LavenderCoffee
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2025 version This is a subtle stunner, I am instantly in love. I am a fan of dead leaves, first of all, but while sweater/cashmere/wool can be hit or miss, the wool note here is perfection in concert with the ambergris. It's impossibly warm and comforting. Magic!
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Dead Leaves, Molten Lava Cake, and Raw Cacao
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Halloweenie
help I love this!! it just makes me go HNNNGGG and I WANT TO GO TO THERE, among other less useful notes for a perfume review. So instead: A cascade of dry dead leaves, a dusting of dry cacao, and then an ooozingly realistic molten cake center that mellows into a lovely chocolate cake scent in the leaf pile. I vaguely regretted not grabbing a FS of DL/Chocolate/Hazelnut from years past but at the end of the day, I just don't love hazelnut. This one may be my one true chocolate leaf! -
in the vial, Plastic Rats does indeed smell a bit like plastic rats, which is to say, daunting. On my skin I can pick out the amber and pepper clearly alongside the black licorice. It's really kindof a nice scent once it settles in. Like it could have been marketed as Lord Licorice's cologne in a licensed Candyland line or something. not that it skews especially masc or evil, imo - it's delightfully mysterious and subtle, and ever so slightly murky.
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My first impression as I applied this on the skin was pumpkin spice tattoo ink! It comes on kinda dark and strong. I get the bourbon and the cranberry in the periphery but they're like accents in the mix. When the patch starts to come out as the oil dries, it really comes together nicely and the ink is way less intimidating. It's just a sweet lil fuzzy inky guy. Also remarkable that I don't think Beth saw the artwork before making the perfume and the colors match this scent really well!? Every time I see tarantulas I am reminded of the fact that I tried to keep a tarantula as a pet when I was a kid, in order to get over my fear of spiders. It didn't work - I could not sleep with it in my room and had to return it. But Tarantula Flash seems really nice once you give it a chance! I think I can live with this one.
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It really does smell like a pretty pink sweater! I would say it seems more cashmere than wool to my nose, like maybe Ed Wood is wearing this.
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Black Butterfly Moon: Myrrh and Black Berries
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
BREAKING: Myrrh and Black Berries smells like ...Myrrh and Black Berries It's so good tho. Idk if it is meant to be blackberries or unspecified berries that are super dark and mysterious but there's a big juicy plop of berry on application and then the fruit slides into the myrrh-k and it all gets very fuzzy. It almost wants to be fizzy, but it's too velvety to get all the way to forbidden soda. There's almost a friction between the simple fruit sweetness of the berry and the blackout curtain of dark myrrh. (Did they throw a pint of berries at a myrrh-scented velvet blackout curtain?) -
I have to confess up front that I dearly wanted to love this Blood Moon - to be on her side, or be her - so psychologically I set myself up to enjoy this. But I was also a bit daunted by THUNDEROUS black musk, because in many other blends where black musk is present, my skin chemistry causes it to drown out other notes in very short order. Anyway, I am happy to report that I remain standing as the credits roll and have not been slain by Blood Moon or her black musk! My experience wearing this (a week out of the mail) is that the pomegranate seems most prominent when first applied, and then it melds into the rest of the murky gritty goodness, lending a lovely deep red stain. And then it is evident that something was most certainly scorched! It's not a super smoky scent by any means, but it does smell pleasantly like the remnants of a fire. Perhaps something was burned on an altar, or forged in flames. There's an enjoyable push-pull between black and red, softness and grit. It's also a fairly subtle scent on the skin, in case you need to sneak up on someone or something. Just beautifully blended, I'm very into it! Incidentally inspired me to paint my nails red...
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This is a glorious red, and it wants two thicker coats or three thinner coats. Should probably work for any red holiday you can think of from October to February, or just for like, Thursday. The glitter bits are pretty easy to work with unless one dries right on the tip of the nail, so you can scoot them away if that happens. I took some pictures of three coats with a clear topcoat, although I'm not great at it, just in case it helps.
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Ok this is an appropriately tricky one. Smells like citrus soda in the bottle! On the skin the bergamot sings out with the amber, and it seems to share a fair amount of DNA with last year's Melancholy Fire, which is lovely. However I thought I was signing up for leather and patchouli, which seem very light/bordering on nonexistent to my nose, since I am a glutton for these notes. If you are hesitant about the agarwood, it is the light woody variety as far as I can tell.
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Black Butterfly Moon: Vanilla and Tobacco Flower
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I am into this one, it is giving me what I thought Idle Moon: Vanilla Husk and a Bundle of Twigs was gonna smell like. I'm getting a soft, unsweet vanilla wrapped around dry/brown vegetation, vaguely woodsy. As it dries down I get more of a sense of the tobacco dna, which is gorgeous with this vanilla. It's a warm, almost papery dry scent and I keep coming back to it. -
This has a deep, sweet incense profile that reminds me of A Distant Song, even though that blend utilizes benzoin and red sandalwood and no amber. Also where Song has incorporated dark fruit to deepen the scent, Witches has a warm envelope of smoke. It stays close, but the smooth smoky resin persists for several hours. Seems like a nice option for layering if you need an incense boost, but it is also one I will happily wear solo.
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I have never personally had a funnel cake with cinnamon on it, but because I know that's how the lab likes it, I knew it would be good with pumpkin. AND IT IS. This also captures the scent of fried dough on the air through a cloud of powdered sugar that I've gotten from the lab's funnel cake before.
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Ceaselessly By My Side the Demon Stirs
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
when I saw the name of this one I immediately thought of my cat, and honestly I think this would fit right in with the Felis Silvestris Catus collection if it had an image of my big old long-haired mackerel tabby on it. anyway I love ALLL of these notes and they come together beautifully EXCEPT tonka always smells slightly weird on my skin. I thought if it was smoked I could get away with it, but there's just something about tonka I can't do. it's really a lovely composition tho, warm and brown like puellacaerulea said above. -
I do enjoy a goat's milk scent and this is a nice big one. I agree there is a bit of a caramelized quality to this milk, and in combination with the clove I get a musky impression, which I also enjoy.
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Lightning Moon: Black Lilac and Black Tea
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
black lilac comes charging out early, it's clearly lilac, but less sunny and cheery maybe than the standard lilac. lovely, and very much in the palette for the lightning moon art. imagine that scary skeleton deciding on a feminine accent for his fedora: it's black lilac for sure. the black tea emerges in the drydown for more of a balanced scent, but the sillage is subtle - a tea setting with lilacs on the table. for me this is not something I would wear solo, but I think it's a brilliant accent for layering! -
Idk how to follow Mr. Gothy but I am really enjoying this fun Summerween scent. When I first tested it I was unsure, but I am appreciating it more every time I come back to it. It's not really a full on ice cream experience to me, but the neapolitan ice cream is definitely present, if that makes any sense. A velvety strangely creamy vibe that lingers on you like realistic incense. The clove smoke is a really nice touch, but I could not resist layering some Thorns Clove Cigarette to punch it up a bit. This lasts a good while for me, and while I can smell it all day, I wouldn't say it has much throw to it. Still a delightful fragrance. I think I will be wanting more than a decant.
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These notes are all* hits for me, so I blind bottled this earlier in the year expecting it to be entirely my jam. I love beeswax! I love leather! I love patch! (*Should know better than to go in blind on an unspecified incense note!) To my surprise it was too. much. beeswax! on wet, and then too much insense as it dried! And soooo strong! I destashed it after one test. But now I am retesting it from a decant and maybe it just needed some time to rest? Maybe I was having a temporary hormone thing? Because now it is still hella strong but way more balanced and quite nice. I will apply sparingly and possibly layer with extra patchouli.
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Hungry Ghost Moon: Pineapple and Red Hot Honey
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is such a happy scent! It's mostly a light honey perfume, so if you want a big booming pineapple this may not be your jam. But it absolutely starts with a realistic crush of bright acidic pineapple that remains pleasantly present for the first hour of wear. Ultimately it gets smothered by the lightly spiced honey, and becomes pineapple infused honey with a bit of warmth. Light throw. Delicious. (Do not eat 😅) -
Oh my smokey oaky goodness! This is a delight. Oh maybe it isn't oak, but it has a big, rich, woody heart. Vanilla really only present in the periphery and then only on the drydown, but a really lovely vanilla nonetheless. Let us cavort!
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As an enjoyer of many of the BPAL leather notes and also of the various roses, I have always been slightly grumped that Whip does not really whip for me - it feels a bit too clean, almost? So I pounced when they said they added some patchouli and I am quite pleased. I am reminded of 2021's All While Dreaming, Shakes Her Head, which is a favorite of mine - there is less patch here, but it feels like the same patch, paired with a sharp leather instead of a sharp fruit. Less throw, as well, but sweeter on the drydown like a bit of aftercare.
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I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would, because I like white tea as a note but I don't always enjoy wearing it. It's not super prominent here, serving instead as an accent to the warm starchy rice and surprisingly complex twigs. I did not enjoy the duet with twigs, but I appreciated the review that picks out various types of wood that may be present. Or maybe I'm suggestable, but it seems like there could be a rosewood in this blend too. Overall I'd say it translates to an idyllic cozy idleness.
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Just had to "big same" this sentiment, but for me it's because I don't usually like lilac in perfume. And I also didn't expect it to go well with Snake Oil, but I wanted to try it anyway. And now of course I feel silly for doubting because this may be the only lilac perfume that works for me! I dabbed some behind my ears this morning, and it was slightly more lilac for the first hour or so, but the rest of the day it was lilac fully saturated with our beloved "deep, rich, earthy notes swirled with vegetal musks, sugared vanilla bean, and dark spices." Just gorgeous, and lasted all day. Also now that it's fully rested, it's reading much less like a living lilac/face in the lilac bush scent, even earlier in the wear, which is good for me, because I like smelling living lilacs, just not in perfume for some reason.
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Boney Moon: Piñon and Blackened Lavender
LavenderCoffee replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I was determined to be more stubborn than this bottle and I WON, lol. Took a full month for it to settle in and it's worth it, imo, but I'll grant it was really rather overwhelming at first. I'm getting lavender tinted pinon incense, like I was hoping for (&like marared mentioned above). It's kindof a rugged lavender vibe, like driving through the pine forests in the southwest, but there's also a stick of lavender incense burning somewhere. I really like it. -
Ok I am on the hype train, I really love this. Excellent balance of the notes, not too dank on the patch side and not too sweet/too vanilla. There is a gentle earthy sweetness to the blend, but nothing like Silky Bat, for example. The hemp I think helps ground the notes and maybe tames the patch, it's not reminding me of the lab's cannabis at all. I thought I could not hang (sorry) with the hemp in Hanging Johnny from the Fire Down Below collection, but now I suppose it was just the interplay of notes in that particular blend. Anyway this is perfect. It has the perfect amount of throw, in that I feel like I'm wearing the scent and the scent is not wearing me. Magnetic, gender neutral, lasts and lasts.
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It do indeed smell hazy! For me this lives in a violet sandalwood zone, and while the jasmine peeks through the haze to say hello, it does not take over at any point. I'm kindof into it but it's fairly quiet on my skin.