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Alas, this does not feature the creamy lily from the gorgeous and oft slathered Black Lily. I keep coming back to my imp because Hairy Toad Lily is a fantastic name, as others have noted, and I want to be 100% positive this is a fail. Well, I'm positive. Hairy Toad Lily is ammonia and grape candy on my skin. No matter how long it stays on my skin, it smells like I just mixed up a fresh batch of hair color. At least I don't need to hunt for a bottle of another discontinued blend!
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Alas, like Flowering Peonies, I get neither lychee nor peony. I am, however, getting a lot of rosehip tea and curiously, mint. This is more interesting than Flowering Peonies (which was, sadly, tuberose and dryer sheets), but it's not for me, I don't think.
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I agree with @doomsday_disco. At first I was hit by the weird, sharp, woody smokiness that I did not expect after reading earlier reviews. It felt like I had completely different perfume than others as I did not find it calm, soothing or tropical. I was thinking the smokiness must be the hinoki but to be honest I have no clue. Woodiness is strong when wet, but after an hour calms down a bit, when I can get the coconut and almond and after a while the jasmine too. I was hoping more cardamom, actually I cannot find it at all. This is something completely different that I was expecting, but let's see what happens with time and aging. I received my bottle two days ago so it might still be a little shocked from the journey.
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This reminds me of the Chicken-Legged Hut GC probably due to the labdanum. The rose is so faint i can barely sniff it out. Everything is well blended to the point that no note stands out particularly.
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There's a shimmering pink citrus sensation upon opening and i'm under the impression it's grapefruit. Further on, the orange blossom, pops up and asserts itself. The orange blossom leans more towards neroli smell-wise, vaguely with a bitter-ish/vegetal end. But out of the blue, the mango steps in and evens everything out. It's a mango-orange blossom/mimosa-pink musk type of scent on my skin.
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I get a a briney, salty, medicinal smell and nothing else. Must be the oud. *sad face*
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I'm greeted by a tame and well blended red musk. I like how the red musk acts in this blend, it's the fixative that keeps all other notes on its shoulders. So far so good. Next up, i get a melange of tea, teak and frankincense. Nothing stands out particularly, it's just that good. Reminds me vaguely of Anteros, only better and not as intense. This would make a good scent for those who are averse to red musk.
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A Winter’s Scene with Skaters Near a Castle
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
This is strong on the Lab's cologne-y dead leaves accord, which I either smell bitter neroli or a neroli-esque bergamot in, along with some moss. It reigns for a really long time, before the leather note shows up, and it's a smooth leather and not a harsh chemical-y variety, fortunately. (A sharp, chemical-y leather with that dead leaves note would have been instant headacheville.) By this point, the dead leaves is less leaf-y and more chypre-y. Here I was thinking that the stroopwaffel note that I was after wouldn't even show up at all. But when it did? Oh my god, it was a super realistic, toasty, freshly made stroopwaffel that transported me back to April 2017 in the Netherlands. The note is more about the toasty exterior of the stroopwaffel with only a hint of the caramel-y sweetness inside, so you don't have to be averse to this scent if you're not down with caramel. And the toastiness and sweetness that the stroopwaffel note provides really smooths over the harsher notes and makes this really alluring. By the end of the day, it's mostly stroopwaffel on top of a chypre base, with very little leather. I don't know if I can keep going through that dead leaves phase to get to this stroopwaffel, but I so love that note. Please, Beth, use it in more blends! Or release a stroopwaffel single note! -
This is indeed an amber silk scent. I can imagine it would be better diffused by spraying and might smell better that way but it isn't exactly weak on me either. It probably helps that oude usually plays nice on my skin. The ginger doesn't go bitter on me and right now the sweet gold amber is triumphing over everything else.
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I have tried Gaueko twice, once early on in my BPAL journey, and once a few years ago when I was given a decant of it. I thought Traum reminded me of that, but could not confirm since I no longer have any imps of it. So I am glad to that HerbGirl mentioned it in her review, because that means I wasn't off the mark for thinking of it! Traum is a smoky, incense-y lavender scent on me. The smokiness is somewhat acrid at first, before it turns becomes more incense-y. I get zero cacao from this, sadly, which I was really hoping for -- maybe my skin ran away with the smoke and incense notes, because there's no distinct cacao adding any sweetness or smoothing these notes over. The labdanum here is not the flat cola variety, so I wouldn't be wary of this scent because of that... but if you're like me and you don't like Gaueko and your skin does bad things with smoke notes, this may not be the lavender for you. I'll be destashing my decant.
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The matcha note in this is deeper than the clean, lemon-y green tea note typically used by the Lab. It is swirled into a creamy, slightly tangy cheesecake, that is so realistic to me that I can envision a cheesecake whenever I sniff it, the baked kind that's golden brown on the top, like this Tokyo cheesecake. I even smell a stickiness on top, but to me, it's more like the cheesecake has been brushed with a light syrup rather than a sticky honey. I don't even love cheesecake, but I really enjoy this scent. If you've tried and enjoyed Astrid's Matcha Petit Four and are looking for another matcha dessert scent, this should be up your alley. I'm glad I have a bottle.
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Exhausted Couple in the Treasure Room of Love
doomsday_disco replied to Jenjin's topic in Lupercalia
This is a predominantly citrus scent, with the lemon aldeyhyde being the strongest aspect of this blend throughout wear, backed by the yuzu and a hint of lychee. There's some effervescence from the aldehyde, but not enough fizziness to remind me of soda. The longer it sits on the skin, the more it becomes about the lemon aldehyde, white musk, and lemon-y white tea on me. Then it gets more clean and less juicy, but still smells refreshing on me. I enjoy this with its lemon and yuzu, but I really wish the lychee had stuck around longer and had played a greater role. Both Shungas in this year's update featuring lychee didn't feature it as a prominent note on my skin, sadly. But I do love citrus notes, so I'll definitely hang onto the decant and give it a full day of wear before the scent disappears from the website to see if I need more of it or not. But at the moment, I feel like the decant will suffice. -
This is my first coffee scent and I'm in love. I have a fresh imp and I guess it's only getting better with age. Wet this is hit-you-in-face strong coffee, freshly brewed. After a while the coffee calms down and the spices show up with the cream. Dry this is warming, cozy and spicy, very lovely and smooth. Actually Kobold Barista is what I hoped Bengal would be. I'm gonna need a full bottle.
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I have tested this one twice because I wasn't able to review it last week and wanted to retest it so I could be more accurate in my review. This is unexpectedly smoky in the beginning. Maybe it's the cardamom combining with the hinoki? But I've never experienced that with other perfumes containing hinoki, and if it's the cardamom, it's not the one usually used by the Lab, either (although I do think it could be the same one from Chestnut Vulva adding a light smokiness to the chestnut note... but the smokiness is stronger here). I get the almond along with the smoke and wood notes, but it quickly fades away. Then the jasmine emerges. It's not an indolic variety, but it is heady, and this does become somewhat high-pitched on me when the jasmine becomes friends with the white tea, making this too perfume-y for me. There's a cool creaminess throughout wear from the rice milk, and perhaps the coconut is contributing to that cool creaminess too, but it wasn't as distinct on me as the other notes. None of the phases of this scent jived with me, so I'll be destashing my decant. I seem to be the only one who got any smokiness from this, so perhaps it's just a skin chemistry fail.
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Looking for a BPAL that Resembles a Favorite Perfume
sudenmorsian replied to Ina Garten Davita's topic in Recommendations
I think Maison Margielas Replica Coffee Break is very much alike Kobold Barista, latter being a hint sweeter. -
This is an old, old imp one where the white label has darkened to tan. And this still holds its own! Sometimes with older imps, in the vial, it will smell older,not as intense, but a skin test reveals it's true self after a while. Salty woods, with some spice. More woods than Mary Read, but in that vein. It does bring to mind an old salty inn where you clinkedy-clink your tankards with a bunch of ruffians. Very nice! Maybe a sandalwood in here, but I'm not sure. Not perfumey, very gender neutral.
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This is light on me too, and surprisingly, perfumey on the skin. In the imp, it is gingerbread and Fruit Loops.
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I get a ton of tangy goat milk and a bit of gingerbread. The goat milk seems to amp on me. Might be good for fans of Vampire Milk!
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Super banana, then gingerbread.. Then more like banana quickbread. Then fades and goes weird on me. It's a fun sweetened banana spice in the imp though. Could be good for Noisy Goose fans but it is quite different, more bready.
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Poet's... echoes strongly Zorya P. I think Poet's is a bit more transparent, fluffier and easier to wear. If i didn't own Zorya P., I'd gladly bottle this.
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I interpret the blend the following way: a tobacco fuzzy mellow dry base intertwined with unsweetened plum. The lily doesn't register to me.
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The lavender note is the only thing i smell in the vial, but it literally disappears seconds after I apply this! What's left is an unremarkable plantiness and subtle sweetness from an underripe fig and some cedar wood shavings. Low/medium throw and not nearly as titillating as the poem that inspired this fragrance
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An impression of leather fades into the deep background quickly, leaving mostly rock-and-roll patchouli! I agree with another reviewer’s assessment that it has a green and pulpy quality.
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Freshly applied i get peach enveloped in a cloud of freshly ironed laundry steam, i guess.The peach here is not juicy sweet and as time goes, i pick up more of the steam accord. The peach goes MIA and I'm left with the a white pinkish haze of non-sweetened cream and lotus. Smells like a skincare product, like "peach and pink lotus petals" body lotion
