mymymai

Thank you, @winterblizzard, @twilighteyes, @lorizav, @Lucchesa, and @Jenjin for the question birthday cards!  These cards absolutely brought a smile to my heart. And thank you for the stickers as well. Everything you all did is so lovely and thoughtful. 💜💜💜

@Lucchesa I just so happen to have Hokusai Christmas cards that I send out. I love his work. 

I sent out my card today!

I just received a card from @lorizav and I love it.  The kitty is adorable and I love the stickers.  Thank you!

Re: FCard themes.  I also love spooky, witchy, gothy type cards, but I'll take your funny cards too with unicorns, sharps, dinos, etc.  I also won't turn down a good pun.

  @twilighteyes  I hope your birthday went swimmingly!

I send my card off today! 🤩

I send my card off today!

Am I missing an April?  My next one in in a couple months.

I sent my card last week. I hope it arrives(d) safely, @Eoywin.

I'm in!

I  really wanted to love this mulled and spiced apple delight with sweet potato pie musk trailing far behind it, but my skin started swelling and blistering.  If you are reactive to cinnamon, beware. 

Peach Vulva is amazing and worthy of a bottle!  Peach and apricot flesh is fuzzy yet deeply succulent as if the notes were taken from close to the stone. The lightly spiced resin and rice milk come in later, round and warm, settling into a golden deep peachy musk after several hours. 

On 4/25/2013 at 9:40 PM, mymymai said:

ITI: It's a flight of white florals with something sweet - perhaps coconut or white sandalwood.

 

Wet: For me, it smell like faint chocolate, gardenia, coconut meat, and powder (maybe sandalwood, certainly not the honey powder note I get).

 

Dry: This faded too quickly on my skin. After some dry time, I can pick up super faint coconut and vanilla, but I wish it lasted longer.

The floral sweetness with just a whisper of resin once dried is pleasant and well-balanced, making it something that can be worn in an office setting without fear of choking anyone on screechy florals. It's definitely my pick for #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs

Updated Review: While Queen Alice is nice for a sangria-thick wine scent, I missed the carnation in my aged imp, which is what added the interest for me. On top of that, my skin practically ate up the entire scent within two hours. However, Seraphim smelled exactly like the soap with which my mother use to wash my mouth out.  As such, I'm much rather smell Queen Alice.  #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs

The citrus notes are still bright, juicy, and vibrant while the Lab's berried snow notes add a fantastic balance just atop the mild florals in the background.  My mouth is literally watering.  Night Gaunt is an uplifting citrus glory of a scent and gets my vote for the #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

No. 93 Engine is a dear love of mine (one of my first bottles from the Lab, too).  The balsam of peru along with the mastic are just gleaming, glorious tones that few scents could compete with, wet or dry.   #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs

The patchouli takes over much of the scent once dried, so I'm missing the orange blossom and spicy carnation I was picking up wet.  I’m having trouble, in fact, picking up anything other than that.  Granted, it’s a really intense, deep, non soil-laden patchouli that I absolutely adore, so Masquerade gets my vote for the #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

The Red Queen  is maraschino cherries (but a bit darker) and just a hint of round, deep wood with a touch of currant once it dries on my skin. It's appealing, for sure, so it gets my vote in #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

Light wood, strawberries, chocolate, damp soil, and a touch of green on my skin . Strangler Fig is unusual and complex, but still very much a verdant celebration, which makes it a winner for me in the #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

Ugh, absolutely fantastic - the vetiver is stronger against the labdanum and resins, adding a deeply sensual impression of redolent incense to fading citrus tones and a gentlemanly fougere (once dry).  I would follow someone awkwardly to get the name of this scent if I smelled anyone walking by with it.  It gets my vote for the #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

The dark honey here is well blended with the deep musks and bright citrus.  Honey notes and I usually have problems, and while Qandisa toes that line, the other notes are just too lovely to pass up in the  #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

The Coiled Serpent is deeply earthy, chewy, almost tobacco-like in its darkness and I'm here for it.  As a deeply woody, warm patchouli blend, The Coiled Serpent  wins for my nose in #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

Oblivion is round, darkly alluring, resinous, spicy, and just freaking amazing. I absolutely want to slather myself in it. Oblivion gets the win for me in the #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

Viola is a gorgeous floral in all stages with spiced citrus tones.  Before aging, there was some powderiness to it after dry-down, but aging does wonders for the scent as the floral tones, now softened, yield a subdued feminine scent that is reminiscent of solitary tea time in a fragrant garden.  Viola takes the win for me in the #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

It's earthy from the patchouli, but almost subtly candy-like from the rose and sandalwood. It's really a gorgeous scent.  I'd much rather take this over RPD for the #tournamentofunderdogs #underdogs.

After nearly 4 months of settling, this is still a whole lot of leather! I had to let it sit because I couldn't smell much else when I originally bought it, but now I get a bit more dry plum, opium, cognac, dusty clove...and did I mention leather?  It strikes me much less as a Lace and much more as a long-lost Goth. This makes me think of Bat Cave club days - seedy, dark dance clubs filled with leather, lace, dark spilled drinks, clove cigarettes, thudding Siouxsie or Sisters of Mercy, and thick eye liner.