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Golden Grains & Orange Blossom Honey.
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Cacao & Creamy Incense.
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Milk & White Musk.
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Pumpkin Spice & Condensed Milk.
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Strawberry Moon: Kyphi and Sweet Cream
forspecial_plate replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I really love this one, I agree the cream note is strong, but I do detect the kyphi as well. For me the ratio is about 70 cream to 30 kyphi. Overall it's a light scent on me, and is mostly a skin scent after an hour or 2, with not much sillage. But I'm happy to reapply and already bought a backup bottle. I'm not familiar with kyphi but I get a "golden milk" kind of feeling from this scent. Not sure about individual notes beyond that. - Today
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I’m not quite getting the watermelon hard candy note everyone else is getting. Rather, this immediately reminded me of The King’s Daughter, and I think if you lifted the “watermelon accord” out of that scent, you’d end up with I’m Close. I am delighted by that.
- Yesterday
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Dildo, Boxes with Lubricants, and a Plum Blossom Twig Hair Gloss
Miyabi replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
I...don't think I'm getting any plum blossom from this, which is fine. What I do get is currently a fruity candy, so probably a combo of grapefruit, apricot, and honey. Absolutely fine that there's no amber cream, given how that note seems finicky on me. The throw seems to fluctuate--sometimes I can smell it, sometimes I can't. This is similar to the throw level of Pomegranate Slush, I think, so I may get a bottle, depending on how the second try with this goes. I will say the lower throw probably makes it more appropriate for when you're going out in public or at the office, at least. -
i am on a mission to find a good beeswax scent. for easter a friend of a friend went to jerusalem and brought back lots of little beeswax candles, one of which made its way to me. it smells so wonderful that i can't bring myself to actually burn it because then i know it will be gone!, but i will feel better about doing so if i can find a scent which smells the same. this is a very quiet scent that grows and grows; skin musk does very well on me and it feels like it really blooms once it's had a minute to settle. i think that remains the most dominant note throughout for me; there are a few scents here that i don't get (cacao, cardamom, wool), and i can't tell if it's because it's all just too well-blended or if they genuinely just don't seem to come forward on me, but i don't mind because i like it so much (and i don't have to be able to identify everything to like it...). it doesn't have much throw, but it does still last a long time close to the skin and it's a scent i feel happy to keep to myself. as others have said, it's very cosy and comforting. i have a couple of other beeswax scents either to test or winging their way to me, so i don't feel like i can justify getting a bottle of this one before it disappears, but i hope it's not something i'll come to regret!!
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delicious!! this was the first gourmand scent i tried, and i have been returning to my imp and really slathering it on ever since. i'm glad in a way that it's so simple, as this was probably the best way to be introduced to the lab's chocolate note. it's been interesting to read others' comments and see what they compare it to (brownie batter, cocoa powder, having a nutty quality, etc). my impressions have been sort of similar, but i couldn't quite put a name to how exactly i experienced it and what i could best compare it to until yesterday. i happened to be wearing this when i opened a bar of vegan chocolate with crumbled cookies and hazelnut paste, and as i opened it and took it out i realised that the smell was absolutely identical to what i was wearing! on me it has good throw for about three hours, and then if i put my nose to my arm i can smell it more faintly for probably another two hours.
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Working my way through and cataloging my collection of imps, this one is from 2017 so I imagine that the original citrus is much weaker than originally formulated Wet: Sharp powdery cedar Dry: dried orange peel in the back of a school desk, but not in a bad way After a while: The cedar has chilled out and the whole mix has settled into something very nice. a soft and almost mossy vibe.
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Orange Blossom Honey and Silver Musk
kinneret_rising replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
Just a touch sweet, this duet showcases BPAL's bright orange blossom note. I'm a fan of that note, but I'm not sure orange blossom combines well with this musk. I've had moments of thinking the two complement each other interestingly, and others where they seem to be competing and the musk just undermines the orange blossom's brightness. Still testing this one to see if I change my mind, or if the scent settles as it ages. -
This blends honey with the layered, woody scent of oud. I've had a few shocking encounters with oud notes -- on one occasion, I wondered if a bottle of oil had gone rancid, only to have the scent turn gorgeous on drydown. Smoke, earthy, woody oud isn't for everybody, but paired with honey, it goes down much more easily. This balanced combination would make a great introductory oud scent for someone trying it for the first time.
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This duet is easy to like. Wet, the cacao is forward and aromatic. As it dries down, the humid black tea note comes out to balance the cacao. The scent has a lot more throw in its wet stage than in the dry one, but it has good wear length once it's settled. A good pick for lovers of bittersweet chocolate.
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I'm a honey lover, and I'd been impatient to get my own bottle of Womb Furie after experiencing my partner's 2016 version. They're not identical, but I'd be hard pressed to say which I prefer. I think 2026 is a little brighter. Both are rich, thick honey scents given texture by snake oil -- languid and sensuous. For me, this is a BPAL standard, one I want to always have in my collection.
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An attempt to represent the alchemical marriage of opposing principles in scent! It's interesting to experience BPAL's forceful, earthy red musk somehow also smelling ethereal (maybe from the resins). The honey comes through clearly as well. This one lasted several hours on my skin and has relatively low throw once dry. I think if I didn't have to go nose to wrist to enjoy it, I might upgrade to a bottle. It's complex and lovely, but quiet.
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Although the notes are not the same, this solar and celestial scent makes me think of Aasimar. It's warm, golden, and airy, and it lasted several hours on my skin without any special preparation (I didn't moisturize first). Lovely and easy to wear.
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This scent is well-blended and I'm hard-pressed to pick out notes aside from honey. That being said, it's just a touch sweet and wonderfully textured from the wool/wood/leaves/leather combo -- definitely a unisex scent. It makes me think of being outdoors. Inspired by the intense friendship of David and Jonathan, I think this one could be shared between lovers or best friends.
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This is a juicy, fruity variation on snake oil -- still complex, but lighter. It will make a lovely spring and summer scent. I can't pick out individual fruit notes, but the combination smells fresh and alive, and the snake oil provides its complex spicy musk as a foundation. For me it's a nicely balanced scent. I have no idea what "iridescent serpent scale accord" would be -- I'll be curious to try it in a different scent, if it appears again, to see if I can pick it out. I'm enjoying this scent a lot.
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Well, I blind bottled this. I love a scent that tells a story, and I couldn't resist one that attempts to capture the story of Isis and Osiris. For me this scent is the perfume equivalent of classical music. I have to give it my full attention -- it's not an easy pleasure; it takes work, but it's worth it. I catch nearly all of the notes at one point or another, wet or dry. The blue lotus is most noticeable wet, and with drydown, the scent integrates into something beautiful and strange: cassia, moist green earth, linen. I imagine myself smelling the Nile basin. It's really amazing, and also not a beginner's scent. I think I may wear it for meditation.
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I thought this one was a no-brainer for me! I love all of the notes. I tried it out on a testing strip first and was surprised when I got a delicate lemon scent, like lemon sherbet. I handed it to my partner -- same reaction, lemon. We both noticed if we concentrated, we could start to pick out the intended notes, but a casual sniff just brought us back to the citrusy sherbet smell. I let it dry on the testing strip overnight, and that did the trick -- finally, beeswax, copal, honey, vanilla! So I tried it on my skin and got... lemon Pledge, for about twenty minutes. After that, again, the lovely scent I was expecting emerged... but only for about twenty minutes, after which it disappeared. I think this will be beautiful on someone else. I'm sad it doesn't work on me, because the dried-down state is really nice.
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This scent is very green and leans a teeny bit masculine--I mostly get the green amber and white musk, which brings to mind a cool rainy spring day. Didn't get any oolong tea, grass, mandarin, or flowers, though, and I do wish it might have lasted longer (it's pretty much gone on me after about half a day), but it was nice while it lasted.
- Last week
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I'll admit, I purchased this from the Lab's Etsy because of the artwork. And though moss is usually a turn-off for me, lilac is one of my favorite florals. I've had enough experience with BPAL's blood note to know I'm picky, but this one is "dried" so... what the hell, let's try it out! What an interesting blend of opposites. It is clean like rainfall and damp soil, and dirty in the sense that the best soil is worm poop. You step into a forgotten mausoleum, now filled with antiques. Things so old and ancient that they do not possess harmful bacteria anymore, since organic matter is but a memory. But instead of being dusty and dry, the air itself is filled with life and mystery. The differences in a bottle sniff, wet on your skin, and the dry down are all subtle. I keep on going back for more. I thought at first that I would pass this along, but I think I'll hold on to it for awhile and see if I'm drawn to it more. If you've ever wanted to smell like a cave river, this is your blend.
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It's November 2019. A year before Biden is elected and you hear Harry Styles singling "watermelon sugar hiiiiiiiigh". It will become the song of the summer. You smell like watermelon sugar and it seems like things might just be ok. They aren't. Yet, one day, 6 years later, you get a whiff of watermelon sugar and are hit with a wave of sad longing for the endless days of the watermelon summers of the pandemic. Somehow the dread was less and more then.
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Malinka is quite soft on me, and even after a good slather she stays close to the skin. It is very much a creamy rose scent on me and I love that, but I will need to sort through my other scents and do some death matching to see how/whether it is different enough to warrant a bottle upgrade.
