Little Bird
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In the bottle and on my skin at first, this smells like the pulpy, fresh, pale green smell that I get from Whippoorwill. It smells like the bamboo note on me at first, but more like a pine/Christmas tree as it dries down (a dead, not-so-fresh pine tree). The cinnamon here smells like a very dry, dark cinnamon that starts off slightly sharp, but sweetens up over time. The green smell after about 15 minutes starts to just go all wrong on me. País de la Canela smells like cardboard and a hint of rotten pumpkin and dead pine tree :/. I smell like a garbage dumpster filled with throw-aways from Halloween and Christmas (rotten pumpkin, dead pine tree, cardboard from Christmas gifts, and a handful of holiday potpourri). It gives me a headache and starts to make me feel sick after a short while. I don't get a tropical feel from this, to say the least. This doesn't work for me at all. I had to scrub it off after an hour.
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In the bottle, this smells like musky, sexy, rich, dark chocolate fudge. I don't tend to like herbal scents, so I wasn't sure that this would work for me, but I'm not getting a strong herbal presence from this at all. It smells like a sexy, perfumey musk and the best chocolate note ever, with a little hint of sweet and smoky resins. It's such a sexy, dark, luxurious scent. It's like the perfume equivalent of dimming the lights in an expensive hotel room, having sex in your little black dress, and then laying in bed laughing and eating expensive, rich chocolates with your lover. I lovelovelove this. My favorite Thirteen is still the orange label one, but this is a close second.
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Sleipnir smells like a granola bar and fresh berries on my skin. It's cheery, golden, and slightly sweet. I get delicate, honeyed oats and this fresh berry smell, like smelling a basket of real berries. I smell a bit of dusty hay in the bottle, but none of that note on my skin. This has a natural, pleasant, light smell. I could see myself wearing this on days when I don't want a heavy fragrance. I was worried about the hazelnut and honey going sickly sweet on me, but this is very wearable. I might need a full bottle of Sleipnir, and I'm definitely keeping my decant
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In the bottle, this smells like sweet tarts candies. On me, it smells like sweet tarts + a hint of slightly smoky, tropical floral. I'm not a fan of this one. It smells tart, sweet and artificial...
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Clove discussion! including bitter clove and clove cigarettes
Little Bird replied to amaltheagray's topic in Recommendations
I would get her a bottle of The Smiling Spider, for sure. It has lots of clove and no fruity-floral sweetness. A lot of people have said it smells like clove cigarettes to them as well. It's probably my favorite clove scent, and it ages really well. -
I love this scent. It really does "invoke the comforts of Christmastime" and it's like a perfumey version of "a glowing hearth." When I read "glowing hearth" I thought of ashy brimstone notes, but this perfume is like a warm, comforting glow. It's dark and spicy, and it has something like a fragrant, spicy wood smell to it (like the way that cedar has that spiciness to it, but this doesn't smell like cedar). It's sort of foodie-sweet, but in a perfumey way, and it's all wrapped up in this dark, spicy warmth. This is super-comforting, warm, and unique. It doesn't smell exactly like food or glowing hearth to me, but it's like this gorgeous, perfumey interpretation of those things. I definitely need to upgrade my decant to a full bottle of Joulumuori. I think that this would be a beautiful room scent as well as a perfume. My husband said that this smells beautiful on me .
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The original Lick It is still my favorite of this line of scents, but Lick It Til It's Sticky is probably the closest to getting back to the original. This is slightly sharper and not quite as sweet or hard as the original, and I don't get quite the intense cooling sensation, but this definitely smells like a peppermint candy cane. It smells cold and I can practically taste the peppermint candy when I smell this. The drydown is a bit more menthol-y than I would like as well. It's a refreshing, freezing peppermint candy. I'm still hoarding the original Lick It and probably won't keep my decant of this one.
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In the bottle, this smells like those lemon scented hand wipes that they give out at some restaurants/bars after you eat - lemony clean and kinda soapy. On my skin, this winds up being a much brighter scent than I was expecting. I don't smell any frankincense or rose geranium, and the blood orange isn't as dark and sweet as it usually is on me. This is mostly a soft, slightly soapy, bright lemon smell. I get a little extra sweetness of the blood orange, but not much. This isn't bad, but it's too clean/soapy smelling for me to be able to wear it without getting a headache. It also reminds me a lot of the lemon scented disinfectant wipes that I use to clean my house. I love those wipes, but I don't want to wear them :/
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I thought that I would love this after smelling it in the bottle. In the bottle, it smells like some sweet, effervescent mix of root beer and cola, with a soft undertone of fuzzy, warm musk. On my skin, this gives me a vicious headache. It smells spicy and kind of cinnamony, like a spicy potpourri of some sort. Then there's something sharp and perfumey underneath the cheap spice smell. The drydown starts to get slightly smoky. All around, it's just bad and headache inducing on me My skin amps up spice notes, and I don't care for the spiciness here paired with the sharp, perfumey muskiness and hint of sharp smoke. This just goes all wrong on me.
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I like this, and I'm not exactly sure how to describe what it smells like, lol. I don't even know what most of the notes in this are supposed to smell like. I expected this to be herbal and too dark/harsh for me, but it's not. It's actually rather sweet smelling. In the bottle, Yule Cat smells like sharp pine and something dark, earthy/resinous and sweet. I was worried about the pine note, but it really softens once it's on my skin, like the gentle, sweet pine note in Golden Priapus. Then there's a hint of warm, furry, soft musk, and something dark and sweet that makes me think of incense. So... this is like Golden Priapus's cool, smooth pine note, Ivanushka's warm, furry musk, a drop of Satyr's dark, sharper musk, and an undertone of incensey sweetness on me. After an hour, I smell something like a hint of sweet, thick floral in the mix. It smells a little too sweet at times, but I find it interesting. I think that I'll keep a decant of this one. This makes me think of my old cat, Lewis, who used to enjoy shredding our Christmas tree every year, climbing up it, knocking off ornaments, and rolling the Christmas bulbs around the house.
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First on, Hypothermia smells like the creamy, frosty vanilla note from Snow White fell into a vat of Vicks VapoRub. As it dries down, the sweetness becomes cloying on me, and I just don't find that medicinal menthol smell to be very wearable as a perfume. Over time, I start smelling hints of a sharp mint and soapy aquatic as well. Hypothermia smells like a medicine cabinet stocked with spearmint mouthwash, Vicks VapoRub, vanilla mint toothpaste, and bars of cheap soap. I can't imagine myself ever actually wearing this out anywhere. It smells more like it would be a good bathroom cleanser than a good perfume to me...
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On my skin at first, this is dark, dry wood (really smells like pencil shavings on me), a hint of gritty earthiness from the tobacco, and the hot, incensey warmth of the red musk. As it dries down, it still smells overwhelmingly of pencil shavings, and something in this is going sour and acrid on me. After fifteen minutes, Diable en Boîte starts to get a bit better. The black currant sweetens things up and the peach blossom adds a smooth, girly quality to the blend. I can still smell the pencil shavings in the background and the red musk still smells sour (which must be one of the other notes going off, because red musk is usually lovely on me), though. The drydown of this isn't bad or unwearable for me, but I don't like the pencil shavings turn that the wood notes take on my skin, and it remains a little too sour for my tastes.
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The Adoration of the Mi-Go is my surprise love of the yule blends. It does make me think of hard moss on cool rocks at first, with something like a bubbly, clean lime soda smell. It doesn't have any of the sharpness that I usually get from citrus notes, though. It's a surprisingly sweet and creamy smelling scent, while also having a cool, clean (but not at all soapy) edge. I don't have another perfume that smells anything like this. It's so unique and lovely. It does have an apple-y smell to it as well, as other people have mentioned. It smells like real apples to me, though, and bpal's apple notes usually don't work well for me. This is cool, clean, creamy, slightly sweet, slightly lime-y and bubbly, slightly apple-y, and all around just smooth and lovely smelling on me. I think I'll need to purchase a full bottle of this one.
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In the bottle, this smells like sharp lemon verbena and sweet, red cherry-almond. This has so many different notes listed (and lots of notes that I love), but once this oil is on my skin, it's lemon verbena single note. It's like sharp, sour lemon and that slightly herbal tone. Nothing else. I only really like lemon notes when they're sweet and/or foodie, so this isn't working for me at all. Nes Gadol Haya Sham is probably my biggest disappointment of this year's Yule blends .
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In the bottle, this smells like fuzzy mint leaves and snow. On my skin, this is snow with a soft, sweet, vanilla-y mint added in. This actually smells a lot like Cloister Graveyard in the Snow (one of my Salon favorites). As it dries down, I can smell a dark, baby powdery amber taking over the scent. Nothing about this smells floral to me, though. This is all sweet, minty snow and baby powdery amber on me. I really was hoping for a chrysanthemum scent, but I can't smell any floral here
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In the bottle, this smells like cherry pie (sweet cherries and sweet pastry) with something pleasantly perfumey. On my skin, this quickly morphs into cherry kool-aid powder. Cherry notes often aren't kind to me. As it dries down, the cherry actually slinks into the background and the apricot comes out. It smells like fuzzy, sweet, perfumey apricots and pie crust now. The cherry note disappears within ten minutes on my skin, and I'm okay with that. Unfortunately, the entire scent disappears within 20 minutes. I think that Toothsome Banketstaaf might have the worst staying power ever. I like this, because I love that apricot note, but the whole blend doesn't last long at all. I might try using this in my oil warmer, because I think that it would make a good room scent as well...
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This has so many notes-of-doom in it for me. I don't normally enjoy freesia, eucalyptus, lemon, jasmine, or bergamot, really. That said, Smilin' Servitors' isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I even kinda like this blend. In the vial, this smells very fresh and just slightly soapy. It goes on smelling sort of like frosty pine and ozone, and quickly dries down to smelling like a white bar of freesia scented soap with a hint of clean, sparkling citrus. It's soft, floral, creamy, clean, and fresh smelling. It has a cool feel to it as well, perhaps from the eucalyptus. This is actually a very pretty, feminine, clean scent. It smells like clean girl to me. I might actually keep my decant.
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Pfancy Pfefferneusse doesn't smell complex or spicy on me at all, but that's okay. It smells just like sweet, flakey, golden little shortbread cookies. It's so warm and comforting <3. It doesn't smell outright spicy, but I think that the spices are giving it a warm, cozy feel. It gives off a warm, yummy vanilla smell on me. I definitely need a full bottle of this (or two bottles).
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In the bottle, this smells like damp, sweet, fragrant wood, leaves, and earth, and a bit of spice. On my skin, I can smell the patchouli, oakmoss, and spices, for sure. They combine together in this soft, earthy, spicy sort of way that reminds me of fall leaves (and Falling Leaf Moon). But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light actually smells like a warmer Falling Leaf Moon to me, at first. I don't exactly love the warm spiciness though, and the spice gets stronger on me in the drydown. It's like Falling Leaf Moon meets cheap, spicy craft store potpourri, and it just gets spicier the longer that it's on my skin. I thought that I would love this (I love ginger, patchouli, oakmoss, saffron, vanilla, and resins), but it smells like cheap room fragrance on me . It gives me a headache after a while.
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In the bottle, this smells like boozey red berries. It reminds me a bit of red wine gums candies. On my skin... boozey red berries. This doesn't smell as heavy as wine notes usually do on my skin. It's more fresh, cool, and sweet smelling, like frozen cranberries and a hint of booze, maybe. I expected this to be super-sweet, and it's not. It's really lovely. It reminds me of some of the cranberry scents that I've tried from Wylde Ivy (like Winter Cranberry). I love the fresh little sharpness that this gets on my skin. I feel like I'd really love Mason and Jenkin's Port Jelly as a bath oil. I love it layered with Mistletoe and some of my foodie and spicier scents as well. It's a little too simple for me by itself, though I do really like it. It would probably be nice layered with just about anything . I'm happy to have a partial bottle of this one.
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I love or like every single note in this. My only worry was that this scent would be way too sweet, and a lot of scents have been going cloying on my skin lately. Thenkfully, the blood orange here is pretty strong and the citrus note cuts through some of the sweetness. Blood orange, plum, and violet always have a bit of a darker feel for me, so they help to keep the blend from going into silly sweetness territory. The blood orange and plum are the strongest notes on my skin, with hints of the frangipani and coconut giving this a golden, slightly tropical feel (the coconut smells toasted on me). Every once in a while, I can smell more fruits or more of the violet. I don't smell the caramel or sugar at all, thankfully, because those notes would easily make this blend too sweet for me. Pet Magah Bird is citrus, plum, tropical, creamy, sweet (but not too sweet), and dark on me, all at once. It's exactly what I had hoped for. And the label art is just gorgeous if you're a bird fanatic like me.
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I was lured in with the promise of popcorn and fried things, lol, but all I can smell is the cherry. The Snack Hut smells exactly like red cherry lip balm on me. I'm hoping that this gets better and more complex with age...
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I don't tend to like lemon (too sharp on me) and I never think that the book/library themed perfumes really smell like old books, so I wasn't sure what to expect from Story Time. That said, I LOVE THIS. It really does smell like old books and the lemon really does smell like a sweet, pleasant lemon cookie <3. I get mostly lemony sugar cookies at first and the book smell comes out in the drydown as the cookies disappear. The drydown is like old paper, a hint of the softest, aged leather note, and a hint of incense that ties everything together and makes this smell just like a bunch of old books on me. It's really amazing how accurate it smells. It's the first perfume I've ever had that really captures that smell for me, and I've tried a lot of scents that were supposed to smell like books & libraries. This scent doesn't have much throw at first, but it does get stronger on me in the drydown. Story Time is just wonderful . I might need a second bottle of this one.
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I really like Ded Moroz (and my man loves this on me too), but I wish that it weren't so subtle. I can only smell this if I press my nose up to where it has been applied. It's very light and doesn't have much throw at all. It also only lasts about 2 hours on my skin before I have to reapply it. It's still lovely, though, and my man likes it enough that I can use it as a light scent when we're just staying in and cuddling. I'll probably get a full bottle of this. On to the scent - Ded Moroz smells like fuzzy, soft mint leaves and a wooden, vanilla-y amber on me. My man happily said that it smells like sweet flowers and trees, and I can definitely get the 'tree' impression from the soft wood tone of the ambers. It's a delicate, comforting scent, and the amber actually doesn't go powdery (bpal's ambers usually go powdery on me). I wish that it had more throw, but I'll love this on days when I feel like I can't handle a strong fragrance.
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I was actually disappointed when I heard that this was Snow White + rose, because I figure that I can easily layer Snow White with a rose perfume on my own. This is really pretty, though. It's like the awesome, creamy vanilla from Snow White plus a fluffy, sweet, pink something and a hint of pink rose. I don't get any of the frosty green stem smell that I get from Snow White or Rose Red. Pink vanilla and a hint of rose. Sometimes I smell this and my brain thinks of cotton candy or marzipan mixed in with the vanilla and a pink rose. It's very pink, sweet, and lovely. I need at least one full bottle of this.