Little Bird
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Bourbon Vanilla and the Belgian Chocolate hair glosses are my new favorites. I love perfume, but a lot of the time, I just want something delicately sweet and subtle, and both of these hair glosses are perfect for that. They're not a scent cloud, but more a scent for anyone who might be snuggling up to you. On days when I'm struggling, they're not strong enough to give me a headache or bother me, even though they're noticeable in my hair all day and I find myself happily smelling the ends of my hair. Bourbon Vanilla is slightly sweet, but also has an herbal, tea-leaf-like quality to it, smelling very natural, like the perfect clean girl vanilla. I love vanillas and this one is so pretty and easy to wear. As a bonus, my husband loves both of these scents on me as well, and has repeatedly complimented them . I used to have trouble wearing the hair glosses (when I was younger and my hair was plenty oily on its own), but now that I'm 37-years-old, have an obsession with changing up peek-a-boo highlights in my hair, and swim in chlorine almost every day, the bottom length of my hair tends towards being dry and loves hair masks and these glosses.
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I can smell a little carnation spice in the bottle. On my skin, it's all hay and hazelnut, though. It smells of real, dried hay and nutty, slightly woody, dry hazelnuts. I also keep thinking that I can smell maple syrup. There's no carnation, vanilla, or cream to be found. The amber does add a toasted warmth, but it's a simple, dry, light scent overall. I think carnation and vanilla cream would have made this lovely for me, but I don't get those notes.
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I kind of had the opposite experience from VioletChaos. For me, Coconut Tree is like suntan lotion coconut mixed with just the coconut part of pina colada mix. It's intensely sweet, artificial coconut that leans buttery and oily smelling. It feels warm, like sunburned skin coated with coconut sun lotion. I was hoping that the husk and frond would make this smell more natural and like an actual coconut tree, but there is no greenery and the husk isn't earthy, but very dry and slightly powdery.
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I love vanilla aquatics and gourmand aquatics (my favorite is Solstice Scents' Sea of Gray, followed by Molinard's Vanille Marine, 4160 Tuesdays' What I Did On My Holidays, and Reminiscence's Etoile de Rem). The touch of salt and freshness mixed with something like sweet vanilla or caramel is just so attractive to me. I wore The Storm to my massage therapy appointment a few days ago, and I laid here for about a half hour into my massage just wondering what essential oil my therapist was using that smelled so wonderful and relaxing. After a while, I realized that it was The Storm wafting from me that smelled so dreamy and spa-like. I like Lyonesse and Sea of Glass, but The Storm is better than both of those blends to me. Lots of creamy, sweet yet not sugary vanilla, a touch of salt, and an impression of serene, cold water. I'm surprised that there's no blue musk in this. It's so calming and lovely.
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The Mummies of Mexico City brings up images of walking into an old wood and cobblestone building with decades of resins that have soaked into every part of the structure, standing in a large room with wooden rafters, flickering candles, gold, and dust floating lazily through a beam of sunlight from a stained glass window. I think this smells like sweet frankincense and slightly lemony, slightly pine-y, slightly smoky copal (very slightly smoky), a golden and lightly powdery amber that conjures up sunshine and dust, old books that have that aged vanillic scent to them, and a hint of beeswax candles. Very pretty. I'm happy to have this in my resin/incense collection.
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I wore this blend today without checking the notes and all I had was "sour plums? metallic cigarette tobacco?" Must be the currant and vetiver. I love bpals leathers and patchoulis, but I didn't get those notes at all. No pink pepper or amber for me either. Kind of odd and turns a little too sour on me, and also only lasted a couple hours on my skin.
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I get absolutely no coconut, plum, jasmine, almond or tobacco. The white amber is annoyingly powdery in the opening, but fades to the far background pretty quickly to let this be all about the vanilla fougere. It's like a smooth vanilla and aquatic men's fragrance. Reminds me of OG Dorian. Several hours into the drydown, it also reminds me of another of my favorites - Atelier's Vanille Insensee. A smooth, cool toned, airy vanilla that's sweet, but not sugary, and a little powderiness around the edges from the white amber. Sticks close to the skin, but does last around 8 hours on me.
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Fearlessness has a deep, red, spicy scent. I get a strong dragon's blood incense with rose geranium that's both rosy and slightly herbal toned, and dry, spicy, slightly earthy saffron mixed with clovel and a pinch of black pepper. The spices smell dried and tucked away in an old, wooden spice cabinet. The dragon's blood is slightly floral and a little sour, very red toned, and a little incense smoky. I really like the spices in this. It reminds me of going through my mother's jars of dried spices, herbs, roses, and incense powders when I was little, trying to commit each one to memory.
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Red rose, a sweet and juicy pomegranate, pink pepper adding a spicy bite, and the honey and lily adding a sensual complexity to everything, all on a bed of beautiful, resinous, sweet myrrh and amber. I really love the peppery notes in this blend. I love how all of the notes play together, actually, supporting each other perfectly. It's very much a romantic date night scent, seductive and flirtatious, warm and red. Around the 2 hour mark, it fades a lot and smells more like just a sweet, red to pink rose scent, but it's still charming, and it's worth reapplying to me.
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Sometimes bpal's pumpkin notes smell like pure, melted butter with some sugar, and that's the kind of pumpkin that I get here. The black incense keeps making me think of an abandoned old house that's caked with dust, grime, hints of fecal matter and urine, and rotting wood and fabric. Slightly nag champa-y, but also very dusty and leaning animalic / indolic. Mixed with the sugary, melted butter, this is really stomach churning to me. It takes about 45 minutes for the cloying and indolic parts to calm down to where I'm left with a dark, incensey haze, what smells like dried grass with hints of green grass, and a hint of butter. I actually like this somber, dead meadow and spooky incense stage, but it's rough getting there for me.
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Every time that I wear Lydia, I wonder why I do not wear it more. Opium is one of my death notes, but it perfectly cuts through some of the sweetness of the sticky, slightly cola-ish myrrh, awadh that smells of sweet-yet-dark-and-slightly-earthy chewing tobacco (reminiscent of French Tobacco single note), and the resinous amber/labdanum. All of the notes are dark, strong, and on the sweeter side of their spectrums, which I love. Good throw and staying power and doesn't change much through hours of wear.
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Starts off a little plasticy, a little spicy, and creamy/buttery, reminding me of a craft store in fall, so I was disappointed. The drydown, however, is more what I was hoping for. I love baking in autumn, making cookies and cakes with the windows open to get the cool air and crunchy leaf scent all through the house. That's what this reminds me of. Creaming butter and sugar together with the scent of crisp air, crunchy leaves (no green bell pepper leaves here, thankfully), and hints of fresh pumpkin. As it dries down, the cigar smoke's sweet smokiness just adds to the illusion, like I've removed cookies from the oven and can smell the smokiness of their browned edges. It has a toffee-ish scent over time. I was hoping for masculine, fresh pumpkin, but I'm not mad about this burnt sugary, buttery treats in autumn thing that Pumpkin Man is doing on my skin.
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Refreshing, salty sea spray, a little mint, and crisp, clean, masculine musk with a sweet cigar tobacco creeping in as it dries. Soapy, cool, and crisp/sharp, sweetened with that lightly honeyed cigar tobacco. After a half hour, it's the same, but with the addition of unpleasant notes like burning metal, sharp white floral perfume, and cardboard. I never get any distinct lilac or tea, and department store men's fragrance vibes are, to me, not witchy vibes at all.
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Amour Fou is one of my favorite retail exclusive blends. Many years ago now, I had a bunch of samples of vintage Guerlain fragrances, and Amour Fou reminds me of opening up that package and being so giddy over my new treasures. I would have guessed that this was oakmoss, a slightly smoky and addictive vanilla amber resin, and a drop of animalic leather. Also has powdery tones, but not baby powdery, more spicy, warm, and sensual. The drydown of Amour Fou, in particular, is like an extra vanilla-y dupe of Guerlain's Shalimar, which is something I have zero complaints about. I always smell scents in color and this one is brown and conjures up images of my mother's ancient bottle of Tabu, which was a dark, coppery brown in its violin shaped bottle. It's full bodied, rich, complex, and evokes an image of vintage femme fatales. Warm and enveloping.
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I got a last minute bottle of this before Halloweens left the site, but I don't think that this smells anything like it's supposed to. It's soapy, cloying sweet, and has a strong, powdery, tart floral thing going on. Creamy, pink, tart floral soap, heavily scented, leaning feminine and generic soap bar scented. It doesn't change at all over hours of wear and it has massive throw and staying power (why is it always the blends I hate that stick to my skin forever and have to be scrubbed away). If I try very hard, I can maybe smell a dried hay note way in the background and some sour woodsmoke every once in a while. Myrrh is one of my favorite smells and there is no myrrh here, and nothing about it reminds me of Jack or pumpkins / gourds. Sickly floral soap, leans pink, tart, and powdery. I'm very confused by how it smells versus how it was described.
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My skin seems to just drink this up. It has no throw to where I can only smell it if my nose is pressed to my skin where I applied, and I can't smell it at all by the half hour mark. A sour, sharp, cleaning fluid-ish pine needle, set on fire, with dusty undertones. Dries down to a sort of fruity, deep, dark musk with hints of tobacco-patchouli (but not strongly earthy) and what keeps reminding me of nag champa. Dusty, lightly sweet, and fades so fast.
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First on, smells like creamy, honeyed, waxy, white lily and a spicy zing from the ginger. If it stayed that way, I would love it, but it goes through a mid-stage where is reminds me of rest stop bathroom cleaner and then settles into a very soured, hot, sharp scent. I don't recognize lily or ginger in the drydown, but get a soapy, sour, slightly rotten smelling flower, like it's been picked and left out in the heat to turn to mush. Reminds me more of spoiled roses and soured lemon than it does lily or ginger.
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I have no idea what lye smells like, but this has a sour, sharp, metallic twang to it that I guess is the lye. Then there's powdery bubblegum that reminds me of some of the pink pepper notes that bpal uses because it's slightly spicy, warm, oddly pink bubblegummy, but very powdery and not as sweet as pink bubblegum. It's like pink bubblegum with most of the flavor already chewed out of it. Doesn't even last a full hour on me. I'm not a fan of this one. Chemical and powdery.
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The orchid and rose form a sharp, perfumey, musky floral base that leans refreshing and shampoo-like, with the rose conjuring up romantic, sensual feelings. The black currant gives it an edge of dark, jammy sweetness that I just love. The patchouli and oak aren't distinct, but there is a shadowy, almost incense like undertone here. I enjoy the opening so much, but unfortunately, 20 minutes in, this just smells like dusty powder and sharp floral musk on me. When the rose and black currant disappear into a generic, powdery, perfumey haze, I find myself disliking this one. My bottle is well aged at this point, and I just wish the rose and currant were stronger, but the musky orchid seems to dominate.
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No vanilla cream, but I get lots of tropical, tart guava. The pink fig, I believe, is adding a warm, peachy tone to the scent along with fig's usual woody, slightly earthy, pulpy scent. Fades very quickly on me and I was hoping for the vanilla cream to be present, but this is a pleasant, tropical, fruity scent that's tart and lightly sweet. I will probably keep my decant, but don't need more of this one. A light, summery, fruity scent.
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I expected this to be juicier and creamier than it is, but it does smell like sugared, dried mango slices, breezy and orange scented white petals, and a musky, nondescript floral tone with wafts of incense smoke. Mango fades fast and leaves me with more of the nondescript, breezy, slightly sweet floral and clean, powdery musk, with a dry, hazy, smoky incense veil. I don't get the spiciness that others have mentioned, but the musk is going towards sharp and powdery on my skin. I expected something more sugary and.. pink from the pink musk (maybe I was thinking of Pink Sugar), but the drydown isn't very sweet on my skin and doesn't exactly read as pink. Floral, musky, clean, slight incense smoke.
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The black tea, hot iron, and smoke seem to be turning into a weird, off putting, burnt, smoky, rusty metal type of scent, with hints of the lilac and plum giving it a pale purple edge and some sweetness. After an hour, it has faded to a pale wash of lilac and some lingering smoke.
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No sugared cream or orange blossom for me. I don't have great luck with bpal's peach notes because I like a syrupy, sweet, ripe peach and bpal's peaches tend to go plasticy and clean smelling on me, like they're unripe, crunchy, and watery rather than sweet. The lotus adds a little creamy floral and sweetness, but the overall scent is light and clean, venturing into peach scented shampoo territory for me in the drydown. Low throw and disappears within 2 hours.
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Pink Moon: Sugar Crystals and Mandarin
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
The mandarin is intensely sour, bitter, and dry, and leans harshly soapy on me. It's like biting into an orange peel and it's somehow nothing but peel. I don't smell any sugar or anything reminiscent of Pink Moon 2024. Just unbearably sharp orange peel. -
Dried, red rose petals and sweet vanilla. I don't really get the cotton candy impression. Just sweet rose with some vanilla. Doesn't even last a full hour on me.