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Immediately I get a blast of the sweet, mellow, fizzy aquatic citrus from the GC Sundew. As this dries down it gets a bit greener and a bit of rotting wood pokes out. Oddly for a moss scent, the moss doesn't dominate. It's a bayou scent for sure though.

 

I'd also compare this to Adoration of the Mi-Go.

Oh nice. A healthy dose of snake oil and almond with snow white with just a touch of cotton for that "clean sheets" smell. Too good. Too pure.

 

Edit: I think a lot of people will love this, but on me the cotton smells unpleasantly soapy. Boo.

This is nothing at all like what I expected but I like it. There's a tart, hibiscus heavy tea called Red Zinger. This smells just like a heavily sweetened version of that.

Below I think I can sense some dark myrrh resin, but not a lot.

This hovers on the edge of being a red powdery drink mix smell, but it's better than that. I really like this.

I get a soft, powdery, misty green scent. There's a huge amount of moss and pine is soft, menthol-y, and not like floor cleaner at all.

I don't get a lot of dirt, but then dirt has never been a strong note to my nose. It could be that it's mixed into the moss smell.

It starts out really sweet, almost a medicinal grape syrup. That soon settles down into something nice and the cologney, leaf-moldy leaves come out, before stepping back. I think I smell mint somehow. On the final drydown, it smells like soft violet candy with the occasional faint whiff of something woody.

 

I've never smelled pastilles in my life but I'm pretty sure this is how they would smell. My only reservation is that this scent goes very faint and close to the skin after only a few hours.

It goes on a bit bubblegummy. Must be the cherry and rose. There's a faint picklejuice note that goes away. I'm weirdly reminded of frankincense here. Maybe that's why some people get a church incense note?

 

Not too spicy, I can pick out all the notes. A bit girly and very nice.

Resurrecting to ask about yardwork (not quite gardening, I know, but similar enough to the topic at hand).

 

Has anyone found any scent that works particularly well for them while mowing the lawn? It would be nice to find something that can hold up next gasoline/sweat/newly-cut grass--not to drown them out, but to complement what's already there. I'm new to the world of paying attention to fragrances, so I haven't to my knowledge tried anything with leather or metallic notes, but that's my first thought. Or maybe the mower engine creates enough earthy and metallic notes in its own right, but then I don't know what other notes would best add to it.

 

What are your thoughts?

I think dragon's blood would go with those scents, but some people might find it overwhelming and altogether too sharp with the other elements. Scents with other strong resins might work also.

Light and fresh with sage grounding it, giving it a very slightly smoky earthy tinge. But only slightly. I feel tingly and it isn't scalp allergies. Kind of astringent, energizing.

 

It's funny, I prefer dark perfume oils but the only hair oils I've liked have been fresh and bright.

 

EDIT 2021: I keep coming back to this decant even though hair oil weighs down my hair. This scent does really go with anything and it's an amazing tea.

Hrm...what would TheTick wear?

 

Chaotic, Good, and Lawful?

As someone who is a dark resin lover, I think this is awesome. Myrrh and labdanum happen to be my two favorite scents so there you go.

Only drawback is that the poplar pitch can be a little close to pine tar and very very slightly like gasoline. It makes the scent less sweet than it would otherwise be. If you liked Schwarzer Mond, Streets of Detroit, or Schlaflos Frage Und Antwort you probably would like this. I think I prefer those scents, but this is still a good evocation of darkness with a pale corona of light.

Close to The Forest at Sundown. or whatever that one was that had pink amber. A very nice amber and pink rose with enough spice to prevent it from turning too soapy.

I get the red amber and leather with dark musk. It's not spicy, just red. There's an oily and animalistic sense to this, like leather smoked with incense and rubbed with some slightly odd smelling grease. Plus amber.

This is my favorite of the eclipse scents I've tried. The golden chypre and clove along with the tobacco give it an early autumn feeling. In fact, I'd say this would fit right in with the Weenies fall collection.

Similar to In the Time of Plague (if that was the one with the clove tobacco and roses.) This is smoother if I remember correctly.

 

Edit: after testing: I do get amping rose, tobacco, clove from both. My skin must be doing that. However, Mabel is perfumy and smooth while In the Time of Plague has big nasty rough dark wooden teeth. They do have a very similar edge to the throw though.

Full floral realistic honeysuckle with loads of powdery yellow pollen.

 

Though mostly realistic, it's also not unlike a honeysuckle candle I had once. If anyone had the Pat the Bunny book as a child, this flower smells like that book.

 

Medium to light throw, becomes light but still present after four or five hours.

Alternately brown sugar and herbal lemon at first. Resolves into spices, herbs (not especially lemony), pumpkin and wine. Like VioletChaos said, very autumn without being pure pumpkin spice

Milky coffee at first and nothing but that. Then there's some chocolate syrup and banana. Not a lot of banana but it's there. There may be some papaya or something and there's definitely tobacco.

 

Is that rum? Probably not because otherwise it would be taking over. But it may be sweet coconut. I don't get a whole lot of fruit but it's there lending a sugary feel.

 

I don't get curry, just a ton of rich chocolate syrup. Medium to light throw.

Ginger ale with lime and plastic. Not burning plastic, just plastic. The lime is sweet rather than sour.

After applying: Refreshing. Cucumber with bright lemon. There's a hint of dill maybe or even salt, which is a little worrying but it soon morphs into a green aquatic cologne. The green fougere with lemon reminds me of Virgo 2016. Like that scent, LORDY is also bright and uplifting, but it's aquatic rather than earthy. Not as lemony either.

 

I was a little worried about the leather and coffee notes, but somehow they don't clash horribly. Maybe because I barely notice them. The coffee/ paper is like Misketonic U on me. Only a tiny bit of coffee. The leather provides a base note, coffee provides faint spice. (Disclaimer: My skin eats leather.)

 

One word: Spiffy. I like it but I may not be neat and stylish enough to wear it.

That's definitely some vetiver there. It's not chemical on me, but it's fairly smoky. I also get the deep, thrumming, resonant, almost resinous dirt from Alviss. There could be opoponax here? That could be what smells like asphalt but almost grapey.

 

At times the vetiver can be a little overwhelming, but I love the parts where it steps back a little and allows other elements to appear. It can be almost suffocating at times, comforting at other times. Just like being under the earth.

 

Edit: Soapy undertones eventually.

Lime shaving cream and... I want to like this but all I'm getting is a big whiff of powdery laundry detergent, as if I just stuck my nose in there and snorted it. Not for me.

Amazing. Soft white and lavender flowers (lilac? wisteria? kudzu?) soaked in cold water. They smell a little grape-like. The water is radiant, practically glowing with white light.

 

Sadly the drydown is cloying white florals and dryer sheets. Not for me.

This is a scent I ignored after reading the notes. A few years later, I get it as a frimp and actually try it without remembering what the notes were. I couldn't tell there was leather there, I just got an old parchment scent with vetiver, tobacco, faint incense and crumbling herbs around the edges. I'd never liked most of the book scents I tried, but this one was different.

 

The scent is manly to me, though the sort of man who wears lace collars, traffics with spirits and obsesses over old manuscripts. It seems more like Aziraphale than Aziraphale's actual scent did. On reading the notes, I can definitely tell that there's leather. My skin tends to eat leather so it makes sense that the Tonka and wood would nearly cover it up. This was perfect for the summer heat, maybe due to the rosewood/ incense/herbs/ what other reviewers call aftershave. The tobacco wasn't amping nightmarishly as it sometimes does in summer.

 

My only complaint is that it sticks so close to the skin there's barely any throw.

I ignored this scent for a while because I thought it would be too simple and I wasn't that interested in foody scents. That was a mistake. The currants here are more perfumy than foody to me, but that's not a bad thing. The red ones are tart and almost spicy and the black ones balance that out. And the cake...it's the softest most delicate vanilla cake ever.

In the vial this is a Big Woods smell, smoky and mysterious. On it becomes more simple: pine and smoke. I keep thinking I smell juniper too. The pine isn't super sharp but it's undoubtedly pine. I don't get blood, or maybe that's what makes me think there's juniper here. I'm reminded that pine resin and juniper were both used for mummification.

Both pine and smoke are well balanced but I wish the scent was a little more complicated.

Layering this with a chocolate scent is very good, by the way.

Mostly faint, not very sweet honey mead on me. I get something almost fruity as if there were apples or something citrusy in the mead, but it's not strong. Then the musk and wood come out.

 

This scent reminds me of Shadow's unfavorable impression of mead, although I don't get pickle juice. Not bad, but not for me.