bunnicula
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2025 Version When first applied, I'm mainly smelling a very sweet custardy leche flan coated in caramelized syrup, and tropical white florals that smell like overripe bananas (similar to what I smelled in F-cking #3, but more caramelized!). Maybe the bibingka and turon also contribute to that floral banana leaf smell. The hyper-sweetness dies down quickly. There is a ton of gourmand notes in this, but if I'm being honest mostly all of them are not quite identifiable, like I never distinctively smell ube or champorado, and even the leche flan smell quickly melds with the other gourmand notes, contributing to a general feel of a filipino bakery filled with fried, cakey, and caramelized sweets, along with the smell of humid tropical flowers. I like it!
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2025 Version This is a very woody scent, I smell the copal, woods, and tobacco when first applied. As it dries down further, there is this watery green veil over those dry woody notes, which must be coming from the agave nectar and just a touch of stemmy rose, without being too floral. That veil of refreshing green grows thicker through wear time until it's like 40% cooling green and 60% warm, dry and spiced woodiness. It morphs a lot though, the two scent profiles dueling for dominance, or maybe dancing together, the strength of each's presence flitting in and out.
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2025 Version It's a very sharp and bitter/sour floral like if the pith of an orange peel was made into a flower. Is that what marigold smells like? That is the strongest note I smell, it is a bit overpowering for me. In the background is the smell of damp dead leaves which also add to the sharpness and bitterness. It pretty much stays this way on my skin, no bourbon vanilla comes to save the day. I don't think this is for me, because I like my florals on the creamier/sweeter/gentle side.
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I definitely smell black licorice, and the black pepper is not at all as strong as I feared it'd be, it kind of tames the black licorice's sweetness and adds just the tiniest kick to it. I don't know what grey amber is supposed to smell like to be honest. But this scent does smell GRAY somehow.. smells like what grey licorice would smell like if that was a thing? Or you know what... I think it's reminding me of the black pepper flavored jellybean that my friends had me try, from one of those "beanboozled" jelly belly packs lol. I had my dad sniff my arm and asked him what it smelled like and he said black licorice really fast! So it's very identifiable as a black licorice scent. This is wacky and fun, and I honestly think it's a perfect interpretation of a plastic rat!
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2025 Version 🖤 This smells like a melange of slick, slippery smooth and polished dark resins, like a beautifully inky oil spill puddle or the drippings of inkcap mushrooms. Myrrh, opoponax, nagarmotha, and labdanum all swirling in dark iridescence together. This mixture is tinted purple and sweetened by the plum honey. It's lovely. Even though there's no oudh listed here, I feel like I am smelling a luxurious dark and syrupy honeyed oudh. Black inky resins, made syrupy with the tangy-sweet purple plum honey. Sooo good, I think I need a bottle!! Plus it's got great throw and it lasted all night on my skin!
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mr. krabs voice: That smell. A kind of yellow smell. A yellow smell that smells... yellow-y. Beeswax hits my nose first, a sweet light golden beeswax. Then it is made fresh and a bit fruity with the calming aspect of chamomile and the squishy, overripe fig. Golden amber and hay/saffron drenched in globs of pale, sweet floral honey. This has got to be the prettiest of the Yellow Wallpaper scents, to me it doesn't smell creepy or offputting at all! It makes me think of sunshine, bumblebees, the deep yellow florets of a daisy, and nectar of the greek gods.
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Oh my, this scent is unsettling. It is a bowl of oranges, left to rot in an old, musty mildewy house. The gaudy, taunting wallpaper sags off the walls, streaks of dust and peels of plaster litter the floor. Picture a mildewy room coated in a bitter orange-yellow scent. Guh.. it definitely smells sickly. Even the vanilla is corrupted and clotted. It's a work of art to capture something so creepy.
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A floral blend that is sharp, pale and silvery like cold mirrors or the glint of a knife. I believe it's iris I'm smelling the most, because I'm very familiar with lavender and rose but this doesn't smell much like either of those. In the background is this earthy dry vanilla husk combined with crumbling plaster. It's a strange scent! The lavender and ambergris are never really detectable to my nose, but I want to say I can smell a hint of white rose along with the iris and the crumbly dry plaster vanilla husk. The sharpness of the scent calms over time, moonlight casting shadows onto vanilla plaster walls, a vase of dry flowers, in a cold room.
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Jasmine soap at first, and then the yellow tobacco smoke creeps in, staining the jasmine, muddying its high-pitched heady-ness, and adding a bit of musty earthiness to it. The suffocating nature of an old, musty yellow room. I do not really get any stained lace at first, which was the note I was most excited for, so I wouldn't suggest this to people hoping for a Lace-adjacent blend. However, over time, this musty jasmine-tobacco blend develops a creamy coating that brings to mind a musty and decaying linen cloth, stained yellow and brown. Like soft damp decaying burlap or cheesecloth.
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Thankfully this actual wooly dead leaves blend doesn't veer as cologne-y as the Skin Musk one did on me. This smells like an oversized beige turtleneck wool sweater, it's clean but not too laundry-clean, it's been hanging in the back of your closet until the air finally has that November chill. Dry leaves swirl to the ground while you wear this comfy sweater on your walk to the local library. The dead leaves note here is subtle and just adds an impression of chill autumn air. Oh, as it wears on skin longer, it becomes a bit more laundry-clean.. It's still pleasant, but definitely smells freshly washed and maybe with a small spritz of some sort of pink-scented perfume that melds into the sweater's clean fuzziness. (Ahh, I see, @ghoulnextdoor is right, it does smell like a specifically pink sweater now!) I like it more than DL & Skin Musk, but it still leans a bit too clean for me.
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This starts off with a very clean and laundry-like note. It smells "cologne-y" to me and I thought I got it mixed up and that I was wearing the Wooly Jumper blend instead, because it somewhat reminded me of Sheepfold, Moonlight (notes: soft wool and hay absolute.) The dead leaves here are very subtle but also of the cologne-y variety. Unfortunately I don't vibe much with this, it's just too clean for me, definitely a skin musk after a very lathered up, soapy shower.
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I don't even like apple in my perfumes but I took a chance for apple pie and for my love of gourmand dead leaf varieties. Heartbreakingly, this did not smell like apple pie at all T_T I got a short blast of dry, peppery leaf at the start, but then the leaves disappear and the scent becomes nondescript, sweetish, vaguely apple-y. I kept sniffing hoping for warm pie crust, the smell of baked apples, gooey pie filling. I asked my bf to sniff my arm and see what he smelled: "spicy? kind of sweet?" I guess with more time on skin, it does start to resemble spiced apple filling slightly more.. But never pie! I hope that others have a better time with this one, maybe my skin chem or nose chem(?) ruined it.
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Dead Leaves, Molten Lava Cake, and Raw Cacao
bunnicula replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Halloweenie
I definitely smell the sweet and slightly bitter richness of a dark chocolate lava cake, but it is decorated with that dry, vegetal, slightly peppered smell of the dead leaves. As it dries down, the dead leaves note fades a bit, and the chocolate lava cake gets stronger, somehow this really captures that sweet richness of the inner lava soaked part of the cake, yum!!! Sometimes it leans into that gourmand realism, and other times the dry peppery leaves fade back into the picture, like you're enjoying a lava cake under a tree and the dead leaves keep falling onto your delicacy and you keep having to pick them out. Longer into weartime, the chocolate is losing its lava cake-iness specifity, and becomes a bit more generic cacao plus dry dead leaf. I'm happy I tried a feltie of this, to sate my curiosity, however I'm still not much of a chocolate-scent person. It was my favorite of the dead leaf feltie decants I tried though! -
Just got my package three days ago, so this is a first impression test and is subject to change with more rest!! In the bottle: peach Freshly applied: a really ripe and sweet, juicy peach! Drydown: I can't really say much else other than it's a pretty peach scent, made sweet and sugary from the cream accord, but without cream taking over and making it too dessert-y. the florals aren't showing up much, maybe they're there to just enhance the freshness of the peach. well, i'm not the best person to review this scent though, because tbh I've never been a fruit-dominant perfume kind of girl! I personally wanted more dessert-y peaches n creme, cream accord overload lol. Fruit lovers will probably like this one though!
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Just got my package two days ago, so this is a first impression test and is subject to change with more rest!! In the bottle: interestingly.. i'm getting a "yogurty" "tangy" note that i believe is probably coming from the cream accord Freshly applied: yup, it's the cream accord goin a little tart yogurt! However, the tangy-ness dies down a lot within like a minute or two! And then it becomes this.. creamy wood with only the slightest "yogurt tang" to it? lol Drydown: it goes through a phase where i'm getting a lot of that teakwood note, and it's gorgeous! i think combined with the cream and a little bit of amber, it makes the wood smell all soft and vanillic. any yogurt tang is fully gone now. I also never really get any lotus? finally it ends up being a light powdered sugary cream amber blended perfectly with the teak. this really smells luxurious and i get why it was such a beloved favorite! it wears a little close to the skin so i would probably apply more heavily next time. but wow i love it already!!
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Just got my package two days ago, so this is a first impression test and is subject to change with more rest!! Freshly applied: Hm, interesting! I definitely recognize that unique carnation spice note from Alice, but take out all the supporting milk & honey creamy sweetness, and replace it with a dark earthy musk and spice smell, which i imagine is supposed to be the snake oil, but it smells kinda different from snake oil to my nose. Drydown: the carnation spice is still the same, but the "snake oil" backdrop is changing to be a lil more pleasant. I smell clove, and an earthy type of patchouli and the vegetal muskiness. but its still a lil.. bitter(?), I feel it's lacking a little of the dark vanilla that makes regular SO so addicting to me? Actually after like 30mins or so this gets much better, all the different spices (carnation, clove, allspice, snake oil spice) are melding more harmoniously into one huffworthy floral spiced earthy musk!! Like Serpent in the Roses, it takes a while to warm up on the skin and develop into maximum allure. i think this will get even better with rest!
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Just got my package two days ago, so this is a first impression test and is subject to change with more rest!! In the bottle: jasmine, and something bitter plant-y green Freshly applied: so strong on the jasmine, fresh though like smelling it straight on the plant! Drydown: starting to smell something like a smoky labdanum maybe? Or maybe it's the incense smoke? It's wayyy in the background though. I'm not too familiar with neroli. I'm not smelling rose petals either. Oh, after an hour or so I sniffed myself again and now it's almost equal parts night blooming jasmine and a sultry smoky incensey labdanum! I think this one might benefit from more resting though and I'll update if it changes.
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Just got my package yesterday, so this is a first impression test and is subject to change with more rest!! In the Bottle: ohh, dry incense smoke? and dry amber and red musk Freshly applied: so it's been a while but the dry incense smoke feel reminds me of the one in highest quality vagina. but this is different because of all that red musk/red sandalwood/red amber going on here (vs highest quality vagina smelled more pale gold with her notes). I'm not really smelling most of the floral actually, i think theyre getting overpowered, which is a little sad because i was really wanting to smell that osmanthus! Drydown: Okay, sometimes i get whiffs of the more floral osmanthus part of the incense! (i hold the scent memory from this little shop in japan that had it, ughh that incense smelled so good) But mainly it just stays as a more vague incense smoke, mixing with the dry red amber, red musk, and red sandalwood for a smutty witchy type of scent. i would not be able to identify mimosa, hyacinth, or orris root in here. it's pleasant, it's the redder smuttier distant cousin of highest quality v, imo. (they're only related in my brain because they share a dryness and a similar incense smoke feel lol)
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Just got my package yesterday, so this is a first impression test and is subject to change with more rest!! In the bottle: creamy lilacs! Freshly applied: Lilacs!!! Oooh so pretty, I recognize their smell from "Houses at the Back - Frosty Morning" which i remember being a straightforward lilac smell. The lilacs smell different here though, like more pleasant somehow. Oh, maybe its the orris butter adding that smoothness and silkiness. Drydown: The vanilla bourbon is probably also contributing the silky smooth creamy feeling of these lilacs? But vanilla is not like a strong note showing up in this scent at all. It's predominantly a beautiful lilac scent with orris and vanilla bourbon supporting and adding complexity. I really like this one so far!! And I don't have any other lilac scents currently so I think it'll be a keeper. Interested to see if it changes with more rest. The throw is on the lighter side.
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Just got my package yesterday, so this is a first impression test and is subject to change with more rest!! In the bottle: black tea? Freshly applied: It's very potent! So I think I'm mainly smelling a sweet watery black tea and chrysanthemums, which I believe have a kind of dry subdued vegetal floral smell? at least from comparing to my only other chrysanthemum scent. Drydown: It's kinda the same as the wet stage, sweet watery floral tea. maybe the lotus root is adding a bit more floral sweetness. Idk why but this scent reminds me of filipino aunties lol, it's mature but comforting, it gives me a sense of being in a safe and familiar household with people who care about you and are always trying to feed you. NGL i bought this hoping the tea part would be barely noticeable because I mainly wanted a chrysanthemum powerhouse. It's still a pretty scent though! Also, it's hella strong and long-lasting!!
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Fresh from mail tests, interestingly my experience with this one is different! I find myself wanting more of the patchouli, and while it's definitely there, the sweetness is dominating in this blend. Maybe my skin amps it? I smell a pale honeysuckle, cotton candy sugary sweetness, maybe sugar cane too because it kind of has this raw natural sugary-ness as opposed to more processed treats. Even though the patchouli is very detectable, I hope that it gets even stronger with age lol! But so far I really like it, probably my 2nd favorite of the 2022 liliths so far, after Haunt 2021!
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Fresh from the mail tests, I this one is my favorite of my 2022 liliths order! The leaves here aren't fully dead, there's still life in them yet! They don't have too much of that really strong peppery smell that the dead leaves usually have for me. Mainly this smells like a mix of red leaves on the ground, and snake oil. Also the snake oil smells a bit brighter somehow, oh maybe I'm smelling some of the lavender? I'm not getting anything smoky or distant fire-y, which I'm cool with. It's interesting how this blend changes everytime I sniff it, in terms of whether the leaves dominate or the snake oil dominates! It's hard for me to smell any Dorian in this right now. Maybe that will change with rest, I imagine this will be pretty stunning with time.
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This starts off as a blast of bitter green wild grasses and weeds. Not sure what horsetail smells like irl, but it might be what's contributing to the bitter green scent. As it dries down, that bitterness settles a bit, there's still greenery but these clean "perfumey" notes begin to dominate, and I can't tell if it's because of the iris root or the aquatic notes of the pond water (could be both? lots of aquatics tend to go perfume-y verging on laundry detergent or bathroom candle on me). I love grass notes in perfume but I think the iris root and pond water notes aren't working for my tastes or personal skin chemistry, happy I got to try a decant but wouldn't full size.
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This is a light, kinda airy atmospheric with new notebook pages and a tiny amount of ink being the most prominent things i smell (heavier on the notebook pages). I am also getting a whiff of green freshness in the background from the cut flowers, but I don't really pick up on any saltiness in the air right now. I think it matches the artwork quite nicely, it has like a cool breeze feeling to it, peaceful! I don't think I'd need a full bottle though as this type of scent is a bit too clean for my tastes.
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This smells very much like a coconut lotion that I bought in the clearance section from Burlington Coat Factory. Very sweet gourmandy coconut, sugary, kind of chewy, reminds me of coconut shreds on a yummy coconut cream pie, kind of leaning towards artificial and a smidge plasticky? I actually like this type of foodie coconut, but I'm not sure I NEED to own this bottle if I already have my aforementioned lotion hahah!