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I have a bottle of Sugar Cookie 2008 that honestly smells like it's gone bad. It smells like stale/bad vegetable oil. HOWEVER, I bought it from a seller on LJ who was suspended for, among other things, selling adulterated oils. I didn't think it was bad when I first got it (in 2010?), but over time it's gotten gradually worse in a way that none of my other scents (even other bottles from that year or older) have. So I suspect it's not actually the BPAL's fault, but that the seller diluted it with something that's since gone bad... but does anyone else have an older Sugar Cookie that can comment on what it smells like?

Fortunately, this was the only outright bad experience I've had in all the online buying/swapping I've done.

I have a bottle of the 2005 sugar cookie, and it's still AMAZING. I'm thinking that seller was a giant butt.

 

I love rose. Any suggestions for a current GC rose that's on the darker side? I already have Zombi and love it, but it's more earthy on me than anything.

Black Rose from Rapaccini's Garden.

Spellbound

Whip

 

I definitely second Whip! And perhaps Zombi, for a dirty rose.

Kathmandu for an arid mountaintop scent? It's full of cedar and dry notes.

Google tells me this is likely to be Rosa Rugosa. I haven't found it in the catalogue, nor know of the scent personally.

 

Possibly the Cherokee Rose SN? London (Venerable Victorian Tea Rose… twisted, blackened and emboldened with wickedness) possibly? It's a tea rose, but it could work!

 

Augh I swear I had a scent in my collection with a 'chinese rose' in it that might have worked, if only I could find the name...? Ah, it's Psychodynamic Discharge, though it's a big blend of a lot. (Repressed rage, terror, and subjugated sexuality erupting through fierce bursts of uncontrollable psychic phenomena: black leather and red musk with aged black patchouli, Chinese rose, black pepper, coconut meat, Haitian vetiver, and igneous red ginger)

Or, for something impossibly heady and wafty, try The Raptures and Roses of Vice (Red roses, heady Moroccan musk, cinnamon, lobelia, coconut flesh, magnolia blossoms, and tobacco tar) - a personal favourite. In my opinion it is like being surrounded by a rose plume that is sensual and heady, with touches of creaminess and spice.


I'm sure there are many others that people will suggest, I'm just going through a personal database with scents that interested me and/or I've tried.

Definitely The Antikythera Mechanism (Teakwood, oak, black vanilla, and tobacco). The teak is wonderful! Also Arana, if you want a similar feel, but actually contains no teak.

 

Boomslang (Snake Oil with cocoa, teakwood, and rice milk) also has teak in it, as well as being infinitely delicious. Habu (Snake Oil with ho wood, teak, black musk, and bamboo), another snake pit, also has teak- though I haven't smelled that one; it sounds a bit masculine - maybe your man might like to wear it?

 

And for one more lovely blend containing teak, White Peacock (Teak, ebony wood, osmanthus, patchouli, red sandalwood, vanilla orchid, tonka bean, tobacco, wild musk, spikenard, and sugandh kokila). My personal notes say (haven't worn it in a while) that is starts off quite strongly woody, but slowly morphs into a light and creamy scent.

Red-Spotted Purple! Add that one! It's so gorgeously zesty and citrus, though that may be the yuzu as well as the lime.

 

White thyme, yuzu fruit, hinoki wood, blue cedar, white carnation, plum rind, white mandarin, and lime-tinted white musk.

I can't really recommend the name Destructive Vagina of the Fox Spirit, but the notes (Vanilla orchid, black amber, coffee bean, labdanum, champaca, and oudh) sound like a good match, and the reviews definitely say it's a milky, sweet, creamy coffee.

 

Could just tell her it's called Fox Spirit?

I find that scent to be quite champaca-heavy, and the coffee note is quite green. It is definitely a coffee-based scent, but I don't consider it the drinkable version. It comes across as quite planty in the blend. I know there's another good coffee blend that I've found, but I need to install office so I can access my database. I'll edit this in about half an once I've done so.

 

 

ETA: Get them to try The Turkish VIllage - Thick Turkish coffee, cardamom pods, Damascene roses, and buhur.

I'm still after a rec that's similar to Fuel For Life: Use With Caution by Diesel. I've tried a few with similar notes, haven't found anything that works thus far.

The Antikythera Mechanism smells great when it's on an oft-worn sweater in the colder months. A lot of the vanilla blends do, actually. I love pulling out a sweater I've lazily not washed and it wafts drydown Snake Oil.

 

The woodier blends are lovely too. There's always something nice about Hope and Fear Set Free or Kathmandu when it's freezing out and you want to smell sun-warmed wood.

Judging from today's testing experience with Wild Indigo Duskywing, this might be right up your alley. It's slightly musky, sort of medicinally spicy, and very smoky. Other reviews say they get a leather feel from the notes.

Ok, this is strange, I think I may be allergic to something in Alice in the Pumpkin Patch...every time I have it on I keep sneezing...strange because I never had this reaction to any of my other pumpkin blends....

Have you tried straight-up Alice? It may be something in that blend. The notes for Alice say "Curiouser and curiouser. Milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot."

A Shunga from... I think last year? The Sound of Insects. It's an amazing fruity tea scent, and to my older sibling it invoked the memory of Balinese shrines.

 

It's a really good, clean scent, with a lot of pep, but not too much staying power, since the blend is almost pure top notes.

 

 

It's hard to limit to 5! But here are 5 of my favorites:

Smut

The Black Temple Burlesque Troupe

Fae

Samhain/Samhainophobia

Persephone

 

Honorable mention: snake oil, Blackbear moon, and ondurdis

If you like Smut as much as I do, you might like Sed Non Satiata (probably the closest GC scent to it) or Miss Forcible (what Smut's great grandmother would smell like).

Some scents that remind me of Black Temple Burlesque Troupe are Intrigue (the same fuzzy softness),Titus Andronicus (unisex, and has an almost identical musk) and Velvet.

if you two like BTBT, you should Chase down a decant of Carnaval Diabolique! It has a similar feel, but is more rounded than BTBT.

I'm amazed Achluophobia hasn't been mentioned. It's so deep and foreboding!

A really good maple blend is A World Where There Are Octobers. You could try layering it with something fresh and floral like Tamora (great all-round floral) or Thalia (fruity-floral).

 

I haven't tried many maple blends, according to my datebase. The only other with maple listed as a note is Noh Mask and Maple Leaves, but that's pretty much pure woods and clove.

The way Elbow described the scent makes me think more along the lines of Roadhouse. "Truck stop sleaze. Weedy dandelion and hops with a whiff of tobacco and hemp and a swirl of booziness."

To me that scent is the greenery over a slight warm booziness. It's wonderful!

 

 

By the way, once I saw this thread was bumped, I was so afraid some scents had been DCed.

Dorian to me isn't that warm, but it is lovely. The lemon note cools the scent quite markedly, even though it doesn't tend to be all that noticeable.

 

I suggest you try Tombstone - probably aged, though I think fresh is lovely because the sarsaparilla is just gorgeous to my nose. It is a beautiful warm vanilla with touches of woods and of course, sarsaparilla. Also if you're not afraid of patchouli I suggest giving Goblin a go; the coconut and benzoin give the patchouli an amazing creaminess that really smells like white chocolate and marshmallows.

 

(I might really love warm vanillas)

 

Also for me, the perfect warm vanilla is Banshee Beat, though getting your hands on an imp might be difficult. If you were in Aus I'd send you an almost empty bottle I have to test from, but as is, $15 for an empty to the US just seems weird. I had a new friend sniff me wearing it last night and she said I smelled like stepping into a Lush store (I'm not sure what that means, as I haven't actually been to one, though I own lots of their stuff)!

 

 

ETA: Oh, and if you haven't tried Snake Oil yet, definitely try that one. It just gets warmer and more vanillic as time goes by. Definitely look into that one.

If you can find it, Floater from the Who Killed Amanda Palmer series would be right up your street.

 

"Murky water, rotting leaves, and silt."

What about teal? :'D I don't tend to work with fully aquatic blends, but ambergris SN works quite well. My bf calls me his mermaid or his fairy.

 

I'd love to try something unexpected and new!

I'm looking for a soft candy scent similar to Candy Mountain bubble bar. GC or DC; if I can chase it down I will!

You might be interested in trying the Fae Forest atmo by BPTP.

 

I can't brain right now, but I know the scent you're looking for. It's somewhere in my scent memoryyyyyy~

Athens might be a go for you. It's crazy red wine and cooking herbs on me. It woudl definitely work well on the right person.

Also Cockaigne if you're after cake and wine.

Snake Oil was the beeeeest choice. I hope you had heaps of fun!

The Sound of Insects, for something bright, or Elegba for something sultry and deep.

Honestly, Sugar Cookie 2005 start off as cookie dough on me, then dries down to a vanilla single note. Foody vanilla, but still very pure.

 

Of course, there's the vanilla rum SN as well as the rum tonka SN. A dry, sweet, slightly woody vanilla is aged Tombstone. :3

 

I love vanilla, it's just gorgeous. I would ADORE a proper single note of it.