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This was a success for me, it started put kind of weird and chemical-like for a few seconds but as soon as it settles on my skin it smooths out tremendously. The frankincense is very polite and is there just enough to provide a nice backdrop for the merlot. After a while the wine note is becoming fuller and rounder, with a little more fruity sweetness. I think wine scents are good but I don't often reach for them. I will enjoy wearing this from time to time. I have Montresor from years ago and I suppose it will eventually lose potency or age out, and this scent will be a good stand-in (I haven't tried them side by side, they are probably more different than I'm perceiving right now).

I was wary of honey but lured in by everything else and just the idea of a cozy SO variant. This smells pretty good at first, and for about a half hour it is indeed a cozy SO variant. For me it kind of falls flat after that and turns into a blurry faint kind of scent that just sits on my skin and doesn't really project or do anything exciting for me. There is nothing bad or off-putting about it, it just doesn't really do anything, I guess this is a case where my skin just eats up most of the scent. There's a little bit of whiskey and SO in there but overall not a success for me.

Decant from last year - this is intensely sour at first, and I'm blaming the rosey rosé, as some rose notes do this to me. I really didn't like it for the first hour or more but then eventually it calmed down and some sweet orange peel came through. At this point it's a slightly sour sparkly citrusy scent, I feel like I'm not even sure if rose is here, and no clove to be found which is unusual for me. It's not bad but Welcome Unto Thee is my favorite champagne/sparkling wine scent so I will stick with that. I do wish I got some of the good qualities some of the other people here described!

The dead leaves give this a little bit of a "chilly" effect and combined with the earthy patchouli, it's kind of like an autumn walk in the forest. Red musk is more of a background note for me but there is something hay-like going on around the edges, not sure where that's coming from. This really needed to sit and rest after traveling, it kind of shifted around for the first week or two - but I liked it from the start. After a few hours the patchouli takes me into the study with a robe and slippers which I'm ok with, and this could be a skin chemistry thing that patchouli does sometimes. The next day this left a delightful scent on my sweater. I felt this scent was a pretty safe bet for me and I'm happy with it!

When I wore this there was a light fruity whipped element struggling to come out from under a suffocating belch of indolic decay. When I don't go chasing after it, the light pleasant part is like orange or sweet melon with whipped vanilla, with something vaguely chalky or crumbling, teasing the air around me. But when I bring my wrist up to sniff closely I'm overwhelmed by gasses of decay. This goes on for a few hours and then thankfully the decaying part does fade away. But unfortunately the scent as a whole is almost gone at this point. There is still a hint of vanilla that is kind of toasty and ashy now. I think the scary part of this scent is just too much for me! Edit to add: I have the weirdest urge to put this on again. Also I forgot to mention something in this reminds me of Pumpkin Tanning Oil. I have no idea what they could have in common but it was there for a little while.

Up until now I was only familiar with the '06 and '08 versions. This 2025 version is quite different to my nose, but I like it a lot. The older ones are dark and murky, but this year's Schwarzer Mond is much more light and playful. There seems to be an anise or absinthe note going on but I don't know where that's coming from. I am not really picking up on the patchouli. What I mostly smell is musk, anise, and maybe some myrrh that comes off a little papery somehow. I like this because it's versatile, I can wear it just about anywhere. It's really light and just feels "comfy" on me. I think it will smell good in the spring time, too. It does fade pretty quickly on my skin.

Is that the 3 Women with Shelly Duvall? I saw that a long time ago.

I am silly - it didn't occur to me other people would want to play along! I'll start a topic in the Entertainment forum 😃

I'd like to do the 31 day scary movie challenge or whatever you may call it. I will keep track here. 10/1 Nightmare On Elm St 10/2 Deadly Spawn (also watched Ghostbusters) 10/3 Friday the 13th and It Follows, double feature

The Isle of Demons, maybe? "The scent is of wet, dark greenery, carnivorous flowers, volcanic gas, and the hot black musk of the demons and wild beasts that populated the islands".

Oh shoot - I was hoping that was it! : (

@sudenmorsian How new is your new backup bottle? I've had brand new bottles smell strange at first but smelled better after a week or two of rest.

I got mine on etsy as well! To my nose this is lots of patchouli and hay, and it reminds me of Jaunty Tater, which is great because I love that scent. This particular kind of patchouli can sometimes get a little harsh on me but it's really harmonious with the other notes here. Very nice.

This is really nice! It goes on almost soapy but not quite - just on the edge of soapy, maybe the leaves? But then the tea note comes in and whatever was soapy fades back. I agree it has a cologne-like aspect. Eventually the woods come through stronger and I'm getting a seaside feeling I wasn't expecting, kind of like the lab's cypress note that turns up in some oceanic scents. But mostly this is in the same general family as Autumn Sun I, Autumn Landscape with Flock of Turkeys, and also October 32, from memory. Might have to do some death-matching but I love all these scents and each one has its own little differences, so I'm happy to wear all of them, from spring all the way up to late fall.

The neroli is STRONG at first but that's just for a short while, it's a bit sharp and raspy. After that it smooths out and becomes more like the orange sunset scent I was hoping for. I think with some aging the neroli might calm down even more, my bottle is brand new. Like the reviewer before me, I don't get a lot of myrrh, and that's good because I tend to amp it more often than not.