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A dense and melty confection, baked with skill and love by someone with the power to accidentally annihilate your weekend plans.

A bracing, invigorating blend of lemon, lime, pink grapefruit, Italian bergamot, and peppermint will replenish your senses, refresh your mind, alleviate stress, and banish exhaustion! I got this as a tester from my CON fairy, as apparently there is a perfume oil for the Exhibit Fall Fatigue BO product, which essentially SMELLS the same. Having never tried the bath oil, I have to say that I got the BIGGEST blast of mint on wet. It was... overwhelming. I actually think there was some menthol in it as well. It smelled on wet like Vick's Vapo Rub (the lemon scented type). I would know, since I've been recovering from a cold and Vick's Vapo Rub came to the rescue. At this point, It sort of reminds me to OOF, but even mintier. As it dries, some of the more citrus elements become apparent and I definitely get the lemon, grapefruit and bergamot notes. It's more a medicinal Panacea blend than actual perfume. Very fresh, very bracing, very citrus.

The overwhelming incalculability of space, the glow and fade of countless days, the starry expanse of night. A scent that reaches into eternity and towards forever: glittering bergamot, lemon peel, and golden amber, star-flecked labdanum, neroli, and clary sage.

A flash of amber fur skittering through shadows of opoponax, red labdanum, and myrrh.

Wild orchid, indigo poppies, incense smoke, wisteria, and apple pulp.

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A glistening haystack of shredded coconut, molded by hand into a tasty, wee cannonball that will knock you off right off your damn perch.

Polished white sandalwood, dried rose petals, and rice powder

Rose water and sorrowful carrot seed, cognac, and faded lilies

A vintage 1920's dry moss chypre with warm brown leather and a drop of sweet vetiver.

Crushed seaglass and glittering coral, rockrose, salt water, iridescent algae, and white oudh

Ancient tomes, well-loved yellow paperbacks, leather-bound grimories, crumbling parchment scrolls, mimeograph ink, and tattered zines

7-year aged patchouli glimmering with tuberose, jasmine samba, lily of the valley, opalescent white moss, and white musk. A ton of patchouli, touches of jasmine and lily of the valley, with an edge of musk. Oooh. The patchouli here reminds me to Silkybat, and sort of also reminds me to the patchouli in Banshee Beat. If you love yourself some patchouli, give this one a whirl. Good throw and wear length.

No additional description provided. Scent description for Jersey Devil is here.] This one is mainly Jersey Devil with a touch of snow. I get mainly notes of frosted cranberries and blackberries. And a background of cedar. Good throw and wear length.

Blue cypress, butterfly jasmine, green tea, black orchid, and white champa blossom.

Is it premature to release an oil of playfulness while we are still in the throes of [waves hands] all this shit? It might be, but the heavens know I need this oil so it’s going live in case you do, too. This oil was constructed to bring lightheartedness, good humor, and bubbling high spirits. It can be worn as a perfume or used in rituals structured to remind you how to laugh, how to smile, how to have fun, and how to find enjoyment and satisfaction in small everyday delights. It can be used as an inspiration and creativity oil, or just to get your spark back. Bounce contains orange blossoms harvested from the TAL garden, neroli, gum mastic, frankincense, vanilla bean, and carnation absolute.

Crushed baby’s breath dusted with baby powder.

"A new year’s blessing! Peony, China’s national flower, with bamboo for flexibility, plum blossom for perseverance, courage, and hope, tangerine for wealth, lychee for strong family relationships and peace in the home, orange for happiness, pine resin for constancy, golden kumquat and quince for prosperity, narcissus and King mandarin for good fortune, coconut for longevity, and candied melon for good health, with a splash of blazing red of dragon’s blood… to help you scare away the rampaging Nian."

A solemn paean to the dreams, destruction, despair, and delusions of the Gold Rush: sarsaparilla, cedar, and tobacco glittering with a Fool’s Gold bounty of brittle amber and mineralic aldehydes.

A spray of rose-tinted blades: rose otto, razor-sharp white musk, white sandalwood, sugar musk, red currant, vanilla, green cognac, and guava.

Wild plum, sweet incense smoke, white ginger, red sandalwood, labdanum, white tea, and pink pepper.

Golden peach and black oudh with lychee, auburn musk, and Italian bergamot. Peach, lychee, and musky oudh. I get a fair bit of both lychee and bergamot on wet, but it dries to a peachy-musky type of blend. I am really intrigued by the auburn musk in this blend and hope that it makes an appearance in others, so I can get a better sense of it. Fruity, peachy, and definitely with whiff of lychee in it. Medium throw, medium wear length on me.

Dismissively forbidding: white musk, honeyed orange blossom, and orris slammed by black pepper, tobacco absolute, blue musk, and cedar. No Pls, you win as the strangest of the Dragon blends this year. I get mainly blue musk, cedar, whiffs of both tobacco and black pepper with just a hint of orange blossom. To me, you smell like a perfume pencil. Its like if you dreamed that you had this pencil, and instead of writing, it just squirted perfume. Yup. That's how I envision this working out. Great throw and wear length though, so A+ for performance, and A++ for weirdness.

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