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Gingerbread, Honey Dust, & Vanilla Bean

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This was a sweet one to test at lunacy. Gourmand, but not cake. It dies down to a lot of honey, so you have to be a honey lover like I am. However, I amped Cinnamon in this. I sometimes wonder if I just amp every sort of spice and think it’s cinnamon but I know it wasn’t ginger. The vanilla was a nice addition here and the lab used it beautifully in all the yules. All of the vanilla was foodie that I smelled, and a foodie cream at that. Yum! However, if you also amp cinnamon' gingerbread candy floss is the way to go. It was not spice dominant at all. 

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Adorable! My exact words upon sniffing: "This is really cute." Light, sweet, and nicely gingerbread cookie-ish with a very happy dusting of vanilla and soft honey. I always have to sniff a honey note to know if it is a "kind" one to my nose, since sometimes it can shoot up like a spike right to my sinuses and other times it's lovely. This one is lovely. If I didn't have plenty of gingerbread already, this might be a contender. It's so nicely rounded, with no one note dominating. There is definitely cinnamon in here, but it's in harmony with everything else. I think for me, I like the more unusual gingerbread blends, but I can thoroughly recommend this one to a more traditional sweets lover.

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Honey, cream, and a light gingerbread cookie. I get mainly gingerbread honey and dollops of cream. Good throw and wear length.

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I'm not a big honey fan, but I'm liking this. Mostly gingerbread and honey. The honey (and the vanilla bean I think) deepens the gingerbread spices. Smells like a more spicy gingerbread house, and dare I suggest, almost more sophisticated, while still being a true gingerbread scent.

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Origin:

5mL from the Lab

 

Preconceived notions:

 

There's a small part of me that's wondering why I ordered this...what I'm hoping to accomplish here.  I love the Lab's gingerbread scents (Gingerbread Sin is a particular favorite) and I like vanilla bean just fine.  Honey is something I'm indifferent to for the most part, but I'm curious about the "honey dust" here.  I've seen/tasted/smelled something with a similar name before, but I'm not sure if that's what I should be expecting here.  Honestly, I guess I'm just sort of expecting to get extra sweet gingerbread, now that I'm really thinking about it. :mellow:

First sniff:

When I got this fresh in the mail, it was like someone took Gingerbread Poppet and toned down the intense spiciness.  That was it.  No honey that I could smell and a slight sweetness from the vanilla bean if anything.  After letting it set, the honey and vanilla bean do come out more, but the "toned-down Gingerbread Poppet" vibe I was getting continues.

Wet on skin:

Starting to get some honey here, but it's not like the "honey dust" I encountered in the past.  It's like regular honey: syrup.  But it's mostly gingerbread still.

Dry down:

The honey syrup turned into honey dust!  Depending on how heavily I applied this (some areas got more than others), I got almost a good balance between all three notes (though the vanilla bean sort of camouflaged itself a little bit behind the other two notes, adding a little sweetness to each without really standing out as vanilla) or nothing but a very faint hint of honey dust.  This one needs to be applied heavier than a lot of my other scents, but I wouldn't call it a truly light scent, either.  It didn't hang around particularly great, but it didn't entirely disappear, either.

The bottom line:

 

I like this.  I do.  But I have to seriously contemplate whether my collection has a place for a(n essentially) "sweetened" gingerbread scent when I already have a plain gingerbread scent and a couple others that are more complex.  I don't have any sweet single notes to layer over my others so for now it stays, I think.  TIme will tell if it's a long-term relationship.
 

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