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Addressing you directly, dear reader, with this important message: NYAHHHH!! Cheeky blackcurrant against a backdrop of scorched goat’s milk, festooned with ribbons of scarlet musk, dried plum, and sweet rose-infused 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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A meeting of the mindless: trampled grass, crushed apples, and a flash of red currant motley.
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Control your own fate? You can’t even control your fête! A rollicking scent that upturns hierarchies and flies in the face of conventions: cacophonous red poppy, sweet almond cream, wildflower honey, molasses, gingerbread, scarlet jasmine, red amber, lemon peel, Spanish moss, and black musk.
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Euer Narren lache ich allen, denn nur ihre Kolben tun gefallen
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Limited Editions
The scent of denial, of looking the other way, of tolerating the intolerable: white peppercorn peering slyly through green tangerine, mandarin, mimosa, and red lotus root. -
yoru hisokani mushi wa gekka no kuri o ugatsu in the moonlight a worm silently burrows through a chestnut – Bashō A squiggle of red sandalwood and orris chomping into wild chestnuts, oak bark, and fig.
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Rain-dappled moss, golden silk, and sheer, gossamer vanilla.
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Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play, whose drowsy pow’r divides the nat’ral day: ink-black opoponax absolute, glittering amber, caramelized oud, black styrax, and Oman frankincense.
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River reeds, fen violets, water lilies, starfruit, wild berries, lily of the valley, and climbing roses.
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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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Purple Fig and Violets.
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White Sandalwood and Honey Cream.
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Clove and Pink Pepper.
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Chestnut and Rum.
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Bourbon Vanilla and Teakwood.
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Balsam & Leather.
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Ambergris foam, twinkling white musk, lime rind, frosted lemon, Norway spruce, sour green apple, night-blooming jasmine, Icelandic moss, and yellow bergamot.
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Dwarves have the highest standards in beard care, and we aim to please even the grimmest and grouchiest of the lot. Patchouli root, golden amber coins, jewel-bright red musk, mineral oudh, and sweet ale.
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Regal balsamic amber teeming with hyacinth petals, narcissus, Siam benzoin, white amber, sweet oakmoss, and pearlescent orchid.
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Ecclesiastical incense, Roman flora, and the fruits of martyrdom: cypress, olive blossom, frankincense, myrrh, and blood accord. 2011 version. This decant was frimped to me, and I liked it more than I thought I would based on the notes. I get olive blossom on a bed of resins at first, (the smooth frankincense is the standout resin on me throughout wear, and the myrrh in this isn't a bold, dark variety), with just a hint of cypress, but then the cypress disappears, and olive blossom calms down, so that the blend mostly ends up being about the frankincense and the blood musk. The blood musk is not red musk, and I think it may have something in common with whatever comprises the blood note in Mithras from the American Gods line. (I didn't deathmatch the two to be sure, but that was a thought I had while I was testing this). I'm not getting anything particularly smoky on my skin, and for that, I am glad. While this is not something I need more of, it's much more pleasant than I thought it would be, and I'm glad I got to try it!
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This starts off with some sugared cherry, accompanied by some chestnut and moss. I don't smell the cola-like labdanum that's usually present in the Lab's labdanum scents, so if you're worried about this turning into flat cola, fret not! The cherry chypre in this scent reminds me of Gen Z Feminist Cenobite, only more sugared. To my dismay, the cherry in this scent is super short-lived, though, and it becomes an earthy scent that is mostly about the moss and chestnut. Come back, cherry! This is not something I need a bottle of, but if you're looking for something similar to Gen Z Feminist Cenobite, you may want to give this a try. This is like it's earthier cousin (although I think the cherry in that Lilith scent sticks around on me longer).
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This is mostly about a very bold leather note on me, accompanied by a cucumber-like paper note, and some incense-y hearthsmoke. I don't love this leather, paper, or smoke. The lavender is missing in action on me, and I only get a hint of rosewater after it has been dry for a few hours. At least I didn't get a bunch of linen with the leather, paper, and smoke notes, though. I'm not sure what is representing the lamp oil here, but the leather, cucumber-esque paper, and incense-y smoke were so strong on me that it was hard to detect any other notes. I'd say I wish I had gotten the lavender, but I don't think that would have made me enjoy this one.
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Orris and I aren't friends, but I decided to try this anyways, because this Black Friday imp of yore worked on me, despite its orris note, and this scent shares a few notes with that one. The orris in this didn't make me smell like I had fallen into a vat of baby powder, but I still didn't enjoy this scent as much as that Black Friday exclusive imp. I believe this is mostly about the osmanthus on me, and it is much more floral than I was expecting, with very little lavender (it fades away before the scent is even dry on my skin). However, I'm not familiar with the scent of angelica, but I didn't smell anything green, herbaceous, musky, or woody, which Google says angelica smells like. After a while, the mallow adds a light sweetness to the scent, and the orris adds a dusty floral quality to it. The vanilla wasn't noticeable on me, sadly. I wanted more lavender and more mallow and vanilla. Wahh.
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I tested this twice. The first time, I tested it alongside an aged imp of Croquet, and I preferred this champagne variant. It was mostly fizzy champagne and nectarine, swirled with some citrus on me, with the musk only coming out several hours later, and I wasn't able to detect the patchouli. Meanwhile, the imp of Croquet was very musk-forward throughout wear on me, and I did get the patchouli in that, and far less nectarine and citrus. (But it is an aged imp, after all, and citrus notes don't tend to hold up as well with age.) The second time I tested this, I had a much worse experience, but I had just gotten over having COVID. It smelled like tomato soup and fizz on me. Some scents do go wonky in that way on me, so I'm not sure if that second skin test was skin chemistry-related or COVID-nose related. Needless to say, I vastly preferred my first test of the scent. I don't need more of this, but I will likely have to test this for a third time to see if the decant is a keeper. I preferred the first test to the GC scent, but of course, I don't want to smell like fizzy tomato soup, if the second test wasn't a fluke.
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This features the Lab's effervescent, soda-like champagne note accompanied by the musky current iteration of Snake Oil. The musk and patchouli of the Snake Oil end up being stronger than the champagne on me, with the champagne lingering in the background. Eventually, I do get some vanilla from the Snake Oil, which is much appreciated after the patchouli goes through a somewhat musty phase, which it also sometimes does when I wear the Gingerbread Snek 2023 Yule scent. There was also a phase where the Snake Oil component made me think of root beer for a bit, but it was brief. (I enjoy root beer perfumes, so I was actually digging that phase of the scent.) Although I've tested this twice, I'm going to have to spend more time with it to see if I need more before it goes away. I do like it, but not as much as some other Snake Oil variants.