RoseThornAndOak

I get the crisp dry rind parts of watermelon, not so much the juicy, fruity bits, lilac musk to soften and alas cedar/pencil shavings, then it fades fast.

I get soft, mossy, fougere green notes and dry woods that go regretably sharp on me for a while then chill out and soften. Room scent for me.

It's nice. I do get a pinkish type rose for a while, but the milk and starchy rice take over after a while. The milk is similar to the one in Mummy and Vampire Milk on me, tangy like the goat's milk note. Not as strong, but present. I wish the rose came out more, but I tend to amp this milk note. Forgot this was a tea blend, honestly. I think I picked up some in the beginning but I must've drank it all up because now it's all froth.

If I ever upped the Jolly Roger in open battle it was oe'r 10-15 years ago, I reckon, and my memory of the incident was very mimimal. Actually yeah I wasn't there and it wasn't me. I get all of the notes listed. The sea spray is fresh and salty, not too murky. The leather and rum are smoothed and aged beautifully. The rum is indeed bay rum, but not sharp in anyway as it can on occasion go (put your cutlass away, sir!) but does have that clean herbal edge to it. The woods are warmed in the sun and I couldn't tell you what they are. If you like driftwood as a note, you'll likely like the wood in this. I love Mary Read so much, and this one is very similar, without the gunpowder and sarsprilla. Love love love.

This is soo similar to another BPAL, I wanna say it's Night-Blooming Jasmine, Wild Honeysuckle, and Wisteria. Just swap the honeysuckle for the grape-like nag champa incense and you have this. Shares similarities to Midnight on The Midway without the clean linen/ozone vibe I get from that one. This is sultry, purple, and nocturnal, not too indolic or powdery. Fans of Spring might also enjoy it, although they are quite different. Floral incense blends are my weakness, annnd yeah, I love this.

Cemetery tea picnic! There's green and ginger citrus tea, we're chillin' on the grass, in our favorite dresses and top hats, and there's gravestones and strange flowers warming in the sun after a light mist of rain, unleashing a peppery almost petrichorish aroma together. Our perfumes are all kinda mingling, someone's wearing Lou Lou, someone's wearing Anais Anais. There's all kinds of cool insects flying about. I love this.

I get a crisp, dry rose edging on orange blossom and carnation, dried lime peel (moreso than orange peel), with aldehydes. No clove really.

2024 As far as memory serves this is my first time trying Pere Noel. Sweet citrus peels with a touch of anise to brighten, lavender reads dusty, dry, and vintage, with a bit of a hard fruit candy. It's like if lavender orange was a candy, but also a pomander in a warm, historic home filled with seasonal goodies and mirth. I'm digging it, and it would make a great atmos spray as well!

Ohh man I'm glad I got this one after waffling. It's not too piney, the pine note dies off, it's more of this sweet, almost molasses, vanilla like cookie. Creme brulee is apt. Dusted with powdered sugar. Mmmmm. German Christmas Cookies sitting in the warmth of the sun on a windowsill in a small cottage near a pine forest.

Well, I was hoping for more Sleepy Hollow vibes and that's what I got. Yet, this is hard to describe. I smell dried grasses in autumn, a bit of sandalwood, and I could swear there's a rogue fruit note, which could be the chestnut or clove. The leather is there, far off in the background. I'm not getting anything too ozonic or misty, although there is a subdued shimmer to it. Yet, I do agree, there is more shadow than storm. The shimmer is like fairy glitter on wood in moonlight, yet there is an eerie darkness to the whole composition. I'm not getting anything too tack shop or barn, it's more spectral and spooky horses and riders than the real deal. I do wish the grey amber showed up more, but there is a softness enshrouding the woods, dried grass, and hint of leather (undermined type. I'm not reading Rogue leather or sharp black leather). As this sits on the skin for quite a while, the clove and black pepper show up more, both in equal messure. They are both very prominent from bottle sniff, die off quite a bit on application, then come back, seems like. This is giving Headless vibes somewhat, less firey and red w/ gunpowder, more sweet and woody. I think the sandalwood is starting to go slightly sharp on me, though, so I like Headless more. However, I think this would layer well with the Headless Hearseman atmos. I'll stick with Headless on my skin (that's a completely weird sentence out of context, lol. 😂 ). This is settling into mysterious Sleepy Hollow woods and black Autumn spices, shrouded in darkness and moonlit glimmers, with a hint of leather.

2024 version: I get a nonfussy, nonindolic, soft, white floral opium with a little vanilla and tobacco giving it intrigue. Not too fruity, but there is a sweetness that reads purplish, if that makes sense, making this feel nocturnal. It is similar to the Winter Night, Figure on The Bridge, but without the swoon inducing snow and blackened lilac. The musk makes this more clean and polished. The figure came inside and cleaned up after vibing on the bridge. I prefer Winter Night's complexity and depth, but there's nothing I dislike about this at all, and it gets better as the day goes on.

This is a musky, shadowy, opium violet, with a slightly salty/buttery component similar to the one in To Lallie, likely the ambergris and coconut mist, but I wouldn't have thought coconut was in this. This is not quite an aquatic, it's more dusky, hazy, and reminiscent of an Opiate Vapor, and the white patchouli and other notes provide a base that add depth and support, that remind me a bit of Lady of Saintonge. This is like the Lady of Saintonge before her gritty, dark, Human Animal era, elegant still, with an Opiate Vapor about her, and perhaps she went to a carnival by the sea earlier. It's a bit disconcerting, like an ominous evil looms. Many of the blends above are my favorites, so I'm pleased with this one!

Light, dusty wood, agreed, like incense, with a dusky floral, a tad peppery like carnation, a rich, deep purple (heh Deep Purple). The tuberose is not the usual indolic kind, I get something vinyl-like, waxy, a little plastic here and there, but not bad, overall more floral than artificial. I picture the petals, but also the pistils and pollen. Springy, purple dusky floral incense. A little like Midnight on The Midway w/o the musk and rain, more in mood than the notes being very similar. Hard to get the carnival association out of my head, maybe this is a lady at the carnival in the 40s or 80s, when waxy florals were more vogue, it's dusk on the midway before the flowers have closed up for the night and that storm hits, and someone is burning sandalwood incense to keep the skeeters away. I dig it.

I found a lovely one at Maryland Renaissance Faire! They are called Silk Road Traders and also do custom blends. They did a Tonka, Wisteria, and Nag Champa for me and it is divine! Their straight up Nag champs is gorgeous. For BPAL, Charcoal, Champaca Resin, and Tobacco Absolute is 100% chef's kiss. An Opiate Vapor is not 100% champy, but it's got swag! Hexennacht's Spirit Temple is also soo soo good along with Champanilla. You might also like dragon's blood anything by Sunrise Soap Co, it came across champy to me! Edited to note they also have a Nag Champa scent. Theyre both champy! I've got the Goose Moon Nag Champa & Gardenia duet coming in the mail as well as the Jasmine and Champaca one, here's hoping they're lovely!

Yae it be like Lyonesse a bit! It has a bit more of an ozoney edge and less, maybe bready's the word but kinda not. Like arrow, I shoulda maybe got more. It's a lovely smoothed out aquatic with cool notes not unlike Lady of Shalott, but with less green floral, more vanilla and fabric notes, a bit like silk, a bit like polyester (but not unpleasant in it's polyesterness), and a bit like fresh laundry/Boober. If you like cotton flower notes, this is similar/adjacent. The moss here is understated. It brings to mind playing in a fresh pool of clear rainwater, not yet muddied, it's still raining, and you're wearing a silky new pretty outfit but said skip it and jumped in because YOLO, and your vanilla perfume is mingling with all of it. Another win! Huzzah!