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Terrible Moon: Steamed Milk and Marzipan
roseus replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Okay I love this. I agree it is very reminiscent of Snowcake with a strong evaporated milk note. A lot milk notes are a light and sweet creaminess to my nose, but this one has some heft to it, a bit buttery. I find it very pleasant! ETA: my wife hates this on me -
Terrible Moon: Pistachio and Vanilla Buttercream
roseus replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Gorgeous vanilla-almond buttercream (this smells like when I add the tiniest bit of almond extract to vanilla buttercream for just a little pizzazz) with a delicious nutty haze of pistachio. On my skin the pistachio note is stronger. Delectable. -
This one is very booky, very much a secondhand bookshop than the scent of fresh paperbacks. Getting quite a bit of leather in the imp and nervous it might be the kind that goes screechy on me. Roasty coffee envelopes it all. On my skin it is more coffee forward, the leather behaves thankfully. I get a bit of papery-ness and creaminess underneath.
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This is a very warm and spiritual blend. Frankincense and cedar mostly, with amber and vanillaish from the heliotrope preventing it from becoming wood chip cedar. I don’t get the citrus. It’s nice if you like churchy blends, and I like it. Throws a lot of frankincense, other notes stay closer.
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2026 Smut Hell, yes! Last year I thought it was a little boozier than other versions I have (only circa 2021, I think) and extra good. But this year?! I am smelling my beloved BPAL black musk in this year's. It's almost got a little Streets of Detroit quality going on in that boozy, woozy bottle. I cannot WAIT to slather the hell outta this one. Sorry, not sorry, everyone around me!
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Strawberry Moon: Wild Strawberries and Inky Musk
elissamay replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
If you liked Wild Strawberries & Patchouli from last year, just THINK about how good these two would layer together! This is that same realistic strawberry with a lovely black musk, but a black musk that isn't completely intense and over-the-top potent BLACK MUSK like it can sometimes be (which I do actually love). Maybe imagine if it was 50% black musk and 50% BPAL's ink note plus that realistic tangy strawberry. This will be so fun in summer with the Wild Strawberries & Patchouli to layer or with a little spritz of the Feuilles de Patchouli hair gloss. Just call me a filthy, fruity hippy. - Yesterday
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I'm going to need several bottles of this one. I've been having some nightmares lately after the passing of my eldest cat, and I haven't had any nightmares on the nights I've slathered this oil on my arms. It's a really comforting lavender scent. I definitely get the lavender, vanilla, lemon verbena, and the star anise. Although I typically detest star anise or anything licorice-adjacent, the other notes in this blend really help smooth it over to the point that I am not bothered by the anise in this. And the lemon verbena isn't too much at all -- it just adds a bit of brightness and lifts the scent a little. This is definitely among my favorite TAL oils, and I'm so thankful to have it. Now, to upgrade my decant to 3-4 bottles with the next Lunacy drop...
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We've crafted two new scents for Century Guild, as rewards for supporting their latest book Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/binding-the-devil-vintage-witchcraft-occult-1960s-1970s-art?ref=creator_tab ✤ BINDING THE DEVIL A psychedelic evocation: electric lime rind and green tea absolute explode, sharp and strange, into a heart of violet-tinged wild plum while poppy smoke and ancient amber twist through black cherry incense, infernal red musk, and sugared nag champa. ✤ MEPHISTO WALZ Lightly-honeyed skin musk bathed in pale incense smoke, a dusting of ritual chalk, black fig, clove bud, ambrette seed, and tobacco flower.
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This is like if you took Idle Moon: Coconut Milk and Rice and added a mango note. The coconut milk is creamy and realistic, not very sweet. The rice is starchy-hazy. A bit sweet from the honey but not overly so. The mango is realistic but not super juicy, nectar-dribbling down your chin. It hangs around the sides of the creamy notes, lifting them slightly and adding brightness. It makes for a more layered and complex scent which is what I prefer in a home scent. Mango sticky rice but somehow not super foodie.
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Yesterday we put glow-in-the-dark stars all over the house, marveling in the magic of their soft light when darkness fell. So, when I spied this bottle in the morning, I knew it was the one! White petals boldly shine, tropical with a slightly bitter edge (tobacco flower?). There is a fattiness & slight sweetness from the coconut that does not overwhelm, just bolsters the effect of the blooms. Some perfumey white amber radiates out of the bouquet and makes the starry connection, while vanilla brings the mood of a gauzy veil lowered over coquettish eyes. A lover’s scent, a nighttime plea to the Goddess of Summer scent, a sit by the pool and feel pretty scent.
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I totally adore this, and have been delaying writing a review because I don't think I have much to add to what previous reviewers have described so splendidly, but I thought I might as well add a voice of agreement. Shadowed, fruitlike jasmine (I love @ShadowEtienne's description of it as like nectar, that's perfect), in humid nighttime air. The citrus is most prominent at the start, as one might imagine, and I think I would identify it as a kind of orange, but it's gentle and doesn't go sour or artificial on me the way orange notes sometimes do. The jasmine feels very alive and full in all its facets. I am so happy to have this, and think it will be especially lovely to wear in the summer.
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Very light, sweet and fruity red musk with a jammy rose. The berries and red musk are very sweet but not cloying. It makes me think of a picnic with jars of gingham covered jam jars. Sweeter and fruitier than I like my rose scents in general but very pretty and fun.
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Nutty, warm, spicy and a just a touch sweet. Deep brown nutty sweetness, the caramel stays pretty understated on me. The spices are low and rumbly as well. It is so cozy and so nostalgic. This smells like The Perfect Christmas if there ever could be such a thing.
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Wow in the bottle... this shit is BANANAS. RIPE BANANAS. I agree that it dries down more figgy and floral. It doesn't go particularly tropical on me but is a sweet, creamy, and mild floral. I guess the creaminess is from the rice and almond milk. It faded really fast on me and low throw, which was unexpected because the bottle scent is very strong.
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Oh yes this is the lavender of coconut lavender cream pie free imp!!!! And it’s foodie and gorgeous. Off to layer this with Cat Sleeping on an Armchair and see how closely I can recreate that imp. Soooo glad I ordered this.
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Very light and dainty and clean (like soap on skin clean), very low throw also green ....yes, becomes very green as it wears, plant-like soft, clean, green. ...not what I was expecting
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Idle Moon: Coconut Milk and Rice
VioletChaos replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I can't believe I never reviewed this. I pulled this gem out of figurative mothball storage and put it on today based on the whim of sniff from the bottle. A LOT was happening in my life last summer so I forgive myself for not paying close enough attention to this gorgeous scent last year, but I am SO glad to rectify the situation now. This goes back to the Dark Ages of BPAL but honestly what this scent reminds me of most is my cherished Tarot: The Star. The only element that differentiates the two is that the lime note from that one is not present here. But the rice and the coconut bring the same qualities of calm delight and quiet joy. The coconut is indeed a "cool" variety, not sunbaked or suntan-lotion-y in the least. The rice note is understated as well, not foodie- more like rice paper than milky or even grainy. The collaboration of the two makes for a scent that stays close to the skin but lasts, melding with my natural skin musk and smoothing out all the rough edges of a regular day. I am really, really happy to have rediscovered this lovely little scent. ❤️ -
Orange blossom, not orange. Two completely different scents... I love orange and hate orange blossom (smells like dirty rags to my nose). Only reviewing so those expecting orange can take note 💙
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This goes into Lemon Scented Sticky Bat territory, but not as sweet. It's still fairly lemony sweet but with the black tea and cucumber cutting through and making it more light and airy.
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When I first wore this, it was all about the teak. It's been a couple of weeks and has blossomed into such a lovely creamy scent, soft and mellow. It reminds me a bit of yogurt (Yakult) but with a much milder lactonic tartness. The teak has calmed down a lot and lends a light woodiness. This is gorgeous! I wouldn't have expected the teak to step back in such a way, it really benefited from resting.
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A psychedelic evocation: electric lime rind and green tea absolute explode, sharp and strange, into a heart of violet-tinged wild plum while poppy smoke and ancient amber twist through black cherry incense, infernal red musk, and sugared nag champa.
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Lightly-honeyed skin musk bathed in pale incense smoke, a dusting of ritual chalk, black fig, clove bud, ambrette seed, and tobacco flower.
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i get a lot of moss and cypress at first, equally balanced by the incense. after a few seconds I get a hint of florals from the calla lilies. overall it's a mossy incense with subtle floral-amber nuances. so pretty, i might need more of this one.
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Fresh out of the mail, this was reminding me of liquid hand soap, but now that it has settled for some months it has really turned into something quite lovely. The lavender, sharp when freshly applied, mellows into a round purple thing, accompanied by the lavender ash. I would never identify this note as ash independently: there is nothing smoky or dark about it, just a soft, dry, powdery quality that I recognize from Dumb Cake. The resemblance to Dumb Cake is actually quite strong, with Dumb Cake feeling leaner, more austere, more luminous to the round and cuddly GG. It makes me wonder if there is a little unlisted vanilla here, or maybe that is just the musk somehow. The musk is definitely adding VOLUME to this blend, but I don't feel like it is very important to the actual scent. I realize I am neglegting the thistle, which is really the main player here ! Kind of a simple, but romantic floral note. Not much to say for me really, but I don't want lack of words to make you feel like it's a supporting player. There is also a suggestion of dewiness here, but this is in no way aquatic (the soapiness I got initially is due to the thistle rather than any aquatic element), rather just seems to glisten somehow. Further in the dry down I experience a slight spiciness--an unlisted touch of clove or allspice? Very textural now, like a threadbare, well-loved stuffed donkey. I wonder if the moss is contributing to this experience. I don't smell anything mossy per se but it may be blending with those phantom spices, whatever they are. Then the iris takes over -- if you are an iris hater, I would still give this a chance. The romantic watercolor meadow of the rest of the scent keeps things from going too creamy/powdery/cosmetic. Nor do I experience any strong lilac, but its thistle-adjacency may be boosting what I perceive to be that note.
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This is primarily jasmine on me, with light honeysuckle and only really a hint of the amber backing it. The jasmine note is I think the same as from the GC Nyx, with the textured, almost waxy quality it has in Nyx. I enjoy this jasmine note, but it feels richer and fuller to me in Nyx than it does here. This one is very pleasant, but between Nyx and Twilight (which also has jasmine + honeysuckle) I'll be fine with my decant and won't be seeking out a bottle.
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