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This features the slushy snow note (sans any evergreen) and some dry white musk (and probably amber) infused with some fizzy lemon lime soda and just the barest hint of cherry on me. I so wanted this to smell like a Shirley Temple, but the cherry and grenadine couldn't hold a candle to the slush and the lemon lime soda on my skin.
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2024 version. I don't know if it is just my skin chemistry running away with the citrus (the citrus is hella strong in the vial, though), but this is very bitter neroli-esque orange peel on me for the first few hours before the rum takes over... and then the rum is still infused with that bitter peel. I only briefly got any almond from this, and I'm not smelling any cookie. Where's the cookie!? The orange peel in this is way too bitter for me, and I really wanted it to smell more like butter cookie than anything else, so this isn't for me. On a positive note, I'm not getting cinnamon from this like reviewers who tried previous vintages?
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I also agree that this is cacao-dusted Snow White. There's a ton of cacao sludge in the bottle, so you would think that it would be waaay more chocolate-y than it ends up being. It starts off as a piece of chocolate-covered marzipan with an edible smelling cherry/almond note that also reminds me of those Italian Rainbow Cookies. But that is fleeting, and it quickly morphs into Snow White with just a hint of cacao in the background. While I was hoping this would be heavier on the cacao, I adore Snow White, so I'm not mad.
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This is mostly about the cherrywood and dried tea rose on me, with only a touch of vanilla lace. The combination of the wood and dried rose kind of makes me think of rosewood, although there's a touch of cherry in the cherrywood. On me, the emphasis is more on the carved wooden aspect of the scent than the other notes. I wish I were getting the experience of other reviewers and that the wood were more subtle on me!
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These five words, in this order, are like a spell that unlocks life-changing autumnal possibilities. So put this fragrance on your dessert mood board: fizzy vanilla ice cream spilling over the rim of a towering, froth-capped glass of ginger ale, drizzled with caramel.
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Caramel Apple Ginger Ale Float
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Event Exclusive Oils
This is mostly about the dry, fizzy ginger ale on me (more fizz with a light touch of earthy ginger) backed by a smidge of caramel. It's not very apple-y to me, and I never get the creamy vanilla ice cream. I thought this was going to be more apple-y and sweeter! -
This is mostly about the pumpkin incense on me. The pumpkin in it reminds me of the pumpkin note used in the 2013 GC Pumpkin Patch scents. I get some musk, patchouli, and amber along with it, and the honeyed chestnut is more like a fresh woodsy chestnut and not a dessert-like Mont Blanc chestnut, but the pumpkin incense remains the dominant note throughout wear. While I don't feel like I need a bottle of this one, I'm glad I tried it and ordered the sticker (the art is so cute)!
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This is mostly about the black cherry and chocolate brandy sauce with some creaminess that is probably meant to be the cheesecake note, but isn't outright cheesecake like the matcha cheesecake Beaver Moon. I'll probably retest this before it goes away, but right now, I wish it were less boozy. Of the two cherry scents that are currently available, I prefer Black Cherry Sufganiyot for my cherry fix.
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Harvest Moon: Apple Pulp and Oats
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I'm upgrading my decant of this one. At first, it reminds me of sun-warmed red apples in an orchard, and then I think I must be getting the oats because I'm reminded of Roof Goblin with its apple and cereal milk, before it settles into a baked apple pulp scent with a hint of spice, but still has touches of that sun-warmed red apple that I got from it in the beginning. I really enjoy this and look forward to wearing this one in late summer and early fall while waiting for Weenies to drop. -
Harvest Moon: Blood Orange and Champagne
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This duet is more about the champagne than the blood orange. So if you're looking for fizzy champagne lightly infused with blood orange, this is for you. But if you want to be slapped in the face with blood orange (like me), you might be disappointed that this isn't a more intense citrus scent. -
Harvest Moon: Corn Husk and Nutmeg
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I get dry, warm, sweet cornhusk when this is first applied, but then this turns powdery on my skin. -
Hunter’s Moon: White Pumpkin and Bergamot
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is a cinnabomb on me, sadly. I am not able to detect any bergamot whatsoever. This is unexpectedly one heavily-spiced pumpkin. I was expecting a non-spiced, sweet, fleshy pumpkin like in White Pumpkin Extrait, with the addition of some bergamot. Alas. -
When these great princes do not appear immediately on the foregoing Citations, or if they hesitate in their obedience, then take frankincense and myrrh, and cast them upon burning coals, and when the smoke arises, place the spirit-seal thereon… Ink-scratched parchment suffused with the smoke of Oman frankincense and Yemeni myrrh.
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WHERE ARE THE DEAD? or, SPIRITUALISM EXPLAINED Containing well authenticated and selected reports of all the different phases of modern spirit phenomena, from table-turning to the visible materialisation of the faces and forms of the departed, and the photographing of spirits ; proving by undeniable facts that those we mourn as DEAD ARE STILL ALIVE, and can communicate with us ; and that Spiritualism is sanctioned by Scripture, and consistent with science and common sense ; with specimens of intensely interesting communications received touching death, the future life, and the experiences of the departed. Also extracts from the literature of Spiritualism, advice to investigators, list of books, addresses of mediums, and all useful information. The Spiritualist, June 19, 1874 An unsettling dance of ethereal murmurs, with ghostly wormwood drifting through the husky warmth of cardamom — a whisper in a shadowed corridor. Hazy lavender and velvety orris cast an otherworldly glow in the darkened corners.
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Distant, enigmatic, shadowed: delicate heliotrope and pale rose petals, muted and soft, resting atop a chilly, intimate base that blends white musk, cashmere woods, and a touch of tonka bean. There was a coldness, it seemed to me, beyond her years, in her smiling melancholy persistent refusal to afford me the least ray of light.
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Red vegetal musk, tangerine rind, King mandarin, fossilized amber, and neroli.
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About two miles from the village of Canton, Me., is a cosey, old-fashioned farm-house which is located directly opposite a graveyard, with no other house in sight. From the window of this little house nothing can be seen except the graveyard with its gleaming stones, and the hills and mountains round about. The family that has been occupying the house moved out not long ago, declaring that they could not stand it any longer, that they were wellnight distracted by the demonstrations. When they told their story a former resident, who now lives in Hartford, announced that he had known for years that the place was haunted. He had not told any one for fear of the ridicule of his neighbors. The demonstrations were not only in the house, but in the barn and around the premises. Regularly every night at 12 o’clock a team of horses rushes from the direction of the village, rumbles over the little bridge at a slashing gait, and then disappears. It never reaches the house. Instead, ghostly voices address the members of the family who have the temerity to live there, the voices coming from all parts of the house, but never so clearly that they can be located. On one memorable night a member of the family went to the barn just at dusk without a lantern. A figure stood at the corner of the building, and he ran to learn what the straggler wanted about the place. The figure silently and mysteriously melted into the shadows and was gone. The Buffalo News, April 20, 1904 A spectral cacophony of shimmering, translucent dun sandalwood, grey amber, and wraith-chilled chestnut galloping through the mist-cloaked shadows of time, a clattering of clove and black pepper, and a crack of phantom leather.
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Cacao, scorched patchouli, roasted chestnuts, and champaca absolute.
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Sometimes we find it purely impossible to function without the kind of hot drink that leaves an oil slick in the cup. Here’s a crisp apple cider scent for those who can relate, complete with melted buttery swirl. Please note: this oil is vegan.
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A one-two punch from mother Malus pumila: a steaming dipperful of expertly-spiced cider that’s been slapped with a generous splash of aged apple brandy. Remember, if it’s boiled, it’s spoiled!
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Take a break from pondering that orb, and mull over this mug! Sweet oud infused with fermented apple, allspice, cinnamon sticks, ginger root, clove, orange slices, and bourbon.
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Fleur de Citronnier (lemon blossom -- the site also has this tagged with lemon).
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A hard candy for hard times: bright, sticky berry with an extra crystalline sparkle and just a pinch of grit.
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Solve. No judgment from us: whatever you did, you surely had your reasons! Instead we’ll simply break down your stubborn resistance to virtue with a dose of black leather, patchouli, and sweet oud, dissipating any lingering angst with a volley of lemon peel, dried plum, opium pod, cardamom, hazelnut, almond, and dates.
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The Day of Kings, the Celebration of the Magi. In Mexico, on January 6th, children place their shoes by their windows. If they have been good during the previous year, the Wise Men tuck gifts into their shoes during the night. Hot cocoa with cinnamon, coffee, and brown sugar.