roseus
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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.
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This ends up being a dark, slightly spiced black musk incense on me. I get a bit of dark vegetal greeness, but unfortunately no amber on me. It's a cool scent, but not really me.
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This makes me think of fae things and moonlight. In the bottle it's all fluffy/airy lavender to me, but on the skin becomes more about the tuberose. The tuberose is sweet, smooth, and ethereal. The sweetness fades a bit as it sits, and the airy lavender and moss come in. It adds a cool greenish tone. The white musk is very soft. The whole effect is soft, cool, sweet, and ethereal.
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At first this is pure Christmas tree pine, sweet with that mentholated air like cold wind. I forgot what the rest of the notes were when testing so I was interested to see it develop. It got a bit warmer and muskier, and the sweetness shifted to a different kind, more distinctly vanilla. After it dries I get a pretty recognisably Dorian base, very heavy on the vanilla tea. The moss and pine have faded back but not disappeared but have added a really cool balsamic note to the Dorian. It's hard to describe how well they blend, but it really works. This is one of my all time favorites from the Liliths.
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On my skin this smelled like velvety rose and cherries, with bit of grape that tried to poke out but got stomped on by cherries. Very syrupy. Unfortunately DBR makes this rose a no go for me!
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Gorgeous! In the diluted form, or maybe it's the heat of the bath, but I get more vanilla in this form. Also I swear I get a tiny bit of coconut? It's Snake Oil but the richness is cut slightly, which is good for this format. The notes have different nuances, it feels a bit foodier, and the patch is chewier and I feel like I get more of the resins. Absolutely delightful for a soak.
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Very fresh clean scent on and in the bottle. As it sits on the skin I get this super fluffy cotton scent, like a freshly laundered lace. The tea is very subtle on me, I get whiffs of green and black tea with the jasmine and roasty notes of oolong coming out very weakly as it lingers on the skin. But the fluffy cotton impresses me so much, it's not as intensely of clean/soapy scent of Boober or Dirty but there are light elements of that there.
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I get all wine up front. In the bottle it's almost juicy red and if I sniff deeply I swear I even get a bit of blackberry. There is a bit of incense and something a bit floury. On my skin the incense is the main body of the scent, with softer threads of wine around it. I agree there is a sort of vanilla component to the scent that I can't quite place, but it's incredibly beautiful. I think I get a bit of a flour note, not quite bread but a bit wheaty, but I can't tell if I'm just imagining it. Dark and lovely without being heavy, this is one of my new favorites.
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Starts off as a syrupy cherry-almond. As it dries the almond gets less sweet and more warm, nutty facets with soft musky note around the edges. As it dries it feels more like incense, maybe sandalwood? There is some rose and spice too. In summary, a spicy, rosy, almondy, soft incense. This one almost feels like a dark counterpart to Morocco.
