roseus
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Oooey gooey marshmallow and grapefruit! The grapefruit is entirely sweetened by the marshmallow, no tartness or bitterness. This smells so nostalgic to me and I can't put my finger on what it is reminding me of.
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A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast
roseus replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
Sweet cinnamon bread and a bit of coffee in the decant. On my skin I get a milky note underneath. The coffee fades back on my skin and I get mostly cinnamon bread and milk. Homey and comforting. -
At a late period in the evening, after nearly three hours of experiment, Mrs Hayden having risen, and talking at another table while taking refreshment, a child suddenly called out, Will all the spirits who have been here this evening rap together? The words were no sooner uttered than a hailstorm of knitting-needles was heard, crowded into certainly less than two seconds; the big needle sounds of the men, and the little ones of the women and children, being clearly distinguishable, but perfectly disorderly in their arrival. Augustus de Morgan Polished mahogany and black tea with a clatter of vanilla husk and oak wood. In the bottle this is vanilla tea with a little bit of dark polished wood underneath and it stays true on my skin. A deep rich vanilla tea, with the woods coming in for support. Elegant and cozy.
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Jacquelynn’s beautiful baby! She has a unique independence that I attribute to her being an Aquarius. She hates closed doors and crates. She likes the option to join the party or not. She is intelligent, loyal and protective. Super affectionate with people she knows, but aloof with strangers. A wintry-white flurry of snow, as pale as her eyes, with lacquered black pepper and oudh. This starts out all sweet, fluffy, vaguely coconutty snow. Like Snow White without the flowers. As it settles the black pepper adds a little heat and intrigue. The oudh is definitely a milder one, I get a sweet woodiness underneath all of the snow. I feel like I could pair this with quite a few things (especially Yule scents!) and could be one of my everyday workhorse HGs. Definitely give this a try if you love sweet snow scents.
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Comparing the two in the bottle Visiting the Sumida River with a Geisha is very close with the combo of jasmine and orange blossom - Crystalline azure musk, orange blossom, water lily, hinoki wood, Texas cedar, and night-blooming jasmine. Probably a difficult find if you don't have it already though. I've not tried it but I'm wondering if Who Would Not Tremble, Too? from 2024 Yules would work: sweet orange blossom, white honey, jasmine tea, white sandalwood, green apple, and lily of the valley. I think it would be sweeter but could fill a similar niche if the jasmine is strong enough.
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Crisp, slightly bitter lettuce and cool cucumber at the forefront. Breezy white tea and cherry blossom rounding it out. Great springtime soak!
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Snappy black leather and DBR in the imp made me think this wasn't going to work at all, but the leather is surprisingly soft on my skin. Could be because I amp the DBR like crazy, which is all you can smell at a distance. Sweet and smoky up close, but with my skin I am a cloud of fruity candy.
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First on I get a bitter neroli backed by soft powdery iris. I expected for the violet to take over from this point, but it stays green and sort of sappy. I can still detect the iris and the violet in the background, sweet and powdery.
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The almond in this when first spritzed is so sweet to be almost fruity, and something about the combination of notes read as 'banana' for a moment. However it settles to a rich, nutty slightly sweet (but no longer fruity) almond atop rich cream and cozy sandalwood.
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2025. Sweet red apple with the slight bitterness of the peel. Fruity red musk melds into it, and a gorgeous dark vanilla amber underneath. I don't pick out the fig specifically, but I think it is adding to the fruity sweetness. To me this doesn't come off as juicy-fruity, it has a more dry incense-y quality.
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So buttery-creamy in the bottle! On my skin it is more musky, with that gorgeous fuzzy suede. It brings the sweetness down somewhat. A lot of gorgeous vanilla on my skin as well. Wet I wasn't sure there was any actual rose in this, but dry I can find it. Soft pink rose that melds into the creamy notes. A cozy, creamy gourmand-ish.
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Yes crisp mountain forest air! I get mostly juniper and pine, and when freshly spritzed heady, slightly funky jasmine. Settled the jasmine is deep, somewhat dark and gives a mysterious, enchanted quality to this forest.
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Gorgeous cool, airy scent. It comes across cool and crisp from the mint and eucalyptus blossom but not overly *minty* or in anyway astringent in the way eucalyptus bath products can be. I get more spruce in the bottle than I do on my skin, it is still there but softer and a bit sweeter. This leans aquatic with the blue musk, and every so slightly salty. It's very much a wash of scent, not faint but sheer. The ambergris gives a nice body and halo to the scent, sort of blurring everything together. I swear I get a bit of lime or bergamot as well. It makes me think of looking at the sun glittering on the sea in the distance on a cool, crisp day.
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This is much fresher and brighter in the imp than I had anticipated. On the skin I get the darker green mossy and woody notes I expected, shot through with just a bit of brightness like sun-dappled woods. As it settles I get the gorgeous creamy vanilla and incense rounding everything out.
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2024. For some reason I am nearly completely nose-blind to this (just this- I checked!) once on my skin. In the imp I get dry red musk and incense, and on my skin I get just a hint of caramel and red musk. My wife could smell it at distance however, and gave a positive review (musky-spicy-caramel).
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Fruity red musk and sticky fig are the main notes on my skin initially. As it dries the tuberose peaks out, heady and rich. I thought the neroli was missing for a while but I think it is blending somewhat into the musk and fig, it doesn't have the bitterness it sometimes has.
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Initially on my skin this is all thick, sweet vanillic beeswax with soft leather and patchouli. As it settles this remains the heart of the scent, surrounded by a cloud of incense. Very much a dark library scent.
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Cold Moon: Jasmine Absolute and Champaca
roseus replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
A gorgeous jasmine, slightly heady but no sharpness or funk. Creamy but with a faint greeness. Champaca has a tendency to be really sharp on me, but here it is just adding a incense-y quality to the jasmine. -
2024. Echoing everyone in that this is The Holiday Scent. Sweet green fir with slightly peppery bayberry. The myrrh comes out more as it dries. Gorgeous wintry blend.
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Slightly chilled (not minty or piney snow- something more along the lines of Snow White but different still) sweet coconut rice. The rice note is very prominent on me, that gorgeous sweet-starchy note.
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Fresh, cold, and indeed melancholic in the imp. Lilies and moss. I don't think I've tried anything with carrot seed, but looking it up I think I'm getting a fresh green woodiness in there. Unfortunately as it settles on my skin the moss pretty much takes over, and something is going screechy on me in concert with it. Skin chem fail.
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L’Homme Fut Solitaire Dans un Paysage de Nuit
roseus replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
All resins in the decant to my nose, sticky sweet but somehow light and sort of airy at the same time. A slight fizz. Labdanum has been something of an It Girl note for me lately and this blend is no different. I find it a touch fizzy in this blend, made a bit lighter I think by a brighter leaning frankincense (not quite lemony but not super woody either) and airy-musky ambergris. The lilac is not prominent on me, just a light touch of it in the dry down. Resin lovers take notice! -
In the imp this is reminding me strongly of Antique Lace Resurrected, a sweet floaty vanilla but overtop a sticky amber and cardamom base (the vanilla-cardamom combo is also recalling Perfectly Normal Childhood but less buttercreamy more grownup). On my skin it is slightly less sweet, more toothsome. I get more orchid and a touch of smoke. Addictive! Absolutely incredible and a definite bottle upgrade in the future.