RoseThornAndOak

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!

Okay this maiden has just touched down from her flight, so we'll see how she fairs many a Spring to come, but, oof her entrance...or en-trance... Poinsettia Gown took off her hot, stuffy, red taffeta, to reveal a sylvan dress that moves like the air, shimmers in white and pale gold, bedewed in moonlight, her skin turning luminous on contact with that olde orb's gentle beams. This is a wild and free, springtime, Elfen Gown. I don't find it as strong on the cream as PG, I suppose her preferred moisturizer in Spring is dew captured in elfcups mixed with cream elixir. Nothing too tangy either, like in some milk notes. The sandalwood is not heavy or sharp, not even too dry, bairly a whisper of it with the vanilla smoothing it and the other notes out. I do not find the vines too green or forward either, more hidden and shy, letting the blooms fluorish and take in the night. This is a different honeysuckle than I'm used to. Less headshop incense/frag oil, more fresh, sweet, and with more depth. Alhough I have yet to find a hyperrealistic honeysuckle, I do like this more than most other honeysuckle blends. The florals read white, nocturnal, and glimmery (a little powder, but the other notes make up for it) so it still has that elegance of PG. Oh Poinsettia, she's running with the wolves tonite she's treading the trail of elves, barefeet, let her hair down like the mist across the pond Through sweet blooms and soft-shimmered woods, she besmittens all forest creatures with her joy and fairy abandon. TL;DR: Spring Poinsettia Gown, dewy white floral vanilla cream w/ lite green & woods

At first, this looked to be just a lily & rose scent, but looking at the notes tags, there is: white amber, lily, calla lily, orris, rose, rose sandalwood, sandalwood That changes things! I get a fresh, crisp lily note (different than the lily note in say Karl Lagerfeld's Sun, Moon, and Stars and DMP's Mourning Glory), on top of creamy white amber, with a bit of light wood underneath, and a thread of bright rose. Maybe tea rose? Possibly red, or white? The high soprano one that edges on soap but is overall pretty chill and dewy. This creates an atmosphere that makes me think of movies where some dude chats up some chick that's wearing a floofy dress on a white painted veranda overlooking a flower garden in the moonlight and that's where they fall in love. Could be 1940s, could be 1940s trying to be 1870s, could be 2024 trying to be 1812. I don't know, that's the vibe. Fresh dewy florals over vanilla-like white amber and sandalwood, miraculously not too powdery. Maybe a hint of orris, but honestly I forgot it was in this. As far as spooky creamy rose/florals go, this is up there with Carved Wooden Bridal Shop, Millarca, My Soul Acquiesced, Tomie, A Spirit, Katie, and Love Lay Upon Her Eyes for me, and I do like it better than LLUHE, the white amber is less feral in this.

I get mostly fresh, meaty, coconut flesh (not the overtly sweet or plasticky kind, more like cracking open a fresh one), a nice creamy rice note, kinda like rice pudding but again not too sweet, and a little bit of fresh, dry ice cubes in a glass instead of slush (Roseus is right no pine or mint). The milky note is not sour or tangy at all to me and along with the vanilla (lite) holds this together making it creamy. The snow dude looked really sad, so we invited him to a party and had chilly coconut rice drinks over ice and it was awesome!

I'll enthusiastically wake this scent from it's watery grave! I somehow overlooked this. It is buried on the main website, under shiny new waves, but still available, and being that the vibe is aquatic + Poe, uhhh, YES? So let's dig em up, says I! I get zingy aquatic, bright and fresh, with a bit of that mint mentioned above to create electricity, but not so much like it is in Shattered. This is salty, but not in a popcorn way, the sea salt way (both are great, but leaving this here for distinction). There's a bit of wood underneath, smooth, not too sharp, no smoky bonfire, or piney notes, more polished ship decking. Ocean waves, I'd agree with the above, this is closer to Y'ha-nthlei and Calico Jack on the fresh cologne vs murky scale. This is brighter than CJ, which has more wood and reads slightly sweeter, as well as Mary Read, which has more spice and grit. This is a bit more refined and polished like a Navy officer. I'd put this up there with Calico Jack, Mary Read, and Frederic, however being this is a bit more genteel, I'll declare it a naval victory over a pirate one. Huzzah!

Thuy is so right, no screechy DL! No pepper! ITI, this brings to mind what I remember the spices in Samhain were like, but sans patchouli, like the DL replaces it, keeping it grounded. Deep, dark, autumn spices, but with something sweet and rich to hold it together. This might be a good substitute it Samhain doesn't work on you, although I don't have it anymore to give a fair comparison. Dried down to a mostly spiced honey on me. I prefer the initial stages but oof will this make a great room scent.

ITI juicy sweet, like a cross between Juicy Fruit candy and, lush juicy fruit, with cinnamon warmth and glow. It conjures up the DCD Aion album cover. Sadly goes sour on my skin, as pomegranate is wont to do. If you fair well with the notes, this might be a gorgeous cinnamon pomegranate pomander/cider blend. I'd 100% buy this as an atmos if it came back as one.

This is mostly a powdery floral musk on me for the longest time. Goes a little plasticky fruity floral on me after a while. I wish I had a more glowing review for this but glad I had a chance to try it.

Ooo this is nice! Upon application and for a few hours, this is a sweet vanilla lace type rose, with a hint of wood to anchor it. It has a Luper feel and reminds me of To Lallie, Rose Petals, Marshmallow, and Afterglow HG, and, to an extent, Katrina Van Tassel and Roses, Pearls and Diamonds in that rose plus not quite gourmand but sweetened aspect. Later on, I do get the Little Wooden Doll quite a bit more, the wood notes coming out and the lace and rose receding (the sweetness receding more than the rose) with a clean and refined feel. They're not dark heavy woods, but add depth and grace. Kinda like Tovenares at this stage, less powdery, and more sweet rose woods soap. I prefer the initial stages, but I am quite fond of the clean rose soap vibe as well, there's a touch of the aquatic + rose blends here, and those remain some of my favorite BPALs. Romantic, classic, let's go to dates to tea houses, play the harpsichord, and have picnics at historical places and stuff. Glad I went for it. TL;DR: Vanilla lace tea rose w/ hint of woods opening and for a few hours. Soft woods aquatic rose soap w/ hint of vanilla later on.

TL;DR: cologny woods w/ white resinous overtones Uhhh, herro? No one here to tempt the hour of dehhhth? This reminds me strongly of DS & Durga's Mahogany Kora out of the gate. Clean sharp, cologny woods. Where that goes a bit more chocolatey and warm, this goes even more cologney and reads a bit more fresh pirate than weathered and seasoned pirate. I don't get much of a smoky, charred note, but the sandalwood is a variety that does go a bit sharp on me. White amber is not very soft or creamy here and lends more of a blinding white light/fancy lift. I also don't get much of a cedar vibe, not in a pencil or cedar chest way, at any rate, just more of a wooded atmosphere. I'm not sure what cade is supposed to smell like, but Fragrantica says it is a "tar-like, smoky, phenolic fragrance". There is something that is a bit gummy, chewy, and resinous, but not sweet. The moss takes this in a slight fougere/fern direction, but it's not green though, more if fougere was white. Although I don't like the sharp bite, this is nice overall and very accessible. If you enjoy more commercial, traditionally masculine woody blends, want something safe for work, or go out in the world meeting folk and, hopefully, not your doom, this is a good, unisex blend. But it is also a nice staying in, cozy blend. It makes me think of a well-kept, clean, upscale cabin in a forest somewhere very cold:

Brown leather is prominent, with creamy notes and a touch of fir throughout. It goes between really nice and a little offputting on my skin for a while. Settles down to a nice sweet soft brown leather with a Christmas edge.