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I get a lot of incense, and it leans a little towards mall headshop incense scent with champaca, but I love the bits of dry, slightly spicy patchouli, smooth leather, and sweetness from the beeswax. It reminds me of other bpals like A Melancholy of Goths and Snootier Bat; it could be in the same family of goth incense blends. I did a full wear of Nouria yesterday and I could smell it from morning til bedtime. It has really good throw and staying power.
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I love black currant but, like Millarca, I don't get any from this blend. It's almost all black musk on me (just a whiff of rose in the opening and then all black musk) - smoky, black, slightly incensey, slightly masculine perfume scent.
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I don't get Snow White or black currant at all. Millarca is 95% rose on me and about 5% an undertone of sugared vanilla cream. I like the rose when it starts off smelling fresh and tart, but it settles into what reminds me of dried rose petals that are slighty powdery and slightly spicy. All of the vanilla rose scents are starting to blur together for me and I don't love this one.
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Lavender Figgy Pudding is strange in that I don't get any lavender or fig from it (or any of the listed notes). It's like a bone dry, not at all sweet, golden pastry that someone is using as a cigarette ash tray. No wine or pomegranate for me either. Dry pastry and ash, for some reason. A couple hours after first applying, it just leaves behind a powdery, dusty, bone dry skin scent.
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The fruitiness reminds me of melon, like a mix of honeydew scented lotion and watermelon bubblegum (but not very sweet). I expected a sweet lavender syrup, but the lavender is very herbal and dry. The overall feel is clean, a little bitter, and unfortunately very plasticy and cheap smelling to me.
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Loud, perfumey/musky, red rose swimming in the Lab's fizzy, citrusy, sharp champagne with an edge of dry spice and bitter orange peel. My husband smelled this one on me and said, "Whoa. That is a, uh, very bright and intense smell." And it is. Tinsel Roses is very strong and long lasting on me with great throw. I feel like it fits its concept well and I appreciate that even if it's not something that I'll personally ever wear again. A bottle of spiced, dry, musky, red rose perfume dumped into a glass of champagne and decorated with bitter orange peel. A more mature feeling party fragrance.
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Bodegón Con Cesto de Frutas, Melocotones, Granadas Y Bernegal
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Limited Editions
I went back and forth so many times when I was trying to decide whether or not to buy this fragrance, and I'm really glad that I ordered it at the last minute because it's so gorgeous. The Lab's peach and honey notes are iffy for me, but they're perfect here, melding into each other to form a just-slightly-overripe, honey-sweet, juicy peach that smells so rich and delicious. The chili pepper, clay and cocoa form a comforting, warm, earthy yet sweet base that doesn't have any of the sharpness that I was worried about with the chili pepper. After about three hours, the scent shifts a little so that I smell more of the ripe, sweet fig and cocoa, with the honeyed peach still lingering and the red clay & pepper still giving the scent a lovely, dry, warm earthiness underneath the fruit and sweetness. I love how sweet this turns on my skin. I don't tend to enjoy fruity scents but this one is so sweet and enveloping with the sultry honey, cacao, and clay. Intrigue with its cocoa and fig has always been one of my favorite bpals, and this is like a much more complex and romantic feeling Intrigue after a few hours when the fig gains strength. Lasted about 7 hours on me with good throw, too. -
I've wanted a bottle of this for years but it kept getting pushed aside because there are always so many new LEs. I finally put a bottle into my latest order and it wound up being my favorite, mixed in with Weenies and Yules. The Woman at the Edge of the Woods is everything that I wanted it to be and none of the herbal notes that had been scaring me off. It's the smoothest, most comforting wood note, tons of sweet myrrh softened with creamy vanilla, and elderberries, which remind me of a sweetened, ripe, juicy blackcurrant. No rose or herbs or sharpness for me at all. I'm glad that the notes I like the most wind up being so strong on my skin. It's a lovely fragrance where the notes blend into each other and smell amazing.
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The first hour, this smells like a caramel apple pie. Caramelized apples, cinnamon, and a hint of flaky crust. I know it wasn't just my nose/brain being weird because three other people told me I smelled like apple pie. It takes about an hour before that spice starts to back off for me and I can start to smell vanilla cream with hints of golden crepe and slightly sour blueberry. It does remind me of a cream filled crepe with fresh blueberries. Unfortunately it has no throw on me by that stage and I can't smell it at all around the two hour mark. As a side note, I can smell lemon in the bottle, but none once it's applied, unless it's adding that sour, acidic edge to the blueberry.
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I love bread scents (last year's Lavender Rosemary Baguette was amazing), but this one is falling flat on me. The bread turns dry and powdery, like flour, and the scent is mostly a sweet lavender after a half hour. It makes me think of mixing sugar and water together and then steeping lavender in it. Almost a sugary lavender glaze, but not thick, more watery and clean. I kept thinking that it was a strange smell when I wore it. I'd catch whiffs of it and my brain couldn't decide if it smelled bad or good.
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No earthiness or anything reminiscent of cologne for me. I get a baked apple covered in cinnamon sugar goo. It's a little potpourri at first, and then it shifts to more of a soft, melty, lightly spiced sugar over baked apple. This is less complex, lighter, and fades quicker than the other Harvest Moons I have, but I still always have a soft spot for these blends, and I'm happy to add this one to my Harvest Moon collection ^_^.
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This disappears so fast on my skin and I don't smell the blackberry or cheesecake at all. It's all boozy chocolate covered cherry filled with sharp liqueur.
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This is all dry spices to my nose. No bread, brownie, honey, cream or anise. Maybe some dark, dry tea leaves, but mostly smelling a spice rack with jars of black pepper, clove, and what smells strongly of nutmeg to me.
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I wore this yesterday without checking the notes and thought "tart and tangy raspberry jam, a spritz of Bath & Body Works raspberry perfume, a little shortbread, and powdered sugar mixed with honey." I guess it's the wine & fig giving off the fruity raspberry impression, and the honey dust & icing giving off a rich, dry sweetness. It's a very thick, tart, sweet, unique gourmand that doesn't smell like full on cake and edible. More powdery and dry than I tend to love, but I like this blend. Grownup, powdery gourmand.
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I got a bottle of Burning Book on the Lab's etsy but I don't like it at all. It's very smoky and off, like burning latex and burning tire rubber. It didn't change at all through an hour of wear, and it was very strong. I wound up washing it off because it was bothering me. No one else in my house liked it either. It's not a bookish scent to me at all.