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First on I get a bitter neroli backed by soft powdery iris. I expected for the violet to take over from this point, but it stays green and sort of sappy. I can still detect the iris and the violet in the background, sweet and powdery.
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Beautiful thank you for the recc!!! I adore the RPG collection bc I fuckin’ adore DnD, so any time I get to purchase from it to fulfill a specific scent goal… I do a lil happy dance.
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I love Pumpkin Spice Blood Kiss from Halloween 2019 (so complex with a creamy pumpkin pie vibe swirled into all of the goodness of Blood Kiss), but Pumpkin Kisses is what I was afraid that blend would be like. Pumpkin Kisses is cheap spice, plastic, wax, and that overall scent of walking into a craft store around Halloween. I get zero Blood Kiss; it's all pumpkin spice home oil and wax/plastic. Strong, headache inducing, and an absolute scrubber for me.
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Smells like Sprite to me more than anything else, like a small child poured a bag of sugar over a glass of Sprite and now the fizzy, sugary mess is everywhere. I get zero authentic/natural smelling lime or citrus (it's.. Sprite with extra sugar, and I dunno how else to describe it) and absolutely no pepper or bay rum. It's very sickly sweet and artificial smelling. I would love to have a room spray that smells like freshly squeezed limes, which is what I was hoping for here, but I don't think I'd identify lime at all if I didn't know the name of this one.
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A couple years ago there was a Honeypot scent called White Honey, Lemon Peel, and Salt and this is it's softer, rounder sister. Tart lemon with a salted tang, drizzled in honey and cushioned on soft vanilla cream. Golden yellow, but in a mellow way. More a golden afternoon than dazzling summer sun. I love that Honeypot trio, so I'm pleased to have a flanker for it, since I never see it pop up in swaps! ETA: ooh the amber gets stronger over time and it's more like I layered WHLP&S over a glowing amber, which I'm definitely not mad about. So so pretty.
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Okay this one is very nice. It’s definitely giving cherry candy vibes rather than fresh cherry though. It specifically smells like a very sweet cherry lollipop, which is interesting because sugar isn’t even a note in the list. Maybe the wax is making the cherry more candied? I’m not quite sure. During dry down the rose comes out a little bit so now it smells like a rose coated in a pink cherry sugar. It’s definitely giving me more of a pink vibe than red but YMMV. I don’t smell the pink pepper at all. Quite a pretty scent
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(I bought this because the notes sounded nice but also because the painting rules and BPAL's knack for really nailing the vibe of the art is uncanny so I was super curious to see how this one played out.) The dates are the absolute first thing I get here, which is awesome! I love dates, my whole family has a weird thing for dates. We used to get a giant box of medjool dates from my grandmother every year for the holidays and it was always a looked forward to event lol. Anywhooooo. It's dates! Dusky purple dates. How are they dusky and/or purple? Bpal magic. The rest of the notes are kind of swirling around and bringing out different facets of the date note imo. It's not too foodie, almost a dried date incense. If that was a thing that existed. Man this smells so good. Idk if it's just because I'm so excited about the dates, or this is just super well blended, but I'm struggling to pick out individual notes. There's something that hints at spice without being "spice", probably the labdanum or DBR. Neither are cranked to their usual volume. This makes me think of those classic paintings of people lounging around in diaphanous clothing, sprawled in richly appointed rooms. Rich jewel tones, muted by haze. It's pretty. It's date forward. Good throw. I'll stop rambling about it now. 👍
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I’m loving this a lot! Will update with a full review once I’ve worn this a bit more through the spring, but from my tiny decant sample, I am getting fresh callas with a little bit of green bite to them (in the best way! A friend described it as “the spicy thing that some lily type scents can do”) and then only the coolest, freshest lilacs in the background. I don’t know peony well but I do know that it really is “peony milk” because there’s something a bit sweet and creamy in the background that is absolutely lovely here. Do I get any powder? Just a tiiiny bit, but not vintage or baby powder. (I like these kinds of profiles so would still be happy if I did!). This perfume dies down to a pink, creamy, cool, gently sweet scent! Very spring, VERY lovely, excited to wear this one through the springtime and then next winter when I need to pretend it’s a different season!!
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I am reading the last message and it is amazing that I am just now getting over that flu and I decided that I should hurt my back. Gawd! Getting old sucks. This is a hard one to post because when I look at where we are shipping, do I put the date where there is one order unshipped or go back to where we are finished with that date? The date that we are finished with is March 15th but there is only one or two orders on the following dates March 16th - 24th. As always, if you have any questions, jokes or puns write me at answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.com xoxo
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Astringent airy tea with plum and fig. This is perfumey in the sense that it is clean and almost aldehyde-ish. Nutmeg and pepper play well, blending in and providing just a hint of warm earthiness. This is firmly in the conventional purple perfume family of smells. Similar to a lot of other scents I like, but I keep wanting to smell this one.
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I can't reall distinguish all the florals and green plants in perfumery, but I pick up on an almost aquatic background, with smoky violets and green notes. Definitely smells like the cutted stem of flowers. It's very atmospheric, fits the painting very well, and my appreciation for it only increases the more I wear it. I'd only apply a little, since the green note is quite dominating and could make me nauseous.
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Agree with @em_h, starts off green and spicy. It calms down and is grounded by the sweetness, morphing into a hippie wooden furniture store scent, heavy on the sandelwood. It's not an atmospheric scent though, it's got that classic sweet and thick BPAL DNA. Intimate throw.
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How in the world does this go to licorice? Okay, that was just the wet on skin phase. Whew, I am not a fan of licorice. The lychee is strong, pink and bright, with the base of the opium tar that is just this smoky scent at the bottom. WAY at the bottom. I expected a much heavier scent than this, but it is light and airy, pink and a touch smoky.
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I recently bought an imp of Tiefling Therapist and would add this one to the list of ones to try! I have a full bottle in the mail as we speak!
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Update! The sweet crystal candy smell has subsided quite a bit. This is now fresh juicy crushed hibiscus flowers. Still sweet as hibiscus can be and since hibiscus is edible (love hibiscus tea) almost gourmand. However, I would say overall this is a fresh floral with soft foliage mixed in. Whatever the note is that gives it that creamy juicy smell is what ties this whole thing together. Good throw without being obnoxious. Dries down nicely. Agh it's still hard to describe because how can something be almost gourmand, floral, and skin like? Idk but I will for sure be getting more.
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This one is a lovely rose-sugar-milky delight ❤️ It's not too overpowering and gives peeks of the green tea (which might be the same note from 'TEA' from the Shungas from 2011 [IIRC]) This one might be backup worthy ❤️
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Boney Moon: Pinon and Blackened Lavender
marared replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This was a little punchy on arrival and I had to let it settle down for a couple days before I could review it. In the bottle: very dry lavender. First on the skin: very intense dry lavender, with piñon wood behind it. After a few minutes, the wood comes to the forefront. The two notes battle it out for dominance - every few minutes they swap, and it goes on like this for 10-15 minutes until they finally decide to play nice together. Piñon is a southwestern pine tree with edible nuts. There's a wonderful incense of it that you can buy from shops in New Mexico, California, etc, and it has a campfire quality to it, with a hint of burnt sugar sap - I don't smell any of that that slight sweetness here. It settles into bone-dry lavender incense. There's enough throw that I can smell it when my hands move at normal working distance from my face. I don't find it "relaxing" in that I wouldn't wear this to bed the way I do other lavender blends, it's just a bit too strong and distracting. It's very pretty, though, after it's had a chance to settle on the skin. -
The almond in this when first spritzed is so sweet to be almost fruity, and something about the combination of notes read as 'banana' for a moment. However it settles to a rich, nutty slightly sweet (but no longer fruity) almond atop rich cream and cozy sandalwood.
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2025. Sweet red apple with the slight bitterness of the peel. Fruity red musk melds into it, and a gorgeous dark vanilla amber underneath. I don't pick out the fig specifically, but I think it is adding to the fruity sweetness. To me this doesn't come off as juicy-fruity, it has a more dry incense-y quality.
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I adore this. Soft incense and desert spices with a very subtle hint of tart, dried fruit. It’s complex, compelling (but not in your face), and very grown up. It draws you in and leaves you wanting more. Perfect.
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Cold Moon: Moss and River Silt
feyofthefellwood replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I appreciate the previous reviews for putting this on my radar! I love variations on dirt and earth notes, and this silt note is quite beautiful: smooth and loamy, with a petrichor-ish tang. The moss note is less "dry" to my nose than in the oakmoss blends I've tried; it's a bit lighter and fresher. Overall, this is a calming and grounding scent. -
I have tested this one a couple of times now, and really am not sure what to make of it, though I think I must reluctantly conclude that it doesn't work on me, despite having a lot of notes which really should. It's somehow at once acrid and syrupy - typically honey is lovely on me, but here whatever the honey note is mingles with extremely sharp sandalwood and neroli to make something that's quite unpleasant. I don't get any rose at all; I do get clove, which I often really like, but it's not enough to save this one. As loath as I am to admit that any vampire bride-related scent doesn't work for me, I think it's just the truth here! I can console myself with my other sexy roses and other beautiful female vampire blends. ETA: I got my partner to try this and it was so much better on him - largely honey and neroli, almost edging into gourmand. I've decided that this is actually a scent for Jonathan Harker from the brides' perspective - entrancingly edible. So now I feel better about it not working on me!
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I love this perfume so much. It really does smell like the old time stockings we wore with garter belts!! (This was before panty hose, which were quite the revolution and no where as sexy!) Anyways this reminds me of the smell of my mother, a coffee drinker, putting on stockings. The skin musk combined with the silk note is so lovely. Low throw, about 2 hour wear.
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So buttery-creamy in the bottle! On my skin it is more musky, with that gorgeous fuzzy suede. It brings the sweetness down somewhat. A lot of gorgeous vanilla on my skin as well. Wet I wasn't sure there was any actual rose in this, but dry I can find it. Soft pink rose that melds into the creamy notes. A cozy, creamy gourmand-ish.
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“In particular, the researchers focused on a concept called ‘identification with all humanity.’ This…
eldritchhobbit posted a blog entry in Eldritchhobbit's Blog
Science fiction may help foster a sense of global solidarity by evoking awe, study finds “In particular, the researchers focused on a concept called ‘identification with all humanity.’ This refers to how much individuals feel connected to all people, regardless of nationality, race, or background. It reflects a broad, inclusive identity that supports concern for others around the globe. Previous studies have linked this identification to prosocial behaviors such as donating to international causes, supporting refugees, and caring about the environment. The authors theorized that science fiction, with its imaginative worlds and frequent focus on humanity’s shared future, might encourage people to adopt this global perspective.” View the full post.
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