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    Personent Hodie

    Purple pom whiffs around cassia, powdery myrrh and smoke. This makes me think of pomegranate incense. Medium throw and wear length.
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    The Cherry-Tree Carol

    Cherry, roses, and a whiff of resinous amber. This one smells very strongly of cherries on wet, and then as it dries, the roses peak out more. Good throw and wear length.
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    Pomegranate Sufganiyot

    Sweet cranberry and pom jelly, with a whiff of pastry. Good throw and wear length.
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    To a Wreath of Snow

    Tobacco flower, snow and a whiff of lavender. Unfortunately this doesn't have a ton of throw on me, which makes me super sad because this scent is gorgeous.
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    Ghost Milk

    Honey vanilla marshmallow cashmere. This is a soft, sweet cuddly blend. I can see why so many people love it. It's foodie without being super foodie. The cashmere gives it this great cuddly vibe. Good throw and wear length.
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    Money Draw

    Somewhat self-explanatory! Draws financial opportunities and brings good fortune in money matters. Recommended anointing oils: Aunt Caroline's Money Draw, Foundation of Fortune. I actually ordered this back in March 2016 through the old TAL website. It's been a faithful companion since then. I've used it both for long term prosperity work, and for short-term cash purposes. I was fortunate enough that in Yule 2019, I was able to go to a West Coast Lunacy, and picked up the accompanying Money Draw powder, which I use to feed the conjure bag. The powder smells like the bag, and there is something slightly familiar about it. (Like an herb I have smelled before as a child).
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    Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning

    Peach, pink carnation, hay and a whiff of crystalline musk. This smells more like an iced peach, snowy carnations, and just enough golden hay to remind you that its cold outside. Good throw and wear length.
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    Gingerbread Invisible Man

    Fizzy ginger ale and a whiff of all spice. This smells like ginger ale to me. With baking spices. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Winter Night. Figure on the Bridge

    Moody plum and lilac blend, overlayed by slushy snow. This one smells like the purple twilight on cold winter evenings. Good throw and wear length.
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    Weed & Whiskey

    Starts off as booze, and then you get this smoky sort of cannabis like green herb. It's the fanciest weed I've ever smelled. Good throw and wear length.
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    Sandalwood & Lily of the Valley

    This one is a very faint on me white floral. Sort of soapy. Lily of the valleys don't have a very strong scent in real life, and its got that sort of snowdrop fragility. Low throw and wear length.
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    Cranberries & Popcorn

    Strong buttery popcorn, with the cranberry giving a tart fruity overlay to it. Actually, it sort of reminds me to fruity cereal and this would be very at home with a Lilith collection. It's sweet, fruity, sort of salty and junk foodie. Great throw and wear length.
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    Fir Needle & Smoke

    Smoky pine. I sort of love it. I think this would make a great atmo actually. Good throw and wear length.
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    Rosewater & Myrrh

    Powdery rosewater. The myrrh makes this into a rose talcum sort of blend, and its nostalgic and makes me think of my grandmother. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Stillness

    White pine, palmarosa, Roman chamomile, patchouli, and lavender. On wet, this is mainly lavender and pine, and as it dries, I get more of the chamomile and patchouli. It becomes much grittier and dirtier. It starts off as a very cool, fresh lavender, and then chamomile/patchouli tag team its way to dominance of the blend. Good throw, and wear length.
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    Anaxagoras

    The fire of the sun, the glow of the moon, and the twinkle of flaming-white stars eclipsed by temple incense and scorched olive leaf: Tunisian amber, Italian bergamot, and blue and white musks blanketed in styrax, libanon, and myrron. Anaxagoras, I am not sure what to think of you. On wet, I got the bergamot and white musk. As it dries I get hints of amber and blue musk, with a hint of white flowers over a base of incense. You smell slightly incensey, slightly white flowery but mainly like amber and blue musk. Very contemplative (I feel like I say that about every blend that has blue musk in it) and actually very Grecian. You know, the pictures that have a rocky hillside covered in white mountain flowers, verdant green grass, and the blue ocean out in the horizon. That's what this smells like. Somewhat pastoral, if the goatherders loved to discuss philosophy and politics when not swanning about in a gorgeous countryside.
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    Fragment 38

    Smoldering red amber, fig wood, and olive blossom.
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    Aevum

    13-year aged patchouli, incense smoke, burgundy tar oudh, teakwood, scorched driftwood, and clove.
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    Right Ventricle

    Breathing life into the body: a joyful burst of sweet orange, Siamese benzoin, ylang ylang, and lime. Sweet orange, lime, and ylang-ylang. This is a citrus based floral, and sort of sugared ylang ylang. Medium throw and wear length.
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    Cafe au Lait & a Wool Blanket

    No scent description provided.
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    Black Fig & Cherry

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    Health Goth

    A perfume for our Sporty Bat: juniper berry, lavender bud, bergamot, and white incense.
  24. A druid’s grove of ash, black pine, oak, rowan, and yew – all warm bark, rustling leaves, and glistening sap – with a scattering of hazelnuts and crushed grass.
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