Little Bird
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I didn't expect to love The Serpent In The Lilacs as much as I do. In fact, I didn't think I would like this at all, because I tend to prefer lilac as a single note, which I already own plenty of, and I couldn't imagine lilacs mixed with Snake Oil because lilac is so innocent and sweet smelling to me where Snake Oil is dark and sensual. I should never doubt a Snake Oil flanker. Lilac can either have a baby blue hued purple and honey feel to it or it can smell dark purple and a little sharper while still being honeyed and noticeably lilac, and this one reads as the dark purple to me. I think the slightly sharper lilac works better for this blend anyhow because it feels more grownup to me. The first time that I wore this one, I got some of Snake Oil's patchouli, but the second wear had more Snake Oil vanilla and didn't notice any earthiness. Deep purple lilac, just a little sharp, but softened by the natural sweetness of lilac and a vanilla that's slinky, smooth, shadowy, and sensual rather than super sweet. Grownup vanilla, not cake or frosting or sugar. A snake lounging happily in the center of a lilac bush in full bloom.
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The whole time that I was wearing this, I kept imagining an anime girly with pink hair, in a dress of hot pink ruffles, with a personality and voice that's high pitched, happy, and always full of energy. It smells like cherry flavored sweet tarts candy, sweet strawberry scented shampoo, and a beautiful mix of cream, blossoms, marshmallow, and a hint of powdery amber. It's a very pretty swirl of all the listed notes. The fruity parts are strongest on me. The marshmallow isn't super strong but it is present on me throughout hours of wear. Overall, this is a really appealing mix of tart, creamy, clean, and sweet. Maybe a little too fruity-sweet for me, but I did enjoy it when I wore it, even if it didn't feel like a 'me' scent. I'm not high energy; I'm anemic and have fibro, lol. I'll definitely keep my decant and retest this and consider a full bottle, though.
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My favorite mint blends are the Lab's OG Lick It and Snowblind perfumes. The mint here is like the OG Lick It (perfectly chilly, bracing peppermint in a sugary candy cane) while the white chocolate and caramel come close to the vanilla buttermint scent of Snowblind. I was worried about the black musk, nicotiana, and sage, and there is a little funkiness in the undertone for a bit, but then the combo takes on more of a freshly cut cedar scent, which I love. In the drydown, it reminds me of How Doth The Little Crocodile, but vanilla-y instead of having dark chocolate. Perfect peppermint candy cane, caramelized white chocolate that's buttery, smooth and sweet, and a foresty, cedar-y undertone. It's a fun, nostalgic scent for me, and one I'm considering full bottling.
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This is so amazing for the first hour and then it turns into a nondescript floral powder scent on my skin. The first hour or so is like tasting a beautiful ice wine. The lilac gives off its honeyed, richly sweet scent into the red wine, and the cinnabar and sweet myrrh give it just a hint of spice and lots of depth. If it stayed like that, I would full bottle this for sure, but the drydown goes flat and powdery, and it quickly fades away from there. Maybe this scent is a good excuse to use one of my scent lockets and see if the opening stage lasts longer.
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I love Pomegranate Milk from the latest Yules, and that made me want to try An Intriguing Observation, but I'm not getting the pomegranate or milk at all. This scent is very musky, but not the usual red musk that the Lab uses and that I adore. It feels like a powdery, warm, golden musk with some dry wood. A little resinous, but not strongly so. It's quiet and sits close on my skin, and it mostly makes me think of old wood warming in the sun while dust motes float about in the golden beams.
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Intimate Experiments During Household Activities
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Lupercalia
The cherry starts off overpowering all of the other notes, and it smells like cherry Kool-Aid powder mixed with sour cherry powder. Very tart, powdery, and candied (sweet tarts candy, really). After 10 minutes-ish, the mango cream and neroli slowly start creeping in and then it's more enjoyable. There's a pleasant creaminess, a tropical lilt from the mango, and a fresh yet sweet orange scent from the neroli, but there's still a powdery undertone and sharp, tart cherry that I don't love. Intimate Experiments doesn't smell edible or realistically fruity; it's more perfumey and like it could be a lotion from the creaminess or a bubble bath from the soapy edge it has. I think the black currant is just adding a hint of a tart, acidic bite. I don't mind this, but it's probably not something that I'll reach for again. I have better creamy, sweet mango blends from bpal (Gentle Hands and Rice Milk & Mango are my loves). -
The amazing white chocolate froth and marshmallow mixed with salty, chemical-y water is very discordant to my brain. It's half delicious and half watery chemical soup, like used mop water. I desperately need a white chocolate, frothed milk, and marshmallow scent on its own. Bpal has the best white chocolate, mik, and marshmallow notes, and they deserve to be together with no extra players. Okay, I'll stop begging. I want to love this so much, but the salt and sharp, chemical, industrial floor cleaner aquatic are ruining it for me, and the aquatic part stays strong on my skin. It smells like you would die if you tried to drink this; like someone gave you a heavily poisoned white hot chocolate and tried to cover up the smell by topping it with marshmallows. After about an hour, it also takes on a plasticy tone that I don't care for. So sad.
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Elizabethan Red is a very light, delicate scent with almost no throw. I feel like the 'water' in the orange blossom water was no joke because it's a washed out, clean orange blossom (not soapy, but cool and watery) and orange blossom is usually rather strong on me. I can also smell the woodiness of the fig and a very creamy, lotion-y smell, which might be the milk part. After a half hour, those notes have faded and it turns to a light ambergris that smells of cold, salty water, powder, and a little white muskiness. Only lasted about 2 1/2 hours total and had a clean-skin-fresh-from-a-shower feel to me.
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Ashy vetiver and sour, slightly soapy herbs? I was looking forward to patchouli and wildflower honey, but the earthiness smells like fireplace ash that's damp and moldy with a little menthol. It really smells more like vetiver than patchouli. I think the rose chypre is what is smelling sour and maybe the silk is the starchy, dry quality that it has. Ashy, scratchy, and sour with smoke and nowhere near enough honey or sweetness for me. This one was a scrubber because it was actually upsetting my stomach after a half hour.
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For the first half hour, The Seventh Veil is a cold fir and warm woodsmoke thing that makes me think of Christmas, and then a tart fruit punch joins in with something rubbery-leathery. Over time, the fruit punch shifts into more of an actual blood smell on my skin, metallic and creepily off, but in a good way. Then, a couple hours later, it mostly reads as just a soft woodsmoke and maybe sandalwood on my skin. Not my favorite but I don't tend to like smoky scents.
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I think this smells like opium poppy, red musk, and ink. It reminds me of the glittery, almost-but-not-quite soapy, white floral, opium poppy note, splashing around in a pool of red musk and ink. The ink smells like pen ink, black and mineral and a bit resinous itself. I picked up a decant of this blend out of curiosity but I am enjoying it enough to consider ordering a full bottle if I can afford it after buying my must-haves. It feels like a more mature red musk scent (if there is red musk in here; I feel like I can smell it strongly) and the red part is sweet enough to soften the sharper floral-esque part. It smells romantic and gothic to me, like a love letter with blood, sweet red wine, and a spritz of vintage floral perfume splayed over its pages.
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I wish that the sandalwood didn't turn so heavily powdery (and it's weird because the sandalwood in OG White Rider doesn't go powdery on me). All of the other notes are so pretty, and even the sandalwood has a slightly smoky incense tone to it after a couple hours (or perhaps it's a slight smoky tone I'm getting from the leather). White chocolate and frothed milk is a gorgeous mix that smells just like the white hot chocolate that my sister and I make in the winter, topped with frothed milk and marshmallow. It smells delicious and realistic. I love it, but the powdery sandalwood really brings it down and adds a weird element to everything. I also love the leather in the OG White Rider but I have trouble picking out any leather in this until 5-ish hours into wear. I get what smells like crisp notebook paper singed on the edges and the barest whisper of soft suede leather.
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I've been very tired of rose fragrances lately, and this hair gloss is very rosy, but I'm actually enjoying it a lot. As soon as I put it on, I felt pretty and like I should be a main character on Bridgerton with flowers in my hair in an epic updo. It feels less "foolish young people trying to get married" and more "powerful and confident matriarch" or Queen Charlotte herself, though, which is totally working for me. The cherry rose is so cool because it smells like I have real, fresh picked cherries and roses in my hair, and they mesh together so well. The white tea is present for the first hour or so and adds a pleasant sharpness along with the marshmallow smelling like a touch of powdered sugar and the amber base giving off vintage perfume feels. I think it's the amber that pulls everything together and smells more mature to me. I will have to see how far I get through my 1 oz decant. I might need more of this.
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Red musk often smells fruity and like sweetened red wine to me, but it alsow has a sexy, musky and heated skin, glowing red quality to it. The red musk with pom and red currant is so gorgeous, juicy, and sensual while still being playful and sweet. The marshmallow cream is wonderful and swirls around the other notes, reminding me of cremesavers candies. It's very gourmand and sweet with the red musk dirtying it up in the best way. The red musk is sexy, the pom is juicy, and the currant is tart, all wrapped up in sweet marshmallow cream. I can smell all of the listed notes swirled together and it's a beautiful combo that smells like candy. My decant will not be enough.
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The Dregs of a Bottle of Vanilla Extract (Discovered in the Mud)
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in The Edward Gorey House
I can distinctly smell mud when it's first applied, and then it shifts into a cocoa-y scent as the earth and sweetness mingle together. After about 5 minutes, though, it reminds me of the creamy bourbon vanilla and sugar in Gypsy Moth whil the earthy tone lingers in the background as a warm, sultry shadow underneath the vanilla. It reminds me of Guerlain's Spiritueuse Double Vanille a bit too (but Dregs of Vanilla smells better to me and has better throw and staying power than the Guerlain). If you like a sweet, creamy vanilla with an edge of sultry darkness to it, then I think you'd love this blend. I want to bathe in this. All three of the new Edward Gorey scents are full bottle worthy for me. Multiple full bottle worthy. -
Weirdly, I don't smell any greenery from this at all. Nothing like juniper, pine, or grass at any point. It's all floral, and it smells like a sharp, slightly soapy/clean, musky, white floral. It doesn't read as jasmine to me because it's more of a nondescript white floral smell that reminds me of a sharper Marc Jacob's Daisy, bringing up images of those (creepy to me) adverts of young girls frollicking around sunlit fields in white sundresses. My husband said that I smelled like flowery shampoo.
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Raspberry Punch with Cake Crumbs
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in The Edward Gorey House
Starts off as a fizzy alcoholic drink with the gin, tart raspberry, and a splash of lemon all muddled together in soda water. It's refreshing and lovely, and I enjoy the bold raspberry note. As it dries down, the gin and fizz disappear and the raspberry gets much stronger. I recently made a white chocolate cheesecake with fresh raspberry sauce for the top, and the drydown of this smells just like cooking down raspberries and adding a little sugar for sweetness and a bit of barely noticeable lemon zest. The cake comes through in the drydown but it isn't super strong, and it's delicately sweet rather than a heavy buttercream birthday cake to me. There's a smooth creaminess and powdered sugary scent after a while as well, which adds to the dessert feel, mixed with warm cake and tart raspberry sauce. The overall fragrance is a unique, elegant feeling gourmand. I was worried that this would be sticky, childish punch and cloying cake, but it isn't that at all. Requires full bottling for sure. -
Acidic, slightly sour, juicy, pink grapefruit on a bed of marshmallow fluff. Heavenly. This is actually a scent combo that I've wanted for a long time, and it's perfect. Grapefruit oils can sometimes have a bad body odor scent to them, but the grapefruit here smells edible and true. It's more grapefruit at first and then the marshmallow takes over more and more. Around the one hour mark, the grapefruit has faded off and it's all marshmallow (and I'm not complaining at allll). It's a perfect, realistic marshmallow; it's just like opening a bag of marshmallows and smelling the fluffy, creamy, rich scent that they have. It's so wonderful, and this is definitely my favorite of bpal's marshmallow fragrances. The marshmallow stage lasted around 8 hours before I showered, and it had good throw and was noticeably present. I also felt better wearing this perfume, on a day that was incredibly difficult for me to get through, because it's so comforting and easy to wear. It helped me a lot yesterday. I will need multiple bottles of La Dame Aux Pamplemousses.
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I love Pumpkin Spice Blood Kiss from Halloween 2019 (so complex with a creamy pumpkin pie vibe swirled into all of the goodness of Blood Kiss), but Pumpkin Kisses is what I was afraid that blend would be like. Pumpkin Kisses is cheap spice, plastic, wax, and that overall scent of walking into a craft store around Halloween. I get zero Blood Kiss; it's all pumpkin spice home oil and wax/plastic. Strong, headache inducing, and an absolute scrubber for me.
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Smells like Sprite to me more than anything else, like a small child poured a bag of sugar over a glass of Sprite and now the fizzy, sugary mess is everywhere. I get zero authentic/natural smelling lime or citrus (it's.. Sprite with extra sugar, and I dunno how else to describe it) and absolutely no pepper or bay rum. It's very sickly sweet and artificial smelling. I would love to have a room spray that smells like freshly squeezed limes, which is what I was hoping for here, but I don't think I'd identify lime at all if I didn't know the name of this one.
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Beaver Moon: Blackcurrant and Iced Lemon
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I full bottled Blackcurrant & Iced Lemon after trying a sample. It smells masculine to me, but I love wearing scents that give off manly vibes, so that's all good. I was worried about the 'iced' part, but the iced lemon smells like lemon sorbet tastes and that part only sticks around for about a half hour on me anyhow. It's not a snow, aquatic, or ozone ice (nothing minty, sharp, or soapy to my nose). After a short while, it's all black currant, but not the usual, syrupy, jammy, sweet black currant that I tend to go for. This smells like black currant found in a dark, chilly forest and then dried and turned into a black leather. It's gourmand like fruit leather candy, but it also literally smells like a black leather jacket soaked in black currants. It's really good and doesn't remind me of any other bpals in my collection (though it's a bit like a very stripped down version of Mancera's Cedrat Boise with a stronger black currant). It also has impressive throw and staying power for a fruity scent. I'm really glad that the 'iced' in the name didn't scare me off entirely because I've really been enjoying this blend. -
Tart, slightly sour cherry that reminds me of cherry Kool-Aid powder, but the blood orange also quickly joins in, and then it smells more juicy, fresh, and exotic. I would really love a single note of this blood orange, or a blood orange and vanilla. As Die Sweetly Die dries down, the blood orange unfortunately disappears and the scent turns towards a very powdery amber with hints of that cola smell that resins can sometimes have. I thought that this would be more floral but the jasmine and tuberose quietly linger underneath the ambers as a haunting, cool toned breath of flowers. I'm not getting any of the soapiness or rubbery sharpness that tuberose and jasmine can sometimes turn to. An hour in, though, the scent loses all of the little touches that I enjoy, and I'm left with baby powdery amber swirled with a little cherry Kool-Aid powder.
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You Are Mine, You Shall Be Mine, You and I Are One for Ever
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Halloweenie
Reminds me of LUSH's Silky Underwear dusting powder - creamy/powdery with sweet, heady ylang ylang that reminds me of the jasmine in Silky Underwear - with spicy clove and a little extra sunshiny sweetness from the honey. I never get any black currant at all. After an hour, it's much the same, but turning a little too powdery for my tastes, and the ylang is a bit sharper. The new formulation of The Wild Men of Jezirat al Tennyn remains my go-to for a clove scent (along with my hoard of Three Witches, Pickled Imp, and Thorns Clove Cigarette). I love the clove in You Are Mine, but I'd never reach for this over the others in my collection. -
Starts off with a tart cherry juice that I enjoy and then goes through a mid-stage that reminds me of The Elephant is Slow to Mate (which is a blend that I didn't care for), and then it settles into a dry, very sour, potpourri rose that I cannot stand. The rose amps up on me and most of the other notes never manage to come through. It smells prettier and more complex in the bottle. Lasted for hours on me with lots of throw until I scrubbed it away.
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I wore Goose Moon yesterday and it smells like a bitter, very dark, red wine, which must be the sour cherry and red plum, a little bit of powderiness from the sandalwood and orris, and a dark, earthy undertone from the tobacco. I found myself wishing that it were sweeter, but at least the red plum and cherry go towards bitter red wine and not cough syrup on my skin.