Lucchesa
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2025 Bats of LA version. Lemony white tea with ginger and bergamot. I don't get much bourbon or any incense, unfortunately. It's nice but kind of simple. Medium wear length. I'm happy I got to try it, but I'll pass it on.
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Brick Snek definitely has neroli, because I amp neroli and this is basically a neroli fest on me. It eventually settles into a softer orange blossom and brick melange. I get hardly any snake oil at all from this. Skin chemistry fail.
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Deer Moon: Golden Tobacco and Beeswax
Lucchesa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
How did I miss this duet? These are two of my favorite notes, and they combine beautifully on me. I do get how people are reading a soil note in the opening, and the tobacco is as sharp and cologne-y as @doomsday_disco says (cologne-y is not a negative for me -- my tastes definitely run to the unisex), but it settles in with the beeswax which is not a honey note on my skin but something distinct, much less sweet, and the whole thing is just lovely, and it lasts a long time. -
I think had originally bought this for my daughter, but it was too sweet for her and I ended up with it. But I'd never reviewed it or even really tested it. Lola Lee Loo is indeed very sweet, reminding me of the pink notes of Poor Monkey (I was thinking that was pink fig but I just looked it up -- didn't we see a pink fig note somewhere not too long ago?). The clove and patchouli never develop on my skin, perhaps because this doesn't last long on me at all. It's soft and cozy while it's there, but I'm jealous of the people who got hours of wear from this one. It will be going on my swap list.
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Yep, that's brick all right. How you make something smell like brick is beyond me, but it does, right off the bat. But this is more like a margarita than a tequila sunrise on me. I'm getting no cassis, just lime and tequila. Bright and sparkling and summery -- and brick. Super interesting and not something I'm likely to wear. But I'm happy I got to try it!
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2025. I had avoided the earlier iterations of this because I feared the agarwood -- oud can go tragically wrong on me. But this is beautiful. If there's oud, it's woody, not fecal. Roasted pumpkin, soft leather, patchouli, non-champa incense -- lots of cozy autumnal goodness. After a while I get some sweet-tart pomegranate floating above it that wasn't apparent at first application. Really nice.
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This is fantastic on me. It's that chewy tobacco note I love love love. It starts out with the almost spicy molasses flavor other reviewers have noted, but it's nowhere near cloying on me because it's hand in hand with the husky, almost harsh tobacco note. It all smooths down into something glorious. It's like Leonard Cohen's voice as a scent, and I'm here for it. Thank you, @doomsday_disco, for the decant!!!
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I'm so glad @doomsday_disco decided to bottle this one and passed along the decant. Snake in the Grass goes on very green, grass and clover, nothing specifically floral, but on my skin it starts to blend with the Snake Oil into something that smells expensive, like something a Gilded Age goddess might have worn. It's fresh and summery and innocent with something sultry underneath. Ultimately the SO outlasts the grasses, but it's lovely all the way through.
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This is beautiful; I'm surprised I have never reviewed it. The leather is more prominent on me now than it was when fresh; soft leather and chestnut are the main players on my skin. There's also sandalwood and amber which tend toward the cool spectrum. I don't get any pepper or clove. Despite the misty description, there's only the tiniest twinge of aquatic, and Phantom Team doesn't dissipate immediately either; the wear length on me was quite decent. The chestnut and leather combination is one I don't have in any other scent. It's both comforting (chestnut) and sexy and rugged (leather).
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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.