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This starts off like a cherry tootsie pop, but then it quickly changes more into the cherry brookie scent, and the brookie part makes me think of baked chocolate chips (even though this says batter). It just has that quality of a chocolate chip in a cookie that melted onto a cookie sheet with a slight burnt edge (but it doesn't smell burnt -- I don't know if I am describing this adequately... it's like if you rolled up a ball of cookie dough, but there was a chocolate chip or chunk of chocolate exposed at the bottom of the cookie that ends up oozing out of the cookie during baking). After that phase, it does end up smelling like brookie batter that's more brownie-like, accompanied by the cherry. The grass isn't distinct to my nose, so I wouldn't let the grass note scare you away from trying this. I like this and will definitely be keeping my decant. But I need to give it a full-day slather to see if I need more of this because I have so many brownie scents already. 😅
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This is lovely. When I smelled it in the decant, I wasn't sure how it would go on my skin because something in it made me think it might clash -- maybe it was the herbal quality of the chamomile? But I needn't have worried. I get some lots of lightly spiced cherry accompanied by a cup of chamomile tea. I don't really get a bread pudding scent from this, but that's fine with me. There is a bit of a syrupy quality to the scent after it has been on the skin for a while that I think is supposed to be evocative of a baked good, though. I really love the cherry in this and was pleasantly surprised by how well the chamomile complements it. I've tested it a few times already and am pretty sure I'm going to need a bottle. Of the two cherry scents in the Puppy Love collection, this one is my favorite.
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2026 version. I blind bottled this because I'm running low on my decant of the 2017 vintage. The only reason I didn't get a bottle back then was because I was studying in Germany at the time, so I hoarded by decant I was gifted in a swap and was thrilled at its return this year. Since I didn't ever smell this when it was fresh, it's really not fair of me to compare the two. My decant was already aged when I first tried it. At the moment, my fresh bottle does not smell like the decant, but I think that's really due to age and that it will eventually smell more like it. The lavender, apple, and vanilla are all main players on my skin when I wear the decant, but the fresh bottle is more about the lavender, apple, and patchouli, with less vanilla. I was caught off guard by how much patchouli was in the throw! At one point, I got a lot of the cream part of the vanilla cream in the crook of my elbows that smelled a little funky like cream notes sometimes do, but fortunately, it was overtaken by the apple note, which smells more green to me than red like in my original review. I'll be hanging onto my bottle and am looking forward to seeing how this ages. I'm hoping that the vanilla will gain some strength with age, as it does in most scents.
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Goth music and goth culture are for everyone. The more, the scarier! But try telling that to the troll who’s appointed themselves as guardian of an entire subculture, which they alone seemingly understand every nuance of. So purely for fun, we asked Drew Rausch to visualize this archetype for us as an undead horror host called the GOTHIC GATEKEEPER, who smells like every record store dickhead demanding that you name three songs from the band whose shirt you’re wearing… but the goth version. Behold: pleather, incense, and a ton of vinyl.
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A dribble of Dorian and a squiggle of Snake Oil, delicately stirred with a moss-crusted muddy shovel.
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Black Honey, Black Cherry, and Kyphi Smoke.
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Velvet dark chocolate and tart raspberry liqueur steeped in a splash of warm spiced rum.
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Red peony, sweet red wine, plum blossom, cherry blossom, honeyed apricot, salted yuzu, saffron threads, cedarwood, dark patchouli, and black amber.
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Record of Women’s Treasures of the Way of Elegance Day and Night
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
I decided to grab a decant of this because it shares some notes with Destructive Vagina of the Fox Spirit (vanilla orchid, black amber, coffee bean, labdanum, champaca, and oudh), of which there's probably less than a milliliter left in my bottle. I think that scent being discovered in my early BPAL days really helped cement it as one of my most beloved Shungas, but what I really appreciate about it is that a lot of the notes in it are not really in my wheelhouse at all, but they somehow all come together to create this really pretty scent that I imagine is like... the best indie coffee shop/bookstore. So I deathmatched the two. Record of Women’s Treasures of the Way of Elegance Day and Night does indeed share some similarities with Destructive Vagina, but oddly enough, Destructive Vagina is less destructive. While that scent has a bit of an airy quality to it thanks to the vanilla orchid, Record of Women's Treasures doesn't contain any notes that lift the scent. This is mostly resins, incense, patchouli, and spices on me, with the black pepper being one of the most prominent spices (it made me sneeze at one point). The patchouli, champaca, and spices are very noticeable, especially during the first few hours of wear, and the coffee bean and resins lurk in the background during this time. Once those notes calm down, it settles into a soft resin scent that does smell like a cousin to Destructive Vagina of the Fox Spirit -- I'm guessing because of the labdanum (which is not cola-like in either blend). But Destructive Vagina ends up being the stronger scent by the end of the day. I still prefer Destructive Vagina between the two, but I do enjoy this, and I plan on giving it a full-day slather to see if I need more of it. It's definitely a possibility, since it does share some similarities with that scent (and I doubt I'd be able to find more of that one). -
Calla lilies stained blood red by Snake Oil and daemonorops draco, flecked with poison-touched lily of the valley.
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This starts off with a powerhouse of a lily note that lasts for a few hours and hardly lets anything else through, but then it morphs into a dragon's blood-centric scent that lasts for many hours and hardly let's anything else through , and the dragon's blood in this is the incense-y one and not the spicy floral one (huzzah)!. It ends up settling into mostly dragon's blood on a bed of Snake Oil's musk by the end of the night AND it's so strong that that is also what I smelled on my skin upon waking the next morning. So yeah, it's not very Snake Oil-y right now, but perhaps that will change as it has more time to settle and age. It does have plenty of throw and lasting power, though! I am going to hang onto my decant and test this before the Lupers go down to see if the Snake Oil in it is more prominent.
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Jasmine tea, lemon slices, black frankincense, hinoki cypress, and golden sandalwood.
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Cardamom cream, sweet bourbon, tolu balsam, toasted bamboo, raw cacao, and hinoki.
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French lavender, Thai coconut, cherimoya, and ube.
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Cardamom and Black Amber.
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This doesn't smell like crème brûlée to me, but I'm not mad, because it still smells GLORIOUS. Freshly applied, it reminds me of if you took Vanilla Mandarin and replaced the mandarin with passionfruit and threw in some sugar. Then it morphs. the passionfruit disappears, and for some inexplicable reason, it reminds me of whatever is in the House of Mirrors Atmosphere Spray from Denver Comic Con 2015 that makes it so alluring (wuuuuuuuuuut). And then it morphs again and becomes the most wonderful toasted sugar scent backed by a bit of vanilla. I could not stop huffing my arm. I'm most definitely upgrading my decant to a bottle (or maybe two).
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This starts off strongest on the crushed grass, and I swear it's the same one from Emerald Lace, as the wet phase of the scent strongly reminds me of that one. Eventually, it ends up morphing, and the oolong tea becomes the dominant note. It's the one found in Ceaselessly By My Side the Demon Stirs, which has a tannic quality to it and something that reads like a touch of spice. I get touches of the white musk and moonflower with the tea note, but the green mandarin isn't distinct on me -- I'm not getting anything particularly citrus-y or fruity from this. I preferred the wet phase of the scent when it was very green instead of tea-centric, so I don't need a bottle.
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An aromatic panel of gingerbread conveniently drilled at hip-height, smutted up with patchouli and boozy brown musk.
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Unreleased prototype from a film series. You can probably guess which one.
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Strawberry Moon: Blackberries and Coconut Cream Lotion
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lotion
This reads as a candy-like blackberry scent to me, like a fruity taffy. Imagine there were a blackberry-flavored Mamba or Starburst. It would smell like that. It's not a fresh blackberry, nor is it the wonderful baked blackberry of Four and Twenty Blackbirds. I don't get any coconut from this on my skin, but I'm fine with that. I like the scent and will keep my little sample pot and use it up, but I don't think I need a full bottle of this one since I don't really have a lot of scents that would go with this. -
I just really, really need it to be spring already. A crisp, green, and snappy vegetable perfume. Guiseppe Arcimboldo
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White Peach Fougere.
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“Piglet,” said Rabbit, taking out a pencil, and licking the end of it, “you haven’t any pluck.” “It is hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.” Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: “It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.” Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful, that he forgot to be frightened any more… Pink clover and wild strawberries, red bean paste, pink vanilla, sweet acorns, apple blossom, caramelized almond, and a shy puff of sugar.
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Honey, Tonka Bean, and Toasted Vanilla.
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Honey, Tonka Bean, and Toasted Vanilla
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
This one is strong on the honey. I only tried two scents from this year's Honey Pot, but I believe that this scent and Honey Milk Tea Boba contain the same honey note, which is thick, goopy, golden, and somewhat floral to my nose. This is backed by the tonka and vanilla, which combine with the honey to smell somewhat baby powder-y on me (woe). Eventually, I do get a nice vanilla in the background, but it takes several hours to get there, it's still buried beneath the honey, and the scent stays close to the skin by that point. I am glad I restrained myself from ordering more Honey Pot decants this year, as I thought this would be a winner based on the notes!