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This is lovely. It's not the "coldest" snow or ice blend I've ever tried. It's white, powdery, but complex enough to be interesting. It's sweet but not tooth-achingly so. The only notes I can pick out for certain are violet and the barest hint of fir.

This is very clean and I'm considering a bottle

I just tried on a lot of Yule scents but this one is easily my favorite. But then I do like oude and  sweet scents especially if they have non gourmand base notes. (The "stale cardboard" note some reviewers got was certainly oude.)

Mostly caramelized toffee with a spicy roasted note. The oude quickly becomes the strongest note though it's always spiced and sweetened by the other notes. That means that this is not a primarily foody scent. I do get coffee, the normal fruity coffee bean note which never smells exactly like the drink, but it stays in the background. This is ideal for a cold, chilly day.

2 hours ago, Lucchesa said:

This is totally off topic (since I had to google WTNV to find out what you were talking about) but any suggestions for a Pop Art theme? Like, what would Edie Sedgwick wear, or a fembot from Austin Powers? Thanks!

I think Pop Art would be represented best by simple colored musk scents. Also tin, plastic, and metal scents.

However, a fembot would wear Pink Fuzzy Handcuffs from the lupers.

I think California Leaf-Nosed Bat would be another good WTNV scent:
Nightfall in the desert: Mojave yucca, creosote bush, saguaro, dusty clove, and sacred datura.

Maybe Scarlet Horror for Desert bluffs or the Night Vale Council too.

If this was offered in bottle sizes I'd get one so fast. I've said before I don't care for lavender. As a cologne it can go murky and weird but this is nice. A "pure" lavender as someone else said.

It's a blast of pure sage and lavender at first, followed by something sweet and deep, neither too herbal nor too dirty and more than one-note sweetness. This amps on me but I don't mind.

Maybe like TKO (I don't know I haven't tried TKO, but deeper with extra oomph.

I do smell the cola-ish labdanum, though this is not particularly a dark labdanum on me. I do get clove, but not as much as I anticipated.

The truly weird part is that this all meshes together to sort of smell like candlewax. Dusty old candlewax. And maybe white coconut meat?? It's odd.

Low throw.

Tested next to Suffragium, they're much alike, but that one's more wood, this is more light clove and a little smoke. Come to think of it, that smoke plus the oiliness of the labdanum may be why I get candle wax.

I'm vague on specific oils, but I'd look for black musk, oakmoss, and oude.

Edit: Old Moon 2011 The scent of things drifting just on the edge of memory, hiding in shadowed corners. Old, yellowing books, dust-covered toys pushed to the back of the attic, windows obscured by thick, thorny vines, letters discarded, and photographs of people long-forgotten.

This might smell more plastic-y than you'd like though. It does indeed smell dusty.

Haunted Houses (Halloweenies) Quiet, ineffective ghosts haunting the realm of mystery and night, stretching dusty hands back to homes and lifetimes unforgotten: pale gossamer musks swirling in thick, dense otherworldly vapours through cracks in dry wood and old, old stones.

from GC's the only one I can think of offhand is Robin Goodfellow which is rotting wood and plants on me. Maybe Phonenix Steamworks which smelled like a workshop with sage to me. That one might be a little bright for you.

This is a yellow-green scent. The amber smells pale golden, or maybe it's the Ti leaf that has a lemony green tea quality to it. The Ti leaf is the strongest element. While the myrrh and musk are very much present they stay in the background, giving an impression of sleek blackness, fur and silk.

This is not a powdery, chunky old fashioned amber on me, this is a light silky perfume. .

Funky strawberry incense indeed with a somewhat dark luxurious background.

Blackberries can get too sharp on me. These are fine, but they're a little bit Kool-Aid or craft store berry scent.

Probably not for me but not bad.

The oakmoss, myrrh and green musk are murky, the cognac gives it a lift. This is very nice, leaning masculine. While it's not quite Irish Spring soap, there is a clean element to this that manages to avoid soapiness. "Meditative" fits I guess.

I would like to rename this "The Murkiest Glen." It reminds me of a non patchouli-clove version of The Laughter of Loki. Or a non vetivered "Smite All Thy Borders With Frogges"

 

Plague of frogs is a cool, minty* aquatic that I think would work very well for Froppy and her laid-back attitude. Some people get a bit of an oakmoss(?) funk to it though.

 

 

*Not super minty just a tiny bit like mint.

That sounds really nice! I’m half surprised I hadn’t checked out the reviews here in the forum. Might look into that a little more later.

 

Fair warning, this is one of those that seems to vary wildly based on skin chemistry. Everything from "actual dirty aquarium" to "soap" to "beautiful green aquatic."

Plague of frogs is a cool, minty* aquatic that I think would work very well for Froppy and her laid-back attitude. Some people get a bit of an oakmoss(?) funk to it though.

*Not super minty just a tiny bit like mint.

Does anyone have any ideas for the Over the Garden Wall series? I've thought about Love Makes Monsters of Us All, but any other ideas?

Woodsy, cozy fall scents for sure. Scarecrow, Jack, Thanatopsis, Nylarlahotep (The Beast)

Magnificent Autumn, Samhain, Hallow-e'een 1914, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Hearth (Yule), Scarecrow Turned Philosopher (2018), Illimitable Dominion Over All (2018, the edelwoods), In A Whispering Gallery (2018, the tea plantation), Nothing But Death (there's a river scent in it!), The School-House, The Death of Autumn, November (Yule), The Governing Dark's Begun (Yule), Frostbitten Jersey Devil (Yule)

I smell the airy/earthy Spanish moss when it's first applied. After that I get the patchouli. It's a sweet-ish patch on me.

My main impression is black, glossy polished wood. While the green tea doesn't exactly smell like lemon polish it's close enough to be a less-offensive version of it.

I do get a bit of green vegetable-ness overlaying the dark wood. This scent is weirdly formal to me. I could see it as a painted representation of a swamp, all black waters with a little bright green duckweed and a few sprays of gray moss hanging.

I keep forgetting that violets + clove turn to powder on me and the oakmoss doesn't help.

The chypre is prominant, it's black and matte and a little scratchy. Overall I was hoping for something more slinky.

This is super refreshing.

I'm reminded of Green Tree Viper, but with cream and faint waxy honey. It does smell like citrus, but not in a loud, bright, sour lemon way. It's more like the lab's green tea note.

My only problem with this scent is that it gets faint after wear on me. It is cool, summery, and totally work appropriate. The cream does not curdle on me like I'd feared.

I don't get the smoke from smokestack. This is not an industrial smoke on me by any means.

While there is a lot of smoke/ashes, it doesn't overwhelm the other elements of the scent on me. The sandalwood and sage are at least as strong as the smoke and I can certainly pick up the frankincense, or maybe I'm confusing that with the copal.

This is very much like an earthy incense braiser. I really like it.

Very sweet, almost warm berry syrup, sometimes with an odd savory note from the roses.

This seems to have a medium wear length and despite the overwhelming sweetness, I really like it. Wearing it outside I occasionally got whiffs of a pale purple berry scent. The currant is not as perfumy as it usually is on me. I sort of regret trading off my bottle a few years ago now.

Sweet tea roses, like The Rose to me, but slightly more lemony and without the stem note. Plus Shea butter. It's a warm, sweet rose lotion.

Surprisingly, I'm considering a bottle.

It is similar to Knave of Hearts, yes, but there's no blackcurrent. I get a weirdly savory note from Knave. This also seems to last longer on me.

Resin, tobacco, clean cologne (Jareth or Dorian-like fougere with vanilla and lilac?) with a dark, tight, thrummy feeling. I'm reminded of tobacco scented wool over clean linen. This is good, but I'm not sure I need a bottle.

I do recommend this for anyone that wants a tobacco flavored masculine cologne.

Yes. This is just what I wanted. It is very rosy but then I enjoy a couple of single-rose scents, including The Rose.

I imagine the sugar could be mistaken for soap, but on me it's more like rose scented marshmallows, soft and fluffy.

This scent isn't super strong on me because I don't amp rose, but it lasts overnight.

At first this smells strongly like blueberries or blackcurrant and pine. There might be some sweetness coming from the oppoponax and myrrh. My skin sweetens those. There is amber here, certainly. Quickly, it goes a bit powdery, and I almost smell lavender somehow. It's not stinky like lavender sometimes is on me. It must be the combination of the tobacco and oudh which gives it a faintly medicinal tinge.

Especially in the early stages this reminds me of Odd Portents from the Weenies.

Black musk, clove, and myrrh are normally great things that go well together in my opinion. My skin does well with resins too.

But I think the coconut makes everything seem more "funky,". The clove being a very smoky clove doesn't help much. The unpleasant element dies down a lot with wear and it's possible that with the way black musk ages, the whole scent will mellow and become very palatable eventually. Still, I have other black musk and clove scents I prefer.

At first sniff from the bottle I got nothing but waffles.

After I put in on, however, I was reminded of hard, sugary glaze with the cream filling that comes in king cakes.

I like it but I'm a little on the fence because it is Very sweet and fairly simple

Edit: On further wear I also get a soft yeastiness.

Testing this one, I get real blueberries, but canned blueberries in syrup. The crust smells like gram cracker crust to me, but that may just be me. I do get cream, not much, but it's really there. It doesn't go sour like milk sometimes does on my skin.

Overall this is inky, sweet and glorious, but it tends to be faint and quickly fading.