Little Bird
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I've nearly gone through my decant of Contest of Flowers: Iris, and will definitely full bottle it. Every time I wear this, I think of fairies (actually, the mischievous Sylphs in Final Fantasy XIV, lol) finding a white highland cow and covering it with flowers and feeding it nothing but strawberries and sugar dusted fairy flowers, and then this is what its milk would smell like. Fresh, ripe strawberries and lightly sugared, magical flowers steeped in milk. After about a half hour, the lightly spicy carnation and milkiness reminds me very much of aged Alice, if Alice were made into a strawberry milk. It's creamy, dreamy, delicately sweet, and so perfect for me for spring.
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Starts off with gorgeous, green pear, a smooth and golden feeling liquor, dark and sweet plum, and a base of powdery, woody amber with tangy, herbal honey. Unfortunately, the fruit notes die after only a couple minutes, and then this is all powdery amber and sharp incense smoke with that tangy honey. I love the brandied pear and plum incense opening, but I don't like the drydown where the smoke, powdery amber, and honey take over. The incense and amber give the whole thing a scratchy, dry quality. I usually don't like boozy scents, but the brandied pear is really amazing. I just wish it stuck around beyond the first few minutes.
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I want to love Rose Milk Tea, and I wish I got dairy and condensed milk from this like everyone else seems to, but this is just a rose explosion on me. The rose starts off fresh, uplifting, and pretty. After about an hour, however, it's a perfumey rose powder with a hint of sugary sweetness. The rose amps up way too much on my skin.
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There are not many cherry scents that I enjoy (Moon When The Cherries Turn Black is my favorite), but I was curious about sour cherry. Unfortunately, this is another bad cherry for me. Starts off as almond extract, and then morphs into cherry cough syrup with tart cherry Kool-Aid powder dumped into it. No peach that I can discern.
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Choco-Goblin smells exactly like Samoas cookies. The most delicious, toasted, caramelized coconut with sweet milk chocolate and an extra drizzle of caramel. No patchouli at all but, for once, I'm okay with that. Lasts about 5 hours on me with good throw. Great on its own if you love gourmands, and would be great layered with a stronger patchouli as well.
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Lingering Plum Scent is so beautiful. Juicy, ripe plums and a sharp floral that elevates the fruitiness rather than being too much. I can't pick out the lavender and honey distinctly but there's a cool, misty sweetness that's so pretty. The incense adds a shadowy base after a couple hours, but I don't get any spiciness from the clove or nagarmotha unless I search for it. Just a dreamy plum and plum blossom interpretation, and I will definitely full size this before Lupers come down.
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Animalic, growly, and very sharp. Smoky, slightly animalic, acrid, growly oud, sour lemon, and an evergreen note that smells sharp and reminiscent of pine air fresheners more than actual juniper. The sharp smoke reminds me of a campfire. Sharp clove and powdery musk linger as the base. It dries down to mostly campfire and warm powder on my skin with hints of clove and smooth, dry hay. I usually love all of the listed notes in this blend, but I'm not really enjoying this. The patchouli doesn't really stand out to me; I get a lot more oud, and I have a hard time wearing very dry, powdery toned scents. I was told I smell like dead leaves set on fire and baby powder when I wore this.
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Plasticy, watery peach, a hint of smooth chocolate, and a surprisingly lovely creamed black tea. Usually when bpal mentions cream and tea, I find the notes hard to pick up on. With this blend, there's a cozy, warm black tea note with some light astringency and creaminess. After about a half hour, I can mostly just smell the cherry, and it reminds me of cherry pie filling. It's very light, however, sitting close on my skin and fading quickly. I would love a creamed black tea hair gloss.
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A combo of two of my least favorite candies, so I was never meant to love this, lol. Even when I was little, if my cousins and I got candy cigarettes in our Halloween treats, we'd pretend to smoke them while playing a game of pretend, and then we would toss them in the garbage. They were not for eating. They taste (and smell like) chalk and spearmint. I like root beer when it's just a drink (preferably over vanilla ice cream), but it smells dry and flat here. Light and fades quickly on me, and I wasn't sad to see it go. If you like a minty root beer with chalky tones, though, you'll like this.
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Onnagata Making Love at a Tea House as Mane’emon Watches While Holding a Kite
Little Bird replied to Jenjin's topic in Lupercalia
A weak whiff of orange bossom sharpened by a sour tobacco flower note, and then it's all patchouli. Patchouli amps up on me (which is usually great because I love patchouli), but I'm not loving the patchouli in this. I could wear Banshee Beat all day every day for the rest of my life, but I was disappointed in the sugared patchouli in Silky Bat, and I don't like it here either. It starts off oddly rubbery smelling and then dries down sort of dank and moldy. I was hoping for more caramel and orange blossom than this delivers. -
Great Pleasures for Women and Their Treasure Boxes
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
Great Pleasures starts off smelling like fruit punch with a lot of orange in it (fruitiness that I don't recognize as guava), then goes through a phase of almond milk that smells creamy and soft with a drop of cherry-ish almond extract, then dries down to a light, almond scented lotion type of feel. Gentle, creamy, and clean. I think the sandalwood adds a bit of powder after a while, but I never really smell guava, amber, or incense. -
I didn't expect to love The Serpent In The Lilacs as much as I do. In fact, I didn't think I would like this at all, because I tend to prefer lilac as a single note, which I already own plenty of, and I couldn't imagine lilacs mixed with Snake Oil because lilac is so innocent and sweet smelling to me where Snake Oil is dark and sensual. I should never doubt a Snake Oil flanker. Lilac can either have a baby blue hued purple and honey feel to it or it can smell dark purple and a little sharper while still being honeyed and noticeably lilac, and this one reads as the dark purple to me. I think the slightly sharper lilac works better for this blend anyhow because it feels more grownup to me. The first time that I wore this one, I got some of Snake Oil's patchouli, but the second wear had more Snake Oil vanilla and didn't notice any earthiness. Deep purple lilac, just a little sharp, but softened by the natural sweetness of lilac and a vanilla that's slinky, smooth, shadowy, and sensual rather than super sweet. Grownup vanilla, not cake or frosting or sugar. A snake lounging happily in the center of a lilac bush in full bloom.
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The whole time that I was wearing this, I kept imagining an anime girly with pink hair, in a dress of hot pink ruffles, with a personality and voice that's high pitched, happy, and always full of energy. It smells like cherry flavored sweet tarts candy, sweet strawberry scented shampoo, and a beautiful mix of cream, blossoms, marshmallow, and a hint of powdery amber. It's a very pretty swirl of all the listed notes. The fruity parts are strongest on me. The marshmallow isn't super strong but it is present on me throughout hours of wear. Overall, this is a really appealing mix of tart, creamy, clean, and sweet. Maybe a little too fruity-sweet for me, but I did enjoy it when I wore it, even if it didn't feel like a 'me' scent. I'm not high energy; I'm anemic and have fibro, lol. I'll definitely keep my decant and retest this and consider a full bottle, though.
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My favorite mint blends are the Lab's OG Lick It and Snowblind perfumes. The mint here is like the OG Lick It (perfectly chilly, bracing peppermint in a sugary candy cane) while the white chocolate and caramel come close to the vanilla buttermint scent of Snowblind. I was worried about the black musk, nicotiana, and sage, and there is a little funkiness in the undertone for a bit, but then the combo takes on more of a freshly cut cedar scent, which I love. In the drydown, it reminds me of How Doth The Little Crocodile, but vanilla-y instead of having dark chocolate. Perfect peppermint candy cane, caramelized white chocolate that's buttery, smooth and sweet, and a foresty, cedar-y undertone. It's a fun, nostalgic scent for me, and one I'm considering full bottling.
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This is so amazing for the first hour and then it turns into a nondescript floral powder scent on my skin. The first hour or so is like tasting a beautiful ice wine. The lilac gives off its honeyed, richly sweet scent into the red wine, and the cinnabar and sweet myrrh give it just a hint of spice and lots of depth. If it stayed like that, I would full bottle this for sure, but the drydown goes flat and powdery, and it quickly fades away from there. Maybe this scent is a good excuse to use one of my scent lockets and see if the opening stage lasts longer.