 SENSUOUS WITCH Gliding through the velvet hush of midnight, she moves — barefoot on cool stone, wrapped in a whisper of clove-scented silk. A flicker of candlelight catches the curve of her throat, the glint in her half-lidded eyes. Dark florals, bruised and beckoning — black orchid, scarlet poppy, and moonlit tuberose — whisper their secrets against the heat of her skin. A breath of smoked vanilla curls like an incantation, weaving through ribbons of amber resin and spiced honey. Beneath it all, the slow, insistent pull of patchouli and oud, ancient and aching. This is the art of longing, the alchemy of desire. AGE OF AQUARIUS Ink-dark skies ripple with stardust and prophecy, and the air hums with the scent of revolution: smoked myrrh and velvet incense glittering with ti leaf and Italian bergamot.
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Tart, slightly sour cherry that reminds me of cherry Kool-Aid powder, but the blood orange also quickly joins in, and then it smells more juicy, fresh, and exotic. I would really love a single note of this blood orange, or a blood orange and vanilla. As Die Sweetly Die dries down, the blood orange unfortunately disappears and the scent turns towards a very powdery amber with hints of that cola smell that resins can sometimes have. I thought that this would be more floral but the jasmine and tuberose quietly linger underneath the ambers as a haunting, cool toned breath of flowers. I'm not getting any of the soapiness or rubbery sharpness that tuberose and jasmine can sometimes turn to. An hour in, though, the scent loses all of the little touches that I enjoy, and I'm left with baby powdery amber swirled with a little cherry Kool-Aid powder.
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Ink-dark skies ripple with stardust and prophecy, and the air hums with the scent of revolution: smoked myrrh and velvet incense glittering with ti leaf and Italian bergamot.
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Gliding through the velvet hush of midnight, she moves — barefoot on cool stone, wrapped in a whisper of clove-scented silk. A flicker of candlelight catches the curve of her throat, the glint in her half-lidded eyes. Dark florals, bruised and beckoning — black orchid, scarlet poppy, and moonlit tuberose — whisper their secrets against the heat of her skin. A breath of smoked vanilla curls like an incantation, weaving through ribbons of amber resin and spiced honey. Beneath it all, the slow, insistent pull of patchouli and oud, ancient and aching. This is the art of longing, the alchemy of desire.
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Happy Sunrise on the Reaping Day! To celebrate, here is my new talk for the University of Louisville: “Why You Should Read The Hunger Games.” View the full post.
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Fruity red musk and sticky fig are the main notes on my skin initially. As it dries the tuberose peaks out, heady and rich. I thought the neroli was missing for a while but I think it is blending somewhat into the musk and fig, it doesn't have the bitterness it sometimes has.
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Initially on my skin this is all thick, sweet vanillic beeswax with soft leather and patchouli. As it settles this remains the heart of the scent, surrounded by a cloud of incense. Very much a dark library scent.
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This is so airy and fresh that I'm imagining a fairy with gossamer wings. Something (the silk?) has a pale green floral feel that's giving verdant spring vibes on my skin. I actually want to try this with Druid, or maybe even Elf (is Aasimar-Elf mixed race a thing? I'm not too familiar with DnD). I got this along with Dahlia (and a bunch of other bottles), and I must say if you're looking for cardamom, you're barely getting a smidge with this, I can't detect it at all. If you want cardamom, go for Dahlia. This is a pretty skin scent, definitely glowy and pure and light.
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Whoever raved about this on BPAL Parlour when it had first come out…thank you. I threw this in my cart as a YOLO blind bottle and never sniffed—set it aside to rest then life got wild and now it’s months and months later! Super gorgeous, outdoorsy, balsamic. Does get sweeter on drydown, but it’s not a sugared amber. DEF some glorious heady sandalwood in there. Absolute banger.
