Little Bird
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Deep, rich, sweet, oaky (and in the drydown, slightly leathery), red wine, clean and milky skin, and smooth, woody, forest tones with a spicy warmth to them. I really enjoy this blend. It feels like a joyous romp between forest spirits, with wine flowing and no inhibitions. Sensual, playful, happy, wild scent. I love fragrances that feel both masculine and feminine at the same time, and I get that feel from Nymph & Satyr, appropriately. I almost missed this fragrance, lost in all of the updates, but I'm glad that I randomly decided to grab a bottle on the secondary market. This is one of those scents that the Lab does so well, that feels like offerings in the forest to me, because I usually offer red wines and honeyed milk.
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Weirdly, Nymph in a Goldfish Pond is reminding me of ramune soda, ramune flavored puchao candy, and cream soda. Bubbly cream soda and pink bubblegum. The lab's lotus notes usually turn to a creamy pink bubblegum scent to me, and I strongly smell the lotus here. Then there's this vaguely fruity, bubbly, cheerful yet high pitched scent, like fizzy bubbles popping in a soda. I wish it stayed this way because the drydown starts to turn more powdery and dry, and kind of sickly sweet, and then the fizzy bit starts to go a little soapy on me. Cloying, sweet floral with pops of fruity, fizzy tones.
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Very soapy and strong. It's kinda like someone danced around a freezing little stream and mossy glen flinging laundry soap powder all over everything. I can smell the humid moss and an impression of cold water, but the spring floral laundry soap thing is intense and even a tiny dab of this feels very overwhelming to me. It's like it wants to smell natural and alluring, but it's absolutely coated in harsh, artificially scented soap.
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Pink Moon: Wild Strawberries and Patchouli
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Baked strawberries (like big chunks of halved strawberries baked into a golden muffin) and a patchouli that reminds me strongly of Goblin's coconut husky, sweet, creamy patchouli. At first, there's a tropical lilt to the scent, like a drizzle of lychee and passionfruit, but the drydown is all that gorgeous patchouli, a more subtle, baked strawberry, and a surprising amount of creaminess on my skin. Strawberries and cream laying on a patch of sunwarmed earth. An excellent patchouli with good throw and staying power. -
I recommend checking out: Alice (spicy carnation, milk, honey) Boomslang (Snake Oil, cocoa absolute, creamy rice milk, teakwood) Chad (you didn't mention chocolate, but this is the best bpal chocolate to me) Chocolate Babka (flaky, buttery croissant with melty chocolate, cinnamon, hint of rye bread) Cosmic Critters (vanilla frosting, frothy milk, pulpy fig, and patchouli) Doom Cake (haven't tried this, but it's cherry, lemon, buttercream, and cake) Gobo (sweet, cheerful citruses and marshmallowy vanilla) Honey Babka (reminds me of almond cake and donuts with powdered sugar) How Doth The Little Crocodile (mint, chocolate, vanilla, cedar) Jiaolong (if you like coffee, this is one of my favorites, and the sugar note in it is wonderful) Millennial Pink (raspberry jam, white chocolate, creamy musk) Nightingale (yellow cake, vanilla, honey, soft spices) Please Scream Inside Your Heart (oily, fried dough and cinnamon sugar) Schrodinger's Cat (mint chocolate, sweet citruses, and lavender) The Serpent in the Berries (gorgeous vanilla sugar, dark berries, strawberry, and a little Snake Oil) Syrnyk (vanilla cheesecake danish with powdered sugar and crumb topping) White Cat (lemony, marshmallowy, amber)
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Goes on like smooth, spa-like bamboo, milky dandelion sap, and hints of green grass and something reminiscent of black pepper. Pulpy green with a bite. The peppery bite disappears after about 15 minutes, though. Reminds me of Kostnice, which I love. Flower Moon 2024 has a creamy, lightly sweet, floral quality in the drydown that makes me think of white lilies (no soap, but the scent of actual lilies). I wasn't sure what to expect from the notes and figured this scent would be challenging to wear, but it's actually a very beautiful, creamy, green touched floral that's easy to wear and soothing. Nothing soapy or sharp. Smells like running through a green field in a sundress with a bouquet of white lilies, as though you're in a Marc Jacobs commercial or an extra in the movie Midsommar, lol.
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This is very different from the juicy, sweet, cheerful strawberry and green grass type scents that we usually get for Strawberry Moon. 2024 has none of the usual freshness or greenery (not that it said it would; I am just delighted with this incensey, dark, moody strawberry in juxtaposition to the others). There is still a pop of sweet, tart strawberry at first (strawberry flavored gum with a little powder), but there's a bitter cocoa powder and lots of ambered incense to this that makes it very dry, shadowy, and almost somber in feel. In the drydown, the red currant and strawberry are this hint of alluring, lively, fresh sweetness that draws you into a dark, incense filled room, sort of like a mimic luring you in. I also really enjoy the cacao note and (I think) the black tea, though they are subtle, because they add a roundness and toothsome quality to the incense. Lasts all day on me, but does have rather weak throw on my skin, sitting close to where I'm the only one who can usually smell it. I don't hate that, though. I like to have scents with less throw for my days when my health issues are making me super sensitive to fragrances and I'm more prone to headaches.
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I need to retest this one because I only got to wear it once before I packed it (yay moving again, but this time to a permanent (until I potentially wander off again) house that's kinda my dream house and I fell in love with its old bones the second I stepped into it). I had a hard time picking out ANY of the listed notes for Deer Moon '24. It smells more like the Lab's tobacco flower, which is a clean (slightly soapy), slightly metallic, masculine, hazy white scent on my skin. No cocoa and not even any woods for me. It doesn't even venture into any brown or red musk territory on my skin.
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I love gourmand Snake Oils. The Serpent in the Berries smells like it could be in a family with Snake Oil Sufganiyot and Snake Oil Jelly Donut, with this one smelling like pie. The berries smell more like blueberry, black currant, and blackberries to me, not really strawberry, which I am very happy with (a little more like tart strawberry in the mix after about 3 hours). The marshmallow and vanilla sugar add a little creaminess and a sugary crust. It really makes me smell like a dark, sexy, berry pie. The Snake Oil adds an undercurrent of mysterious darkness and slight earthiness. I think the vanilla sugar adds to the impression of flaky, airy, sugared pie crust. When I wear this, I keep thinking of The Kitchen Magpie's Saskatoons N' Cream Pie, which I always wanted to make, but I was never able to find saskatoons, not even when I lived in Canada. I'll be buying a few backup bottles of this gem. A fruity, summery, sweet version of Snake Oil.
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Bourbon Vanilla and the Belgian Chocolate hair glosses are my new favorites. I love perfume, but a lot of the time, I just want something delicately sweet and subtle, and both of these hair glosses are perfect for that. They're not a scent cloud, but more a scent for anyone who might be snuggling up to you. On days when I'm struggling, they're not strong enough to give me a headache or bother me, even though they're noticeable in my hair all day and I find myself happily smelling the ends of my hair. Bourbon Vanilla is slightly sweet, but also has an herbal, tea-leaf-like quality to it, smelling very natural, like the perfect clean girl vanilla. I love vanillas and this one is so pretty and easy to wear. As a bonus, my husband loves both of these scents on me as well, and has repeatedly complimented them . I used to have trouble wearing the hair glosses (when I was younger and my hair was plenty oily on its own), but now that I'm 37-years-old, have an obsession with changing up peek-a-boo highlights in my hair, and swim in chlorine almost every day, the bottom length of my hair tends towards being dry and loves hair masks and these glosses.
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I can smell a little carnation spice in the bottle. On my skin, it's all hay and hazelnut, though. It smells of real, dried hay and nutty, slightly woody, dry hazelnuts. I also keep thinking that I can smell maple syrup. There's no carnation, vanilla, or cream to be found. The amber does add a toasted warmth, but it's a simple, dry, light scent overall. I think carnation and vanilla cream would have made this lovely for me, but I don't get those notes.
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I kind of had the opposite experience from VioletChaos. For me, Coconut Tree is like suntan lotion coconut mixed with just the coconut part of pina colada mix. It's intensely sweet, artificial coconut that leans buttery and oily smelling. It feels warm, like sunburned skin coated with coconut sun lotion. I was hoping that the husk and frond would make this smell more natural and like an actual coconut tree, but there is no greenery and the husk isn't earthy, but very dry and slightly powdery.
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I love vanilla aquatics and gourmand aquatics (my favorite is Solstice Scents' Sea of Gray, followed by Molinard's Vanille Marine, 4160 Tuesdays' What I Did On My Holidays, and Reminiscence's Etoile de Rem). The touch of salt and freshness mixed with something like sweet vanilla or caramel is just so attractive to me. I wore The Storm to my massage therapy appointment a few days ago, and I laid here for about a half hour into my massage just wondering what essential oil my therapist was using that smelled so wonderful and relaxing. After a while, I realized that it was The Storm wafting from me that smelled so dreamy and spa-like. I like Lyonesse and Sea of Glass, but The Storm is better than both of those blends to me. Lots of creamy, sweet yet not sugary vanilla, a touch of salt, and an impression of serene, cold water. I'm surprised that there's no blue musk in this. It's so calming and lovely.
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The Mummies of Mexico City brings up images of walking into an old wood and cobblestone building with decades of resins that have soaked into every part of the structure, standing in a large room with wooden rafters, flickering candles, gold, and dust floating lazily through a beam of sunlight from a stained glass window. I think this smells like sweet frankincense and slightly lemony, slightly pine-y, slightly smoky copal (very slightly smoky), a golden and lightly powdery amber that conjures up sunshine and dust, old books that have that aged vanillic scent to them, and a hint of beeswax candles. Very pretty. I'm happy to have this in my resin/incense collection.
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I wore this blend today without checking the notes and all I had was "sour plums? metallic cigarette tobacco?" Must be the currant and vetiver. I love bpals leathers and patchoulis, but I didn't get those notes at all. No pink pepper or amber for me either. Kind of odd and turns a little too sour on me, and also only lasted a couple hours on my skin.
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I get absolutely no coconut, plum, jasmine, almond or tobacco. The white amber is annoyingly powdery in the opening, but fades to the far background pretty quickly to let this be all about the vanilla fougere. It's like a smooth vanilla and aquatic men's fragrance. Reminds me of OG Dorian. Several hours into the drydown, it also reminds me of another of my favorites - Atelier's Vanille Insensee. A smooth, cool toned, airy vanilla that's sweet, but not sugary, and a little powderiness around the edges from the white amber. Sticks close to the skin, but does last around 8 hours on me.
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Fearlessness has a deep, red, spicy scent. I get a strong dragon's blood incense with rose geranium that's both rosy and slightly herbal toned, and dry, spicy, slightly earthy saffron mixed with clovel and a pinch of black pepper. The spices smell dried and tucked away in an old, wooden spice cabinet. The dragon's blood is slightly floral and a little sour, very red toned, and a little incense smoky. I really like the spices in this. It reminds me of going through my mother's jars of dried spices, herbs, roses, and incense powders when I was little, trying to commit each one to memory.
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Red rose, a sweet and juicy pomegranate, pink pepper adding a spicy bite, and the honey and lily adding a sensual complexity to everything, all on a bed of beautiful, resinous, sweet myrrh and amber. I really love the peppery notes in this blend. I love how all of the notes play together, actually, supporting each other perfectly. It's very much a romantic date night scent, seductive and flirtatious, warm and red. Around the 2 hour mark, it fades a lot and smells more like just a sweet, red to pink rose scent, but it's still charming, and it's worth reapplying to me.
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Sometimes bpal's pumpkin notes smell like pure, melted butter with some sugar, and that's the kind of pumpkin that I get here. The black incense keeps making me think of an abandoned old house that's caked with dust, grime, hints of fecal matter and urine, and rotting wood and fabric. Slightly nag champa-y, but also very dusty and leaning animalic / indolic. Mixed with the sugary, melted butter, this is really stomach churning to me. It takes about 45 minutes for the cloying and indolic parts to calm down to where I'm left with a dark, incensey haze, what smells like dried grass with hints of green grass, and a hint of butter. I actually like this somber, dead meadow and spooky incense stage, but it's rough getting there for me.
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Every time that I wear Lydia, I wonder why I do not wear it more. Opium is one of my death notes, but it perfectly cuts through some of the sweetness of the sticky, slightly cola-ish myrrh, awadh that smells of sweet-yet-dark-and-slightly-earthy chewing tobacco (reminiscent of French Tobacco single note), and the resinous amber/labdanum. All of the notes are dark, strong, and on the sweeter side of their spectrums, which I love. Good throw and staying power and doesn't change much through hours of wear.
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Starts off a little plasticy, a little spicy, and creamy/buttery, reminding me of a craft store in fall, so I was disappointed. The drydown, however, is more what I was hoping for. I love baking in autumn, making cookies and cakes with the windows open to get the cool air and crunchy leaf scent all through the house. That's what this reminds me of. Creaming butter and sugar together with the scent of crisp air, crunchy leaves (no green bell pepper leaves here, thankfully), and hints of fresh pumpkin. As it dries down, the cigar smoke's sweet smokiness just adds to the illusion, like I've removed cookies from the oven and can smell the smokiness of their browned edges. It has a toffee-ish scent over time. I was hoping for masculine, fresh pumpkin, but I'm not mad about this burnt sugary, buttery treats in autumn thing that Pumpkin Man is doing on my skin.
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Refreshing, salty sea spray, a little mint, and crisp, clean, masculine musk with a sweet cigar tobacco creeping in as it dries. Soapy, cool, and crisp/sharp, sweetened with that lightly honeyed cigar tobacco. After a half hour, it's the same, but with the addition of unpleasant notes like burning metal, sharp white floral perfume, and cardboard. I never get any distinct lilac or tea, and department store men's fragrance vibes are, to me, not witchy vibes at all.
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Amour Fou is one of my favorite retail exclusive blends. Many years ago now, I had a bunch of samples of vintage Guerlain fragrances, and Amour Fou reminds me of opening up that package and being so giddy over my new treasures. I would have guessed that this was oakmoss, a slightly smoky and addictive vanilla amber resin, and a drop of animalic leather. Also has powdery tones, but not baby powdery, more spicy, warm, and sensual. The drydown of Amour Fou, in particular, is like an extra vanilla-y dupe of Guerlain's Shalimar, which is something I have zero complaints about. I always smell scents in color and this one is brown and conjures up images of my mother's ancient bottle of Tabu, which was a dark, coppery brown in its violin shaped bottle. It's full bodied, rich, complex, and evokes an image of vintage femme fatales. Warm and enveloping.
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I got a last minute bottle of this before Halloweens left the site, but I don't think that this smells anything like it's supposed to. It's soapy, cloying sweet, and has a strong, powdery, tart floral thing going on. Creamy, pink, tart floral soap, heavily scented, leaning feminine and generic soap bar scented. It doesn't change at all over hours of wear and it has massive throw and staying power (why is it always the blends I hate that stick to my skin forever and have to be scrubbed away). If I try very hard, I can maybe smell a dried hay note way in the background and some sour woodsmoke every once in a while. Myrrh is one of my favorite smells and there is no myrrh here, and nothing about it reminds me of Jack or pumpkins / gourds. Sickly floral soap, leans pink, tart, and powdery. I'm very confused by how it smells versus how it was described.
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My skin seems to just drink this up. It has no throw to where I can only smell it if my nose is pressed to my skin where I applied, and I can't smell it at all by the half hour mark. A sour, sharp, cleaning fluid-ish pine needle, set on fire, with dusty undertones. Dries down to a sort of fruity, deep, dark musk with hints of tobacco-patchouli (but not strongly earthy) and what keeps reminding me of nag champa. Dusty, lightly sweet, and fades so fast.