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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!
- Yesterday
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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.
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This is exactly like a bag of fluffy marshmallows. The grapefruit is faint. It has low throw. I have to put up close to sniff.
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I had a sweet chestnut flavored black tea this morning and this on my wrist was so similar I was really surprised! It was very coffee when first applied but that disappeared very quickly. It must be the vanilla and woods that are giving off the chestnut vibes? I find it sweet but not in an overbearing way, very nice.
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This is so nice. Two of my favorite scents melding together perfectly--this is everything I was hoping it would be! The apple is by far the star wet on the skin, as you would expect, but that beeswax sweetness is right there underneath, adding a warm balm to the apple's pink juiciness. Dried down the beeswax lingers. I may need to pick up a second bottle of this one!
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This is such a warm, golden scent. Like, straight from the oven warm. Buttery, vanilla, sugary goodness. I bought this for a friend and I really wanted to take a bite of her arm when she put this on. I can see why this a favorite for so many people! If you or someone you love goes hard for gourmands, it really doesn't get better than this.
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This is just like getting the sticky amber sap of a Christmas tree between the seeds of pinecones and on your fingers, and as much as you try to get the sticky stuff off, you secretly don't want it to come off because it smells so good. That was me was a kid and now I'm wearing it as perfume.
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Cool bone and ash. Underneath I smell a bit of fire, but more of a smoky ashy fire. This is what I think Princess Mononoke would smell like as she rushed into battle. It's a very emotional scent. It smells of cold and death, but there is something awakening underneath (mossy stones?) and a reminder that in destruction there is creation. From death comes life.
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This smells like I opened a window in the morning after it snowed and the breeze was a tart citrus swirl glittering with icy crystals. Lovely. I bought this lotion purely for the yuzu note (I'm a chaser for sure), but I'm happy to say that I'm a fan of the slushy, minty notes as well. I have to agree with spendidissima that I don't really get the vanilla cream, but I'm wondering if that is what's keeping this in the crisp rather than sharp realm. Regardless, I like that it's not too sweet, but if that is something you want I imagine that there is plenty you could layer with this that would work wonderfully. On the lotion formula itself, I love that it doesn't leave me feeling greasy at all--it absorbs nicely. The scent lingered for about 3 hours for me with not a whole lot of transformation over time. Edit: Mine has the same misprint!
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The cherry smells abit medicinal at first but it develops into a delicious cherry. The pie crust is at the background and gradually comes out. The overall dry down is really nice. Cherry pie/baked goods. Delicious and edible. The throw is pretty good too
- Last week
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A warm, bright, buttery balsamic. Forgive the indulgence, but the best way I can think to describe this scent is: if this scent were a color, it would be the soft orange glow of cheerful windows seen from a distance at night, or of that particular warm orange glow of a specifically winter sunset. On Friendship is terpenic and resinous, with a round, sweet, almost waxy nuttiness and butter from the bread accord, and it's lightened by just the smallest breath of bergamot, barely detectable but adds a lovely, gentle citrus lift. It really does feel like a warm meal shared with friends! It's undeniably woody but smells more of smoked or roasted chestnut to me, slightly vanillic, than pure woodsmoke, which is really just lovely. I'm finding it another delightfully cozy scent to curl up in for colder weather.
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So, I had suggested this one to my hubby to get for himself, but he ended up buying it for me as a Christmas gift. 🤷 Well, I'm always up for trying, so here goes, though I'll slather him in it to see who I like it better on. In the bottle the bourbon was the most prominent note, reminding me of the liquor scented box of chocolates from yester years. On the skin it mellows considerably, as the cream and skin musk temper the bourbon, making it a warm, almost indistinct meld of notes. I'm honestly a bit stumped by this, almost like a heightened natural body scent (not in a stanky unwashed way, but like an amplification of your natural scent). It's unobtrusive, and subtle, which is a surprise considering how loud it was in the bottle. Frankly, this one surprises me a bit. One, it's a cream scent not going to sour milk on me, and two, it's almost like one of those PH adjusting products, like it's going to transform to your unique chemistry, and become it's best version of itself for the wearer. I'm not sure how Beth managed that, but it's another example of her mastery. Definitely going to slather on the hubby to see what happens to this morpher.
