Little Bird
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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. -
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.