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Ohhh hello. Freshly applied this is reminding me of the coffee cardamom powerhouse Café Mille et une Nuits (shisha and thick coffee brewed with cardamom pods, cinnamon, clove, black pepper, and nutmeg) except, in spite of the dragon-y reputation of dbr, it becomes a sweeter, cozier café scent by comparison: as it wears throughout the day it's giving me a coffeehouse incense vibe. Subtle in terms of sillage and not overly resiny or musky. A very wearable dragon!
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Deer Moon: Honey Dust and Oudh
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I keep forgetting to review this, but I can't stop wearing it. It's simple and perfect. Must love honey, and I'd call it appropriate for the oudh-curious. Not indolic on me at all. Plus if you've found the honey dust note a little too sweet in other blends, this warm woody oudh is a really nice counterpoint. -
this is so, so good. I'm getting similar vibes as pbsw's pokeberry (berries/cocoa/wine/leather) but the musk and oak make it more complex and ever so slightly delightfully feral. early in the dry phase I can pick out every single note down to the toasty goodness from toasted sandalwood. the blackberry stays out of jam territory for me and adds a wonderfully rich dark purple facet. just wanna cuddle up and nuzzle this. I do have little cocoa blobs in my bottle so I would give it a bit of a shake to wake those up. I slept on this last night and it was much muskier in the morning. it also layers gloriously with the honey dust/oudh duet if you want to punch up the sweetness by a notch, don't be scared of that oudh! I also really like the golden tobacco/beeswax duet on its own but I don't like it as much layered with the parent blend. overall this lunacy release was a really good one for me!
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Deer Moon: Golden Tobacco and Beeswax
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This one has rested a good bit and I think it needed it. I was not sure what to expect from golden tobacco but it is delightfully distinct from other tobacco notes I've smelled. There is indeed something golden about it: a light, warm, perfume quality, for lack of a better descriptor. The beeswax is lighter/less sweet than I was expecting, with a gentle earthiness that I suspect is contributing to an impression of soil others are getting. Overall impression of the duet on its own is that of a high end skin scent, have not layered this with anything yet. Edited to add: the beeswax really sticks to me and develops more of the honeyed aspect later in the wear - even though there's not much throw the weartime on this is great. -
I was not sure what to expect from Treasure and it just so happens that I *adore* it. My skin definitely grabs onto the honey dust at first but it's not a honey dominant scent for the majority of the weartime. It doesn't strike me as particularly aquatic but it would absolutely be a gorgeous choice for a beach day. Glimmering and warm like the sun in shallow water. And I love the florals in this! the way the osmanthus connects the honey to the mimosa, and the mimosa connects to the grapefruit. All the lovely jewels in the box get to sparkle a bit.
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I don't really have much to add to what's already been said but I will ramble a bit anyhow. I'm not usually a full on foodie person, and have not been particularly fond of either matcha or cheesecake scents to date, so I wasn't expecting to swoon so hard for this combo. it's perfect! the drydown is a swirl of vaguely fruity, powdery tea with the tangy sweet delight of the classic dessert, an elevated tea and cakes. more dry than creamy but that's not a complaint. super comforting.
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this one has been consistent each of the three times I've worn it: a big hit of hazelnut when first applied, which disappears into the blend quickly. throughout most of the weartime I'm getting a gorgeous hay peeking through a haze of toasty carnation cream, and then by the end of the day (6-8 hours later) I'm wondering who's wearing the french vanilla single note - it's that awesome custardy rich vanilla. really lovely blend.
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This is lovely. I wasn't sure what to expect from the calamus, and it really came out swinging when I tested it fresh out of the mail, skewing heavily towards spice. Now a few days later it's found a pleasant balance with the amber. There's a lemony sort of brightness to the scent without anything distinctly citrus or sharp, so it doesn't go anywhere near cleaning products. It's a fairly subtle bay as well, so I'm getting some fleeting hits of leafy green without getting hit over the head by it. Curious if this one will evolve more in the coming weeks as it rests, I really like it as it is and I keep sniffing myself. Seems very wearable without being plain. "I'm not the one to turn into a laurel wreath" (Tori Amos, Apollo's Frock) but I will be one to wear it in scent form!
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This is such a happy match for me, my skin loves it and so do I. No idea if it would have worked for me when it was originally released, but the bottle I was lucky enough to snag just turned 10. It's perfection in my book: not too sharp nor too sweet, it almost reads a bit musky and has a pleasing amount of sillage.
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Ok, uncanny: just came to the forum to write this exact same review! Now I'm off to the store to get some Strawberry Nesquik.
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A Night In the French Quarter
LavenderCoffee replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Black Phoenix Trading Post
Found a decant of this the other day and decided to wear it today. The osmanthus comes on strong at first, but then everything comes together and there's no single dominant note. The petrichor is so expertly applied here, and I love plum and benzoin together. Perfectly enchanting and achingly lovely. -
I can't recall now when I acquired her but it was secondhand from someone here on the forum since 2020. At first the scent seemed a bit intense, as others have mentioned, so I've inadvertently aged it by passing over it for other options over time. I think I thought it had tobacco flower in it (that's Ginny), which is hit or miss for me, but this is straight up tobacco. and it's really good now! A gorgeous dark rose that gives you the middle finger. Would not have guessed white rose at all. Starts primarily as rose/tobacco/patch for me, but the vanilla/oakmoss/myrrh pops out more later on.
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This is gorgeous! Probably need to appreciate narcissus, as I do, but the honeyed tea and pear gently sweeten this sharper, headier note so nicely, and plum provides a stunning complement. I had to fish out Astronomical Twilight for a plum/narcissus comparison, but that one seems to have mellowed with time and this is so bright and fresh! The snow is not a sweet snow, more of a crisp, outdoorsy atmospheric. Truly I just want to bury my face in the crook of my elbow for the rest of the day.
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This simple combo is unexpectedly fresh and delicate, with a subtle, pleasantly earthy sweetness and an unobtrusive pulse of blood musk tying it all together. I am not getting candied or pickled ginger, and it's not even as sharp as I was expecting raw ginger to be. Plus the beet is a bit sweet, and the earthiness does not read as anything dirt or soil adjacent, so they just harmonize so perfectly. The musk got a bit bigger since I slathered this and let it settle in, but it's still way more mellow than any red musk blend I've tried recently. Honestly I think I would have guessed vegetal musk, thanks to the beety goodness, or maybe I'm just not super familiar with blood musk. Either way it's not what I was imagining and I dig it. Give this one a try!
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This one was a lovely surprise - I just wanted to see if you could pick out the smoked lilac, and you can, but I'm quite enamored with the composition as a whole. I don't get fresh lilac from this, I get a creamy lilac (more lilac butter than orris butter, but probably the combined effect) accented with vanilla and a hint of smoke and oakmoss. Very wearable.