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2023 release: i bottled it sometime in 2024 before Weenies went down and let the bottle rest. I look it out of my stash and put a dab of it on the back of my wrist. I'm getting a beautiful burnt caramel musk with a hint of grit. I kept getting wafts of caramel brulée throughout the day with a touch of the linen note. The long wait (or aging) paid off.
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This has been sitting in a drawer since I got it. When I first got it, I was not about to put it on my skin since it was likely going to be aldehyde forward. Aging helped this one a lot. in the skin, I thought I was smelling from the little wafts I was getting was sweet pine. Actually, what I wanted from marshmallow snow - pine and sugar. When I bring my nose closer, I smell the snow berries and a bit of the smoke but you have to look for it. No carnations, which I’m pleased about because my skin amplifies it and usually makes any blend with it turn to all of the spiced element of the flower that’s usually subtle. I like it!
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Smells exactly like pancakes with maple syrup. A super gourmand scent. Absolutely delicious
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2025 version. Initial blast is peppermint chocolate. The drydown is less peppermint and more buttery rum and chocolate. Would have preferred for the peppermint to stay
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2025 version. Does smell like how I'd imagine antique lace to be. Beautiful vanilla that is non gourmand and unique. The leather is in the background but it doesn't overpower the vanilla
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A bit more floral than I usually like, but a good sharpness to it. I'm not sure if it'll be one I wear much (it was a free imp) but I'll definitely give it a few more tries. It smells very wine-sour on me at first and I'm not crazy about patchouli, but it mellowed into something really pleasant and dry and crisp!
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Rich and sweet. I get the caramel and honey with a hint of smokiness. I was worried it would be masculine leaning but it's not. Really nice.
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Super fruity and sweet. Kind of like a sweet or juice? Reminds me of kingdom of sweets. Love it
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It's a yummy pumpkin bread scent. Super realistic and delicious. I can't really pick out the zucchini here.
- Yesterday
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I mostly get the red apple and something sweet in the background. It reminds me of a candle scent or something quite artificial. But I don't mind it
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this is SO wonderfully cozy! the in vitro/freshly applied scent is mildly alarming if you also studiously avoid the laundry product aisle at the store, but thankfully this subsides quickly as the scent settles on my skin. I don't want to say "laundry" too many times here, but Gloomily, Gloomily perfectly captures the soft/clean/slightly fuzzy vibe of a favorite fabric item, with just-right contributions from musk/iris/moss to keep everything in balance. I had a concern this would go to soap on me with the gentle floral/aquatic notes but so far so good! I think the musk and the tea leaves are helping anchor the scent in a "lived-in" space. and honestly not much of the lavender comes through for me, which is fine considering it's been reduced to ash and blended with other pale pinks and purples, and is also good news if you don't go in for strong herbal lavender. if you do want to punch up the lavender, you've got your Donkey's Tail to help, assuming you haven't mislaid it. layered together, I get something a bit sweeter and more complex, but still soft and well-loved. I think Gloomily would layer well with other scents too.
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Intrigued. Color me Intrigued. This one is a magical room scent and also wearable for me. It is not icy cold like Nuclear Winter. It is a sweet evergreen with a hint of snow for me. Wintery and cold, but hopeful. A happy little scent.
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I can't pick out the individual notes. They come together and smell like vanilla to me
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The coconut is strong and it goes well with the snake oil. It's quite a yummy foodie scent.
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I mostly get the stewed apples and not much of the bread. The dry down is very sweet stewed apples and something which is quite nauseating
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I don't get pumpkin from this. It's creamy vanilla honey. It smells amazing though. Although, it's very strong. I wore this and a friend thought I had accidentally spilled a bunch of honey somewhere. She kept asking "do you need to clean up the honey before we leave?"
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Photorealistic coffee beans. I used to work at a coffee shop where they roasted their own beans. This is what it smelled like when they would bring in a big barrel of freshly roasted coffee beans. No cream. And this is a blend where the "other" notes stand up to the snake oil. It is also a bit of a morpher as it goes from coffee to snake oil and ends up a very realistic coffee perfume. I have never found a coffee note that doesn't go weird on me...until this one.
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It smells of sweet strawberry frosting as opposed to a cupcake. Still yummy though.
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Wearing this, I feel like a squirrel holed up in a cozy oak tree hollow next to my stash of hazelnuts, which I've somehow managed to toast to perfection in my fireplace without burning the entire tree down, and now I'm sitting in front of that fireplace sipping butterscotch rum to warm me down to my frosty toes.
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Cardamom and rice are two of my favorite notes, but I never thought I'd find them together in a perfume that wasn't very much a gourmand. Until this one! This is sweet and creamy, but not terribly foody. The warm amber and the musk keep it out of "rice pudding" territory for me, even with the milk and honey.
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In bottle.... veeeeery similar to TKO....but do not compare these two in the bottle. TKO takes putting you to sleep seriously. Its not something I reach for during my active time This one is more of a playful lavender scent for me. this progresses as it dries down from a very forward drier lavender STOMP to a more demure lavender that lets the ice cream sundae elements come forward too. Not overtly sweet at all. The waffle cone is barely peeping out for me at the 2 hour mark and I was searching for it. I would not call this overtly foodie. overall a Very pleasant addition to the Lavender kitchen but not a floofy marshmallow or sweet ice cream if that's what you are hankering after.
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I'd like to jump inside this bottle and soak in it. This is one of those BPALs that made me pause for a brief moment and say, "That's it. That's the one. I don't need any more." Of course I will always need more, but this is one that blends together several things that I love -- black musk, rum, vetiver -- and turns them into something sublime and beyond just the sum of their parts. It's dark, kind of creepy, kind of sinister, but it's sweet and sexy all the same. I could wear this every day and never tire of it, much like my original ride or die Anne Bonny. Now if only I could find a couple aged bottles to appreciate how much more gorgeous this brand-new bottle will eventually become!
- Last week
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Berry pastry with snake oil. The snake oil has a slight soapiness similar to please scream inside my snake. Berry pastry with snake oil. The snake oil has a slight soapiness similar to please scream inside my snake.
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Fruity sweet and slightly tart and fizzy. Reminds me of something but I can't think of what. Simple linear scent.
