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A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
This is mostly about the Rosenkuchen with a splash of coffee in the background. It's too cinnamon-heavy for me, but I'm at least glad that it wasn't strong on the milk note. After a while, the celestial amber musk emerges, and it ends up being all about that note on my skin by the end of the day. I don't dislike it, but I wish my skin hadn't amped the cinnamon in the baked good note and that I had gotten more coffee from this. -
Belladonna Berries and Sugar.
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Death Moon: Belladonna Berries and Sugar
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I don't know what happened with this one, but it didn't smell particularly sugary or strong on the berry note in the vial, and on my skin, it was all soap. I was expecting this to be like the belladonna berry note in Beautiful Death, but with some sugar, but this isn't like that at all. -
Death Moon: Absinthe and Lavender Tar
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This duet is heavier on the absinthe than the lavender. It starts off being very black licorice-y but then ends up calming down to a citrusy herbal green swirled with a bit of lavender. Definitely one for absinthe lovers. -
Boney Moon: Piñon and Blackened Lavender
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I really thought this would be a win and almost blind bottled it, but I ended up going the decant route, and I'm glad I did. I get lightly smoked lavender and pine and then, wham! An unlisted red musk note emerges, and I amp that note, so it is a very musk-swirled lightly smoked lavender with a hint of pine on me. WHY -
This reminds me of Madrigal from Lupercalia 2024 (somnambulic lavender, wild plum, Siamese benzoin, and sugared opium tar) without the lavender. This is mostly about the perfume-y opium tar on me, backed by the plum cognac (which isn't as plum-y as the straight up plum in Madrigal), and a tiny bit of Snake Oil's musk and spices... but my god, the Snake Oil is hella light here and cannot hold a candle to that opium tar. I'm really surprised, since Snake Oil is generally a powerhouse on its own, although it has been lighter in color and throw since I think 2019... I think I'll hang onto my decant to see how this ages, but I don't think this is Snake Oil-y enough for me to warrant a bottle (and I'm no longer getting bottles to age just to see if I love them in the future).
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If this year’s Lupercalia fragrance collection was a book, it would be printed in blood-red ink rolled across the soft, stubborn bodies of dream-pale flowers, and stamped onto heavy black paper. We’d pass it around before the letters had a chance to dry, staining fingers with the turn of every page, marking the curious as aspiring erotes, as fellow Lupercalians. The sanguine contents of this text were made to be devoured by the eyes, the skin, the heart, and then the story continued by its readers, passed along to others. (As ever, please do not consume the perfumes internally or apply them to sensitive body parts. Don’t make us regret deploying such a fragrant metaphor, we’re trusting you to hang onto at least that much cognition.)
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I'm getting a heady white floral note and a fuckton of red musk. The ink is there at first, but it gets overtaken by the heady floral note and the vat of red musk after about an hour, and the red musk is the dominant note by the end of the day. My skin amps red musk, and I'm not a fan of the note, so this isn't a win for me.
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Cake for Breakfast is mostly about the bread of the pain au chocolat for me (I'm actually not getting the chocolate) and the black tea. I get a light touch of peach silk (which is like a light peach note) and a bit of the cherry during the wet phase of the scent and for a little while after, but after that, it's all about the bread and tea. The cream emerges and makes this a buttery bread backed by some tea after several hours of wear. I wish I were getting more cherry like the other reviewers! As it is, it's a good bread scent, but I have enough buttery bread scents that I don't need more in my life.
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A rare wild herb that only grows in California, primarily where fires have recently erupted. A scent of renewal, a vibrant cascade of crimson, orange, and russet: tangerine, scarlet musk, honey absolute, red amber, pink peppercorn, and champaca. Please note: this oil is not vegan.
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Lychee tears soaking through a blindfold of opium tar.
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Alas, I'm getting black licorice too. No opium or lychee, just black licorice on my skin. Wahhh.
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Corvissa, Lady of the Yale skull – gold-plated armor and warm, sweet promises, steel striking steel, stolen glances and secret kisses. Gleaming gold-plated armor, sharpened steel, fossilized amber, and frankincense tears.
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The isolation had been dreadful, but anything was preferable to this. Scarlet musk, red oud, opium poppy, and tobacco absolute.
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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. -
Helps you hold onto what you have. Contains: alfalfa, patchouli root, Irish moss, five finger grass, sassafras, cinnamon, bay laurel, bergamot, allspice, and thyme.
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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.