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Lady of the Unicorn skull – queens escape to majestic mountain air, lace parasol and riding gloves in hand, corseted and bustled, heart filled with longing. An early 19th-century Italian perfume dabbed on black satin and lace – magnolia blossoms, lilac, orris root, and ambergris accord.
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Lavender jelly with a sparkling pink aurora.
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Creamy white chocolate stirred into warm rice pudding with condensed milk and a dusting of cardamom sugar and saffron.
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Silky white chocolate folded around electric purple taro root.
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Golden pistachios snapped into toffee brittle and sprinkled with dry cocoa powder.
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Terrible Moon: Steamed Milk and Marzipan
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This smells like Lush's Snowcake backed by a buttery milk note. I really like the marzipan aspect of this scent, but I could do without the milk. It's still the duet I enjoyed the most from the duets I tried from the Terrible Moon update, though. -
Terrible Moon: Cardamom and Black Amber
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I almost blind bottled this one, but I decided to be good and go the decant route. I'm glad I opted for a decant instead, because the cardamom in this isn't like the cardamom in most scents I've tried. It is not a gourmand sort of cardamom and smells somewhat clean? I love black amber in scents like Black Amber and Sugarcane and Thomas Sharpe, and I generally enjoy cardamom blends, so I thought this one would be a definite win, but nope. I'll just be thankful that I didn't have great luck with the Terrible Moon scents, because the last Beaver Moon update really got me. -
Terrible Moon: White Sandalwood and Cacao Lotion
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lotion
This lotion features a dry, white sandalwood that is the star of the show, backed by what I swear is a fruity sort of cacao? It is not the same sort of sandalwood and cacao found in Velvet, if anyone is wondering. I was hoping that this one would be heavier on the cacao and that the cacao would be more chocolate-y than fruity, so I don't need more than my decant. -
“You weren’t always a lovebat, were you?” he began. A spoopy confabulation: Pink strawberries floating in sparkling blood orange and French lime fizz, enveloped in a swooshy cape of black velvet plum.
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Vanilla cream engulfed in dark, lush mosses, balsamic woods, and deep green incense tar. Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
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The Lovebirds wanted to be spooky this year, and we didn’t have the heart to tell them that no one will be fooled. A frothy strawberry malted with papaya juice and black cherries, topped with marshmallow cream.
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Her scent is the salt-scraped flesh of blue plums, soothed by a panoply of bioluminescent musks and ambers, threaded with inky oil-spill tendrils of olibanum.
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Hot, heavy slaps of dragon fruit punctuated with pink pepper whimpers and a grunt of patchouli.
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A soothing, uplifting purification oil used in uncrossing and jinx removal and to cleanse ritual spaces. Contains: rosemary, orris butter, frankincense, and rue.
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Snow & Oak Bark.
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Bloodroot & Evergreens.
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A goblet of pale liquid gold infused with an almost iridescent shimmer of lavender essence.
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Lady of the mythical bird Roc – feathers plucked from her hair, spoken spells and hooka smoke, card readings and watching through the mirror. Honeyed hookah tobacco, spiced and dried dark fruits, smoked molasses, and champaca absolute.
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Spiced Chestnut and Honey.
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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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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom. You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, “Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.” For to the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root. You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue. You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. Even those who limp go not backward. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness. You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, You are only loitering and sluggard. Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles. In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing is in all of you. But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea, carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest. And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore. But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little, “Wherefore are you slow and halting?” For the truly good ask not the naked, “Where is your garment?” nor the houseless, “What has befallen your house?” What has befallen your house? Myrrh resin, beeswax, black fig, cypress smoke, and vetiver.
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Delightfully moisturizing and fragranced to charm, not overpower. Treat your skin to a touch of luxury with this sumptuous, softening blend. The splendor and terror of Totality: an abyss of black patchouli, tabac, burgundy pitch, smoky frankincense, and black fig surrounded by a glowing nimbus of fossilized amber.
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Beaver Moon: Pink Lime & Coconut Hair Gloss
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
I tested this in wet hair the first day and in dry hair the next. In wet hair, the scent isn't very noticeable after the initial application, but it has decent staying power in dry hair, as whenever I've put my hair up and then taken it out of its clip, I get hit with the summery coconut and lime goodness. It starts off with the lime being the stronger note, backed by the coconut, but then it's all about the coconut, with a hint of lime. I agree that the coconut note has a coolness to it, and although I'm not generally big on coconut, I do think this one is nice. I will definitely be hanging onto my decant to pair this with Son of biggerCritter and Key Lime Pie, but I am not sure I need more than my decant since the lime doesn't end up sticking around... -
Creaking wooden beams illuminated by hearthfire, beeswax melting on evergreen boughs, polished wood floors draped in vibrant wool rugs, linseed oil, red currant tarts, a hint of clove and orange peel, and sweet brandy apple cider. Mary Fairchild Low
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I waited to test this decant last of all of the November/December Lunacy offerings (hair gloss aside), because this somehow smelled like corn chips when I first smelled it!? I finally tested this yesterday, and I would describe it as an atmospheric gourmand. There's no leather note in this, but I keep feeling like I am smelling some leather or something leather-adjacent -- maybe the linseed oil mixed with something else like the polished wood? The hearthfire and wood notes are the other atmospheric notes that I smell from this, but I don't get anything like evergreen (alas!) or wool on my skin. As far as the gourmand notes go, I get the red currant tarts, but especially the buttery pastry note of the tarts that is reminding me of Drink Me or The Knave of Hearts (probably the latter, but Drink Me was my first instinct). I also get the apple cider, which fortunately isn't too heavily spiced, and the orange peel. It's pretty weird, because sometimes it's more atmospheric, and sometimes it is more foodie -- like hearthfire! No, now it's cider. Inexplicable leather! No, now it's buttery tarts! While I find this to be an interesting scent experience, it's not something I could see myself reaching for as a scent of the day. But if you're looking for an atmospheric gourmand that likes to morph a lot, you should give this one a try and see if it is up your alley.