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My top 5 scents would be:

1. Noir

2. Chrysanthemum Moon

3. Morocco

4. Antique Lace

5. Ecstasy Passion

hmmm any thoughts?

Gorgeous light incense.

Soft and hazy like the veil of incense you can detect when you go into a church after Service is over.

It is quite light and not heady at all. Very wearable. A dream blend for incense lovers.

Throw is low and longevity medium. I would need to slather that one, but I'm afraid to use up my bottle. I'll be quite sad when it's gone.

Creamy chocolate with a hint of spice. Moderate throw. A foody's dream scent. For me it's more for huffing and not actually wearing. Or maybe for creating a fun, playful home atmosphere. Nice.

A good masculine scent. Very softly aquatic but with a hint of spice. Also there's the barest hint of a "burned" note that only adds to the masculinity of the scent. I wonder if there's anything like this in the released blends.

This is quite AL-ish but it has more vanilla. Very nice, very wearable. I'd like to have a bottle of that one.

In the decant: Carnation STEMS. Not the flowers, the stems. Weird.... <snip>.... Anyway, I know what carnation stems smell like, and this is them.

 

Wet: The stems are joined by the spicy petals, but it's still very green stemmy.

 

Dry: The green is fading. This is a "dark" carnation, not the bright, sprightly carnation you may be used to. There's the spice, but then there's a musk, possbly a little sandalwood--something that darkens the usual carnation "sparkle."

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Exactly that!

When I sniffed it in the decant and wet on my skin, I immediately thought "green!" and then "stems!"

The carnations are more present than those in the original version, yes, but it's mainly the stems, mingled with the petals.

This is less creamy, less heavy, less cloying than the original. The original is awesome,yes, but cloying on me and I end up not wearing it.

The resurrected version is more intense carnation-stems and I may actually buy a bottle to wear. I'm a little afraid though what aging would do to it, as I don't want the cloying effect of the original.

This has the same apple as in Snow,Glass,Apples. It was my first reaction sniffing it in the imp and on my skin and I think this may have been a study on the theme.

Drying down I do get the "baked" quality, but it always is more sharp than the rounded apple note in Sugar Slathered Candied Apple.

I'll make it a point to test the released version but I won't say no if any amount of the proto falls into my lap

How does she do it?

You burn this in an oil burner in the kitchen and you have found the solution for kids that don't want to eat

Droolworthy roasted meat!

(Didn't dare skin test that one, not my thing as a perfume)

Sweet, cinnamon tea. Quite nice. It's not "me" but it's very pleasant and wearable.

ETA: Reminds me of something and I'm trying to figure out what!

LAVENDER and yes probably sage. This one could be a proto for a utility blend (panacea?). Lavender is very difficult on my skin (only Lilith Victoria works and that one, only after considerable aging) so I won't skin test.

Mmmm Red Musk! And a dark fruity note, could be plum, but not like the smoky SN Plum or Dionysia plum. This is a different, less aggressive and yummy fruity plum(?). I like this proto.

Foody. Nutty. Buttery. Not for me.

This one has a strong boozy (champagne?) note. I'm tempted to say like 2008's Champagne & .... series. But it's softer and kinder. On my skin the fizzy champagne note is what overpowers all else, even while drying down. Although it's bright and fun, personally I'm not a fan of boozy scents.

At last a bpal honey scent that is not trying to choke me to death.

It's gorgeous honey and faint spice and it's exactly what I imagined and hoped O to be (and isn't, on me)

Awesome, very wearable on me and darn it, I only got the one imp. How am I going to get some more?

P.S. I can't, for the life of me, smell any cherry.

I received a sniffie of this rarity from tartchef because she is awesomesauce with multicoloured sprinkles on top

Sniffing from the imp (not testable) this is a wonderful white floral, of the *good* kind. I can't say if these are "bleeding hearts" that I'm sniffing because we don't have them here. I would dare say it's a bit gardenia-like with a hint of "green" underneath.

It's an unmistakably feminine, frilly, girly, joyous scent. I would imagine Scarlett o'Hara smelling like this, in her youth, before the war and her marriages

This is really good and if ever released, bottle-worthy.

Thank you tartchef for giving me the chance to sniff that beauty!

Ogygia, home of the nymph Calypso who detained Odysseus for seven years before letting him go onwards with his travels. The name alone was beckoning me.

Selino and glistritha are common vegetables in Greek cooking. We have a saying: "Did you eat glistritha?" that we use when we want to tell someone that he/she talks a lot, jokingly. Glistritha is supposed to make you talk a lot

Cereus above has described this blend beautifully and I can't add anything to the note descriptions. I do not wear green or aquatic scents, they are "difficult" to me. But this one is so evocative it has got to come live with me. Perhaps not as a perfume per se, but as an ambient scent.

This is like living in a small house by the sea. The scent of seashores and islands, during their best time, when left alone, in the colder months. When you can smell the woods and the herbs, the salty air and the ever-so-faint smell of flowers in the distance.

This, THIS is the scent of "my" Greece. Beautiful!

That's indeed a pink Snow White

I think I may have found *my* girly bpal. My bottle is staying put and I may look for a back up, too.

Don't be afraid of the rose in there, it's just a breath to my nose.

Pink Snowballs is a girly, frilly, soft, come-close-to-sniff scent. I love it.

ETA: Testing and retesting this, it's very very nice. No coconut-plastic note at all and very wearable overall. Please don't flame me, but it may even be better than Snow White herself

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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but can any of you Snow White aficionados tell me whether all the Snow White releases are exactly the same from year to year? My chances of finding another bottle of the '05 version are slim, but I'm reluctant to buy the others in case they're different.

No, they are definitely not the same. To me the best one is 2004 and I know of a SW afficionado who prefers 2005 over 2004. I think 2008 was better than 2007.

Even though I have my definite preference, none of them made me go wash it off or anything. I have kept only one 2004 bottle though. The atmo spray from last year is very true SW, too.

heres the scents im waffling on -- not sure if the snow is very noticeable or not. any input on these?

 

Moon of Small Spirits (Lunacy 2008) - Snow-blanketed wild grasses, sage, swamp tea, cedar, giniminagawunj, copal, rosehip, juniper, clover, elderberry, sweet flag, butterfly weed, wood sorrel, and pine.

 

Old Moon (Lunacy 2007) - The cold, white moon shines on frozen ground dusted with silent snow: evergreen, juniper, winterberry holly, bayberry, Viking black chokeberry, hemlock, and yew, ice-rimed, gilded by traditional lunar herbs and flowers

 

Perchta (Yule 2008) - wild musk, snow, and alpine flora: Nigritella lithopolitanica, aconite, crocus, touch-me-not, edelweiss, Iris variegate, and violet.

 

Moon of the Terrible (Lunacy 2008) - winter snow with lavender, benzoin, lychee, white resins, and a cluster of melancholy, lachrymose lunar herbs and florals (not much snow)

I don't remember Moon of Small Spirits to be snowy, or Perchta either.

Old Moon was snowy yes.

I have a problem with mint, it makes me start coughing etc, so I don't like minty snowy scents.

My favourite by far is Skadi. A very very close second, actually just one click away to me, is Snow Moon. Also L'Inverno does the same trip.

I may need to revisit Lines Written among the Euganean Hills (although it was quite forest-y).

Answering the topic, for me it's Pinched. I think that this blend is s*x-in-a-bottle and although I have this exSO+pinched association, I'm working really hard to break it. So when next guy comes along, I'll be ready to slather him in Pinched, again. (Soon Universe, please? )

Incantation is awesome! It's one of the very few GC bottles that I've bought.

I've finally figured out why Man with Phallus Head smelled familiar. It's almost identical to a perfume my nana used to wear called White Linen. Also The Haunted Palace smells like a perfume called Samsara that my mother loves.

 

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HighPriestessIce I'm surprised! Have you sniffed/tested bpal's Numb? *That's* a dead ringer for White Linen. But Man with Phallus Head? Goes to show how wildly people's chemistries vary!

To my nose and on my skin, this smells quite a bit like Semiramis. I do like Semiramis and I find Mlle quite nice, too.

As I've put it on to test, I keep forgetting I'm testing Mlle and I try to remember when did I put on Semiramis today? I think it's the musk that puts those two blends in the same category and alongside Mme. too.

I can also get the orange blossom which is quite nice and less bitter than, say, Khrysee. I can't pick up the coconut, but the faint trace of incense is quite lovely.

This is lighter and a bit more playful than Mme and it can be worn even in occasions when Mme would be a bit "heavy".

I am very happy with my bottle.

It would have been back-up-worthy, but for the fact that it reminds me so much of Semiramis (which I also have a bottle of).

Bruja - the imp I received was an old-style tarted imp, and had apparently aged quite a bit. It's a dark, thick oil, and I couldn't smell the lilac in it at all, just the amber and myrrh, which were thick, and heavy, and dense. The scent lasted for hours upon hours. While I like resinous scents, this was too resinous for my taste. It may have been a bit lighter when it was new, but my guess is that it had deepened with age.

 

I have since received an imp of Bruja that is a much lighter oil and although it looks lighter and smells lighter, the scent is basically the same, except with the lighter oil I can detect a soft bit of lilac. I think the first imp was really old and the second one must have been much newer. Again, they were both obviously the same oil upon smelling them, but one had aged more than the other. I didn't care for the darker/older Bruja as much as I like the lighter/newer Bruja, although the lighter/newer one doesn't last on me skin as long as the darker/older one.

I am swapping away my two imps of Bruja, to someone for whom is her hg scent. So I wanted to review her before she left me. Edenssixthday's review above, from 3 years ago(!), could have been my own review, down to the comma. It's weird!

I also have two imps of that, one is darker coloured and "heavier" smelling, the other is lighter coloured and "lighter" smelling. The darker one is sexier and lasts longer, the lighter one is more flirty. It's like two pictures of the same person, taken at different points in time.

I love both, but they are going to a home that is desperate for them.

I'm going through a prolonged phase of rediscovering my love for Sandalwood.

As I've said earlier in the thread Svaddhinaopatika is an awesome sweet sandalwood blend.

I have since discovered Shroud, after its' discontinuation sadly. I'm seriously in love with that one, it's intense, quite dry, sandalwood and it dries down softer but still sandalwood. Awesome.

I find the same note in Patientia which is gc in bptp and I really recommend trying.

Also in bptp but LE was Winter Maiden: sweeter and very intense and all around awesome too. I've read hints that it might come back in winter, so if it does give it a try.

I know previous reviewers said it smells like LP or BM. Well, to me, from the moment it hit my skin I said "Midway!" To my nose they are in the same territory. But Detestable Putrescence is "thicker" somehow. Vanilla ice creams don't smell like that here, probably different ingredients lol.

This is a warm foody scent and I'll be keeping my bottle to use in my hair-oiling days (like I use Midway).

I love Detestable Putrescence, it's warm and comforting but I don't really want to smell edible (at least most of the times ).