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I'm going into withdrawal with no swap to work on!

I think llamadolly and I will be putting together the altered art tin swap as soon as we nail down what direction we want to go in. Hope to see lots of you join

Yay! I love altoid tin art! I will definitely be joining.

Yes, I realize this is *waaaaay* out of season, but will there be any interest in a 13 Days of Halloween exchange again this year? It's cleaning day, and I'm finding quite a few things from various sources (like HorrorBlock) that I could hang onto for an exchange, but if it's not going to happen, I need to go ahead and rehome them. (Switch Witch kind of freaks me out due to how elaborately people get into it, so advent-style exchanges work better for me intimidation-wise.)

I am definitely down for any Halloween themed swap! I'm so there.

The Raven for Ravenclaw is a little too obvious and weird (their mascot is the Eagle, not the Raven) but it does have Iris in it. I like Sheol, for Iris and Lily, but there is no knowledge or wisdom there according to the description.

 

True, I totally forgot that their mascot is the Eagle, probably since that never made any sense to me. ha ha ha Ravens are way smarter than eagles. They even use tools! But I digress...

Doozers does sound pretty perfect for Hufflepuff.

Snake Oil or any of the Snake Pit would be an obvious choice for Slytherin! Or maybe Coiled Serpent or Serpent's Kiss?

For Hufflepuff maybe either Badger or Badgers? Or how about "Against Idleness and Mischief"? ha ha

For Ravenclaw there's Raven Moon, The Raven, Night Raven. Or you could rift on their studious nature with something like Scholar's Tower, or The Manuscript.

I'm going for the low-hanging fruit with the really obvious name tie-ins. ha ha ha If you want to get more esoteric and less literal, I like a lot of the golden, amber-based scents for Gryffindor, like Lyoness or Bastet -- or hell, The Lion, which would be fitting both from an obvious name tie-in, and also the more abstract "feels golden" sense.

Musky blueberry! Sounds gross, smells divine. I can't stop huffing my wrist, and my kitten keeps rubbing her face on my wrist. ha ha Very unusual scent. I'll be wearing this a lot this spring/summer!

Smelling this instantly transported me to a place I once loved: Old Tibet on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado. I used to go there frequently to buy incense, prayer beads, Buddha statues, etc., and whatever is in this blend smells EXACTLY like the incense I used to buy there. I don't know if I really necessarily need to smell like incense, but this is a deeply nostalgic, comforting scent for me. I am going to wear it to bed so I can dream of idyllic summers in the Colorado mountains.

Lovers of incense/resin blends, this is a must try.

Fae and Aglaea are my favorite GC summer scents. I also like The King's Daughter a lot. Anything light and fruity, especially with peach or melon. Summer is peach season in Texas, so anything with peaches reminds me of summer.

My experience with this oil seems to be different from everyone else's in this thread. I don't get any anise or ozone. To me, this smells like a more feminine version of Dorian, with more flowers. It's very lovely and heady.

Smoke and vanilla. Underpants on Fire. Double entendre fully intended.

This is lovely. So dark and smoky and mysterious. I loves it. Need bottle.

Spring starts in February in Texas (you think I'm joking, but it's 85 degrees in Austin today ha ha), so I've been rocking my spring scents already. My favorite is Fae, but Dorian also gets a lot of wear in the spring, and now that I've tracked down more of The Hesperides, that will get a lot of wear, too. And The Fairy Thorn.

Oh my goodness, I love this. The peach wine is dominant. It actually reminds me of Arbor Mist Peach Chardonnay, which I drank in my early 20s because I didn't know any better. So it has pleasant associations for me, AND it smells deliciously peachy. The amber gives it a little sexiness and depth. It's Fae's older, sexier cousin, and I adore Fae.

Rocking my Still Life with Peaches hair gloss at the moment, and it goes wonderfully with Aglea. This combo will be a go-to this summer during peach season here in Texas!

Unfortunately, this smells exactly like Irish Springs soap on me.

I'm from East Texas, and grew up with a magnolia tree in my front yard, as well as a mimosa tree, and honeysuckle, and some scents that remind me of sitting on the front porch at home in a humid Southern night:

Lolita - It's a blast of citrus at first, but then the honeysuckle takes over, and really, really, really reminds me of southern nights with honeysuckle.

Give Me Thy Breath, My Sister -- there's no honeysuckle or magnolia listed in the notes, but I swear that that's what I get from this oil! Or mimosa blossoms, maybe. And I love it, even though it makes me a little homesick.

Definitely echo the suggestions for Blood & Judgment So Well Commedled & Pottaskefill.

I also VERY much enjoy Ad Montes Oculos Levavi from the Crimson Peak line. There's something about it that reminds me of Dee, which is one of my all-time favorites.

Smells like an apricot turnover - buttery, flaky pastry filled with apricot jam. I LOVE IT. I just ordered two bottles of it, because I never want to run out. I think this is my favorite Yule Lad, and possibly my favorite apricot perfume ever. I even like it better than Aristocratic Couple.

There's something about this that reminds me of Southern nights sitting on the front porch, in the spring or early summer, smelling the magnolia trees and mimosa trees as the breeze wafts by. Or passing by a honeysuckle bush, maybe. It is a green scent, but also very sweet. I don't get candy from it, though -- I get sweet flowering trees or bushes. It smells like my childhood, pulling pink mimosa blossoms off the mimosa tree and burying my face in them.

I don't normally do florals or greens but the nostalgia is so strong for me that I may need a bottle of this for when I feel homesick for east Texas.

 

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Gesundheit. What ingredient is that?

 

haha Your guess is as good as mine! I just googled it and the only thing that popped up were entries about this particular perfume. It's magical unicorn farts! I'm going with that.

I recently tried Moon of Small Spirits, which was a December lunacy from several years ago, and so far, it's my favorite winter scent ever. It's what I thought Skadi would be (Skadi is lovely, just not what I expected). The description is "Snow-blanketed wild grasses, sage, swamp tea, cedar, giniminagawunj, copal, rosehip, juniper, clover, elderberry, sweet flag, butterfly weed, wood sorrel, and pine."

It's lovely. Don't let the pine or cedar scare you off. I don't like "wood" scents very much at all, but this doesn't smell like a mothball or hope chest -- it smells exactly like a forest in winter. I love it. I don't know how hard it is to find, but if you're curious based on the notes I posted, PM me and I would happily decant a half imp tester for you to try.

I am the girliest femme you could ever imagine -- the kind of girl who never leaves the house without lipstick and eyeliner, and usually wearing a sundress, even in the winter -- but I LOVE the Lab's more masculine oils, and wear them myself. Pottaskefill will definitely join my collection of oils that are a little on the masculine side, but so dang sexy that I will rock them every day anyway.

On me, it's all soft, well-worn leather (without the sharpness that some leather blends like De Sade have - this is more the leather note from Dee) with a slight hint of cold mint or evergreen, and something giving it a tiny bit of sweetness behind the leather and cold.

I adore it! Upgrading to a bottle.

Hmmm...interesting. I don't get any lemon or sweetness at all. It was all wood on me, which I assume is the elemi and frankincense.

Finally I see why people love the Lab's chocolate perfumes. I've tried several -- Bliss, Gelt, various 13s -- and they've all left me cold, but this one I love. Warm and spicy and sexy. It's not overly foody, so I don't feel as though I'm a walking chocolate cupcake. More like I'm sipping a mug of hot cocoa in front of a fire, while someone bakes cinnamon ornaments back in the kitchen. This is truly lovely. I may have to upgrade to a bottle before the Yules come down.

This is beautiful, but has NO throw on me. At all. Like, I have to literally put my wrist against my nose to smell it. Other reviewers don't seem to have this problem, so maybe it's just me. If I could smell it from more than a centimeter away, this would definitely be a bottle purchase, because it's gorgeous. But with no throw, I guess I'll pass. Wonder if it's an aging thing. Perhaps I'll get a fresh imp from the lab and see if it has more throw than the imp I received in a trade.

The Ecstasy of Infatuation is all plumeria on me and I lurve it so much. Hard to find, though, sadly.

Smells like those strawberry hard candies that come wrapped in the strawberry wrappers -- in other words, smells like my childhood, because I ate a LOT of those candies. Very sweet, very fruity scent. Light and playful.