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Caramel cream, golden oud, sweet amber, praline milk, hazelnut, and cacao.
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Beeswax, wildflower honey, copal resin, vanilla bean, balsam, and frankincense.
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Night-blooming jasmine, cherry juice, orris root, rice powder, vanilla silk, white amber, coconut husk, purple labdanum, myrrh, and wild plum.
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Cardamom, bourbon cream, white sandalwood, and incense.
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White tea, golden pear, Himalayan cedar, and eucalyptus blossom.
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Glittering amber, sweet oakmoss, orange peel, golden apple, yellow bergamot, champagne grape, and white melon.
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Asahina Yoshihide in a Tug-of-war with the Little People
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Lupercalia
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Apricot, cream musk, bourbon vanilla, and golden bergamot.
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Red tobacco, crimson musk, sweet red patchouli, nutmeg, vanilla bourbon, rose geranium, and saffron-gilded red amber.
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I get sage brush, palo santo, and tonka bean when it's all dried and mellow. It is a very sunny scent, reminds me of wandering the deserts outside my great grandma's house when I was very little. Really glad I grabbed this one.
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In Bottle Golden, warm shimmer; I read this as marigold but that note is not listed, so I am wrong. I also get a lot of a champagne image (my mind sometimes does funny things when I smell bpal). No leather, no image of a laufeyson variant, and not magically or green at all. Just warm flowers and amber. No leather, wood or patchouli at this stage. Wet stage On my skin, Laufeyson initially provokes an “elvish” image, a bit like the elves in The Lord of the Rings, in long shiny robes in a very fresh leaves-forest, holding little green and white flowers, just standing there, doing nothing at all... Fresh, green, and when I try to smell the complexity, I get a hint of fresh green leather in a very, very far away distance, so far away, that I doubt whether it is there, or not there. But it’s also too “clean,” so this a Laufeyson who is at home, in some kind of cell made of stone, and my feeling is that they have just summoned a fresh leather outfit. That outfit doesn’t really exist: it’s an illusion only. Ok, that is a very precise associated image. Hm! The scent now also slightly soapy, but not as much as with other scents I have, and it’s only present, when I really press my nose against my skin, and I think bergamot is the culprit causing that, but I dont know. Clove is always a bit weird on my skin, and I get that here too, but it doesn't give me headaches. So, yeah, at this stage, it’s very clean, but I like it! Dry on skin This is written while I was wearing it for the first time, and describes around 10min of my reactions to what I'm smelling, in a train of thoughts: Happy: I do like this scent very much. It is very balanced on my skin now, but also "too balanced".... I wished for some kind of magic spark, some kind of trickster-y. I hope the clove amps down a bit, because it distracts me... There is a funny thing about it that makes me want to hug someone who wears green leather, and feel the warmth of the skin underneath the armour, but the thought is disappearing, and I can't get a hold of it. Is this the trickster-y after all? ...The next image is just a cozy orange leather chair in a stone room, a fireplace behind it that has a fire too orange to be true. ... And a whiff of a nearby forest coming in from a window to the right, it is dark outside, no stars, and this place inside is warm and cozy. ... There is this very deep feeling that someone *should be on the chair, only because it would be aesthetically nice to have. Like, right now. But that image also disappears... I don't know why I get stone, but that stays... Oh-oh: To be fair, this does give me some weird feeling of hope and safety, paired with a weird interest in something i won't write about publicly.... It now is still very clean and fresh, and maybe I would have hoped for more of a worn-down leather, but I do get a very clear image about who is wearing this green leather armour and present in this stone hall. It stays this way and becomes very balanced: green, cozy, very-very fresh. Conclusion This is a very nice scent! I think it is super interesting in its' changes. On my skin, it is very cozy, and I love it. I get why this may not work on every skin type, tbh. Super cozy, I'm very glad I tried this and already said that I only have half a bottle of it. :) Happy to see what ageing will do, but hopefully, a bit of the freshness will stay, cause I like that as well.
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Nevertheless She Persisted opens on my skin with a smooth, luminous sweetness, where iris and frankincense blend seamlessly. The iris is notably more prominent -- fitting, given the fleur-de-lis was the symbol of the France that Joan of Arc championed. The frankincense remains subdued, more silvery than gold. The result is an uplifting, powdery floral scent, with none of frankincense's usual smokiness. A steely foundation grounds this scent, a bright and sweet metallic note that mirrors the base. I can't quite identify the fantasy accord's individual components, but the cumulative effect is quietly striking. After an hour's mark, the scent begins to fade but the profile remains intact and does not morph. The perfume conjures the image of Joan herself: the peasant girl who heard voices in church and became a warrior. A lady-knight in armor carrying a bouquet of irises as she steps into mass, frankincense still burning at the altar. A powdery floral gilded by sweet, resinous woods and silvered incense. "I am not afraid... I was born to do this." This is a sweet, feminine-leaning fragrance that holds its steel quietly beneath. What you smell in the bottle is what you get on skin, unwavering luminous conviction. A consecrated blade wrapped in a holy bouquet. - Additional Notes: I adore this perfume, and purchased mine from a destash. The lady knight is one of my favorite archetypes, and this bottle precisely captures her essence. There is a medieval feel to it. In more modern terms, it conveys the scent story that "soft is strong is sacred."
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So I mostly use hair glosses these days though I still buy plenty of perfumes. I use the hair gloss sometimes as a light dry-oil spray on the skin as well as my hair, often adding a complementary perfume oil. I don't see why you can't, I mean, the scalp is skin after all. Just don't spray it (or apply any BPAL/fragrance product) to sensitive areas/open skin and mucus membranes. Don't be an idiot 🙂 Thiiiiiiiis is a DELIGHT. I remember being excited for the White Sage Single Note a few years back because I love the smell of sage both burning and OF fresh, culinary sage. I didn't love it. I don't remember why, I've long since sold it, but this is way more what I was expecting in terms of what I parse as the smell of sage, herbaceous and green but also with a gorgeous sweet and smok This also dinged a scent memory of Lush's Cosmic Dreamcatcher massage bar. I actually looked in my stash and found a very old but unopened one of those and it complements the gloss very nicely. I kind of pigeonhole myself sometimes as a vanilla/foodie and amber girlie, but there's lots of other notes I like. Pinon doesn't appear to be in a whole lot of BPAL products, but I will definitely consider any blend where it features prominently going forward. Purchased from Lab directly, keeping it, but likely don't need backup. HG doesn't keep for as long as perfume.
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Blood Moon: Pomegranate and Animalic Musk
Roogna replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
sweet almost candy-like pomegranate, becomes a little musky as it wears, but disappears quick and low throw -
For me the sugar is more than a shy puff, but that's just fine with me. On application, I get a little bit of all the notes, not too floral, not too almond, but pretty quickly, the sugar takes over. I have other sugary scents, but I think the pink tinge is enough to distinguish this one from the others.
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In the jar (I got a decant), the scent is very pink - I think it's the grapefruit. On, I get a mentholly background note similar to the one in the Samhain lotion, but accompanied by the citrus. The citrus notes meld together nicely. I also couldn't pick out anything resembling vanilla cream, but it is maybe just rounding the other notes out. Smells like the name in a good way.
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The lemon peel and neroli fight for top place on my skin initially, but quickly settle into a really pretty harmony. Sparkling slightly bitter neroli and lemon on a warm musky base. As it dries I get some slight greenness from the ti leaf and a bit of zing from the ginger. I want to say I detect the lime blossom but I can't be certain. A gorgeous bright and breezy scent.
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This is so gentle and lovely. Reminds me of a softer, slightly more complex Shanghai. Bright citrus-scented tea wet, with the soft slightly powdery orris and smudgy frankincense-ambergris combo coming in as it dries. Wispy and romantic.
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This is like the olfactory version of a movie scene where fire burns through a piece of paper only to reveal the next scene. It starts out as a conflagration of burning leaves that gradually crumble in the fire and fall to ashes around a single ripe pomegranate, red and juicy and slightly bitter, waiting for Persephone to return to the underworld and taste its forbidden seeds again. Leaves still smolder around the fruit. It is the myth come to life.
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This is mostly fruit on me, with a whisper of patchouli in the background. For some reason my skin amps the sweetness of the fruit so much that I can barely detect the patchouli after it dries down. It turns to pure cloying sugar until the patchouli finally emerges much later. Eel King, you have betrayed me.
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I've tried a couple things with white honey and I'm not sure I've ever been able to pick it out before, but here I think I can finally put my finger on it. A sort of crystallized honey with an almost menthol hint, drizzled over fresh pansy petals floating in cream. Fully agree with the Poinsettia Gown comparison. This feels like a slightly more Golden Afternoon version of that scent palette. Up close, it does read powdery to me, but the throw is very creamy. Not quite as gourmand as a floral buttercream but not so cosmetic as cold cream. This feels really nice and wearable in any setting but it's absolutely perfect for Mother's Day afternoon tea, which is what I'm wearing it to today haha
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it's PERFECT. the sweet almond/marzipan perfectly brightens the Snake Oil, it's so sexy but also adorable, I even kind of see where the Snow White is fitting in. this is ridiculous. I keep thinking she's winking over her shoulder, beckoning.... What! ❤️
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i received a frimp of this awhile back and am finally trying it. it just smells like straight up orange blossom to me, with maybe a hint of orange rind and a woody petitgrain. i love orange blossom so i find this gorgeous and perfect for warmer weather.
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This does feel very much like a Victorian Christmas card in scent form. Fir dusted with honey powder, draped with dried floral garlands and velvet and chiffon ribbons. One of those Victorian-inspired 90's holiday magazine spreads where everything is white and cream, gold accents against evergreen branches. It smells fancy but whimsical, and it's a really unique holiday/fir scent in my collection. Absolutely fits the painting perfectly.
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Dead leaves! Very familiar from dead leaves blends, I agree that this one is more soft, sweet, clean, musky. Some of the dead leaves blends have been too sharp for me as well, this one is very pretty. I do get the hint of anise as well.
