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I smell a fluffy white lavender scented meringue for about a half hour, and it reminds me of Lavender and White Chocolate Madeleines at this stage. But then it changes and I swear I'm smelling the lab's pumpkin note like in the pumpkin patch scents. There's not a lot of lavender in the later stage. There is a light and dry spice note or accord throughout the different phases. It's weird but I keep thinking of Pumpkin Queen, the Halloween scent from way back. Maybe the carrot note is reading as pumpkin on me. This has already changed somewhat since I first got it a week or two ago. It smells good to me, I'm interested in how it will continue to age.
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This was a risk for me but the more I thought about "mauve patchouli", the more I wanted to smell it. And it's lovely! I smell a soft, "round", fresh floral, slightly powdery, with the suggestion of a darker fruity element. The plum isn't strong for me but there is a little bit of a dark purple feeling. After some time passes there is a bit of earthy raspiness that I think comes from the patchouli and/or violet wine, but I'm not sure. I was a little worried about violet being in this because it tends to take over on my skin and stomp on everything else, but so far "violet wine" isn't doing that. Maybe it's part of the "purple" impression I'm getting. I think the resins are subtle but supporting notes giving this a chic, posh feel to my nose. It's so gentle and soft on me but has some surprising throw at the same time. My bottle just got here 3 days ago but so far I'm glad I took a chance!
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I've had varying success with the Lab's gingerbread scents but mostly success, if I remember correctly. Sin has always been pretty comfortable on me (ha ha). So, this didn't have any surprises. Not much to add as far as descriptions, the gingerbread is the big star here and Sin is more of a backdrop, but that works fine for me. But - they're also blended together to where I can't really pick apart the ginger and cinnamon notes. Just warm and spicy and I'm very happy to have a bottle. I think I'm about to layer with some Midwarkust and I'll report back with any surprises. It just seems like they would work well together.
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Somehow this was very cinnamon-like when I first applied, maybe the clove is playing tricks on me. It smelled like cinnamon gum for a while but then later it was a lot of clove and black musk. Blood Moon has been hit and miss over the years but it's one I'm always hopeful for and always look forward to. This one is just a little too strong for me and something is turning a little bit sour. Clove sometimes takes over everything on my skin, maybe it's teaming up with patchouli in a not so great way on my skin (I love patchouli but it can go wrong too, sometimes). Come to think of it, tabac may be a problem note here too. I'm not sure if this has potential for aging or not. It smells the same now as when I first got it. I am undecided but not favoring it at the moment. I'm disappointed but that's the way it goes sometimes!
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Strawberry Moon: Kyphi and Sweet Cream
forspecial_plate replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I really love this one, I agree the cream note is strong, but I do detect the kyphi as well. For me the ratio is about 70 cream to 30 kyphi. Overall it's a light scent on me, and is mostly a skin scent after an hour or 2, with not much sillage. But I'm happy to reapply and already bought a backup bottle. I'm not familiar with kyphi but I get a "golden milk" kind of feeling from this scent. Not sure about individual notes beyond that. -
I've tried this new, aged it a while, tried again, and all I get is baby oil single note. I wanted to love this so much but I don't get any of the complexity the other people talk about here. This will probably be one of those bottles I hold on to for years hoping it will somehow work or maybe I'll grow to like it.
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The wind-scorched grasses and woodsmoke took over on my skin, and I don't detect any soil or raindrops which I was looking forward to. Sad, skin chemistry fail I guess. This has the same "scorched" note I get from Bonfire Single Note (but I haven't tried them side-by-side). I get maybe a little bit of dead leaves but not much.
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I've smelled a couple other scents like this before, and at first I wasn't all that impressed. It felt a little "been there, done that". But then last week I had a bad headache and this was the only scent I felt like I could wear. I ended up really liking it. Graveyard Dirt, although I really like it and always want to have some available, is a little too close to "damp mildew" for me to wear in my day-to-day life. HC&HS however is something I could comfortably wear any time, but especially right now when we just had snow in the past week, but it's warming up and everything's melting. That's the impression I get - forest floor with melting slush and with the dirt starting to peek through. It has a very spa-like feel for me personally. Then I can just barely pick out the white musk, and that comes out stronger over time. I agree with the previous reviewer, this white musk is somehow reminding me of a faint coconut note around the edges of the scent. I do not smell the steel note or anything blackened about this. I'm glad I took a chance on this one!
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Ahhh good point, lol - I forgot they used to always have chocolate or cocoa! That one in the pic looks like the one that I smelled, and for some reason I remembered it was in May, but not sure on the year. 2011 could be right! Hopefully someone else will know.
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Does it smell like chocolate? It might be the one from May 2016: "This 13 is a blend of blackened cacao and thirteen sacred oils: Siamese red benzoin, olibanum, black copal, fossilized amber oil, sweet myrrh, Coptic rose resin, guggul gum, dragon’s blood resin , Palo Santo, bdellium, dammar gum, and attar of onycha". That label sounds like one that I bought to split with a friend, around that time - but there are lots of them that I haven't tried, so I could be wrong. (Also I didn't keep my half, so I don't have it any more).
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I am familiar with a couple bpal marshmallow scents but not an expert. This scent seems a little deeper, although there is definitely a fluffy sugary note standing out. I'm getting some spicy incensey extra goodness and there is something almost a little fruity about it. The recent marshmallow + grapefruit scent (La Dame Aux Pamplemousses) smells great to me but it's extremely light on my skin and fades fast. In contrast, So Devilish Hard is pretty potent on me and lasts a good few hours. I am reminded a lot of Mischief hair gloss, and a little bit of Midnight On the Midway. And I would venture to say the cinnamon is not really strong or harsh but ymmv. I might need a full 5ml of this! Edit: after aging for just a couple weeks, I think the cinnamon is a little stronger now. Still strongly reminds me of Mischief hair gloss.
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Something in this isn't playing nice on my skin. The coconut smells flat and kind of dusty, and it almost reads as soapy but not quite. I'm blaming coconut, it doesn't always work for me. I'm jealous of what the other people smell!
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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).
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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.
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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!