roseus
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This made me nostalgic for seaside trips from when I was a kid. I get soft sea water- not harshly salty or kelpy. I think I get a bit of ambergris as well, as there is a bit of a powdery edge, perhaps this is the sea glass or coral. Mysterious and haunting indeed.
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Gorgeous! That airy sweet vanilla and tobacco lace made smooth and cool with the juniper and ti leaf. There's a brightness I think from the bergamot but it's not citrusy. Makes me think of moonlight in the winter.
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This is a beautiful airy lilac. There is something cool and soft behind it, I think the eucalyptus and blue musk. It's not at all camphorous though. Beautiful.
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At first I get cold, clean blue musk and some heady florals but quickly dries down to just a faint whiff of smoke on me.
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I get a really soft watery mint, not very chilling or mentholic. The eucalyptus is so very soft as well, with a faint snap of ozone. To me this is a steady electric buzz rather than a jolt. This will definitely be upgraded to a bottle .
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This is really really nice. Metal scents have generally not been my thing, but this metal isnt too cold or screechy on my skin. I think there's a good dose of blue musk, and just a hint of lubricant.
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This reminds me a lot of Tombstone with the sarsaparilla and cedar, but this is let dry and woody to me. I get sweet tobacco and amber specifically. There was a glittery, cool feel to the scent fresh on but it quickly disappeared. This is super yummy and comforting. Grown up rootbeer.
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This is a nice forest scent. A bit of sweet pine and lots of leafy greenness and moss, with rough redwood. Not at all a sweet Yule forest scent, this doesn't have the cold wind aspect. This makes me think of a forest in the summer, the scent of wood permeating the hot air.
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This is the soft salt I love, like from Salt Phoenix. Salty, but with a light cleanness. There's something soft and minerally behind it that makes me think of sand. Fresh and soothing, makes my my mind feel at ease.
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In the imp this is a very dark salty aquatic. Very much the sea not freshwater, bordering on masculine. On my skin the jasmine picks up and helps soften the dark musk and salty/kelpy aspects. Settled on the skin the overall effect is lighter, still salty and dark in tone but not as intense if that makes sense, with the water lily and black orchid really coming through. It becomes more of an dark-toned aquatic floral, with the black musk and salt being more accessory elements than the main event.
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This was very confusing to my nose at first. I agree it has this cool but not quite minty feel, but there was something minerally/chemically/camphorous to my nose at first that made my throat dry like getting a whiff of kerosene. On my skin it gets more distinctly musky, but with a softer mineral/dirt note alongside. There is the distinct 'clean' feel I often get from blue musk after it has been on awhile.
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I get really nice fluffy vanilla with a hint of guava and currant and tiny bit of rose. It smells a lot like a lace scent to me. The fruitiness is really nice, the guava somehow doesn't read tropical here, rather just a buoyant fruitiness.
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This one confused me in the bottle. A strong ginger zing immediately halted by dark, rooty, vegetalness. On my skin the other notes come out to bridge the space between them. The apricot is very prominent, and I think the mandarin follows it closely. Their round sweetness really compliment the ginger and help it harmonize with the vegetal patch and yam. I think I'd like this best as an atmosphere spray, it's cheery and homey.
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In the bottle I get a very soft, not so chilly dead leaves and a hint of sweet spices. Fresh on my skin I get lots of a softly sweet spiced tea and just a tiny bit of the crisp, decaying leaves. I want to say I get a bit of milkiness too but I'm probably imagining that in, so strong is the chai element on me. This one is soft in its overall effect, but I really like that it is more subtle. I can easily imagining wearing this on early autumn strolls.
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In the imp this smells just like nag champa incense to me, smelling like a shop I used to visit frequently. It is quite cool on my skin, very silvery and a bit sharp. It gets very herbal and I distinctly get the cannabis, but it's not playing as nicely on my skin as it has in other blends. It's going almost swampy. The blend around it gets quite nice, I get frankincense very distinctly, and the rest of the incense gets a bit warmer and less sharp. However this cannabis is not doing it this round and it was what made me excited about this blend. I wonder if the oud is a bad pair with it on my skin?
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Soft, fruity cake with a swirl of crisp dead leaves fresh on. So autumnal, I love these cake-and-other-things blends like All Souls, half gourmand half atmospheric. As it sits on my skin it becomes a bit more about the hearthsmoke, soft, warm, and a bit woody. I get more tea. It is a beautiful blend, it smells like being in a little cottage, cakes out of the oven resting on the counter with the smoke from a fire and the cold autumn wind coming in from a nearby window. All the elements combine and balance so well.
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Sweet and darkly warming. Testing this directly on my skin as a moisturizer. The pomegranate is sweet, velvety, and dark. The clove is very, very light. It spikes the pomegranate just enough to give it some warmth make it festive. Overall it wears pretty light on my skin and I could get away with wearing it as a moisturizer on my whole body, I thought it was going to be too overpowering. Simple and lovely.
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Ungh this is so good. Lots of buttery pumpkin at first with cinnamon and clove, then a spicy, wooly, woody scent dominates after that has my nose glued to my wrist.
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I get mostly a gorgeous, grown up rose cotton candy. It is sugared (but not overly sweet like the body sprays of my youth) and has a wispy/powder texture that evokes spun sugar with a rosy haze around it. The remains the dominant aspect of the scent, with lavender coming out more on the skin. A deep sniff reveals the spicy, warm SO base, which comes through more after an hour or so. Gorgeous!
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In the imp I get bright red wine and patchouli- a little earthy but not super gnarly. On my skin it's pretty much the same but a little floral. I don't get any smoke or leather.
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This ends up as a much drier, dirtier, less sweet Mme. Moriarty. The tobacco is quite dry on me, and the red oudh very present, making a woody incense-like scent the base, with a dirty, earthy quality. The next notes I get are the red musk and plum, making that red Mme. Moriarty association. It gets a tiny bit sweeter as it dries and a little smoother. Really pretty but Mme. Moriarty works better on me.
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This smells like banana taffy and a pina colada in the imp. On my skin I get lots of pineapple and coconut with maybe a tiny bit of apple behind it. It's juicy but also kind of musky. I think the creaminess of the coconut helps not be too sweet. Luckily I don't get much banana. Settled it's still mostly pineapple and coconut and I think I just get a tiny bit of chili pepper heat. This is actually quite nice and I could totally see myself wearing it poolside/to the beach.
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In the decant I mostly get what smells like warm honey and incense, and a bit of dried fruit. On my skin the honey gets creamier and the incense a little more smoky/powdery. The florals start to come out as well, but I can only identity rose, but I also get a creamier white floral.
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Starts off as a very fresh rain-soaked grass scent. Almost juicy in its greenness. It's breezy. As it sits I get more of the sage, making a bit drier and herbal, but still dewy. This is will be my go-to when the grey of winter starts weighing on me too heavily.
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Such a fun blend! I get a bunch of buttery popcorn at first sniff - such a fun note that I've never tried for some reason. Settled on the skin I get Dorian and beeswax first and foremost, that delicious vanilla black tea but with a honey sweet waxiness that I'm loving, with some lavender over the top. The SO could be adding to the richness of the vanilla-honey sweetness going on, but I can't pick it out specifically but I think it's lending some more body to the blend. The dry woodiness of the oak and the saltiness of the popcorn help keep the sweetness in check.
