Little Bird
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I actually like this more than the original Pinched. I feel like this is more complex and the notes are more distinct in this blend. I primarily smell sweet chewing tobacco that's golden and thickly sweet, like it's flavored with tons of honey and a hint of butterscotch (the butterscotch-y sweetness is something I got from the original as well). The spices are very well behaved, coming through as light touches of pepper and earthy cinnamon bark. In the drydown, it's much the same, but I can start picking up on the coffee and more of the tobacco, giving it a deeper, darker, more earthy, roasted aroma, which just makes the whole thing even better. It verges on being too sweet at points, but I still enjoy this one.
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I didn't see another review thread for this, and I tried searching for one... I ordered this bottle from the lab's etsy shop, hoping that it would be a more wearable version of The Ifrit, and it is that for me. NGIFR6 reminds me of blends like Priala, Sunbird, and The Ifrit - sort of warm, sweetly spicy, bright resins and that perfumey, slightly gritty sand note. It makes me think of gold, resins, and a mix of soft cinnamon and sweet clove. It has great throw and staying power, but stays smooth and doesn't turn sharp or smoky on my skin. It reminds me a lot of the earlier bottles of Priala that I own (the newer/latest bottles I have smell like vetiver rather than sweet spices and resins).
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Sniffing this in the bottle, my brain immediately thought that I was smelling Boomslang with its ultra smooooth, creamy, dark, slinky vanilla, but with roasted coffee bean (warm, gourmand, toasty) instead of cocoa. I expected this to be intense on the pumpkin spice, but I actually don't smell the pumpkin spice at all. I love the first half hour of wear (Snake Oil vanilla and roasted coffee beans) and was thinking backup bottles, but unfortunately something in PSL starts to go baby powdery on my skin after that first half hour. It's like the smooth sweetness fades away to be replaced by powder and then the whole thing starts to fade rather rapidly.
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Snow White has been one of my favorite bpals for forever now, so I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy the Sugar Cookie part or feel like it was ruining the perfection that is Snow White. This is a really fun flanker, though. I agree with the previous review in that this reminds me of Snow White whipped into a frothy, milky drink and topped with some snickerdoodle crumbles and a little bit of cinnamon sugar. In the drydown, the cookie part gets that really beautiful, caramelized smell that cookies get when they're just starting to brown/getting ready to burn on the edges. The Snow White is there, present and ultra creamy, full of cool vanilla and a kind of marzipan-ish scent (not cherry or almond extract, but the creamy, delicous parts of sugared almond). I'm really enjoying this blend.
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This has a craft store potpourri smell on me, sort of plasticy and quite spicy, which surprised me. I guess the spice is coming from the carnation, but it smells like a cheap mulled apple cider candle more than carnation to my nose. The only other note that I can discern is the strawberry and it reminds me of strawberry gummi candy, very sweet and artificial. This has so many scents that I love in it, but it's a pretty big letdown for me
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I've tried so many perfume houses at this point in my life and the Lab still has the best plum notes that I've ever smelled, so I knew that I was going to love this blend. I don't smell marshmallow exactly (this doesn't have marshmallow's creaminess), but I think that the marshmallow adds to the sweetness of the plum. This is like a dark, juicy, slightly tart, perfectly ripe plum that's been dusted in glittering sugar. I want to layer it with other things, but I also think that it's perfect on its own and I don't want to mess it up. Hopefully I can get a couple more bottles of this one before it disappears. It is worth hoarding.
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A Place of Seeing reminds me of scents like Morocco (but this isn't as powdery as Morocco is on me) and The Girl (but this is more sweet and creamy) because it has a slightly powdery, deep amber and sandalwood underneath an airy, sweet perfume. The lavender and marshmallow are strong on initial application and then dissolve quickly into this airy, sweetened lavender that is like a cool breeze over the ambered notes. I get no rose or bergamot at all from my bottle, and I'm fine with that. I expected more sweetness from the vanilla and marshmallow, but this is more creamy and lightly, elegantly sweetened. I love this one.
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Snake Oil with oakmoss, sea moss, white moss, and olive leaf. The original Banded Sea Snake had a bright, smooth, non-soapy aquatic, earthy moss and lots of Snake Oil vanilla sweetness. Aged, it's a sweet, dark vanilla with clear, clean aspects to it (but not soapy). This new version veers into being soapy on my skin, and isn't very sweet at all. It has a light, clean laundry sort of smell with a hint of green moss. As it dries down, it's clean laundry, a nondescript green and cool feel (almost minty smelling on my skin, like mint plants mixed with moss), and the smokiness of Snake Oil rather than the vanilla aspect is amping up on me. After a couple hours, it's clean, soapy laundry smell with a hint of vanilla and smokiness. I don't like this as much as the original, but I do sometimes enjoy clean/soapy fragrances on my husband, so I'm going to try this out on him.
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I was worried about the cinnamon, but it's well-behaved and lends a spiciness to the leather that actually reads more like bay rum cologne on my skin. I agree with the reviews that have said this is a brown saddle leather that feels well worn and a little dusty, but it also smells very cologne-like on my skin. Like a clean man that still smells of soapy aftershave and bay rum cologne with a sharp, gleaming metallic edge, climbing into a dusty saddle. More clean and not as deep and rich as a scent like Spanked (my forever spiced leather love). It gives off Drakkar Noir and Old Spice type vibes.
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The Anise Swallowtail is a creature of wide open spaces. She flies through wide open spaces, over hills and through lots abandoned by humankind, dancing among dill, parsley, fennel, and wild carrots. Bourbon vanilla, star anise, cypress, juniper berry, a drop of blood orange, and bronze fennel. Anise Swallowtail reminds me of Golden Priapus with its smooth, cool evergreen notes and lots of creamy, lightly sweet vanilla. The cypress, juniper and fennel are green, frosty, slightly herbal, and slightly camphorous, without smelling like full-on menthol or mint or anything harsh. This reminds me quite a bit of Tokyo Milk's "Arsenic" fragrance as well, especially as it dries down (that one is notes of 'absinthe, vanilla salt, cut greens and crushed fennel'). Cool, green, and lots of vanilla.
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I should love this, but I don't. It's sort of herbal and sour-metallic and reminds me of clary sage with a dusty, sharp cedar undertone. After a half hour, I can smell the vanilla and sweet, golden resin underneath the herbal, woody tones, but it's very faint and still has a strong, sour, dry, herbal quality to it.
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Sickly sweet and very baby powdery. Orris, white sandalwood and Egyptian musk all go powdery on my skin and I usually love the sweetness of orris, but it's coming off rather funky in this blend, like rotting, damp flowers covered in baby powder and dust. Clean, white musk and baby powder smelling drydown.
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Everything is well blended and swirled together. Hints of sweet plum, sharp white smoke, and patchouli that is both chocolatey and woody, with whiffs of pencil shavings and dry cedar. The oud gives off an edge of Off Deep Woods bug spray for a while in the opening. The drydown after a half hour is mostly white tobacco with smoke, powder, and dry woods. After an hour, still that powdery white tobacco and dusty wood, but I also get a weird vegetable oil smell from this.
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Super sweet honey and champagne (slightly fizzy and very boozy and sour). The sweetness is intense and cloying. The drydown doesn't change much, except something starts to turn baby powdery mixed in with all the sugary honey and boozy champagne scent. I had to scrub this one off after about a half hour because the sweetness was too much for me and I didn't care for it with that dry, powdery quality mixed in.
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First on, this is surprisingly clean smelling, like the scent of clean, chilly skin, cold marble, and the way that pine smells on a misty, foggy day. As it settles, those lovely top notes disappear and this takes on a powdery scent that makes me think of lightly vanilla scented talc dusting powder. There's a darkness underneath the powder that reminds me of the musk in Satyr, but mostly this is just incredibly powdery on my skin. I wish the clean, misty pine stuck around. 20 minutes into wear, this is all baby powder and dustiness on me.
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Heavy, dry chai spices with woodsmoke and soft, powdery sandalwood. I get no buttercream, honey or marshmallow and I was most excited for the marshmallow. I feel like the scent does need some extra sweetness and creaminess, so I wish the more gourmand notes came through. Very dry and spicy smelling on me.
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This smells very similar to regular Lemon-Scented Sticky Bat. I thought it would have more pumpkin or some pastry and spice to it, but I get zero spice and not much pumpkin or pastry feel. I did a side by side comparison of regular Bat and Pumpkin Bat and they both have the same lemonheads candy thing going on (like syrupy-sweet, hard candy lemon coated in a sour lemon shell) with Pumpkin Bat just having a kind of buttery undertone (like Jack minus the peachiness and hint of spice) and creaminess that original Bat doesn't have. I actually do prefer this one a bit, but they're not different enough for me to justify upgrading my decant to a bottle when I rarely even wear the original bottle of Bat that I own. I like fresher lemon scents or lemon cake type scents and this one is very candied.
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I was hoping for lots of clove and dragon's blood, but all I'm getting from this is intensely sweet lavender (like a lavender flavored bubblegum), Play-Doh and something that's reminding me of the sweet bubble bath that I had as a child. I get nothing spicy or resinous or incense-y. It makes me want to take a bubble bath and it feels playful and very sweet.
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I expected this to be more fresh and clean with the lavender and coconut, but there is no lavender to be found and the coconut is very sweet and slightly buttery smelling, perhaps with some extra sugary oomph from the vanilla. The hazelnut adds a toasty warmth and the sandalwood a little bit of powdery in the drydown. It does veer a little towards coconut suntan lotion smell on my skin (a little oily and waxy/plasticy), but is mostly a very sweet, warm, gourmand scent. I almost find it a little too sweet.
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Starts off with a blast of almond extract, but dries down to a soft milk chocolate and marzipan almond, which is more of that creamy, honeyed almond paste and powdered sugar scent. Not a lot of throw, but I do enjoy this one. Soft milk chocolate and honeyed almond paste.
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I'm so jealous of anyone getting cola from this (one of my favorite scents & flavors) because all I'm getting is tart, powdery, fruit-ish candy. It does remind me of Sweet Tarts and Pixie Stix with a powdery/dusty edge to it in the drydown. I'm not even getting any of the fizziness. I wish it smelled like cola or Fizzy Pop incense!
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On me, this starts off like green apple scented shampoo (slightly soapy) and dries down to mushy red apple turned Febreze air freshener. I never seem to get along with apple scents unless they're caramel apples or more tart and green. The association with cheap shampoo and sweet air freshener is just too strong for me.
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I wanted the amber, cream and tea, but all I get is the wool and dead leaves notes. The wool is dry and a little dusty/powdery and smells like freshly cleaned, soapy laundry while the dead leaves smells more like men's cologne and green leaves than dead leaves. It's fresh, clean, cold and masculine leaning rather than the cozy gourmand that I was hoping for.
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My skin holds on to spice notes and often amps them up to a screeching level. This has a super sharp cinnamon in it that irritates my skin and I don't know what is going on with the other notes. It's like cinnamon and a really sharp, sour, citrus scented household cleanser of some sort.
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Mostly this is a dusty amber and glowing, warm, perfumey scent. It doesn't read floral or fruity or gourmand to me at all. It reminds me of blends like Morocco and The Girl. Amber and warm, soft musk in a powdery, dusty, perfumey cloud with a little nondescript spiciness. Drydown has a hint of dusty, baked earth and clay scent on my skin. Maybe a hint of sultry jasmine? I only had enough in my decant to wear this once, alas.
