RoseThornAndOak
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This is interesting. It's rich coconut but more planty/natural than coconut cream or pie. The vetiver isn't too strong and doesn't smell like peanuts. It's an odd pairing but pleasant. Tropical but in a completely different way. Kind of like Lavanila Coconut but not as overtly coconut and more husky bits. Kinda duds out on me but has potential. Might be another locket contender. The vetiver reads more like No Man is an Island in the beginning, that sort of dark vegetal almost tobacco tonka vibe but doesn't stay as nice on me. I'll give it a few more tries I'm not giving up on it yet. *The next morning, I'm getting a lingering Pele like tropical floral. Very pretty.
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Very sweet spicy gingerbread pumpkin in the bottle. I would say sugary but not in the usual way. I get the dry spice drydown that Little Bird got. I think this has potential, but might be better in a locket and isn't wowing me as far as gingbread scents go. However it's not smoky in any way. I think on the right skin it will be a lovely, richly sweetened pumpkin gingerbread blend.
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Very Snow White and pine. The pine simmers down, so I'm left with Snow White wandering in a snowy evergreen forest. Magical. Previous year's reviews scared me off but this one due to it being a Snow White variant made this year'a a win for me!
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Fresh in the bottle, it's strong, astringent resins. It's not smoky at all. This duds out on me, just smells vaguely resinous and clean.
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What the crap? I get no oud, no ash, no sandalwood, and no blizzard. I get a gorgeous vanilla tea and it's basically a more wearable Dorian for my skin chemistry. There are some background notes threatening to go weird, so it doesn't beat Madame Pearl completely for me, but dang this is pretty. Ok there's the ash, I have to hunt for it. I think if you like Dorian Suf or tea blends you're going to like this one a lot, it has far more throw in my opinion than DS. Next morning, ahh there's the white oud slightly, but oof, that gorgeous grey amber! It's not too indolic, just deep. Strong resemblance to Grey Columns at this stage. What a ride!
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Sharp patchouli with some syrupy bits early on. Dries down to dusty vaguely sweet dry spices but doesn't really read gingerbread to me. It's pretty good, but not what I was expecting, although I do have more interest in the molasses note now and think this will age beautifully.
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Dancingchair pretty much nailed this one. Hearth smells like sweet, dark cacao + tobacco, beeswax, and charred woodsmoke, and not much leather. I love it. Gender neutral, atmospheric and transporting, but wearable. It's comforting in a rugged kind of way. Wearing this, drinking tea, and listening to Last of The Mohicans and Rob Roy film scores listening to the birds chirping outside is a mood. Today is good, and Hearth made it good-good. Next morning: more or less the same but the leather comes out a ta more under the other rich notes. So beautiful.
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I agree, Snek and Snow White. Heavier on the patchouli in the bottle and upon application, then smooths out mostly. Plays pretty good on me. I might like Frostbitten SO a little better but will have to death match. A keeper for now!
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Oh my gosh this is pretty. In the bottle, planty coconut with sandalwood and cardamom supporting. Glorious. Not too floral. Then a final drydown of Morocco, Eve type goodness (without the plastic/bandaid) with dry, warm, spices, keeping a nice depth, maybe a distant whiff of coconut trees spotted in the distance. Can be a little powdery but I like it here.
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Heavy on the champaca incense for the most part, plus perfume, I agree, in a good way. Dries down to a pretty champaca plus hair salon vibe and reminds me of Sephora. A little bit of Ava vibes too. Awesome. I like this a lot.
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Oh my gosh yes. A bit too cloying gourmand cinnamon in the beginning, duds out for a while, then on final drydown? lovely cinnamon + beeswax candles and Ren Faire flashbacks.
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At first, this is very strong patchouli heavy Snek with patent leather supporting and a bit of woods, like cedar. It is very similar to Batty Snake Oil initially. However, on final drydown Batty SO is more vanilla musk and soft leather, and Snake Skin has a fresh, almost (almost almost) sunscreen lotion skin musk vibe + leather and vanilla in comparison. I am wearing The Hound and the Milkwhite Doe on the other arm, and although that started with more coconut, it now doesn't have that same level of sunscreen vibe as Snake Skin. It is not like freshly applied sunscreen, more like after it has settled into your skin a bit throughout the day. My guess is the leather, vanilla, and the musks in SO are playing together to create that scent for me. A rough start but overall I really like the journey this takes me on. I like that it is more clean vanilla + leather now than overt patchouli.
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Upon application nearly identical to Snake Skin: patchy SO, almost woody, with stronk patent leather. Later this softens, and becomes more musky vanilla SO with a bit of leather. Oddly Snake Skin now smells a bit like sunscreen in comparison. It is quite different from the beginning stage, but I like it.
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Very sugary and vegetal patchouli + clove in the bottle and fresh on skin. Later the nag champa comes out more and smooths this out. It's a very nice incense blend for the most part now. The patchouli and sugar recede, and the leather is very slight and not artificial. Mostly dry powdered incense and a bit of clove. Very nice!
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Snootier Bat is strong, dark incense on me in the beginning, with a deep black murky musk, and the leather and sugar are not very present other than possibly being the notes taking this to a weird place that I'm not too sure I like. However, this does mellow over the course of the day, and there's a very strong resemblance to Blood Rose without the rose. It's possible dragon's blood resin is present along side a nag champa like note. Clean, yet dark incense. There is a resemblance to opium here too, sort of that rich, deep powdery but nice note, but more red black. This blend smooths out in final drydown even further and is now more black in hue than red, with not much sugar or leather. It's quite nice. Very BPAL.
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This is milky in a nontangy, creamy way, and also clean in a skin musk kind of way. However I also smell plastic and it stayed that way for hours. Hours later it has improved, but the plastic is still present.
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The General Catalog wins again! This is an older imp where the white label has darkened to tan. And this still holds its own! Aye, avast! Salty woods, with some spice. More woods than Mary Read, but in that vein. The rum isn't too boozy (sorry, you salty dogs), more the spiced warmth and sweetness. The perfume isn't too perfumey, yet this isn't too rugged or hyper masculine or conventional cologne leaning, either. It doesn't have that harsh bite that many conventional fragrances have. The sea air isn't too air freshener or anything, but this is clean. It's got sweet spots, and elegant spots, genteel spots, but with an edge, so it's very Capain Blood goes rogue. It does bring to mind an old salty inn where you clinkedy-clink your tankards with a bunch of ruffians, but you're still relatively clean when you show up. Very nice! Maybe a sandalwood in here, but I'm not sure. Gender neutral. On my bottle list. Set the course for Port Royal!
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This is light on me too, and surprisingly, perfumey on the skin. In the imp, it is gingerbread and Fruit Loops.
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I get a ton of tangy goat milk and a bit of gingerbread. The goat milk seems to amp on me. Might be good for fans of Vampire Milk!
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Super banana, then gingerbread.. Then more like banana quickbread. Then fades and goes weird on me. It's a fun sweetened banana spice in the imp though. Could be good for Noisy Goose fans but it is quite different, more bready.
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I'm surprised how light and powdery this is. It's a light green soft moss with some stoney bits. Something in this is papery, too. Something threatens to go sour and sharp, not quite getting there, but enough funk on my skin to go weird. This would be better as a room atmo for me, but YMMV, of course.
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Ok this makes me think of a gingerbread version of No Man is An Island. Where NMIAI can have an almost greenish brown vegetal side, GT&T is more subtle, less strong, less complex. It's rich tobacco, warmly gingerbead spiced, but not bready, smoothed out and softened by warm, sensual tonka. The tonka does not steal the show, as it can in some blends, but is perfectly blended here in my opinion. A bit more tonka, however, would not have been unwelcome. It is a bit like Gingerbread and Leather as well, more sweet and soft without the leather of course, but still has that deep tobacco spice edge going on. I think if you found NMIAI or G&L too harsh but otherwise liked where they were going, you might want to give this a try. If you love those, as I do, you'll probably love this, too. It's like the softer sister or brother to the others. Gorgeous, gender neutral, this would smell amazing on anyone. I probably don't need more since I have NMIAI and G&L, but if it arrives, it will be bought because it is different enough to warrant having as well. This gets the Glitter Hearts Of Winning.
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Oh dang this is good. It's a bit mesquite bbq bacon smoke over gingerbread at first, but dries down to a lovely but strong campfire blend without the bbq bits, with a dash of lovely, spicy gingerbread. The campfire has a subtle evergreen to it, everso, bit is mostly the smoky charred bits, like the embers of a Yule Log, and it's glorious. This is stronk on the campfire, just a dab will do you, so the decant will probably be enough as I'll most likely use this for layering with Gingerbread and Leather. However, if I were to see a bottle for sale, I would probably go for it.
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I remember the original Dorian being a really nice lemony tea vanilla fougere type thing on the right skin. It never really played nice on me, but on others, it was beautiful. The remake of Dorian didn't really gel on me, either. This however, smells far better than both on me and is quite fetching: I get a bit of lemon, but soft, no cleaner or artificial vibes. There's tea, but this is also soft, not astringent. Just light and airy. For the gourmand aspects, this just lends a subtle vanilla sweetness to soften the edges of Dorian, making it more wearable. It's not doughy or bready or overtly sugary to me (sugar can go plastic on me and doesn't here). It's beautiful, and I'm considering a bottle. The only thing holding me back is holy smokes does this fade to a skin scent fast, and I do have a tea scent that sticks around better.
