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Comparing both the Thanksgiving imp versus the Yules one!

Thanksgiving: Gorgeous gorgeous soft lavender and fluffy coconut sweet cream in a sugared pie crust. This is exactly what I pictured when I read the name of the scent. It’s soft, creamy, sweet, and a bit sugary without being too cloying or heavy.

Yule: This one is so surprising! I anticipated it would be much heavier on the coconut based on other reviews but I didn’t realize just how much more coconutty it would be. I got lavender at first but this lavender smells different from the Thanksgiving one. This one smells more floral for sure. The coconut cream overwhelms the lavender so I barely smell it. It smells like a very smooth body butter. I get more of a burnt sugar-y pie crust note. Overall this is very very different from the Thanksgiving imp.

Strong pear cream and honey! I usually find pear notes extremely watery and crisp but in this scent, the pear is very forward, definitely a pear cream. The honey is present but not overwhelming. I tend to find honey notes too strong but this is not strong at all. It adds a lovely, golden sweetness to the scent. The vanilla bean and orris root notes help to soften the edges of this, making it very light and fluffy, and a little bit powdery, but in a good way! 

As doomsday_disco said, this is very very reminiscent of Mouse Circus. Whereas I didn't like Mouse Circus because of the peanut note, this smelled almost identical to it to my nose, just without the peanuts. Score! This is pretty! The caramel popcorn is the primary note but it smells like a bag of those caramel popcorns that stick to your teeth. The popcorn is backed by sweet, wispy cotton candy. I didn't get much, if any fizziness or cola in this at all. This is a foodie scent but I wouldn't say it is overly sugary or gourmand. 

This is completely different from Strawberry Sufganiyot! This one smells more like the strawberry note in Strawberry Moon 2019. It's very fresh and juicy, and ever so slightly candied. There's a fluffy backdrop of buttercream and just a tiny bit of a sugary, fried dough note. It's an amazing, delicious, strawberry and buttercream scent but it doesn't feature much of the sufganiyot note, which is what most people probably hoped for in this scent. I'm pretty happy with it but not sure if I'll need to keep a full bottle, maybe a decant! 

Okay... This is AMAZINGGGGGGG!!! I get the juicy but slightly tart strawberries and hints of green notes. I'm not sure what shadowed marble smells like but here, it feels a bit cold, a bit chilly, but gorgeous. I can't describe this scent well other than I'm in love with it. It's a more sophisticated strawberry scent that is not too sweet, not too green, a perfect balance of both. Just like Casablanca says, it smells like sniffing a strawberry up close but there is something about it that smells very dewy? very fresh. 

Yum! This smells like a peach mochi. It's cool and fluffy with a crisp, vanilla wafer note. I first got more of the wafer but as it dries, it settles into more of a ripe peach note with whipped cream instead of a peach cream.

This smells simultaneously really good and really off to me lol. The buttered popcorn and warm milk are almost a bit too buttery and almost sour but the addition of the other notes really saves the scent. I get a ton of sweet strawberry and cake as well and the bread note. The lavender and cotton candy are really fuzzy and mixed together. This is a strange scent. 

Slime Queen smells like Dorian but it’s not the same. This smells like a slightly sugary, brighter Dorian. Dorian smells much more of soft lavender and sweet vanilla while Slime Queen has just a slight hint of slightly herbal lavender, less vanilla, but a bit more of a spun sugar note. Update an hour later: the drydown is much sweeter than Dorian, it’s got a wispy sort of cotton candy scent now, still very light but sweeter than before. I prefer Dorian because there’s more sweet vanilla while Slime Queen has a bit more dusty sugar. It’s softer than Dorian as well but I don’t actually get any cotton candy in this.

The pomegranate in this is dark and borders on bitter but also syrupy sweet? Something in this smells very dark and syrupy almost like honey or dark chocolate with pomegranate fruit. I get the muskiness of Dorian and a hint of sweet vanilla tea but no herbal lavender yet. It doesn't really smell like Dorian to me! 

This smells like a sweeter, candied version of Snake Oil. I didn't love Slime Queen because it was very faint and this one is also very faintish with the cotton candy note. It has a base of warm vanilla and musk but no spices at all. I don't detect any Dorian yet but I'll check back in a little bit. Okay so it's been like an hour and I like it even less now. It smells really herbal and earthy on my skin. I read up on some reviews and yep, it smells like patchouli. 

I'm reviewing the resurrected version! For some reason this smells like chocolate or coconut to me? It's got a hint of a marshmallow note as well? It smells like delicious, chewy, caramelly chocolate and buttery funnel cake scent with sweet, soft wisps of cotton candy and a tang of salt from the taffy. It's sugary and delicious! It's not very strong but I keep getting wisps of it as I'm moving around and it's gorgeous! I can't really tell what I'm smelling anymore after it dries. It kind of just smells like coconut butter and chocolate and not much else. I'm sad about it since I want to love it so much but it really smells like nothing special.

I was hoping this would be very apple forward but I mostly get a ton of vanilla cream and lavender with the slightest bit of patchouli. If I sniff really hard, then it smells a bit like a bite of apple but I really wanted this to be a super crisp, fruity apple scent! When fully dried for about half an hour, everything settles and I get mostly vanilla cream and soft patchouli now. I like it better when dried but still wish there was more apple lol. 

I wrote this review before I tried the original Dorian blend instead of the 2017+ one. So please keep in mind this is comparing Dorian from 2017+ to Dorian V2. Dorian was a lot of sweet, vanilla tea and soft lavender on me. V2 has a creamy, coconut note with a bit of lemon, tea leaves, and lavender. They are definitely sister scents but not actually that similar. Both are very lovely though! I find V2 more of a fruity, citrus sweet with a bit of tartness while Dorian is straight-up sweet vanilla. I prefer the regular version simply because it’s much sweeter and I don’t like coconut much! 

I don't really smell any Dorian in this but it is really fresh and lovely. I smell a lot of sweet grass and leaves with soft, fragrant lilies and just the slightest bit of dewy rose. This smells a lot like the woods, very sweet and lush. 

This is very very pretty. It smells like a dusty white. It's sweet from the vanilla with a lightly smokey edge of the tobacco and slightly bitter cognac. It's hard to describe but it smells like an old room filled with antiques and white porcelain dinnerware with a hint of tobacco and alcohol. It's super pretty! 

This smells very floral from the start. It's a very fresh floral with a warm base of sandalwood and vanilla. I don't get any cinnamon from this at all but the amber incense is super pretty! It's not too warm but it adds a really pretty and subtle smokiness to the scent that keeps it from being too floral. When dry, the florals fade into the back and this becomes a very warm amber incense with sweet vanilla and smooth sandalwood. 

This is a beautiful lotus scent! I get a lot of lotus and moss and it's so soft and smooth with a slightly sweet woodiness of the bamboo. The ylang ylang and vanilla sandalwood round out the base of the scent and make it a bit warmer and very very smooth. When dry, this is more moss forward than lotus petal and it's less powdery, which I love!

THIS IS SO GOOD. One of my all time favorite scents and one of the first indie perfumes I ever bought was Skin Like Butter's Acai Berry perfume (sadly now discontinued!). This reminds me of it. The berry is super tart with a bit of sweetness and there's hints of warm amber and sandalwood and slightly earthy neroli. The Snake Oil is definitely there but takes a huge backseat in the scent, which I am personally a fan of because I didn't really like the original Snake Oil too much 👀 

This is delicious. Some cookie scents can smell too warm, which makes it somewhat cloying but this cookie scent smells very crisp and almost fresh, kind of like a shortbread cookie instead of a gooey cookie. The spice notes are very reminiscent of the scent of baked spices so they're super smooth and not sharp at all. I tend to dislike any spice notes at all but this smells so warm and smooth. The cream cheese icing adds just a really lovely creamy element to the scent, it's not funky or sour. This is just a super delicious spiced cookie!

This is so pretty! It reminds me of some mainstream perfumes but with fresher notes. The fruits meld together so well, it's dewy, sweet, and a bit tart. I can pick out the sweet pea and there's rose at the edges. I don't know what the other two flowers smell like but this is so, so pretty. As it dries, it smells a bit candied like candied flower petals.

This smells very much like a blown out wax candle. It's warm but cool and it's a slightly sweet, waxy vanilla. I picture it was a beexwax candle that was just blown out in the midst of a cold room. It smells very naturally sweet. I was surprised because most of the reviews say that this was sweeter than they liked and I was wishing it was more sweet! 

Strawberry Moon (2009) smells like a strawberry candy to me. It smells like mashed strawberries and sugar mixed together. This smells both artificial and realistic at the same time. I get a bit of a sweet grass note as well and syrupy sap. As it dries, the strawberry scent gets more realistic and it smells like strawberries on the vine with a hint of greenery. It's a morpher on the skin for sure!

This smells just like the original Snake Oil with a bit of a gourmand edge. It's very, very similar to the original though. I think this one is slightly more sugary while Snake Oil is more simple musky vanilla and smooth spice. I think they're both similar enough that I don't need both!

Perfectly Normal Childhood is heavy on the cardamom and cake batter. The sugar is wispy and sweetens the fluffy, vanilla marshmallow scent. It smells a bit funny on me but it might be because I hate cardamom. As it's drying, it feels like the spice note is getting fainter and is more well blended into the scent of cake batter. This is a great gourmand for cardamom lovers but I was hoping it would be more sugar and cake!

I'm usually very scared of milk scents but this one works! 

Ghost Milk smells mostly of vanilla cashmere and rich white chocolate. I get a bit of sticky honey and fluffy marshmallow but I don't really smell goat milk at all. Despite that, this scent is super creamy and sweet! When dry, this is when the goat's milk becomes more apparent. It adds like a "foggy" almost steamed element to the scent, it's warm and smooth.