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The latest episode of the Strange New Worlds podcast features an interview with the brilliant Dr. Kristina Šekrst talking about the linguistics of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok,” the subject of her amazing essay in our book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier! Episode 193: The Linguistics of “Darmok” Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier View the full post.
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I really love this—it’s warm and sweet, but not too sweet. It reminds me a little bit of a sweeter Dolly Kei maybe, but I haven’t compared them side by side so I may be off. It’s a little chewy, like there’s sweet tobacco here. All in all it’s a really lovely, warm, golden blend with some sweetness and chewy resins.
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Classic Snow White in a beautiful thick lotion. Sinks into the skin quickly, no residue. Of the few lotions I've tried this so far has the best throw - not as strong as the perfume, but a bit more detectable than the lotions I've tried thus far.
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Fizzy lavender snow, with a gorgeous soft musk that comes out on the skin. The fizz and musk are very prominent on me in the wet stage, with the lavender and snow returning as it dries. I would agree it is in the Snow White realm of snows, and a sweet TKO-type lavender. It has amazing throw!
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Blackberry syrup in the bottle, with a hint of violet leaf and tuberose. On my skin the blackberry fades way back, and gets less sweet. The tuberose and myrrh come forward, as well an ink note. The orchid and rose come out a bit more as it settles. It becomes a slightly fruity floral melange, with not one floral jumping out of the crowd. It is backed by the darkened incense. A shadowy scent but not heavy.
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Sweet airy jasmine, with a hint of subdued citrus. Swirling, humid, mysterious. I agree there's something fruity without being Fruit. Something sheer and dusky purple about this scent. Stunning!
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Hungry Ghost Moon: Oven-Warm Pizza Crust and Oregano
roseus replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Crusty, salty bread with a hint of warm oregano. Really lovely and surprisingly wearable. Also makes me hungry. -
Pomegranate, Pink Pepper, and Black Apple
SmellsPrettyGood2Me replied to Seajewel's topic in Halloweenie
A very juicy fresh red apple with a hint of scorch or cooked skin that must be the "black" part of that note. The pomegranate isn't terribly prominent, but gives a slightly deeper sweetness and tone to the scent. The pink pepper only emerges on skin after a few minutes, smelling like whole peppercorns, papery and piquant in ways that aren't entirely pleasing. I'm in an uneasy truce with it for an hour or so, until the apple and pepper both fade away and a faint hint of dried pomegranate juice is all that is left behind. By the end of the second hour, it's 90% gone. At the four hour mark, it was as if nothing had ever been there at all. This trio is inoffensive if you like peppercorns (and even if you don't, it won't torment you for very long). -
I'm so happy to have this. Mrs. Fuchi is a favorite of mine. This smells sweet, & a little waxy. I can smell the lipstick note, & it reminds me of the smell of doing my drag makeup! It also smells like a sweet dollar store cherry flavored candy. & Another impression I get is the smell of hospital linens, & soap. 💖🖤
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This one is by far the strongest & furthest throw of all BPAL I have collected. The scent is heavy heavy! A slight musk, some sweetness, airy, & has a sharpness too. It is oppressive, but in a wonderful way. By that I mean it has been on me for about 3 hours now & it's all I can smell! 💖🖤
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Big, fat, wet lemon peel that smells juicy in the bottle but gets a little pom skin pithy once it is applied on skin. As it wears, the scent softens barely 15 minutes post application into something a lot more airy and ephemeral. The white musk has a touch of vanilla to it that emerges around 35 minutes in and brings a subtle sweetness. I wish the pomegranate rind wasn't so enduring; it's a little too bitter and intermittently throws the balance of the scent off a bit for me. By hour 2, the musk is all that is left. HUGE open, moderate dry down and soft wear for a total of about 5 hours before it fades away. Work and small space safe after the first 15 minutes. This scent is Sally Struthers on All In The Family, sitting cross legged on a yellow shag carpet, playing a guitar.
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Juicy, fruity, mandarin and pear in the bottle. There aren't any other dominant notes, but a deep sniff gives me just a faint hint of ink lurking and swirling below the surface. These fruit top notes continue their domination when applied to skin. Finally, a citrus that doesn't turn my stomach when it hits my skin! Cursed with a citrustank microbiome, I've generally learned to avoid anything grapefruit, orange, lemon, or lime. But mandarin, by some anomaly, seems to be not only ok, but actually enjoyable. The benzoin and tar come in next around 40 minutes later and give the scent some depth. Surprisingly, the mandarin sticks around for quite awhile, defying my usual experience with top notes. I don't get much incense until about 2 hours in, and it's more of a waft than a plume. The ink remains very indistinct through dry down and ongoing wear. The scent projection overall is pretty strong, and lasts almost 9 hours. By the notes description, I would have passed this over without thinking twice. Having tried it, I really like it a lot. It's a hidden gem for people who don't like many fruity scents but want something a little brighter sometimes. Wearable for all seasons!
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I get a bitter espresso steam and leather bound books with the emphasis on the leather. It's somewhat dry and rugged. I expected more warmth and vanilic white paper notes.
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I hoped for a more sinister fruity resiny musk concoction. My skin brings out the sugar spun cherries which gradually fade away making way for the pomegranate, surprisingly for me.Later on the pom becomes stronger and more tart, reminding me of the long discontinued Swank.
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The florals start off with a very clean vibe, but as this dries on me I get some dark earthiness coming in. The florals soften a bit dry, a dark amber and the herbs support. Mysterious and intoxicating.
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In the imp this smells like a citrus-y bubblegum, I think it is something about the combination of acai and neroli. On my skin it is much the same, but even fruitier. Unfortunately I don't get any of the other notes as the acai just sort of takes over on my skin.
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Eshe, A Vision of Life-In-Death (2006)
SmellsPrettyGood2Me replied to Heretic's topic in Carnaval Diabolique
I'm genuinely surprised not to see more comparisons to the GC gem Morocco here, as to my nose this shares at least 50% of the same DNA both wet and in drydown. The two differentiating notes feel like the olive blossom and the orchid, which give a more green floral vibe to this by comparison. Although a bit sharp around the edges on the wet open when applied to skin, it dries down to something pleasantly fragrant. Moderate to strong sillage, with good staying power as I can still smell it 8 hours later. Most people seem to not like this, but I do! -
i’ve been slowly (torturously) enjoying this scent once in a while trying to let it rest and maybe deepen before i cement my feelings on it. the amber is exactly what i was hoping for based off the legendary status of this yule for amber people but the high pitched smell of flower that’s in there brings it down for me sadly. my boring nose wants the perfect linear and indulgent amber this would be without its rockrose! still the oil sticks on me for a long time and has a deep decadent resin smell that blooms on my skin. no powder (luckily for me, maybe not for thee) i’m thinking an aged bottle will be much better and less sharply floral…… will be on the lookout for older versions
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In the imp I get the incense and a dry, reedy note with a hint of green that smells like papyrus in other scents. On my skin it is drier, more papery with that slight vanillic edge. The tea comes out on my skin as well, sweet and slightly woody. The whole scent feels sheer but with a depth. Gorgeous and definitely bottle worthy for me.
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Delicious honeyed vanilla cream, with the pumpkin coming out a bit more as it wears.
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So, I tried Dorian for the first time last year, I bought it (straight from the lab) as a Christmas gift for my husband. I couldn’t believe that I’d never tried it before, it was the perfect vanilla of my dreams and at the next possible moment I could afford it bought 3 bottles (also straight from the lab) that July for my birthday. The three new bottles though did not smell anything like the Christmas bottle the new bottles were super masculine, so cologney and a bit lemony. I don’t really get what happened I know there’s some difference in batches but it smells completely different, I’ve re-upped lots of bottles over the years and there’s never been such a drastic difference for me before. My husband said it’s probably just because the Christmas bottle is 6 months older so after 6 months the july bottles will smell more like the older one but I just retried it right next to each other and there’s still so different it’s very wild. But that being said the Christmas version was the most amazing perfume I’ve ever smelled in my life and would recommend it to every woman on the planet. The July one isn’t bad but it’s very masculine smelling to me and I don’t like to wear it because I personally like to wear perfume to feel feminine.
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Okay, I know I said in my Hiss and Hearse review a few months back that that was the one of the best Snake Oil-heavy Snake Oil variants in a while -- but here I am reviewing Snakes in the Coffee Beans and feeling the same way. In a lot of the Snake Oil variants from the past few years, it might be heavy on the musk, or the patchouli, but I rarely get all of the components of the Snake Oil with whatever has been added in a particular variant. But in Snakes in the Coffee Beans, I totally get the aged vanilla absolute from the Snake Oil (which, in my opinion, is more sheer than the vanilla of the OG Snake Oil -- but it's still good), along with the spices, musk, and patch, all swirling with the coffee beans. So it gets points not only for being very Snake Oil-y, but also for its super realistic coffee bean note, and the fact that this goes strong for hours on end. I like this way better than the other coffee Snake Oil variant that is PSL: Pumpkin Snake Latte. I'm definitely going to have to upgrade my decant to a bottle.
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It Was But the Wild Blast As It Sung Thro’ the Trees
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Yules
This is a really cozy scent. It was unexpectedly somewhat like a sweet, creamy, lemon-like scent on me during the first few hours -- I think it's the honey mingling with the hay note, which was also somewhat lemon-y in the Vanilla, Nutmeg, and Hay Absolute trio. Then it becomes a sweet and toasty oat scent -- kind of similar to One Has to be Careful -- but with a bit of added spice from the clove and a comforting, non-laundry!!! wool note. Of the two scents I tried from the Erlkönig collection, this was the one I enjoyed most. I will have to give it a full-day slather to see if I need more of it, but for now, I'll definitely be keeping my decant. -
This is a very fruit-forward suf. It mostly smells like jammy blackberry filling to me. I don't get a ton of cream cheese or pastry from this -- both notes are there, but they are buried beneath the blackberry note for a really long time, and then when I do smell those notes, they still can't hold a candle to the strength of the blackberry. I would say there is far less cream cheese in this than you'd find in a danish, and the pastry is most noticeable in the long drydown after the scent has been on the skin for several hours, but I only get it when sniffing my arm up close -- never in the throw. It smells delicious, but I'm not sure that I need more than my decant (although I'll probably retest it before it goes away just to be sure!).
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When I tried this just on the front of my wrist one day, the coffee disappeared pretty quickly on me, and I was left with just the rose. When I gave this a full-day slather (slathering it on wrists, down my forearm, in the crooks of my elbows, and on my neck), I could smell the coffee beans with the rose throughout the day, although the rose note definitely was the dominant note after the wet phase and got stronger over time. It has great throw, too, and I could smell both notes in the throw. Originally, I was going to pass on this, but then I decided I had to try it since Bulgarian rose is usually my favorite rose note, and I thought, what if this smells like a bouquet of roses in a coffee shop? It doesn't really give me that vibe, since the rose is stronger than the coffee, but it is still really nice. I'm going to have to slather it on again to decide if the decant will suffice, or if I need a bottle -- I think it would be a great Yule to wear in January when you're getting antsy for the Lupercalia update.
