Little Bird
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One of my favorite fragrances is Tom Ford's Black Orchid (after it's been aged/macerated, fresh Black Orchid is underwhelming to me) and this smells like a less complex, less strong, stripped down TF Black Orchid. The juicy, sultry floral note is the same, the touch of bitter yet delicately sweet cocoa is very similar (though it goes powdery/dusty on me after a while in this blend), and the black musk adds a dark, almost peppery, incensey tone that's also similar to the Tom Ford. Loving Me To Death starts off with a good mix of orchid, cocoa, and black musk, then goes through a weird dusty/powdery mid-stage that I dislike, then settles into mostly cocoa powder and a hint of black musk. By the two hour mark, though, I can barely smell it at all.
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The black cherry is a juicy, tart, rich cherry and not a cheap almond extract or fakey, bright red, American maraschino cherry. Unfortunately, as my skin amps and reacts to spices, I get a slap of cinnamon from this that makes me break out in swollen hives wherever the oil touches. There's delightful cherry and powdered sugar, but then skin burning cinnamon. Some of the Sufganiyot scents have gone granola/fig Newton territory for me, but this smells like cherry filled donut with powdered sugar glaze. I like the way it smells even as my skin hates it.
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Pumpkin spice cookies with a good dose of burnt, brown sugary sweetness (and while I usually dislike this type of scent, I didn't mind the sweetness here). Definitely pumpkin spice baked goods and not "pumpkin guts." The only Lust part I get is a grape-y red wine tinged red musk. No patchouli, ylang ylang, or myrrh to me, as those just get swallowed by the sugar and spice.
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Cold Moon: Jasmine Absolute and Champaca
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I sampled this, fell in love, and just ordered a full bottle. It's funny to me that, as a teen and in my early 20s, I used to avoid jasmine scents and I considered jasmine to be my #1 death note. At some point, I started drinking and obsessing over jasmine tea and growing different varieties of jasmine, and now I also tend to love jasmine perfumes. The jasmine here is wonderful and sweet with nuances of vanilla and honey, with the champaca giving it a warm, incensey haze, so the whole fragrance feels like sunshine and a warm hug. I love the sweetness and creaminess that it has, and I love fragrances that give off this vibe of being in a temple full of incense and offerings. It has none of the soapiness, sharpness, or funk that jasmine can sometimes have. -
Perfumey apple, tart lemon, and a vanilla-y caramel scent that turns slightly powdery. I don't like molasses but the sweetness in this is really pretty. It's like a vanilla caramel apple with lemon for the sour part. Only lasts about two hours on me, though, with no throw.
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Beaver Moon: Blackberry and Tobacco Absolute
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Oof. This smells exactly like grape Dimetapp from my childhood, which made me hate grape flavored things. The blackberry goes straight to fakey, purple, sugared grape, and the tobacco adds the bitterness to take it right into cough syrup territory for me. As with most fragrances I dislike, it's intensely strong with monstrous throw and staying power. I envy what other reviewers got with this fragrance, lol. -
I wore Dahlia yesterday without checking the notes and definitely get the vanilla, amber, and slight cardamom. After an hour, it strongly reminded me of Ambra del Nepal (one of my all time favorite perfumes). Gorgeous amber incense, a very smooth and creamy and not overly sweet vanilla, and a dash of mellow spice. It's hoard-worthy.
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A whiff of black licorice for a couple minutes and then this is all ''ice," and it unfortunately smells just like Windex on me.
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Powdered milk and a sweet, glossy, pomegranate flavored hard candy. I love milk scents and I love this little oddball of a fragrance. This and Pomegranate Ink are so unusual and pleasing to me.
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I thought that Seventeenth Lash might be similar to The Infernal Lover (which was honeyed red musk) but Seventeenth Lash isn't as heavy, sweet, or rich as that blend. Honey is an iffy note for me, but the honeycomb here is just so pretty. It leans towards what I'd call a clean and delicately sweet honey. The red musk isn't as heavy handed as usual, but it's definitely there underneath the honey, giving off its usual fruity/ red wine / warm musk type of thing. After a couple hours, it's much the same, but I also keep thinking it smells a bit like a salty skin musk drizzled with honey. I was worried about the red pepper, but there's nothing spicy or vegetal that I can discern. It's very smooth and easy to wear. I want to full size this one before it leaves the site.
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I wanted something more gnarly, natural, and witchy from this blend, but it goes very department store men's fragrance on my skin (it smells just like a cologne my husband used to wear, but I cannot remember the name right now - maybe the old Oak scent from Bath & Body Works). I think it's the cool, musky-ish, spicy bite from the black pepper, and the amber turning dark, musky and slightly powdery. I actually don't get much patchouli at all, and I love patchouli, so my sample of this oil doesn't seem to smell like the first two reviews. I'm glad that I didn't full bottle this one like I originally wanted to (for the patchouli).
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Weirdly, I don't smell any bread, salt, or lemon in this. I get a powdery lavender and mushy green something that kept making me think of pear more than avocado. Very light and only lasted about an hour on me.
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I collect the Lunar New Year fragrances and like to compare them because they all have subtle (or sometimes huge) differences in spite of their similar notes, which I find really interesting. Some of the previous Lunar New Years have gone soapy or sharp, but this one is very creamy. I think the creaminess is coming from the blossoms because its a cool, mellow, not-very-sweet cream. There's a burst of sharp mandarin in the beginning, but then the fruitiness turns sweeter and I get a lot of plum and plum blossom with the tanginess of red musk and the cool, pulpy, green bamboo that always makes me think of being in a spa. Creamy, fruity-floral, a little muskiness, but not sharp or soapy at all once the citrus notes calm down (which was only a couple minutes on my skin). I like these fruity bossom scents and Wood Snake feels very spring-like and joyful, gentle, and soothing to me.
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I get a lot of incense, and it leans a little towards mall headshop incense scent with champaca, but I love the bits of dry, slightly spicy patchouli, smooth leather, and sweetness from the beeswax. It reminds me of other bpals like A Melancholy of Goths and Snootier Bat; it could be in the same family of goth incense blends. I did a full wear of Nouria yesterday and I could smell it from morning til bedtime. It has really good throw and staying power.
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I love black currant but, like Millarca, I don't get any from this blend. It's almost all black musk on me (just a whiff of rose in the opening and then all black musk) - smoky, black, slightly incensey, slightly masculine perfume scent.
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I don't get Snow White or black currant at all. Millarca is 95% rose on me and about 5% an undertone of sugared vanilla cream. I like the rose when it starts off smelling fresh and tart, but it settles into what reminds me of dried rose petals that are slighty powdery and slightly spicy. All of the vanilla rose scents are starting to blur together for me and I don't love this one.
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Lavender Figgy Pudding is strange in that I don't get any lavender or fig from it (or any of the listed notes). It's like a bone dry, not at all sweet, golden pastry that someone is using as a cigarette ash tray. No wine or pomegranate for me either. Dry pastry and ash, for some reason. A couple hours after first applying, it just leaves behind a powdery, dusty, bone dry skin scent.
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The fruitiness reminds me of melon, like a mix of honeydew scented lotion and watermelon bubblegum (but not very sweet). I expected a sweet lavender syrup, but the lavender is very herbal and dry. The overall feel is clean, a little bitter, and unfortunately very plasticy and cheap smelling to me.
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Loud, perfumey/musky, red rose swimming in the Lab's fizzy, citrusy, sharp champagne with an edge of dry spice and bitter orange peel. My husband smelled this one on me and said, "Whoa. That is a, uh, very bright and intense smell." And it is. Tinsel Roses is very strong and long lasting on me with great throw. I feel like it fits its concept well and I appreciate that even if it's not something that I'll personally ever wear again. A bottle of spiced, dry, musky, red rose perfume dumped into a glass of champagne and decorated with bitter orange peel. A more mature feeling party fragrance.
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Bodegón Con Cesto de Frutas, Melocotones, Granadas Y Bernegal
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
I went back and forth so many times when I was trying to decide whether or not to buy this fragrance, and I'm really glad that I ordered it at the last minute because it's so gorgeous. The Lab's peach and honey notes are iffy for me, but they're perfect here, melding into each other to form a just-slightly-overripe, honey-sweet, juicy peach that smells so rich and delicious. The chili pepper, clay and cocoa form a comforting, warm, earthy yet sweet base that doesn't have any of the sharpness that I was worried about with the chili pepper. After about three hours, the scent shifts a little so that I smell more of the ripe, sweet fig and cocoa, with the honeyed peach still lingering and the red clay & pepper still giving the scent a lovely, dry, warm earthiness underneath the fruit and sweetness. I love how sweet this turns on my skin. I don't tend to enjoy fruity scents but this one is so sweet and enveloping with the sultry honey, cacao, and clay. Intrigue with its cocoa and fig has always been one of my favorite bpals, and this is like a much more complex and romantic feeling Intrigue after a few hours when the fig gains strength. Lasted about 7 hours on me with good throw, too. -
I've wanted a bottle of this for years but it kept getting pushed aside because there are always so many new LEs. I finally put a bottle into my latest order and it wound up being my favorite, mixed in with Weenies and Yules. The Woman at the Edge of the Woods is everything that I wanted it to be and none of the herbal notes that had been scaring me off. It's the smoothest, most comforting wood note, tons of sweet myrrh softened with creamy vanilla, and elderberries, which remind me of a sweetened, ripe, juicy blackcurrant. No rose or herbs or sharpness for me at all. I'm glad that the notes I like the most wind up being so strong on my skin. It's a lovely fragrance where the notes blend into each other and smell amazing.
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The first hour, this smells like a caramel apple pie. Caramelized apples, cinnamon, and a hint of flaky crust. I know it wasn't just my nose/brain being weird because three other people told me I smelled like apple pie. It takes about an hour before that spice starts to back off for me and I can start to smell vanilla cream with hints of golden crepe and slightly sour blueberry. It does remind me of a cream filled crepe with fresh blueberries. Unfortunately it has no throw on me by that stage and I can't smell it at all around the two hour mark. As a side note, I can smell lemon in the bottle, but none once it's applied, unless it's adding that sour, acidic edge to the blueberry.
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I love bread scents (last year's Lavender Rosemary Baguette was amazing), but this one is falling flat on me. The bread turns dry and powdery, like flour, and the scent is mostly a sweet lavender after a half hour. It makes me think of mixing sugar and water together and then steeping lavender in it. Almost a sugary lavender glaze, but not thick, more watery and clean. I kept thinking that it was a strange smell when I wore it. I'd catch whiffs of it and my brain couldn't decide if it smelled bad or good.
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No earthiness or anything reminiscent of cologne for me. I get a baked apple covered in cinnamon sugar goo. It's a little potpourri at first, and then it shifts to more of a soft, melty, lightly spiced sugar over baked apple. This is less complex, lighter, and fades quicker than the other Harvest Moons I have, but I still always have a soft spot for these blends, and I'm happy to add this one to my Harvest Moon collection ^_^.
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This disappears so fast on my skin and I don't smell the blackberry or cheesecake at all. It's all boozy chocolate covered cherry filled with sharp liqueur.