Little Bird

Overview: Hair gloss is a heavy, oily spray that quickly overwhelms my long, fine hair and makes it look and feel very greasy. I can't use this product anywhere but very sparingly on the ends of my hair, or else it makes my head look like an oil slick. I'm really careful with my hair and the products that I use on it. For a while, I was using this to fragrance the ends of my hair, but I find that it makes my hair fall out a lot, either from the high fragrance oil content, the heaviness of the oil itself, or something else. I wanted to love these and wanted them to work, because of the fragrances, but now I only use the hair gloss as a body mist on my arms and legs, not actually on my hair. Fragrance review: I love the name of this, but the perfumey, sharp floral iris is a dealbreaker for me. I agree with other reviews in that there's something wine-like about this, but it smells watery to me rather than heavy, and the floral sharpens everything up.

Overview: Hair gloss is a heavy, oily spray that quickly overwhelms my long, fine hair and makes it look and feel very greasy. I can't use this product anywhere but very sparingly on the ends of my hair, or else it makes my head look like an oil slick. I'm really careful with my hair and the products that I use on it. For a while, I was using this to fragrance the ends of my hair, but I find that it makes my hair fall out a lot, either from the high fragrance oil content, the heaviness of the oil itself, or something else. I wanted to love these and wanted them to work, because of the fragrances, but now I only use the hair gloss as a body mist on my arms and legs, not actually on my hair. Fragrance review: Very tart, clean, sharp orange and white tea. I find white tea itself to be citrusy and kind of lemony. Mixed with the tart orange, this is a bright and refreshing fragrance, but not a keeper for me (I like my citrus scents to be sweeter and more gourmand, and this isn't sweet to me at all).

Overview: Hair gloss is a heavy, oily spray that quickly overwhelms my long, fine hair and makes it look and feel very greasy. I can't use this product anywhere but very sparingly on the ends of my hair, or else it makes my head look like an oil slick. I'm really careful with my hair and the products that I use on it. For a while, I was using this to fragrance the ends of my hair, but I find that it makes my hair fall out a lot, either from the high fragrance oil content, the heaviness of the oil itself, or something else. I wanted to love these and wanted them to work, because of the fragrances, but now I only use the hair gloss as a body mist on my arms and legs, not actually on my hair. Fragrance review: Mostly a powdery, clean, slightly vanillic smelling sandalwood & white amber, with hints of tropical, creamy, sweet, white floral tiare. Reminds me of The Harp of Cnoc I'Chosgair perfume oil (notes of amber, tiare, sandalwood, vanilla, cardamom and tagetes), but brighter and less complex.

This isn't as spicy or sour on me as the perfume oil for some reason. More of a tart and slightly powdery peach with a bit of golden sweetness from the crust. I still wish that it were a sweet, syrupy peach filling and buttery crust, and it is not that. My husband said that this smelled like "air freshener."

Overview: Hair gloss is a heavy, oily spray that quickly overwhelms my long, fine hair and makes it look and feel very greasy. I can't use this product anywhere but very sparingly on the ends of my hair, or else it makes my head look like an oil slick. I'm really careful with my hair and the products that I use on it. For a while, I was using this to fragrance the ends of my hair, but I find that it makes my hair fall out a lot, either from the high fragrance oil content, the heaviness of the oil itself, or something else. I wanted to love these and wanted them to work, because of the fragrances, but now I only use the hair gloss as a body mist on my arms and legs, not actually on my hair. Fragrance review: Yep. This is Banshee Beat. Sweet, creamy vanilla with earthy patchouli and a slight, earthy, dark green edge from the hemp. I didn't like aged Banshee Beat, where it went slightly menthol/medicinal and the patchouli smelled off (sort of thin and dusty) to me, but this is like fresh Banshee Beat with lots of vanilla and rich earthiness.

Overview: Hair gloss is a heavy, oily spray that quickly overwhelms my long, fine hair and makes it look and feel very greasy. I can't use this product anywhere but very sparingly on the ends of my hair, or else it makes my head look like an oil slick. I'm really careful with my hair and the products that I use on it. For a while, I was using this to fragrance the ends of my hair, but I find that it makes my hair fall out a lot, either from the high fragrance oil content, the heaviness of the oil itself, or something else. I wanted to love these and wanted them to work, because of the fragrances, but now I only use the hair gloss as a body mist on my arms and legs, not actually on my hair. Fragrance review: For some reason, the Sin hair gloss goes really baby powdery smelling to me, where the perfume oil does not (or, at least, the older versions of the perfume oil do not; I haven't bought a fresh bottle of Sin in years). Sweet cinnamon and powder, and the cinnamon is kind of irritating my skin. I don't smell any patchouli.

I keep trying Taurus blends from perfume oil companies, hoping that one will work for me, but they're always so floral . Where are the vanillas and orientals and gourmands that are usually recommended for my sign? Why always the flowers? I digress. This is perfumey/musky/sharp floral and the rose and jasmine lean towards being slightly sour on my skin. I don't really get any patch, sandalwood or pepper, but the drydown is baby powdery. Has a heavy, drugstore, cheap floral perfume feel to me.

Impossible to remove. I love all of the Easter single notes. They're so fun, funny and simple. Egg Hunt Grass Stain is a big blast of green grass - sharp, sappy and so realistic. It really smells like crushed grass against crisp fabric. I keep thinking of denim jeans for some reason (if denim has a smell). This doesn't go outright soapy on me, but it does smell clean. The sap of green grass smushed on to clean denim. It's cool, breezy and so spring-like. It's really making me wish for summer and the scent of freshly cut grass coming through open windows... If you love the smell of freshly cut grass, then this is a wonderful single note

I usually love patchouli, but bpal's red patchouli tends to smell like sweaty armpit on me. So Below is mostly baby powdery, musky amber, warm and golden and way too powdery & perfumey for me, with that earthy, sweaty armpit undertone. I do smell some coconut in the drydown, but not enough to save this blend. I'll pass on this one. Decant of 2017 version. Tons of baby powdery amber, sour musk and hints of oily, sour coconut and woody, dry patchouli. The patchouli isn't going funky/sweaty, but it's still too much powdery amber and dry, woody weirdness.

This smells really cheap and unpleasant on me the vanilla, honey, beeswax and cinnamon give off this burning candle and cheap vanilla air freshener vibe on my skin. Waxy, too sweet, and the cinnamon amps up on me in the drydown. It just smells too much like a cheap candle for my tastes.

Similar to the original, with lots of sharp, perfumey, floral-musk-opium-poppy. White department store floral perfume type of feel. I can actually pick out a gritty earthiness from the patch & tobacco and a bit of sweet fruitiness from the red musk and currant in this version, though. However, the opium poppy still ruins the whole thing for me.

The original Doc Constantine was lots of dusty wood and worn leather on me, where this is more noticeably fresh evergreen, musky-clean cologne, and a woodsmoke drydown. The smokiness amps up on my skin and kind of reminds me of burning sage or some other dry, herbal desert plants, which I guess is the chaparral. I actually prefer the original.

I didn't like the original version of Eshe (greenish, herbal jasmine, powdery/dusty sandalwood, and sharp, musky/perfumey floral), and this 2016 version smells exactly as I remember the old one, though I can't do a side-by-side comparison. Light, powdery, herbal-floral-jasmine.

I like Iulia more than Gennivre. Iulia is both more complex and softer on my skin. The original was astringent tea and tons of honey, but I can smell the creamy orange blossom, soft lemon, hint of cooling, watery mint, and a delicate sweetness from the honey rather than an overpowering honey from Iulia. Sugared white tea with hints of creamy orange blossom, soft lemon, cool mint and floral honey. Complex and gentle enough that the mint-citrus-honey isn't immediately reminding me of cough drops. I would very much like to drink a tea like this. As a perfume, it's a little too clean for my tastes, citrusy and springlike.

I didn't like the original Parliament and barely remember it, but I'm not loving this version either. It's a similar dry, dusty vibe and some sharp, perfumey smokiness from the opium. Smells harsh, chemical and dusty to me. Not getting any straw/hay scent, and my original review mentioned sweet tobacco, which I'm also not getting from the new version. Faint, dusty, perfumey, nondescript...

The original Midnight on the Midway didn't turn soapy on me at all, but this one does, and it smells watery from the blue musk. The original was a lot sweeter. I don't care for the new version.

The sarsaparilla gives this a spicy rootbeer scent, and the tobacco smoke still amps up more than I'd like on my skin. It smells like a gritty, sharp woodsmoke, woven through the pine. I don't really smell the almond that I could in the original, but I can pick out the woody coconut in this one. Still too smoky for me, and I find more and more that I can't pull off that root beer smell at all. After an hour, fades into a faint, woody, powdery/dusty scent with lingering smoke.

On me, this smells of strawberry cotton candy, creamy pink bubblegum, and flowers. The flowers smell like they've been dried and dusted with sugar crystals. Reminds me of blends like High-Strung Daisies (but not as fresh) and Very Slightly Haunted Dollhouse (with its sugared, dry carnation). The drydown really smells like cotton candy, a bowl of freshly sliced strawberries, and a hint of dry floral perfume. Pink, sugared, dry fruity-floral.

I like this so much. It smells of tangy lemons and soft, slightly vanilla-powdery, slightly waxy lilies on my skin. The lemon + lily winds up being a very authentic magnolia fragrance. Or else it was just always intended to be magnolia, lol. Magnolia always smells so romantic to me. I'll keep my frimp of this and continue hoarding The Bride, as they're the closest I've gotten to the perfect magnolia perfume.

Bitter, sour, slightly herbal lemon and a slightly soapy men's cologne. Has a lemon scented dish soap impression on my skin.

Cold aquatic cologne (has a generic, department store, clean, musky, aquatic men's cologne scent to it), a hint of bitter green plants, and something dry, dusty, and papery. Perhaps an amber or sandalwood note? Reminds me a lot of the Plague Doctor v10 prototype. Dries down to wafts of sandalwood incense smoke with just a hint of cold, clean cologne and that bitter greenery. Reminds me of burning notebook paper at times, or paper scented with sandalwood.

Frimp from the lab. This smells almost identical to Maison En Pain d'Epices to me "the scent of a freshly assembled gingerbread house, with swirls of multicolored icing, spice drop lights, meringue snow, pinwheel mint accernts, chocolate roof tiles, candy wafer pavers, and jelly stained glass." It's sweet tarts candies, powdered sugar, pumpkin cream and spicy cookies.

A sweet, gentle version of the lab's snow note. It's sugary peppermint and a soft, almost powdery, warm, creamy vanilla mixed in with the slushy, clean (but not aggressively soapy) snow note. Makes me think of melting snow and ice, peppermint candy, and snuggling up in a warm, furry jacket while wearing a warm vanilla perfume. Like all of the lab's snow blends, Lick It, and Snow White had a romp together. I like that this has mint and snow in it, but is still coming off as warm and vanilla-y to me.

I keep getting frimps of this in my lab orders lately (three frimps of it in my last order alone). It's crisp, watery cucumber, green grass and green beans. Similar to Squirting Cucumber, but Squirting Cucumber is more watery and creamy smelling, where this is more crisp, like snapping into a green bean and rolling around in green grass.

Goes on as honeyed lime cough drops, a bright metallic cologne, and a milky, creamy, clean fabric scent. The lime disappears pretty quickly and I'm left with wet, soapy-clean fabric hung out to dry on an outdoor clothesline, a creamy, honeyed sweetness, and a hint of cold metal. I don't find this to be unpleasant or sour at all, though it is a bit too soapy/clean for my personal tastes. I smell this and think of making out with an attractive man whilst hiding between damp sheets on a clothesline at a summer party in the country... which isn't bad at all. Clean, but sexy and honeyed, in the same way that Sara Pezzini is. This is basically the masculine counterpoint of Sara Pezzini for me.