Little Bird
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A bitter, watery green that reminds me of celery, the scent of tarry asphalt on a hot day, and wafts of sweet incense smoke. This isn't really what I was expecting based on the notes because all of these notes usually play much better on my skin. The green part disappears after about 5 minutes and then it's sweet incense and tar with sour smokiness. Interesting, but I regret blind buying a full bottle of this because I don't think that I'll actually wear it again...
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Green Cardamom, Oakmoss, and Patchouli
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
A classic men's cologne or aftershave type of scent and I really enjoy it. It has a deep, vintage smelling oakmoss, spicy-sweet cardamom (clove-like on my skin in the drydown), and warm, dark, earthy, almost resinous, sticky patchouli. A little of a soapy edge, but in that masculine aftershave way rather than a bar of soap or laundry soap impression. I feel like this is very similar to a men's fragrance that was popular when I was little (Drakkar Noir, maybe?). -
Whenever I put on Frogberry Moon, I'm transported back to my local mall in the early 90s with my big sister, sharing a bag of octopus shaped gummis (still the best gummis) and smelling the berry lotions from Bath & Body Works. It's artificial berries, sort of warm and perfumey, but sweet and creamy and nostalgic. I think the only note I can pick out at all is the "smushed berries" and maybe the lotus, which sometimes has a creamy, bubblegummy scent to my nose. Sort of a berries & cream candy thing. Innocent and happy.
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I love Frog Moon 2022. This and the "Fir Needle, Ivy Leaves & Moss" in my latest order are the rare green scents that have been absolute loves for me. The bamboo note here is strong, pulpy, slightly sweet, cool, wet, and vividly green. The green tea adds a hint of lemon and the wasabi a touch of crisp spiciness. It feels like sitting down for tea in a shady garden next to a cool, tranquil stream, everything covered in moss and greenery. The pine moss and green musk are familiar yet unusual. The patchouli adds a little warmth and coziness. Hard to describe, but everything is richly green and so lovely and lively.
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Starts off as sweet amber resin, glowing red dragon's blood incense, and hints of something herbal (the lavender? but doesn't really smell like lavender, just 'herbs'). I love that first ten minutes on my skin where it's a sweet, warm, complex scent and the red dragon's blood makes it feel like it's glowing with power. Then the drydown gets very heavily powdery and dusty and the scent takes on a thick, cloying sweetness. I don't like ambers that turn to powder and this one definitely does on my skin. I get zero orange and no distinct lavender, but the cocoa powder might be adding to the heavy, powdery sweetness. Smells more dusty/dirty over time and I scrubbed it off at the one hour mark because it was unpleasant to me.
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I was hoping that The Mystic Moon would smell like true honeysuckle and jasmine flowers, but it's not quite as sweet or creamy as the real deal and it goes a bit soapy on my skin. It has an edge that reminds me of sharp musk and a little of a sour, soapy quality. It also doesn't smell like fresh flowers, but more like wilted, droopy, browning flowers, if that makes any sense.
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My mom has always been a 'clean freak' and, as an adult, so am I. I used to love coming home to the house smelling of bleach and PineSol. The home that I spent my childhood in was deep in a pine forest, so we were surrounded by evergreens. Our house also had thick ivy growing up the one side and moss covered rocks all around the house. This scent smells so much like the sparkling clean home of my childhood with the windows thrown open to let in the fresh air and smelling crisp evergreens, warm wood, and cool ivy. It's like all of the green scents of my childhood and it smells so natural (other than the whiff of PineSol, which is a scent that I adore anyhow) because it has the sweetness that those green scents naturally have and that most perfume fragrances miss the mark on. It has the alluring type of sweetness that you get from freshly cut grass or pine sap. I absolutely adore this. It loses the PineSol after about 15 minutes and I smell like warm evergreen trees - sweet sap, warm wood, crisp needles - and the sweetness of freshly cut grass. I usually hate green fragrances because they're sour or off to me in some way, but this is something that I want backup bottles of.
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Black Cherry, Vanilla Bean, and Champaca
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I was really hoping for sexy, dark, juicy cherry, vanilla cream, and sultry champaca like in the "Dark Chocolate, Madagascar Vanilla, Haitian Vetiver, Benzoin and Champaca" blend. What I'm getting is intensely strong, sour, tart, black cherry candy powder, Fritos chips, and mall headshop incense (the cheap kind). I really wish that the vanilla would come through, because this is such a dry, sour scent that could really use some creaminess or juiciness. Sour candy powder and dusty incense. -
The watery, green, cool scent of freshly sliced cucumbers and something powdery, sweet, and a little plasticy. The sweetness mixed with that cucumbery scent unfortunately makes my brain think of rotting cucumbers and I don't like the plasticy and powdery edges.
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Beautiful, cool, green opening that smells like dark green ivy climbing over cold stones and a milky freshness that reminds me of dandelion sap. It starts off very green and then, after 5 or 10 minutes, makes room for the creamy floral and gourmand components, though the green thankfully never fades entirely on me. The cakes are wonderful, like a honeyed, sugar glazed donut stuffed with some sort of white floral cream (realistic gardenia and lily to my nose) and flavored with a hint of warm spice. The gourmand, sweet parts are strong, but they don't overwhelm the floral and green for me. This is very well blended and stays complex and interesting over hours of wear. Cakes fit for a fairy, served up deep in the forest in a secret garden where the stone walls and tables are covered in ivy and milky, green sap.
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This has 5 of my all time favorite notes in it, so I thought that it was a guaranteed win, but I don't smell any of those notes (no wild plum, no vanilla, no patchouli, no oakmoss, no leather). I get a bit of berry in the opening (like blueberry pie goo), but it disappears within 5 minutes and then I'm left with tons of powdery, dry, sharp sandalwood. It makes my throat feel dry when I smell it. It's all sandalwood with a hint of ashy vetiver smoke that smells like a whiff of cigarette smoke on me. Doesn't change at all over the hours. My partner said it smells like "pencil shavings and baby powder."
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I wish that I could get this scent without the honey because I love the dandelion and weed opening and don't care for the sickly sweet, super powdery, honey drydown. The honey completely overpowers the green parts after about 15 minutes on my skin. I hate the smell of weed in real life, but I like the herbal-spicy, dark green, almost misty cool note that everyone seems to be using in perfume right now. It actually smells like it would be in the same family as dandelion, and I like bpal's dandelion notes as well. It really captures the milky, slightly sweet dandelion sap and bitter greenery of dandelion. If it stayed all green weed note and dandelion, I'd full bottle this, but the honey takes over and turns to baby powder and heavy sweetness with no greens on me.
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I love braided bread and chocolate desserts (delicious and beautiful to look at) and this smells like a flaky croissant, just slightly buttery, with melty chocolate filling and a little bit of cinnamon coming through on my skin. I can't pick out anything almond-y exactly, but I do smell a hint of rye bread in the drydown, and this is a lovely, strong, bready pastry and chocolate scent. Chocolate Babka, Syrnyk, and Nightingale are all beautiful, unique gourmands.
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In the bottle and for the first few minutes on my skin, this is lots of that almond extract that smells like maraschino cherry syrup. I hate that smell, so I was concerned. As it dries down, though, the burn of that extract scent wears off, leaving behind just an impression of white sugary sweetness, and this becomes very soft, cool and creamy with a toasted, grainy, golden quality. I expected more floral, but this smells just like marzipan on my skin, so very sweet and gourmand. It also fades quickly to just a skin scent and only lasts about 2 hours total on me.
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Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry (Uso, Shidarezakura)
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Limited Editions
Goes on as a high pitched, soapy, musky-perfumey, white floral bomb and I was filled with instant regret. Sharp, dry and soapy, reminiscent of spring floral scented dryer sheets, with an extra shot of sharp musk. The incense smoke in the drydown just comes off as another harsh, dry component that smells dusty and gritty here. I was hoping that this would smell more creamy and pink with some plum and sweet resin, but it's not any of those things -
I originally completely overlooked this because of the "crystalline white musk," but this isn't sharp, instead smelling like my favorite type of white musk - creamy and cool and almost vanillic in quality. I guessed lemongrass rather than verbena when I first tried this because I usually find lemon verbena to be more sour than this blend is initially. The first half hour or so is lemony, but smoothly green, creamy, sweet and slightly herbal. It has a clean, spa-like feeling and reminds me of LUSH's Avobath. It starts off so wonderful, but I love Crysal Gazers less over time. The drydown starts to take on a rather harsh, industrial, generic soapiness and a dry incense smoke creeps in and the blend loses a lot of its sweeter, smoother character. It's sad that it starts out so enjoyable and then the drydown isn't really enjoyable at all to me.
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The strawberry in this actually smells realistic to me (tangy, tart, juicy) with a little extra tropical something from the mango and a hint of sour red currant. It's great for me, even as someone who doesn't tend to enjoy fruity scents, but the red musk always takes things over the top for me. I've tried red musk from a lot of companies, but the Lab still has my favorite red musk ever. Sensual, warm, almost red wine-ish, but sweeter, almost vanillic, darkly musky, wonderful. The realistic, red strawberry and fruitiness makes up about 50% of this blend and then the other 50% is gorgeous red musk, and it's like the fruits and red musk weave around each other and complete each other. I almost want to track down a bottle, but I can probably make do with my decant.
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This is gorgeous and absolutely full bottle worthy (both for the fragrance and for the cause). All of the notes blend together and smell like creamy, sweet, yellow cake to me. The spice is warm, gentle and present, but not overwhelming, and my skin tends to amp up spice notes. I was worried about the honey and oatmeal, but this is more creamy, vanillic and golden than simply smelling like a bowl of honey topped oatmeal. Fresh from the oven, warm, golden, rich yellow cake and creamy vanilla with a drizzle of golden honey.
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Plague-O-Ween is very strong and so reminiscent of a craft store in November that it makes me sick to my stomach. It smells like the oils and wax to make cranberry candles, holiday spice candles, and some sort of orange breeze dryer sheet scented thing. It smells like candle making oils. I get no carrot at all. Tart, fruity, spicy, dry, waxy/plasticy.
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Pyriphlegethonian Pomegranate Atmosphere Spray
Little Bird replied to Mellifluous's topic in Atmosphere
My first thought upon spraying this was "candy" and then "vampire candy." The fruit notes are very strong, sweet and glossy and remind me of sugar plum and stewed plums (even a baked, almost spicy warmth after a while), but this has more of a red hue to it. I catch teeny tiny whiffs of sharp black pepper, earthy patchouli and syrupy resin every once in a while, but they're drowning under the super sugary fruit scent. After a while, the syrupy opoponax gains its foothold and really pushes this over the edge into being way too sweet for me. It's a fun room spray, but I do find it to lean cloying and overwhelming after a while. I was happy that I just did one small spray on a throw pillow to test because it would have been too much for me spritzed all about the room. It's super strong and super sweet. -
Frankincense, Copal and Cacao Home & Linen Spray
Little Bird replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Atmosphere
I only have a decant of this, but I love it so much and wish I had a bottle. I used it today and it finally dawned on me that the citrusy, sweet, slightly herbal qualities of this smell a lot like citronella (which is a scent that I really enjoy). It's like citronella candles, white chocolate, and really smooth, warm resins and a hint of sweet incense smoke. -
Blue Curtain at the Brothel Home & Linen Spray
Little Bird replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Atmosphere
It's interesting that this does give off a deep, dark blue color impression at first, likely because of the very present violet note. It's a cool, slightly powdery, sweet violet with a little fruitiness from the plum blossom more than the red currant (which always smells sour to me, and I'm not getting any sour fruit here). On the initial spray, it reminded me of watery, cool, smooth blue musk, but it settles into more of a grand, perfumey floral. The peony is rose-like and perfumey-sharp and the carnation adds a dry, slight spiciness to the sweet violet and fruity plum blossom. It feels like a very adult, grownup floral scent even with the sweet and fruity tones. -
Ambrette Seed & Prune smells like an intensely sour, tart, unripe plum to me. I like it for the first few minutes of wear and then it's just too much for me. I find myself wanting some sweetness or anything to turn down the sour qualities.
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Slightly spicy, slightly smoky, dry, black tea leaves and citrusy bergamot with maybe a watery green tea and hint of mint after a while. Has a masculine leaning quality and, after a few minutes, also kind of reminds me of a generic bathroom cleaner smell with the minty, citrusy, watery tones.
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Iced Apple Dumplings Plopped Into A Sweet Potato Pie
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
First on, this smells like apple fritters and is so delicious. Caramelized, baked, warm apples with a sugary glaze and a hint of cinnamon. Then, within seconds of sitting on my skin, the cinnamon amps way up and the whole thing turns dry and reminiscent of cinnamon potpourri. Sweet, dry, strong cinnamon, but nothing else.