wilhelmscream
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In the bottle: Leather and buttermilk 🙃 On the skin: I really want to like this! An interesting combination of notes I usually enjoy. But even after first applying it, it's so intensely black leather and buttermilk on me that I can't get to the other notes. Gonna let that sit and re-examine in 5... (as I'm sitting here though, I absolutely smell molasses wafting up from my arm) Okay, going back in! I smell dead leaves! I smell the spicy cardamom and crisp bergamot. I smell moss. There is a hint of vanilla and molasses. The leather is still very strong, but the fact that it's relented even that much to let the other notes come through is really appreciated. And the leather has changed in that time from smelling brand freakin' new to softer, broken in. Like a beloved pair of Doc Martens that have survived every festive autumnal outing. (20+ minutes of wear) Okay, I do actually love it! What a relief!
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In the bottle: B-A-N-A-N-A-S On the skin: Well, oddly enough I do immediately detect the sheer musk and evaporated milk. It morphs the banana smell into actual perfume territory instead of banana Laffy Taffy explosion. I guess I do smell something a little nutty in there too. I'm amping the musk note in a way that has snuffed out all the other notes. I don't even smell the banana anymore. It smells like a chic, classic *perfume*.
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In the bottle: I smell tea. A bit of dry coconut. Dusty linens. On the skin: Well first I googled "bitumen" -- basically a sticky black pitch. And I do get that kinda sticky tar resin note in here! More of the same of what I was getting in the bottle, just a little easier to pick apart. Sweet, dry, dusty. Crumbly, faded incense and tea.
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In the bottle: Hmm... Okay I smell the rice milk... and something mossy. Deep, dark and earthy. On the skin: I'm really getting the moss, hemp and sandalwood, all through a thick rice-milk haze. It smells really funky (complimentary) and is probably my favorite out of the summerween lineup. I swear it smells almost like mushrooms. It's got a classic BPAL zombie fragrance kind of vibe.
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In the bottle: Marshmallow-y goat's milk and smooth white chocolate. On the skin: Heavenly! A big white chocolate and vanilla cashmere hug on a floofy marshmallow cloud. Definitely get the waffle cone too. This seems to be the most "classic ice cream shop(pe)" out of all of them so far!
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In the bottle: It's like... floral, herbal... milk? On the skin: Definitely one you need to try on in order to really get any sense of what's going on with all these notes together. I'm getting the goat milk, the sweetness of the red currant and honey, the mandrake root and ambrette seed give it give it a texture, definitely picking up on the malted barley... but... the incense smoke is really amping on me! ...Malted barley and incense smoke. That's kind of where it's hanging out now...
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In the bottle: Mmm rich, spicy chocolate with a bubblegum undercurrent. On the skin: Okay at first, it's like a reverse description of the above -- bubblegum with an undercurrent of rich, spicy chocolate. I don't know what it is, but that bubblegum note always goes crazy on me when first applied and then usually vanishes within minutes (this is to be said of any of our fragrances with that note for me, which sucks because I always love the bubblegum note. Here in an instant! Gone in a flash!) After about 10 minutes, it's settled into clove-y dark chocolate. A bit of a tang from the goat's milk. I can't smell the bubblegum at all anymore!
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Rose Moon: White Rose Petals and Cream
wilhelmscream replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This kinda smells like a Barbie to me. Not a specific Barbie, mind you, rather the spirit of the thing. A sort of dimple-cheeked, smiling innocence to it all. Smooth cream and white rose. It's heavenly. -
In the bottle: Green woods, cool air, sage. Definitely pick up the leather note. On the skin: Soft leather and sage. A faded bit of perfume in the distance. Clean, creamy. Overall: While this isn't really the kind of perfume I'd normally go for, it does something for me. It gives me a foggy memory of some bar of soap or shampoo... something vaguely, wistfully nostalgic.
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In the bottle: light, clean, cool, and just a bit of clove. On the skin: A battle between good and evil, light and dark. The clean, deceptive facade of white musk, iris and frankincense softens the dark simmering heart of wood, clove and incense smoke. Overall: Soft, pale cologne over dark, spicy incense. Subtle. Charming.
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In the bottle: Really intense in the bottle! Very leathery and sweaty. Obviously one of those that will only reveal itself on the skin. On the skin: Leather! The salty ambergris. I'm getting the greasepaint and orris. Definitely a kind of nose texture from the velvet. A rowdy rockstar fragrance that does manage to remain rather dignified. It's interesting, because about ten minutes later, everything has really softened. It's all still there, but there's a subtlety to it, it's not a sweaty leather attack. A sort of post-concert malaise, too wired to sleep but too exhausted to do anything else.
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In the bottle: Hard to detect any specific note. More that you activate another mood layer which each inhale. It's warm and sweet, it's musky and woody, it's smoky and cold, it shifts and it shimmers in the darkness. On the skin: At first, I pick up on the cognac and brandy, and the leather and stone. Faded, stale incense smoke and wood begin to show. The lupine and crystalline musks work together, creating something both dark and luminiscent. Overall: I mean, that's Lestat. Intoxicating and mysterious, still hard to pin down a specific note, it's just an AURA.
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Vampire DJ of Some Renown
wilhelmscream replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat
First impressions, it has a very "fog machine and stale pack of cloves" smell, mixed with traces of the last swig of rum, faded ambery perfume and incense-soaked velvet curtains against stone. So gorgeously atmospheric and distinct. A goth club in a bottle! -
Butterscotch Bitch
wilhelmscream replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat
A boozy, smoky, spicy butterscotch abyss! Much like Black Licorice, this scent has unearthed a love for butterscotch that I didn't know existed. -
Overall, it reminds me so much of New Orleans and like all the trips I've had there put into a tiny bottle. It's so beautiful. I went to one of the oldest perfume shops in the US (referenced in Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume) and smelled their variations on vetiver and bay rum perfumes, and bought a vetiver soap that I kept in the bathroom cabinet for years before finally using it. Every inhale brings a different snapshot to my mind. The magnolia blossoms wafting in from the heavy summer breezes. The bone-vibrating call of the cicadas hiding in throughout the trees. The constant cups of Cafe du Monde accompanying my days. Listening to Tom Waits in the park. I smell cigar smoke from altar offerings, incense smoke wandering out of occult shops. That coppery, spicy blood!* *my trips to New Orleans contained no blood.