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Blackberry Cream Cheese Sufganiyot is perfect and exactly what I was hoping for. It smells just like biting into a slice of blackberry cream cheese danish. The blackberry is sweet yet tangy, like fresh, homemade blackberry jam, swirled with a mellow and creamy cheesecake undertone, and just a hint of golden, not overly sweet pastry. I've been obsessed with Four & Twenty Blackbirds lately, and this is more tangy to me where Blackbirds was sweeter and had more of a cake scent to it (and obviously had the green, herbal weed note that this does not have). This is heavy on the blackberry note, but it's a great blackberry note, and I can still smell the cream cheese and pastry as well. It's a lovely gourmand and definitely great for blackberry fans.
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I was hoping that this would be like a mashup of Key Lime Pie and OG Beaver Moon (two of my favorite bpals), but it starts off as cinnamon sugar & a whiff of lime jello and then dries down to a weak, waxy vanilla candle with a hint of cinnamon on me. It leans very plasticy, sour, and a little burnt, and it gives very cheap vanilla oil to my nose. It doesn't have a lot of throw, though, and only lasts about an hour before I can't smell it anymore. This is my least favorite Beaver Moon, which really surprises and disappoints me. The lime doesn't stick around at all and the vanilla-y portion smells off to me.
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I love bread fragrances and wanted to try this for the brioche, but unfortunately all I'm getting is pumpkin spice and a whiff of waxy vanilla buttercream candle. It gives me a headache.
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Tobacco flower always smells like perfumey white floral and soap to me, and I strongly get that scent here. Weirdly, I don't smell any tea at all, but it is musky, and something here reminds me of gritty tobacco and hazy white smoke after a while. Clean, smoky, perfumey floral.
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The ink in this smells more chemical and sharp than usual, and it's weird mixed with the powdery amber, cream, and powdery, sweet florals. Something about the whole thing comes off as unpleasantly sour (the citrusy white tea and ink?) and slightly soapy on my skin. I love scents like Pomegranate Ink, but I'm not loving inky florals with soap and powder. As it dries down, there's a little smokiness to the ink that starts to remind me of incense, but I still dislike the powdery and soapy tones.
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Battledore is so strange. It's intensely sour to me, very soapy in a harsh way, with creamy lily undertones. The peony milk and lilac are nowhere to be found. There's an electric green, sour feel from the tea (I often find that bpal's green and white tea notes smell more like citrus than tea) and then soap and lily. I dislike this one strongly.
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A grape popsicle and a fudgesicle melting together with a drizzle of honey. It's very sweet & strong, and most of the notes don't show up on my skin, so it's not as complex as I thought it would be.
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The buttercream smells like the best buttercream frosting. Buttery vanilla with a whipped, airy quality to it. It doesn't smell like store bought frosting or sickeningly sweet. The rose is persistent on me, as it always is, but it smells like I've plucked the petals off a fresh, dewy, red rose and mixed them into this heavenly buttercream. The dark musk doesn't come out for me at all, but the suede is a barely there whisper of soft leather underneath the buttercream and rose that makes me want to lean in and smell this more deeply. I keep thinking that this could be a girly version of Quincey Morris. It smells very romantic. I've been hating on rose and vanilla rose scents pretty hard lately, but this is one that I actually love.
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This is such an odd yet enjoyable fragrance. It reminds me of watermelon candy, but wrapped in a super creamy, vanilla taffy-ish scent with creamy, cool, white petals and green stems all around. Not overly sweet at all, but also not super green or aggressively anything. It smells like natural spring flowers, stems and all, that somehow also smell of juicy watermelon candy and lots of cream. Pink, creamy, fresh flowers and stems, but also candy. I will at least be keeping my decant of this one. It doesn't remind me of any other fragrance, and it feels very spring and joyful. It gives me a feeling of a cool breeze on the same day that there is warm sunshine.
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Cloying grape candy, intensely perfumey/ sharp / musky floral with a soapy undertone, and a whiff of incense smoke. I had to scrub this off, as the fruity grape was so overly sweet that it was making me ill, and I don't like this type of floral at all. Nothing about this reminds me of guava.
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Sprite with a splash of gin (more gin with its juniper-y tones as it dries down), a sliver of orange, a sprig of rosemary, and creamy lilies. It's refreshing, crisp, and clean, but a little too clean and starchy for me after a while. It goes from smelling like a drink to something more dry, like a drink spilled over clean, heavy linen.
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The champaca throws this one off for me because it has a hazy, dry, scratchy incense smoke that lays over everything and bothers me (and I usually like champaca). A slightly buttery, nutty, warm rice note with a hint of almond lingers underneath the champaca. In the drydown, I smell a hint of fruity fig every once in a while, and maybe some creaminess from the coconut, but there's no noticeable coconut smell to my nose. Has a pale, washed out quality to it where I find it hard to pinpoint exact notes. I definitely wanted more fig than this delivers, and it's too smoky and sharp for my tastes.
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The Crimson is such a pleasant scent, and it's one that I would love my husband to wear (warm, cuddly woods and sweet resin scents are his jam). On first application, the apple slices burst forward and smell like cutting into a juicy, green apple. Then the clove spice starts to creep in and the apple turns into a fresh rose scent. An hour in, however, I just get the wood & labdanum, and something that smells like vanilla. The wood note is warm, cozy, and easy to wear, the amber gives a sweetly resinous base, and then something is quite sweet (like a vanilla amber). This is what I wanted Kiseru to be (though aged Kiseru finally came into its own for me).
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I rarely enjoy opium/poppy notes, but I love this blend. The plum cognac is amazing, the touch of resinous, dark gold amber/labdanum works so well with it, the Snake Oil is sexy and red musky, and the opium poppy is a barely there, juicy floral that I would have guessed was black orchid as it dries down. The blend is funky and sort of mentholic for the first 5 minutes, but then it blooms into perfection. The plum cognac is really strong on me, and it's a deep, rich, lightly sweet plum that feels silky and grownup (not a sugarplum or sour plum, and doesn't smell alcoholic). It reminds me of Kilian's plum liquor scents, but this is definitely a bpal with the Snake Oil and resinous tones. I'm surprised that other people aren't getting much SO or plum because they're the strongest notes on my skin.
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Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
Jasmine tea is one of the greatest pleasures in life for me, but I like my tea with no sugar, no cream, and nothing else added at all. I think it's the same for me with jasmine tea fragrances. I find the vanilla and yuzu distracting, and the vanilla is actually the strongest note on me, though I get no smoke from it. Very sweet vanilla (almost reminiscent of beeswax somehow) with whiffs of warm rice, citrusy yuzu, and jasmine. Within an hour, I can barely smell this at all, and it's light from the start.