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Nag Champa & Warm Cookies
frizzlechicken replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is fantastic. It’s all Nag Champa, headshoppy and incense-y, and underneath is a soft cookie dough note. It’s not too sweet and the Nag Champa is still the most prevalent note up top, but the cookies add a glorious warmth. As it fades, the soft cookie dough note is what’s left behind. Kept huffing my arm all day! -
To me this one feels extremely similar to A Robe All Red With Dripping Gore from the Sorores Genita Nocte collection, which is not surprising because there is considerable overlap in notes. Especially when wet, I get a saffron/amber/red musk/honey combination so similar that I could mistake one for the other, though the lab's recognizable white amber note has a silvery, liquid quality which differentiates it from A Robe All Red...'s red amber if I look very closely for it. As it dries I get some more complexity from the other resins, and the orris in particular adds a lovely smoothness. I enjoy this quite a bit and will keep my decant around but, as I already have a bottle of A Robe All Red, I won't need one of this.
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Honey and Sweet Incense Atmosphere Spray
theseagrows replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Atmosphere
i sprayed one spray in the air and i am immediately transported to one of those import gift shops with incense, scarves, jewelry and statutary. the honey gives it a golden feel. it's very pretty and atmospheric, and i find it calming. -
the strongest note is a juicy apricot and there is also bergamot which adds a tea like/citrus element. after awhile the bergamot gets stronger and now it smells like an apricot tea i once had. after awhile i get hints of the cream musk/bourbon vanilla. it's like an apricot tea with a small dollop of cream. not super creamy, but it does tone down the astringency of bergamot a bit. i don't usually wear many fruity scents but i though this one might be good for me. i did wish it was a bit creamier, but i still find it pretty and light enough to consider wearing from time to time.
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this opens with a subtle tolu balsam and a faint hint of the lilac cream. it's very subtle at first, then the lilac cream gets stronger. there is a hint of spiced honey that is really lovely and the other notes sort of make up the background. the teakwood and and beeswax get stronger deeper into the drydown, adding some depth. overall a subtle creamy floral with hints of spiced amber/honey. really pretty!
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I need to preface this with a full disclosure: I am a big fan of coconut – in particular; the dark, meaty and gnarly black coconut (think Red Lantern, Snake Charmer, Death Adder or Body, Remember). So when a dear friend sent me a decant of this precious old treasure, I was very excited! I definitely agree this is more of a coconut oil smell than actual fresh coconut meat. It’s not really sweet, and it definitely has more depth than some suntan lotion or Malibu cocktail type coconut, but for me it’s just a wee bit too foodie. It also sways a little into the dreaded plastic-smelling zone initially on my skin, although that does go away after about 30 minutes and it dries down to a nice warm coconut but still retains that same coconut oil feel.
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Oooh boy, this is some wild coffee! It’s not the coffee you sip demurely on your porch in the morning and enjoy the feeling of it slowly warming your veins as it whispers softly, gently waking you up… oh no. This is the coffee you drink when you get home at 6am after a debaucherous night of unmentionable naughtiness and realise you have to be at work in two hours. It smacks you in the face and says WAKE UP MOTHERFUCKER! And the funnel cakes thing? Yeah, that is equally wild. These are not the sweet funnel cakes from the church’s bake sale at the local county fair – nope, these are the funnel cakes from the devil’s bakery. Feisty, ferocious cinnamon filled cakes of spicy red hot fire – like Satan himself just ate six of them then burped in your face. It’s delicious, deep, and intoxicating. It’s the dark and evil twin sister to Midway’s cotton candy carnival prettiness. Had this been available at the time, all those people on Elm St could have avoided being killed by Freddy Krueger, because there ain’t no way they would have fallen asleep.
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i got a frimp of this-it smells sweeter to me than the notes would suggest. it smells green but a bit sugary, kind of cakey. it could be mango + some sort of sweetness as the other reviews said. if this is a floral note it's not reading that way. i dunno, it's alright, but a little too sweet for my tastes.
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at first i get primarily red musk, then after a few minutes i get some myrrh and amber, maybe a hint of honey. later on the saffron comes through. overall it's a red musk with a fuzzy warmth and a bit of cool iris root to balance it out. very pretty and though the red musk is the strongest note, i think the other notes make it a bit more subtle than it can be.
- Yesterday
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The Persephone's Ascent perfume oil is an absolute favorite of mine, so I was so pleased to see a hair gloss version, and, as I hoped for, it is as beautiful as the perfume! I've already reviewed the perfume, so I don't have a ton to add; on me at least the hair gloss is slightly lighter on the cream and vanilla notes, and the honeysuckle nectar is slightly more prominent; it's somewhat sheerer, more green floral and less gourmand. A perfect springtime hair gloss scent, with medium throw and longevity as far as bpal hair glosses; it doesn't give me a floral cloud like, for example, the White Lilac & Moss lunacy HG from last year, but I catch hints of it throughout the day. Delighted to have this!
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This starts out on me as a very wet, green calla lily; it has this substantial, almost fleshy quality which sets the range of lily notes apart from other white florals, and which I think particularly shows up in the lab's calla lily specifically. There's a hint of honey at this stage, but not much; it's basically a calla lily single note, very fresh and alive. More honey starts to show up on dry down, and then, maybe an hour into wear, something comes together and I get the honey and amber clearly and elegantly, almost like a golden veil has fallen over the lily. They are delicate, perfumey versions of the amber and honey notes, not too sticky or overpoweringly resinous. Something really gorgeous happens there in the combination of the three notes, and it feels like the lily itself gets more complex, like maybe there's the more classically floral stargazer lily note as well as the greener calla lily. I just couldn't stop smelling it at this stage, found it totally beautiful and preoccupying. The throw is pretty low but it's distinct, and that beautiful drydown stage lasts for hours. I had high hopes for this one, and it has most definitely fulfilled them. I'm holding off on buying a full bottle until I've had a chance to try the lily-centric Flower Moon scents and compare, but I fully expect to be getting a bottle soon enough. Definitely recommended to lily fans and a wonderful addition to the lab's family of floral + amber blends.
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Fresh KICK of clean, wet, rainwashed greenery and white musk. There's tea early on but it's quiet in comparison to the blast of rain-vibrant cut greenery and white musk. I'm reading this as having a very clean "laundry day" kind of vibe, which I'm filing under "white musk." If I'm wrong, sue me 🤷♀️(for legal purposes Do Not, I have no money to pay u) After maybe 30 minutes, the edges on this scent soften and round. It is still very fresh and clean, very rainwashed, but less sharp. I'm no longer being slapped in the face with a bouquet of juicy wet grass. The tea peeks out more confidently around this time, too. As drydown continues, I get the whiter/sharper aspects of moonflower, a dusting of silvered moonlit powder at their centers as they bloom through continued wear, and big splashes of clean-cool water. Wet is morning laundry day after a spring rain: brisk, green, sharp, shiny, and bright. Fluffy white clouds, blue sky, wet green grass, early spring sunlight. Drydown is a cool, clean, wet spring *night* after a spring rain: white-silvers and greens, rainwashed new growth and glinting moonlight, spots of cool white powder-touched blooms dotting the landscape. That opening is a little rough for me (hissss, sun! hissss, chores!) but wow does it pay off in that drydown. If you like the vibes of both sides of this perfume, you're gonna have a GREAT time.
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a burst of juicy grapefruit up front transitions into a perky velvety pink ...no, I'm serious! it's nose tickling, soft, and a bit tangy.
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Blueberry Chai Truffle features a ton of jammy blueberry that is the star of the show. I only get hints of the spices, chocolate, and milk in the background, with the chocolate and milk being most noticeable after the scent has been on the skin for several hours, but it is pretty light by that point. The milk note did not end up going wonky on my skin, fortunately. This is the blueberry that I was hoping for from Fritsu, and although I'm not getting a lot of cardamom from this, I'm not disappointed. I will be hanging onto my decant, and I'll give this a full-day wear to determine whether or not I need more of this (at the moment, it is a bottle contender).
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I decided to get a decant of this one just because some of the Lab's black tea notes have had a bit of an anise-like quality to them, so I wanted to confirm for myself if that was the case with this one. Fortunately, this is mostly a tannic black tea scent, with only the barest hint of anise when freshly applied that lasts for like a split second. The tea note has a ton of throw, too, so if you're looking for a scent that's strong on the black tea, you may want to check this out. Unfortunately, I really don't like the cacao in this. It doesn't smell chocolate-y at all to me, sadly. It's more like a cocoa butter or something like that to my nose because I was thinking it was more lotion-like than a gourmand cacao. So this one is not a keeper for me.
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This starts off like a cherry tootsie pop, but then it quickly changes more into the cherry brookie scent, and the brookie part makes me think of baked chocolate chips (even though this says batter). It just has that quality of a chocolate chip in a cookie that melted onto a cookie sheet with a slight burnt edge (but it doesn't smell burnt -- I don't know if I am describing this adequately... it's like if you rolled up a ball of cookie dough, but there was a chocolate chip or chunk of chocolate exposed at the bottom of the cookie that ends up oozing out of the cookie during baking). After that phase, it does end up smelling like brookie batter that's more brownie-like, accompanied by the cherry. The grass isn't distinct to my nose, so I wouldn't let the grass note scare you away from trying this. I like this and will definitely be keeping my decant. But I need to give it a full-day slather to see if I need more of this because I have so many brownie scents already. 😅
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This is lovely. When I smelled it in the decant, I wasn't sure how it would go on my skin because something in it made me think it might clash -- maybe it was the herbal quality of the chamomile? But I needn't have worried. I get some lots of lightly spiced cherry accompanied by a cup of chamomile tea. I don't really get a bread pudding scent from this, but that's fine with me. There is a bit of a syrupy quality to the scent after it has been on the skin for a while that I think is supposed to be evocative of a baked good, though. I really love the cherry in this and was pleasantly surprised by how well the chamomile complements it. I've tested it a few times already and am pretty sure I'm going to need a bottle. Of the two cherry scents in the Puppy Love collection, this one is my favorite.
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2026 version. I blind bottled this because I'm running low on my decant of the 2017 vintage. The only reason I didn't get a bottle back then was because I was studying in Germany at the time, so I hoarded by decant I was gifted in a swap and was thrilled at its return this year. Since I didn't ever smell this when it was fresh, it's really not fair of me to compare the two. My decant was already aged when I first tried it. At the moment, my fresh bottle does not smell like the decant, but I think that's really due to age and that it will eventually smell more like it. The lavender, apple, and vanilla are all main players on my skin when I wear the decant, but the fresh bottle is more about the lavender, apple, and patchouli, with less vanilla. I was caught off guard by how much patchouli was in the throw! At one point, I got a lot of the cream part of the vanilla cream in the crook of my elbows that smelled a little funky like cream notes sometimes do, but fortunately, it was overtaken by the apple note, which smells more green to me than red like in my original review. I'll be hanging onto my bottle and am looking forward to seeing how this ages. I'm hoping that the vanilla will gain some strength with age, as it does in most scents.
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I had a similar experience, it's cool cream and cardamon on me. I'm getting the sense that the blueberry might be a lot more in the throw, which is hard to confirm myself at home.
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This one smells like a sweet, sharp pinch. Like this love bite definitely came from teeth! A great balance of sweet from the boozy fruit and spicy/resinous. The light layer of juicy rose and vanillic tonka round it out nicely. I found this lasted well on me.
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For some reason both fresh and now months later, this smells like nag champa incense and clove to me. I have no idea where the spicy note is coming from but it reminds me very much of the clove cigarette smoke in Black Lipstick. So, yea. Spicy nag champa. 🤷♀️ No idea why lol
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I just found my Weenie 'maybe' pile to retest before they come down! So here we go. I... also get lime? I remember this reminding me of *something* when I tested it originally so maybe it was Mr Nancy? I don't really recall getting lime before but maybe??? Otherwise, I get a lot of dirt so I'm assuming I didn't get a Lime Green mixup. Maybe some weird combo of the moss and Dorian is resulting in a pithy lime vibe? 🤔 Regardless, I actually like this a lot now. It's dirt but like...✨suave dirt.✨ A little snake oil vanilla sweetness peaking through, a little airy Dorian clawing out of the grave. The dirt note is milder now than I recall, less petrichory. I think I shall toss a bottle in my order. It's got a kind of 'nice bog witch' energy that I strive for.
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Dark Chocolate, Coffee Bean, and Cheese Danish Hair Gloss
Numanoid replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
I WISH this was an actual thing to eat! This is soooo yummy! I get the bittersweet chocolate and coffee sniffing in the bottle. On, the flaky cheese Danish comes out. I got a decant but going to get be a big bottle. Love love love this! -
Black Honey, Black Cherry, and Kyphi Smoke Hair Gloss
Numanoid replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
This is gorgeous! As I was hoping, it smells like a cousin to Red Apple,. Blackened Honey & Opoponax HG. But with cherry and incense! I am not a honey fan, but this is so good. Sniffing in the decant I got, I get an incensed honey with a dash of the cherry. I don't know what kyphi is, but I tried this on dry hair and I did get a slight smoky scent along with the other notes. It is actually a softer scent than I thought it would be, but this is still dead sexy! -
This is decadent! Sniffing in the decant, the raspberry and dark chocolate is soooo rich! Like a GOOD European raspberry liquor filled chocolate! On the skin, the chocolate fades a bit and I get more raspberry liquor. This is very good and rich. Medium throw on me. Might have to get a bottle of this!
