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As a bit of a Grinch who favours Halloween, would anyone be interested in a "Nightmare FOR Christmas" kind of swap? Two small/medium-sized gifts to open on Christmas Eve and Day with an overall spooky/spoopy theme.

 

Great idea. What's spoopy?

I've been layering aged TKO with Somnus for glorious sleep like floating on jasmine lavender marshmallows...

The Day Burned White smells like an Art Studio to me. American God's decant The Center is similar...

Resurrecting to ask about yardwork (not quite gardening, I know, but similar enough to the topic at hand).

Has anyone found any scent that works particularly well for them while mowing the lawn? It would be nice to find something that can hold up next gasoline/sweat/newly-cut grass--not to drown them out, but to complement what's already there. I'm new to the world of paying attention to fragrances, so I haven't to my knowledge tried anything with leather or metallic notes, but that's my first thought. Or maybe the mower engine creates enough earthy and metallic notes in its own right, but then I don't know what other notes would best add to it.

What are your thoughts?

Something from Phoenix SteamWorks would likely fit the bill.

 

I'm thinking Robotic Scarab sounds like the scent you described in yr imagination above. Me personally would want No. 93 Engine but YMMV. Luckily, they're impable so you can sample 'em all...

I think Geneviere L'Artiste du Diable would be right in your wheelhouse but if she proves too elusive, Iulia, L'Artiste du Diable or Serving Tea after Coitus. Another to consider is Bewildered in a Dream.

 

From the General Catalog, I'd try The Apothecary...

 

I agree with the Green Tree Viper but I recommend to get an aged sample as the Snake Oil component may be reminiscent of plastic Doll's head on some folks...

Here we go; * = wildcard pick (I've avoided most florals, esp. jasmine and Lavender) some of these have florals but they aren't prominent.

♡ = my favorites ; ? = I haven't tried it yet

 

A Countenance Foreboding Evil ♡

Azathoth

Black Annis ♡

Bloodlust

Fenris Wolf ♡♡♡♡♡

Bram Stoker

Debauchery

Satyr ♡

Iago

Spider ♡

Scales of Deprivation ♡

Stormhold?

Troll

Anne Bonny

Jolly Roger

Juke Joint *

Antony ♡

Becoming Thunder ♡

Beware *

Interfector ♡

Looming Spectre of Inutterable Horror ♡

Robotic Scarab *

Great Sword of War ♡

Titus Andronicus ♡

Tzadikim Nistarim ♡

Intrigue

Yorick

The Grave Pig

The Apothecary ♡*

Hag's Gate ?*

Hippie Ghost *

Mary Read ♡

Masquerade ♡♡♡

Oberon

Oblivion

Ranger

Dirty *

Tezcatlipoca ♡

Villian

Whitechapel*

John Watson

Sherlock Holmes ♡

Black Forest

The White Rider

The Black Rider ♡

Baba Yaga?

Calico Jack

Incantation ♡

Kubla Khan ♡♡

Lightning

Black Tower

The Coiled Serpent ♡♡

Jersey Devil ♡

Yggdrasil ♡

Aelopile

Kathmandu

Blithe Hollow

Burial

Dawn: Cernunnos

Loup Garou♡♡♡

Thanatopsis

This is Your Wilderness ♡ (may be too sweet due to the honey)

Jazz Funeral *

Crowley

Greed

Cyborg?*

Captain Gleason?

Doc Constantine ♡♡♡

Dragon's Hide

Dwarf *

Fighter

Hellfire♡

The Book

Manhattan ♡

Buggre Alle This Bible

The Marquis de Carabas

Knucklebones?

Baron Samedi

Dracul

Odin♡

Coyote ♡

Thales Eclipse♡

Al Azif ♡

Nyarlathotep ♡

Uruk*

Isle of Demons *

High John the Conqueror *

The Chariot?*

Foolish and Vacuous?

The Organ Grinder ♡♡

Banded Sea Snake

Parliament of Monsters ♡

Isaac the Living Skeleton?

Lordy*

Trevor Bruttenholm?

The Magician?

Fake News *

Theoi Nomioi

Mad Sweeney *

Black Hats*

Glass Eye**

Shadow♡

All-Father ♡♡

Mr. Czerobog

Mr. Wednesday

The Buffalo Man

Hinzelman?

Sam?

The Forgettable God

The Intangibles ♡

 

Try looking for "masculine scents," leather, moss, tobacco, bay rum, patchouli

 

Black musk may go sweet on you, you'll have to test and see. Probably avoid anything with myrrh, opoponox, or Tonka as they tend to be cloying and sweet as they dry down. Don't give up on the aquatics, you could find some that work. HTH

Awww, you're not being difficult, you like what you like. I am one of the minority who loves vetiver and Malediction.

 

I bet we can find you some non sweet resin scents, sans florals, no sweat.

 

How do you feel about wood notes and patchouli?

 

I'll come back with ideas when my cold medicine isn't kicking my ass and I can Brain properly.

Well, Dwarven Ale is the only one that I could find with all 3 notes: cinnamon, honey, and apple. It will probably depend on how prominent the pumpkin note in it.

 

Last year had Honeyed Apple. Maybe mix with a Apple Cinnamon one like one of the Apple Cider ones or try Cinnamon Apple Cookie.

This is predominantly tobacco and ambergris on my skin.

 

The tobacco is the note from Bulgarian tobacco single note. It's a little chewy, in a good way. The ambergris is in support, less perfumy than usual, adding a bit of sweetness and salt.

 

Drying, I still smell tobacco mainly but the amber and rockrose make a nice base. This is earthy and sweet. The cedarwood is quite mellow, there is an absence of the hamster fluffy material, for which I am grateful.

 

Overall, this is very well blended. The vetiver and cedar are quite restrained. I am enjoying the tobacco and ambergris pairing with the earthy resinous under layer: Like leaves of drying tobacco strewn over a forest floor. I'll be keeping the bottle. It should pair well with Hag Grey hair gloss, but the gloss is heavier on the ambergris and the tobacco in the gloss is floral, whereas this is exactly like the dried plants.

Bumping this topic as I have been on a Peach note kick. What are everyone's favorite Peach, Nectarine, or Apricot blends?

 

I especially like the peachy scent from the blossom so Peach Moon may be my favorite but I haven't tried many of the Dragon Con scents.

 

Also, I really like nectarines. I'd vote for Heavenly Ambrosial Dews of Nectar as my favorite nectarine. I'd love to hear if there are others.

 

Also, there's no thread for Quince and it seems like it belongs in this thread. Any ideas for a Quince scent?

Non-foody creamy is probably my favorite type overall!

 

I would just second several mentioned here already, and add Audumla, if you can find it (four streams of milk, white honey, frankincense, motherwort, and angelica root).

Audumla is my favorite creamy scent. I broke my no backup rule (it's more of a guideline actually) for it after one test.

TAL Middle Pillar is designed specifically to help with grounding and I find it very effective.

 

I also like BPAL Coiled Serpent and Wolf's Heart for this.

 

For Winter blues, I highly recommend TAL Anthelios.

 

For racing thoughts when I'm trying to quiet my mind and sleep, I like using Somnus or TAL Ebon Night.

If you ever said to yourself, " I want my hair to smell like Reeses' Peanut Butter Cups," this would be your gloss.

 

I wish that I had purchased more of this. Then again, maybe it's better that I did not because now I really am craving those peanut butter cups candy.

 

Okay, to be clear, this does not smell exactly like peanut butter or Nutella. But I agree with the reviewers who are interpreting the nutmeg note as nutty in juxtaposition with the chocolate. This is similar to Gula bath oil but in hair gloss form. I can't differentiate the sandalwood but I believe it's adding a wooden base to the composition.

 

Definitely my favorite chocolate hair gloss thus far. I must forever seek etsy and sales to find moar.

This reminds me a little of the GC Odin scent, appropriately.

 

Opening, I can appreciate some woody notes, not sure if I could distinguish oak, but it's there in the notes. The Wolf musk predominates, and it's similar to the musk of Faunalia or Buck Moon.

 

Drying, I amplify clouds of sweet honey. It's shy of powdery and blends very nicely with the Wolf musk. I think there may be a hint of opoponox for the flutter of black feathers.

 

Late drydown this is mostly Honey and Wolf musk.

 

Final assessment: I purchased this full bottle for the Wolf musk and I have a drive to collect all scent related to Odin. The art is gorgeous. This exceeded my expectations. If you like Faunalia and Buck Moon, this is a must try. For me, this is a honeyed Buck Moon with oak instead of pine.

Very mellow, slightly sweet coffee, like cold brewed. The ambrette is sweet, not quite nutty, and slightly dusky, like soft, fuzzy amber.

 

Unfortunately the coffee note doesn't last and the ambrette becomes more powdery. I'm a fan of ambrette, so I really like this, but I wish the coffee lasted longer. The ambrette does become a little perfumey.

 

I'm not sure I'd like a whole bottle of this but it's very compelling. I get single note ambrette after the short lived coffee note poofs. (Actually, if my nose is flush with my wrist, I can still smell coffee) I will age the decant a little and see if the ambrette matures. If so, this could become bottle worthy.

This smells like a dead ringer for Clinique Happy to my nose. The glittery aldehydes are potent, like "taste on the back of the tongue " potency.

 

I'm guessing here, but Media starts out with a zingy citrus, I'm guessing grapefruit or bergamot, but probably the former because it screams engenue. The heart is probably honeysuckle or Lily.

 

Drydown is close to the wet phase, but definitely in the green chypre family with over the top aldehydes. Effervescent, vapid, cheeky are adjectives that come to mind.

 

This does evoke the concept well, it smells like commercial, clean, conventional fragrance: really swell, good clean fun.

 

I want to purchase this for nostalgic reasons as I used to rock Clinique Happy when it first was available. I may have to pass though because this is Stimulating a headache. This is perfect for wearing to work though or a job interview where the image you want to project is "I'm confident, cooperative, energetic, and won't stink up the joint. "

This was eerily accurate. I definitely get the beeswax up front but the camphor and other Embalming chemicals are prominent. (This is not like the GC Embalming Fluid scent, it's more like real Embalming stuff) Having worked in a Gross Anatomy lab, I can attest that this is how preserved cadavers smell. Well, a little more formaldehyde to be honest, but this is more like what I imagined Embalming chemicals smelled like before widespread use of formaldehyde.

 

This morphs to a more resinous scent, reminiscent of the Ibis and Jacquel Neil Gaiman scents released previously, with the camphor and Embalming herbs beneath. Myrrh, beeswax, fir, and what I think may be the Henna are detectable.

 

Love this. Not sure about a whole bottle but I may need another decant...

Here's some recommendations from someone who has recently been exploring tobacco as a note, and adding to prior recommendations with * means it's one of my top choices [including tobacco, pipe, tobacco flower and leaf]:

 

A Bachelor's Dog **

A Grievous Swarm *

A Peculiar Spirit

Apple III

Black Lace ***

Bunraku Theater *

Cafe Mile et une Nuit

Christougenniatiko Dentrophobia

Conjunction of Mars and Saturn

Dark Chocolate, Black Tobacco, Vetiver

Diable en Boite

Danse de la Mort (Pickman Gallery)

Gluggagaegir *

Hearth

Looming Spectre of Inutterable Horror *

Pleasures of the Imagination II & III & V

In Time of Plague

Indulgence (Crimson Peak)

Interfector *

La Dame au Cochon *

La Femme de Satan *

La Pierreuse

La Ronde du Sabbat **

Le Vice Suprême

Pan Twardowsky and the Devil

Paysage

Phoenix and Dragon *

Red Lantern *

The Antikythera Mechanism **

The Initiation (Fleurettes Purple Snails)**

The Organ Grinder ***

The Parliament of Monsters

The Second Morning After Christmas *

This is Your Wilderness

Three and Twenty *

Visions of Autumn VII

 

I've intentionally omitted scents that list tobacco but I can't detect it due to overshadowing by other notes, e.g. Perversion, Dracul, etc.

If i like beyond paradise from estee lauder what should i try?

I think the Zieba Tree comes close, but other scents that may be similar in theme:

 

Mermaid (Liliths)

Avunculus

Wembley (Fraggle)

Tweedledee

Santa Eularia

Harlequin

Humanite

Can anyone recommend a blend that has Myrrh as a dominant component?

 

Bestest ever but hard to find: Streets of Detroit is hands down my favorite myrrh dominant creation

 

Some myrrh heavy GC blends that I like include: Anubis, Czernobog, La Petite Mort!, Priala the Human Phoenix, Sed non Satiata, Wings of Azrael

 

To be fair, I amp myrrh, but these are the blends that I can clearly detect the myrrh and it's listed as one of the major components

 

Honorable mention to Medea, Bastet, and Hecate also but they aren't as myrrh dominant as the previous listed ones

 

HTH

If you are interested in branching out to other brands, asking for recommendations on the OCYL (other companies you love) thread may help you find your perfect Sakura scent. They are very helpful and friendly there.

Oh I hate to tell you but some of my reducer caps leaked worse than the wand caps! To be fair, I have not tried the reducer caps from the Lab yet, I'm only recently trying those out myself. The ones from Nocturne Alchemy have not leaked for me but I have only used them on their bottles.

 

Maybe someone who has actually tried the Lab's reducer caps can tell us?

I received a wandcapped oil that leaks, and now I'm noticing that wandcapped is added at the end of some listings almost like a warning. Do they all leak?

I can't believe that all leak as I've received some in the mail that did not, however, enough do that if I ship or store them, I take precautions:

 

Leave upright during storage and usually no problem

 

If shipping, use electrical tape or plumbing tape and place in its own, individual baggie

 

 

Is there a GC scent with a genuine Sakura note? The cherry that comes from almond oil doesn't play well with my skin, but I would love a cherry *blossom* note!

 

Have you tried Kyoto?

I have not! Thank you for the suggestion. The "anise" note scares me, but it sounds imp worthy!

Anise is definitely there but it is easy to get and test. Aizen-Myoo is easily accessible but I can't recall how much Cherry blossoms are apparent, maybe check reviews?

 

Other, less easy to find bpal perfumes with Sakura (but check reviews because for most of these other florals or notes are prominent and could be problematic) include Little Sister is Watching You, Hanami***, Lantern Ghost of Oiwa, Fox Woman Kuzunoha Leaving Her Child, Drum Bridge and Yuhi Hill at Meguro, First Cry of the Warbler on the Plum, Night Snow at Kambara, Voyeurs Among the Cherry Blossoms, The Elephant's Leash, Jingu, There is a Garden in Her Face, Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree, Dragon Moon 06, the Phoenix in Spring, Aphrogenes, and the Instructional Manual.

 

Hanami is pretty much the best Sakura scent I've found but it is getting harder to locate..

 

There are recommended scents in the Cherry Blossoms thread under the Recommendations section, but I summarized. Sorry, I'm on iPad and don't know how to make a link...

Is there a GC scent with a genuine Sakura note? The cherry that comes from almond oil doesn't play well with my skin, but I would love a cherry *blossom* note!

Have you tried Kyoto?