Little Bird
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I didn't care for this at all. Tart, verging on sour, dry, candy peach and a mouthful of soapy, high pitched smelling dryer sheets.
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I've been loving Bpal's monthly painting inspired fragrances. I've learned a lot about different artists and history by always looking up the paintings that intrigue me and I think that they have resulted in some of bpal's most elegant and interesting perfumes. News From Afar smells incredible in the first five minutes where the oakmoss and cypress have a juicy, vibrant, almost tropical fruit juice quality to them. I've been cooking with pine lately and this is the sort of evergreen that smells edible and mouthwatering. I love the vibrant and aromatic opening stage, but it moves quickly to a drydown of amber and cream, which is still beautiful, so I'm not too sad about it. The amber silk leans powdery and clean rather than warm and deeply resinous, and the cream is not a sugared or sweet vanilla, but something more like cold milk without any of the sour or buttery tones that milk can have. I think the cypress is adding a cool, airy freshness and foresty sweetness as well without smelling distinctly like evergreen anymore. It makes me think of opening a cabin door on a cold day in the woods after a while and just that.. clean air scent (but not fabric softener or soapy clean air). I really like that this is clean without being soapy, powdery without being too dry or reminiscent of baby powder, full of rich amber that isn't the usual woody, vanillic, or deeply resinous variety of amber, and that it has a noticeable rich cream note that isn't sugary or sour. It smells cool, calm and collected. Refreshing like a chilly morning in the country. Really beautiful.
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I usually enjoy the lab's wine blends, but this one isn't playing nice on my skin. On me, it smells like a hellish concoction of cheap, tangy, red fruit punch that's been spiked with cherry cough syrup. Leans medicinal and sour.
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I'm very glad that I grabbed a bottle of this before the Lupers went away. It makes me think of lilies in a misty, cold florist's fridge and really gives off this moody, cool, rainy day in a ghost story vibe, looking out the rain streaked windows of an old mansion on to foggy grounds of green, rolling hills leading into an old graveyard full of damp stones and grass. The pulpy, cool green scent is really wonderful and unique, sort of like the lab's bamboo note, but colder. The lily scent might be a creamy variety of white musk, but it's creamy and vanillic on my skin and feels very proper and elegant. A truly gorgeous atmospheric scent.
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The 2023 isn't my favorite version of Pink Moon. I find this one to be less complex than the others and it has low throw and fades quickly on me. It's a sweet strawberry and something sharply musky on my skin (perhaps a floral note going department store levels of perfumey). The strawberry isn't realistic/fresh to me, but something more distinctly artificial and sweet, yet not quite reminding me of candy either. I wish that the carnation and vanilla showed up on me, but they don't, and I was hoping for something cotton candied and intense from the pink sugar, but it doesn't go that way either. Light, artificial, musky-floral and strawberry.
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I wore this yesterday and it lasted a solid 10 hours before I took a shower. The opening is like golden, floral musk (Juicy Couture vibes) and rose dipped in powdered sugar. The drydown after about an hour, though, is absolutely addictive to me. It's rose and vanilla, which is a combo that bores me to tears lately, but I love this one. It's like rose dipped in powdered sugar, drizzled in vanilla frosting, and then dusted with glittering regular sugar. A super sweet vanilla with sugared rose. So very sugary vanilla on my skin and lasts all day. I'll never be mad about lots of vanilla.
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One of those masculine leaning scents that immediately makes me think of a dark, stuffy office full of dark, polished wood, hints of cigars and whiskey melded into everything, and a fireplace full of wood ashes and the memory of smoke. Something here also turns creamy, sweet, and lemony on me, and is especially strong in the drydown, and it totally reminds me of Lemon Pledge. The fur is warm and adds to the stuffy impression, like heavy, dusty drapes and a wool tweed jacket.
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I was worried about the wool and silk because fabric type scents tend to smell too dry or powdery or soapy for me, but I'm buying all of the cat blends (and all of the ones that I've tried so far have been incredible). A Girl Knitting is another winner for me. The drydown reminds me of a slightly more grownup Boo, like it's slightly less sweet, but still lots of chilled sweet cream and breezy fabric, and the cream takes on a hint of a caramelized edge after about an hour and it's just so good. The fabrics are like clean sheets hung out to dry after the wash, like they're clean and brightly refreshing, but not overwhelmingly soapy. It's the sort of scent that's snuggly and I want to bury my face into it. I'm glad that the hint of cream really amps up on my skin because it's wonderful.
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The reviews scared me away from Snooty Bat at first, but then I figured I love all of these notes and the Lab makes my favorite leather fragrances, so this scent couldn't possibly be bad on me. Nag champa is the only thing that can be iffy and cheap smelling to me, but it's luxurious and sweet here. I don't really get the patchouli or any earthiness, but the sugared aspect melts into the dark, smooth nag champa incense. The nag champa has a fruity/grapey tone to it. It reminds me of the sugared incense in Midnight on the Midway, but darker and heavier. The leather is also barely there on me and doesn't show up at all until a couple hours into the drydown. I have some leather bracelets that have been soaked in perfume and after several hours, Snooty Bat makes me think of those soft leather bracelets infused with sugared incense. I can't pick out any clove either. As a bonus, Snooty Bat is really strong on me, making it about 8 hours before I showered it off, and it has really good, strong throw without being overwhelming. My new favorite nag champa scent.
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I kept waiting for reviews of this one and finally just took the plunge and ordered a bottle. I'm really happy to have it because it smells amazing on me. Watermelon jolly ranchers, a very deep, wine-like, slightly musky cherry, and a beautiful jasmine that is sweet and vanillic like honeysuckle, but with a clean edge that makes me think of good shampoo as well. It feels like a great, summery blend to me that's a good mix of warm and sultry, playful and sweet, and clean. The drydown is like eating tart cherries and drinking cherry wine in a garden full of jasmine and honeysuckle. A whiff of that refreshing watermelon candy every once in a while too. I love this so much.
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Princess Pig on Stilts Playing the Harp
Little Bird replied to Silvertree's topic in Limited Editions
The lotus smells like a white floral gardenia mixed with pink bubblegum, swimming in a pool of buttercream frosting. Sweet, but gauzy and freshly floral. The wood and resins aren't really coming out at all on my skin (maybe the tiniest whiff of what reminds me of sugared nag champa in the drydown if I really reach for it, but mostly floral and sweet vanilla). -
Georgia Peach, Oakmoss, Sage, and Vetiver
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Event Exclusive Oils
Always reminds me of The Bow & Crown of Conquest (and Francis Kurkdjian's Masculin Pluriel), even though the only note they share is the sage. This really smells like it has vanilla, barbershop lavender and black leather in it, though, and has a polished, cool, smooth, upscale, clean cologne vibe. I think the vetiver gives me that cuddly black leather impression and perhaps the peach gives it the bit of sweetness. The sage and oakmoss lean towards the elegant cologne spectrum more than dry moss and herbs. It's dreamy and is exactly the sort of scent that I find immensely appealing on a man. The only problem with it is that it doesn't even last a full hour on my skin. It starts off strong, but fades quickly. -
A powdery, tart peach, especially at first, like a peach flavored sweet tarts candy, but it does have a syrupy, carnal edge to it as well, like a dribble of overripe peach juice. There is a note that does smell oddly like flaky vanilla wafers at first, but I'm not sure that I'd ever actually pick out that impression on my own. I think I only search for the wafers because of the title. It's definitely more of a powdery, tart, peach candy, and the drydown smells like a peach & vanilla body spray scent that I would have picked up from Wal-Mart as a preteen. It has a perfumey, artificial quality to it and a powdered sugary vanilla. That weird bit of nostalgia and innocence is actually kind of charming to me. Sticks rather close to the skin and doesn't make it a full two hours.
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Medicinal, bitter honey in the bottle and on my skin at first, but quickly settles into a super-sweet, vanillic honey and creamy beeswax scent. The dragon's blood is barely there at all in my aged bottle, just a teeny hint of red, glowing, warm incense underneath all the honeyed sweetness.
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The patchouli is very nice, with elements of smooth, dry cedar, black leather, earth, and cocoa. The pink pepper smells like a mix of sweet cinnamon and clove. Spiced, woody, cocoa sweet patchouli with an almost resinous, sweet myrrh type of edge in the drydown. I really like it and love how complex it is with only two notes. Reminds me of Tezcatlipoca, in a way, but spicy.
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I think the lightly-chewed villager is showing up as baby powder and a generic, white, lotion-y skin scent that's just a tad soapy. I wasn't expecting this to be such a clean scent and I dislike the strong baby powder smell. As it dries down, I can smell the vintage perfume quality of the oakmoss (dry and sophisticated, perfumey moss) and the labdanum and smoke meld together to a burning amber incense scent. It becomes an odd impression of a clean, proper, goodie two shoes of a person feeling scandalized in a shop full of incense, dusty crystals, and vaguely occult items. Too much powder for me.
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I wore Dragonsplaining this morning and thought that it was a sandalwood single note. The wood is dry, slightly creamy-smooth, and has that calm, meditative presence to it. I don't get any patchouli or smoke at all. Only strong for about an hour and fades quickly after that.
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A very sour, dry, herbal lavender that smells like it's been set on fire. I was hoping for a sweeter resinous scent, but I don't smell the syrupy opoponax or frankincense. In the drydown, it smells harshly soapy. Industrial soap, sour lavender, and acrid smoke that reminds me of burning metal after a while. Gaueko is much sweeter and smoother to me.
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This is such a hyperrealistic donut scent. For the first couple minutes, I can so clearly smell a chocolate frosted donut and then it's maple frosted donuts and original glazed Krispy Kremes. In the mid stage for the first couple hours of wear, I get a scent like fresh pressed apple cider (no spices, just the thick, murky, sweet and tart cider) mixed with the donuts and it's so autumnal and delightful, and then that fades away and I'm left with Krispy Kreme original glazed and maple frosted donuts. It really smells like fluffy, fresh donuts. I am going to wear this so much when fall rolls back around.
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Gorgeous and interesting and so much going on here without it smelling chaotic or too much. It reminds me of the hodgepodge of offerings that I sometimes do for my altar. Chunks of smooth myrrh and golden amber melting in a warmer, snips of evergreen branches where you can smell the green needle and wood along with the sweet sap, hints of spice and honey and dark cocoa that melt into the resins rather than turning gourmand, a dark and sweet rose, and the warm, grounding earthiness of patchouli. The best resins infused with all of the things. Myrrh is one of my favorite things and it's very strong here, so that makes me super happy. It took me almost a year to try this because I've been in the middle of moving from Canada back to the States and had to pack up a lot of my perfume before I could even open the bottles once, but it was worth the wait. I put a little of this on my altar today too.
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Bpal has the best leather scents. This one smells like the peasants are fleeing to the horse stables - warm, well worn saddle leather, the honeyed sweet scent of dry hay, sunwarmed wood and earth, and a cozy riding jacket. Barn wood always has a particular sweet scent to me, aged in the sun and sort of amber-y, and I get that scent here. The dark musk isn't the usual black musk note, but something more warm, cuddly, smooth, sweet and kinda like musk stick candy, which gets stronger in the drydown. I don't think I have anything else in my collection that smells like this and I really like it.
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I am not a fan of this one, but I have never been a fan of sickly sweet fruity fragrances. I get mostly pineapple, but it smells like mushy, syrupy, overly sugared, canned pineapple, and something that turns powdery and tart like crushed up sweet tarts candies thrown into canned pineapple. The other notes all sounded interesting to me, but I can't smell any of them. Not even any pumpkin or pumpkin spice.
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Witchecraft: Consulting a Book of Spells, Performing Various Rites
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Halloweenie
I get a surprising amount of ylang ylang from this, showing up as a very powdery-creamy, sweet, tropical floral. It reminds me of the scent of real plumeria flowers. Then there's the spicy clove, sweet beeswax, and warm amber glowing underneath the floral. It forms this heady, sweet, floral-oriental fragrance. I can imagine the scent of aged, yellow, old book paper in this as well, that vanillic, honeyed scent that old books develop. As it dries down, I keep thinking that I smell a soft black leather note as well (maybe the black pepper and black amber giving off this impression?) and sweet incense smoke. Not at all what I was expecting, but this is complex, heady, and sensual. Plumeria flowers melting into beeswax, dusted in sweet clove, and a stack of leather bound old books and burning incense. -
I ordered a bottle of this in a weak moment because I love owls, but I'm surprised that I actually really enjoy this scent and it's become one of my favorite Yule blends. Merry Owls is such a fairy tale rose scent, like the most beautiful, sweet, dewy roses somehow growing out of glittering ice (but no mint or snow note on me, somehow an impression of creamy coldness and a scent like evergreen encased in ice). There's a slightly woody, slightly herbal, sweet note that makes me think of rose thorns as well. After an hour, there's a creamy, soft, lotion-like scent to this and it reminds me of a grown up version of Pink Snowballs. The blend leans quite sweet on me and I really enjoy it.
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The bright, cheerful, sugared candy plum with a hint of juiciness note of Midwinter's Eve, but infused with cool, creamy, floral breezy lavender. I love the first couple minutes where the lavender is stronger, but my skin quickly eats the lavender and I'm left with Midwinter's Eve's candied plum that's just slightly more cool toned and breezy feeling than usual. I love Midwinter's Eve, so this is still fine for me. I wouldn't say that I ever smell the marshmallow note.