Little Bird
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I got an imp of this direct from the Lab in a recent order, but it doesn't smell much like what other people are describing. I get something from this that's pink/red and tart and reminds me of pomegranate, along with a very powdery amber, slightly resinous, and a musk that reminds me of mainstream perfumes and colognes. Warm and sweet. It reminds me very much of another perfume that I cannot place (maybe Jo Malone's Pomegranate Noir without the patchouli and spice, but a similar warmth, fruit, resin and powder?).
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This is such a lovely, sweet, cuddly scent. It smells like clean skin slathered with a soft, honey scented lotion and climbing into your cool bed of soft sheets scented in realistic lily and marshmallow-y vanilla cream. It has a cotton-y, cool quality and lots of delicate sweetness. The white sandalwood and orris aren't turning to a powdery mess like they usually do for me and the scent overall is not sickly sweet in spite of having lots of vanilla and honey. It's sweet and clean, but not soapy or overly sweet. I wish that I could get a bottle of this, but it reminds me of scents like Traditional Sheet Ghost.
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First on, Triumphant Vulva smells like Sweet Tarts candy on my skin, sort of powdery, nondescript fruity, and leaning tart and sour. As it settles in, a breezy floral rolls in and *almost* smells like lilac, but it isn't as sweet or honeyed as lilac. Bpal's lotus often smells like pink bubblegum and a hint of sour water on my skin and I eventually start to smell that here as well. From pretty much 20 minutes to 7 hours of wear, I get that watery pink bubblegum and a hint of sweet tarts candy.
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I'm confused by all of the comparisons to Muddy Armadillo because I don't think that this smells like Muddy Armadillo at all. There's a whiff of chocolate and bone dry, powdery sweetness at first, but the chocolate fades entirely within a couple minutes and I'm left with powder that reminds me of really dry wood, baby powder, and a violet-y scented cosmetics powder. As it dries down, I also get a weird spiciness that reminds me of curry and an off tone that reminds me of hard boiled eggs and plastic burning on hot metal. The drydown is almost unbearable on me. This had certain qualities that reminded me of Pediophobia, but Pediophobia is one of my all time favorite bpal scents and this doesn't have the fleshed out sweetness that Pediophobia has, instead having sour, savory qualities and industrial qualities to it. I'm glad that I only went with a decant of this.
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I didn't order this because the lab's white sandalwood is one of my least favorite smelling things, but someone sent me a decant and of course it is somehow wonderful on me, lol. The sweet amber is woody, vanillic, warm and snuggly. Elegant, creamy and bronzed gold in feel. It smells like it could be in Nocturne Alchemy's Royal Amber line (my favorite amber oils) and reminds me a bit of their Prince Amber scent (my favorite amber oil overall). Bpal's white sandalwood turns a blend to strong baby powder on me 99.99% of the time, but this isn't baby powdery on me at all and leans more creamy and warmly woody than dry and powdery. I should have ordered a bottle 🤨.
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Goes on as a misty, somehow juicy, cool pine with what smells like sweet lime on my skin. As it dries down, the clove smoke comes in and smells so good, spicy and sweet with a warm, subtle smokiness. Troll on its own is aggressively smoky and reminiscent of a pine forest on fire and the pine has a menthol edge to it. Bridge Trolls is all around gentler, sweeter and cozier. By the half hour mark, wafts of Dorian's smooth vanilla cologne join the sweet, misty pine and sweet clove smoke and I am swooning. Dorian smoking clove cigarettes in a damp pine forest. I wish that I had more than a decant.
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Café De Olla Fried Ice Cream Jammed Into A Coconut Cream Pie
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
This is savory and strange on me and smells nothing like fried ice cream or coconut cream pie or even anything sweet. It smells like tortillas, cilantro, green onion and curry. Herbal, spicy, fresh. It's so weird and I can't stand the cilantro-ish scent. -
A big blast of dry, sweet cinnamon, so it doesn't really smell like tiramisu or funnel cakes to me. On the skin, it has a little bit of that oily, fried smell and it kind of reminds me of churros, but churros with way too much cinnamon on them. Dries down to tons of cinnamon and a little bit of sugar. This really irritates my skin and is too strong and spicy, unfortunately.
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I was so delighted to get a bottle of this recently. I previously had a (now mostly empty) decant and the sugary vanilla was the main player with sweet rose jam and hints of dry black tea and tobacco smoke. I loved the thick sweetness mixed with the darker, slightly bitter notes. The bottle that I have now comes across as less vanilla and sugar, no black tea, and more of a spiced, woody tobacco with a stronger red rose. It's darker and almost menacing and made me think of blends like Rose Red and Pulcinella & Teresina. I wish that it were closer to the scent of the decant, but it's still a lovely scent and I love the label artwork.
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I rarely wear apple scents because they're not often very complex or interesting to me. I really like Amoretti, though. It's like a mushy, overripe, red apple (or one baked with no spices) with warm, sultry, red musk that lingers in the background, hints of woody, sweet fig, and a little bit of creamy vanilla. I also get something that smells like a hint of sweet incense smoke in the drydown. I really love red musk, so the undercurrent of red musk is what holds everything together for me. It's a sensual, complex apple scent.
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Honey Taffy Smut is terrible on me. It's disturbingly sweet, like honey and melted brown sugar and caramel with salt. It's so sweet that it makes me sick to my stomach. However, the worst part is that the honey is the variety that smells strongly of urine. I put a little dab of this on one wrist (and it's SO STRONG) and washed my hands 5 times over the course of an hour and my partner still cuddled up to me and said, "Ugh. Why do you smell like cat pee??" So this is a no from me. Sickly sweet + urine. I don't get any Smut or darkness or musk.
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I love the Lab's cheesecake scents and this one is wonderful too. It is so velvety, creamy and sweet. Not quite as tangy and rich as the Beaver Moon cheesecakes. My mother would always buy Entenmann's cheese danish when we went camping and this reminds me of the taste of that cheese danish. Creamy, vanilla-y cheesecake goodness with an almost light and fluffy feel (but not light on throw) and a hint of golden, buttery, crumb topping and powdered sugar. I actually don't get the lemon at all, and thankfully nothing here turns to plastic on my skin. Very much a creamy, cool, gourmand vanilla.
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Not even the double whip and vanilla can save this for me. It's all cinnamon all the time, like I opened a jar of the dry spice and dumped it all over myself. Intensely strong and starts to give me a headache after a while and makes me feel like I'm wearing holiday potpourri.
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Sugared Lace is absolutely wonderful and perfect to me. It's like the original Black Lace with an extra shot of sweet vanilla cream, which is a dream blend for me. The dark, sultry, musky tobacco and incense undertone smells just like original Black Lace and then there's an extra helping of sensual vanilla cream over that, turning up the sweetness and likeability even more. There's a little bit of floofy, powdery, cuddly sweetness that makes me think of falling into bed at night into a plush comforter. The whole thing smells so warm and sexy on the skin and it lasts all day on me, applied in the morning and then washed off before bed where it was still going strong. It's like if Black Lace and Monster Bait: Underpants had a baby that was better than both of them. Love!
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A very tart and sour floral that reminds me of bathroom cleaner somehow. I was guessing cherry blossom at first, but with more of a sharp white floral perfume and none of the creaminess of cherry blossom. Has a tart, nondescript fruitiness, a slight powderiness, and a very clean, chemical-perfumey wash of sheer, sour, white floral. Plumeria is one of my favorite scents in real life (so sweet and tropical), and I can smell a hint of plumeria here for a while, but it also has a lot of that perfumey, musky, high pitched white floral screechiness to let you know that this is perfume and not an actual flower. I can't get over the sharpness or soured quality on my skin.
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Brown Sugar, Cream, and Earl Grey Tea
Little Bird replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I was worried about the brown sugar because brown sugar is usually too sweet for me, but this is a well balanced menage. The tea is one of those smoky, dry leaf black tea notes that's very dark and slightly bitter, so the warm, brown sugar componant really helps to soften its edges, and I get hints of lemon and a dollop of smooth, chilled cream. The drydown reminds me of setting dead, crunchy fall leaves on fire, a little spicy and a lot dry and smoky with a caramelized, sappy sweetness. It's definitely more dry tea leaf than a prepared cup of tea and it's smoky and astringent enough that I'm content with my decant and don't need a full bottle. -
White sandalwood has ruined more bpal blends for me than any other note. I just cannot stand its baby powdery dryness and it almost always amps up on my skin. I would love this and get a full bottle if it didn't have the white sandalwood. The super sweet rose and creaminess are gorgeous. It's a sugared, sweet, red rose that reminds me of LUSH's Rose Jam, but Imose-Yama is minus the lemony fresh part of LUSH's Rose Jam and is all sugared rose goo instead, which I prefer. For the first hour on my skin, it's wonderful sugared rose jam and a hint of cream, and then all of a sudden the baby powdery white sandalwood comes in and makes everything dry and chalky feeling, and then the scent fades quickly after that.
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I took a break from buying perfume when this was originally released and I'm so happy that I was finally able to track down a bottle. I love the story behind this, love RuPaul's Drag Race (and Lil' Poundcake is hilarious), and love Dorian. I get the blast of hard candy cherry for all of 5 minutes and then this dries down to an impression of Dorian (cream, tea, a lil lemon) scented dusting powder. The powder isn't baby powder, but distinctly reminds me of some of the fancy dusting powders that I own, sort of sultry and warm and reminiscent of cosmetics powders, which is very appropriate for a face full of stage makeup ^_^. I absolutely love this and I'll cherish my bottle <3.
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I somehow overlooked this blend when I did my first several reads through the Lupercalia update and put together my first couple orders, even though I literally love every note in this blend and it was a guaranteed winner for me. I have several magnolia trees around my house in Florida and they're blooming now and smell so good, like breezy white flowers infused with lemon and cream. I definitely smell that realistic magnolia here, extra creamy from the coconut milk and, well, cream. The apricot is delightful, smelling bright and sweet and full of sunshine, realistically of fuzzy peel and juicy, ripe fruit. As it dries down, the apricot makes a bit of room for a hint of woody, milky, sweet fig. I never smell coconut outright, but this is definitely a creamy scent and the milkiness is there. I really love all of the creamy, milky elements, the realistic magnolia, the warmth from the fig and the cheerful, bright fruitiness of the apricot. Everything about this is perfect. Fruity-floral-gourmand.
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I am so deeply in love with this and I want at least one more bottle to hoard. The banana isn't a sickly candy note or fake smelling at all. It has all the creamy sweetness of a perfectly ripe banana, but it also has a fresh, cool, clean edge to it that I get from peeling the actual fruit. It goes through a stage where it's freshly sliced bananas over vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of silky, caramelized rum sauce. I was worried about the spiced part of the rum, but this never turns aggressively spicy. The white frankincense is so beautiful and it really starts to come through in the drydown, softly smoky wafts of golden resin. The drydown actually reminds me a lot of "Dark Chocolate, Madagascar Vanilla, Haitian Vetiver, Benzoin and Champaca," which is one of my favorite bpal scents. The banana fades away and I'm left with creamy, sweet vanilla and white frankincense with a tiny hint of warm spice that really just enhances the warmth of the frankincense. It's like white chocolate left in a temple with the most beautiful, soft resin smoke wafting around it. Gorgeous.
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Blueberry flavored bubble gum, creamy and sweet, with a little freshness from the salty aquatic part. It lasts about 8 hours on me and doesn't change or morph at all. I really enjoy bpal's blueberry scents and I'm glad that I got a bottle of this one. I still miss Blue Fire, which this is actually a bit similar to with the candy blueberry + freshness. Sweet and lovely.
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I'm glad that I listened to the hype and ordered a bottle of Sugar Cookie Satyr. I love Satyr (one of my favorite bpal GC blends), but I didn't think that I'd like a Sugar Cookie version of it and I would have been really sad to have missed out on this beauty. It turns out that the smooth, dark, reddish, slightly animalic muskines of Satyr somehow smells really magical and perfect paired with a buttery, vanilla-y cookie. It becomes the most delicious, sensual, deep and dark, sugared musk with throw and lasting power for days. I don't get the cinnamon-ish spice or much of the resinous tones that I get from regular Satyr; this is all about the amazing musk note. It smells like it could even be a Snake Oil variant with lots of extra vanilla; and I like it more than I liked the Sugar Cookie Snake Oil from this same collection (actual Sugar Cookie Snake Oil was lighter and more brown sugary on my skin). Wonderful. If you love slinky, smooth, dark, sweet musks with some extra vanilla, then you should definitely try this one.
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White sandalwood is my bpal nemesis because it just smells like baby powder to me and it drowns out the other notes that it's paired with (and I don't like the powder scent at all). It's hard to smell much here other than the powder, but I get whiffs of an astringent, clean, sharp milkiness and dry clove.
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A lovely lavender cologne. The Empress & The Chariot reminds me of scents like Maison Francis Kurkdjian's Masculin Pluriel, bpal's Wilde, and that familiar smell when you approach the men's cologne counter in a department store (a mix of chilled, dark musk and bright aquatic, vibrant citrus, and overall clean man scent). I can pick out the realistic oak in the bottle, but not so much on my skin, where the cold, black leather comes through instead. This is musky, sweet, clean, chilly yet bright and cheerful, with lots of sweet lavender and dark leather. I love wearing scents with that edge of masculine cologne in them, so this works for me, and I was happy to not smell any of the motor oil.
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I'm surprised that some people aren't getting lavender from this blend because it's almost all lavender on me. Sweet, cool, slightly powdery lavender (bpal's white sandalwood always turns to baby powder on my skin, so that's probably the powder). I get a teeny hint of cardamom's warm, smooth spiciness and more of the baby powdery sandalwood in the drydown, but it's mostly lavender until it starts to fade quickly around the half hour mark. I can't smell it at all after it's been on for an hour.