Lucchesa
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Definitely a stealth dead leaves note here, which I imagined from the name. Spicy smoky vetiver against a backdrop of dead leaves. I don't think I have any DL + vetiver blends, and I like it a lot.
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Dead leaves and a dry patchouli, beautiful. I hadn't thought of it until I read Poenari's review above, but yes, very much like Autumn Leaves and Haitian Patchouli HG, one of my absolutely favorites. After a while some dark sweetness emerges from the dried plum. Kind of hippie, kind of goth, exactly what I want to wear in October.
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I really never get snake oil out of this one. I get dead leaves and a lot of neroli, which is always a bully with my skin chemistry, and they continue to be the main players on my skin here. No amber, cardamom or smoked vanilla, just neroli, dead leaves, neroli. I wish this worked on me!
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I think this must be a decant @Teamama gifted me as it would have been foolhardy for me to order something this violet-forward, even though all the other notes a good on me. But when there's violet involved, I barely make out the other notes. Between the violets and the plums, it's very purple, and I do get an opium note underneath and a vanilla sandalwood note on top. Still, everything pretty much ends up getting subsumed by violet, and it's not a note that works well on my skin.
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So much big cherry energy! Juicy bing cherry right off the bat, lots of it, outpacing the dead leaves and incense tar which are pretty quiet throughout. Unlike doomsday _disco I love the dead leaves note and hoped for more of it, and given the descriptor tar I was hoping for something darker and smokier. I find this becomes exactly what I wanted it to be if layered with Dead Leaves on Fire.
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Dead Leaves, Burnt Marshmallows, Clove Cream, and Whiskey
Lucchesa replied to Jenjin's topic in Halloweenie
Dead leaves, though not emerging as clearly on my skin as some years' leaf piles. Faint clove and some cream that threatens to go off on my skin but stays in line. Some smoky whiskey sweetened by the other notes, or sweet on its own. I never really get burnt marshmallow, neither the burnt part nor the marshmallow part. This is not rapturous on me like DL & Scotch a few years back, which I was hoping for a version of, but it's nice enough after a year of aging. I had to reapply twice, once in the early afternoon, once around 6 before going out, and the throw is minimal, but that's standard for me. -
Hunter’s Moon: Black Musk and Black Honey
Lucchesa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Skin chemistry changes have made some honeys go weird on me, so I was curious to try black honey. It seems to be a fruity honey that melds with a grape-y dark musk. I'm used to red musk being fruity, not black musk. It's confusing. This reminds me, I think, of Bess? I haven't smelled it in ages and don't have an imp to compare, but Black Honey and Black Musk evokes a strong scent memory linked to one of the imps in my very first BPAL order, and I think it was Bess. Once dry some of the fruitiness is mitigated, and it becomes a sweeter cousin to Haunted, with good wear length. I think this would be a good scent for a bad mood, or for counteracting some of the terribleness that is our world right now. -
A greener version of Graveyard Dirt. Super realistic garden center vibe!
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Lavender blends often start out as a big blast of lavender that don’t last on my skin. But I love lavender and always hope one will stick around, so I keep trying. I get lots of lavender in the opening which is quickly supplanted by an awkward sandalwood, like the sandalwood soap in an import shop. I can barely make out the dead leaves which seems to be a recurring theme with this year’s leaf pile. This was not a good DL year for me, sadly.
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The orris butter went wrong on me. Shea notes do that sometimes too. All the other notes should have been marvelous, but they all got subsumed by the cloyingly buttery orris. Oh well, I shall pass this one on and be glad I got to try it.
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Love this! I don't often wear total foodies, but Kon Kurabe is delightful. Kind of a cinnamony pistachio marzipan, very sweet, very mood lifting. I think I need this in my life this month.
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Frog Moon: Iris and Wild Patchouli
Lucchesa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I love patchouli but avoid iris; this scent was a gift from the ever-wonderful @Teamama and I'm really glad I got to try it. I'm not sure it's for me, though it's certainly a thing of beauty. Galadriel would wear this. This is Lothlórien patchouli, not your hippie variety -- it's much greener and airier. This is a silvery, dry blend, no sweetness at all, and it conveys earth and sapling and light and breeze. @gentle-twig's review above is a masterpiece, and my experience is quite similar to how they describe theirs. This is the most unusual patchouli I have tried, and I will keep my decant and see if I find the magic of this combination outweighing my reluctance towards iris and its violet-adjacent tendencies. -
So, I just found last year's Weenies. I had misplaced them during my major construction project. And I'm shocked to see no one has reviewed this. Which I can do in one word: LILAC. Somehow I ended up with two decants of this -- not sure if that was a mistake or if I really thought I would love it. And when I test the second decant on my other wrist, I can make out the labdanum, more a spicy than a syrupy variety. Dead leaves? Not yet. I'll check back and see if they appear in later drydown. ETA Nope. Big lilac energy, dead leaves MIA. One decant to my sales page and the other to be stored with my springtime scents.
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Baked apples (with apple pie spices of course) and buttery pumpkin, and my skin eats this one up rather quickly. I prefer plain old Jack, but if apple is your jam it might work really well for an autumnal scent. Glad I got to try this one!
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Fruit-Chouli, Vanilla-chouli, Candy-chouli, Sweet-chouli???
Lucchesa replied to Vaudenilla's topic in Recommendations
My GC faves are Depraved and Goblin. I have lots of scents in this category -- currently wearing Startled Toad from 2015 -- yum!!! -
Black Bar is all resins on me, resins and patchouli and black musk. I’m getting no citrus or spices in this ten-year-old bottle. I’m not complaining. It has terrific throw and wear length on me, both of which are unusual for my dry middle aged skin. This is a beautiful dark blend for fall or winter or whenever you need an extra kick of goth.
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Rose is generally not my thing, but roasted peach and labdanum sounded delicious, so I was thrilled to get to try this, and the decant is a keeper. I get very little rose, mostly a rich resiny peach. It does feel velvety and more grown-up than some fruity blends.
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I'm finding I can no longer wear some of the honey scents I used to love. Post-menopausal skin chemistry change. At any rate, this is almost entirely honey dust on me, and it's sharp rather than cozy and sweet on me. Just not a match for my current skin.
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Motel Sheet Ghost has the crisp lemony summery feel of Traditional Sheet Ghost with extra summer from the coconut. It's gorgeous in the imp and when it first touches my skin, but unfortunately this is one of the smoke notes my chemistry is not kind too, and a slightly acrid tone takes over on me. It doesn't sound like any of the other reviewers has had that problem; it's definitely a me thing with that particular smoky note. I wish I could wear this! Thanks, @Teamama, for letting me try it!
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This scent is adorable and lasts a long time on me. It's a cloud of candy-pink fruit from which I can't necessarily pick out specifics. I think I need to eat more guavas. Definitely a pink fig note I've smelled elsewhere, though. Not much vanilla and no cream, thank goodness. It's a lovely one, the sample gifted by a friend; it's just not the kind of scent I wear with any frequency. If not for the name, it would be a great starter perfume for a tween.
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And Le Lethe.
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Sadly Pyewackett isn't working on me -- the later drydown is nice enough, but it takes too long to get there. Wet, it smells like something's on fire that shouldn't be -- smoky with an acetone tinge. I never get a recognizable patchouli or amber note; I do get ink and paper and a dark red musk. The smoke never goes away but eventually it gets less chemical, more mad wizard's laboratory.
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Wild Sweet Pea is a lovely soft springtime scent. Almond milk is always good on my skin and there's a lot of it here. These are all gentle, delicate notes and for me they work together nicely. Low throw and wear length (which is fairly normal for my middle-aged skin) but I gladly reapplied.
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Deer Moon: Caramel and Dark Musk
Lucchesa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Caramel and Dark Musk reminds me so much of Haunted that I wonder if there’s a stealth amber note in here. This is very much a black musk scent, not at all foodie. My experience is very much like topazphoenix’s, with the musk front and center, the caramel in the background. Decent throw and wear length on my middle aged skin. It’s lovely, but if you missed it, just pick up some Haunted from the GC — it scratches the same itch. -
I chose this decant largely out of curiosity plus love of all things ancient Egyptian. There are unfamiliar notes here for me: carmine, elemi, blue lotus. I thought the carmine might be a blend of Egyptian and red musk, but I was being too literal; instead this is lighter and brighter than I expected, with something almost citrusy. The cinnamon and cassia are very subtle. It’s pretty — I think my mother would have enjoyed it. In fact I think most people would enjoy it. You could dress it up or down. But I don’t have strong passionate feelings about it.