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My sample arrived here last week and rested for 5 days.
Another surprising and amazing scent. I love a good oakmoss scent. It's a bit sweet, but never cloying, a bit fruity and earthy. I'm sure both oakmoss and the tea note contribute to the earthiness I smell.
For me it smells like a beautiful fruity chypre.
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My sample arrived here last week and rested for 5 days.
I'm surprised by that scent, both hazelnut and loukhoum drew me to it. No idea what chebulic myrobalan is. I get zero cinnamon. Overall the scent is slightly sweet, not cloying, and reads dry earthy. Really intrigued by it! Definitely another FS candidate.
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My sample arrived here last week and rested for 5 days.
I must admit I'm totally surprised, wasn't expecting to enjoy this chypre that much!! But I love a good chypre and this doesn't disappoint. The chocolate is dry, not sweet at all. No creaminess whatsoever. Slight herbal chypre and dry chocolate, that sums it up. Definitely FS Chocolate Chypre!
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Wow I'm the first here.
I got a sample of Fulcrum and I love the scent. Elemi and Clary Sage are dominant and strong, exactly what I like.
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I'm so confused, the strongest note here is crisp green apple. Beneath there's greenery but the apple float atop quite long.
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I received my little decant two days ago (international).
Tested it today 9h ago and I'll definitely be FS this one!!💙🖤💙
Gebirgsschlucht Im Winter is such an amazing scent! 💙🖤💙
Upon application all I get is sweet glorious blackberry. Blackberry is one of my most favorite fruits to smell (and eat). At drydown the Blackberry recedes to the background and leaves a slight dark musky scent with hints of tobacco and oakmoss.
Reminds me strongly of When All Colors to Black Are Cast from Weenies 2018 which I also adore.
Now that I have it on my skin for over 9h, I've been baking, several times washed my hands and took a nap - I can still smell it!! It's mainly a soft whisp of the tobacco/oakmoss/musk scent with faint fruitiness from the blackberry.
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I got my decants a month ago, so they've rested a month.
I'm puzzled here as I hardly get a dead leaves note. It's like others said more citrusy but it also reminds me of a lush scent. It reads almost like Sakura from lush as I seem to get a slight floral note besides citrus. A whiff of the dead leaves is only far in the background hardly noticeable.
Surely I'll keep my little sample but won't go FS.
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Strange, after initial blast of pine, my sample transforms to funnel cake on my skin. Sweet funnel cake with background of pine. 🤔
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Unfortunately I also get a strong lemon note from my little sample with a hint of whole coffee beans in the background. Just like VioletChaos mentioned above.
The lemon reminds me unfortunately of toilet cleaner citronella, so nothing I enjoy. Fail 😣
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I only got myself a 5/8 dram from Ajevie. It's really hard to resist a Carnation scent 😅
It's a really lovely soft scent. Well balanced, I do get both, a slightly creamy vanilla, which isn't gourmand, and a heady carnation. I only received my mini like a week ago, so far the carnation becomes more beautiful the longer it's on my skin. I like it dried down better than wet.
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I'm glad I got a bottle of Rapture Pig! It does smell a lot like Lush Rose Jam!
It's jammy sweet roses, very bright and pretty.
After drydown, about an hour or so in wear, the roses recede and I'm left with a beautiful red musk note. I love the Labs red musk notes, so thats great!
No soapiness and no currants for my nose luckily.
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I love it! Oudh works great with my skin chemistry, so no surprise there.
It's a dark green aromatic mossy oudh. I don't really get any patchouli. Great throw and wear length, I smell it hours later after application.
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I only got a quarter oz decant, I love carnations but I'm wary with honey, it can go sickly sweet sometimes.
On dry skin it does go sickly sweet with hardly any hint of carnation, just the thing I hate about honey. But I did try it in the tub on wet warm skin. There is much better!!! 😊 It's not that sweet anymore, I still get the honey note but it receded to the background. Now it's a soft floral show! Finally carnation shows its pretty petals!
In the tub it's really a nice scent, I'm fine with my little decant and won't need more.
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Thanks to BPTP Etsy I snagged two bottles of this bath oil. Although not knowing if I liked it, I took a chance. And I'm glad I did.
Fresh out of the mail on dry skin it wasn't that amazing, there was a strange butter note.
But I took it into my last bath and used it on wet warm skin. Boy that changed everything!! Creamy chocolate with a hint of cookies what I thought must be that shortbread used in the US.
Also I must add the label is just adorable! Just a bummer it's not really water proof, but that won't stop me from using it! 😊
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OMG I'm so caught red handed here, didn't expect to love Snake Eyes Gleaming in Spring’s First Twilight that much! I do like snake oil and non herbal lavender, even oudh after aging, but this..... This is so amazing!!!
First there's the oudh and a note I understand as non herbal lavender. Definitely violet colored. Not the stinky oudh but the balsamic pretty dark oudh if that makes any sense.
I guess after half an hour I also get a whiff of snake oil vanilla. Dry it's a pretty shadow of oudh, soft lavender and SO.
It's a wonderful relaxing sleep scent for me! It has some similarities to Hidden Purpose Bath oil minus snake oil. But HP bath oil is much more smoky whereas Snake Eyes Gleaming in Spring’s First Twilight is more creamy and charming.
Had to get a backup of this!! 🥰
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I think either way you hate oudh or love it. I love it! 🖤
It starts with zesty apple and dark animalic Oudh. Not stinky like hope Auspicio was fresh, but very dark! 🖤
Wet there are only those two notes dominating, while drydown little neroli emerges.
Dry oudh isn't that dark anymore and apple is gone. Completely dry a hint of leather is noticeable and still very little neroli.
Upgraded my decant to a bottle. 😊
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So when I got my decant last year, all I smelled was animalic dark skanky oudh with hardly any carnation.
Now it has had time to age and finally I can wear it, the oudh isn't that bad anymore and I can smell carnation underneath! Also it's not skanky anymore, it's still dark and animalic but totally wearable! 😊
Aging seems to do wonders with black oudh on me. Lucky me, only have to wait a year 😅
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I got a decant of Right Ventricle, I adore Ylang Ylang, it's one of very little floral scents I really love! Fruits can be great on my skin or go completely sour, so only a decant.
In the vial all I get is sweet orange and lime, both relatively balanced.
Wet on my skin I finally get my beloved Ylang Ylang. It's such a pretty heady floral. Both fruits are in the background but still there. At that stage I get no benzoin/no resin, it's just a nice fruit cocktail.
Dry both fruits are almost gone and I'm left with my Ylang Ylang and now there is a hint of benzoin. Not strong though.
Overall it's a really nice scent!
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Aorta
in Lupercalia
I got a decant of Aorta, I love plums and apricots, like vetiver and roses are ok.
In the vial and wet on my skin all I get is plum and fruity apricots. Hardly any rose and no vetiver. It's a nice soft scent
Dry the roses emerge more, but I still get the fruits. No vetiver.
I'll be sticking to my decant, it's nice but not bottle worthy for me.
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Today my Spring Snakes arrived and I tested Snakes Slithering Through Stinging Nettle after some hours.
I was intrigued by the nettle, it's a plant I really like!
It's an unusual scent but not bad at all. I love nettles, either as tea, in my green shakes or to eat in salads or topped on bread, well at least their yummy seeds.
Snakes Slithering Through Stinging Nettle really smells like nettle tea, dark green, herbal. There's an undertone of SO, but not strong at all. Curious how this will age! 💚
After an hour of wear more snake oil emerges! 😊
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OMG I did not anticipate to really like let alone love this bath oil. So I only ordered 1/4oz from Ajevie, but I'll surely need at least one bottle!! 🤤
This is all glorious creamy fluffy marshmallows and no dominant or achingly sweet honey. Just pure creaminess! 🥰😍
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Lilith: “Nooooo! I don’t want to leave Salzburg!!!! I loved how it snowed, and I loved the food. I piled up on bread, mostly, but the bread was really good. And honeycomb. And bacon and sausage and eggs. I loved the outdoor hot tub thingymajigger. Being in a spa when it’s so cold outside is fun. I love the Christmas markets and I got unicorn and bat stuffy heat packs which is so cool.”
Brian: “I agree with Lilith’s sentiment on this. All the cities we visited were great, but Salzburg was the most charming. I loved the Christmas markets in Berlin, but Salzburg was… – quainter? I loved the gruff and distant replies we got to questions we posed to locals. I LOVED THE KRAMPUSLAUF. You can’t beat a Krampuslauf. Plus, I got a fancy hat. A legit fancy Tyrolean hat. I love that hat.”
This scent? Sachertorte.
So being from Austria, home of Sachertorte, it's cool owning a perfume inspired by it.
In the bottle I get booze? 😅 Yes some soak the chocolate sponge cake with liquor something. So that figures.
On my skin that booze fast disappeares, I'm glad! It's chocolate, for sure but not just. I think I get some sort of fruit jam, but not sure which one.
Interesting scent though! 😅
Sachertorte is chocolate sponge cake, filled with apricot jam or sometimes with red currant ("Ribisel") jam and glaced with dark chocolate frosting. The jam is always without any pits.
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Brian: “No one else would come out onto the rink. It was just Lilith and me skating, and Beth and Ted were trying to get pictures. I was trying to teach Lilith to skate while dodging penguins and other tourists. There’s a pretty funny photo of Lilith falling and me lunging to catch her, and the funny part is that it’s angled in a way that almost looks like I’m pushing her down. We skated together a ton that night, and she insisted that we go back again the next night.”
Lilith: “I’ve ice skated before when I was littler with a thingy, but this is the first time I really learned how to ice skate. Unkie helped me when I wasn’t using the penguin and he skated me with a lot and helped me learn how to do it. I fell down a lot, but that’s fine.”
Sugared chestnut and powidltascherl.
Wow first one...
That's so good! Sweet powidl. Powidltaschen are sweet sugared pureed plums inside a sweet potato dough, covered in sweet crumbs.
I smell the sweet plums and a doughy scent. But no chestnuts. Still very yummy! 🥰
Agreement
in Limited Editions
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Oh wow I'm first? I have my lunacy samples since a month. So they have been well rested.
I thought I must like Agreement - thought it must be dark resinous with a floral touch. No all I get is sweetened florals. Why??
No frankincense, no Labdanum, no incense. Bummer