Zaani
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I had a similar experience, it's cool cream and cardamon on me. I'm getting the sense that the blueberry might be a lot more in the throw, which is hard to confirm myself at home.
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This one smells like a sweet, sharp pinch. Like this love bite definitely came from teeth! A great balance of sweet from the boozy fruit and spicy/resinous. The light layer of juicy rose and vanillic tonka round it out nicely. I found this lasted well on me.
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This works really well to make me sleepy, and it lasts a long time. I can still smell a really nice rounded scent with the vanilla, lavender and a bit of lemon verbena when I wake up in the morning. Really glad I got this one! Edit: Just following up that I'm slightly obsessed with this. There's a really beautiful slightly herbal marshmallow smell that hangs around for ages.
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I know there's no apple in this, but wet, I'm getting green apple, nice shampoo vibes. On drydown, I can picture a bright room with suds and fluffy towels. This one is a pretty, very light scent.
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I'm getting wildflower vibes from the honey, which is a musky one, and overall this is a sweet, sultry romp. Just what I was hoping for!
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Heck yeah. I love the range of ingredients in this Luper release. Tomato stems/leaves are one of my favourite scents, and reeled back to classy with the cocoa is just chef kiss. If you are huffing at your fingers after pruning tomatoes like I do, I wholely recommend this one. Sappy greens paired with lots of dry cocoa.
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I've been craving blueberries lately and this one hit the spot. Lots of blueberry jam, spices and rich chocolate are the main notes I'm noticing. Edit: It seems like the blueberry part fades really quickly. *I've gotten mixed results on the balance of the rest of the ingredients, milk/chocolate/spices/tea. Last time I mostly noticed milk and chocolate. This time I'm getting all chai with the spices and tea. Strange.
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Love!! This is a super joyful sour burst of the tropical fruit backed by clean sweet honey. Great for spring.
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This one smells vaguely unisex leaning slightly cologne to me. It's nice, not sweet at all. I know cloudberries by the local name bakeapples and they're very tart orange berries. I don't smell them super strongly, I'm mostly getting the ambergris and musk. Edit: Trying this again now that it's settled, and I'm getting more of the fruitiness from the cloudberries and lemon sticking around. It's a nice fresh scent, and very interesting. I keep coming back to this one! Super lovely to wear, and I find it kind of fresh and calming.
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I'm sad that I didn't like this as much as previous posters. I was kind of hoping for a rose-ginger-dirt scent, in that order, but what I got is more of a ginger-cookies-dirt kind of thing. And it's not my thing. There's something vaguely repulsive about it with the sweet ginger cookie and dead dirt notes that just doesn't sit right with my nose, which I think might have been eased if there was a stronger rose presence.
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Whenever I put this on, I think, "Why did I want to get backups of this?" And then it dries down, and I think, "I have to have backups of this!" It's dark and sweet, and I love it!
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Disclaimer: Some apple scents turn to nasty chemicals on me. I got lemon and white musk, then about a half hour later, sawdust, and after a few hours it kind of reminds me of citronella candles and fly spray. I thiiiink maybe it's the apple that's responsible for making this not work on me.
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A BPAL like my shampoo, conditioner, gel & hair products
Zaani replied to 12catcrazy's topic in Recommendations
Hey! So I recently got the Gosh Hold Me Baby hairspray, and I absolutely love the scent. I'm still new to sniffing things, so the most I've got is that it smells sweet, maybe red-berry-ish (strawberry?), I think medium-light musky?, and it's got a bit of some kind of sharpish clean floral that seems almost aquatic but not "pointy" like jasmine... I may be way off. Sorry for vagueness Google doesn't have any information at all on the notes, at least that I could find, and I really don't have any experience picking out individual notes. If anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be super helpful and appreciated! I would love to smell like this all the time. Thanks! -
Oh, honey... I thought it would be different this time It hasn't turned to B.O. on me like some honeys do when mixed with resins, but there is a definite funk that I'm pretty sure the honey is responsible for. It smells awesome wet, though....
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White Chocolate with Mate, Hazelnut, and Banana Cream
Zaani replied to amanderinorange's topic in Lupercalia
Everyone seems to be getting really varied results from this, judging by the reviews! I got a wonderfully sweet, creamy scent with just enough banana to notice it, backed by citrus-y green tea and just a bit of hazelnut to take the edge off. Totally yummy, I love it -
This one smells delicious for an hour or so, with lots of rum and sweetness. After that, it pretty much fades to nothing. I tried it on a bit of cotton to get it to last longer, but it didn't smell as nice as it does on me.
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My nose is broken... something in this is making me think of peaches o.O Not fresh ones, more like grilled peaches. Maybe it's the boozy note? Either way, it's spicy and delicious! ETA: The drydown goes fairly maple-syrup-y on me as well. Mother Shub's Cthulhustollen reminded me more of cookies/baked goods than this one did particularly. Maybe aging will bring out the cookie goodness!
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Something in this goes funky on my skin. BO/socks-kind of funky I'm not sure if it's the specific honey or a resin, but Bien Loin D'ici did the same thing on me. I've tried a fair number of honey scents and Bien Loin is the only one that smelled weird on me so far, so I'm suspicious that it might be the benzoin rather than the honey.
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(Disclaimer: Still new at this sniffing business!) I love this one. It's exactly what I was hoping it would be - a nice calming, wood-ish blend. Once it dries down, it kind of "flattens out" from the initial pine spike into a well-blended medium green scent that's more complex than just evergreens, though there's plenty of evergreen too It lasts a decent amount of time on me. (At least most of the day - I usually end up putting it on in the afternoons.)
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I'm still new to BPAL, and I was kind of expecting more of a pine-y tree kind of harsh, wintery scent. It's probably there, but I can't pick it out very well. For me, this was mostly light aquatic florals and a bit of mint, though I'm pretty sure the woods are grounding it. I ended up really liking it anyways, even though I was hoping for a scent that would smell a bit more cold and desolate. I'll just have to keep looking for that one, I guess!
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Yum! I'm so glad this one worked on me. I was expecting more of a delicious tea kind of scent, but the tea is kind of background to the sweeter, creamy, spicy bits. The mango certainly does come out swinging, but it backs off a little bit while the cream, pumpkin and spices do their thing, up to a nice coconut finish after a bunch of hours. A nice sweet, spicy, foody scent.
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Looks like apple is one of those scents I'm going to have to be really careful about. The sweet apple in Samhain worked fine on me, but this one was candle-y for about an hour, then turned to flat chemical nastiness. Reapplying does not resuscitate the apple part, it just magnifies the chemical smell instead. Hopefully this will behave itself on my boyfriend instead...
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(New sniffer here, so take this with a grain of salt ) This one is totally cool! I love the "dried leaves" part of the scent, even though it doesn't smell that much like autumn where I live. (It rains ALL THE TIME here, so dry leaves are pretty rare!) The pumpkin part is really nice, but the apple seems a bit overly sweet to me, even though it's not that strong. On the plus side, this apple doesn't turn into flat chemically nastiness after an hour or so like Punkie Night and some other apple scents have done on me. Overall: 4/5 (bonus points for the cool factor, but it's probably not something I will wear often)
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Boo, it seems that I am one of the sweaty-socks honey people that elka mentioned Super disappointed, this one smelled really nice in the imp. ETA: OK, so I wasn't ready to give up on this one. I think maybe the salty caramel plus unfamiliar musk was the thing making me think of sweat, and when I went back and tried it again a few more times, it was less objectionable. I'm still not sure that I like it, but it's not a total loss.