Lorna Brigid

So after my shower tonight, I grabbed from my imp ammo case, and happened to grab this. I must’ve gotten this as a frimp sometime, or I got it as a decant in one of the first decant circles I bought from in 2010...

Well, normally I avoid anise and licorice notes, they’re too strong for me. But over time the anise must’ve mellowed, because now this is amazing!!! Sweet juicy Pom and red musk, with a little cocoa and tobacco. Very nice!!!

I know I'm late to this party, but I'm throwing in a rec for Nemesis, in the GC.

That smells like arid dry heat to me for sure!

Zee's review is spot on!

The red musk is always there in the background, stepping to the forefront now and then, with the vetiver going back and forth. It's a smoky, but not charred vetiver. I don't get much from the apricot. The clove is there too, but it's not annoying clove, it just melds with the vetiver into the red musk.

It was "Hoooo!" On wet, but on dry down it is reminding me of an old favorite: The Living Flame.

Cherrycherry (Appropriate name for this scent's review) hit it dead on, " It's like a black cherry, cream and rosewater dessert with a soft, boozy undertone."

Tallgrrl78 likened this to Pink Snowballs with black cherry, and I was happy to hear that as i love Pink Snowballs.

I haven't had good luck finding a good cherry Bpal (I'd love to get my hands on Bloody Mary), and Libitina does not disappoint me!!

I totally get the Pink Snowballs vibe, and it mingles strangely with the black cherry and is beautiful and unique! I can't stop huffing my arms cuz I'm not used to it yet!

SO PRETTY!

I'm not a HI I AM ROSE! lover, so this is just perfection to me.

It stays close to the skin on me, too. Throw is not very strong...Well, it seems to last well, and feels fairly strong, but it doesn't waft too far from me.

I was worried about the cardamom in this, because I didn't much care for Sachs.

However, I love this!!!!

Aristorcratic Couple is everything I wished of Love's Philosophy, or Harp of Corvair or something or nother....

It's like Underpants's innocent younger sister, that was brought up on the Upper West Side.

Soft, sweet and sophisticated without being cloying. Yum!!

I'm amending this initial review because this morning when I put this on for a full day skin test, it smells so much like my beloved Haloes!! This must the same apricot note.

LOVE THIS!! It is so soft it fades fast on my skin, though. I just put my nose right in the crook of my elbow where I applied it generously this morning, and it is already gone. It's 12:06 pm.

I first got to try this in late December/early January.

I did not have any money in December to be able to purchase a bottle, because I was still catching up from being on a medical leave from work, but I would have liked to.

Now oh, I wish I would have!!!

I tried it from a swap box in a tester, and fell in love, and felt the NEEEEEEED for a bottle....You know, that intense craving you get for a scent, that craving that so rarely hits so hard....

Was DISO for several weeks, til a kind Forumite let me buy her bottle.

SO Below is SO good.......

Warm, sweet, smoky, creamy....This patch does not go pungent on me, thanks to the cardamom, the patch keeps it from being too foody, and the coconut is more like a body butter, like what was said above......Just, ugh!!! Soooo beautiful and comforting with a shmexy side.... sooooo goooooood.....*eyes roll back in my head*

I was curious about this scent, mainly for the absinthe and Victorian oriental perfume portions.

On me, I get mostly laudanum, some of the absinthe with a hint of ozone.... and the rest of it I can't quite name!

This actually reminds me of a bottle of perfume I had as a child! Seriously! I can see and feel it in my mind. It was about an 8 or 10 inch plastic bottle that had a patchwork style calico blue dress with an apron on it held on by the elastic in it. The cap had a hard foam ball with a felt or nylon fabric for the head with yarn hair and a straw hat on it.

So I am not sure what those notes are that were in it, but this is a pleasant scent. Thanks for the throwback to my memory!

Finally, a chocolate/cocoa bpal that doesn't go wonky on me!!!

The cocoa wafts around, sweetened by the hay and nutmeg, and even more by the plum, which comes out in the wet stage on my skin. Oh pretty plum!! I wuvs you!!

To keep it from being too cloyingly sweet, the sandalwood comes in and tempers the two heavyweights; cocoa and plum. the sandalwood acts as a buffer between the two, balancing it all out.

I love this scent. SO glad I got a bottle of it from a swap!

I second the Pumpkin V and El dia de los Reyes scents!!

I've owned them both, and they are the coffeeist bpals I've ever smelled.

I'm glad you guys above are pleased.

Sadly, all the hype I built myself up with on this....I dreamed about this blend before they were released, so I was sure it was going to be amazeballs on me.

I received my bottle a couple days ago.....

I can smell the patch and that classic Sin, along with a creamy pumpkin.

SEXY PUMPKIN, INDEED!

However, it is all covered with a smoggy layer of cinnamon.

Now mind you, it is a good cinnamon; no burning or stinging or hurting your skin or nose...this cinnamon plays nice....except that it is there in the first place give me a sad.

I didn't want this to smell like a cinnamon roll.

2013 version:

I looked so forward to getting this one. Crystalline musk and I are good friends.

However, this is one of those cases where Beth captures the scent of something so perfectly and titles it aptly!

Signor Dildo smells exactly like a rubber dildo or a condom covered dick to my nose.

*sigh* My perfume is getting more action than I am.

Plum? Black cherry? Rose petals? Coffee bean? Yes please to all!! These are some of my favorite notes!!

Alas, this stuff is 90 proof!

Whoah, if I got pulled over wearing this, I'd get a breathalizer for sure.

I can't get any of the lovely notes out of this because the wine overpowers all of it.

I haz sad face.

This is a beautiful mix of buttery chestnut, white musk and peppered with soft wildflowers!

One of my best friends is named Cristina, spelled exactly the same way, and she was thrilled when I gave her a bottle of this for her birthday one year. She is also Romanian, I might add!

Beautiful scent for a beautiful person.

This is the bpal quintessential holiday apples and cinnamon scent!

And to be honest, the only apple or cinnamon scent that actually works on my skin! Neither one is more prominent than the other, and it works and smells more natural than any apple cinnamon at the craft store. That is probably due to the ginger, milk and ale notes to round it out.

I looked forward to trying the Lurid Library, and finally got my chance with the 2012 Weenies.

Honestly, this is all dust and Chanel No. 5 to me!!

It is pleasant for sure, but I think all I need is the imp. This is not something I reach for.

Ghoulish is candy to me!

Smells just like cherry and saffron hard candies melted down.

When this is on my skin I picture being in a big candy shop surrounded by crystal and powdered sugar, and rock candies and lollipops everywhere!

Weird, huh??

I guess that goes with all the candy collected from trick-or-treating.

Morocco is in my top 10 and probably always will be. It is as necessary to me as Snake Oil is to a lot of us....hell, it is almost as necessary as air itself!

I cannot begin to describe how good it is, which is probably why I have not yet reviewed it all this time. But I shall try!

It is like a warm, sweet, fresh breeze. That's the best way I can describe it. I always get complimented when I wear it.

I don't get much of the red sandalwood or cassia. On me it is all musk, carnation and spices. The musk and carnation are what keep it from being TOO warm, and the spices are what lend the sweet and yet exotic parts.

It has decent throw on me, and lasts and lasts. It is both comforting and alluring at once.

I really liked this blend!

I loved the dry leaves note. Sometimes that is iffy, it's not as dry as you want it. It's just right in this one though!

I love amber and vanilla and dry leaves. Yum!!

Usually white musk and I are friends, too.

But the one thing I couldn't do in this one is the white cocoa. I worried about that when I ordered it, but the curiosity overtook my fear of the white cocoa.

Sadly, the sickly sweetness of white chocolate or cocoa was just too much for me. Regular choc/cocoa is iffy enough for me, but the white variety just does not do good on my skin AT ALL.

Sad for me, but good for my scent sister, who IS ok with those chocs and cocoas!

Mine is from 2011, and I wear it every October 31st.

This is the quintessential autumn blend.

For me, the apple, mullein, damp woods and clove are the strongest notes that jump out on my skin. It almost smells like an appley beer brew out in the woods around a bonfire on a chilly night.

There is definitely stay and throw to this, and I think due to the notes and the strength, that is why I only wear it around October 31st. It's just a very specific blend.

Very well done, too!

I could have sworn I reviewed this! Maybe I am just thinking of my own notes on my spreadsheet when I think I've reviewed something....

This is one of those blends that makes you go "How the hell does Beth DO that?!?" This blend seriously does make you think blood, brimstone and copper feathers! It's crazy how she does it, but she does!!

It's definitely an interesting and good for role playing kind of scent. Also unisex, it's neither masculine or feminine to me. But smells exactly as the notes are! Nice job!

I'm so glad I got a decant of this last year! I've been wearing it with this 70 degree weather, in anticipation of new Weenies.

It truly is like a pumpkin latte, with this beautiful mango blended into it. When I wear this and smell it wafting up, I really feel as though I can taste it and have a cup of it in my hand.

The mango is definitely the forerunner scent, the cardamom probably being the one to balance it out from becoming too citrusy over the ginger, saffron and milk.

Yummy!

Do ya know, I get so many compliments when I wear peach scents? Yet I have to be careful, because so many peach blends smell too strong or fake on me. I love the soft natural peach scent.

This does it! This has to be the most muted and yet still sweet peach but definitely "moonlightish" scent I've ever tried!

I get sooooo many compliments when I wear this, just because it is such a beautiful soft peach scent!

Thank goodness the jasmine and ho wood play nice and just do their part in the blend, never getting in my face. Usually those are dangerous notes for me that scare me away from a blend. But I got this for my love of peach in my earlier time here, and it was a fortunate win.

Even with the latest peach batches, this is still my all time favorite peach blend. The moonlit musk and white tea go with it just perfectly! I can't say enough about how lovely and understated this is!

There are few "soft and quiet" blends I wear, but this is so pretty it is one of them!

I just got this in a swap, and my jury is still out on it.

It's definitely different, in a good way!

You have two warm notes, and two cool notes. I don't really get much of the amber, but maybe it is what helps calm the lotus. I was expecting that really sweet lotus note like from black lotus, but nope! It hints at it, that yes there is lotus here, but the pine and rose otto cool it off to calm it down. Definitely get that pine there, which is almost a peppery kind of pine.

It is very pretty, I just am having a hard time deciding how much I like it!

I am a lover of the 2009 version of this, and I seem to only wear it in the summer. It feels like a cooling, floral scent to me to be worn in hot weather!

I just love the cool, smoky semi sweet scent of the orchid, benzoin and oppoponax together! There is also mild aquatic and "mistiness" from the oakmoss and ambergris.

This is really reminiscent to me of a dark forest at night with a full moon, and sweet flowers all around you perfuming the mist. Oh, and did I mention in said forest there is dew and fog, it is the hour before dawn? So I think because it is so evocative, that is why I save it for those humid summer days. Very lovely!

I really didn't submit my review of this?? Really?!?

Could have sworn I had....but there is no page of lines on the icon for the topic, so I must not have...

I'm a rarity here, I actually do NOT love Banshee Beat.

I recall I got my bottle from Urban Outfitters, a day or two before xmas, whenever this was still out, be it a year or two ago.

I sold it within the same hour it had been delivered to my door!

Not only did I smell dirty hippie, I smelled old dead dirty hippie's money!! The drydown was no better. There was no syrupy sweet vanilla to save me. It was really raunchy on me, and made me . Death and money is really the best way I can describe it. It was baaaaaaad. All you guys can have it, it is not for me!