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This scent is simply beautiful. It really does smell exactly like what the painting looks like. I get the rooibos fairly strongly, combined with non-dead leaves, and I don’t know how it’s possible but it really is the scent of fresh cut grass if you could make it golden instead of green. Absolutely stunning and I’m so glad I got a bottle.
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Everything about Meatball Jazz Hands was screaming at me to order it, so I did. It arrived today and I’m so happy I listened to it! Granted, I know it’s dealing with mail shock, but in the bottle is just gloriously warm. The ginger cider is making it presence known, and the rest just kinda hangs back. When I put on a drop it was initially a blast of ginger but after a few the labdanum and fig come forward. This scent is so me and I just want to lick my arm, even though it’s not really a gourmand. My only wish is that the chicken lady had made it onto the bottle artwork, but I do love that when I open my BPAL cabinet there’s a giant meatball staring back at me
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Beaver Moon: Blackberry and Tobacco Absolute
AbbyNormal replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
When I first put this on it was rich and deep and glorious. Then it shifted to a scented 80s plastic doll for about an hour or two. It gradually went back to rich and decadent, and much fainter, but the plastic ruined the possibility of upgrading to a full bottle for me. I wish it had stayed how it was when I first applied it. I may try a scent locket or something because it was initially amazing, it just didn’t play well with my skin chemistry. -
I got my decant of this yesterday and decided to give it a try today. In the imp it smells incredible, lightly spicy, and I can pick out the anise. The instant it touches my skin? Baby powder. I’m writing this right now in the throes of baby powder purgatory, desperately hoping it’ll shift so I don’t have to go scrub it off. I’m glad I only put on a small swipe. I keep trying to pick out any of the notes but it’s powder all the way down. Damn you skin chemistry!
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So far it’s very fall candle-ish, but I’m not mad at it. I do like it but it seems to be lacking a bit of oomph that I crave so I’ll have to see what I can layer it with. It is a very pumpkin spice scent with just a tiny hint of baked something. I keep huffing it because it honestly does smell delicious, but I do need to add a little bit of darkness to make it totally me.
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When I first put this on straight from the mail carrier it was an incredibly rich and spicy amazingness that I couldn’t stop huffing. Now after a few minutes it’s settled down and the rose has come out to play. I am an avowed rose hater but surprisingly I’m not mad at this. I’m curious to see how it behaves when it has a chance to recover from the mail shock.
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Granted, I just plucked this out of the mail carrier’s hands about 10 minutes ago, but this smells exactly as you’d expect, and the spice (mainly cinnamon) is much more prominent than I thought it would be. I know it still needs to settle from the mail shock but even so this is glorious! I’ll update after it has a chance to calm down a bit. Hopefully it doesn’t morph too much ????
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A few years ago I bought Pinched w/ Four Pumpkins and fell head over heels. I knew there was pretty much zero chance of ever being able to try the original Pinched but I adored it so much that I didn’t care. Thanks to a very generous forumite I now have a tester of the OG in my grubby little hands. I can see why it is so sought after! I put on the tiniest drop and it bloomed into a glorious tobacco with a touch of cinnamon and creaminess. I don’t get any coffee, and the woods are there but hanging out in the background. That said, and this might sound a bit blasphemous, but I actually prefer Pumpkins ? (probably just because it was the one I encountered first). But that doesn’t mean I won’t treasure every drop of Aces and be so grateful that I was given the opportunity to try it ?
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I have a large vase on my dresser and I just toss them in there as a cacophonous air freshener for the room
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I tacked an imp of this onto my last order, tried it once and immediately ordered a full size bottle. As far as I know I’ve only tried one other civet blend, Black Annis, and it doesn’t go poopy on me at all (or at least according to my sniffer). If it does smell like it to others they’re just gonna have to deal. I LOVE THIS. I adore red musk, and this is just rich and musky and everything I want to smell like. It kind of reminds me of Heartshow just a bit, even though the only thing they have in common is the red musk. I’m so happy this is a GC so I can get more when I inevitably run out from slathering.
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I am so glad I gave this a chance to recover from mail shock. When it first arrived I tried a small drop and it immediately smelled like poop. There was a pleasantness underneath it, but poop was definitely the forefront. The same thing happened with my Hatman from the same order. So I set them aside. Today I tried them again and there were zero signs of poop. The Autumn Folk is much brighter than I expected, almost a touch effervescent when first applied. The leaves are present but hanging back quite a bit, and it’s much sweeter than I thought it would be from the mead. There’s a touch of pumpkin and it reminds me of the pumpkin in Pinched w/ 4 Pumpkins (pumpkin is starting to not look like a word anymore). In fact, the longer I have it on the more it reminds me of Pinched, if you swapped out the coffee and cinnamon for leaves and mead. I’m very happy I went for a full sized bottle!
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My decant arrived today and I am in love! It’s similar to Haunt 2021, and while I’m not really familiar with cistus or orris root, the neroli is present and overall it’s shifted to something nearly aquatic. My brain is interpreting it as Haunt 2021 at the beach. I’m going to wait a day or two to see if this changes after going through the mail but I’m pretty sure I need a bottle of this.
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This arrived today and we’re in the middle of a 100+ heat wave but I couldn’t wait for this to rest. It’s everything I thought it would be!!! I have a bottle of Imp that is unbelievably dirty and sexy, and this is very similar but amped up even more. I can’t wait to see how this will be once it’s had a chance to settle for a bit. But so far I am IN LOVE
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Started on the smoky side and I didn’t think much of it. While I was making my coffee I kept getting whiffs of something amazing, yet familiar, sniffed my wrist and got a nose full of a gorgeous sweetness that reminds me a lot of the dry down of Haunt 2021. I have Haunt so I’m not sure I need a bottle of this one but it really is stunning after the smoke dissipates.
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I added this into my decant order as a last minute decision, thinking it sounded interesting but might not entirely be up my alley. I got my package yesterday and this one was by far my favorite of everything I sampled. I’ve already added it to my cart and am just waiting until I decide on a few weenies before I order a full bottle. I mainly get a tropical papaya/mango, but I do pick up a hint of tobacco and leather that fill in the gaps and make a very well rounded scent. I don’t know if it was somehow a trace of Dorian that didn’t wash out of my shirt or if this really does dry down to Dorian, but I slathered again earlier for science and should find out in a few hours if my skin chemistry really does morph this into almost an exact Dorian replica somehow. I will report back with my findings… **edit** a few hours later and this definitely dries down to something very Dorian adjacent. I don’t know how, but it’s incredible! **edit number 2** the weirdest thing, it’s Dorian on my chest, but nothing like Dorian on my arm. I may need to test more..: