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"One person said she wants to layer it with Gore-Shock as the perfect accent for her zombie chicken Halloween costume." That would be me. I have that particular decant of tilt-a-hurl. I can't believe I've never actually reviewed this decant. I'm sort of infamous for my love of the weirder blends-I like Gore-shock. This was one of the weirdest I've ever skin tested (and I skin test everything). From memory, it started out a blast of vinegar. Which morphed into chocolate. Which turned into...sex. Not skin musk...it reeked like sex. It's definitely one of the Lupe style skin musks.

First it's all cookies, all the time. Which would be fine, it's behaving better than sugar cookie. It's a really realistic sugar cookie scent, not doughy or raw like a lot of the lab's pastry blends go on me. But then I get blasted with...butter. Ultrarealistic, fresh, butter. I don't want to smell like butter. Then it disappears completely, and then returns really faintly like the smell of incense smoke a long time after you burn some. Whatever it morphs into later, as much as I like the cookie smell I don't want to smell like dairy and stale incense smoke.

I found a bunch of imps shoved in the back of a drawer that I've never tested-a bunch of them were still taped. This was one of them. In the imp: musky rum. My nose is interpreting every musk as 'red' right now, but all I can tell is that it's not a dark musk. Wet: Sweet rum. As in, rum with a little bit of that sweet musk and some vanilla. Honestly, I would like this if it stayed at wet. Dry: Oh man. I'm going to need more of this. It tries to edge into plasticky, but I think that's where I'm in my cycle and the plastic wears off. The spices and the vetiver start coming forward, aggressively, and the rum starts swaggering around a bit. This isn't boozy rum. I need more of this.

Spanked res is my don't f with me blend. Blockbuster is a really effective antianxiety blend on me.

Watermelon Airheads. I used to sneak watermelon airheads when I was growing up during the summer. They sold them at the baseball games down the street for a quarter. Voice is a candy-sugar sweet melon all the way through. Occassionally I amp the woods and -sometimes- get a hint a floral but normally it's just straight up watermelon airheads. Right now I'm amping the woods in everything so it's slightly drier than when I normally wear it. This is completey outside the range of what I normally wear and while I wouldn't want an entire bottle of it, sometimes it's nice to go back to the days I used to drench myself in cucumber melon lotion.

I really wanted to keep this one, but apparently it didn't want to like me as much as I wanted to like it. In the imp: nothing. It hits my blind spot. It might as well be water. Wet: very delicate, very gentle. I was expecting smoke, honestly. This is a very gentle, classic scent that reminds me of something from my past-but I can't put my finger on it. The thought that came to mind was 'important occassion blend'-like a job interview. Dry: The same light, cologny frangrance and I'm starting to get some vanilla out of it. I like it, but it's a complete departure from my normal incense and darkness blends. And...ten minutes later it's ivory soap. Sad face.

I may have reviewed this one already, I'm not sure. In the imp: I'm getting artifical peach and something reading as white musk. On the skin: I swear there is white musk in this one. It's the sour dirtiness of white musk on my skin, the artifical peach, and something else vaguely 'fake' that I can't really place. Dry: I didn't think it was that strong but my boyfriend commented that I was wearing something. It smells like stale peach jolly ranchers, and vaguely stale musk. It's not that bad, and it's a lot better thant the wet stage but it never moves beyond meh. Off to the swaps.

Full confession: I wasn't expecting to like this one. At all. In the imp: sweet (as in fruit sweet) red musk. It does feel very...fresh. I didn't know that red musk could come in fresh. Wet: The strawberry leaf is reading as berries, but actual berries-sometimes the lab's strawberry note reads like hard candy on me. This is actually fruit. It smells like I'm canning. I don't get that much musk out of it, but white musk can do horrible things on my skin and red musk has turned a lot of blends that should have been phenomenal on my skin to meh. "Not much musk" in this case isn't a bad thing. Dry: I do in fact like this one. I like it more and more the more I have it on. The red musk comes forward more but the fruit is keeping it in check. I can sense more than smell the white musk, and I think it's keeping it from being way, way too sweet. I think this one is actually a keeper-which is actually a suprise. My department tends to lean towards fruit-sweet for perfume, and this one would work without being obvious.

In the imp: wine. White wine, actually. A sweet white wine. I guess I'm getting just the grapes. Wet: this is a very bright, sweet blend. I was thinking white musk, the one white musk I can wear, and the florals in Vampire Tears. In fact, wet, this is Vampire Tears without the citrus notes. Dry: The woods and herbs pulls this down from boozy into a light green blend. The Vampire Tears parallel is a lot lessened, which is good-because I want to keep this one but I don't want a box full of twin blends. This is on the strong side in regards to throw on me right now, and I'm not certain this is a 'winter' blend, but I can see liking this one a lot when it warms up and gets humid.

Burned fried rice, on my skin. I couldn't let it go to dry down, the smell was so strong. Oh, and plastic. Burned rice and plastic. I'm guessing this would be great on some people, but there's something with my chemistry that doesn't want to play nice with this one.

what a strange little blend. on skin, and close to skin throw, is singed woods. I like it, it reminds me of a much lighter Erich Zahn. Far throw is very sweet though, very, very sweet. Almost sugar sweet. The musks make this a very rich sugar, and it's very slightly green.

reading the note list i was guessing that this would fall somewhere between the coiled serpent and smut on my skin. in the imp: a bright, sweet red musk. getting a lot of floral out of this one, but not of the i'm a pretty, pretty flower variety. wet: yep. first blast is what i wanted smut to smell like. it's the berry sweet style red musk, but it's pretty dirty. it's not skin style dirty though, just a lot rougher and darker than what smut does on my skin. the head shoppy incense that the patch, champaca, and woods does on my skin is lurking in the background. dry: honestly not a lot of throw. and there's nothing in here that i would call fiery with my skin chemistry. it is a nice blend, even if it does lurk on the backside of powdery-it's almost going amber on me so i'm guessing that this is a white style honey. honestly it even shifts towards spanked res in feel every so often. this one really doesn't want to settle with my chem right now. i'd actually like the incense to come back more, because right now it's still a dirtier style smut, but still not as dirty as what i would like it to be. i think i need to just accept that red musk is never going to be 'sexy' and will always be 'preppy' on my skin.

so strange. so nice. booze cherries in imp...cinnamon rum on the skin. what's really weird is that other reviews are saying koolaid, and i'm the queen of amping koolaide which i normally love. i love the way this sounds...but it's more like samhain or harvest moon than tropical fruity drink. i almost want more fruity drink from this. actually it really reminds me of garden gnome.

It's a clear oil, and I was blasted with wood and herbs in the imp. That's promising. On wet, it's a very dry blend on my skin. There's still a heavy herbal, teaky edge to it. I do feel regal wearing it, but this is not a 'traditional' feminine, princessy blend. This is going to sound weird but it reminds me of Queen Elizabeth or Mary, Queen of Scots- a take no shit queen. Dry, I have to wonder if there is a white floral or white amber in this because it starts to go powdery. I think that this is a power blend on my chemistry rather than a perfume blend because I'm not sure how I feel about the actual scent, but it sort of makes me want to...strut. Not like I feel sexy but I feel...powerful.

oh this is nice. this is a bright sharp....powerful? citrus blend on my skin. i could have sworn that there was rose when first applied, but it settles down to an admittedly young but strong (though not overpowering) citrus. there's a slightly candied edge to it and the white floral feel that vampire tears has. this actually reminds me a lot of vampire tears on my skin, enough so that i would be satisfied to use this as a gc equivilent. it reminds me a lot of crib girls too, just without the honey- so if you can't handle the honey in that one, this one may work. i worked a little with freya today, and i really do feel like this is a good female/feminine energy blend if you're looking for something not traditionally feminine- namesake aside.

I don't normally make my bpal seasonal...but I'm longing for vampire tears right now.

i like this one, and it's one of the few air scents that i can wear. i could swear that there's leather in this though. i think it's the pine working with something else that's giving that impression. the incense in this is much closer to what i wanted midnight mass to smell like. there is something sour lurking underneath it but far, far down. my skin does seem to eat it but i don't think that's a bad thing for incense when i want to wear it to work.

i don't think that i've reviewed this one before. sometimes blends have more an impression to me than a scent, if that make sense to anyone other than me. i can make out the white florals, with the woods and pines underneath. i don't really get orange off of this one. it doesn't really strike me as masculine, but it's not gender neutral or feminine either. i kept thinking that it smelled like a church but that church wasn't really right either. then it hit me. this smells like a funeral parlor. it sort of makes my skin crawl. it's really, really unsettling. it's actually...freaking me out a bit. this is really, really weird.

this. is. torture. king. no. seriously. this is torture king minus the citrus with my chemistry. i have finally found my holy grail GC. and i'm an idiot because it's been sitting in my imp box untested for 2 months.

amber and lavender, bordering on the medicinal. slighty powdery but not necessarily in a bad way. i think the most unhelpful thing about this review is...i can sort of see...old scratch...smelling like this?

this one is so weird...i think that i like it though, it's very much in line with my personality. in the imp and wet, i got a much higher, sweeter smell than i was initially expecting. my head went straight to cinnamon starbursts, if they were ever to make such a thing. On skin, it morphs into pastry, with jam. like a christmas cookie. as it continues to dry the more earthy elements come forward. it becomes heavy on wood rot, leaves, and some sort of freshly cut wood. the scent associations i'm getting from it alternates between old church pews and camping...which makes very much sense in terms of my personal background. i'm not certain i can pull off smelling like leaf rot and church pews but i do think it fits my mental image of the oak king. i think this will be effective as a ritual oil if nothing else.

dry and sweet and leathery. there's a hint of wood and something my nose is trying to tell me is fruity but that has to be a note interaction. the leather and the brown musk are keeping this from being too sharp and resiny in the way that sandlewood does on me sometimes. i get hints of clove but nothing really forward. i think that this is more what i wanted fledging raptor moon to be.

Priala is very, very, very nice to me. Apparenty i get along well with the human phoenix. on my chemistry, this is a much more wearable version of slaugh. slaugh is one of my favorite blends but it's definitely an aggressive sasparilla. this is very much the same feel (i'm guessing it's the myrhs and the smoke interacting) but it's much lighter and sweeter. on my skin she's got a definite hit of vanilla which i think is making me think of slaugh. the cinnamon keeps fading back and forth. the blend verges on plastic but it stays far enough away from it to be wearable. very nice.

weenie order? i actually didn't get to place my weenie order this year but i'm really interested in more samhainophobia and the incensy, heavy ones from the pickman's gallery. Christmas music? yes, please and any type! oddly, christmas music is the only thing that kills my night terrors. i have no idea why. but i listen to it year round when i'm really stressed so i can get a full night's sleep. Rose/mastic flavored things? not rose, but i've had other floral flavored things that i've liked. Anyone else with an Etsy store and a member of Tradeaholics (or you could join) and interested in bartering for gifts for their bunny? i don't have an etsy store but i'm not against trading knits either. my wordpress link in my sig has examples of my stuff. i just need at least a 3 week turn around time- it probably wouldn't take that long but to account for shipping and whatnot- if you want something that's not listed on my trade page already. paint box- not a company that i'm familiar with (really, i don't wander far from my favorite companies but that could change). but these look interesting- guy fawkes, comfort and joy, and the yuletide mariner- i was born in saint john's newfoundland and i'm starting to find myself drawn to that sort of northern seas imagery. i think i'm getting homesick for somewhere i haven't lived in 23 years! Will you be away for any part of the round? just the very tail end- dec 10 and 11th What type of books do you like? Dying to read anything? nothing specific but i love horror anthologies, and the irony of the phrasing is that i'm becoming interested in death as a research topic so nonfic on death/death practices are a good bet since i have nothing in my collection on it other than spook. 26. How do you feel about honey/beeswax? Would you like any? honey, yes, beeswax,no trader joes? eh. i'm not all that convinced by the sounds of trader joes. we have a wegmans that's awesome and aldi carries a lot of trader joes stuff. Would you like a Paintbox from Paintbox Soapworks? If so, which scents? again, i like soap in theory but i really do use liquid soaps more often. NEW QUESTION! - Do you have kids (or kid-like pets) who your fox may want to take into account, either in terms of a little extra goody or simple safety? it's just me, my boyfriend and my beta fish jorge. Who else here loves or would like to try Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics? If so, what would you like? i've honestly never heard of them, but i like trying different eyeshadows. i'm finally learning how to apply eyeliner and i like different colored mascaras. my eyes are grey and the color shifts all the time but i can't wear greens or blues. i shy away from trying foundations/powders because i have both blues and reds in my skintone so i generally just go to sephora and have them match it for me. Have you tried anything from Cocoa Pink and if so, what products and scents do you like or would like to try? i have to admit that while i don't know that company, from what i have heard, most of that type of stuff would be lost on me. however, i love trial sized anything. i'll try anything once. Anybody into nail polish? Any color or formula preferences? not really. If you found a $50 bill on the ground and were to place a Lab order, what would be in it? (And shipping is free through the magical BPAL unicorn!) a bottle of cernnunos (however it's spelled), a bottle of tavern of hell, and imps of nephilim, dee, and old demons of the first class. or a random imp pack of things that aren't too foody or floral. i live in the city of the chicken wing. if i were to send you something savory, what's your heat tolerance (or sweet and heat for that matter). the hotter the better. i don't like feeling my mouth at the end.

Would any Bunny like to receive Holiday serving bowls, trays, platters etc...? Winter/Christmas or Thanksgiving/Fall themed? as much as i love things with turkeys on them, i've pretty much run out of room in my house. I know some people are squicked out at the idea of eating things that other people make, or the thought of deep fried cookies sends them into cardiac arrest. If you were my fox, would you like to receive some homemade goodies, or would you prefer that your goodies came from the store? handmade is completely fine. the only real food allergy around here is scallops. My lovely fluffy Snow Bunny, would you like a bodyscrub made by me? If so, what scent(s) would you like, if you had to think along the lines of essential oils? And would you prefer sugar or salt? A dryer scrub or one that's more oily/moist? sure! either salt or sugar is fine, and any grain is fine. i have horribly dry skin in the winter. scents for scrubs- pretty much anything other than floral or really, really heavy floral. i do prefer them on the drier side. Dear snow bunny, do you like candles? if yes, then what kind? scented (what scents), unscented, what colors, do you like them plain/painted on the outside/with decorations attached to the surface/sculpted? unscented is preferable but i'll burn anything other than floral. all colors would a use. i could use some tealights for my yule log. i don't mind decorations. same with pretty much any style. Also what do you think of little soaps? honestly i prefer gels or scrubs so most soap gets frimped. Socks! Slippers! Do you love them or not really wear them? If you love them, do you also love Sock Dreams? i like little ballet flat style slippers. socks for me are utilitarian items; i don't see the appeal of sock dreams in my life right now...but i wouldn't say no to a ball or two of sock yarn! Dear Snow Bunnies: Do you do a Christmas tree? If yes is it themed or specially colored or do you just have all different ornaments and such? oh my infamous christmas tree. it's white. we've been decorating it in ice blue, royal blue, silver, and white. however i would never be upset if i got decorations in other colors. Would you like a special ornament? sure! would you wear a cowl? honestly? probably not. i have a couple that i made that i'm tempted to tear out for the yarn. Tim Tams. Yay or nay? yes! new question: talk to me of coffee. Whole bean? Ground? Flavored, not flavored? Decaf, whole caff? Favorite roasters? Drip, french press, keurig? BING ON THE TEA? ground would be best but my blender will grind beans. caffinated please! we drink a lot of dark roast and i like spice flavored coffees. we have all three- drip, french, and keurig. we do drinka lot of tea as well, and my boyfriend was looking for hot chocolate last night.