Silvertree

If, like me, you want your lilac perfume to give you that “yeeted face-first into a lilac bush” experience, then ask your perfumer if Vase de Lilas a la Fenetre is right for you. (It is.) On the bottle and fresh on my skin, this is a profusion of fresh, sun-warmed lilac blossoms spilling their gorgeous purple fragrance into the clean spring air. There's a slight greenish note reminiscent of fresh stems and leaves, but predominantly I get great billowing clouds of pure lilac goodness. I'm going to have to compare against my precious Blue Lilac SN, but this is practically a lilac SN. It's everything I wanted, and more!

The duets are always beautifully blended, but never before have I smelled one quite so lovingly intertwined as this honeysuckle and bee balm duo. The honeysuckle is sweet and almost ephemerally light, and the deeper, greener bee balm grounds and anchors it. It’s earthy without being in-your-face dirt, herbal (but not medicinal or astringent) and overwhelmingly, breathtakingly, transcendentally growing and alive. It’s late spring or early summer in my mom’s garden, first thing in the morning before the sun rises too high over the trees and it’s all warm and green-golden. Gorgeous, and I need more bottles. If you like Planting Moon and other similar scents, smash that add to cart button while you can!

While this is not a scent I'd typically go for (I'm usually all about the resins) I'm so glad I did. It's gorgeous and truly wild, like a rose garden that is lovingly tended but also left to follow its own whims. This is a true, fresh, vividly blooming rose, dew-spangled, with a fresh, green scent twining joyfully around the floral notes.

A balm for the soul, this is an oil that assists in healing the acute lacerations of sorrow and loss that both cut and calcify our hearts. Angelica essential oil and root, carrot seed oil, lavender essential oil and bud, Roman chamomile essential oil and chamomile harvested from the BPAL garden, vetiver root and oil, neroli essential oil, organic Italian bergamot essential oil, and white vegetal musk.

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[bpal]A love letter to goth kids everywhere...the perfect evocation of an old school clove cigarette.[/bpal]

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I would include them among the Weenies, since they went live as part of the Halloween update.

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