skyelyric

Greenwoodtree, I am so very sorry for your loss.

@Lucchesa reporting in that I have received all my lovely cards. Got a fun postcard from doomsday_disco, and here they all are.

I've received cards from @amoray, @neptuneanblues, and @theseagrows, so I think I have one more incoming, and then I will post a photo of all my lovely mail. ❤️

My cards went out this morning!  After a little craftfail I decided that was a sign that I should support local small business and just get some pretty cards this round.

I also received a lovely card from the other Heather! @Heatherkins what a wonderful suprise!  I currently have my bouquet set up on the counter, but it's going to go to work with me to brighten up my desk. ❤️

Oh yay, I thought I'd spaced out and missed this!  I'm in.

On 10/11/2022 at 2:55 PM, Lucchesa said:

I looked through Dead Swaps. The last three years it’s gone up Nov. 1, 2&3. So right at the end of 13 Nights and in the middle of wolfenoot and Krampus gift gathering. It’s a smallish swap, tack, snack, wearable and book or pastime.  @skyelyric and @Dark Alice hosted last year — are you folks up for it this year??

Yep, I at least will be hosting the tack!

19 hours ago, Lucchesa said:

@skyelyric @Dark Alice Do you have the bandwidth to run the Tacky Ornament swap this year?  If not, I can take it over but I don't want to step on anyone's feet. 

 

So, I've looked in the Swap Cemetery for card swaps.  It looks like the last one was run in 2012!  Does anyone know who @CardSwap Faery was?  I would be happy to run this one except for one thing.  The instructions are everyone signs up to send either 2, 5 or 10 cards.  Presumably if you send 2, you receive 2, and so on.  That seems mathematically beyond me.  Is there a computer whiz who could help me with the matching?  Or an easy algorithm someone can point me to? 

Yes, I'm definitely up to the tacky swap this year. @Dark Alice, I've got all the documentation saved, so we just need to pick a date and I'll get it posted.

I think the idea of having groups would work, they probably sorted them out that way on the back end anyway even without having spots opened up. 

Tack is up, for those who were looking for it.

This is just incredibly beautiful. It starts off heavily lavender, but sadly my skin eats that pretty fast.  What's left behind however does not disappoint, it's a gorgeous blend of soft wood and soft herby floral, neither camp is overpowering, and it hangs around in this state for quite a while.

This really is a scent of gentle strength, it's not in your face, but comforting and fortifying. There's a little bit of something in the wood notes that reminds me of Lawful from the RPGs, as well.

I'm really pretty delighted by this--If I smell deliberately for them, I get honey and carnation, but if I just sniff without thinking about it, you know that smell in springtime when all the neighborhood trees are in bloom and it's like sweet happy pollen and bees everywhere?  This is exactly that scent to me.

Oh wow, this is a morpher, but Twenty-Four Paragons is absolutely stunning. Seriously, skin test it before you consign it anywhere. In the decant and wet, the fir and cypress are at the forefront, clean and astringent but not overpowering, though it's hard to get much else underneath it.  Over the course of the dry-down the evergreens fade, and I'd kind of forgotten I was wearing it until a billow of gorgeous creamy, slightly woody coconut showed up out of nowhere.  On me this really bloomed when it hit the coconut state, and doesn't seem inclined to morph any further.  I can't pick out individual notes, I'm guessing the woody/floral aspect is coming from the hyssop, and I'm not sure what ti leaf smells like to know what to attribute to it.  Overall this is the surprise hit of the Lupers for me.

Once it settles, I'd put this in the same family of scents as Intrigue, I think, with the woody coconut, but this is bright and creamy where I get a dark, slightly dusty feel from Intrigue.  It reminds me a little of the coconut in Goldenrod Crab Spider, too, but without the tang of citrus from that blend.

Overall impression, I cannot stop sniffing this.  I liked the evergreen phase, I *adore* the coconut.

On 3/17/2019 at 7:43 AM, doublehelix said:

Would anyone be into a crafty themed spring swap?

I'd absolutely sign up.  I keep wanting to run another artswap, but then I look at the current state of my life and laugh hysterically.

This is really quite lovely.  When I first put it on I get the lavender, but it fades on me (and I don't know what palo santo should smell like), but I'm left with that elegant classic perfume kind of scent.   Strangely it reminds me a fair bit of Seated Couple from the Lupers a couple years ago.

Just created this year's tacky ornament swap, so it should go live soon for those interested. =)

Like everyone else, I get TKO on summer vacation. Daybreak starts with nearly straight up lavender, but as it dries, the coconut/vanilla softness makes an appearance. I have a smidge of TKO atmo left (never tried the actual oil), but I actually prefer Daybreak as a sleep scent. I confess I haven't worn it as a daytime scent for fear I'll just curl up in a snuggly ball somewhere and get nothing done.

Lizzie, I get the opposite reaction to you--when I smelled it in the bottle and wet on my skin, I was horrified at the chemistryfail, because it smelled like soured, rotting flowers, like when you leave something in the water in a vase too long. However, before it even dried down, I was surrounded in this beautiful, bright floral cloud...huffed my wrist, still not pleasant, but the throw was *completely* different. After drydown, what's left on my skin is a bright, almost fruity floral. I'll have to test this more with a more normal application than my suspicious tiny test.

Yay tomato leaf! I love that smell and I get it here, playing nicely with the sharp tang of the dead leaves (I always think of a pile of leaves after a fall rain, drenched, decaying a little, with a cold wind blowing the scent around)--basically this is my backyard right now...the end of my tomato plants with all the neighborhood leaves blown into my yard. On my skin, I don't get the black pepper, though I get some of it sniffing the bottle.

Once it dried, I get a little bit of a powdery sweetness creeping in, but my skin tends to do that to a lot of notes, and it doesn't bother me. The scent in the air around me has that dry, crumbling vibe, but if I huff my wrist I still have the gorgeous tomato leaf hiding.

Definitely a keeper for me.

While I can catch whiffs of the individual notes, on my skin this blends into a very nice overall haze of scent. The dead leaves in this blend don't have the tanginess that I expect with that note, they're gentled by the vanilla and clove into something almost reminiscent of scented tobacco to my nose. The leather is a soft, subtle one underpinning the rest of the scent. It's a littel sweet, but still unisex/masculine leaning.

My overall impression is that of an older, scholarly gentleman's study with his pouch of pipe tobacco and well worn leather couches. I'm not super-enamoured of it to wear, but I would adore that vibe in an atmo.

eta: my skin eats this. I'm not a slatherer by nature but if I use just my customary drop it's totally gone within half an hour, any throw or staying power requires a pretty heavy (to me) application.

The lemon note is very clear on first application, but it very quickly fades on my skin, and unfortunately in the early drydown the very lovely incense note is marred by a tart citrus-y funk for the overall impression of citronella candle. The funk stage doesn't last long and turns back into faintly lemony incense; it's not offensive, but not quite my thing either. Pity since the incense note itself is lovely on me.

So very weird...when I applied The Book on my wrist I got a soft, sweet leather with basically no rose; applied in the crook of my elbow it's mostly rose, but unlike most rose scents, it's not going wonky on me, it's one of the more true rose scents I've tried and there's very little throw. If it morphs between delicate leather and real roses like this, I think I'll be snagging myself a bottle.

Love this. Haven't gotten a good picture of mine but it's a semi-sheer, milky pale pink. With two coats the iridescence turns into more of a bluish pearly sheen, but it's still quite pretty. It actually looks like a subtle white-tipped manicure. I do agree that it would be pretty as a sheer single coat, but definitely apply a base coat if your nails are at all ridged, or you'll get lines.

I will say I'm quite impressed with the durability of the claw polish. Applied two coats last night, no base or top coat, dried so quickly I didn't ding my nails at all, and today I spent probably an hour scrubbing paint out of jeans and scraping it off with my nails, and nothing's chipped. Nail torture test passed with flying colors.

Putting up a new review since I just got the 2015 version, and I'm comparing the two. Both are equally light, but the 2015 doesn't have the mellow, almost dusty vibe of the original, instead it's got a much clearer, sharper citrus from the lemongrass and blood orange.

This is definitely in the same snow family to my nose as Skadi (the more recent one, I wasn't around for for the first iteration), Woods in Winter, etc., without any berries or other notes to muddy up the snow scent. Sadly sugared anything and I do not jive, I get a very chemical-y sweet note in with the cold Lab snow smell, and that's the end of that.

So I just got my latest lab order, and I have to say, Full Moon from this year's Lupers is a perfect spring scent.

This is gorgeous and very well blended--I can pick out the notes but nothing's clobbered its way to the foreground. The clove is doing wonders for me in toning down the sandalwood's sweetness, and the whole thing blends into a spicy, not-quite-incensy haze. I think this is still a little strong for me, but the scent itself is just beautiful.

In the bottle I get the moss and cypress very clearly, and there's a snowy, minty clean undertone, the overall effect is sharp and cold, very slightly sweet to my nose.

Unfortunately, this is a total skin chemistry fail on me, something takes it straight to stale cologne territory.