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Supertrooper Omni

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  1. Supertrooper Omni

    Autumn girl seeks summer scent

    Oh wow, I love your likes. It can be worth it to look on the sales forum or other spots on the internet to buy or swap imps before you commit to a whole bottle. There's a new Womb Fury in the Lupercalias this year. I've really liked the previous iterations. It's a much loved combination of snake oil + honey scent that many reviews think smells like a combination of o and snake oil. This scent is a spring release that returns every few years. I really like sed non satiata a lot too! I was pretty into Anteros at the same time, as I was in love with red musk. How do you feel about fruit, spices, patchouli? Cedar? Aquatic smells? Sometimes navigating around what I dislike helps too. Or what I only sort of like sometimes. I typically dislike lilly so I unfortunately have not smelled lyonesse. The reviews are super helpful. I also really like reading ascentadays reviews. If you're ordering from the BPAL site directly, honestly I'd look at the hair gloss and if any of the descriptions stir you, go for it, I've never been disappointed in hair gloss and it's a great body spray too. There are a bunch of limited edition scents up that I'm pretty crazy about right now, like pumpkin snake latte snake oil, Pumpkinville (this is a sweet red musk floral). It also seems like you like scents that feature red musk, are blends with floral, have honey, have Amber, frankincense, myrrh, sweet resins, potentially clove, white florals, tuberose, cognac. Leather. Patchouli. Sandalwoods. And snake oily scents. Have you tried Smut? That's a boozy red musk. Oh! Also The Organ Grinder is really nice. Stimulating sassafras strengthener is also great, in root beer cowboy territory, but super heavy. Tombeur is a lavender scent that I really liked which matches the your notes to some degree to. white rider and black rider are general collection sandalwood leather scents which seem to be loved in the community. My fave general collection is voodoo. But I also really like nosferatu (blood wine dirt ). There are also several lupers/spring scents available now that have ginger right now. I tried to paste a link but both of the Penis with yellow ribbon, the red ribbon, and penis penetrating a pickle something something sound awesome but I haven't tried them and hope to catch some reviews and find a decent second hand maybe. I'd be curious what you thought of chibi skull... Which is a sweet patchouli From the recent yules. Hopefully this gave you some ideas! Your scents sound rad. Did not mean to overwhelm, and i tried to recommend scents that are currently available and not an ultra rare seasonal release from years past. I've been waiting a while for a big shipment of decants to arrive so I've kind of been trying to figure out what I'm waiting for and read the descriptions maybe too many times waiting for my package. Good luck! Please update with observations! I'm sorry I didn't embed links but I'm on a tablet. 😕
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    Winter Scene in Little Russia

    Clean lavender, fuzzy, greyish light smoke, Ivory soap edge, light floral vibe, light smoky. my mind is bringing up iris/Oris musk, though no listed notes. This scent is like a clean cut business casual remix of To a Wreath of Snow. I love the lab's other lavenders and tea notes, though I tend to favor big heavy sweet scents. This isn't for me, but is a pleasant slightly mysterious violet acting clean lavender. Nice.
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    Sugar Cookie Snow White

    I'm going to preface this review, as there are a lot of qualifiers. I was delighted to receive this in the mail 📬😌. I'd had my eye on the sugar cookie and sugar plum yules from 2021. This is the first one I've smelled. I haven't smelled any of the versions of Snow White and haven't tried any scents with sugar cookies in them, apart from maybe a Lilith. I am moderately familiar with the lab's snow note from frostbitten scents. In the past I've noticed that some of bpal's caramel scents have a strong hit of tumeric on me. My preconceived notion: a dainty sugar cookie scented candle type smell with frost. I dab on a bit and it is syrupy brown POWER! Really strong Log Cabin maple syrup Dank and big time artificial pancake with butter with an undertone of downy liquid softener and a very small piece of green pepper. This perfume is super strong and lingers! My buddy sitting across the room smelled it distinctly and immediately. It's not to my taste, but I might have to re-test in the future after smelling that og snow white, which I am now super curious about. :-0
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    Virgo Side-Eye

    Androgenous. Cool, minty without mint and camphor without eucalyptus. Icy, sweet, refreshing. Reminds me of my Cabbage white caterpillar hair gloss. I like it a lot. No rough edges, nothing bitter, sweetish but not overly sweet, pleasant swish icy cloud.
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    Marshmallow Snow

    Bazooka Joe bubblegum and tiger balm immediately. Not bad and definitely interesting. It's a perky camphor menthol minty sweetish scent. Not a gourmand, or really gooey smell at all. Kind of like a stick of mint chewing gum mixed with eucalyptus grove.
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    Smells to Work Out To - 30 Day Challenge

    Hi hi team! Many life changes later, I've returned. My exercise goals have big time changed, and I'm basically trying to motivate myself to encourage myself to walk rather than take the bus to work (4.3 miles away) and my studio (2.7). Then work my way up from that. Ages ago I used to just ride my bike, but I've read that walking is more effective. And honestly when I was at the Y I was an ellipticizing queen. I walked about a mile yesterday to the grocery store, and was rocking It Was Just A Cat and a splash of Possets Wiley. Am currently getting ready to head out to the studio and am maybe thinking 🤔 laudnum or dee or Lydia. It's chilly and I kinda wanna go with something dark/earthy.
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    The Wish

    This is the first of the ars inspirio scents that I've tried. Some additional background, I tend to favor heavy patchouli scents and sweet scents. The Wish follows it's printed description exactly -- though not what I expected, since I was thinking it would be a syrupy brown patchouli fruit dracula. The Wish when first applied is a hit of piney, light, I can smell the datura accord and osmanthus distinctly in the early phase. It smells like fancy hotel soap or niche parfum, which I don't intend as a derisive or to over simplify. It's clean, sophisticated dry. Overall the scent is very light, dry and sheer. The fruits are faint to me. they are not immediately identifiable, nor are they the big juicy fruits of many bpal fruity fruit blends. It's like if you were in an incense shop that only carried those grey whitish colored japanese sticks in the octogon box, holding a wilting devil's trumpet and a dried osmanthus in your hand and there was 1 unsweetened dried jujube and 1 dedicated goji berry in a bowl across the room that suddenly manifested then disappeared. The scent is overall incensey, but not dark smokey. The scent morphs a great deal on me and settles to a very dry frank (thought it was sandalwood oops) and dry vanilla (not sweet). The amber is there but well blended. I'm not noticing patchouli. The pepper is pretty subtle. All of it is pretty subtle! Very evocative. I would recommend for day wear, or office since it's not heavy at all on me. There are no potpourri or outstanding chai-mulling spice type scents, btw. Recommended for incense lovers, sandalwood fans. Especially lovers of incense not smokey and not dark. Floral, not sweet. Dry unsweetened frank pepper vanilla drydown is giving me feels...? Very elegant and thoughtful.
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    What should I try next?: An inevitable thread

    Mmm there's enbalming fluid - white musk, green tea, aloe and lemon. Whitechapel - White musk, lime, lilac and citron (I expected this to be 7411 esque but it was not at all lame men's cologne, just very crisp) and Manhattan - sheer amber, black leather, white mint, lemon peel, white tea, grapefruit, kush, teakwood and orchid. Aizen-myoo: Yuzu, kaki, and mikan with cherry blossom and black tea. in the category of juicy scents that are not musty, nor sweet nor insanely floral. I am also kind of enamored with Cheshire cat. I like aelopile as well, Aizen-myoo is soft, and more femme to me and pretty different from aelopile but they have that non+pledge smelling citrus. I also am pretty into Against Mischief and Idleness, which is a chamomile scent, and chamomile is also pretty strong in Cheshire cat and not overly floral or stank. I also like vassilissa, and find little wooden doll delightful in same regard, however if you hate woods/frankincense some of these might be deal breakers. These are all GC catalog scents, so you can probably pick up imps for a buck on the forums of you look around. Anteros is pretty rad if you end up liking the snake oil and sed non saetiata, patch blend woody darker scents (my faves)!!
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    Anne Bonny

    V short opening with patchouli acetone poppersesque 3 second rush which quickly disappears. Replaced by powerful zing of citrus-rosemary-green piney. Real eye opener pick up moment! Mellows out to more citrus salt as the evergreen smells recede. Once it settles down: Perky elegant golden pine touched light colored bright wood smell elegantly blended with just enough patchouli to make it mysterious. Somewhere in the family of aureus without musk and aelopile without citrus, lol. Recommend if you like bpals light woodsy resins and don't hate patchouli. Also recommended for out of this world knock your socks off hey get out of bed big openings.
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    Juke Joint

    Strange! My experience is more akin to the previous baby powder/amber reviews. I received it as a frimp from the lab. As a frequent bourbon drinker in a past life, and mint julep maker and consumer, I was very curious. In the imp it smelled like a brown men's cologne. On my skin I'm getting mainly powdery amber and something vaguely like a wood and oak moss. I can't identify any mint it might be mixed with the sweeter sugary powdery end of the amber. On v close sniff, one might interpret as like a dark woodsy light smoked oak barrel aged type smell. Slightly leathery. Not the over the top maple syrup mint boozy monster I expected and that some other people experienced unfortunately. But definitely not bad! Autumn smells, recommend it you like medium complex amber that's not too sweet. TOTALLY a hot dad or foxy office smell. My skin totally ate this up in 15 minutes though and it's almost completely gone, which was another big surprise. :-0
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    Smells to Work Out To - 30 Day Challenge

    Hi hi witchy sisters, It's been a minute since my last update. The days go by v fast. Accountability! On Sunday I did about an hour of yoga in the morning and took 9 mile hike around a lake in a regional park nearby. It was nice to get out of my loud ass neighborhood and be around plants and non human animals. I gotta find some way to do this more often. Spacing a bit, def did some yoga Monday and Wednesday with Adrienne. This morning I wore embalming fluid for the first time and mixed Manhattan with my leave in conditioner to walk to my ballot drop off. It was about 90 degrees out, I was sweating, in a giant grapefruit lemon cloud. It was great! The citrus really helped me get going I think it was about 2 miles in all. I'll probably do a little more yoga before bed tonight. This thread has really been helping to motivate me to do a little more and to not be so hard on myself. It's been super helpful. Plus Adrienne and my Pilates youtube lady have been super encouraging, lol. Thanks a bunch!
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    Smells to Work Out To - 30 Day Challenge

    Hi hi my health goth sisters! Tested Delight and Grief when I was doing my yoga with Adrienne this morning. Florals are not typically my thing, but these were very nice once everything got very warm, you know? I'm feeling way better today. Trying to motivate myself to do my homework currently. Planning a weekend hike, or ritual in nature after I finish all of these assignments. Rewards! Goals! Exciting lunches in the future?! I felt pretty gross yesterday, so I skipped Thursday and was pretty grumpy. Such bummer energy. I ended up sleeping and vegging out. I hate playing detective, because I never solve my biological mysteries. Too many anxiety dreams? a cold, something I ate? Depression? Dehydration? Low vitamin? Ovulation? Inhaling too much smoke? Too much caffeine? No fever though, thankfully. Then like that, it disappears! @Madame Mew it must be the changing of the seasons. I hope you score big on your mushroom hunt. Wednesday I had a 4.82 mile walk while wearing Voodoo with my buddy. Had also done my morning yoga. It was lovely! The weather's finally getting fall like. Leaves on the ground in the Bay area! Also sweatpants and pajamas 24/7 are cool again, because billie eillish and internet girls wear them, 4 r3al. You just have to remember to wear a beanie and something neon colored. Really!
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    Smells to Work Out To - 30 Day Challenge

    Hi hi exercise team! I've been a bit behind in my posts. I am totally neglecting my homework to write this rn lolz. This morning I wore Western Pygmy Blue, which was a unique ashy tobacco coconut soft experience and did some morning yoga. Pleasant but also kinda yucky, I liked the initial application, an unfolding blueberry blue dusty vetiver tobac, but am having car air freshener and Grandpa's ashtray memories on the drydown. I am feeling ambivalent about riding my bike to my studio across town as my bike posture bums me out and makes my back tired, however it is a beautiful day and freeee, and I will get to visit my cat buddy, and human buddies, if I get over there. I'm in love with those stupid lime scooters though and might potato out and scoot over. Hmmm, my tracker tells me that my last substantive walk was 2 miles on Sunday, and I did yoga and kettlebell on Monday testing Alice's Evidence. The cinnamon was really uplifting and cheerful. @Amazonia your needy hubs needs to get in on that exercise game. Fitness couple!!! I used to have back pain, and really involved yoga, dance, walking was the only thing that would relieve it. I hope you feel better! Xoxo!
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    The Ghost

    Spectral, ghostly, iris, violet, ozone, clean aquatic watery flowers, blue lotus? Fresh from the floral refrigerator white carnation, a tiny touch of something like bergamot or citrus rind in the background and barely there musk. More delicacy, an airy muguet(?). An androgenous scent. Sophisticated, aloof. Wet but also dry. In the imp, this smelled very off putting wet, but I went for it anyway! What a transformation! The ghost is a very un-bpal type scent for me, as I tend to be attracted most to the lab's rooty-herbal-earthy blends. Noticably no sweetness, nor patch dark musk, zero vanilla, no fruits. The weird blondes in lovecraft country would wear this. Very surprising clean fresh spring futuristic ectoplasmic vibes. Strong memories of the late '90s smelling l'eau d'issey for the first time. Or CK One-esque, but less abrasive. I think the ozone and mix of floral and citrus is what people are picking up as Lysol wipes and the other reviews. Clean, invigorating, fresh, uplifting, hydrangea? Snowdrops? Clean laundry?!
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    Harlot

    Very sheer, mild scent. I do not detect the strong cinnamon that other reviews mentioned. The scent is very quiet, reminds me of oil of olay, or cold cream, or ivory soap. Mostly Johnson and Johnson pink lotion scent, soft mild powdery floral with touch of green stemmy smell if you search for it. The smell reminds me of a newly pressed compact of face powder. I'm not sure if the imp I received was old, but to me it does not smell like Bulgarian rose, or any scent I'd identify as knock me on my ass rose. Such a different experience than other reviews! Low throw, very fleeting, barely there, though I applied a lot.
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    Djinn

    Initial blast of fresh strong green bay, ginger, lemongrass. A little prickly camphor-cinnamon, sweetness. I can't distinguish balsams and resins very well, but there's a nice light musky dry down. I don't smell any smoke or pepper. Though it is "incensy" and masc, but easily could be gender neutral. Not even close to the smokiest bpal scent (no bbq) I've smelled. No vetiver, no patch, no identifiable woods. Also, no Christmas candle spice potpourri! I had a very different experience than other reviews, but tested 2 imps, one new and an older one and they were both identical. Similar scent to aureus (again my olfactory memory is not at all reliable). Light cozy after a meteoric opening. When I queried my bf, he said it smelled "sweet". Pleasant! Wild, unique, intense, bold, refreshing, cinna-sweet then soft... Highly recommended! Smells like the leaves and trees and grasses I gather on hikes in nor cal
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    Smells to Work Out To - 30 Day Challenge

    Oh oh! Me too me too! I have been doing a lot of yoga with Adrienne and YouTube Pilates. About 30 minutes daily or an hour if I'm feeling some kind of way. I used to go to the Y and do classes, dance, weights, ellipticals on my days off, but my covid shelter in place changed my routine big time. Coincidentally I had testing my imps when exercising for a few weeks. As I can non-committally test drive and then wash them off if I don't particularly enjoy them. Convenience! Today I tested Lust, which do not inspire lust, despite the many reviews lol. I don't have much to say about the scent, but it does seem like the backbone of many other scents in the catalog. Also psa: do not over indulge in liquorice to tea, as you will poison yourself. Don't be like me!
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    Rogue

    Cozy, soft, warm. Not super leathery or hempy on me, not cedary or barny. Rosin, sweet vague benzoin. Pretty, adorable, not raucus. Reminds me of the little wooden doll and aureus in my scent memory, but uhhhh, minus the woods. Recommended!
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    Skyborn

    Reviewing a hand labeled tester from 2018: Strongly echoing doomsdaydisco's notes. Amber, iris, maybe some benzoin. Soft, dry, medium bright. Feminine, elegant, vaguely baby powder-ish but not distractingly so. Strong resemblance/dupe to prada's infusion d'iris. No sweetness or fruitiness.
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    Aureus

    I'm going to echo earlier reviews. It smells like pinon incense, but not smoke -- sticks in the box unburnt. Soft cedar smells, sandalwood, amber. This feels like a more woodsy non-floral version of vassilissa on me though I'm sure that if I smelled them next to each other they would smell nothing alike hahaha. Close to the skin, no harsh individual notes. I'm not picking up any patchouli and definitely not any vetiver. Also no pine or evergreen smells. There might be some of the lab's "skin musk" in this though, but it is not musky or heavy to me rather dry and spicy-sweetish. It smells like my cello bow and rosin powder. Cheerful, cozy, upbeat and subtle spice oriental on me. No florals. Nothing terribly shocking or stinky. Nicely blended, no big morphing. Highly recommended for subtle woods and cozy at home days. Office appropriate, unisex but I could see how some people might think this would be particularly good on men. Very nice indeed!
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    Aelopile

    Lemonheads blast, cheerful, any abrasiveness fades after 5 minutes. I feel unexpectedly cheerful and bright. Flying directly into the face of the sun! For a second I'm like scented lemon candles oh no, but dusty sheer benzoin dry down for the rest of the wear, elegant and golden. Note: I love cedar, also. Super happy and invigorating vibes from the citrus (lemon!!!) N verbena, not necessarily something I'd wanna wear for other people, everyday moods, but for meditation, craft time, homework, ritual purposes.
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    Sleepytime BPAL

    hi hi! I am fig averse in scents but love eating figs, dry and fresh, in jam and soaked. An unexpected discovery, but also kind of a bummer that I can't enjoy it. To me, the fig in BPAL perfumes smells like more of a body shop lotion candle type scent. Like a concentrated syrup of dried fig, sweet, rich, dark syrupy syrup concentrate, like deep plummy raisin type scent. Not musty, not acidic. Eden smells great for the right person (it's beautiful and thick and nightime elegant, comforting), but to me I get a weird headache and scented candle vibe that for whatever reason makes me feel WEiRd. Intrigue is another BPAL scent that features fig, and that I can't deal with that many people LOVE love love. Not to be a downer, but i think fig smells syrupy, too sweet, and sickly, and bleeehhhhh. I think the perfume word people use is "heady"? Oddly enough I thought that I would hate the BPAL lavender scents because lavender is in everything now (my work used to use lavender Fabuloso mop cleaner which is a concentrated straight up chemical burn your mucus membranes bad time) , but I find the lavender notes in the catalog to be utterly charming, unexpected and sometimes, dare i say it, wild (?). I feel have similar sensitivity to tuberose and whatever it is that's in the Le Labo scents, and Tom Ford Black Orchid, which again many people love, but make me feel hypnotized in a bad way and vaguely car sick. My nighttime scent recently has been Cheshire Cat, see also wild lavenders. the grapefruit isn't exactly sleepy time, but it's one of my favorite smells. The grapefruit essential oil i had in the past have a kind of ammoniac pee-pee finish, but cheshire cat is my dream grapefruit, the chamomile lavender green plant mild breezes in a field of grass afternoon smell. it's all zing! and then cute cloud time.
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    The Things We Do Make Echoes

    Okay, so on first application i get a blast of juicy fruit and pink starburst candy. The internet tells me pink starburst is strawberry, a-ha! which morphs into identifiable mango. as a person who has smashed many mangoes with an immersion blender, i can tell it makes a big fruity entrance. MANGO! Sweet, not acidic. Then mango + fat berries! I blind bought the bottle because i was enamored with the concept hook, line and sinker (Delirium was my favorite of the Endless, and I love Kathy Acker, and obviously Delirium has the best font, etc etc). Immediately afterward while I was waiting for the order to come in the mail I was wondering what the hell I'd done as I tend to like bitter herbaceous, dirt, dark, and tend not to like purely sweet candy type scents. Which would seemingly indicate that I am sweety fruit smells averse, and perhaps tone deaf/heavy handed possibly over zealous with dank swamp scents, so reader beware. Also a recent imp test drive of Bordello is making me think that blackcurrant might not be my thing, and I get too preoccupied with that fruity/juicy berry note, so lovers of tropical+black currant might go hog wild for the opening. But there are no big florals or heady musks, or evil basement smells that I can detect. When I'm not obsessing on the fruit and chillax, there's some way tranquil rainy crisp shaded Japanese pagoda at the botanical garden vibes and dry smells in the background, the ginger is dry to me, and the eucalyptus smells like minty forest and grass, very mellow -- no cat pee of tea tree/camphor slap your face eucalyptus thank goodness. After the scent calms down in half an hour, I think i might be enchanted? these soft dry grass herbaceous smells are my cup of tea for sure. There's a kind of medicinal fresh smell that is blended with the benzoin, but thats a super phantasmic ethereal hint of a ghost of a dream noticeable to me. Really elegant dry down. I'm kinda getting a Jardin Sur le Nil memory, but Things We Do... is a lot less fancy hair gel smelling to me. Also the last time I smelled Jardin Sur le Nil was like 10 years ago, but there's a kinda tropical + garden smell. Then the garden bit fades a way and there's a vague jam on skin scent afterward. Update: every time I've worn this I've received components on the way I smell
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    Bordello

    Wet, bordello is like the strawberry shampoo I used as a toddler. Big fruity sweet playtime. Definite herbal essences, lush rose jam minus the rose vibes. Fruity fun. Linear, stays happy fruity and jubilant. I would have loved this when I was younger. Gummy sweet berry dumb fun. Not picking up any booze elements. Sweet sweet! Clean, as in not particularly dark and dirty but not detergenty or soapy either. The drydown is pretty consistent, still sweet, fun, innocuous, playful. Flirty. I think this would smell really good on a youngster or younger co-worker, but not me, as I prefer to smell like a 500 yr old bog witch lately. However it is definitely pleasant, and would smell good as a hair or toiletry product or lotion or if you're into body sprays. Recalls a fun night out, or a first date, or some brush with a hotty at an eighties night. I would definitely adore this on the right person. Big time cute vibes!
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    Tezcatlipoca

    Visible chunks of presumably cocoa in the bottle. A strange wet smell, water chocolate flower mush. I use the full imp, for a full body experience. The chocolate puts me off at first, wet, but as other reviews have mention is dries down. Patchouli, leather, dryness, faint spice, cloud of faint sandy white flower aura. Well-balanced. Soft, warm, smells elegant and "expensive" if that makes any sense. Surprisingly light and close to the skin for a visibly dark and metaphorically heavy scent. Does not read as heavy to me. This would be fabulous as an every day after shave or fancy lad lotion scent, or if you wanted to smell like a fancy hot classy masc boi at work. Definitely sexy, subtle, and mild. Handsome, definitely. Blood rituals and familial sacrifice to an aloof warrior jaguar god of blackness? not quite there, but I would perhaps follow someone around and admire their smell wearing this. Recommend! PS. Lately I have a preference for stank stinky loud "I AM WEARING PERFUME" scents, so this is something a bit more reserved than I like.
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