Lucchesa
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Apparently I never reviewed Jack. It's sweeter and peachier than I remember. Pumpkin and canned peaches dripping with syrup and gently spiced. I only wear it around Halloween and Thanksgiving, and over the past few years my tastes have gotten darker, but it is still a very enjoyable scent.
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Ooh, Pumpkin Pie Musk is delicious! On me it smells like pumpkin pie filling with lots of warm spice -- cinnamon, nutmeg, dried ginger. I don't get crust (which is good, my skin is not always on board with baked goods scents), and the musk is subtle. A very fun autumnal foodie. I received the decant from a generous PIFer, I'm so glad to have gotten to try this, and I'm sending it off to someone else I think would enjoy it.
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I never had the chance to try any of the v45 TALs -- they sounded wonderful. I wonderful if they'll go away now that #45 is. The announcement from the Lab only mentioned the Trump-adjacent BPALs. Is Adrien's day one video heavy on the downward dogs and vinyasas? If not, I might be able to handle it. Yesterday I wore Half-Elf, which I had forgotten how much I like, and walked around Green Lake (3.5 miles). Today I'm wearing Impressions of the Floating World, one of my favorites, walked to a nearby park a mile from my house, and played pingpong with my friend Judy for about 40 minutes, all she was up to today. We actually had a little sunshine. It's not supposed to rain tomorrow either. We'll see. My sister and I have signed up for this virtual challenge starting January 18: https://runwestireland.com/ 502 miles, four and a half months, which means I'll have to average about four miles a day. More if I miss days -- maybe I'll do longer jaunts on weekends. I've never been to Ireland, though we have family roots there. It looks so beautiful!
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The Wild Audacity is exactly as advertised, a bright and cheery lime absinthe. I love anise and dislike mint in my perfumes, and I get lime first and anise second and no appreciable mint. Delightful but not as long-lasting as I would have hoped.
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Giant Vulva is not amazing on me, which is good since it's so hard to find. It's nice -- beeswax always is, and I do like skin musk, and this isn't one of the honeys that goes wrong on me -- but it's not orgasmic, and it's not particularly long-lasting on my skin.
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Apparently I never reviewed Half-Elf. And frankly, I've almost never worn it since first testing it, and I have no idea why not. It's excellent. If there's oudh, it's exceptionally well-behaved. I get sandalwood polished with beeswax and a gentle musk, but it's one of those scents where it's hard to identify the notes because they meld together so well -- I would never have guessed oudh and thought there might be some benzoin. It has that polished feel. Classy. Totally unisex, which is my jive. Good throw at first, medium wear length, highly satisfactory.
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Hi, all! My shoulder is not feeling better, but I have been trying to grab walks when it is not pouring down rain. Today I wore Giant Vulva (I was doing a lecture on medieval marginalia and figured the artists would appreciate the sentiment even if they didn't recognize the culture) and walked to the pharmacy, then a little bit farther to try to get up to 10,000 steps but since I spent so much of the day at my desk, I'm still 1000 shy. I may go for a half-mile walk to correct that.
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Creaking Floorboards doesn't exactly shine with my skin chemistry. I was hoping for dark, spicy, smoky woods, which is what the imp smells like, and all I really get is dusty. I would have loved to pick up an anise note or any of the listed clove, but my skin often obliterates the tea note, and the spices seem to have gone with it. Sadly disappointing on me: I wish it would smell on my arm like it does ITI.
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@Amazonia No spoilers needed. You rant all you want. No underwear — that’s just profoundly sad. Again, that child is so lucky to have you as a grandmother. Welcome back, @VetchVesper! I’m glad the weather is cooperating for you. Here not so much. It poured all day yesterday, just relentless. Today the Sun came out briefly so I headed out for a long walk, about five miles, wearing Creaking Floorboards, which is nothing special on me. It’s pouring again and supposed to continue tomorrow.
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Dead Leaves, Marshmallow, and Pistachio Cream
Lucchesa replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Halloweenie
This is the least dead-leafy of the DLs I've tried this year. It's very much about the gourmand elements, with the dead leaves relegated to the backdrop. Warm, nutty marshmallow -- I'm not sure I would have specifically identified it as pistachio if I didn't know what I was supposed to be smelling. This is a nice warm hug of sweet toasty marshmallow cream and pistachio on a crisp autumn day. -
This is my favorite Dead Leaves this year. Wait, I forgot black licorice. So tough. But I still think this wins, and I am a total licorice slut. It's heartbreakingly evocative, somehow the perfect scent for the year we have just been through, the moments of sweetness and connection among the tragedies. The smoke note doesn't always work on me, but there is no harshness here at all, just autumn bonfire smoke and dead leaves. Decent throw and wear length. I definitely need a bottle.
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I frimped away my imp of Le Lethe so also can't say how tobacco heavy it is. But I'm quite fond of Great Sword of War -- mine is aged, and tobacoo and red musk balance each other nicely. There's also Arachnina in the Carnaval Diabolique -- I haven't tried her because of the floral notes, but I think you're more tolerant of those than I am. I'm sure there are more. I'll pore through my notes when I have a chance.
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Today I wore Against Idleness and Mischief (GC Mad Tea Party honey & herb scent) and walked around Green Lake in the morning before the rain started. About 3.5 miles. Tonight I walked a few blocks just to get up to 10000 steps. I did foul up my shoulder so I won't be doing any yoga challenges. It's standing poses for me for the time being. Happy New Year, witchy workout friends!!!
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A generous forumite frimped me some of this in a swap, and it is glorious! Light golden honey and poofy marshmallow, and it lasts and lasts. Some bath oils give a blast of scent and then mellow away (Intensity); others give me daylong scent and I know immediately I was wearing them if the clothes have gone back into the drawers instead of the hamper (Hedonism). Honey Marshmallow is definitely in the second camp. Please, Lab, may we have more?
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@Kelthara Yes, dance parties with your self definitely count as exercise! @Amazonia I'm sorry Neko's parents aren't able to care for her right now. She is so lucky she has you as backup. And you're being super creative in the fitness with little ones department! I just walked today. Not particularly far. It's nasty out, wind and rain. I was testing DL, Tunisian Amber & Smoked Balsam and Sinister Groundskeeper. Sorry to be so uninspiring! The idea of a yoga challenge sounds great.
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Sinister Groundskeeper is a nice variation on the graveyard dirt theme, surprisingly light and feminine. It started out as soil, grass and dandelions on me, and while I could eventually make out a blood note, I was hoping for more clove. It was very faint after about three hours.
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Dead Leaves, Tunisian Amber, and Smoked Balsam
Lucchesa replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Halloweenie
DL, TA & SB started out as all dead leaves on me, with the balsam note the second to make itself felt. I never got any appreciable smoke, though I might not have been paying attention in that phase -- this is a morpher. So, cool, cologney dead leaves and balsam for the first hour, and then the golden amber started to balance it out. The late drydown on me was all rich, warm amber. I'm a sucker for dry leaves and a sucker for warm amber, so this is very enjoyable. -
Yesterday I tested Endless Corridors (LOVE!) and walked to the park to play ping pong for an hour with a friend. Today I just got in a short walk before it rained and short yoga session before bed. I wore Western Bonneted Bat this morning and tested Unsettling Portraits (interesting) this evening.
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I love this, and it has lasted all freaking day, with lots of throw at the beginning (something I rarely get with my skin chemistry). Lots of beeswax, smokier than Lights of Men's Lives and less sweet. I absolutely adore everything Beth does with candle scents, and this is a gorgeous addition to the ranks. If you love beeswax but hate vetiver, you should at least get a decant and try it, because I'm not finding the vetiver at all objectionable.
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I have to admit that I was hoping that the grave soil and heavy leaves of the title would find their way into this scent despite not being listed in the components. No such luck. Instead, this strikes me as a lovely late summer scent. Fresh-mown hay and grasses and herbs in flower -- more of a green scent than a gold or brown one, and with more of a floral component than I expected. No throw (normal on me) and not much staying power, though that might improve with some aging.
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My experience with Pumpkin Gazpacho is unlike anyone else's here. I was afraid the cream note might be troublesome, but it's fine. In fact, on me, the cream never shows up. It's the "roasted" note in the pumpkin that my skin amps to high heaven. On me, Pumpkin Gazpacho smells like someone made gazpacho and stuck some pumpkin and sage in the oven to roast, and then wandered over to the neighbors' house for a drink, or two, and returned to find all their smoke detectors going off and the pumpkin still in the oven, a blackened mess. For the first hour or so, all I get is charred pumpkin and sage. After that, it simmers down so that I can smell the cool watery cucumber and tomato, and eventually it becomes a rather pleasant garden kind of scent, but that first hour with my skin chemistry is rough.
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Bookcase Passage hit my skin with a blast of Lemon Pledge, or rather the nicer, old-fashioned furniture polish made from natural ingredients Lemon Pledge is mimicking. This mellowed into polished wood which mellowed into dusty leather and crumbly old paper and a bit of incensey sandalwood. Startlingly, it lasts on me, as if the furniture polish note has pinned it to my wrist. Book/library scents never last on me -- my skin chemistry does them in -- so this is a pleasant surprise, as I really want to smell like a library and am rarely allowed to. This may be bottle worthy.
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Black Licorice Smut took about 20 minutes to settle in on my skin, but then it was exactly as advertised. The black licorice note smells sweeter than in Dead Leaves and Black Licorice, but I think that's just because Smut is a sweeter backdrop than the leaves. It's got good throw, something that's rare on me, and good staying power. Sugary woozy red musk with black licorice --- if that sounds perfect to you, do not pass this up.
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This is one of the two Weenies I was most excited about, the other being Black Licorice Smut. Licorice lovers had a lot to rejoice about in this update. I am in love with both these notes, and DL & BL does not disappoint. Wet, it was a sharp version of the dead leaves scent, and at first I could barely make out the licorice. But within a few minutes the licorice was there, nice and full-bodied, against the cologne of the softening dead leaves. This is kind of an earthy licorice, not a super sweet black vine -- it doesn't feel like dead leaves and candy so much as dead leaves and a natural licorice spice. The two notes balance each other really well. I will need more of this.
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Hello, dear witchy ones! Today I tested Dead Leaves, Bourbon and Bitter Almond and walked around Green Lake. I also, earlier, walked to a friend’s house for egg nog. I ate too much junk today and am headachy.