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It IS Cap'n Crunchy! It smells like strawberry Cap'n Crunch with milk on me. It's lovely and bright! Milk and cream scents go sour on me, but I think the malt and marshmallow cream are tricking my nose into a milk scent, which is a delightful discovery on my part. Based on my previous purchases, this is a lovely cousin of Diligent Instruction for the Bridal Night (a Shunga from 2017), which is an absolute favorite of mine. I'm very in love with Pink Lovebat!
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Oh, I love this! The peach is delicate and refreshing at first, bolstered by the sugared cream. As it dries down, the peach sinks into the cream and you get a wonderful fruity creaminess. The drydown is like a long-distant cousin of Holding Hands but peach. Pretty! I totally agree with the skincare product vibe, I could see it as a lotion.
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It's not chocolate.... It's not Bordello.... It's CHRISTMAS!!! That's what it smells like to me and I love it!
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Do you ever find yourself wishing for a particular blend, and go so far as to add it to your cart for consideration, only to receive a frimp of it less than a week later? I guess I psychically made Whitechapel appear in my hands, and I am happy for it! The lilac is strong, which surprises me for a "gentlemanly" scent (though I know very little about historical male scents). The lime rind is crisp and bright without being tropical or too fruity. The white musk that is holding it all together is subtly in the background. Lilac is a late winter / early spring scent for me, and I will definitely be holding onto this frimp for next year. I am interested to see how it ages, and if it becomes less floral over time. I think I'd prefer a bit more musk than it currently has. In my book, which no one has actually asked for but I will provide it anyway, Whitechapel is a blend owned and often worn by Percy de Rolo of Vox Machina, perhaps layered with The Robotic Scarab for some metallic notes.
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This is a very delicate scent - it's barely sweet from the honey and 'glows' from the amber. Very pleased with the softness of the scent! The silkiness/shine of the hair after application is pretty consistent with all the other BPTP/BPAL hair glosses from that front.
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I suspect this may end up being a very popular and well-liked blend! It somehow does definitely manage to smell like plaster but...pleasantly so? Which doesn't seem like it should be possible, but somehow is. It has a very distinct textural sensibility to me - dry, powdery, chalky - but the combination of notes make this lovely and comforting, rather than unsettling. On me, it's definitely a showcase for the orris, with plenty of vanilla and some soft musk rounding it out. I was worried about the leather, which often amplifies on me, but it's subtle here, coming out only on drydown and really just giving some definition to the very pale other notes. There's something quite comforting about this, perhaps more the feeling one would want to offer to a scared little bat trapped in a bathroom than anything else. Solid wear-length, though I haven't tracked it too well yet. This is really beautiful, and I hope that it gets the appreciation it deserves! I'm not sure yet whether it's going to be a bottle purchase for me - while I really enjoy the orris here, I'm not sure it's one I'm going to wear all that often; I'll need to spend some more time with it to decide.
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Blood Moon: Dragon’s Blood and Red Wine
ghostice replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This smells divine in the bottle, wet, and the drydown phase, but it fades so quickly from my skin. It really is just flat out dragon's blood and red wine. I smelled both equally until they poofed on me. I'll absolutely reapply all day to smell it, though! -
This is weirdly satisfying- it's not something I gravitate to, but I'll crave the rhubarb from time to time. New Year's Kitty Tea Party is mainly spiced tea and rhubarb. I can almost envision the texture of the baked rhubarb, mellowed out by a steaming cup of tea. The spices calm down over time and there's sweet strawberry and clotted cream at the edges, rounding out the tartness. Instead of scones, this just makes me think of the rhubarb filling of pie, sans pie crust. It's really nostalgic?
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Ugh, I absolutely love this. Best blind bottle purchase I've made in awhile, tbh. Every time I sniff my wrist, I get something slightly different. It's beautiful - sweet without being sugary, sparkly without any fake glitter, and sacred without choking you with incense smoke. The rose does not overpower, thankfully (I am not a big fan of BPAL's rose note) and blends seamlessly with the merlot. The bit of honey here reminds me of a Emily Dickinson (maybe?) themed blend that I cannot remember the name. Anyway, I am so so so glad that I have this now, especially since 1) I seem to have misplaced A Melancholy Fire, and 2) my staff book club is meeting next week to discuss Carmilla. I'm obsessed with this indescribable scent.
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Ok this is an appropriately tricky one. Smells like citrus soda in the bottle! On the skin the bergamot sings out with the amber, and it seems to share a fair amount of DNA with last year's Melancholy Fire, which is lovely. However I thought I was signing up for leather and patchouli, which seem very light/bordering on nonexistent to my nose, since I am a glutton for these notes. If you are hesitant about the agarwood, it is the light woody variety as far as I can tell.
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Black Butterfly Moon: Vanilla and Tobacco Flower
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I am into this one, it is giving me what I thought Idle Moon: Vanilla Husk and a Bundle of Twigs was gonna smell like. I'm getting a soft, unsweet vanilla wrapped around dry/brown vegetation, vaguely woodsy. As it dries down I get more of a sense of the tobacco dna, which is gorgeous with this vanilla. It's a warm, almost papery dry scent and I keep coming back to it. -
This has a deep, sweet incense profile that reminds me of A Distant Song, even though that blend utilizes benzoin and red sandalwood and no amber. Also where Song has incorporated dark fruit to deepen the scent, Witches has a warm envelope of smoke. It stays close, but the smooth smoky resin persists for several hours. Seems like a nice option for layering if you need an incense boost, but it is also one I will happily wear solo.
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I have never personally had a funnel cake with cinnamon on it, but because I know that's how the lab likes it, I knew it would be good with pumpkin. AND IT IS. This also captures the scent of fried dough on the air through a cloud of powdered sugar that I've gotten from the lab's funnel cake before.
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I'm surprised by often I reach for this when I have a migraine. It's nice and bracing but not overwhelming and truly helps lessen the pain (you know, on top of my fancy RX meds). The main downside is longevity; this doesn't last more than an hour. Which is typically totally fine with me- I'm usually putting it on before a nap or bed to soothe myself. But today I ended up just packing it with me to work because I knew I'd need it all day.
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To me this is a very strange and beautiful scent. When I first opened the bottle I was a little put off because it smells *so* strong and sharp and camphorous it's almost medicinal. I want to throw out a comparison to eucalyptus oil here, but please take that with a grain of salt because I am still a fragrance newbie and quite frankly still cannot name most of the things I smell precisely. But something magical happened when I tried it on: the sharpness dissipates a bit and it is just so intensely *green*, evoking the scent of thick wet vegetation so strongly for me, like forest undergrowth and leaf litter mixed with fresh leaves and crushed, sweet grass just after rain. The blackberry starts coming out very distinctly too, and the combination is gorgeous, hard for me to describe, but sort of thick and syrupy and a little bit sharp, almost a resinous effect? There is a tiny, tiny whiff of something faintly floral that feels to me like it's acting as an undercurrent to the blackberry specifically, it's like the suggestion of flowers, the ghost of honeysuckle (so I suppose this is the scent of honeysuckle "grasp[ing] at[...] shadows" then!). Later in the day, I noticed I was losing some of the complexity and it was becoming a much more blackberry-forward scent with just a touch of green, and I thought perhaps that was just the fragrance fading, but later still I noticed more of the vegetal/green aspects returning. I can't wait to see how this one ages as it settles, and I am strongly considering a bottle. It's dark, gorgeous, and I would recommend it if you want to feel like you are creeping through a dark, lush, rainy, possibly bewitched forest at night.
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Oh no, it's got that "raisin" note in here that i've smelled before and unfortunately is just not my thing. The pumpkin is lovely and sweet, not nausiating once it dries down on my skin as pumpkin sometimes does (yay). Theres some cinnamon and vaguely perhaps a tiny bit of other spices (clove?) and this doughy-sticky cake note. Which, so unfortnately for me does not work. I did not put on much, but it's still got a decent throw. Think i just have to give up on baked-related foodies, but of that is your thing you will LOVE this!!
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The Seventh Veil was one of the stand out scents for me this year. How does a scent manage to evoke garnet and gold? Pure magic this one. Complex in that if I had to guess what notes it is comprised of, I could not do so with any real certainty. Definitely wear to bring out your inner Queen.
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One of my most coveted bpals and THE most beautiful rose scent I have found to date, Heavenly Spark is the most perfect incensed rose. The rose is red, dry and brittle but not powdery in the least. The oak wood is warm, round and realistic. Overall the scent leans slightly sweet but balanced. I love reaching for this at bed time because it instills a sense of tranquility, like a soft velvety blanket. I think it would also be brilliant for meditation.
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While wet, this is very much a bubbly green apple and mint. The mint calms down very quickly upon application, and while you can tell it's there if you focus on sniffing for notes it is really is just there for a cold vibe. Much like Pink Lovebat, there's one note that stays at the front for me, and that's the green apple. The currents, mint and sugar add depth to the blend, but it is very much an apple blend on me above all else. It takes the cream a little while to come through for me, but when it does it leaves just a very nice, sweet, creamy apple scent. This is absolutely the green version of Pink Lovebat and it's soft sweetness to me - light, subtle with a decent wear time , though not much throw. They're a perfect pair! (And the bottles look adorable next to each other.)
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chilled bergamot, Ceylon cinnamon, white clove bud, amber, and incense smoke. I picked this out due to its combination of bergamot, cinnamon, and amber, as I'm quite the fan of any two of those three in combination. I had no idea what to expect and that might have been a good thing. In the bottle, I pick out incense smoke and bergamot with an icy twist (hence 'chilled'). The bergamot is sharp and cold in my nose, while the smoke invokes fire, and the amber plays off them both. Unlike most scents, where the bottle and wet-on-skin experiences are identical, Melancholy Fire pulls a trick and presses clove to the forefront for a few minutes before the fiery cinnamon smoke and clean bergamot scent reasserts itself. For the rest of the time, the competing chill of bergamot on ice with core of smoky incense and a mystery third ingredient thapeovides a nice balance between the two.
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When I picked this out, I was hoping for a metallic cut into smoking clove and fragrant red cedar. Unfortunately, like the other dead leaves I've tried from this release, the metallic scent disappears within minutes to leave the other notes behind. In my case, my skin picked up the scorched and the cedar, giving a strong impression of a cedar forest on fire from the kindling of dead, dried leaves. For my partner, whose skin tends to absorb wood scents quickly, they ended up with a strong clove and little else. Neither of us found what we were looking for, so we shall pass.
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I have to agree with bheansidhe here. The main show is in the green tea, covering both the dead leaves and the white ginger-y notes pretty much effectively. You can get a hint of more, but it plays out as mostly green tea on the skin from touch down to last note.
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Literally all I get from this is 'black cherry and...'. In the first touch, it's black cherry and metallic grass (i.e. dead leaves), but it quickly smooths out to not a single blade of grass. In the meantime, something rather indeterminable pushes towards the foreground. I'm going to assume that is the tar incense and while it gives the black cherry a pretty layered smell it isn't enough for me to invest in a bottle. The overall scent feels unbalanced, weighed heavily towards the blackest of black cherry, and not at all what I was hoping for.
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First sniff: bitter citrus cut by a more tart one. My mouth tingles. Touch down: much the same, though a lovely subtle scent of something has started to rise up behind all the citrus-y grapefruit and bitter citron. Early dry: The subtle scent has revealed itself to be woodsy and direct, so presumably the damp white cedar note. I definitely get the dampness; the scent smells a little aquatic without the pondsy undertone that usually turns me off of aquatics. I also get a plastic scent so familiar from the clown and blow mold lines, but this is much milder than I usually think of the Lab's plastic note. Like the impression of plaster, instead of inflatables. Dried now: ... and damn! The citrus up and disappeared on me, a ghost that never was. My skin seems to absorb citrus like it's mugging it for its lunch money, so this probably won't be the experience for everyone. I was enjoying the blend, which was a little quirky (plaster, citron, and damp wood) but well integrated. Then, boom, half the scent disappeared ten minutes in and left me with a disappointing waterlogged cedar feel. This is going to have to be a pass for me, but I think it would be quite nice on someone who doesn't absorb citrus so well.
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Holiday 2025 Wishlists & Questions
spookygrrrly posted a blog entry in Spookygrrrly's Tabernacle O'Terror
Here are my wish list items/ideas & question/answers for 2025 holiday swaps.
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