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I knew I was gonna love this one, and I do. But it seems it's quite different every time I wear it! Yesterday it was all creamy vanilla, today there's more blackcurrant bud. Wet this opens up with vanilla, the softest kind of creamy vanilla, maybe accompanied with tiniest hint of sandalwood. Other notes appear while drying, but the tobacco is truly just a hint somewhere background. This is comforting, sweet and soft scent, truly beautiful. Creamy, quietly floral vanilla. This reminds me very much of some BPAL that I just can't get on my mind. It's not Kiseru - I deathmatched them yesterday and they were quite different vanillas. It might be Millarca?
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Oh, wow, this is gorgeous. At first, wet on the skin I get mostly sweet, yummy, delicious apple slices. Within minutes resins are getting stronger, but suddenly the clove emerges and steals the show. Completely dry this is beautiful, resiny clove scent with a hint of sweetness from the apples. This is going to age wonderfully and I guess The Crimson would be perfect in autumn as well as spring, even summer.
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Ooohh I can tell I love this one. This reminds me a lot of Pink Moon 2024, because at first this is mostly marshmallow and strawberries. Makes me want to eat my arm. Dry the cherry blossom is blooming and quite dominates the scene. If you like sweet, candy-like strawberry and cherry blossom, you're going to need this one. This feels very girly and pink, and will be perfect summer scent.
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This is an interesting one. Lily and orris root are the main players here, but I do get the lavender smoke and clove, too. Orris root along with lilies are always difficult ones on me and it tends to turn soapy on my skin, and this is not an exeption. I think I can't find amber or myrrh. I think the lavender smoke and clove are lovely in this, but lily and orris root are too much soap to my liking.
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Wet on skin this is very juicy and bright with white tea, plum and cherry blossom. After a while and dry the beeswax is most noticeable with a hint of fruitiness and tea. Beeswax tend to be quite honey-like on my skin, sweet but not so wax-y. This is a skin scent, there's not much throw. This is pretty scent.
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I've got two imps of Bastet, the first one being about five years old and the second about six months. I can tell they're the same perfume but dang, batch variation and aging is real. I remember when I got the older one, the first year it was mostly cherry-ish almond and saffron, damn loud cherry. But after that it got so beautifully soft, warm blend with creamy almond (no more cherry or marzipan), musk, myrrh, cardamom and lotus. The newer one is way different, even I get mostly same notes. Lotus is much louder in this and kinda bubblegummy. There's almond but it's not cherry-ish nor marzipan-like, and not yet creamy, but I wish the creaminess emerges with time passing. Amber is prominent instead of musk. Saffron, yes, myrrh, maybe? No cardamom in sight. I very much prefer the older imp but I do like the newer one, too. I'm sure time will do miracles to it but I guess it won't be as lovely as the older one, there's definitely that much batch variation. But I'm going to full size Bastet, that's for sure.
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Aasimar is very beautiful scent, and I was so eagerly waiting to get it when it was published. Cardamom is definitely on front at first, it's heavenly, vanilla sweetened cloud of cardamom when applied on skin. Moments after the white amber rises with a touch of incense and soon after that everything is wrapped with that silk note. I do find the orris root lurking backround, but this is mostly amber, vanilla silk and cardamom. Aasimar is quite light skin scent and perfect for everyday use. Ethereal, glowing and just so pretty. I'm going to try it combined with Celestial Aura hair gloss, I bet they work together well.
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I second Perversion! Looking at the notes I shouldn't care for it but it's lovely, dark and hot as hell. Vixen is another favorite of mine that I find deeply sensual. If you can wear red musk, Mme. Moriarty, Missfortune Teller from Carnaval Diabolique might be in theme. Currant and plum bring brightness in it but the perfume is definitely for seduction.
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I feel a bit shocked reading the reviews above, it's like I've got a whole different perfume that's pretty much exactly what the description says. I got a year old decant from a friend and I've never tried the original hair gloss. I get mostly bright, zingy ginger and oudh, and these two are dominating notes from wet phase to the complete drydown. Ginger is very loud. Amber is softening and rounding the ginger and the frank, sweetening the scent only a bit. On my skin this isn't faint at all and I can clearly detect it hours and hours after applying. I like this very much and I hope I could find a full bottle.
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Mary Shelley got me at "laudanum". I'm a huge fan of BPAL's deceased Laudanum perfume and I've treated my bottle like a treasure knowing I can never find a new bottle of it. I'm so happy I found Mary Shelley. Compared to Laudanum (nutmeg, sassafras, black poppy and myrrh) Mary Shelley is quite similar but more powdery, slightly sweeter and a little bit more feminine leaning. They are truly siblings, they both are medicinal, mysterious and licorice-like. In MS I get anis, ozone and definitely a hint of Victorian oriental perfume. I'm going to need a full bottle.
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2024 version. In the bottle and wet on skin this is like smelling chilly, wintery forest. Green, piney, woody and a bit cool minty. Dry this softens and sweetens a lot as ambers are taking space, turning the scent to the most beautiful evergreen winter wonderland. Ambers are definitely the dominating notes but they come along wonderfully with the piney woods and sage. Overall this is sweet amber and chilly woods with sage. Very beautiful.
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Joining the choir: this really feels like old BPAL GC perfume. What a joyful feeling. I blind bought The Kiss of the Sphinx mainly because I ADORE the painting, but the notes seemed intriguing as well. In the bottle and wet on skin I get strong whiff of black cherry but it fades literally in seconds, giving space to labdanum, smoked plum resins, musk and myrrh. Dry this reminds me a lot of The Wish (an incense of candied smoked fruits, Oman frankincense, red oud, labdanum absolute, sheer vanilla, patchouli, red musk seed, osmanthus, and datura accord), as they share resinous smoked fruits (I'm sure there's plum in The Wish), labdanum, pathouli and musk. I was a bit worried about the florals but I'm not actually getting any of the tuberose and only a hint of the iris. This is soft, resinous, musky and plummy scent, a bit dark and absolutely beautiful with quite a massive throw.
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Absolutely beautiful perfume. I've never tried Bordello but I've been willing to try it for a long long time, but it's nowhere to be found. I'm happy reading that Sugar Plum Snake reminds of it. In my opinion Sugar Plum Snake is a sister scent of Serpent in the Berries. Snake Oil is definitely noticeable with vanilla, musk and spices, a bit medicinal too. I love the medicinal twist, but need to mention that SPS is only a little bit medicinal. Patchouli is more prominent in plum snake than in berry snake. Plum is juicy and fruity, absolutely lovely. I love this.
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Ahhhh this is so good I want to bathe in it. I got my Death Adder last week so it's rested only a brief time but this is exactly what I hoped it to be. Snake Oil, roughed up with some dirty coconut and vetiver. Dry, a bit woody, musky, dark vanilla blend, addictively seducing. It reminds me of very well aged Snake Oil so I'm thrilled to wait how my fresh, baby Death Adder will age.
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At first I was going to pass this one, rose isn't my favorite notes but I do like it combined with vanilla. Then I read reviewers comparing this to Pink Snowballs, which is one of my most beloved rose scents, if not the best, so I decided to give Millarca a chance. Millarca does remind me of Pink Snowballs a lot but it's still different enough to allow myself to keep this. Especially as I don't have backup for PS. I get lovely chilly vanilla forward rose and I can find the jammy blackcurrant lurking in the background. This is beautiful, soft scent, definitely romantic but also secretly cool. Absolutely lovely.
