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I agree with Geminirubyshoes, the cacao isn't as noticeable as the oud, which is a bit sharp but smells great. It really does take the lead on this one, as the amber peeks out from behind. I think this is a great scent that may be a bit strong for my skin chemistry. Still, it's really growing on me as it dries a bit.
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Gorgeous. Instant multiple bottle order. A blast of bright scent that reminds me of the sharpness I love in Phyllocrania Paradoxa v1, which quickly calms down into a gentle wisp of passionfruit cuddled into a creamy, sugary embrace. Winner winner BPAL dinner!
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This is one the best things I've ever smelled from bpal The absolute essence of a Mediterranean, sun soaked day with luscious dry heat and lap of the ocean. The absolute pinnacle of a "your skin but better" scent. The pink pepper goes almost fruity on me, but on dry down melds with the brilliant salt note to become much much more than the sum of its parts. This is a spectacular scent
- Yesterday
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i had kind of wanted to try this but didn't really like antique lace, so didn't bother. then i received a frimp of the 2025 version from a lovely person on the forum. i definitely get the antique lace feeling, though less sweet than i recall. at first, the leather and caramel balance each other out nicely so as to not be too strong one way or the other. then the leather gets a bit stronger and it's kind of smoky, before fading back a bit more. i really like how the caramel just balances out the leather and isn't too sweet. very pretty.
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the frothed cream is reading as kind of nutty and herbal...not really liking the beginning stage. i think the 'honey dust' note smelled similar on me. it stays this way on my skin for a long time, then i notice a hint of champaca. the cherry and osmanthus/apricot only come out when it's been on the skin for 30+ minutes and add a sweetness, but don't take over. if this hadn't had such a strong nutty note i might've liked it more, but the frothed cream note with honey just takes over.
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This is a straightforward but lovely white tropical floral; I have never smelled Flor de Maga proper in real life, but concur with previous reviewers that this note feels closest to a jasmine/hibiscus combination. It's bright and sweet, more citric and humid as it goes on and softening into more of a recognizable white floral as it dries down. It's rather similar to the newer fundraiser perfume Night-Scented Orchid; I was happy to be able to pick up a decant of this one in my quest to experience every kind of floral note possible, and I'll keep this around, but on balance I think I prefer Night-Scented Orchid.
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The reviews made me very curious about this one, despite not normally going for chocolate scents. This smells like rich hot chocolate and a whiff of...goat. Surely the oudh, but I can't help but think of goats. It's not stanky per se, but more... animalic in a furry or hay way. No pooudh here, for me anyways. I don't detect any booze at all, surprisingly. I don't drink so those notes usually stand out to me, but I'm not mad about it. It was the note I was most concerned about haha. Or maybe it's rather peaty and combining with the oudh to give me the hay impression? 🤔 Longevity is not supreme, but throw is good. Growing up we always went to a holiday event held by a large church in our area that went balls to the wall on Christmas lights. Acres of em. They served free hot chocolate that was approximately 600° in little styrofoam cups and you walked around holding it for warmth more than anything because it was undrinkable for like a solid hour. They also had a petting zoo of little goats and ponies and rabbits. This smells exactly like those nights. It's the scent of riding the little train because my mom loved it and scalding the fuck out of your mouth because the cocoa smells drinkable but is actual magma. The Yules this year really came for my nostalgia, man.
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i smell the amber cream at first with a hint of smoked vanilla. after a few minutes i get the honeyed orris root, which gets stronger over time. this scent is quite subtle and doesn't have a lot of throw. the carnation slowly peeks out later and spices things up. it dries down to a smoky vanilla-amber carnation. as a carnation lover myself, i really like this. just wish it had a bit more throw.
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Yep, just straight up fudge brownie! Plain and simple but very good! Didn't seem to last too long for me, but that is ok. Still very good.
- Last week
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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.
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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. 😅
