milo

You would definitely know you have a night visitor here, it is stroooong.  In the imp, I get an even mixture of fruit and sandalwood, but on the skin the peach pretty much rules the show.  Omg it’s so loud and happy, but not a realistic peach at all, more like peach cocktail that is 10% real juice.  As I’m typing, the peach is fading somewhat, but it’s still in my face.😆

A little goes a long way with this one.  I looked prior and noticed lemon and mint, so I thought it wouldn’t be strong.  It doesn’t smell like lemon, so it really is the blossom here.  So strong, I almost scrubbed it off.  In the end, I’m getting honey honey honey and mint.  It is reminding me of Gennivre, but missing the tea element.  It’s ok, but not really my thing.

Grape hubba bubba, with an extra jolt of sugar at first.  Fades to a dusty, sweet blueberry, but it’s not as good as it sounds.  It’s a bit sickly sweet and fake fruity.

Fresh cucumber, very ‘green ‘ blend, as mentioned above.  It kind of reminds me of a melon liqueur, or a fresh youthful, classy blend.  This is not your clubbing blend, but rather drinks at The Empress.

This is all about the plum.  Combined with loud florals this reads as a 70’s fruity floral to me.  I love it because it reminds me of my mom.  This is something she would have liked.🥲💕💕

I don’t normally go for smoke blends, but this one has just a touch along with a gorgeous beeswax and honey.  This really smells authentic, very much like when my mom kept bees and she would lift these huge slats of honey filled beeswax, and the smoke from working around the bees lingered.  Lovely, I may track more down.

Very reminiscent of mainstream 80’s unisex cologne.  Fresh, clean, I wish I got the sweet pea, it may have sweetened this blend up for me.  I miss the ocean, but it really doesn’t smell like it to me.  I may put this in my non scented cleaners, I wouldn’t mind my house scented like this.

Tart strawberries, not getting any cream here or honey.  I’m getting the dreaded dust note that pops up for me, and I know the labs strawberry can be the culprit, or maybe it’s the honey dust.  At any rate, it’s not working for me.

Pretty amazing stuff.  I’m getting mostly pepper throughout stages, but other notes dance in and out.  First off, kind of masculine, maybe the oud, but still holding a creamy sweetness.  Later on really peppery, but there’s the vanilla, bringing it all together.  It’s a bit too masculine for me, but I’d love to smell it on a guy.

Fizzy citrus of the mandarin variety.  I’m not sure why some bpal blends do this, but they go dusty on me.  This one ends up to be orange dust.  Luckily it fades fast.

Ah darn, I loved this one wet, a creamy lemon with light musk.  As it dried, the amber pretty much took over, with just a touch of lemon.  Which is fine, but I have lots of amber blends, and this one isn’t different enough to warrant a full size bottle.

Bright, sweet floral, really cheery at first.  Definitely sweet pea is dominant at this point.  It fades to a slightly sour, white floral.  I wish it stayed like the early stages, it is sour and rather metallic now.  

This blend is reading white musk to me, which is bad news, as I find it too perfumey.  I did get a bit of pear at the beginning, but now it’s just all about the aggressive little musk🙄

At first, this is all about the cacao. I’m not sure why, but the blend smells kind of fruity to me.  It stays kind of a mixed up fruity chocolate blend, but hours later, in the middle of the night twelve plus hours after I applied, it is a lovely sweet, incense red musk.  I love it now, but it takes too flippin long to get there.😆

I picked up my decant of the 2022 version, expecting to toss it aside, as I still have 1.5 bottles of original and 2012 version I think.  Took one stiff, and though ‘wow, this is pretty different’, and for the better, which I don’t know how it’s even possible.  My other WFs are definitely honey heavy, this one is lighter, fresher, more incense, I guess more snake oil heavy.  I get a teeny bit of some kind of floral, but maybe that’s the variety of honey.  This is soooo amazing, it may be shooting up to my top ten, and I’m gonna run over to swaps and see if anyone wants an old for new.💕💕💕💕💕🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

Beautiful, soft cool floral.  Like a fancy lotion in a high end remote hotel that you have to pay through the nose to stay at😖. Sophisticated, lovely.  I think an Angel could smell like this.  Tulip is the main player, which is kind of rare, but all the other notes just raise her up.  Nothing like I’ve ever smelled before 💕💕💕

I have two other bottles of Smut, and absolutely love it.  My 2008 has aged into a thing of loveliness, mostly a dark, musky fruit, very snake charmer ish.  This years incarnation is more on the dark musk side, barely any fruit that I can detect.  Still, it is awesome, I would dare to say a guy could pull this one off.

Looking at the notes, I should love this, but I don’t.    I’m going to blame it on the cake.  It’s like a stale Twinkie with fake cream inside, with a generic lemon candy smushed in a bag nearby with grammas sickly sweet floral.  Not to say I’m sure someone would love to get their hands on a Twinkie (try eBay), and this may be a skin chemistry thing, or it needs to come into its own.  Oh well, there are so many other lovelies that work on me, so a miss should be expected once in awhile.

Luperci 2022

Very strong on wet, with patch and musk.  It’s a bit too much for me, so I washed some off. Still strong, masculine, mostly dark musk.  I wish I was getting the honey, it would sweeten it up for me.

Wow first, it’s been awhile since I’ve had that pleasure 😀. Right off, I’m getting a beachy coconut with a bit of floral.  It dries to a fresh oak moss blend with a bit of orris. Very fresh and clean smelling, I always get that vibe from oakmoss.  Nice, I’ll probably use up the decant at some point in time.  It lasts surprisingly long for a soft scent.

Roses!  And they’re sweet, which is a good thing.  I’m not getting much else, but that’s ok, maybe the other notes will pop out.  Looking back in the description, I see a “fleur de lait”, which I’m not to sure if it’s an actual flower or just a perfume bouquet .  It really does remind me of a Milk Rose bath my mom bought back in the eighties when we were kids.  It’s a nice reminder of her💕💕

Definite floral here, a bit sharp.  Orchid, poppies and incense mainly.   I’m really picky about the florals I wear.  I like them on the sweet gourmand side, and this just doesn’t fit.

I love orange scents, and this one is heavy on the mandarin at first.  It fades into soapy territory on me, but I’m weird and like that, like an orange soap.  Nothing else really, but I’m sure the other notes are contributing somehow.

I have almost used up my decant😳. I really love this, it is fresh, unusual and fun.  The combination of the notes in their right proportions make this a totally unique perfume that I have not smelled anything like before.  It’s mostly cherry and chocolate mint, I think, but it’s hard to tell.  I am a fan of pretty much all the notes, so I guess that’s why this is such a hit.  I’m wondering how I can obtain a bottle now.🤗💕💕💕

Very fresh, spa like at first.  After a bit, like a high end mens cologne, which I’m assuming is the bamboo and possibly the lacquer.  This is gender neutral, leaning on masculine, so I probably wouldn’t wear it again, but nice to try!