thekittenkat

WB, Vikitty!

Look for the newer Strawberry Moons.

The Lab goes to Dragoncon in GA in recent yrs, so many peach scents to be had.

Samhain is lovely, and it's a little different from year to year.  

Honey Apple (?) is a great Halloweenie.

And Horse Chestnut Honey was in the GC, but was disconed, sadly.

The original Falling Leaf Moon is great to layer.

Snow White, Fern Frost, Moon of Ice, are a few.

Does he use any aftershave or scented body wash or stuff like the Axe sprays? If so, that might give you some tips. 

If Bpal is still offering GC decants, or sets of them, having a selection to try might be good.  HTH!

ETA: what about Dorian? 

Just a little bump!

I will rec Samhain.

 

 

 

 

11 hours ago, theredkilt said:

This Wan White Humming Hive

 

 

 

This is an excellent beeswax scent!

I like Candles Moon from a few yrs ago.

Here's a good thread for that:

I did a search to locate this.

Don't forget that the Halloweenies will be out soonish and Harvest Moon is live right now!

2 hours ago, Shante You Stay said:

So I had my daughter sniff & she said men's axe body spray & chocolate 😂 ...maybe Intrigue : sultry, exotic scent that inspires devious plotting and clandestine affairs. It is a scent painted in artifice, veiled in deceit, and slithering with whispered secrets. Black palm, with cocoa, fig and shadowy wooded notes.

What scent is this? Looks interesting!

[in the bottle]: The grass and the dandelion sap are both giving the wild strawberries a green fresh-from-the-garden scent.

[wet]: The benzoin seems to be deepening the strawberries to a darker, less fresh feeling. 

[the dry-down]: Last night, when I tested this, it was all strawberry candy of some sort. Today's dry-down is more pleasant. All the notes have now mixed together in a lovely blending. The sugar is sweetening the strawberries, the green notes are keeping it somewhat fresh, and the benzoin is grounding the overall scent. The strawberry note floats along on the top, making this a great summer moon scent!

The white sage is the most prominent note, but it's not foodie, more like that of a smudging stick. I suspect this is because of the dead leaves' autumnal note holding the sage in check. The apple note is crisp, not tart yet not really sweet, and only just noticeable. I sprayed it around the living room for testing; for me, it's a pleasant scent to carry over from late summer harvest into early autumn.   

My favs include Lay Una, Tiki Princess, the Strawberry Moons, Planting Moon, Hay Moon, and Mead Moon.  I also like the ice and snow scents on very hot days.  

Necro-bumping! Any suggestions?

I know we''re a few months out from those lovely fall and winter scents, but there are usually some good fruit and food scents then, in the  Halloweenies and Yules.   Samhain has an apple note and Snow White has a sweet coconut scent to me. Eat Me is yummy for GC scents. The imp packs can be helpful! In June, I hope for the Lunacy blend, Strawberry Moon. Reading reviews is good, too.

Do you like fruity scents or baked goods? If so, I might have some suggestions.

That's okay! There's a lot of info there. It's close to 4 yrs out-of-date; I plan on updating when I can.

3 hours ago, deadlyves said:

 

 I don't have an answer, but would be interested in knowing as well since that one comes up a lot!

In my big post above where I discussed the 3 snow notes, I noted that CGitS has the minty snow note. HTH! 

6 hours ago, sprout said:

Is there a snow note that is heavy on an evergreen note?  Or is it just that many of these scents have both elements?

I suspect the later is correct! 

Also, there's been mention of a spicy or resin-heavy snow note, but I have never ID'ed it. 

On 12/14/2014 at 6:24 PM, thekittenkat said:

There's three snow notes that the Lab seems to use. There's the minty note, the sweetish note, and the icy/ozone note. These ideas are based on not only my own experience w/ the snowy notes, but much that I have read here on the forum.

 

This is a WiP.

 

The sweetish snow note for sure shows up in Snow White--to me, it's almost like a sweet coconut scent. Others say that it's like vanilla, as in The Waltz of the Flowers (which also has lot of mint). Go To Sleep, Darlings is in this category and Pink Snowballs.

 

Skadi, Ice Queen, and Onoduris all have some of the minty note in them to various degrees, but not hugely so. Nuclear Winter has always been a blast of the minty snow note, for me, but w/ some ozone as well. Cloister Graveyard in the Snow is also very minty and so is Braving the Ice. Like Brooms of Steel is very minty to start with. The Garden in Winter and Colder and Colder are minty as well.

 

The Lick It series is always peppermint and vanilla, so it's like two of the snow notes in one bottle. I love this series, and so does the bf.

 

I get the icy ozone note in Countess Dolingen of Gratz, one of my fav snow scents ever, even if it's a Halloweenie. Also in Purple Snowballs, Autumn and Winter (very sharp), Black Ice, A Cold, Clear Day, and the 2010 version of Midwinter's Eve.

 

There's scents where the ozone and mint notes seem to combine: Moon of Ice, Death-Fires Dancing Over the Tombs, Cloth of Gold, Numb, and Yellow Snowballs.

 

The 2010 version of Winter-Time was a morpher and had all 3 snow notes!

 

Almond Blossom has a little of the ozone note and a tiny bit of the sweet snow note.

This should be of help abt the 3 snow notes that I'm aware of--hope this helps!

I find the Yule LE Nuclear Winter to be very minty. I haven't sniffed my bottle in ages, but I don't remember any woods. Do check reviews, though. SO that's not for you. 

There are several snow notes. Will reply more.

Some scents that I like for spring are:

Embalming Fluid,

Needlework,
Empyreal Mist,

Dorian,

Alice,

Lady Una,

anything that is of fairy,

the Strawberry Moons,

The Mouse's Sad and Long Tail,

Dublin,

the Irish bards series

(A lot of these I wear in summer as well!)