Little Bird
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I want to love apple scents, but they so often remind me of air freshener, and this one is very air freshener to me. The floral and white musk give the apple some sharp and soapy undertones. Very strong, but I had to scrub it off, because it made me feel like I spritzed myself with some apple blossomy Febreze.
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I went with a decant of this one, but have waffled on whether or not I should have gotten a full bottle. Whenever I've worn The Tea House, I've found myself wishing that my home space smelled like this (and should have full bottled to use it in an oil warmer so my home *could* smell like this). I agree with the reviews saying that this is spa-like and reads as traditionally masculine in the drydown. The Lab's sandalwood often turns to baby powder on my skin (particularly the white sandalwood), but the sandalwood in the drydown of this beauty isn't powdery at all and really has a darker, woody, elegant incense scent to it. The bamboo, hinoki cypress, and green tea scented with floating lemon blossom petals are a cool, wonderfully smooth, pulpy green melange. When I wear this, I catch hints of plum candy every once in a while, but the plum isn't strong on me. It's like a happy child running around this fancy spa, breathing in the incense and scent of tea and greenery floating around an outdoor hot spring retreat. I should have full bottled it.
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Starts off with delicious, creamy, cool coconut milk paired with a warmer hazelnut note that thankfully doesn't turn to nutella. Then the drydown shifts to the floral notes and amber musk and the whole thing goes very powdery. Heliotrope often reads as a cool, powdery, slight sweetness on me and the amber musk is warm and powdery, so they mix together into a powdery floof on my skin. I wish that the sweeter, creamier notes stuck around, but it settles into a clean, powdery scent on me.
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I love the Lab's mango scents (and also love a good, ripe mango from Wal-Mart as much as one eaten in a tropical locale, sooo, I just love any kind of mango) and think this one is so pretty in its simplicity. A ripe, sweet, sticky mango with a creamy, dessert quality to it, on a base of warm, toasty, slightly vanillic amber. The overall effect smells like a tasty dessert on my skin, like ripe mango, cream, and warm, toasted pastry shell. It doesn't have a ton of throw on me, but it lasts about 6 hours before I need to reapply. I'm really glad that I got a bottle of this one.
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I added Floral Still Life With Cat into my 'Weenie order and was surprised that this was the scent that gave me the most Halloween feels. Floral Still Life With Cat is the ghostly, charming, haunting rose scent that I didn't know I needed for spooky season. The porcelain smells cool toned and has a fancy, vanillic dusting powder and cream quality to it while the rose and peony are fresh, delicately sweet, and oh so pretty. It has a creaminess that makes me think of applying lotion in its mid-stage and the subtle vanillic sweetness that rounds out the scent is addictive to me. I've gotten tired of the rose jam and sugary vanilla scents, but this is like fresh rose and cool toned, non-sugary vanilla and I love it. I can't get over how ghostly, airy, and chilly feeling it is on my skin. In mid-September, I started reading a horror novel a day and watching a horror movie every night (tis the season) and this perfume has become my go-to. This obviously isn't a Halloween scent, but it fits that mood for me perfectly. I want to smell like an elegant, cool, aloof lady ghost who haunts, captivates, and terrorizes people, which this scent totally nails for me. I want to try some in an oil warmer, but I think that it would instantly haunt my home.
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Powdery white sandalwood, what smells like bpal's cologne-y, wet, green leaves note with a hint of sharp bell pepper, and a non-sweet vanilla with campfire smoke. Too powdery and not sweet enough for me.
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I don't get any of the fear or blood or creepy notes. Marian is a ladylike clean skin type of scent to me. Creamy like generic lotion and softly powdery with a hint of clean white musk. Almost a non-scent like clean skin after a shower. If I smelled this on someone, I would probably assume that they didn't put on any perfume at all, but that they had just put on a bland, clean, baby powdery smelling lotion.
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Smells like campfire ashes after a rain and I don't enjoy that smell. Ashy, earthy-dusty, dirty, slightly minty, and I can't really discern any of the actual listed notes.
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This is a really wonderful men's cologne type blend, reminding me of a colder, frostier Wilde and the Irish Spring soap that my dad used when I was little. It's lemony sweet and crisply refreshing from the bergamot and ti leaf, with the other notes having this gorgeous, frosty, clean man type of scent. The absinthe, I think, adds an interesting green note. Very attractive.
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The red wine is strong and not as sweet as some red wine notes have been on my skin. It's tart, rich, grape-y and plum-like, with hints of perfumey musk and sharp clove spice. In the drydown, it leans a little towards grape cough syrup and isn't my favorite type of scent. It feels very mature and I prefer my wine scents a bit sweeter (like Lilith & Sekhmet).
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Mandarin, Black Vanilla, and Patchouli
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I don't love this as much as I thought it would, and I have given it some time to rest in the hopes that it would wow me with a little time to settle. Patchouli and vanilla are my two favorite scents, and I don't even find them to be distinctive in this blend. I might never guess that there's patchouli in this at all because I really have to search for the hint of it in the drydown. Mostly this smells sour and hazy white, like the scent/taste of orange pith. I guess there's some vanilla sweetness, but it's more of a vague sweetness, like a sprinkle of sugar trying to make the orange more palatable. It kind of smells like sour orange, sharp white musk, and sugar. -
Lots of baby powdery amber mixed with dark, slightly bitter rosewood. A hint of honey trying to sweeten things up, but it's not sweet enough for me and I'm not a fan of powdery scents, so this isn't working for me.
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Strong, soapy, white spring florals and a bit of sweet honey. A little powdery wood in the drydown. White tea is usually strong on me, but I can't pick it out here, instead getting an unlisted, odd, overwhelming, soapy floral something. No tonka or cocoa either. I smell like dryer sheets.
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Sour, acidic fruit (mostly red currant) and intensely soapy, sharp, screechy florals. The musk is also sharp and dry. A scrubber for me.
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Baby powdery, vanillic, light, clean, white musky sandalwood that reminds me of a lighter, sharper Morocco. I never smell any of the incense, plum, or lavender. Most of the RPG series feels very flat, one note-ish, and cheap to me, but I guess that's because they're meant to layer with each other. I just don't like them enough to begin with to bother with layering.
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Cat Sitting on a Cushion Licking Its Paw
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Limited Editions
Everything in this is well blended, smooth, and beautiful. I would have guessed that this has red musk and amber in it because it has a deep, sensual, warm, musky quality and sweet, resinous tones. The hazelnut and benzoin are toasty, warm, and lightly sweet. I enjoy the chamomile more than usual in this blend because it smells like a warm cup of herbal tea and feels very calming and satisfying. Red patchouli can sometimes turn to BO on my skin, but the patchouli and cedar here are wonderful. The patchouli smells black and earthy in a way that is so seductive and the cedar is like an antique cedarwood chest, dry and slightly spicy. I love a sweetened patchouli blend and Cat Sitting On A Cushion is a complex sweetened patchouli that's warm and easy to wear. I love this Cat series so much and want to backup bottle most of them. I think that Bpal perfectly captured the paintings and the spirit of being a cat in scent-form. -
The tea-stained linen is stronger than I thought that it would be and it does have a soapy, damp laundry scent to the linen. I don't smell any of the resins and this is overall a brighter, cleaner scent than I was expecting. Clean laundry and sugared sweet milk. It gives off a very white impression and has a note to it that reminds me of gardenia after a while, with the creamy floral impression replacing the gourmand parts. Fades quickly on my skin and the sweet milk doesn't stick around as long as I wish it would. Similar-ish to scents like White Rabbit (minus the spices) and also reminds me of Dirty (with sweet milk in the opening).
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Mint often smells very discordant to me in perfume, unless it's super gourmand like it is in Spooky, one note-ish like it is in the original Lick It blend where it's just a mint candy cane, or used to intensify snow and pine notes for an atmospheric, wintry illusion. In anything else, it just doesn't blend well to my nose. I tried to like here, telling myself that perhaps it was like a blast of cold air over lilacs on a spring day, but it just doesn't work for me. It smells like someone dumped a bottle of peppermint extract on to some poor lilacs. I wish that I could take the peppermint out of the blend entirely because the marshmallow-y vanilla, honeyed spring sweetness of the lilacs, and the dewy rose underneath the mint smell lovely. An hour in, the mint finally starts to fade to nearly nothing, but the airy, floofy quality of the scent has disappeared as well, leaving me with mostly red roses, resinous benzoin, dark and slightly bitter, masculine leaning teakwood, and a smooth, slightly buttery, not overly sweet vanilla to round it out and soften it all. It's sort of a gentler, smoother Pulcinella & Teresina. I like everything about it except for the mint, but I'm not sure how much I will wear this because I don't want to wait for the mint to burn off every time that I put this on.
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The almond is the cherry-almond-extract variety and the woody bitterness of the fig really makes this smell like cough syrup. There's a hint of evergreen from the autumn leaves and maybe some powderiness from the amber, but mostly this is an overwhelming cough syrup scent. It's bitter, medicinal, and woody, with a sour red berry tone. Very strong. I only wore it for an hour before I had to scrub it off.
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The electric green mandarin is reading as a strong, intensely sweet lime candy (like lime slushie syrup - just the syrup) mixed with the dry soapiness of laundry dryer sheets. I can smell the sweet chocolate (too much sweetness) and all of the other notes going dry, fuzzy, and oddly musty. It's so strange and chaotic. The candy impression fades away in the drydown and then there's a rubbery, plasticy tone that's similar to the scent of opening plastic pool toys, and it starts to get a little smoky, like someone set that odd, fuzzy, dusty note on fire. It reminds me of some of the houses my family has flipped over the years, like the scent of going into a home where everything is vaguely damp and moldy and the carpets are full of decades of grime and it's just nauseating. The whole thing turns my stomach, and I expected this to be a safe blind buy based on the notes. Something about the dustiness of the black fur note, I think, with the sharp soapiness of the "electric" part, and then the hints of cloying sweetness and powder and plastic and fuzz...
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Pumpkin Trash Bag is all dead leaves on me, and unfortunately it is the variety of bpal's dead leaves that smells like a green bell pepper - crisp, green, crunchy, watery, and a little peppery - on a powdery, dry, intensely sharp, white musky base. I'm getting no pumpkin and no orange. I don't like this one at all. Edit to add: I let it "rest" for 3 more weeks and it still smells the same on me ?♀️ nothing but sharp, green, wet, musky 'dead leaves' note.
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On me, this is 80% a delicious, sweet, spicy clove (with a pinch of cinnamon scent to it) and 20% a really yummy, rich, caramelized milk. It's like eating gingerbread cookies dunked in warm milk with hints of caramelizing condensed milk. I love clove and creamy scents, so this is an instant love for me.
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Super sweet, super powdery, dark violets. For the first half hour, there's something dark, earthy, and slightly fecal underneath the violets, and then it shifts to all syrupy-sweet violets and intensely powdery sandalwood with a bright, warm, musky, perfumey quality that reminds me of walking into places like Sephora and Nordstrom. I bought Witch Birds for the plum and I'm getting no plum at all. If you like violet candy and bpal's powdery type sandalwood, you will enjoy this, but I'm disappointed in it as someone who was hoping for more of a resinous, slinky plum. Edit: After letting this settle for a couple months, it has really improved. I don't get that fecal note anymore and it's not quite as powdery anymore. I still don't get any plum, though, only sweet, dark purple violet candies with a little powderiness to them.
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Sugared, crisp, clean smelling white tea (that smells more like green tea in the drydown) with tart, lemony bergamot, a sharp and peppery bite from the ginger, and a little bit of golden, warm powdery amber. It's sweeter than I thought it would be, like a few spoonfuls of sugar have been added to the tea, but I'm not complaining. Similar to Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea scent because it has a perfumey muskiness to it as well.
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Creeper Dragon is made of all things good. The dragon's blood and red musk form a sweet, red, resinous glow and warmth that I just love (like a resinous cherry scent), the leather smells like a snuggly, soft, black leather jacket, and the honeyed vanilla cream is strong and beautiful. A grown up Dragon's Milk scent. In fact, if you told me that this was Dragon's Milk with a little leather and red musk mixed in, I probably wouldn't argue too hard. Amazing throw and lasts all day on me.