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The very floral honey is for sure the strongest scent note and the tea while present is very meek and only shows itself well into the dry down but it’s lovely very similar to the tea note in London fog cream pie which is amazing. And while I don’t know that I get boba I do get a hint of a molasses-y smell that kind of reminds me of the brown sugar syrup that boba typically lives in.
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This is all about the spice for me, aggressive fall spices in there, cinnamon for sure maybe nutmeg as well. I don’t get any fig but the cream is putting in work to temper it so it’s not just a fall yankee candle smell. Its sweet and the honey isn’t floral which is what I was afraid of but the spice is much more the forefront than I would have preferred.
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Super fresh super pretty, it’s mostly a bright crisp apple and something with a bit of depth to it, I want to say it’s the patchouli but whatever is it’s very subtle and almost woodsy. It reminds me of a very fancy high end shampoo, this would be amazing as a hair gloss.
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So, I tried Dorian for the first time last year, I bought it (straight from the lab) as a Christmas gift for my husband. I couldn’t believe that I’d never tried it before, it was the perfect vanilla of my dreams and at the next possible moment I could afford it bought 3 bottles (also straight from the lab) that July for my birthday. The three new bottles though did not smell anything like the Christmas bottle the new bottles were super masculine, so cologney and a bit lemony. I don’t really get what happened I know there’s some difference in batches but it smells completely different, I’ve re-upped lots of bottles over the years and there’s never been such a drastic difference for me before. My husband said it’s probably just because the Christmas bottle is 6 months older so after 6 months the july bottles will smell more like the older one but I just retried it right next to each other and there’s still so different it’s very wild. But that being said the Christmas version was the most amazing perfume I’ve ever smelled in my life and would recommend it to every woman on the planet. The July one isn’t bad but it’s very masculine smelling to me and I don’t like to wear it because I personally like to wear perfume to feel feminine.
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Pink pink pink! This smell radiates the color pink, when I smell it I can see pink beneath my closed eyelids. It’s sweet without being overpowering or powdery it does kind of give off a bubbly effervescent effect like the champagne scent note in other perfumes. It’s a very young, youthful, bright smell. I think strawberry is the most prominent note but honestly it’s so pink and there’s so many notes that start with pink that it could be any of the things that start with pink.
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It Was But the Wild Blast As It Sung Thro’ the Trees
Mufasa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Yules
Extremely unique! This is a gourmand that I wouldn’t consider to be sweet, I know there’s been some savory-gourmands in existence for a while but I’ve never smelled those because I thought if it wasn’t sweet why bother but this changed my mind, it’s really nutty from the hazelnut that’s the most prominent note and it’s so warm, I can smell the heat on it which is really fun. If I was told this was a roasted hazelnut single note I would believe you. It’s a close to the skin smell no aggressive throws just warm and subtle and really nice. -
This one’s pretty wild, it’s very sweet. It kind of gives a hard candy vibe. Like the ricola cherry cough things with a slight bedusting of powdered sugar. I don’t really get any of the scent notes on it which is weird. I’m not a great connoisseur of smells by any metric but I can usually pick up at least one of the scent notes. Maybe it’s the lemon verbena that makes me think fruit hard candy but I don’t know. It’s so unlike white rabbit which is more what I imagined in my head but I like it because it’s still light and refreshing.
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This is nice, the vanilla and buttered toast is the most prominent for me. And there’s something about it that’s a bit powdery I would assume that’s the cotton stuffing. It’s not my favorite I think it’s the combo of the butter and the slightly powdery laundry of the cotton stuffing. It doesn’t work as well on me as I imagined in the sense that I can’t decide if it’s a gourmand or a your-skin-but-better perfume. Like it’s both heavy and light at the same time which confuses me, I don’t know where I’d wear it to because it’s too much heavy gourmand to wear around the house (it’ll hurt my head in close quarters) but it’s not the strong throw show-stopper I’d wear to a party either.
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Absolutely amazing! Easily my favorite of the collection. It’s a tiny bit spicy and creamy and sweet. Something about it reads woodsy to me like a hint of fir or general tree smells. It’s very subtle, close to the skin not very much throw but in a great way like your skin but better. I would say the cardamom and the milky musk are the most prominent notes I don’t really get the other things and the cardamom is a little more subdued than it normally is for me but the milky musk is perfect because it’s not too dairy or tangy nor is it the kind of powdery smell that I get sometimes with musk, I love it and it’s cozy and a perfect daily wear perfume.
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I think the texture of the lotion is really fantastic in comparison to others, the thickness, how quick it absorbs into the skin without feeling greasy and how soft your hands feel afterwards is all wayyy better than other lotions I’ve tried. I don’t know if maybe my bottle is different but I don’t have any issues with the pump, I’ve been using the past few days and it’s worked well each time there’s no difficulty getting it out for me. If I was nitpicking I would say it dispenses in pretty small amounts but honestly it’s such a thick formula I don’t really think you need that much in one go. The smell is great too, it’s a little on the light side and the fig is wayyy more prominent and there’s a creamy note to it as well, kind of like the dry down of milk moon so just sweet figgy creamy without the sour dairy initial whiff that you get out of milk moon.
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I agree. The most aggressively sweet smell I’ve ever smelled and I like sweet but it almost hurts my head it’s so sweet. It’s sort of a caramelized sugar/brown butter super warm toned like it would go well with cinnamon. It’s also weirdly fruity like cherries or blackberries. Very unexpected.
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This is amazing! I’m surprised there’s not more reviews on this, it’s so feminine but also adult smelling. It extremely sweet and on the cusp of being fruity, if you weren’t huffing and analyzing really aggressively I don’t think anyone would guess fruit. It’s kind of the dream scent of what a teen would want from bath and body works. It’s very sophisticated smelling without being powdery but also sweet and really well blended, I wouldn’t be able to pick out any of the scent notes but it’s so good I don’t care it’s just a mysterious amazing conglomerate of smells.
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Idle Moon: Vanilla Husk and a Bundle of Twigs
Mufasa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I ordered this for the vanilla husk of course since I continually live in regret of losing my only bottle of the trio vanilla husk, nutmeg and corn husk in a move. This duet smells nothing like the vanilla husk I remember and to be honest I don’t really smell any kind of vanilla at all. That being said it’s still very sweet. The twigs note must just be going so hard that it’s completely dwarfing the vanilla. If you tried the fir needle and smoke from a few yules past (one of my favorites) it’s extremely similar. I would say it’s only distinguishable by the sweetness it’s just the sweetest fir needles to ever exist. -
This is powdery and the red sandalwood makes it very oriental incense smelling. I’m not very impressed with this one unfortunately I loved the vanilla husk trio but I stupidly only got one bottle which is why I bought this one but it’s so powdery to be honest the powder just drowns out that vanilla husk and it just slowly morphs into a baby powder and oriental antique store on my skin.
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Very very buttery, wayyyy more buttery than I was expecting it reminds me of the fresh pumpkin note in the scream in your pumpkin patch but the drydown is tobacco heavy and it’s sweet and chewy and amazing I think it’s the tobacco from western bonneted bat which is my all time favorite. I don’t get much oak maybe it’s in the background somewhere and my nose just can’t tell but I’m okay with that. I’m pretty happy with this one.