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Wolf Moon: Lupine Musk & Ambrette Seed Hair Gloss
RoseThornAndOak replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
Holy smokes this is pretty! It's the cuddly, warm, version of Maple Leaves, Golden Moss, and Amber, with less sweet maple leaves. It's even more musky, and quite similar to the sweet musk used in ML,GM,&A. It is soft brown/grey, light green in hue, where the other is golden, red, and sparkling, with greenery peaking through (not green pepper or dead leaves, very distinct). They would layer beautifully. It's gender neutral. Basically a light brown grey musk. The picture it is giving me is some sort of creature in Middle Earth that has clean fur and is on the good side, or a gentlemen in grey who exhudes warmth, who feels fair and looks fair. Although this has a soft, cuddly side, it is not animalic and stanky at all, which was what I was expecting. It's very clean and wearable and not in a soapy way. I'm considering a backup of ML and a full of this before they leave. -
Rose Petals, Marshmallows, and Afterglow Hair Gloss
RoseThornAndOak replied to Jenjin's topic in Hair
Upon application, I got sweet vanilla like rose. Very Katrina, with afterglow which smelled, errr, smutty. Not like Smut, but...smut. Throughout the day, the afterglowy bits tame down about 90%, and I'm left with gorgeous sweet rosey, vanillowy marshmallow. I don't get that plastic edge marshmallow can have on occasion, and yeah this is pretty, pretty. -
Nothing weird here! Just a nice sweet, crisp apple. I'm surprised this doesn't go powdery or too artificial, and definitely not like a green apple shampoo. It's almost a single note and really nice.
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this opens with fresh, dewy lilacs, and i get a hint of the oakmoss adding a slightly woody backdrop. i get some orris and a bit of smokiness. for awhile, it's practically a lilac soliflore on my skin, until after awhile the vanilla blooms, adding some creaminess. very pretty!
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i get a lot of tea and something sort of oddly smoky and almost savory. maybe a combination of hay and frankincense smoke (?) or the rice milk is reading more like rice itself. my skin chemistry can do some weird stuff at times and that seems to be the case here. after awhile, that aspect dissipates a bit and i am getting more of a honeyed tea with champaca. it becomes a lot more floral over time, but it's not very sweet. i don't get much heliotrope here until way later. there is a clarity from the tea and it primarily becomes a pretty tea scent with a hint of smokiness, then gets creamier from heliotrope deep into the drydown and by that time it's almost gone.
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I love the opening with the authentic nougat note. It's a chewy, cool, creamy vanilla with honeyed nuts, covered in a thin layer of earthy-yet-sweet, dark chocolate. It's my favorite part, so of course it's the most short lived note. Mostly I get a lot of the fur (which smells like powdery, warm, brown musk) and an authentic honey sweetened with a sliver of chocolate. It's warm, cuddly, and sweet, but too powdery for me.
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Reminds me of 2005 Brimstone, but better. It smells of camping in pine forests near blackberry brambles (the spicy scent of thorny branches with a very light, tangy fruitiness) and the river, waking up after a stormy night and smelling the slightly minty scent of rain-soaked wood ashes. The pine sap and aromatic wood in this are really pleasant to me. It's not a full on bonfire because the pitch smells distinctly like cooled, damp ash. I smell this and it takes me to a calm place in nature. It's not a scent that I feel comfortable doing a full wear of because of the ash, but it's one that I keep dabbing on my wrists, light enough for me to enjoy it for a while.
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for me this opens with the cherry blossom chypre and rice powder. it's dry and somewhat powdery, not sweet. i get beeswax and amber later, warming things up a bit. after awhile the cherry blossom gets a bit sweeter and more prominent, and it is still the strongest note for me. it kind of vacillates between being more powdery and going a bit more floral. i do not get beeswax as strongly as some other people. on me, it's more of a subtle background note. i can struggle with cherry blossom sometimes, but this one is great for me. really pretty for spring,
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this opens with rice milk, cardamom and almond. it's very pretty and creamy. after awhile i get the other notes but they are very subtle at first. after being on the skin awhile, the jasmine blooms a lot more and becomes more dominant. it's not an indolic jasmine, but leans a tiny bit soapy. the jasmine (and perfume as a whole) gets better and better the longer it's on skin. this one is very pretty!
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Titania smells like cold fruit cocktail, sweet pea, and a subtle waft of rose musk. White grape is the dominant fruit, followed closely by the pear. If fairies went to middle school, this is what they would smell like. Painfully pretty, but I don't know when I'd ever wear this. I just can't seem to let it go... I've been enchanted by the fae fruit cocktail!
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I have a bunch of different Rappaccini's Apiary imps from many moons ago (10+ years) that I never tested, so here goes. Ooooh, yes, this is the good stuff. Needless to say, you must like jasmine in order to appreciate this one, because it is a heady and sweet gooorgeous jasmine. The honey here is pale golden and floral (finally no throat lozenges), and extremely enduring. It overtakes the jasmine after a decent amount of wear, and I can still smell it almost 24 hours later. The comparisons to LUSH's Flying Fox make sense, but Yellow Jessamine Honey is softer, sweeter, and just overall better. The honey in Flying Fox always smelled funky to my nose, this does not. I'll certainly be keeping my imp of this, but won't be too depressed about it being discontinued since I don't tend to wear honey-forward scents. It's a wonderful jasmine, though!
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I get a fizzy lemon soda with a handful of lychee gummy candies. Rather bright and cheery throughout its short stay! I wish I got more of the white tea note since I love BPAL's white tea but alas
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The lilac note here reminds me a lot of Alkemia's Lilacs Along the Winding Drive with a bright, hard candy sweetness. The greenness helps tame the candy tone but not enough for my tastes. I much prefer The Lilac Wood for a lilac + (albeit, soapy) greenery perfume!
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On me this is very similar to the review just above mine. Its like a dry cacao powder (but not powder-ey if that makes sense) musk with subtle tones of sandalwood and something like dry coconut warming it up a teeny bit over time. I love the chill sort of gender neutral un gourmand earthy vibe of it. Its not like a chocolate bar, but more like the earthy aspects of cacao - i imagine fresh cacao powder, cracked cacao pod shells, stuff like that. It appeals to me in the same way the hay absolute, cacao and cardamom scent does - but this one is more of that dry cacao kind of note isolated and more defined a bit. I like it a lot
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I definitely get the "bittersweet". I personally do not care for this. It's not terrible, I think I just don't like rose in a blend. Someone mentioned that it smells of vague generic perfume--I think that's the musk at work, there. I understand what they meant. The bitter yet fresh apple and musk are most apparent at first. It dries to something kinda sweet, kinda powdery, kinda floral. The neroli/vanilla gives it a soft golden kind of waft.
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I have so many rose scents that I almost skipped this one, but I love it and will probably have to upgrade to a bottle. It's the greenest, most forest-y rose scent I've tried. It smells like layers of green all deepening to emerald. I think it's the lime, pine, and juniper combination my nose is so enamored with.
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Fresh from the mail this smelled like sweet tea, overpowering sweet tea with no leather. Now that the decant has aged, the leather has blended perfectly with the tonka bean and black tea. Not too sweet and the leather isn't too dry. So sophisticated. Do I need another bottle of a leather-based perfume? No Do I need to upgrade to a bottle of this? Absolutely
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It’s wonderful to hear Martine G. Ræstad on this episode of Women At Warp discussing how the…
eldritchhobbit posted a blog entry in Eldritchhobbit's Blog
It’s wonderful to hear Martine G. Ræstad on this episode of Women At Warp discussing how the Federation’s economy works. Martine contributed the excellent essay “The Future Burning Brightly: The Dual Impact of Energy in Star Trek’s Post-Scarcity Universe” to our new Vernon Press anthology Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier. Episode 234: How Does the Federation Economy Work? Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier View the full post. -
Bergamot, Himalayan Cedar, and Lemon Peel
puellacaerulea replied to Jenjin's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Starting off, the cedar is definitely dominant in this scent -- combined with the very bright and pithy lemon peel, it does give strong natural-cleaning-product vibes immediately after application and as it's drying down. After drydown, the cedar and lemon peel soften quite a bit and the bergamot peeks out more -- at this stage, it's more of a soft, slightly sweet citrus with soft woods in the background. It can come across as too loud and harsh in the early stages, but I do like it once it's calmed down on my skin. -
Tenochtitlan is interesting in that it begins as a juicy, fruity, green scent and morphs into the opposite -- arid and spicy. Wet, it's prickly pear forward with a slap of fresh greens from the hyssop and coriander. It has the same feel as Mean Green Production Project during this stage. It doesn't take long (five minutes or so) for it to turn intensely spicy on my skin. The juiciness fades away and I'm left with spicy, dry amber and sage with a hint of pear. I can't detect any floral, wet or dry. I highly prefer the wet stage, and it's too brief for me to consider wearing this again. I'll be passing on my imp.
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This is lightly caramelized and spiced warm chestnut on me. The chestnut is so dry that it could almost pass as wood bark. The toasted cardamom almost smells like cardamom incense. It's just a smidge smoky. The dryness of the chestnut almost gives the cardamom the impression of clove. The vanilla cashmere is a soft blanket wrapping up the whole perfume. It's foodie for sure, but it isn't a sugar or a spice bomb to me Usually, my skin amps spices to the point where the other notes are an afterthought. Here, the spices share the stage. It'll be very nice in the fall and winter.
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Tea Leaves, Vanilla Bean, and Incense Smoke
Amoraexcena replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Definitely reminiscent of my beloved Paper Phoenix, without the lavender. At first it's very much a sweet tea-and-lemon scent, with a bit of vanilla bean and incense smoke in the drydown. My favourite ménage à trois is Vanilla Bean, Marshmallow & Benzoin, and this is a close second. Super glad I got it. I think vanilla bean is overtaking bourbon vanilla as my top vanilla variety lately. It's just the perfect amount of non-cloying sweetness and blends seamlessly with other notes. -
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Wet: Sweet beeswax ozone and a touch of musk. There's a chemical whiff from the ink. The ozone here has the same prominence and quality it does in Becoming Thunder, a favorite of mine. So far I'm not getting smoke, but there might be a touch of the lab's paper note in there. Dry: Now the paper and 'notebooks' (leather?) are coming out. Sweet, pleasing, and clean. I don't feel like I need to huff my arm for days but this is a really nice scent. A bit cologney, great for summer, very unisex. Very little throw but still nice.
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At the First Touch of Winter, Summer Fades Away
coilymoe replied to Jenjin's topic in Limited Editions
Brisk and herbal. Smells a bit like dry hay, snow, and light florals (but none of the flowers in the notes).
