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    I'm getting an impression of pink & golden floofiness, like a big ruffled peony flower - very pretty & light-hearted. I thought it had some fruit in it but I guess that's coming from the sweet pea. Though it's not my usual type of HG scent, I can see myself wearing this in springtime. And I must plant some sweet peas this year!

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    I get some fairly decent Rose incense, with no evidence of baby powder or poop (though my hair did seem to pick up a slightly funky note the day after applying, it's not terribly off-putting & is dominated by the incense). Not my favorite rose HG but not bad. Certainly worth trying if the notes intrigue you.

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    I'm very fond of the Blueberry Pie HG & Blueberry Pumpkin Muffins HG gets used heavily, too, so I knew I had to try this one. Apparently I love the smell of blueberries in my hair, because this is also a winner on me. :) The dry dead leaves & the chypre cut the sweetness of the blueberry note so it's a good choice for when I'm not in the mood for too much sugar.

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    Dark and sinister woods with sweet red fruit & spicy carnation. As it dries, the fruit loses some of its sweetness & an inky note washes across the dark wood. The patch in this is tempered by the musks so that it is deep, rich & smooth.

     

    I wasn't expecting this to scent to be my favorite of the Flowering Lines set but it does indeed win!

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    I was pretty excited about this one but I should have known better - lilies and roses rarely work together well on me. It starts out bright & fruity with the apricot, then the lilies & roses surge forward with a blast of strong, slightly high-pitched floral, the sweet pea makes itself known & the scent starts veering off in a heady tropical direction (I thought there was tuberose or something like that in it) with some spicy carnation anchoring it all.

     

    An interesting journey but not for me.

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    Anyone have recommendations for mulled cider scents? I have been loving apple lately!

     

    One of my favorite categories!

    Apple Pie (BPTP, cinnamon heavy)

    Lamb's Wool (bit of creaminess)

    Fearful Pleasure (quite the oakmoss drydown)

    Goblin Cider (cider with plenty of ginger)

    Punkie Night (strong tartness from the cranberries)

    Pumpkin Patch #1 (2005 & 2006 versions) :wub2: possibly my favorite of all the spiced apple scents

    Samhain (this scent is Autumn to me & I always get quite a bit of apple from it no matter the vintage)

    Apple Cider Single Note didn't work for me but might be better on you - I got a cherry note from it

    On me, Autumn Cider & Spiced Autumn Cider are more fruity than spicy & the apple isn't the dominant fruit, rather a mixture of fruits but they would be worth trying - some people get plenty of spice & apples

    Apple Orchard Atmosphere spray is awesome if you can find it, as is the Samhain one. Apple Pie also came as a Hair Gloss and a Bath oil, I think.

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    I keep meaning to recommend Dia de los Muertos (... This is a Mexican paean to La Huesuda: dry, crackling leaves, the incense smoke of altars honoring Death and the Dead, funeral bouquets, the candies, chocolates, foods and tobacco of the ofrenda, amaranth, sweet cactus blossom and desert cereus.)

     

    I don't really get many of the individual notes - just a loud, sweet, festive floral that makes me happy smelling it. Since it's a scent that appeared numerous years as part of the Weenies, you shouldn't have much trouble finding some to try.

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    Anyone have suggestions for scents that contain honey with musk and/or amber? That scent combination is absolutely intoxicating to me. I have Lady Una, Swift as Light, Blooming Flowers of Spring, Faun, and recently got Vagina Treasure hair gloss. I love the slight skankiness of the hair gloss.

     

    Bast from American Gods would be worth trying: a desert wind alight with myrrh and golden amber, cardamom and honey, bourbon vanilla and cacao. It ended up smelling quite a bit like Morocco plus honey on me. Exotic honeyed musk.

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    He was walking through a room bigger than a city, and everywhere he looked there were statues and carvings and rough-hewn images. He was standing beside a statue of a womanlike thing: her naked breasts hung flat and pendulous on her chest, around her waist was a chain of severed hands, both of her own hands held sharp knives, and, instead of a head, rising from her neck there were twin serpents, their bodies arched, facing each other, ready to attack. There was something profoundly disturbing about the statue, a deep and violent wrongness. Shadow backed away from it.

    He began to walk through the hall. The carved eyes of those statues that had eyes seemed to follow his every step.

    In his dream, he realized that each statue had a name burning on the floor in front of it. The man with the white hair, with a necklace of teeth about his neck, holding a drum, was Leucotios; the broad-hipped woman with monsters dropping from the vast gash between her legs was Hubur; the ram-headed man holding the golden ball was Hershef.

    A precise voice, fussy and exact, was speaking to him, in his dream, but he could see no one.

    These are gods who have been forgotten, and now might as well be dead. They can be found only in dry histories. They are gone, all gone, but their names and their images remain with us.

    Shadow turned a corner, and knew himself to be in another room, even vaster than the first. It went on farther than the eye could see. Close to him was the skull of a mammoth, polished and brown, and a hairy ocher cloak, being worn by a small woman with a deformed left hand. Next to that were three women, each carved from the same granite boulder, joined at the waist: their faces had an unfinished, hasty look to them, although their breasts and genitalia had been carved with elaborate care; and there was a flightless bird which Shadow did not recognize, twice his height, with a beak like a vultures, but with human arms: and on, and on.

    The voice spoke once more, as if it were addressing a class, saying, These are the gods who have passed out of memory. Even their names are lost. The people who worshiped them are as forgotten as their gods. Their totems are long since broken and cast down. Their last priests died without passing on their secrets.

    Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

    Ancient incense and charred sacrifices echoing through time.

    Very smoky! I can smell the charred sacrifices, too, but I'm not really noticing anything that I recognize as incense, just a slight bit of sweetness after the initial smoke has cleared.

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    I hope you like Miskatonic University - it smells like butterscotch on me

     

    Eat Me is definitely worth trying, as is Dorian which has unfortunately been out of stock for a while now so it might be a bit hard to find, but I'm sure it'll come back eventually.

     

    You might like Bengal which is a lovely spiced honey, or Morocco which is more exotic than foody but is very popular.

     

    Hellcat is like a very decadent dessert (hazelnut, buttercream, honey mead, rum and sweet almond). It was too much for me but it might work for you.

     

    Keep your eyes open for Sugar Skull (A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits), a limited edition Halloween blend which was offered a number of years, so it shouldn't be hard to find a decant on the Sales pages. Sweet with just a hint of fruit - I find it incredibly comforting.

     

    Anything with marshmallow in the notes would be worth trying because it usually means a strong vanilla note, like Breathless Chuckle, Stekkjarstaur or Marshmallow Cookie Pie (all LE, sorry!).

     

    I feel I should mention that the Swap & Sales pages are a great way to try a lot of things less expensively & to find ones that are not currently available as well as a good way to re-home the scents that don't work on you. It's also a good idea to post a wishlist in the appropriate thread because you never know what people might gift you in a package. :)

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    This does totally smell like summer! More specifically, it smells like the lane near where I used to live that had a long fence covered with honeysuckle & the scent would waft way down the block. Lovely scent memory! Honeyed & sweet, yes, but not too cloying. Now I wanna plant a honeysuckle :)

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    Fruity roses with a bit of stone & hint of bitter ivy. Very nice! This is my new favorite rose spray - not too perfumey or overly feminine. I keep spritzing it into the basement stairwell & then I notice it as I go up or down the stairs. My DH likes it, too.

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    My decant of this spray is very soil dominant - I notice some sweet fruit at the beginning but not the sandalwood which is disappointing. I was hoping for a dry cool sandalwood with some supporting fruit & a slight bit of graveyard dirt but I got the opposite proportion. Dirt lovers rejoice!

     

    The bruise-purple fruits seem a bit like creamy raspberry to me which I find odd rather than creepy but YMMV :).

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    Florida went on for longer than Shadow had imagined, and it was late by the time he pulled up outside a small, one-story wooden house, its windows tightly shuttered, on the outskirts of Fort Pierce. Nancy, who had directed him through the last five miles, invited him to stay the night.

    “I can get a room in a motel,” said Shadow. “It’s not a problem.”

    “You could do that, and I’d be hurt. Obviously I wouldn’t say anythin’. But I’d be real hurt, real bad,” said Mr. Nancy. “So you better stay here, and I’ll make you a bed up on the couch.”

    Mr. Nancy unlocked the hurricane shutters, and pulled open the windows. The house smelled musty and damp, and little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

    The ghosts of long-dead cookies, whirring palmetto bugs, cigarillo smoke, and crawling things that scuttle and click.

    This is delightful! Spiced cookies with a bit of citrus zest (I'm guessing lime from Mr. Nancy's cologne), & some tobacco behind giving it depth, maybe a smidge of ozone as it dries. No mustiness & not really noticing anything evoking bugs but I'm not missing them. :D

    I wish I still had my decant of Mr. Nancy (Sugar cookies with bay rum, tobacco, and lime) to compare it to but I seem to recall that cookie note was less spicy & more buttery.

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    This is great for Springtime! I love citrus & tea scents so I had high hopes for this one & it does not disappoint. Very refreshing without being strident or coming across as a cleaning product. I notice the black currant in some tanginess at the beginning & perhaps a hint of berry but it melds well with the lemon verbena & mandarin. I don't really sense the green tea but it probably adds to the citrus impression. The japanese incense shows up in the drydown but it's still pretty citrusy. Lovely! :wub2:

     

    If you were wondering how it compares to All Souls with the black currant & incense, I would say it is much lighter & brighter all around with a completely different incense note. So, not very similar :D

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