Little Bird
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I've nearly gone through my decant of Contest of Flowers: Iris, and will definitely full bottle it. Every time I wear this, I think of fairies (actually, the mischievous Sylphs in Final Fantasy XIV, lol) finding a white highland cow and covering it with flowers and feeding it nothing but strawberries and sugar dusted fairy flowers, and then this is what its milk would smell like. Fresh, ripe strawberries and lightly sugared, magical flowers steeped in milk. After about a half hour, the lightly spicy carnation and milkiness reminds me very much of aged Alice, if Alice were made into a strawberry milk. It's creamy, dreamy, delicately sweet, and so perfect for me for spring.
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Starts off with gorgeous, green pear, a smooth and golden feeling liquor, dark and sweet plum, and a base of powdery, woody amber with tangy, herbal honey. Unfortunately, the fruit notes die after only a couple minutes, and then this is all powdery amber and sharp incense smoke with that tangy honey. I love the brandied pear and plum incense opening, but I don't like the drydown where the smoke, powdery amber, and honey take over. The incense and amber give the whole thing a scratchy, dry quality. I usually don't like boozy scents, but the brandied pear is really amazing. I just wish it stuck around beyond the first few minutes.
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I want to love Rose Milk Tea, and I wish I got dairy and condensed milk from this like everyone else seems to, but this is just a rose explosion on me. The rose starts off fresh, uplifting, and pretty. After about an hour, however, it's a perfumey rose powder with a hint of sugary sweetness. The rose amps up way too much on my skin.
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There are not many cherry scents that I enjoy (Moon When The Cherries Turn Black is my favorite), but I was curious about sour cherry. Unfortunately, this is another bad cherry for me. Starts off as almond extract, and then morphs into cherry cough syrup with tart cherry Kool-Aid powder dumped into it. No peach that I can discern.
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Choco-Goblin smells exactly like Samoas cookies. The most delicious, toasted, caramelized coconut with sweet milk chocolate and an extra drizzle of caramel. No patchouli at all but, for once, I'm okay with that. Lasts about 5 hours on me with good throw. Great on its own if you love gourmands, and would be great layered with a stronger patchouli as well.
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Lingering Plum Scent is so beautiful. Juicy, ripe plums and a sharp floral that elevates the fruitiness rather than being too much. I can't pick out the lavender and honey distinctly but there's a cool, misty sweetness that's so pretty. The incense adds a shadowy base after a couple hours, but I don't get any spiciness from the clove or nagarmotha unless I search for it. Just a dreamy plum and plum blossom interpretation, and I will definitely full size this before Lupers come down.
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Animalic, growly, and very sharp. Smoky, slightly animalic, acrid, growly oud, sour lemon, and an evergreen note that smells sharp and reminiscent of pine air fresheners more than actual juniper. The sharp smoke reminds me of a campfire. Sharp clove and powdery musk linger as the base. It dries down to mostly campfire and warm powder on my skin with hints of clove and smooth, dry hay. I usually love all of the listed notes in this blend, but I'm not really enjoying this. The patchouli doesn't really stand out to me; I get a lot more oud, and I have a hard time wearing very dry, powdery toned scents. I was told I smell like dead leaves set on fire and baby powder when I wore this.
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Plasticy, watery peach, a hint of smooth chocolate, and a surprisingly lovely creamed black tea. Usually when bpal mentions cream and tea, I find the notes hard to pick up on. With this blend, there's a cozy, warm black tea note with some light astringency and creaminess. After about a half hour, I can mostly just smell the cherry, and it reminds me of cherry pie filling. It's very light, however, sitting close on my skin and fading quickly. I would love a creamed black tea hair gloss.
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A combo of two of my least favorite candies, so I was never meant to love this, lol. Even when I was little, if my cousins and I got candy cigarettes in our Halloween treats, we'd pretend to smoke them while playing a game of pretend, and then we would toss them in the garbage. They were not for eating. They taste (and smell like) chalk and spearmint. I like root beer when it's just a drink (preferably over vanilla ice cream), but it smells dry and flat here. Light and fades quickly on me, and I wasn't sad to see it go. If you like a minty root beer with chalky tones, though, you'll like this.
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Onnagata Making Love at a Tea House as Mane’emon Watches While Holding a Kite
Little Bird replied to Jenjin's topic in Lupercalia
A weak whiff of orange bossom sharpened by a sour tobacco flower note, and then it's all patchouli. Patchouli amps up on me (which is usually great because I love patchouli), but I'm not loving the patchouli in this. I could wear Banshee Beat all day every day for the rest of my life, but I was disappointed in the sugared patchouli in Silky Bat, and I don't like it here either. It starts off oddly rubbery smelling and then dries down sort of dank and moldy. I was hoping for more caramel and orange blossom than this delivers. -
Great Pleasures for Women and Their Treasure Boxes
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
Great Pleasures starts off smelling like fruit punch with a lot of orange in it (fruitiness that I don't recognize as guava), then goes through a phase of almond milk that smells creamy and soft with a drop of cherry-ish almond extract, then dries down to a light, almond scented lotion type of feel. Gentle, creamy, and clean. I think the sandalwood adds a bit of powder after a while, but I never really smell guava, amber, or incense. -
I didn't expect to love The Serpent In The Lilacs as much as I do. In fact, I didn't think I would like this at all, because I tend to prefer lilac as a single note, which I already own plenty of, and I couldn't imagine lilacs mixed with Snake Oil because lilac is so innocent and sweet smelling to me where Snake Oil is dark and sensual. I should never doubt a Snake Oil flanker. Lilac can either have a baby blue hued purple and honey feel to it or it can smell dark purple and a little sharper while still being honeyed and noticeably lilac, and this one reads as the dark purple to me. I think the slightly sharper lilac works better for this blend anyhow because it feels more grownup to me. The first time that I wore this one, I got some of Snake Oil's patchouli, but the second wear had more Snake Oil vanilla and didn't notice any earthiness. Deep purple lilac, just a little sharp, but softened by the natural sweetness of lilac and a vanilla that's slinky, smooth, shadowy, and sensual rather than super sweet. Grownup vanilla, not cake or frosting or sugar. A snake lounging happily in the center of a lilac bush in full bloom.
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The whole time that I was wearing this, I kept imagining an anime girly with pink hair, in a dress of hot pink ruffles, with a personality and voice that's high pitched, happy, and always full of energy. It smells like cherry flavored sweet tarts candy, sweet strawberry scented shampoo, and a beautiful mix of cream, blossoms, marshmallow, and a hint of powdery amber. It's a very pretty swirl of all the listed notes. The fruity parts are strongest on me. The marshmallow isn't super strong but it is present on me throughout hours of wear. Overall, this is a really appealing mix of tart, creamy, clean, and sweet. Maybe a little too fruity-sweet for me, but I did enjoy it when I wore it, even if it didn't feel like a 'me' scent. I'm not high energy; I'm anemic and have fibro, lol. I'll definitely keep my decant and retest this and consider a full bottle, though.
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My favorite mint blends are the Lab's OG Lick It and Snowblind perfumes. The mint here is like the OG Lick It (perfectly chilly, bracing peppermint in a sugary candy cane) while the white chocolate and caramel come close to the vanilla buttermint scent of Snowblind. I was worried about the black musk, nicotiana, and sage, and there is a little funkiness in the undertone for a bit, but then the combo takes on more of a freshly cut cedar scent, which I love. In the drydown, it reminds me of How Doth The Little Crocodile, but vanilla-y instead of having dark chocolate. Perfect peppermint candy cane, caramelized white chocolate that's buttery, smooth and sweet, and a foresty, cedar-y undertone. It's a fun, nostalgic scent for me, and one I'm considering full bottling.
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This is so amazing for the first hour and then it turns into a nondescript floral powder scent on my skin. The first hour or so is like tasting a beautiful ice wine. The lilac gives off its honeyed, richly sweet scent into the red wine, and the cinnabar and sweet myrrh give it just a hint of spice and lots of depth. If it stayed like that, I would full bottle this for sure, but the drydown goes flat and powdery, and it quickly fades away from there. Maybe this scent is a good excuse to use one of my scent lockets and see if the opening stage lasts longer.
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I love Pomegranate Milk from the latest Yules, and that made me want to try An Intriguing Observation, but I'm not getting the pomegranate or milk at all. This scent is very musky, but not the usual red musk that the Lab uses and that I adore. It feels like a powdery, warm, golden musk with some dry wood. A little resinous, but not strongly so. It's quiet and sits close on my skin, and it mostly makes me think of old wood warming in the sun while dust motes float about in the golden beams.
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Intimate Experiments During Household Activities
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
The cherry starts off overpowering all of the other notes, and it smells like cherry Kool-Aid powder mixed with sour cherry powder. Very tart, powdery, and candied (sweet tarts candy, really). After 10 minutes-ish, the mango cream and neroli slowly start creeping in and then it's more enjoyable. There's a pleasant creaminess, a tropical lilt from the mango, and a fresh yet sweet orange scent from the neroli, but there's still a powdery undertone and sharp, tart cherry that I don't love. Intimate Experiments doesn't smell edible or realistically fruity; it's more perfumey and like it could be a lotion from the creaminess or a bubble bath from the soapy edge it has. I think the black currant is just adding a hint of a tart, acidic bite. I don't mind this, but it's probably not something that I'll reach for again. I have better creamy, sweet mango blends from bpal (Gentle Hands and Rice Milk & Mango are my loves). -
The amazing white chocolate froth and marshmallow mixed with salty, chemical-y water is very discordant to my brain. It's half delicious and half watery chemical soup, like used mop water. I desperately need a white chocolate, frothed milk, and marshmallow scent on its own. Bpal has the best white chocolate, mik, and marshmallow notes, and they deserve to be together with no extra players. Okay, I'll stop begging. I want to love this so much, but the salt and sharp, chemical, industrial floor cleaner aquatic are ruining it for me, and the aquatic part stays strong on my skin. It smells like you would die if you tried to drink this; like someone gave you a heavily poisoned white hot chocolate and tried to cover up the smell by topping it with marshmallows. After about an hour, it also takes on a plasticy tone that I don't care for. So sad.
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Elizabethan Red is a very light, delicate scent with almost no throw. I feel like the 'water' in the orange blossom water was no joke because it's a washed out, clean orange blossom (not soapy, but cool and watery) and orange blossom is usually rather strong on me. I can also smell the woodiness of the fig and a very creamy, lotion-y smell, which might be the milk part. After a half hour, those notes have faded and it turns to a light ambergris that smells of cold, salty water, powder, and a little white muskiness. Only lasted about 2 1/2 hours total and had a clean-skin-fresh-from-a-shower feel to me.
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Ashy vetiver and sour, slightly soapy herbs? I was looking forward to patchouli and wildflower honey, but the earthiness smells like fireplace ash that's damp and moldy with a little menthol. It really smells more like vetiver than patchouli. I think the rose chypre is what is smelling sour and maybe the silk is the starchy, dry quality that it has. Ashy, scratchy, and sour with smoke and nowhere near enough honey or sweetness for me. This one was a scrubber because it was actually upsetting my stomach after a half hour.
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For the first half hour, The Seventh Veil is a cold fir and warm woodsmoke thing that makes me think of Christmas, and then a tart fruit punch joins in with something rubbery-leathery. Over time, the fruit punch shifts into more of an actual blood smell on my skin, metallic and creepily off, but in a good way. Then, a couple hours later, it mostly reads as just a soft woodsmoke and maybe sandalwood on my skin. Not my favorite but I don't tend to like smoky scents.
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I think this smells like opium poppy, red musk, and ink. It reminds me of the glittery, almost-but-not-quite soapy, white floral, opium poppy note, splashing around in a pool of red musk and ink. The ink smells like pen ink, black and mineral and a bit resinous itself. I picked up a decant of this blend out of curiosity but I am enjoying it enough to consider ordering a full bottle if I can afford it after buying my must-haves. It feels like a more mature red musk scent (if there is red musk in here; I feel like I can smell it strongly) and the red part is sweet enough to soften the sharper floral-esque part. It smells romantic and gothic to me, like a love letter with blood, sweet red wine, and a spritz of vintage floral perfume splayed over its pages.
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I wish that the sandalwood didn't turn so heavily powdery (and it's weird because the sandalwood in OG White Rider doesn't go powdery on me). All of the other notes are so pretty, and even the sandalwood has a slightly smoky incense tone to it after a couple hours (or perhaps it's a slight smoky tone I'm getting from the leather). White chocolate and frothed milk is a gorgeous mix that smells just like the white hot chocolate that my sister and I make in the winter, topped with frothed milk and marshmallow. It smells delicious and realistic. I love it, but the powdery sandalwood really brings it down and adds a weird element to everything. I also love the leather in the OG White Rider but I have trouble picking out any leather in this until 5-ish hours into wear. I get what smells like crisp notebook paper singed on the edges and the barest whisper of soft suede leather.
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I've been very tired of rose fragrances lately, and this hair gloss is very rosy, but I'm actually enjoying it a lot. As soon as I put it on, I felt pretty and like I should be a main character on Bridgerton with flowers in my hair in an epic updo. It feels less "foolish young people trying to get married" and more "powerful and confident matriarch" or Queen Charlotte herself, though, which is totally working for me. The cherry rose is so cool because it smells like I have real, fresh picked cherries and roses in my hair, and they mesh together so well. The white tea is present for the first hour or so and adds a pleasant sharpness along with the marshmallow smelling like a touch of powdered sugar and the amber base giving off vintage perfume feels. I think it's the amber that pulls everything together and smells more mature to me. I will have to see how far I get through my 1 oz decant. I might need more of this.
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Red musk often smells fruity and like sweetened red wine to me, but it alsow has a sexy, musky and heated skin, glowing red quality to it. The red musk with pom and red currant is so gorgeous, juicy, and sensual while still being playful and sweet. The marshmallow cream is wonderful and swirls around the other notes, reminding me of cremesavers candies. It's very gourmand and sweet with the red musk dirtying it up in the best way. The red musk is sexy, the pom is juicy, and the currant is tart, all wrapped up in sweet marshmallow cream. I can smell all of the listed notes swirled together and it's a beautiful combo that smells like candy. My decant will not be enough.