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This is exactly what it promises! It's primarily a root beer - a kind of candy root beer, like those little barrel candies, which I think is because of the extra sweetness from the ice cream. I don't get a lot of pumpkin (and it's definitely not pumpkin spice!) - just a murmur of something warm and gourd-adjacent and creamy. Very fun, and I like it! The Husband: "you smell like...root beer candy? I like those candies!"
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2025 version! I also don't get much pumpkin - it's primarily a honeyed sweet cream, which I'm not mad at! There's just a little whisper of something smoky in the background, along with a little whisper of pumpkin - not really pumpkin spice, but creamier. The reviewer above who mentioned condensed milk or dulce de leche - I think that's pretty close. Cozy, warm, a little caramelized, thick. I honestly really love it and want to snuggle up in it at home! Having said that...for some reason the Husband really dislikes this one! I think maybe it's the honey or else just the thickness of it? Both times I've put it on with him sitting next to me, he's gone, "oh, I don't like that one!" without even seeing the label! But *I* really like it, so I'm going to slather it on myself when he's not home.
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I had been super-curious about this when it was an atmo, and didn't get around to ordering it then, and then it showed up in perfume form! So I had to, this time. I was worried the coffee would be too strong, but it really isn't - it's more pancakes and syrup but not too sweet, just a sort of...warm richness, if that makes sense? Almost more like dark brown sugar, where it's more about the flavor and less about the sweetness. There's a murmur of coffee that smells exactly the way good coffee should make the kitchen smell, and the whole thing is cozy and kitchen-in-sunlight-on-a-lazy-morning deliciousness. My husband, with a perplexed but happy face , said, "peanut butter pancakes?" (I also had Halloween Hagelslag on the other arm for testing, so, make of that what you will...)
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Green, herbal, bright, and very clean, as everyone else is saying! I get the lime while it's wet, and I do really like BPAL lime notes in general, so that's nice. It fades to green grass in the fresh air, sunny and summer-drenched. I don't really get rocks or moss, unless the latter is contributing to the 'green' medley overall!
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Oh, ice's post above reminded me that I never reviewed this (2024 version) - and I actually just put some on last week while reorganizing the stash! It's absolutely delightful - bright, sweet citrus + herbal lavender! It really does feel like an orange-lavender candy, as someone said above. I don't really get anise - wouldn't be mad about it as a note, but I can't pick it out - maybe mingling with the lavender? I love sweet citrus, so this is exactly my wheelhouse. I would've bought a backup but I have waaaaay too many bottles by now and need to finish some or rehome some!
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Got this as a frottle in a recent order! And the bottle very definitely says TALVIKUV, with a V - seems to be not a common one! I get very 'cold citrus' - I can see it being slightly cleaner-ish. I think it's a lemon-herbal note + the Lab's snow or ice - the one that's chillier and icier, like slush. I actually kind of like it, though I might like it more as a 'clean kitchen' house scent versus on me!
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This is almost all coffee on me, all the time! Coffee + a hint of spices. I do wish it were sweeter - I don't mind it as such, but I wish I got more ice cream and more funnel cake!
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Sweet red wine, red apples, rich dark-brown sticky dates! It does indeed smell like autumn; my husband took a sniff and said, "apple cider? but, like, dark?" So I think this is a win!
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Mmm, this is nice! Coffee is sometimes way too strong on me, but this is a creamy, milky, foamy lattte, swirled with lavender syrup. Just a purely *nice* scent to wear!
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(still catching up on reviews, as I re-organize the stash!) This is exactly what it says, and I don't know how else to describe it! It's like...those little strawberry-wrapped hard candies (the ones that have the wrappers that look like strawberries) - which I have a weird nostalgic love for, courtesy of great-great-grandparents and their candy dish - plus some literally indefinably *gritty* note, something sort of dark and scratchy, like asphalt, but that sounds less pleasant than it is! The strawberry is the loudest note, but it is a *hard* strawberry in all senses, like it's been in a West Side Story style street fight - not all *that* dark but still definitely a street scuffle!
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I'm re-organizing my bottle collection, and doing some reviews I missed! This one is so, so interesting - it's like a...sweet-earthy-dry-wine? I actually quite like it; I might wish it were a tad more sweet, but it's really tasty in a...not super desserty way? I get earthy purple-ish fig, some rich sweet-ish (like a port or sherry) wine, and a grounding of cake, but not super-sweet cake, more like a very English Victoria sponge, which of course makes sense! I really don't get honey at all. I think I like but don't love it; still, I'm glad I tried it!
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Oops, never reviewed this! It's very pretty - I love sweet orange scents, and this is a candied orange with a whisper of freesia and a little-little flirty-spicy fleck of pink pepper. It is very springtime to me, and I really like it! It does fade very fast on me, though.
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Pink and fun! I get strawberries and spun sugar - it's a noticeably different kind of sweet from the Pink Moon 2024, no cream or milk notes at all. It's a glittery sugar-crystal sugar + ripe strawberries. I do really like it, but it fades super-fast on me; within just a few minutes I have to put my nose right on my arm to smell anything at all. Going to go through this bottle fast!
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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.