doomsday_disco
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Tonka and Fossilized Amber.
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Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c: dried rose petals scattered among funeral cypresses, a splash of sly tonka fougere, tobacco absolute, and charred white sandalwood skulls.
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The Garden is not Paradise; it is a threshold. A whisper coiling through Eden's dusk: a sinuous sliver of green apple, pomegranate wine, and ripe black fig entwined with nig-blooming vines and enveloped in myrrh, fossilized amber resin, and smoky oud.
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A violent rupture of blood-soaked golden petals threaded with saffron and clove smoke and splashed with blackcurrant and poppy absolute.
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Inevitable surrender. Opening with a heady blend of blood orange and black cherry, the heart of this perfume pulsates with narcotic jasmine, sinuous tuberose, blood amber, vanilla silk, and deep red labdanum. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die — die, sweetly die — into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.” And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.
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Akebia, guava pulp, pink sandalwood, melon, green bergamot, Florentine iris, and sandalwood.
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A slightly more sinister take on our usual Beaver Moon offerings: black cherry and blackberry cheesecake with a smear of chocolate brandy sauce.
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With apologies to my ancestors. Ube halaya and ube ice cream chonked with mango jelly, flan, boiled taro, evaporated milk, sweetened kidney beans, dried coconut, kaong, gulaman, tapioca pearls, and a copious shake of pumpkin spice.
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Hush is a scent to cool the nerves and help inspire serenity in dark times: lemon myrtle, ylang ylang, tangerine, sandalwood, and lavender.
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Blackened lavender thickened with Cretian labdanum, orris absolute, tonka bean, and Lapsang Souchong. Eugène Carrière
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Gurjum balsam, olibanum, blush sandalwood, linden blossom, mallow, mauve labdanum, tonka absolute, woodsy musk, purple dates, and dusty dragon’s blood resin. Antoine-Louis Barye
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A glimmer of hope: white musk glittering with meyer lemon, mimosa, freesia, cashmere wood, and iris petals. Wilhelm Kotarbinski
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You sure did! Here’s your participation award: a bright, sweet lemon candy lightly dusted with sugar to soothe the sting of rejection.
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Goose Moon: Tobacco Absolute and Cherry Chypre
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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Red vegetal musk, tangerine rind, King mandarin, fossilized amber, and neroli.
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Death Moon: Night-Blooming Jasmine and Wisteria Incense
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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Absinthe and Lavender Tar.
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Brown Sugar and Oak.
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Foweles in þe frith þe fisses in þe flod And I mon waxe wod sulch sorw I walke with for beste of bon and blod – 13th century song, anonymous Birds in the wood and in the space between woods, fishes in the flowing waters, I feel I must go mad from mourning because I journey with such sorrow for the beasts of bone and blood. Gnarled boughs of white oak, sweet chestnut, hazel, and holly, blood-red rowan berries, spikes of blackthorn, a scattering of melancholy lilac petals, cade, and crushed lily of the valley.
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Are the black bonbons of my dreams, And your ruby cocoa reflect the hell, In which my heart is pleased to dwell. Dark chocolate, ruby cocoa, blood musk, golden honey, thick black wine, champagne grapes, tobacco flower, plum blossom, tonka bean, oakmoss, carnation, benzoin, opoponax, and sugar cane.
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This goes on with the amber, heliotrope, almond blossom, and ink being the dominant notes, although the white tea is briefly there when freshly applied and then quickly retreats to the background. I'm not familiar with golden lotus, but nothing is jumping out at me as being similar to the bubblegum-like sweetness of pink lotus or the wonderful, airy blue lotus from Blossoming Vulva. The almond blossom adds a sweet creaminess to the scent and helps tames the heliotrope, which is somewhat sharp and perfume-y in this blend, but didn't turn go powdery on me for once. The ink note is on point and most noticeable during the wet phase of the scent and about an hour afterwards, but then it becomes mostly about the heliotrope and almond blossom cream, resting on a bed of amber. I like this and am pleasantly surprised the heliotrope didn't ruin this for me, so I plan to keep the decant. But I don't think I need more of this since I feel like almond blossom cream has popped up a lot lately, and there's a scent combo with an ink note that I really love and probably should have gotten a back-up bottle of (Neglected Calligrahy).
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The lavender, orchid incense, champca orchid, and red labdanum being the strongest notes out of the gate, but the orchid incense ends up being the dominant note throughout wear. The lavender doesn't hang around for long after the wet phase of the scent, and I was expecting the patch in this to be a powerhouse, but I'm not getting much of it at all here. The oakmoss ends up cozying up to the orchid incense so that this mostly becomes an incense-y, mossy blend on me after several hours of wear. Since I prefer this during the first hour of wear when the lavender is still hanging around, I'm going to keep the bottle and use it as a sleep scent.
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Lotus Root and Golden Amber.
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Vetiver Root and Swamp Oud.
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There is our wildest mount- a headless horse. But though it runs unbridled off its course, And all our chocolatiers would seem defied, We have ideas yet that we haven’t tried. Dark chocolate, leather, sweet myrrh, tobacco absolute, and black amber.