Little Bird

Damp, wilting, rotting jasmine flowers in a vase of old water, smelling sickly sweet, a little perfumey, and slightly soapy. I feel like there's a hint of floral dragon's blood as well, and the drydown is all powdery amber and waterlogged jasmine. Leans soapy and musky floral on me.

Sharp, soapy rose, amber that immediately turns to overwhelming baby powder scent on my skin, and hints of dry, spicy, floral cloves. Dries down to 80% powder, 15% screechy rose (reminds me of hair spray in the drydown), and 5% hint of nice clove. Way too powdery for me.

First on, this goes to sour pine (reminds me a bit of cat pee) and acrid, sharp woodsmoke. Then, all of a sudden, the scent shifts and it smells like sweet root beer and vanilla float with spicy bay rum cologne over a warm, woody base. Masculine, spicy, sweet, woody. Very warm. A smokiness wafts in and out, but it smells like rich tobacco in this stage rather than sharp woodsmoke. A nice scent for a warm and masculine leaning forest fragrance.

A very dry and spicy scent with a hint of burnt coffee. I can pick out the cinnamon, clove and cardamom clearly, and the oil burns my skin where applied. I don't get the buttercream or any creaminess, but lots of dry cinnamon and cardamom with roasted, toasty, slightly burnt coffee. Super spicy.

Smells pretty much identical to Miskatonic University on me. Sweet, creamy, sugary coffee, with the whiskey adding that undertone of a spike of warm booze and polished woodiness. Starts off strong, but fades to a skin scent on me within ten minutes or so. Coffee with a lot of sugar and creamer, and a hint of booze and wood.

[No additional description given.] I'm really shocked that this doesn't have any other reviews, because it's amazing to me, like my favorite atmosphere spray ever kind of amazing. It has even edged out The Agricultural Building, which I previously thought was the ultimate in chocolatey goodness. This makes The Agricultural Building smell like a cheap packet of hot cocoa mix, though (which is still great to me, as I love chocolate, lol). This is the sexiest chocolate-marshmallow-musk-thing ever. It smells like melting milk chocolate, melting marshmallow cream, and sex with dark, rich, vanilla-booziness. The rum adds a dark, rich, grownup warmth to the blend and the ambrette makes it like some sort of sensual marshmallow cream musk with melting chocolate. It's so smooth and amazingly good, and sweet without being cloying, because it has such a smooth, creamy feel to it. It's gourmand, but adult and dark around the edges. I wish that I could get this in perfume, hair gloss and bath oil form as well. I want to bathe in it.

When Marianne was originally released, I got two different batch variations (one very red oil that smelled like Snake Oil with blackberry added in and hints of woodsy patchouli). Sweet, fruity, red musky. The second variation I got of this was a dark gold oil that smelled like ashy, gritty patchouli and sour (kind of body odor-y and sweaty) berries. New Marianne is a dark oil, almost pure black with a reddish hint, and smells very similar to the GC blend Satyr. Definitely a dark, animalic, musky fragrance. I can't pick out any of the listed notes and it doesn't smell like the original variations. I would have guessed that this is civet, black musk and black wine grapes. Dark and animalistic, flat and not complex. A little sour.

My decant of this wasn't what I was expecting at all from the notes. Indigo opium must not share much with usual opium note, which goes unbearably sharp, white, and musky-floral smelling on my skin. Dusky Shroud smells sweet and fruity-floral, rather like neroli on my skin. It actually reminds me a bit of Ruddy Daggerwing (which was cocoa, tobacco, coffee, and orange). It doesn't scream coffee or vanilla, but it has a toasty, almost earthy warmth and a hint of creamy sweetness to it. I keep thinking orange/neroli whenever I wear it. After a half hour, there's a bit of smokiness to the scent, like neroli, earthy coffee and smoked vanilla. Sultry and sweet. Smells like a good night time fragrance.

I find this to be such a pretty, unusual fragrance. There's a lot going on, and it's vanilla-y and chocolate-y without being really gourmand or overly sweet. It smells like laying out on a green lawn on a picnic blanket in the early fall, eating squares of dark chocolate and white chocolate, and writing in a leather-bound journal. The drydown is even more soft leather, black ink, and the scent of a distant fire, with a soft, vanilla-y sweetness that weaves its way through the other notes. The smokiness picks up more and more over time, but I still love this, and the first half hour is complete magic. It makes me think of being outside in the fall, writing in leather notebooks and enjoying the cool weather. I wish I'd gotten a full bottle of this one, but I will cherish my decant.

This is like a red patchouli single note on me. I literally can't smell any of the other listed notes. It's a woody, slightly sour, slightly body odor-ish, cedar-ish patchouli. I thought that I could smell mushrooms when I first applied, but the drydown is all woody, sharp patchouli. I'm confused by the previous reviews calling this a morpher and talking about other notes, because it just falls flat on me. Scratchy, dry, sweaty, woody patchouli...

Dusty, woody, dry amber with sweet fig. Hints of clove and saffron start to dance around in the drydown. I love clove, but saffron always smells a bit strange on me (like a little citrusy and a little sour/metallic, and kind of honeyed smelling). I don't get the patchouli at all. Fades quickly into a warm, dusty wood scent with an overlay of spices. This one doesn't even last a full hour on my skin.

The red musk and wine smell like fruity, warm, deep, rich, sweet red wine, and the honey is very realistic and slightly bitter. The oudh and spices come out a lot in the drydown, with a good burst of cinnamon over a dry, woody base, and hints of cardamom. I feel like the honey is sweeter in the drydown and there's something of a dry, incensey haze, but it doesn't smell sharp like opium usually does on me. A warm, spicy, honeyed, woody scent. I like the red musk opening more than the spicy drydown, and it fades very quickly to a honeyed, sweet cinnamon on me, and disappears around the 3 hour mark.

Black musk can either be smoky and remind me of men's cologne or it has a plush, deep, dark, resinous cloud that I adore. This is the awesome, resinous, sweet black musk that makes me think of rich incense cones. Almost like a black amber note. On me, Jiaolong is like 70% black musk and 30% sweet, warm, toasty, sugared coffee. Gourmand-but-not. A little powdery and vanilla-like on me in the drydown. Black incense/resins, vanilla and warm, sweet coffee.

Mint must amp up on me, because all I'm getting is the vanilla mint, and that's mostly peppermint with a hint of vanilla. Smells like the Lick It series of fragrances. I get nothing of the other notes

I don't get cardamom or black currant at all. This is a nutty, woody, earthy type scent with what smells like balloon rubber (like when you stretch out a rubber balloon to blow it up) and burnt tire rubber. Not a fan of this one at all.

First on, this reminds me of Chrysanthemum Moon's dry, golden floral with swirls of clean, slightly soapy opium (is that the champaca giving off that impression). I also smell an herbal and slightly bitter honey note. Dries down to a pretty spectacular golden scent that's like dried, spicy, golden flowers in a temple room full of smoky incense haze and golden flower and honey offerings. Spicy, dried, golden flower petals dipped in honey in a room full of incense smoke. After about a half hour, the honey and sweet myrrh reminds me of beeswax and the whole thing reminds me of The Lights of Men's Lives blend, but with a spicy, dry floral added in. Really good, and a great scent for fall.

I received a sample spray of "The Inn (Prototype)" in one of my bptp orders and guess I never reviewed it. I agree with everyone saying it smells like peanut butter cookies and bananas dipped in peanut butter. I actually like it and don't think it smells too artificial, because the banana has a fresh edge to it like it does in Splatter Comedy. The peanut butter/vanilla-y tone is like a mix of natural peanut butter and warm peanut butter cookies. I sprayed this on to throw pillows and the banana fades off after 10-15 minutes to a hint of creamy banana-vanilla pudding and warm sugar cookies. It reminds me of banana pudding and nilla wafers, actually. A creamy, lovely gourmand spray.

Whiskey burns off quick, thankfully, because the alcoholic edge in the initial spray was kind of reminding me of bugspray. Once the booziness wears off, I'm left with a calm, powdery/creamy white sandalwood that's sweetened and warmed up with cigar tobacco. It's actually not very smoky on me and I don't get bay rum or spiciness at all. It's a mellow, woody scent with warm, sweet tobacco and a spark that makes me think of the scent of matches or fireworks (not the smoky, burnt scent of those, but the way they smell before being burnt, if that makes sense). Very warm and cozy, and doesn't remind me of the lab's French or Bulgarian tobacco, and isn't smoky like tobacco absolute. It's a gentle, sweet tobacco and creamy sandalwood.

This smells kind of funky on me, like minty-metallic cologne mixed with herbal anise. I don't smell amber at all, and if there's vanilla in this, it's a dry and herbal sort and not really creamy or sweet. Dry wood comes through after a while, but mostly this is clean and minty-ish metallic with herbal black licorice on my skin. I don't really enjoy it at all. Light and strange.

Has a muddy or muddled quality to it, like when you mix a lot of notes together and just wind up with a perfumey, nondescript sort of fragrance. The patchouli and oudh add a woody earthiness, the opium a perfumey, sharp, white musk-ish note, and the tobacco or champaca is adding some ashy incense smokiness. It's a smoky, woody, perfumey, incensey thing. After about ten minutes, it just smells generic-perfumey, like sharp drugstore musk over some dry, dark, slightly smoky woods. I never smell the red musk or pomegranate.

A light, barely there fragrance that left wafts of pine and powder in the ends of my hair. I get a hint of chill at first, but then it's all light, sweet pine and a powdery edge. I don't get blue musk or opoponax at all. Smells like a Yule fragrance and like the pine from Golden Priapus without any supporting notes. I tried it again on my wrist and it functioned the same - light, barely there pine. Like the sweet, green needles and warm wood.

Very dry wood, sour and bright red currants, and hints of sharp cinnamon and dry incense. Goes powdery from the sandalwood after a few minutes, and I don't like how sour the fruitiness is.

Smells like a caramel apple scented Yankee Candle, complete with the waxy/plasticy scent, cloying and artificial apple, and a strange, powdery undertone. It also has a funkiness that makes me feel like one of the oils in it has turned. I like gourmands, but this was too sweet, chemical, and bothered me.

Anyone hoping this would smell like cotton candy or like Midway will be disappointed (as I am). I get cinnamon-spiced dragon's blood and a dry incense undertone. Nothing candy-like or reminiscent of cotton candy. The dragon's blood smells a bit floral and a bit like red wine. I don't like the sharp cinnamon at all.

The new version of Antique Lace doesn't smell like the original. It has a bright, plasticy-clean, sweet vanilla that reminds me of Bath & Body Works' Warm Vanilla Sugar. It's not the same vanilla and the new version doesn't have the dried floral edge of the original. The hair gloss goes more baby powdery on me than the perfume oil, and dries down to what reminds me of vanilla flavored pudding mix, the dry mix and not actual pudding, and a sour, plasticy, musky edge. Fades quickly.