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    A lot of the Luau Lounge, or Tiki Bar scents, were fizzy (especially, to my nose, Te Po, Blue Fire and Golden Wave.) They were LE, but you may be able to find some in swaps. More recently, the summer LE Spinning Multicolored Metallic Pinwheel had a very fizzy quality too. Last Yule's LE The Magi was also very effervescent.

     

    Among GCs, I would particularly recommend The Hamptons as a superfizzy perfume.

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    So, i'm guessing all of the Literary Vampires have dual labels? So far i only have The Girl (x3) and Mircalla (x2, soon to be three). I LOVELOVELOVE the color labels on these, they fit the stories beautifully. So i guess i'm wondering if anyone has color labels for any of the other Vamps, especially Clarimonde.

     

     

    I think it's possible that not all, but only the most popular vampires have two different labels.

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    I don't usually write reviews but once in a while I find a scent that I have to make an exception for. Lambs-Wool is my stand-out of the Weenies this year: the most perfect cider scent ever. Little Bird's description of "apple cider from heaven" is right!

     

    Lambs-Wool is Fearful Pleasure without the loud spices and heavy smokiness that made Fearful Pleasure unwearable for me. Lambs-Wool is Punkie Night without the crazy tart cranberry. But it's also more than those two scents. Lambs-Wool is fizzy (from the ale) delicious cider with an extra jolt of sugar. The spices are delicate (I mostly imagine cinammon sticks), and the ginger is coming through to me very orangey, as if there were big juicy slices of candied orange floating in the vat of cider. I am not getting the milk at all. An all round scrumptious scent.

     

    If you try only one Weenie this year, it has to be Lambs-Wool! :joy: .

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    Sorry, this is not really about pronunciation (although feel free to throw that in) – what does Schlafende Baigneuse mean?

     

    According to one website's translation that I saw, it means "The Sleeping Bather". Most of the pages that I translated came up with "Sleeping", but weren't quite sure what "Baigneuse" was... this was the first that gave me more than "The Sleeping Baigneuse". :lol:

     

    --M

     

    "Bather" actually sounds right for "baigneuse." I vaguely remember that "bain" is "bath" in French. Um... is "schlafende" German and "baigneuse" French (or a related Romance language)? o_O

     

    Thanks! Yes, I also find strange that it seems to be two different languages. Maybe it's a dialect of German or something?

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    Has anyone found anything that's similar to VS's Snowplum? I think it's a limited edition for holiday/wintertime.

     

    I've tried google searching and literally the best description I could come up with was this - Snow plum: A sugar-frosted mix of juicy plums.

     

    So It might be more helpful if you've actually smelled it. It's a very nice scent. Fruity but not overly so, and kinda sugary I guess, but not sweet in a foody way. It's kinda hard to pin down.

     

    That sounds totally like Midwinter's Eve. It's a Yule LE, and it doesn't come back every year but hopefully it will this year.

     

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    Has no one suggested Miskatonic University?

    (A venerable New England MAGICAL university, whose vast library holds many rare, diabolical and obscure arcane works, including one of the few surviving legitimate copies of the Necronomicon. Home to innumerable scholars of the esoteric and the occult, and the notorious Dr. Herbert WestSeverus Snape. The scent of Irish coffee, dusty tomes and polished oakwood halls.)

     

    And for the bubotubors... Squirting Cucumber.

     

     

    To me Hogwarts would be more Tintagel than Misk U. The coffee note doesn't gel with my idea of a British castle.

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    Well, I can tell you that an Australian colleague exclaimed once, when I entered the room: "You smell like boronia!" (Boronia is a native Australian plant). I asked him if that was a good thing and he enthusiastically replied: "It is to me!"

     

    I was wearing House of Mirrors (unfortunately LE), which is a citrus-amber scent. I can see it being reminiscent of the slightly lemony, sun-baked, resiny scent that drought-resistant Australian native plants give off in the summer heat. A very similar and easier to find scent is Sea of Glass.

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