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Glad some other folks had the same funky oud/poud sort of experience I had, because I tested this opposite Cacao and Oud and was extremely confused for a minute! Luckily the duet was a success. Rogridiss honestly does not remind me of any of the component scents: I don't really get any leather or chocolate. Freshly applied, it's the mysterious funky oud experience, and then after it dries (~20mins) it basically disappears on me.

I was excited to try this one but my skin does not like it. The Weed and Whiskey 2021 duet was a surprise hit for me, but Weed and Sugar Cookies is no-go. It does indeed smell delightful in the decant and on the tissue I used to open the decant, but once applied, it gets a stale, slightly burnt character, and fades fast for me. Looking forward to passing this on to someone who can enjoy it!

I think I'm finally learning that my skin amplifies frankincense. It's not a note that I dislike, but here it is surprising to me because I would not expect frankincense to eclipse clove or cedar. I would love a clove/cedar bomb! but alas, it is not to be.

This one is a journey for me, and it never really smells like coffee, but I love it. There's something very sweet in the bottle and my skin picks it up and runs with it for about twenty minutes. I'm not sure if I'm misreading a metric ton of cardamom as sweet, or if the shisha is sweet, or if there's sugar in the coffee, or all of the above, but it is LOUD. And then it goes away. What I'm left with is the most beautiful atmospheric scent of a clove cigarette inside a very old coffeeshop.

I was worried this would be super sweet like a drink with whipped topping, but it is indeed more of a caramelized sugar and coffee scent, as mentioned above. When freshly applied, the dark chewy caramel has a bigger throw than the coffee, but as it dries both scents are apparent. After an hour or two, there's almost something slightly burnt about it, but I love a bit of burnination, especially where sugar is concerned.

"The scent of the roasted seeds of Coffea arabica, so intoxicating in real life, has resisted capture again." I can't improve on the first post here, so I'll echo it, but I will add my own two cents anyway. 😅 In the bottle this is sweeter than just plain coffee, but dry on my skin it comes pretty close to the real thing. To my nose, it smells more like brewed coffee than beans though.

Going on a coffee note journey today, starting with a re-test of Kobold Barista because it was a resounding fail when I first tried it. When I first wore this, I got a vaguely burnt and somehow perfumey coffee aroma from it, and not much spice. Now that it is properly rested, it is noticeably spice forward and the coffee is perfectly nice, without much cream to speak of. I love to order dirty chais when I go to coffeeshops, and this is a milder version of that scent to me - and mild is probably good if you want to layer, as the RPGs are intended. Skin tingles just a tad with this one. YMMV, but I get more clove scent and less coffee from Café Mille et une Nuits (although that one almost strays into clove cigarette territory), and more of a spiced coffee from Kobold.

King mandarin, green mint, green tea leaf, and white musk. Tested from a decant. This is a bit loud with mandarin and mint when first applied, but the mint disappears, as other reviewers mentioned. It dries down into a subtle skin scent of tea and white musk, with only a memory of mandarin. It's really lovely.

Got a little tester imp of this scent from another forumite. It seems like there is a little mint when it's wet, or something wacky happening with the lemon, but after a few minutes it's gone. Then it's all strawberry lemon candy, and it has some decent throw!

Freshly applied, the first notes that hit are cigarette smoke and tuberose - I can't normally hang with tuberose, but it is blended with the smoke in such a way that both scents are more appealing together than separate. As it dries, I get more pomegranate and fig, and I keep sniffing myself. I did not expect to like this quite as much as I do!

Received this as a frottle from the lab in mid-January 2022. While wet, this has a pleasant aroma of leaves and teak, as well as a hint of herbaceous green from hyssop and ivy. As it dries, more of the patchouli and coffee bean emerge from the background of tonka. Without looking at the notes, I might have guessed a soft brown leather in the mix. A warm, Autumnal scent with a subtle perfume quality, and the coffee/patch/teak combination is quite lovely.

In the bottle, I get bay up front and the slightly astringent cypress note. Once my skin comes in contact with the fig, that note comes to the foreground in a big way and stays there. The bay remains prominent, closely followed by the ambergris, and this basically becomes a gorgeous three note blend for the duration. I'm reminded of the bay and ambergris combo in Falling Leaves Moon, but instead of leaves on top, it's fig. The throw on this is phenomenal. When I did my own amateur 15 Minutes of Fume session and applied like 6 different scents at once, this one jumped out over all the others. It also has excellent weartime.

This one took me on an interesting scent journey. It leads with the iris, lavender and cognac, which creates a gossamer sort of effect. Then I get more of the "warm backdrop" from the sandalwood, vetiver and tonka, and some sweetness from ti leaf as well. After it dries, it ends up in a soft resinous place for me. A contemplative blend with low throw.

This oil is a vivid gold color, and freshly applied it is all patchouli doused in narcissus. It does have a "lacquered" fume-y sort of effect to it as well. As it dries, the herbal notes pop out a bit, and then recede. I think I can detect some of the opium tar like a fuzzy dark center in the swirl of narcissus and patch. It is a strikingly beautiful but unapologetically bold blend.

Not what I was expecting in terms of candied ginger at all. Much more spicy than sweet, and the ginger/clove combo dominates when first applied. After 30 minutes or so, this reads as an earthy spicy skin musk with a suggestive quality, and a hint of orange blossom.

When freshly applied, there is an effervescent quality that makes it smell like an Italian soda, and the grapefruit is more forward in the blend. Once dry, this is all about the raspberry and plum blossom musk, with citrus notes as accents - it is somehow bright and fresh and seductive at the same time. Utterly swoon-worthy and unmistakably Shunga.

This is a warm, airy scent for me. Cypress is the dominant note, and while wet it is certainly a bit sharp. After it dries down, however, it smells like dappled sunlight through dense cypress trees - like the canopy of the swamp rather than the floor.

Agree that the olive blossom is prominent, but my skin must be grabbing on to the oak bark, or perhaps it has grown stronger with age. The rain-spattered quality of this scent fades as it dries, and it takes on a subtle cologne-like effect. Unisex, evocative of NOLA, gorgeous.

Cacao sludge in the bottle, don't forget to shake/rattle and/or roll! Freshly applied, this is a lovely dry cacao with a hint of cinnamon. Dry, it is mainly frankincense/olibanum for me.

Bright, clean grapefruit up front that settles into a delicate citrus/white musk skin scent. Has just a trace of sweetness when dry.

I am just testing this for the second time today, but I am OBSESSED. "Ask not for whom the skull doots…" it doots for me! Licorice root is in the driver's seat for sure, with a lot of throw coming at you right out of the gate. I don't get root beer or licorice candy from this really, even though there is some nose-tickling sweetness on the drydown. This definitely has a darker, earthy quality to me. The nutmeg seems to be closely intertwined with the licorice root, and the vanilla and coconut milk form a soft backdrop. An hour later, this is a comfortingly smooth, dark vanilla spiced with licorice root and nutmeg. The licorice root calmed down quite a bit from where it started, but I love that big burst of scent in the beginning. I never get anything distinctly coconutty from this, and while I couldn't pick out the honey before, now it adds a hint of beeswax-adjacent richness to the vanilla. I hesitate to call this blend sweet - it's not without sweetness, but it's sweet in the earthy vanilla way that Tombstone is sweet. In fact, my experience of this scent is very similar to Tombstone, where the cedar starts out really loud and then mellows beautifully into the vanilla. That one has an overall brighter tone, and this one is darker. (Yes, I am trying to justify getting a bottle of this, even though I already have Tombstone, and the Beeswax, Cedarwood, and Bourbon Vanilla ménage 😅)

I don't understand how this is so distinctly cherry! Hellfire on its own never goes to cherry tobacco for me. Perhaps the sugared vanilla from Snake Oil is bringing it out. This is why I was excited to try the Blapimpsottles tho, for the unexpected! My experience of Snekhellden leads with cherry leather, then I get something sharp (white tea fighting it out with tobacco?) standing on the shoulders of ambergris peeking over a bed of incense-y spicy musk and faint trampled roses. The Hellfire elements are definitely most prominent for me, and it certainly has some throw. It's weirdly good.

Agree that in the bottle there doesn't seem to be much there - maybe ancient dust? Applied to my skin, I start to get some vaguely sweet powder. This is basically my entire experience of Ü. No leather, nothing recognizably vanillic. I think cannabis would be an improvement! Even a couple hours later, it's just powder. I've only had it for a month now, so it's possible it could improve with age. When I first tried it on it was screamingly loud sweet powder, and at least now it's more subtle. I might not be able to wear it on my skin.

In the bottle, this smells like a spicy orange cocktail I might enjoy, and I can pick up the sweetness of the mandarin. On my skin, the boozy mandarin qualities disappear, and once it's dry, it smells like what I imagine dragon breath would smell like, if the dragon mainly ate oranges: Sour spicy orange. It's not bad, but I bet this is better for folks who can wear rum notes!

When opening the bottle, the leaves jump right out at you. I'm not big on a prominent dead leaves note, but this seems like a slightly greener version of it, or the other green things are keeping it in check. Once applied, the green-ness begins to settle down, and bay and ambergris join the party. I like this party! I'm not getting any cinnamon specifically but there is a nice bit of kick. Dry, I have to agree this is a great fall leaves/bay/ambergris blend