doomsday_disco
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Make some noise if it feels good! Make some noise if it feels bad! A paper pouch of popping peach and sour cherry candy.
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I love the cherry in this, which reads like cherry candy to me -- but sadly, it is fleeting and quickly gives way to the peach, which is super light. I forgot about the popping peach in the description and thought the peach was akin to peach gummy rings. I so wish the cherry had stuck around and that this scent were stronger!
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Honey Dust and Oudh.
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Luminous and serene: a soft breeze of sun-kissed neroli passing over a lush bouquet of honeysuckle, osmanthus, tea rose, vanilla chiffon, and gleaming amber. Frederic Leighton
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Lavender absolute, indigo champaca, Hojari frankincense, cananga flower, agarwood, soft mosses, labdanum absolute, twilight sandalwood, Bengali oud, lime rind, and a drop of cacao absolute.
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Affair Between an Amorous Doctor and a Wanton Married Woman
doomsday_disco replied to Jenjin's topic in Lupercalia
Note: I'm not sure what gurjum balsam smells like, but I can say that I don't get any of the Christmas-y balsam from this. I grabbed a decant of this because I thought it would be a good scent for when you're ill (kind of like Only a Sip), and the lemon and ginger combo definitely does make me think of drinking hot tea with fresh ginger and lemon slices in it when I have a cold or sore throat. The clove cozies up to those notes also adds to those tea-when-you're-under-the-weather vibes. Although I am not familiar with the balsam note, I do think it might be what's lingering in the background after a few hours, adding a gentle woodiness to the scent. I like this enough to keep my decant around to wear when I'm not feeling great... but I haven't yet decided if I need more of this before the Shungas go away. -
Fern and Black Lichen.
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Gongsun Sheng Uses Magic to Cause Heavy Rain and Strong Winds
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Lupercalia
Ebony musk shot through with scarlet, tobacco absolute, a crack of ozone, and sandalwood-dusted rosy skin musk. -
“We must not look at goblin guys, We must not buy their truffles: Who knows what chocolate they wiped On their pantaloons and ruffles?” “Come buy,” call the goblins Hobbling down the glen With their choco pies. Sorry, that was terrible. Coconut covered chocolate lumps, gnarly patchouli, and sweet benzoin.
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Warm hands running over the well-loved tonka-sweet leather bindings of a cherished book. A flutter of gently-yellowed paper and ink suffused with luminous yellow bergamot, honeyed tea, and lavender sugar.
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Cascades of balsa filigree lace, white kid gloves displayed on cherrywood mannequin hands, and a frilly sachet of dried tea rose.
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Gleaming red-tinged eyes peering from the shadows. Ink stains and smoke weave tendrils through aged blackened patchouli, rich amber, and infernal musk.
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A deep, animalic whisper: wild patchouli root, fossilized amber, russet musk, clove bud, juniper needles, hay absolute, and earthy oud with a glimmer of yellow crystalline lemon peel. Frederic Remington
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A heady swish of black velvet patchouli, ambre noir, silken musk, and bourbon vanilla.
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Caramel and Dark Musk.
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Yep, that's butterscotch, alright! It is pretty rough at first (I'm not a fan of butterscotch and was here for the vanilla mint), but it does calm down somewhat and blends well into the vanilla mint, but it makes it warmer, and like the above reviewer mentioned, more syrupy. The mint isn't ever strong and bracing thanks to the powerhouse that is the butterscotch, and it's the warm, butterscotch vanilla combo that is left by the end of a day of wear. Like I suspected when I grabbed a decant of this, I do prefer my vanilla mint scents sans butterscotch (and stronger on the mint!), but fans of butterscotch should appreciate this one.
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13-year aged red patchouli, Damascus rose resin tar, blackcurrant syrup, Egyptian myrrh, and crimson musk seed.
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This is mostly about the rose and DAIRY on me, with the almond part of the milk note only being noticeable when the scent was freshly applied. Then it's full-on actual milk. I see some reviewers have mentioned condensed milk, and I could see that, but I think that's the boba's sweetness combining with the very milky milk note. I can tell that this features a green tea note, but I mostly noticed it during the wet phase of the scent, before it become a rose and dairy party. I ordered a rose milk tea the other day, but this scent is totally unlike the one I'm used to since it has a black tea base instead of a green one. As far as the boba goes, I don't really get the texture of the boba here, just the sweetness it adds to the milk note. I will probably retest this before it goes away, but at the moment, I think I prefer Imose-Yama for a rose and dairy fix.
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I was really excited about trying this one because although I adore many scents from the Mad Tea Party line, I can't wear The White Rabbit because the linen note is so loud on me. So here I was thinking that this was a chocolate-y, linenless White Rabbit. Alas, it is not. I'm still getting a fuckton of linen from this, even though it is not listed as a note. It's accompanied by some white chocolate, touches of white pepper and ginger, and after a few hours, some vanilla that makes it morph into a vanilla musk with the creaminess of the white chocolate and the loud linen note by the end of the day. If I'm wrong about the linen and it's actually something else contributing that perfume-y sharpness, it's not anything I can identify from the listed notes. I really wanted to love this variant, but it was not to be. Glad I went the decant route.
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Couple Engaged in Intimate Acts as the Man Pours Tea
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
I think I had a similar experience to Biocarbons. This was mostly about the jasmine on me (with the tea aspect coming out hours later) and buttery rice. I don't get much yuzu from this, and there's a touch of smoke from the smoked vanilla after the scent has been on the skin for a while, but I'm not really getting the vanilla itself. The jasmine and the rice notes are too loud in this for my liking, but it was fun to get to try it. -
I deathmatched this with Lemon-Scented Sticky Bat and am pleased to report that they are not the same despite both being all about lemon and sugar. This one actually starts off being tarter than Lemon-Scented Sticky Bat, like there's a fresh squeeze of lemon with some sugar behind it, while LSSB is already sugary lemon right out of the gate. However, over time, this one becomes becomes more sugary and less lemony than LSSB. Although this says it is lightly dusted in sugar, I feel like this is like a lemon drop absolutely coated in a ton of white sugar dust. And I am here for it. I have very little LSSB left, and my partner really enjoys this one, so I may have to grab a bottle before this goes away. It will be fantastic during the summer months. ETA: I realized this after my initial review, but this needs to be included: THIS FEATURES THE SAME SUGAR NOTE AS VELVET UNICORN AND I WILL BE NEEDING A BACK-UP BOTTLE.
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This starts off with a burst of black cherry, backed by the rose, and followed by a bit of powdery vanilla. Then, the lipstick accord emerges, and it's the same extremely realistic, creamy, waxy accord from Black Lipstick, only the red ingredients accompanying it here make it evocative of a red lipstick. The iris in here isn't sharp and screechy like it usually is on me, but it definitely becomes more classic iris-infused lipstick with powdery vanilla and less about the other notes after a few hours of wear. I find this to be more wearable than Black Lipstick, but that may be because I'm a cherry ho. But since the cherry is fleeting, I don't feel I need more of this one. But I really appreciate Beth's artistry here.
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Although they share some similar notes, this smells nothing like Kiseru to me, which had vanilla and tobacco notes that I prefer (Antique Lace-esque vanilla musk and French tobacco) to the vanilla and tobacco used in this scent. The vanilla in this, despite the vanilla cream in the description, is more like a skin musk-y bourbon vanilla to me, and the sandalwood is a dry one. There's very little blackcurrant here, and what blackcurrant there is is most noticeable when the scent is freshly applied. I prefer And Though They Are With You Yet They Belong Not To You for my vanilla and sandalwood fix.
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Alas, this one is not for me. I'm getting an unexpected strong, dark musk with the leather on my skin, backed by the resins and tobacco (although they are far in the background), with no chocolate in sight. Wahh! Where's my chocolate!? And why art thou here, musk!?
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This starts off with the lemon being sharper than I had anticipated and giving me citronella candle vibes, but it isn't long before the beeswax and the cream part of the lemon cream smooth it over, so that it's like the creamy beeswax and smoke of scents like (Not So) Penitent (Mini) Magdalene and Shouutsushi Aioi Genji plus lemon cream. I'm going to have to spend more time with this one to see if I need more of it. The wet phase is rough, but the end result is so lovely! Yet I have so many beeswax scents that I don't reach for enough as it is... but this will be perfect to wear during Maomao (Apothecary Diaries) Fridays, so...