zankoku_zen
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Fizzy citrusy candy. I hint of lime, and a whiff of powderiness when it dries. Medium throw, low wear length, except for the bit of powderiness which lingered on me.
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I mainly get butterscotch and apple sugar. It's got a hint of cardamom to it. Very sugary. Good throw and wear length.
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Café De Olla Fried Ice Cream Jammed Into A Coconut Cream Pie
zankoku_zen replied to Seajewel's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
Okay, this one codes weird to me. I get spicy cardamom, cinnamon, coconut and spices that make me think "curry". This ends up more "savory" than sweet to me. Maybe its also the "fried" impression? Dunno, this one has been the wildest of the bunch. Medium throw and wear length. -
Iced Apple Dumplings Plopped Into A Sweet Potato Pie
zankoku_zen replied to Seajewel's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
I mainly get cinnamon apples and pie crust. No sweet potato, I think it just codes as spices and sugar baked into the apple for me. Medium throw and wear length. -
Coffee dust, cocoa and a hint of tiramisu. Yup, basically if you want a BPAL tiramisu scent, this is it. Medium throw and wear length.
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Lemon marshmallows and clean cotton. I feel like this would be the notion of a high school girl's laundry basked. Sugary, citrusy lemon, and clean. Medium throw and wear length.
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Sweet smoke, a note of pineapple and strawberry on wet, but it mainly dries to a sugary smoke + clean clothes. This is more like Midnight on the Midway got throw into a clean laundry basket. Medium throw and wear length.
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Fresh linen, champaca and weedsmoke. This smells like clean sheets stored in a house that likes to get high. Medium throw and wear length.
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This smells like licorice, narcissus, and clean cloth. It's a "black" clean floral. Good throw and wear length.
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Cognac fades into a very clean cloth, with a slight green floral. I mean, the cognac lingers like a ghost, but it goes from a glass full of cognac, to an empty glass of cognac, where you can still smell it but its gone. Medium throw and wear length.
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An oil of persuasiveness and lightning-quick wit. Honey + Quicksilver is a gift to storytellers, poets, politicians, speech writers, and rhetoricians, and all those who must use their voice and their wiles to influence and inspire others to their point of view. Hungarian blue yarrow essential oil (Achillea millefolium), organic neroli essential oil (Citrus aurantium), jasmine absolute and jasmine buds (Jasminum grandiflorum), organic rose otto 5% dilution (Rosa x damascena), rose de mai absolute (Rosa x centifolia), rosemary essential oil and leaf from the TAL garden (Rosmarinus officinalis), mugwort essential oil and herb from the TAL garden (Artemisia vulgaris), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), honey absolute (Apis mellifera), sweet marjoram essential oil and herb from the TAL garden (Origanum majorana), cassia chips and essential oil (Cinnamomum burmanni), anise seed (Pimpinella anisum), mimosa absolute (Acacia dealbata), ylang ylang essential oil (Cananga odorata), violet leaf absolute (Viola odorata), lilac petals from the TAL garden (Syringa vulgaris), Virginia cedarwood essential oil (Juniperus virginiana), and lemongrass from the TAL garden (Cymbopogon flexuosus). This oil is not vegan.
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From a smell perspective, Honey & Quicksilver smells strongly of lemongrass on wet, and then dries to a very Sudha Segara scent (honeyed roses + milk herbs). It smells honeyed, for your tongue and your words. I was able to bang out a report I had been struggling with all week.
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Sea water, sea salt-dusted cypress, pink carnation, oakmoss, and white vetiver.
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2006 brought us to New Orleans for Convergence XII, which was an amazing event on so many levels, but also marked the first time we were able to get together with our sisters, the moderators of bpal.org. Smut first besmirched the virginal sanctity of our catalogue in Spring, Carnaval Diabolique materialized on August 2nd of 2006, and Black Moon and Schwarzer Mond appeared for the first time over the dark skies of BPAL. That winter, Krampus made himself known in our Yule update for the first time. A scent celebrating fifteen years of the FRUITS of our labor. Haaaaaaaaaa…. I sure love my awful Uncle Jokes. Snake Oil with Schwarzer Mond’s terebinth, a swish of Krampus’ switches, black currant, pomelo, and chthonic black pomegranate. Snowy pine, black pomegranate, a touch of wood and black currant on a musky base. I don't really get Snake Oil from this, and all of the other components win out on my skin particularly the pine and black pomegranate. Good throw and wear length.
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Lilith's interpretation. From the Littlest Perfumer: I’m taking Mandarin now and we’re learning a lot about holidays that follow the lunar calendar. This perfume is inspired by me thinking about how the moon guides our lives. It’s a little sweet and a little sour. Blueberries and white tea with sugar, lemon peel, and bergamot.
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Goat’s milk, honey dust, vanilla husk, oak bark, cardamom pod, tobacco leaf, cedarwood, and vetiver.
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No notes. This was available for purchase at NYCC 2017. This oil is super thick and dark. On wet, It smells like dark musk and anise. As it dries, I swear I get hints of black leather. The drydown seems like a licorish scented black musk with again, hints of leather. Very dark, and powerful. Good throw and wear length.
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A furry, horned little scent: a patchouli bramble smeared with cacao and black peppercorn.
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We have the best sinkholes. Terrific sinkholes. Our sinkholes are tremendous. YUUUGE. No administration has ever had a sinkhole like this, believe me. Obama didn’t have sinkholes. Sad! The scent of a swamp self-draining: globs of wet earth, crushed grass, and untended dandelions sliding into a morass of moss-crusted opoponax, labdanum, and tar. Proceeds from the sale of this scent benefit the American Civil Liberties Union. This reminds me to Take a Knee - but if possible, this is grassier. There's grass, dandelions, and a touch of moss and dirt. But in general, this smells like freshly mowed grass, with a touch of dandelions. It's fresh, clean, and gender neutral. Did you want a grassy dandelion blend? Then pick this puppy up. Good throw and wear length.
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A warm amber carnation with patchouli root, ambergris accord, balsam of Peru, vanilla absolute, black pepper, clove husk, ochre leather, and pimento berry.
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This past February, Lilith competed in her first debate tournament. She was asked to come in “business casual”, and this is the best we could do. A scent for child orators: pleather and chalk dust with a handful of chewy fruit candies. (We can’t say “Skittles”, even though that’s all she ate throughout the entire tournament! Don’t sue us, Skittles! Lilith just loves Skittles!) Skittles. This smells like sugary fruit candy, and then on the drydown you get a whiff of the chalk dust. But hey, you want Skittles, here's a non-branded Skittles perfume. Medium throw and wear length.
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Honey powder, touch of pumpkin. Its mainly a honey dust to me, with an overlay of pumpkin. Sweet, honey, powdery. Medium throw and wear length.