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Wolf Moon: Lupine Musk & Ambrette Seed Hair Gloss
Biocarbons replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
I bought this specifically so I could understand what amberette seed smells like. The HG is lightly citrusy (a touch of lime?) and greenness and powdery on top of the musk. I like it, but this is another I'm not sure how much I'd wear it. -
Wolf Moon: Grass & Moonlit Dew
Biocarbons replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Wet: the aquatic element in this is cool, and little bit '90s Ocean potpourri'. The grass is sweet, fresh with a slight element of citrus and a touch perfumey. It reminds me of the grass note in Tennis Match. This leans more aquatic than it does grass on me which is the opposite of what I wanted. Overall, a nice simple fresh perfume but not the slam dunk grass fume I was hoping for. -
Wet: hello tobacco. Vanilla linen, with a healthy dollop of tobacco with caramel drizzle. It's not as sweet as I was expecting and I don't mind it.... however. I tend to amp tobacco into headache territory, so we'll see how it develops. It's a very warm tobacco vanilla now with a hint of sassafras or anise. The leather is warm and blended in and doesn't really stand out. It's been dry for a while now, and I have a dusty vanilla tobacco with sassafras caramel and a hint of flowers. The leather still doesn't stand out to me. My major complaint about antique lace resurrected is how the vanilla turns into thin, unpleasant powder. While there is a powdery quality to the vanilla in a Batty Lace, it's tempered by the tobacco and caramel. I think this would pair really well with other sassafras perfumes. I prefer this to Antique Lace Resurrected, but I'm not sure if I'd actually wear it.
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Wet: a metallic champagne and fancy tropical soap. On the right person, I think this could be a fun, effervescent tropical scent. On me it's a candle.
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I took painting classes in college, so I was curious about how accurate this smell would be to a painting studio. Wet: there is a whiskey like note that approximates turpentine. mint or menthol, a touch of warm amber, sweet pipe smoke and woods. I'm also picking up a touch of something that reads as moss. I don't really get any oil paint. It reminds me a bit of the opening of DS Durga bowmakers, but smoother. Overall, this is an unusual amber perfume. I don't really have anything else like it in my oils collection.
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yes, this is a similar sugar note to faith and hope with a good dash of iris. The overall effect is of a powdery and sweet iris scented/ flavored pastille candy. I'd definitely eat this, but I'm on the fence if I'd wear it. When I get more of the iris, I like it, but when I get a waft of pure sugar I don't. BPAL just needs to release an Iris single note.
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The Picture of Dorian Sufganiyot vs Dorian 2012. Dorian Suf is definitely creamier, sweeter and more vanillic than 2012 Dorian. 2012 Dorian is more herbal. If you wish Dorian was sweeter, Dorian Suf is for you.
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Wet: cold (mint), sweet, soapy carnation and fruity with evergreen in a Yankee candle way. As it sits on me, I get more cold ash. I do think this has a hint of the porcelain note in it, but this scent is dominated by the cold berry and soapy carnation smell and doesn't really smell like pediophobia for anyone who is wondering.
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This is fruity (peach, strawberry ?) and sweet with a touch of doll vinyl or baby oil and some light, white florals. I definitely had a perfume or body spray like this in my youth and it also reminds me of some other 'pink smelling' BPALs I've tried including Loligoth, Pink Lace, Shells, and Flowering Peonies. I like smelling it, but I'm on the fence if I'd actually wear it. If I did wear it, it would be a summertime perfume. This is not at all like the released Pediophobia, which is a powdery porcelain scent.
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Wet: I get a burst of fruity bubblegum. (Not expected) some element of the plum and pom mingling I think. As it settles, I get more distinct wiffs of musky plum. The plum is a middling plum and I get the yellow-red flesh and slightly tart purple-red skin. The green tea is a dusty background note. The pom blends into the two. Over time the individual notes meld into a plummy soap. This smells like a luper to me. I don't like the bubblegum opening, but so far I like the way it settles on the my skin.
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Wet: tangy, almost candy-like grape juice. The Frankincense is a supporting background note adding a slight, dusty, resinous dryness. This is the golden frankincense and not the lemony version. If you want to smell like low light, adult Kool-aid, this is for you.
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Wet: gourd smell, somewhere in-between raw and cooked. Butter, something vaguely citrus over the mixed spice of dead leaves and oak, and a bitter drop of myrrh. It ended up as buttery gourd innards mixed with spicy oak, leaves and myrrh. The myrrh slowly amped.
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Wet: Sharp, tangy florals and dusty sandalwood. Actually, maybe the 'floral' I'm smelling is the sandalwood. I liked the wet stage, but it dried down into a thin, powdery, dry sandalwood and I'm not into it.
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A mix of charred wood and tar. The cactus insides smell like aloe to me. So it's a wood tar, blood and aloe mix covered with a layer of dust. It's an interesting industrial smell, but not something I'd ever wear. After it settles, I mostly get charred wood tar and cactus.
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Immediately lemon drop pledge with a tangy red fruit edge. I like the sharpness of the white musk. On the right person I think this would be a delicious, tangy lemon scent but on me it continues to smell vaguely like floor cleaner. ✨Special holiday berry edition pledge.✨🍒
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A strong, dusty wiff of black cherry. It vaguely reminds me of that cherry flavored dip candy. Over dusty, dry crushed leaves. The tar is this.... background, lingering aftertaste note. It reminds me of road crack sealing tar. The cherry incense note here is very similar to the cherry incense in the luper 'dried cherry incense in spun sugar', but swap dried cherry with dried black cherry. The cherry is gone pretty quickly. Now it's the memory of cherry, dusty leaves and tar. I don't mind it so far. I might get a bottle to experience layering my other cherry scents with.
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Smoky, salty, nutty patchouli, hint of sweet BBQ? I was expecting something overpoweringly revolting, but it's pretty mild. Keep in mind, this perfume was originally released in 2009. I suspect the mild character is due to aging. As it sits on my skin I get a touch of what is vaguely meat. It gets a little buttery. Yeah, now it's fatty and vaguely metallic. I can sort of see how it attempts to smell like burnt flesh, but I think the shock part has aged out of this imp.
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I got a pop of the BPAL blood note right away, over a gauzy cloth smell and antiseptic spice. As it sits on my skin, I get a sort of band aid smell that reads more like a mix of charred spices to my nose. Nigella seed? Charred cumin? Tumeric, is that you? It gets a touch metallic and bitter, and is that laudanum? as it warms up. I like cumin in perfume, so I don't mind this. I like how savory it is. It gets more bandaid smelling for a while as it develops, but settles into antiseptic spices.
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Okay, so I get floral (the small, white kind) marzipan (almond + cherry paste) mixed with dry incense over dry blonde wood and a hint of brown suede. Slightly foody and not at all what I was expecting.
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On application, I immediately got a mental image of breakfast a freshly cut grapefruit and french toast. I get a pop of more herbal anise up front, but it's gone quickly. The grapefruit is lightly sweet, pink, tangy, and a little perfumey. The black licorice is the grounding/ background note. It's salted with maybe just a hint of maple? Bpal's grapefruit note tends to go a little 'car air freshener ' on my skin, which this starts to do. Fun and unique wet, but ultimately too 'citrus car air freshener' on me.
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I get fruity sweetness with a touch of wool that comes off candle-y initially. As it dries, an oak-y quality to it comes out along with a tangy-ness from the cranberry. The oakmoss peaks out a bit after a while, but it's not overwhelming so far. Lightly sweet, woody, dusty with a hint of fruit and lightly boozy quality. Masc leaning. This is also my favorite of the three I tested today.
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Green sap, a little smoke, and astringent dead leaves. A hint of spearmint. I am unsure if I like this or not. This has an astringent quality to it like cardamom.
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On me this was a sweet, slightly animalic musk with sweet clove and a nuttiness that's probably from the vetiver. The musk is the strongest note. I couldn't detect the stone or the opopanax.
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This is an odd one. Wet: goes on spicy and medicinal, almost camphorus...like cardamom and something else that isn't cinnamon (pink pepper?). Dry: extra spicy snake oil over bubblegummy red musk, and there's black rose around the edges. It's sadly not as rose forward as I was hoping. A few hours later it's mostly spicy vanilla red musk on me.
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This the sweeter, candy peach note (peachy-os gummies) and the BPAL champagne note which smells very metallic to me. If you like candy peaches and bpal's champagne note this is for you. Sweet, fruity, effervescent.