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I feel the same way sometimes. I have tried pretty much all of those you have listed plus some (notable absences from your list are Antique Lace, MB: Underpants, Love's Philosophy, Joyful Moon, Morocco (not super vanilla-like but has that feeling), Tombstone, Hellhound on my Trail, and Cake Smash- I know most of these are super hard to find, but you may want to try), and I still feel like I'm looking for that vanilla holy grail. Love's Philosophy is probably the most VANILLA scent of them all that I've come across. I have found some vanillas that I really, really like, but none enough to end my searching. Some scents that other people get vanilla from- Liz, Boo, O, Detestable Putrescence, Black Opal, Lyonesse, Sachs, Gypsy, Banshee Beat, Pink Snowballs, Antikythera...okay a LOT of scents that other people find a lot of vanilla in just don't work with my skin chemistry. My skin sucks in sweetness and creaminess and amps pretty much everything else..so a scent has to scream vanilla for me to smell it on my skin. I would say not to give up and to keep trying- I felt like it took me awhile to find the scents that are really "me" and that I want to wear regularly.

 

My vanilla favorites are Love's Philosophy, Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, Dorian, Snake Oil, Joyful Moon, Cake Smash, Hellhound on my Trail, CC:Female, Morocco, Antique Lace, and Under the Harvest Moon (which doesn't read vanilla on my skin at all but is beautiful nonetheless).

 

I recently was super disappointed with The First of the Three Spirits- it lists "voluminous vanilla" as a component, but on my wacky skin there was none to be found.

 

I personally find three types of vanillas (at least)- the "creamy" Snake Oil/Tombstone/Hellhound/CC: Female/Love's Philosophy kind, the "sugary" Antique Lace/Dorian kind, and the more "watery/aquatic" type like Sachs/Lyonesse/Pink Snowballs.

 

what.an.awesome.breakdown.

 

/bow /bow

 

eta:

and to make my post a bit more USEFUL, I would like to suggest O if you like amber as well. I get a sexy lustful vanilla there.

 

My best vanillas:

Black Opal/Mouse's Long and Sad Tale/Morocco/CC: Female/Love's Philosophy/Antique Lace/Dorian/Sachs/Lyonesse

I wore Egg Nog Latte for the morning, and Pumpkin Cheesecake for the afternoon. I snuck in some EggNog for the latenight.

wow. I've never been first, but I have to review this so the wafflers can decide! I took a chance on this bottle, because seriously -- honey, gunpowder, and magic? So it was with trepidation that I tested this, about a two hour wait after its arrival. (I will be keeping and testing it after it rests better of course!)

first impression. Stronger gunpowder than the Liberty, which was my only other experience. Then it settles and I get a woodsy vibe from it, and then the sweet honey. Didnt get anything funky from the honey, like I worried about. I get a gunpowder spice sweet woods and honey. The waft is way sweeter btw. As I write this, I get mostly honey with everything else and undercurrant. Up close, I get mostly gunpowder/spice/woods. No ozone, no funky notes with the magic

between the three caramel/candy apples -- find Creepy to be the strongest in caramel and weakest in apple. My impresion of the other two is very similar, but thats based on a recent test of Candy Corn coated and an ancient test of Sugar Slathered =)

 

(eta:) I should mention that Creepy feels very different from the other two still -- the rum/coconut makes it stand out. The apple is still there, but stronger in the other two for me.

 

Sticky Pillowcase - This one is very much a sticky candy, but mroe intersting than most, due to the linen/lint note under the candy

 

Geek Goth is all lemon-lime soda to me =)

 

the others I hadnt tried though....

this starts out as a salty sweet acquatic with a hint of woods behind it, but the dry down is mostly woods with a touch of salty/musk to it. I was on the fence about it, but the dry down convinced me AND the bottle hunt is on!

Creepy is rum and caramel apples - that might be a good one to try =)

A new, but absolute favorite aquatic: Wild Swans at Coole

Oh Ulalume of course. Also, Banded Sea Snake -- heavy on the moss, with a side of Snake Oil

my moss recommendations, keeping an eye on autumnal scents in particular:

Whoso List to Hunt (Sensual brown musk, rich amber, English rose, oak bark, and moss)

Nocnitsa (Her scent is that of a lightless fir wood, nighttime air, wet forest mosses and upturned earth.)

Robin Goodfellow (Dark musk, moss-covered wood, ragwort, heather, and sage. )

 

 

 

 

but do try Cathode (Ambergris, Spanish Moss, oakmoss and three electric mints) Its a gorgeous moss/mint, just not very autumn probably

Can anyone recommend something similar to Pink Phoenix? I'm giving up hope on finding more of it, and it's my absolute favourite. The other scents I've tried that were compared to it were so far nothing alike. The greatest thing about Pink Phoenix for me is that it has tremendous staying power (my skin tends to eat 9/10 perfumes really really REALLY fast) and great throw, as well as smelling wonderful.

 

Is there anyone who can help on this one?

 

maybe pink plastic flamingo if you can find that one to test

 

Hi all!

So I just searched through a whole bunch of pages, as well as did a search for "velvets" and cannot find anything.

I have fallen in love with "The Velvets." However, it goes soft on me and then disappears in 20 min or less.

I love the cool, incensey floralness of it!

Is there anything else available right now that is just like it?

 

Thank yooooos!

 

its very like Obsidian Widow on my skin -- I had already planned to test them together today -- Ill let you know!

 

Is there any GC like Creepy?

 

Agrat Bat Mahlaht. They are much different in the beginning, but the dry down is pretty similar =)

I shouldnt like this one really. While I do like some wine scents, I dont tend to like myrrh, jasmine, or rose. Somehow ... this is magic. This is dark and velvety and mysterious and dangerous. I see the Widow as being an evening scent.

 

another fine reminder that bpal is more than the sum of its parts =)

Im not going anywhere fancy or anything, but I'll be dressed up as a witch. Somewhat stylishly I'm weighing these scents:

Samhain (layered with Punkie Night)

Devil's Night (maybe layered with Boo)

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Haunted

Grandmother of Ghosts

Villainess: Cobwebs

I like to think of myself as kinda of a bad ass and it kinda reflects in the oils I gravitate toward. I have gotten some woodsy and tobaccoy masculine oil (ie Mad Hatter, Antikythera Mechanism,Fenris Wolf) but I don’t like them. They end up reminding me of hippies and head shops, which works for others but not me. In the end, deep down, I think I’m more a powdery 80 year old dowager than a bad ass. My favorites always turn out to be frimps from the floral/amber/oriental scent family and resembled something like a heady, warm traditional perfume. My favs are Haunted and Morocco.

 

I’m ordering again (no surprise) and I would REALLY like some advice!!If your taste is like mines, skewing towards spicy, warm florals, please tell me what your absolute FAVORITE(s) is (preferably from the more readily available GC). It would also be great if the dowager was able to pull off combat boots or sexy stilettos with her frilly dress and osteoporosis, if you know what I mean.

 

all time favorite, warm spicy floral (I too love Morocco, though I wouldnt consider it floral) -- Defututa. its not really spicy on me, but definitely a warm, thick, sexy floral.

I dont get rose or honey really - I do get the comparisons to Dorian though. Must be a similarity in the musk. This is a feminine Dorian without the heavy vanilla overtone, replaced by a light fruitiness.

This does some crazy magic on my skin, because what I get is almost a perfect lilac with a hint of rain. What I WANTED from a Lear based scent was an ozone heavy, rainy, heavy green scent -- Lear standing in the lightning storm. But Ill keep my crazy lilacs =)

Halloween: San Francisco. Its wet and leafy, maybe grassy -- but also salty

this is somehow sexy and comforting at the same time. Can blankets be sexy?

 

Immediate application is ALL lavender, and I agree with the TKO comparisons but its darker and not the marshmallow feeling. As this dries though, I get more of the tea/amber side, with lavender moving into the supporting role. This is nice, smooth, gorgeous. I dont really get leather, but I think its part of the dark feeling that I get. I dont get floral, other than lavender and a vague sweetness.

 

Love this =)

I dont think I've reviewed this before....

 

This is a gorgeous caramel apple scent, but its a very sophisticated level of gourmand. The amber, teak and skin musk give this a depth that pure foodies just dont have for me. I dont smell cream or honey though... still, Love. Adore. The only of the ladies that worked for me too!

not as sweet as I was hoping, but defnitely sweeter than the pumpkin V last year. This goes on super strong coffee bean, very dark -- it lightens as it dries and the vanilla (bean, not the sweet kind) and creaminess come out a little more. The milk doesnt sour on me, the spices arent overwhelming. I get a bit of pumpkin, but this is all about the espresso.

 

This is more like smelling a bag of coffee than drinking from the cup, if that helps =)

 

 

 

(currently attempting to wear it layered with dana o shee to get closer to my creamy coffee dreams!)

I've been trying to find my perfect apple =) Ladon was close, but the dragon's blood was a touch too much for me. I think Punkie Night is my favorite so far. Its a little tart, but not like I was afraid of. It dries down to a cool outdoorsy apple!

 

I wanted to love Hesperides SO BAD, but its all wintergreen on me, and then while the drydown is perfect and so exactly what I wanted, it doesnt last at all. Very sad about this one. Think it was a bottle batch issue? Is it worth trying again?

Has anyone found a GC equivalent for Hod? I love the sweet golden scent of this.

 

Brisingamen is close =)

I must not have read the willcalls and prototype reviews as well as I thought, because this was NOTHING like I expected. I thought I was getting fluffy, pumpkin cotton candy with a hint of blackberry.

 

That said,

 

I love.this. Has anyone smelled tobacco in the base notes, because I swear that what I get is a rich spicy pumpkin (not quite like the pumpkin patch pumpkin), something sweet but not fluffy at all, more than a hint of blackberry hehe, and a healthy dose of tobacco under it all.

 

Hesitaters: yes its spicy, not its not overwhleming. This is a dark fall scent, maybe a gourmand, but not foody.

Im somewhere between brunette and brown -- I prefer warm, rich scents -- woody and sweet. I want to love the foodies, but I just dont. Generally they are too much for me. I do like the clean scents and the snow scents though =)

I am also reviewing the Vintage version. I've also written this review out three times now (daughters and keyboards and whatnot keep interfering)

 

 

I've tried Debauchery and didnt get anythign raunchy or dirty, but I didnt like the oranginess and wanted to try Civet somewhere else. Since I like poppy and narcissus, I thought this might be a great option =) THis is definitely the same note from Debauchery, but without the heavy orange thing I didnt like (not a citrus fan). The florals arent sweet pretty floral, but I can smell both distinctly. THis is raw and feminine, but I wouldnt call it erotic. THe musk isnt heavy either, its thick but not oppressively musky. I like musks, and animal musks especially, but this doesnt have that animalic wild sense. This smells somehow like the humid South to my nose. Freshly showered, hot skin, and bitter, barely sweet flowers. THe air is thick like just before it rains, thick and charged with promise. Hmm, maybe this is a bit erotic after all....

 

I think civet translates on me to a heavier skin musk.

this was all high pitched frankincense on me at first -- which apparently goes a bit lemonish on me anyway, and then the osmanthus showed up with its apricot-fruity-floralness, and then lily of the valley and that was it. I guess it was pretty enough, but it didnt match what I had hoped for. It did smell, almost pious. Frankincense and lily of the valley Im guessing. I wanted the golden musk from Judith Victorious, but I guess I need to just go wear that one instead