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I agree with, well, all of these reviews. The facets of fur and yeast are drenched in a honeyed toffee and something inexplicably rosey. It kind of reminds me of Marthe Bibescu but where that one was crisp, brittle toffee this is the confection whilst it's cooking: sticky sweet and melted. Wet, it's a bit much for me with the brown buttery-toffee-honey throwing like crazy, but as it dries it gets a lot more wearable and complex. Still retains solid throw! A lot more complex than expected from two notes, I suspect 'ethereal lure' might be it's own thing.
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Ooh, I love this. I'm a vanilla and sandalwood fiend, so of course I had high hopes for this one, and they were rewarded. I'm not sure I can describe this very well. It's vanilla and sandalwood, but not too sweet, and rounded out and deepened a bit by what I guess must be the chrysanthemum. I don't get lemon per se, but there is a little brightness it seems to be adding. Overall, it's soft and a little like a luxurious lotion, in the best way. I think it could be worn in any season and on almost any occasion.
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Man Making Love to the Maid of a Samurai Household
Beatrice33 replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
On my skin, the combination of notes reads as lemongrass, which is a note I love in food but personally don't enjoy smelling like. I did try this right out of the mailbox, being the impatient sort, so I will try it again in a few days to see if anything changes. -
It's fascinating how differently fragrances work on different people. On me, I don't smell any of the patchouli or lavender, just a bright, Granny Smith apple grounded and softened by vanilla. It's absolutely lovely.
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On me, I get mostly something like brown sugar--maybe the bourbon cream is reading that way? Unfortunately, that note is taking over the sweet cream and cardamom, which is what I was hoping to get more of. I admit to testing it right out of the mailbox, however, and I will test it again in a few days to see if anything has changed.
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i am testing on skin, as i mostly tend to use these as skin moisturizers. it opens with sandalwood and wisteria. i smell the blooms and the branches they grow on. the oakmoss adds the greenery-all parts of the wisteria are present here. the wisteria is a bit indolic and it is very well balanced with the other notes. it's very pretty and spring-y. after awhile the sandalwood sort of takes over and the wisteria fades to the background. at this point i get a hint of the creamy note, but not a whole lot. overall this is like a wisteria-sandalwood incense. it is very pretty, i just wish the wisteria lasted longer on me.
- Yesterday
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This smells like a milk chocolate cocoa. It's not as strong as any of my other lotions -- sometimes I can smell the base of the lotion more when applying it and it takes a bit for the milk chocolate scent to waft up at me. But there's no funky dairy froth, which was why I opted for a sample pot, and it pairs well with my chocolate scents (and I don't have any other lotion that does!), so I'll probably end up with a bottle before it goes away, since I've already used up most of my sample pot in the two days I was applying it to my hands last week.
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Strawberry Moon: Kyphi and Sweet Cream
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is mostly about the sweet cream on me, which smells good in the throw, but a little too buttery up close after it has been on the skin for a few hours. I get a hint of the kyphi's incense in the background, but it's not a main player on my skin. Layered with its moon, it gave the emphasis in Strawberry Moon 2026 a boost before it doused it in buttery cream. This wasn't a win for me, but it was fun to try it. -
This smells absolutely delicious. It does smell like a super sugary, rich, fudgy brownie, or at least its batter. It doesn't last long in wet or dry hair, and I could only smell it when holding my hair up to my nose, so it doesn't have good throw, either. Since it doesn't stick around for very long and I already have too many chocolate-y hair glosses, I don't feel the need to grab a bottle. But I'll be keeping my decant to pair with my brownie scents.
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Dildo, Boxes with Lubricants, and a Plum Blossom Twig Hair Gloss
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
This is a citrusy floral hair gloss, with the grapefruit, plum blossom, and honeysuckle honey being the standout notes to me. The grapefruit is the strongest note at first, but the floral notes are noticeable when freshly applied, and they seem stronger at the end of the day, when the grapefruit has calmed down (but is still present and has decent longevity for citrus). The honeysuckle honey has a quality to it that makes me think of honeysuckle nectar. I can smell the scent whenever I hold my hair up to my nose, but there is no throw when I walk around. And I think the white tea is there to support the grapefruit. But I don't get any of the amber cream or apricot, and that's fine with me. I don't feel the need to upgrade this one to a bottle, as fruity floral scents generally aren't what I gravitate towards, and I'm more likely to reach for a straight-up citrus hair gloss for my citrus fix... but I think I'll keep the decant. -
I haven't tried all of my hair gloss decants from the Lupercalia update yet, but I can already tell that this one is my favorite. This smells like the same poppy from Sugar, Poppy Tar, and Red Currant, which I adore. The black honey adds some sweetness, but it plays a supporting role and doesn't declare dominion over all like Nocturne Alchemy's black honey note does. While I have trouble smelling some hair glosses in wet hair, I could smell this one in both wet and dry and did not have to apply a ton of it to smell it, but even though it is strong, it's not so strong that it engulfs you in the scent, and I didn't get hit with a cloud of it in the shower before washing it out, either. This is opium poppy perfection and I absolutely need a bottle.
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I swear there's an unlisted honey note in here, similar to the one in Bard. I'm normally not a huge fan of florals, and therefore don't go very hard on lupers. I got a decant of this mostly because of The Gay, but I actually ended up really liking this one. On me, at least, the amber, green notes, and myrrh (and what I'm perceiving as honey) very much hold their own with the florals. It's a nice mix of sweet and bitter, grounded and dreamy, masculine and feminine. Very fitting for Apollo, IMO. It's mostly linear on me. Low sillage, but fairly persistent. Definitely one of the more pleasant surprises I've had in awhile.
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Out of the bottle, it is aggresively green fougere, so green, it's bitter. My brain keeps telling that me that it's burned amber. It reminds me of Fragment 38, a scent that has a complicated history for me. The amber in that was so acrid smelling ot my nose, it blew through my covid induced anosmia several years ago. I still remember thinking that if Fragment 38 can't do it, nothing else will. Wearing it felt like a team of miniscule gnomes blowing up a tunnel through my fully congsted nose. And I still can't figure out if it's fig in the blend that's more aggressive. When it came to Secret Adventure, it left me confused. So, I spent a few days sniffing my arms like crazy. It must be the fig. As the wear time progresses, oakmoss adds muskiness and creaminess, and I could detectect olfactgory glimses of floral notes. It was like seeing a flash of color in a facent of a precius stone- a brilliany flash of floral, which is very bright and prominet, and then it's gone--only to suddely reappear again, just as you start getting used to the scent. I would say the scent is pretty musculine, and would be good for a really hot summer weather. And, inexplicably, I can't stop wearing it, even though my brain tells me that we don't like it.
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The wild strawberry note is the star of the show here. It is super realistic -- it definitely creates the visual of a bright red strawberry studded with lots of little seeds -- and it's also the same one found in this year's Strawberry Moon and its Wild Strawberries and Inky Musk duet. However, the strawberry note is so strong in this that I never get any of the other notes. If I were going to opt for a wild strawberry scent that's currently available, I'd go for Strawberry Moon 2026, because it is more complex.
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Sogblettur ended up being pretty funky on me during the first few hours of wear, and I attribute that to the amber musk. I think this must feature the fossilized amber note that my skin does not always do very well with. The funky amber, combined with the slightly salty, musky ambergris, just are creating a good combination on my skin. These notes are accompanied by the lemon zest, which adds a refreshing quality to the scent, but can't cover up the funk of the amber musk. I sadly did not get much cloudberry like in Gnome Fracas, which was the main reason I wanted to try this scent. This was a skin chemistry fail on me, but I think it would be nice and refreshing for someone who can pull off this particular amber musk.
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Malinka is mostly about the rose hip note on me, backed by the raspberry and currant. I'm not getting the honey or any creaminess from this as my skin really seemed to run away with the rose hip note. If you're waffling between this one and Suçon, I'd say get this one if you want more rose, and get Suçon if you want more raspberry.
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This starts off with a blast of raspberry and white musk. These notes remain main players on my skin, but the powdered sugar sweetens up the scent. The rose in this is pretty subtle on me and not in full force like the rose hip note in Malinka. After a while, the benzoin emerges and adds a resinous quality to the scent, so that it ends up being mostly raspberry and benzoin backed by a little white musk on my skin by the end of the day. Of the two raspberry scents in the Love Bite collection, this is the one I prefer. I'll keep my decant, but I do not need a bottle.
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I tried this three times, in case it was a fluke, but I had the same result all three times. This is only lightly fruity on me with something akin to an undertone of anise when it is freshly applied. I have no idea what could be doing that -- maybe it's in the rock sugar? I'm not sure. The strawberry nectar is not as strong as an actual strawberry note, and I'm surprised by how light the lychee is in this as well. After a while, the sandalwood emerges and it ends up being a fruit-tinged sandalwood scent. This was not a win for me, sadly.
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(I am testing a bottle marked as a prototype which I obtained direct from the Lab via eBay.) There are several ways this scent could have gone sideways. I was expecting a 4-way fight between licorice, patchouli, orange blossom and sandalwood -- all notes that could easily fight for dominance. Instead, they all somehow harmonize once on my skin. In the bottle, the sandalwood and orange blossom were very forward and it did worry me that this was going to be a "perfume-y" scent. When applied to my skin, however, the "perfume" notes back down and let the patchouli (unsurprising, as I amp it) and licorice come forward to balance it out. I don't get the fruit notes until well into dry down but the citrus and what I'm interpreting as red fruits only lend a bright subtlety to the blend that could otherwise just stay very earthy. It's unexpectedly beautiful.
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if i'd have been asked to imagine what a scent called the witches might have smelt like, i would have thought of something quite different to this; i should have imagined something much darker with fires, cauldrons, and the rest in the way of macbeth's witches. but if these are witches, they are decidedly good witches, à la kiki's delivery service or the fairies in the disney sleeping beauty. the smell of their kitchen and happy times there; baking on a sunny day with the door open to the garden. the way it all plays out is similar to the way others have described: a lot of vanilla, which remains dominant throughout, with the pumpkin coming forward a bit more later. i don't get much honey, though a different kind of sweetness does emerge after a few hours. a good throw, but without being overwhelming because the overall blend is so gentle and soft. i shall have to snag a bottle while it's still available!
- Last week
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Doughy and sweet. And maybe a hint of coconut. Almost plastic. The rice flour is lighter than normal dough but smells raw. Or maybe that's the ube? But it smells uncooked. I don't like this.
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In the bottle, this smells oddly fruity and sweet. On the skin, there's still a fruity smell, but the birch bark definitely becomes the strongest with a hint of something dry, and almost smoky. Maybe the smoky note is coming from the "smoldering" beeswax? It does stay quite sweet, and I don't get anything I would describe as frozen or snow-dusted, but it does smell fresh and becomes less sweet over time. It is quite subtle on my skin, so I can see myself wearing this one fairly often in my day to day.
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This has kind of a weird opening on me, but it dries down into something much nicer. Going on wet, the disparate elements don't quite coalesce: I get a really clean scent that reminds me weirdly of apple-scented baby shampoo, then this odd, almost medicinal, sharper bite that I can't quite place. I wish I could be more specific, but it honestly reminds me the most specifically of the smell of multivitamins in a health food store (??), while some light incense is being burned somewhere in the background. The fig is very waxy, green, and sharp, like it's very far from ripening. An hour or two in, the skin musk moves from weird-clean-shampoo to a beautiful skin musk, the fig gets sappier, and it starts to bloom into something quite creamy, with a whiff of pomegranate and a touch of light spice. This stage is very, very nice. Lasts about 4-6 hours overall and stays pretty close to the skin. I'm interested in trying this again in a month or two to see if the opening gets any less weird on me.
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at first it's all calla lily with a hint of honey, it smells green but a bit golden and something almost smells like apple/pear to me but it's pretty subtle. this one stays pretty linear for me. i mostly get calla lilies and honey, i don't notice much amber. there is a sort of pollen-y feel to this after it's been on the skin awhile as well. i love lily/white floral scents in general, but wasn't sure/couldn't remember what the calla lily note was like. anyway, it's hard to describe but i do like it, but i think i prefer a basic lily note. overall this smells like a golden floral to me. i don't need a full bottle, but it is pretty.
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this opens with lilac, lotus and amber cream. it's lilac on a bed of creaminess. i get a hint of something mildly foody from the purple yam but it doesn't stick out too much. however, i don't really know what that note smells like. the sandalwood and orris come out a bit later just sort of rounding out the scent and adding some lightness....it's a bit less creamy than at the beginning. then it goes back to being creamier. a really lovely lilac. i love creamy florals and i don't think i have a lilac one at this point. much later on it smells almost like a very subtle coconut. i may need a bottle of this!
