RoseThornAndOak

This is a beautiful white floral. The florals are pale and powdered in a classic, yet whimsical sort of way. The white taffeta is nothing like Black Taffeta, if you have tried it. It is similar, but not quite like the silk note, which has a distinctive, almost fruity sweetness to it. I get more of a smooth note binding everything together (no plastic notes as well) that conjures images of fine, white satin gloves you would wear to a ball, which is fitting. This is nothing like a linen or cotton note, either (so no laundry vibes). There is a somewhat aldehydic note, without the soda bubbles, and just the smooth high notes. I was expecting something similar to Silver Phoenix, but SP is quite more metallic. This reminds me most of: - Young Woman Powdering Herself - less gardenia - Datura Blossom - less purple and vegetal - Moonshine & Mist - less mist - White Silk Crysanthenum - less bubbles and spice - Razors in a Doll's House - less cognac or vanilla lace type, more the floral + silver aspect - Tovenares - less rose and bones - Leanan Sidhe - less mist I know powdery scents get a lot of hate, but this is one that I love. It's fresh, clean, classic, elegant, and ethereal. It perfectly fits Sarah floating around in the white ballgown.

I like this. It reminds me of Liz with a dark leather and soft, cool, vanilla tone. I find Liz more floral, Deathrock more resinous with the styrax and benzoin. It's a moody, slightly more traditionally masculine blend that doesn't smell like cigarette smoke to me. There is a tiny bit of hairspray, but perhaps with age, the resins have smoothed out the harshness that would come of those note and made this more like a soft leather to my nose. Overall, this is really nice and I'm happy Liz has a boyfriend to sit next to now.

This is a nice gentlemen's fougere, leaning aquatic and green, the lavender not too herbal or heady, but perfectly placed as it usually is amongst fougeres. I don't get much of the 🎸blackened! 🎸 aspect, but there is something to this that reads refined, traditional men's cologne but they placed noir at the end of the name, without any strong chemical oud, patchouli, or black musk note. Just a hint of something dark and sinister. Maybe this is an elf in Middle Earth, freshly pierced by an arrow, consciousness fading into the void. Or Lawrence Talbot, dark-haired, all cleaned up and normal presenting, hiding terrible secrets. Very well done, a nice vintage type blend yet not in an outdated way. It's still available as of today and I'm glad I went for it.

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!