Jenjin
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Our winter mascot! A musky, snow-touched, forest-deep Yuletide blend: shaggy black wool and a slushy tangle of juniper, mistletoe, winter sage, spikenard, white moss, and terebinth.
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This year’s Transanta fundraiser scent is a wish for enjoyment that transcends hard conditions: a cotton candy-flavored lollipop blessed with a pinch of grit and petrichor.
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Morning rising in mourning grey: tobacco flower, white oud, lavender bud, and ambergris accord. O transient voyager of heaven! O silent sign of winter skies! What adverse wind thy sail has driven To dungeons where a prisoner lies? Methinks the hands that shut the sun So sternly from this mourning brow Might still their rebel task have done And checked a thing so frail as thou They would have done it had they known The talisman that dwelt in thee, For all the suns that ever shone Have never been so kind to me! For many a week, and many a day My heart was weighed with sinking gloom When morning rose in mourning grey And faintly lit my prison room But angel like, when I awoke, Thy silvery form so soft and fair Shining through darkness, sweetly spoke Of cloudy skies and mountains bare The dearest to a mountaineer Who, all life long has loved the snow That crowned her native summits drear, Better, than greenest plains below – And voiceless, soulless messenger Thy presence waked a thrilling tone That comforts me while thou art here And will sustain when thou art gone – Emily Brontë
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Sweet red wine, oakmoss, ambergris accord, ylang ylang, and Spanish mandarin. All thine the new wine of desire, The fruit of four lips as they clung Till the hair and the eyelids took fire, The foam of a serpentine tongue, The froth of the serpents of pleasure, More salt than the foam of the sea, Now felt as a flame, now at leisure As wine shed for me.
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A bitter, tea-stained ache soothed by softly herbaceous sugar cookies.
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Angelo Jank Snow-thick sandalwood, eucalyptus leaf, and a scattering of dead leaves clinging to skeletal branches.
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Marie Bracquemond Sugar-dusted iris petals.
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A strange ecstasy: champagne-soaked apples, gilded gold roses, and lemon peel.
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Pomelo, Mandarin, and Pink Grapefruit
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Juniper Berry, Pine Needle, and Hemp
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Holiday goals. Mushrooms and clover splashed with champagne and green musk.
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A Halloween lure: the feral musk of cryptids lurking in an old growth forest peeping expectantly at a bowl of sticky-sweet caramels, toffees, chocolate bonbons, and butterscotch candies.
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Pale gilded lilies and roses in the labdanum shadow of a yew tree, a sprig of forget-me-not, the dwindling memory of a genteel cologne, and the honeyed breathlessness of a kiss. My sister Death! I pray thee come to me Of thy sweet charity, And be my nurse but for a little while; I will indeed lie still, And not detain thee long, when once is spread, Beneath the yew, my bed: I will not ask for lillies or for roses; But when the evening closes, Just take from any brook a single knot Of pale Forget-me-not, And lay them in my hand, until I wake, For his dear sake; (For should he ever pass and by me stand, He might understand ―) Then heal the passion and the fever With one cool kiss, for ever. – Digby Mackworth Dolben
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Golden amber and gilded vanilla with patchouli, white cedar, and caramelized sandalwood. Warm and golden, this flickers very much like sunshine on a cool, spring day in a wooded garden with perfect, nectar dripping blossoms all around. I get the amber upfront along with the shining sandalwood and dry cedar. The woody notes aren't overpowering and settle down into a soft, balancing basenote. The patch is in the background, but comes out as it dries, adding a very light spice. Okay, so now i'm going to gush a little bit. The vanilla is GORGEOUS in the background. Delicately sweet, all the notes together make the whole blend enchanting and I can't stop spraying it! It's a definite mood lifter and makes all my stuff smell like a warm, wooded tree-lined flower patch on a floating cloud day. UPDATE: I had to get a back-up bottle of this one!
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A very difficult game indeed: pink champagne, pink lime, pink grapefruit, wild rose, yellow bergamot, purple sage, nectarine skins, a thump of patchouli, and ornery hedgehog musk.
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Gingerbread Hot Cocoa, dotted with marshmallows.
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They ride again! Black leather, gingerbread, clove, and tobacco.
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An otherworldly snack: gingerbread twisted in ivy and chilled by white iris, osmanthus, calla lily, gladiolus, lisianthus, and delphinium.
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Pomegranate, Wild Plum, and Green Tea grove.
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Oatmeal, Rose Petals, and Sugar
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Gin-soaked slush.
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BPAL’s perennial favorite, Snake Oil, soaked in whiskey, honey, and a twist of lemon.
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London Smoke. The foggy grey of Victorian London A black tea fougere with tabac flower and grey amber.
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Honeyed black musk, lotus root, blood orange, ambrette seed, mimosa, balsam, and sandalwood incense.
