Little Bird

The white amber and white sandalwood go straight to baby powder, mixed with some sort of soapy floral.

I get nothing like cake (the cake is a lie!) or Dorian from this. Ashes, yes, and a sour, strange, evergreen-ish note that's reminding me of PineSol. The drydown has some savory, bright, sharp herbs and sharp spices. This actually makes me kind of sick to my stomach when I smell it. Green + spice + ashes is not working for me.

The ozone goes straight to soap on me and overpowers anything else that might be in this fragrance. Smells like dry laundry soap powder.

This is all new, black leather on me, though it starts to smell a bit harsh in the drydown (not in a bad way, but like the new leather has sun baked into a hard, cracked black leather) with a hint of tarry smokiness. Not my favorite leather, but I have kept my decant of this one, and I like it.

Eh. This smells like hairspray and soap on me (white musk and ozone?). I'm not getting lemon or sweetness, but it has a dry, dark wood note in the drydown, and the musk starts to turn powdery. I didn't care for this one.

This turns kind of sour on my skin for some reason, but I looooove it in an oil warmer. Juicy, bright orange and soothing, creamy, sweet-yet-clean lavender. The lavender is calming and the orange is uplifting. It's a cheery, clean room fragrance.

Perumey, sharp, unpleasant white floral, soapy rose and soapy snow. This set wound up being way too soapy for my tastes.

I love so many of the lab's rum scents, and I enjoy this one too. There's something bright and sour about Hot Buttered Rum on my skin at first, almost like there's a sour fruit note mixed into the boozy, sweet, caramelized rum scent. As it dries down, it still smells like sour pineapple and caramelized rum, but turns sweeter, warmer and creamier. On me, Hot Buttered Rum is like pineapple and butter rum flavored lifesavers candies with an undertone of creamy coconut and a hint of the warm, caramelized edges of a pineapple upside down cake. It has a light dusting of cinnamon on me as well, but the spiciness is very well behaved, which is rare for me. This smells verrrrry similar to Upa Upa, if you took the amped up spices out of Upa Upa. Golden, creamy, warm, sweet, tropical rum...

I was hoping that this would smell like Miskatonic University + cake, but it smells like neither of those things to me. All I get is a weird, cloying, burnt brown sugar scent. Dry and cloying. I got my bottle off of the lab's ebay auctions.

I don't care for the orange blossom honey, because the floral honey + citrus just makes me think of cough drops. I don't smell any coconut or pear, but there's a warm, powdery amber in the drydown. Not one of my favorites.

I love the green, cool, soothing clover note, but the drydown turns to soapy white florals on my skin.

A soft, lightly sweet, warm, woody fragrance. Woody cedar and fig, light hint of honey, and a green, herbal sage note. I expected this to be smoky with the sage and chaparral, but it's not. Doesn't last long or have great throw, and is mostly a lightly sweetened, woody scent.

I love Very Pink Surprise Cake, but I seem to enjoy almost anything that has a cake scent to it. It's all strawberry milk powder and a sweet, slightly dry cake batter. It is the most artificial and Easy Bake Oven-y cake, but it's so fun, cheerful, and still tasty smelling. A little like Possets' Pink Cake, but this is more artificial and reminds me of that pink bubblegum children's medicine a bit in the drydown. Pink, creamy, sweet, fun fragrance.

Smells like vanilla-spice scented candle wax dripping over an old, wooden table. Beeswax, vanilla, red sandalwood and a little bit of smoke and sweet spice. This sounded like it would be a cheap, waxy, cloying candle fragrance, but it smells like burning an expensive candle over an expensive wood, lol. I like the way the bit of smokiness cuts through some of the sweetness, and the red sandalwood is warm and grounding.

Light, dry wood and dusty resins with a hint of sour rose. I usually enjoy these notes, but they don't work for me here. I think the clary sage is giving this an herbal, bitter, medicinal edge as well in the drydown.

I like this a lot. Blueberry notes are often way too sweet for me, but the tart lemon verbena and green, grassy notes keep this from turning cloying on me. It smells like coming upon an abandoned blueberry patch where green grass, weeds, herbs, and lavender are sprouting up through the blueberry bushes. Fades really fast (gone entirely within an hour on my skin), but is so fun while it lasts.

I'm curious about the froot loops cereal that others have mentioned, but I don't get that impression on my skin. On me, the roses amp up and I can smell creamy gardenia and resinous, bright frankincense underneath the big, sweet roses. Maybe the mallow flower adding some creamy sweetness that's vanilla-like. Sweet roses, creamy vanilla and gardenia, and a hint of bright resins. A very pretty rose blend.

Green grass, dirt, and a hint of floral scented laundry soap, like smelling damp laundry on a breeze after it has been hung out to dry. I usually don't like green or soapy scents, but this isn't sharp and the clean undertone isn't overwhelming. I really like the dirt, green and floral notes, and it does make me think of playing outside in the summer when I was younger. Only lasts a couple hours, but I like wearing this when I'm missing warmer weather. It's a carefree, happy scent that perfectly captures its theme to me.

Intensely sweet, sugary, artificial strawberry syrup. Too sweet for me, unfortunately, and I don't get any of the cream or marshmallow to round it out.

Fuzzy baby goat musk, goat’s milk accord, wild rice flower, and a little bit of farmer’s market honey. Everything about this is lovely on my skin. It's buttery, creamy, honeyed milk and rice flower with a hint of warm, soft, fuzzy musk. The honey and rice flower add a natural, soft floral tone, floating in the milkiness. I don't get any spices from it, and spice usually amps up on my skin. The words that always come to mind when I wear this are 'soft' and 'natural.' It's light, creamy and comforting to me.

Muse of Fire starts off as a watery, fruity blossom, and dries down to a sharp, perfumey white floral tone with hints of powdery, sweet wildflower and something spicy. Too floral and not enough sweet for me.

Have you tried The Black Rider from the GC (Marchen category)? It reminds me of the leather in De Sade and Brom Bones. The Red Rider and The White Rider are great leather scents too, though they don't remind me of that black leather in De Sade so much.

So many of the yules just go to pure, sharp white soap smell on my skin, with all of the ice and ozone notes. This is another one that went to soap.

Soapy ozone/aquatic, a hint of mint and a strange, dry jasmine that's odd with the soapy water feel. I don't like soapy scents, so I didn't get far with this blend.

I actually don't mind meat fragrances. I have several perfumes now with bacon as a note and I love them, and I didn't even dislike bpal's Gore-Shock. This is kinda similar to Gore-Shock, minus the smoke. It's salty, honey glazed ham. Savory and sweet. I don't mind it, but (similar to Gore-Shock) I'll probably never really wear it. Bacon & chocolate perfumes, on the other hand, are amazing and wearable