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    Cushing Manor

    110% manly bay rum, and a whiff of hearth wood. No carnation, no whiskey. Just a fine, fancy bay rum. Definitely masculine on me. Great throw and wear length.
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    Lemongrass & Coconut

    Lemongrass and coconut. BBW is that you? This is tropical and lush and exactly as promised. And MONDO throw.
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    Green Tea & Lemon Peel

    On wet, you get a ton more lemon. But then it dries to a more green tea blend. It's nice and light, and actually reminds me to a Kbeauty product. Maybe that's what you're going for? Medium to low throw, medium wear length.
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    Gardenia & Clove

    Mainly creamy slightly woodsy gardenia. I don't really get much clove out of this. I do get gardenia though. Heady. Medium throw and wear length, which is not bad for me because I am not a gardenia fan.
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    Blackberry & Oudh

    On wet and in the bottle, this smells like sugary blackberry candy. It still has that sugary edge on it, but on the skin and as it dries down, the oudh comes out. Given how potent and visceral oudh can be, this oudh on me ends up more like ink. So slightly sugary blackberry ink. Yup, definitely have a heavy ink note to that. If you wanted to be a fae writer, I imagine your purple ink would smell like this. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Hunger Moon 2021

    Clary sage, verbena, oakmoss, and amber and sandalwood being the base. It starts off as a fairly citrus herbal, with some minty undertones, but then the sandalwood and amber pop right up warming this up. Fairly gender neutral, and actually would be at home in the Shunga collection. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Elizabeth of Bohemia Hair Gloss

    Incomparable loveliness: the perfect rose oude.
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    Chocolate Smooch Smut

    A little melted, but fine if you pick out the foil remnants.
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    Black Coffee & Old Books

    No scent description provided.
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    The Empty House

    Black oud, woodsmoke, mahogany, pine pitch, and blackened pumpkin.
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    Harvest Moon 2020

    This Harvest lunacy combines the autumnal scents of dry leaves, mulling spices, balsam fir, pine needles, cedar, juniper berry, clove, saffron, damson plum, white sage, yarrow, and lily twined with Dionysus’ sacred grapes and ivy, a bounty of apple, black fig, and pumpkin, and the amaranth and lingum aloes of Janus, all touched by a gentle breath of festival woodsmoke and sweet wine.
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    MML2

    This one is a green grassy blend with a sandalwood base. I think it also has violets, since it has a powdery edge that reminds me to violets. There is also an incense lurking in the drydown. I can easily see this being a masculine style Shunga. It's got a delicate, subtle erotic vibe to it.
  14. Day-Glo green lime and tea leaf with lavender, white musk, and a bit of Dorian.
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    Theáomai

    I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. 
 Oscar Wilde Lilith has loved the theater since we first took her to see Matilda when she was five. She loves musicals, she loves plays, she loves Shakespeare and Sondheim. She loves huge productions and local improv, she loves Hamlet and drag revues. She loves the pageantry and the intimacy, and loves performing in shows and attending shows equally. This is the scent of the pile of junk food that accompanies us to almost every performance: chocolate chip cookies, pretzels, caramel corn, and a little slurp of soda. Chocolate chip cookies, sugar and a whiff of pretzels. Pretty much this smells like chocolate chip cookies. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Midnight Bonfire Ween

    Lighting the path between worlds, the beacon at the threshold: night-blooming jasmine, smoldering maple leaves, a cluster of patchouli and blackened ti leaf, black sage, and pinewood smoke.
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    In a Whispering Gallery

    That whisper takes the voice Of a Spirit, speaking to me, Close, but invisible, And throws me under a spell At the kindling vision it brings; And for a moment I rejoice, And believe in transcendent things That would make of this muddy earth A spot for the splendid birth Of everlasting lives, Whereto no night arrives; And this gaunt gray gallery A tabernacle of worth On this drab-aired afternoon, When you can barely see Across its hazed lacune If opposite aught there be Of fleshed humanity Wherewith I may commune; Or if the voice so near Be a soul’s voice floating here. —Thomas Hardy Marbled white iris, white tobacco flower, Italian bergamot, white leather, and Mysore sandalwood. Iris and tobacco flower on wet, but it dries to a white sandalwood with touches of leather. So it goes from a very cold white floral blend to a sort of powdery white leather blend. Low throw but good wear length.
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    Velut Luna Statu Variabilis

    A blush-warm mist of ylang ylang, pink vanilla, carnation chypre, and red benzoin.
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    Patchouli & Neroli

    Piquant and dirty.
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    Asleep in the Deep

    Plummy aquatics. Dark, cool, salty opium and plum. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Good Ship Venus

    Cardamom, wood, and a whiff of patchouli and pepper. This one is a dark woodsy spice blend. Good throw and wear length.
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    Boney Was a Warrior

    Rosemary, jasmine, and oakmoss cologne. It's soft, slightly masculine, and definitely a cologne type of blend. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Why I Love Thee? Hair Gloss

    Moonlit white musk, French cade, purple oud, and deep indigo lavender buds salted on a sea breeze.
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