Geminirubyshoes
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These Hundred Acre wood perfumes are going to slay my heart. They are achingly beautiful and yet another shining testament to Beth’s artistry as a perfumer. Our sweet little stuffed Donkey SMELLS like his color scheme. So many soft greys, pinks & purples it is honestly difficult to decipher what is what. There is a coolness which I am guessing is the rain soaked moss but makes me remember holding hands with my childhood best friend while we splashed in puddles in my driveway many years ago. Gloomily, Gloomily is a perfume of grey sighs and a lavender smile from one corner of the mouth. The Donkeys’ Tail is also extremely beautiful and I feel like I don’t have the vocabulary at this point to accurately describe how beautiful it is. I am sure someone else will do a better job talking about it!
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This is very much for the rose lovers! I put a tiny dab on my arm (elbow nook) and now my entire sleeve smells like bulgarian rose and roasted coffee beans. Like if you put a fresh rose into a bag of coffee beans, sealed it up for awhile and then opened the bag, that’s what it’s like.
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This is the Christmas sister of my darling, beloved precious Fearful Pleasure from the 2008 Sleepy Hollow series. To save you from looking that one up, Fearful Pleasure is “Dried orange peels floating in simmering cider, roasted apples, smoldering firewood, chimney smoke, sassafras beer, warm hawthorn wood, and oakmoss.” Christmasween has a similar vibe with the candied orange peel, smoked myrrh, hearthwood and mulled cider but it’s sweeter and glowy-er (glowier?). The balsam resin & warm beeswax notes are not super forward but they can be detected on the drydown. This is absolutely fuckin’ MAGICAL and I am smitten. Put on a flannel nightgown, slather on some Christmasween and sit in front of your yule tree while drinking a hot beverage a burning a halloween candle in the room.
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THE LAST UNICORN The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea. Frosty lilac petals, iris pallida root, orris, violet leaf, white chocolate, coconut, wild lettuce, white sandalwood, and oakmoss. This is definitely a perfume befitting The Last Unicorn. Smelling it in the bottle, the oil smells like a garden..like heads of lettuce nestled in the dirt. There is a freshness, airy and a little sweet also. Upon first application, I get the frosty lilac note. Lilac is a scent that makes me sad for some reason but I think it's appropriate for The Last Unicorn. She is a lonely creature but steadfast and determined at the same time and I think lilac is evocative of that.I can smell the coconut underneath there too. As it sits on me I am enveloped in a soft haze of delicate smells all mingled together. It's hard to pick the other notes out, everything blends together so well. I know there was a concern about white chocolate as a make it or break it note for some, but I can't detect any. Oh wait, there's the sandalwood. This is definitely another scent that makes me reminisce about my childhood. This blend is soft, innocent, fantasy and reality all at once. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
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Straight out of the bottle I get the sweet, roasted apple note with the warmth of the toffee. Once I put it on the woodsmoke comes out but it is a gentle waft not anything overpowering. There is almost a cool night air element too and the roasted apples & toffee are still there on the drydown. It’s really lovely and I’ve worn it a lot the last few days. I don’t know what it is about all the HM perfumes but they just have this extra air of specialness to them…like the subtle coziness of a favorite sweater. Every one I have worn is like that 🖤
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Idk how there are not more reviews for this! When I saw Puddin’ rave about it I knew I needed to have it. This is definitely very snuggly and comforting, like wearing your SO’s favorite hoody or being wrapped in a soft blanket while sitting in a warm kitchen. I’ve been wearing it a lot for bedtime. I feel like the tea stained vanilla & sandalwood are the most detectable notes if I had to get technical about it.
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For those of you who have tried (as well as covet & cherish) Very Pink Suprise Cake, you should get this one too so you can use it as an alternate. Wet Red Velvet cupcake mix with light strawberry buttercream frosting on the drydown. Reminds me how the Dolly Parton strawberry cake mix smells and I’m a fan!
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Hungry Ghost Moon: Oven-Warm Pizza Crust and Oregano
Geminirubyshoes replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
My review is not as in depth as the one above but holy shit, I’ve never worn a savory perfume in my life and I’m obsessed with this. It doesn’t change on the skin, it’s literally warm chewy/crusty pizza crust brushed with olive oil and oregano. It’s got that salty slightly yeasty tang with the oregano spice coming through. My dog keeps trying to lick my wrist. If it’s wrong to be laying in bed smelling like pizza crust perfume, I never want to be right. -
La Dame Aux Pamplemousses
Geminirubyshoes replied to doomsday_disco's topic in The Edward Gorey House
I love this SO MUCH!!! While the Vanilla Extract perfume was one I knew I would love, I was unsure about this. I do adore a good marshmallow but really don’t have much luck with citrus notes unless it’s just the right lemon or King Manadrin. Straight sniff from the bottle is primarily sugary grapefruit which smells delightful. On my skin the grapefruit is lively and still sweet but about 10 minutes later the grapefruit is basically gone and instead there is the a shimmering cloud of spun sugar marshmallow, no burnt element here! It’s youthful and uplifting. This would also be a great scent to use for kids just getting into BPAL 💜 -
This is so stunningly beautiful it almost makes me a little teary eyed. In the bottle rich, soft sweet pea with the creaminess of the almond milk note. Upon the skin the white sandalwood appears to give this the dryness reminiscent of the California sunshine in it’s unscarred form. Those of that love Mouse’s Long & Sad Tale will most likely love this. I This is a slow blink of happiness in a bottle. I wish I could be more descriptive but I’m no longer good at that.
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Wow, no reviews yet! The description for this was too beautiful for me to pass it up plus all the notes are things I like. Hazy red beams of light casting over velvet couches and high backed chairs. The warmth of melted beeswax dripping into the cognac and the mineralic essence of the quartz sphere. This is gorgeous in every phase.
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It’s the Ruby Chocolate from Millennial Pink with musky vanilla sweetness! I don’t really detect any clove which is surprising as clove tends to be pretty prominent no matter what it gets used in. I agree that there is a bit of a tartness to the ruby chocolate, it’s really interesting and different from anything else that I have! I really love that the label looks like the old style that the Trading Post used to do. The coin is super cool also ❤️
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I am surprisingly in love with this. I don’t have a lot of frankincense perfume so this will have a nice spot in my collection. The frankincense has a slight lemony undertone which is really nice. Myrrh is always a favorite for me as I find it to be very grounding. The warm wooden note is the same thing that I enjoy with Carved Wooden Bakery. It’s churchy but pretty!
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Fiery cinnamon buttered rum!!! Creamy Snake Oil goodness! I’m obsessed ?
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This is as wonderful as I hoped it would be. Instantly turns my house into a hazy den of blissful Snake Oil & Dorian with just a hint of dirt. It’s barely there though and that’s fine.
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Just starting by saying this is not normally my kind of scent but I love the label and am intrigued… In the bottle it smells like Yipes Stripes fruit gum to me. When I first apply it it’s a mango papaya explosion tampered down by the green notes of the bamboo and banana leaf. It’s giving Golden Girls interior decorator vibes… This is bright, refreshing and fun! I think I do detect the hibiscus also. Any time I see the word ectoplasm all I can think about is Slimer from Ghostbusters and how HI-C had the ecto-cooler drink which was also green and honestly might have even kind of smelled like this…Ah the marvel of fragrance!
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Hi, yes I am obsessed with this so I need to tell you why. Coconut Cake was the cake my mom used to make for my birthday every year when I was little. Probably until I turned 10 I had coconut cake. The smell and taste of that coconut is forever burned into my brain and I treasure that memory. Snake Oil being one of my favorite BPAL’s (I know, me and almost everyone else ?), when I saw this listed I immediately bought 2 bottles. I should probably buy 6 more. It’s the rich coconut frosting scent from my childhood birthday memories with the spicy heady vanilla and exotic-ness of Snake Oil. The drydown gets a bit more cakier but there’s not really any deviation from what it is. Just pure, hoarde worthy goodness that also supports an extremely important cause. If you love coconut and you love Snake Oil, your wallet isn’t going to be ok
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At long last, the amber perfume of my dreams!!! Warm, rich golden amber with that hazy wafting effect. Very evocative of its name. Slowly drying down into a sweet dreamy stage of amber. Damn, this is wonderful!
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To me, this one is like a puddle of They Shut Me Up in Prose as a warm soft rain mists itself over it . I don’t wear anything with a moss not enough to really pick it out but it’s eleven thousand degrees in Vermont today and this is making me feel better about it.
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LILITH'S TEA PARTY Since Lilith was about a year and a half old, she has loved having tea parties. We each get a small plate of invisible cookies, a cup of invisible tea (sometimes iced, always with cream and honey), and one special item, personalized to each grownup: Lilith always gives Ted a wooden box of play waffles, I get a wooden box of frozen vegetables, and Uncle Brian gets loaded down with wooden fruits and extra tea spoons. Sometimes we have tea in the living room, sometimes we have it in the garden. Sometimes tea lasts for five minutes, and sometimes tea goes on for hours. When we have tea, Lilith is always a gracious, accommodating hostess, and she always has a story to tell. Imaginary génoise cakes, imaginary trifle (with imaginary rosewater, imaginary Madeira and imaginary strawberries), imaginary macaroons, and imaginary Devonshire tea served in an imaginary garden surrounded by one-thousand imaginary flowers. Lilith's Tea Party is definately a child's tea party time in a bottle. Upon opening the bottle I was enveloped in the smell of strawberries and cream with what smells to me like biscuits and a tea note similar to the tea note in Dorian. Upon the skin, the tea note is stronger and takes the sweetness out of the strawberries. I've had this on for about 15 minutes now and it's creamy, light and just a little bit sweet. I think the florals are starting to bloom in the ultimate drydown. This is so nostalgic to me of playing dressup with my friends in my backyard when I was little. It's a very lighthearted, happy smell and I am so grateful that Beth shares these special scents with us.
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Oh my lordt, this is SPECTACULAR! If you love Behind the Veils, Berry Moon or any juicy/fruity wine types, you will love this. The dried cherries and blackberry wine are the first notes that hit me when I put this on but the drydown is amazing spicy-rose frankincense. It’s a very red scent. I get zero despair but all the lush.
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Honestly, none of the notes listed in here are my usual bag (sometimes lavender and rose separately but never together) except coconut but I really wanted to try it. In the bottle it’s a bomb of blueberry & lavender but on the skin I am getting allll the lavender and rose and not so much blueberry anyone. I feel like the coconut husk helps to “dry it out) so it’s like dried lavender and rose instead of wet medicinal lavender. It reminds me of this little black velvet dream pillow I had when I was a teenager that definitely had dried lavender and some other herbs in it. It’s really pretty and intresting.
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Absolutely gorgeous. I agree with the review that compared this to the carnation note of Alice just without the milkyness. Instead it’s mixed with a seductive waft of spicy Snake Oil goodness. If all you smell in the bottle is the spices, put it on and let it bloom on the skin.
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I really didn’t know what poppers actually were other than a drug that used to be popular. I had to google it ? This smells EXACTLY like the inside of a VCR. Like when you take a videotape out and the tape is warm and you can smell the electric innards of the VCR. I’m so intrigued but also scared to put it on.. Ok on the skin it smells dusty and almost flammable. It’s strong too. I might be getting a leathery vibe to an extent. I don’t know that I would ever wear this on a regular basis but it’s so interesting!
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This is a BLAST of honeydew melon that is like eating breakfast in a tropical land (not that I now what that’s like) . It’s so sunny and perfect! I have never been a melon scent person in my life but I guess that changes today. The dry down is where the sponge cake and whipped cream come in. This is utterly delightful and I’m shocked there are no other reviews yet.