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Everything posted by biggnerd
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Collapsing Mosquito Netting is green, it's wet, juicy vine with a suggestion of spring florals. There's a period of savoriness that could read as French fry. It doesn't last thankfully. Overall, I'm disappointed because I wanted more morning glory, but it's strangled, appropriately, by the vine.
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- 2024
- Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements 2024
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Frankincense, Bourbon Vanilla, & Hazelnut
biggnerd replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is all about the warm, nutty hazelnut. The nut dominates the blend for most of the wear with a really nice vanilla stepping up lightly in the background. It never fully balances out the hazelnut. If you want a cozy hazelnut blend, this is for you.- 2 replies
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- Menage a Trois
- 2023
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sweet, syrupy rum and tobacco with sandalwood incense and powdery oud
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Ghost Lily, White Sandalwood, and Ambergris Accord
biggnerd replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Starts off spicy, dry, dusty white sandalwood, then the ghost lily joins and adds a floral soapy note. I don't think I'm getting much ambergris. This is mainly a very nice, expensive, sandalwood/lily soap on me. -
Mmmm, this is BPAL's chewy honey note with some light florals. It reminds me of the honey in O.
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Tangy guava - like guava paste or a guava fruit roll up
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This starts off banana runts. It has that strong, artificial banana smell that's so sweet it's almost tangy (I think that's the grenadine). It settles into a sweetened rum scent with tangy grenadine wafting in and out.
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This is a strong, chewy, dirty patch sweetened up by earthy fig.
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tart sweet cranberry, grassy vanillic tonka, golden, lightly powdery amber - the amber is a supporting note with the tonka and cranberry being most forward. It's a cranberry tonka scent.
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- 2022
- Cranberry Bog
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Green Cardamom, Irish Fern, and Hinoki
biggnerd replied to Silvertree's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
greeeeeeen, it's like absinthe without the anise, it's very green but not in a grassy, forest way.- 7 replies
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- Ménage à Trois
- September 2022
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mmmmm, misty magnolia. The white musk is well behaved, the orris isn't powdery, the juniper is fresh and not ginny or soapy.
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Heady florals and beautiful sweet plum. The plum is more forward with the florals keeping it from being too sweet. None of the floral notes dominate. No indolic or cat pee jasmine. It's a gorgeous spring scent.
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Butternut Squash, Patchouli, and Green Fig
biggnerd replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This smells like the cinnamon broom from Trader Joe's I have in my car. It's got that sweet earthy smell that twigs have with a dominant but mellow spice. This smells like autumn to me.- 7 replies
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- 2022
- August 2022
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A cool, fresh cucumber with tart lime. I don't get much freesia. This is making me want a dry cucumber soda with a twist of lime.
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All I smell is incensey nag champa which is on my bully note list. It just tromps all over any other note. I also dislike it quite a bit.
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Tomato, Patchouli Root, and Cedar Bean
biggnerd replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is the smell of picking a tomato fresh off the vine. The tomato and cedar bean are strongest and they combine to be a perfect tomato and stem scent. This is kneeling in warm earth sniffing a warm, just picked tomato with the scent of the vine on your fingers. -
This is clover and lettuce. It's fresh and green, but unfortunately the clover takes over and goes soapy and air freshener on me.
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This smells like a Lush store circa 2007, and more specifically like a bag that had a sex bomb bath bomb covered in dust from a the comforter bubble bar with a sample of Alkmaar soap. It's a total vibe.
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Dirty, salty, chocolate cologne
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Elaine is quite a disappointment for me. I love most of the notes in this scent. I jump on Lab scents that have rust-colored notes in them like auburn musk. However, the cypress is a massive bully in this scent and dominates for the entire wear time. The lily is there underneath and it combines with the cypress to smell like parsley soap.
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- June 2022
- Paintings of the Month 2022
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Starts as slightly indolic narcissus, but then settles down into a soft, gentle narcissus scent.
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- 2022
- April 2022
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Love Let Her is having a real battle with my skin chem. It goes between spicy, lightly incensed peony rose to soapy, spicy squished carnation. The soapy carnation won.
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On first application - oh no, what have I done? Foot funk, musty funky funky body funk...but....15 mins later - beautiful, creamy magnolia surrounds me and is hanging on. It's worth the funky part to feel like I'm sitting in a magnolia bloom.
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- Shunga 2022
- Lupercalia 2022
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White Chocolate, Pink Carnation, Coconut Cream, and Clove
biggnerd replied to Seajewel's topic in Lupercalia
Starts off as nutty coconut and white chocolate with a little warmth from the clove. It smells like a white chocolate coconut syrup. Eventually the clove peeps out and then goes away. It settles down to sweet coconut cream. I don't get any carnation, which is disappointing.- 11 replies
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- Box of Chocolates 2022
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The Antikythera Mechanism
biggnerd replied to VioletChaos's topic in Phoenix Steamworks & Research Facility
I can't decide if I like this scent. The oak is warm and woody, the vanilla is sweet but not gourman, the tobacco has that spicy, chewy quality of pipe tobacco, but the teakwood, the teakwood is chaotic neutral. I never know if teak is going to behave and be decent, or if it's going to wreck the scent. Here, it does the later. The teak amps the sweet aspect of all the other notes, which makes AM go overly sweet on me. It's such a bummer because this should be a no-brainer scent for me.