Weirdgirlpilled

SO MUCH LEATHER. I don't know that I like it. Snake oil is twisting around under it somewhere. I just kind of smell.... airport. 

Soft, warm, chai-y vanilla. There's a creaminess that I have come to associate with the lab's marshmallow note but is probably helped along by the goats milk. Soft, low throw but long weartime. 

Do you like dirt? Do you like leaves? Do you like these two things together? That's this. Imagine you just had sex with a very sophisticated goth older man (possibly a vampire, to second FloridaFledgling) in a very old crypt full of leaves and dust mites swirling through autumn air. There is no sweetness in this mix and the leaves actually lean a little greener than I originally thought they would. It's been a total standout in my weenie order so far. 

Weirdly i smell peach-rings as the afterkick. generally it’s just sweet candy. What it says on the tin! 

Yummy. I've got a fetish for cool vanilla. this is a gentle, cold vanilla with soft little trails of florals. Not powdery on me, but very ethereal. 

This is a melancholy, grey scent. it’s smooth and beautiful, very adult, very pretty, very alluring. the throw is good, the sillage too. it’s perfect for a day where i’m feeling empty inside despite the happy external circumstances. 

I don’t know why i never reviewed this! I have a tiny sample, and i don’t know if its age or the fact that it was decanted or what but i don’t think mine smells the same as everyone elses! On me this is just kind of lemony vanilla powder. Maybe i’m anosmic, but i generally love marshmallow scents from the lab so i don’t know. It’s not super creamy or marshmallowy, just kind of. vaguely sweet sugar smell :((

This is such a sadly weak scent. It seems like it would smell incredible if it were just a tad stronger. I get no tea, no crunchy leaf scent. Just a soft maple scent, like i spilled a little syrup on my hand an hour ago and washed it off but the tiny scent trails are lingering. So SAD!!!!!

Soft, pretty and wistful. A gentle scent that really encapsulates the painting. The silk accord is kind of effervescent, but the scent overall is not pitchy or harsh. The tea rose really fades quickly but the tea and silk stick around for about 4 ish hours at full strength and then really fade. This is a little girl’s antique doll- well loved and passed down through generations, in a little silk dress her great-grandmother hand sewed. 

GET THEE AWAY FROM ME SATAN!!!!!! Eugh something about this just smells like vomit and garbage on me. I think it’s the mix of vetiver and horseradish bc wtf. Actually made me gag and i had to scrub it- it could also be the orange flower which just goes dusty old smoker lady on me. EUGH. On my mom though, this is just kind of a grassy patch with some sharper bits. Weird!!!! 

I forgot to review this!!! for me this is just sweet milk bread. A Super yeasty super fluffy airy scent. 

I’m getting something entirely different than everyone else in this thread and I find that delightful!! I love this one- maybe not on me, but definitely still love it. I originally wrote this off as just tobacco and not super complex- but testing it again helped me change my mind on it. This is a smooth, warm, rich tobacco. I don’t get the vanilla until well into the wear, and even then it’s super faint. But it’s sexy and complex in a way only older men can be, it’s sophisticated with a little dark twist. Lasts a long time, and the people near me sniffed as i walked past and ask what i was wearing which i always count as a win!!!! 

On 5/1/2008 at 4:58 PM, VioletChaos said:

Bronze gears spin inside a polished wooden case, and an entire universe dances within.

Teakwood, oak, black vanilla, and tobacco.

Oh my goodness the goth swap idea is too cute!! It really IS too hot to be goth right now >_< It’s upsetting that so many people have become disillusioned with swaps because of people dropping the ball and not shipping their end- especially when it used to be such a huge part of bpal culture!! hopefully this year we can imbue some of that old magic into swapping again, fingers crossed! ??

Oh i would LOVE to participate in a swap!! I’ve never done one before so i may need a little extra explaining-to (but at least i can guarantee i’ll ship my part out ) but if the switchwitch swap ever gets up and running again count me in! 

stand on the beach and watch a huge storm roll in. remember how tiny you are in comparison to the universe and draw your cardigan closer to your skin, feel the hair on your neck stand on end. lightning on the horizon leaves spots in your vision. that’s the smell of this hair gloss- weirdly beachy (i think perhaps it’s the aquatics) and it really smells exactly like watching a storm roll in on the beach- something most Floridians have probably experienced. i gotta get a whole bottle of this stuff because it’s absolutely fantastic. 

Czernobog is the smell of rot. It’s a headless deer decaying in the forest. You slink behind a large pine tree and poke your head around the other side- just to watch the deer stand up and prance away. This is seriously pine-y upon the opening, and the musks come together just to remind me of rot and decay. It smells of death to me, something sick and twisted. 

Hmmm. Hollywood babylon's mother. Lots of cherry and blackcurrant on me, the wood is kind of lurking sinisterly in the background. 

 Man oh man oh man. I was expecting this to be my new favorite and signature scent and i was RIGHT. This is one of the sexiest things i’ve ever smelled- an initial warm hug of lemony tea and vanilla on skin, sweet and delicate, then it just blooms into a sugared musk with a tiny bit of… lavender? pine? something inviting and masculine. All of the elements are so perfectly balanced, and the vanilla tea aspect is subdued enough upon dry down that anyone of any gender or non-gender could pull this off easily. This scent makes my ovaries explode. It’s like lingerie hidden under a soft cashmere sweater. Edit to add: I think if a man were to wear this I would go feral. 

Ok i love this one so so terribly much. This might sound weird but it smells of that (horribly misogynistic) song Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry from the 2000’s. It’s very sweet and fruity- I love the lab’s red musk note. It plays so nicely with my skin, and the cotton candy grounds it in the sweet fruity realm. So So nice.

Wowowowoww this is a perfect little fall scent. I put it on and immediately thought that it would be perfect for fall? really feels like something that would have been released with the weenies. my skin really holds onto the patchouli, but the praline adds such a pretty sweetness to it!!

2009 Version! This one is such a weirdly summery scent??? It’s so SO coconutty that it weirdly reminds me of… pina coladas? I love the lab’s mint note, and I do get a lot of it thankfully. I get weirdly intermittent whiffs of cocoa and rum, then the coconut comes back and whacks me flat on my back, then the mint reappears, then the rum, then the cocoa! It really flits between scents, and it’s a very warm n snuggly scent on me. I’m super happy I snagged this!!

Ooooo I love this thread! Of all the things I’ve sampled with marshmallow in it, I’ve noticed a huge similarity. Stekkjarstaur, vanilla bean marsh & benzoin, rope pulley, fudge marshmallow from this year’s lupers. They all seem to have the same marshmallow base. I also weirdly detect that marshmallow scent in some non- marshmallow scents? 

I am so confused. my skin completely eats this?? I have to press my face right up next to the swatch and even still i smell barely anything? It has a weird undertone that was also in Black Ice 2013 but it has no other scent to it. weird 

edit: myrrh decides it would poke only ITS head out so thats what i smell of now. just myrrh. 

I was gifted a very generous and lovely decant, and Fell. In. LOVE! I am a huge foody, but oh my god everything about this is incredible. Strawberry, powdery marshmallow, and the cream doesn’t go all chees-y or sour on me, it just settles into the background. This is such a sweet, lighthearted scent that I am grateful to have found a fullsize of! 

Ok to preface: my bottle is 15 years aged. I had to let it rest a bit because the initial whiff was play-doh-y, and it was play-doh-y on my skin too. But trying it a week rested- oh my god. This scent is multi-orgasmic for me. I knew I loved most snake oil blends but the 2008 iteration?? Jesus. It’s like the coziest, warmest, sexiest hot chocolate scent ever. Take hot chocolate and add super aged, slinky, spicy snake oil, and combine them. The throw on me is huge and so is the longevity! My mom, who normally never comments on my ‘fumes unless she HATES or LOVES them sniffed me and said “oh WOW! That’s so pretty” So I think this ones a winner. I’ll covet it forever.