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Raspberry Punch with Cake Crumbs
splendidissima replied to doomsday_disco's topic in The Edward Gorey House
This is the second scent I picked up from the Gorey collection, and while La Dame is my favorite (so good!) this is also very good, and I'm glad I got it! It goes on as primarily raspberry punch - the raspberry is at the forefront, but there're clearly other fruit notes too, the elderberry and lemon. I don't really get the gin, unless that's giving it a slight effervescent quality? It's not boozy at all. It's delightfully bright and fruity. After a few minutes, there's the cake note - it is definitely a sweet baked good, and a somewhat airy one, like a white cake or angel-food cake (not a yellow cake or any sort of heavy cake at all). It's a sugary, fluffy, baked good note. I have actually found myself reaching for this more than once after I get home from a long day of teaching + office hours - I'm kind of hoarding La Dame (mmm...) but I really like this Raspberry Punch Cake; it makes me smile, and it's both bright and fruity, and also cozy and comforting: berries + light sweet baking. -
La Dame Aux Pamplemousses
splendidissima replied to doomsday_disco's topic in The Edward Gorey House
I love this a RIDICULOUS amount. I'm considering a second bottle. It is primarily a big, sweet, vanilla-creamy, warm marshmallow - I agree with everyone who says it's got a 'warm' note, like some sort of magic being captured, a perfectly gooey stretchy (not burnt or toasty, just liquid) marshmallow. But then there's this bright grapefruit citrus spike - not sour, but...*just* enough tartness, like a little pink-yellow sunshine-stripe, to cut the narrowest edge off the sweetness so it's back from the death-by-sweet brink and instead absolutely beautiful. -
Eep, am I first? Oh gosh... I actually really like this one - but I do like gourmands and bakery scents, so, I was pretty sure I would! It opens with a burst of the Lab's white chocolate - it is distinctly the white chocolate, that sweeter creamier thicker almost-artificial (I mean that in a good way, if that makes sense? like...you know how a bar of white chocolate smells? it's exactly that!) scent. And then this lovely baked-goods note comes in, after a few minutes - it actually makes me think of oatmeal cookies, which I think is the effect of macadamia nut + baked goods? This note isn't actually super-sweet - I think that's why I'm thinking oatmeal, nuts, porridge, a big thick golden fluffy thing. This balances really well with the white chocolate note! The only downside is that it makes me want to bake white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies, and eat them all!
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I was making an order and couldn't resist, as a medievalist... The leather goes on STRONG on me - it's loud. It is more in the brown, warm, worn-in leather style, versus black, I think. For the first few minutes that's all I can smell. And then...the leather doesn't go away, but something I think is the Lab's paper note, especially the sort of aged paper, comes out - like a dry, er, papery (sorry! I can't think of a better adjective!) vanilla, like sniffing the pages of a very old book. I happen to like that, so yay! The leather is still there but it's more complex now. I cautiously like it...it's not my usual wheelhouse, but I'm not mad at it. I may try it on the Awesome Husband - I might like it better on a partner than on me specifically? I think on me it leans...not masculine necessarily but a little more rugged than I like as a 'me' scent, more like...an adventurer-archaeologist sort of person wearing a battered leather jacket has shown up in your library to search through antique books, and they're super-hot, and you're into it, but also they're pulling all these old books off the shelves and flipping through pages, and those scents of old bindings and old paper and sun-warmed scuffed leather and a shaft of sunlight is filling up all your senses.
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This is very pretty - a creamy, lightly sweet rose. It is more rose than anything else on me, but pink rose + soft sweet (ish - not overly) milk. I like rose when it's got a sweet or gourmand component, so I do like this overall. I don't get tea at all, but that's okay. It'll be pretty for teaching or conferences, I think: the review that said 'calm' feels accurate to me, nothing dramatic, just a nice soft pink creamy rose.
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Bright bold orange! It does make me smile. It's not really very sweet, but it is like orange zest and peel and also walking through a citrus grove - outdoorsy and unabashed. Fantastic for spring and summer and sunshine, or when you just want to feel that way! Big, big throw and it lasts for ages, which is lovely - I put some in my hair this morning before going off to teach, and I kept catching wafts of it all day long.
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2024 version! Ooh, I love this! It's a fluffy white cake with buttercream frosting, plus a warm spiced (not spicy like chili, but like pie spice) apple note - I want to just eat my arm! I agree that it's not very boozy and I don't really get the whiskey, but that's fine with me. Goodness, this is tasty - like you baked a big cake with layers upon layers of buttercream and spiced apple pie filling inside. If you like those things, you will want this one!
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Oh, gosh, first! Let's see... I do really like this one! But I like the Lab's cider note and also buttery notes - and this has both, at least on me! It's the same cider that's in the other NYCC oils: bright apples, soft spices, a whisper of sweetness. (I've always loved the Lab's cider note, back in the Fearful Pleasure days, and such...) Here, it's also joined by the same butter / cream note that's in scents like White Larry - warm, rich, something I can only describe as "melted butter-y"! It actually goes very nicely with the cider - adding a slightly savory, buttery, richness to the bright cider. If you like those things, you will probably like this, and if you don't, then you likely won't! (For an odd fleeting moment about half an hour after putting it on, I got something...vaguely reminiscent of BPAL's Jack? I'm not sure what prompted that scent association, but I definitely thought, "oh, this kind of reminds me of Jack! ...but, wait, why? but it made me have that scent memory!" That seems to've faded now.) Oddly, this one fades the fastest on me out of all the NYCC cider scents - maybe something about the butter note and skin chemistry?
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Caramel Apple Ginger Ale Float
splendidissima replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Event Exclusive Oils
Fizzy, yes! Mostly ginger ale - which I'm not mad at; I like it! - and a swirl of caramel to add sweetness and cut the sharpness of the ginger. I don't get much apple - maybe it's in there as it dries? or maybe I just want it to be in there, so I think it's there? Either way, it's still a fun scent, especially if you like effervescent ginger. -
Mostly lovely apple cider, bright apple + spices! A little extra booze - the brandy note is noticeable but not dominant. Not as sweet as, say, the Apple Cider Donut, but still mostly apple cider, which I like!
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Delicious! Pure apple cider, apples + spices + that BPAL cider note, over a murmur of warm pastry. I'd say it is more cider than donut, but the donut is there, in the background, like you bought it to eat with your cider and the scent of it is wafting up. I love this one!
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Frottle from the Lab, 2024 (so probably aged quite a bit) ...metal, men's cologne, spices (clove, ginger, pepper), in that order. Not really a me scent, but I have a friend who likes those things, so I'll pass along the bottle! Glad I got to try it, as an anniversary scent. ?
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Frottle! And, yep, sharp citrus. I like citrus, but I generally like it on the sweeter side; this has a bite. I wonder if it would layer okay with some sweeter notes - something with marshmallow or vanilla, maybe...
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Bodegón Con Cesto de Frutas, Melocotones, Granadas Y Bernegal
splendidissima replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
More earthy than I was expecting! Clay, earth, dry cacao, spice. I don't get a ton of fruit - I admit I was hoping for more of a balance! It's not sweet at all; it does have an impression of...warm dry redness or ocher colors, perhaps? Like chili spices in the sun next to a sun-baked historic adobe building, perhaps. Which isn't bad - in fact it's interesting! - but I might try it in a diffuser or oil warmer, as a house scent, versus on me. -
Mostly a delicious apple cider, not much marshmallow, but I'm not mad at it - I like apple cider! I've been wearing this one a lot. ? I will add, the last time I wore this to campus, I was chatting with a colleague in the hall, and she said, "do you smell something like...incense? or, like...cinnamon sticks?" and I said, "oh, I think that's my hair gloss!" So...there's that, if that helps anyone!