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I've added Temple of the Crone to my Gemini locket, as I am in the Crone stage of life and need the strength of the Crone at this time. I always keep that locket scented with Child Blessing, for my daughter and grandson, as well as the child I was. Now it seems fitting to add the Crone for strength. The scent is a lovely blend, not a screamer, but full of warmth. I get patchouli, a gentle floral, and a bit of unidentifiable herbs. May the Crone in me and the Crones around me give me strength.
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I'm sitting at the table, holding a napkin ring made of carnations and baby's breath over a cup of sweetened peach tea. The steam from the tea mingles with the flowers as I inhale. Lovely! Note: fades quickly to a soft vaguely floral powder scent on me.
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My beloved Snake Oil poured into a pie tin with freshly cut up peaches, not as spiced as Peach Brandy Snake Oil, but just as yummy. A hint of pie crust fades away. Another variant that I'm sure will age beautifully!
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This is so well blended that it's hard to distinguish the individual notes. Peach definitely leads the way, but it immediately becomes a swirl of something so lovely! A little woodsy, somewhat fruity, a dark orchard that you are drawn to enter, but uncertain as to what you will find at the end.
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I tend to be nose blind to Morocco, to my eternal despair. I bought a bottle of this hoping that adding peach might finally introduce me to what I would love to smell in Morocco. Sadly this is not to be. The scent is beautiful, make no mistake, and I have no remorse over purchasing a bottle. I get a lovely peach scented dusting powder with just the slightest hint of spice. This wears close to the skin and is perfect for occasions when I need to be cautious about throw.
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This opens on my skin with an almost sickening sweetness, like a sweetened syrupy poison. Then a cologne, classy and cool and reserved. Finally, the darkness of incense, blood, and clove. I love how this morphs and ends up on me.
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Wow this is not what I expected! At first sniff on my skin, a ZING! of cold electric cologne. Followed immediately by coffee, paperbacks, and wool. How is it possible that I can get all of this at once?! Daniel has surprised me in a good way. I don't love his character in the series, though I do love Eric Bogosian's portrayal. It's just so different from Daniel in the books. This scent definitely smells like the tv character Daniel.
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Wow what a morpher! Initially I got a sour smell from this while freshly applying. What was that!? I love vetiver and it wasn't recognizable as coffee either! Oh I just looked it up and it was the osmanthus! There is a mention in the description of night blooming osmanthus that sometimes it smells like jasmine, and jasmine and I do not get along! Fortunately the sourness fades almost immediately and now I definitely detect the magnolia. Still not getting any vetiver, coffee, or acrid notes. After dry down, this is still mostly a magnolia scent on me but there is something lurking underneath, a darkness. I definitely feel like this would be Louis, his beautiful face so sweet but the despair and darkness that he tries to hide are bubbling barely under the surface. So far Lestat and Louis are unique and different from any other bpals in my collection, and I'm in love with them both!
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Oh goodness, how I have longed for IWTV scents over the decades since the book was originally released! One of my all time favorite books, movies, and now series. Wet on my skin, this opens as a cologne-ish musk, one that I had to look at the notes to be sure it wasn't a fougere. Quickly as it dries, the smoky church appears. I have been inside many medieval European cathedrals, some as recently as July, and I recognize this smell immediately! At this stage, I can't stop huffing my wrist. I typically fear all leather notes, but so far this has not been a problem. After a long dry down and wait, this remains a stunningly gorgeous scent where all the notes are so perfectly blended that no single note exists. It's as complex and as beautiful as my beloved Brat Prince. I would melt into anyone's arms who was wearing this.
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Somehow I failed to ever review this one, so with the new Peach Pie Snake Oil appearing for this year's DragonCon, I must remedy that. First of all I loved this fresh from the bottle. A peachy Snake Oil- for me that means, what's not to love? Four years later, this has aged and the Snake Oil and the peach brandy have melded into a syrupy peach Snake Oil. I just can't find any other words to describe it. It's not one or the other, but an entirely new thing. And I absolutely love it. I'm so glad I was smart enough to buy two bottles of this when it was released. I wear this one a lot in the late August into September weeks.
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This is such a lovely experimental blend! The notes blend together to make a spicy rose incense. Unlike the previous reviewer, I don't get any soapiness or greenness from the rose, just a lovely dried red rose. Maybe that's because my bottle is a little older, I dunno. The ginger from Vixen is toned way down and the champaca doesn't amp on me the way it usually does. Overall a great experiment and I think it would please many. So glad I finally ordered a bottle of this!
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Ambergris Accord
Poenari replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Single Notes, Layering Scents & Simple Blends
I was so excited to see that these new single notes are in the Eternals collection, and thus are impable! Instabuy! Ok I know all of the descriptiveness of ambergris and how it smells when Beth uses it in other scents. But this single note immediately took me back to college in the 1970s. It's THE vintage OG Bonne Bell Skin Musk oil! (Which never listed ambergris as a note.) I've been sitting here with my eyes closed sniffing my wrist for an hour. Upgrading this to a bottle. Note: I also ordered the single note Skin Musk but haven't tried it yet. Will update here if I change my mind after trying that one. -
Petrichor
Poenari replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Single Notes, Layering Scents & Simple Blends
My imp arrived the other day, and I can never let anything rest for too long so I'm testing it today. I'm not feeling very descriptive today so I'm sorry if this isn't very helpful. First impression is that this has to be a note that's in one of my favorite atmo sprays, Skoocoom House, even though petrichor is not listed in that description. But the chill of damp mossy ancient stone is what I get here. I think it's the perfect single note for petrichor! -
I have second-guessed myself for years that I never bought the OG Red Rose perfume back in the day. I think I hadn't yet discovered that Beth DOES make rose blends that don't turn to soap on me. So when this reappeared as a hair gloss, I knew I had to get a bottle. It's so good that I'm contemplating a backup bottle, even though my linen closet has a full shelf of other hair glosses! Spicy dried roses with incense and musk. I love this. Going to wear her as a body spray in addition to in my hair.
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This is oh so yummy! I haven't worn it since last summer, so with another year of aging, my bottle is even better. Snake Oil and Coconut....it's better than a Mounds Bar! The Snake Oil is more prominent than the coconut on me, but that's a good thing. If I want to amp the coconut, I can layer with with my SN Coconut Tree.