Soupy Twist

Starts as butter and cream in the bottle. Goes on as oooh! perfumy honey! This gets slightly more foodie as it dries but doesn't quite turn cloying. Not much throw, but very pretty.

Strong sweet black coffee with just a dash of cinnamon in the bottle. Goes on as coffee with cinnamon, but soon the coffee starts to fade and turn into that "coffee burp in the back of the throat" note and I’m getting stale, faintly sweet bun dough.

Sort of like I had coffee and a cinnamon roll for breakfast and this is what’s left on the diner counter an hour later.

Coffee candy. Sweet, milky, cinnamon-dusted, coffee-flavored hard candy. A gorgeous scent.

I’m not entirely sure what “mugwort” smells like but this is sticks and lemon cleaning fluid on me. Like I was washing the floor with lemon Lysol yesterday and dumped the bucket outside on a thicket of twigs when I was done, and this is what it smells like today.

The beeswax tries so, so hard, but mostly it’s just amber doing the Powder Stomp, as it does on my skin.

13 hours ago, neptuneanblues said:

I've never smelled the B&BW scent you mentioned, but Unicorn & Ram springs to mind... not sure how easy it would be to find these days though.

alas, U&R has both leather and oudh, neither of which work on me.

oh man, if there's anything that resembles B&BW's cashmere note, PLEASE hit me up. I would buy gallons of it if the Lab made it.

2019 version:

Aqua Velva.

2019 version:

Pure peppermint oil in the bottle and on application. There’s no sugar or vanilla. It’s not as musty as previous incarnations, so that’s nice. The burn comes in briefly after a few minutes, but vanishes without comment. After about 10 or 15 minutes, the mint is gone too, leaving behind only the much-loved sweet vanilla.

A definite improvement over previous Consents, on my skin, anyway. 😄

Apple juice with a slightly sour edge in the bottle. Goes on as a just-starting-to-ferment apple juice. The fermentation dials back to more of a deep note, like tobacco, which is where it stays: more of a “pipe tobacco soaked in apple cider” scent.

Tobacco leaf in the bottle. Goes on as soft, fuzzy tobacco and pretty much stays there. Almost no throw. A slightly deeper cousin of Sherlock Holmes. This is pretty and subtle.

I wore this today because I'm trying to actually wear my collection instead of just hoard the bottles, and this has really changed with age. It's no longer Sexy Vanilla but just the musk from Antique Lace from beginning to end. If you like the musk from Antique Lace, an aged Ava may be your jam. I did not at all care for it, so, like OLLA's Adam and Eve, I have to kick Ava out (to swaps).

6 hours ago, Nymph87 said:

Are there any other apple scents I should try, in stock, that aren’t sweet and shampoo like but are a little different? 💚

Ah, a question right up my alley.

Poisoned Apple (Bewitching Brews)

Pure Applesauce (Scalias)

Punkie Night (Weenies, various years — I liked 2010 more than 2006)

Honeyed Apple (Weenie 2016)

Eve's Big Apple III (NYCC)

Apple V (Weenie 2015)

very very very very very very very green. planty green grass. greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.

in the bottle: huh? lime? what is that?

on the wrist: yuck, lime and musk. Not fresh lime juice, but fake lime. Lime cologne. Like a bad lime fougere. Where’s my sparkly stuff? 😭

I love Sugar Skull. It’s one of my favorites. I even have a backup bottle.

This is not Sugar Skull on me. It’s just wet pumpkin spice. 😭 😭

Gorgeous fresh apple juice — almost a sweet apple cider. There’s some kind of sweeter note which moves in as it dries, something fluffy, almost billowy. Another awesome apple bottle from the Lab.

2019 version (I didn't know this was a revenant scent!):

Spices and a whiff of fermented honey in the bottle. Goes on as PSL mix. There’s a drop of maple as it dries, but it’s mostly just the pumpkin spices.

wow, did this not work on me. The currant went sour and stomped all over everything, the plum clashed loudly with the mint, and I never got to the vanilla or the sugar. Off to swaps.

Burnt bread crust in the bottle. What even. Yep, that there is bread crust on application. The honey drips in veeeeery slowly, so the scent first becomes damp bread and then slooooooowly the bread edges out and uncovers the slightly floral honey. Almost no throw.

Brilliant execution.

Bliss (the perfume oil) in the bottle — that pure chocolate note. Goes on as a definitely molten chocolate. (HOW DO YOU MAKE CHOCOLATE SMELL MOLTEN, BETH, YOU ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD) This becomes more like liquid cocoa sludge as it dries, although made with water and not milk. Finishes as very similar to Chad from American Gods.

Gorgeous chocolate.

Cream in the bottle. Toasty grains on application, which eventually dries to a beeswax honey kind of note. No molasses, brown sugar, pecan, or any resemblance thereof. Pretty, but almost no throw.

White floral in the bottle and on the wrist — the tuberose/gardenia mix I love so much. There’s a sugary note on top while it dries, which turns the floral a little shrill, but that smoothes out and softens once it’s dry. Almost no throw when it’s done, alas.

Very pretty — another in the line of Eternal Queen, Humanite, and Swans on the River.

Another spectacular achievement by Beth.

Baked apples in the bottle. Goes on as baked apple and apple blossom — I think it’s the Annurca from the single note. There are definitely flowers. I want to say I smell buds? Does a bud smell different from a flower? That’s what I’m getting.

As it dries it’s more apple juice, as in fresh from the apple. Something sweet and weird comes in as it approaches the finish, like… broken twigs. Honest to fuck I am smelling broken twigs from an apple tree.

Finishes as freshly-broken branches from an apple tree. Beth, you are a literal adept of your art. This is astonishing. It is all of appledom in one perfume.

Chanukkiyah (Yule 2013): Olive oil, beeswax, glowing amber, sweet sufganiyot, pomegranate, and fig. My notes say "finishes as warm beeswax."

Democrat (Election 2008): Beeswax and spices

Al-Azif (A Picnic in Arkham) turns into a lovely beeswax on me despite the description.

Honey and Absinthe (Lupercalia 2019, The Honey Pot) is more beeswax than honey on me, and I never got any absinthe out of it.