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This perfume does not smell like farts: buttercream-frosted sprinkle cupcakes and a sprig of lavender.

Tangy and sweet

We were exhausted, hungry, and batty from travel, but Lilith made herself right at home. She’s a born traveler, and takes just about everything that happens on a trip in stride; she’s as comfortable in a hotel, hostel, or airport floor as she is at home. Just before dawn on our first morning in Paris, I tried to talk Lilith into putting on a coat and watching the sun rise with me, but she’s didn’t bite. Burgundy oudh and crushed velvet musk with a misting of lavender.  OUDH OUDH OUDH. I got mainly oudh, and maybe a whiff of musk. But yes, OUDH OUDH OUDH. Great throw and wear length. Did I mention MONSTER OUDH?

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Warmth, safety, and succor: soft leather, clove, and smoked cardamom with vanilla bean, roasted apples, dried cranberries, winter rosemary, dried figs, and gingered rum.

A pumpkin spiced spliff.

A month without you is far longer than a year: opal-gilded white rose petals, vanilla flower, and caramelized benzoin.

Lilith’s favorite city in the whole world. Clambering on a tire swing in the Garden District: rain-spattered olive blossom, Spanish moss, oak bark, and orris root.

This place will rise again. The wisdom of eternity imparting a glimmer of hope through the grace of eternal renewal: the wild glory of nature bursting through cement, metal, and urban despair, purified by the waters of Lake St. Clair. There's Water was a fun OLLA to try. It was water, metal, slightly masculine, and in general smelled clean. It smelled like clean water, and it was more of a scent experience than a perfume.

Lilith told me that I should make this scent smell like honeyed cream and pecan pie, so there you go.

Dorian and lavender with beeswax rosin, polished oak, vanilla husk, a couple of stray popcorn kernels, and a dollop of Snake Oil.

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Obscene.

Gleaming metal, gear oil, sparking wires, shattered glass, and a blue flicker of arcane power.

A diabolical surprise: red musk, black leather, rusted pitchfork prongs, brimstone incense, fir needle, crushed pinecones, petitgrain and patchouli.

This one is a Coraline prototype. I get resinous myrrh, with a touch of cherries and a slight boozy note. It was dark, sensual, and a little creepy. Just like the Other Mother.

Peppermint candies, white chocolate, and sprinklecake ice cream

Sandalwood incense, frankincense, aloeswood, and ti leaf.