Little Bird
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I got a bottle of Burning Book on the Lab's etsy but I don't like it at all. It's very smoky and off, like burning latex and burning tire rubber. It didn't change at all through an hour of wear, and it was very strong. I wound up washing it off because it was bothering me. No one else in my house liked it either. It's not a bookish scent to me at all.
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I'm a dead leaves hater, but I've been loving Copperhead Snake On Dead Leaves Starts off like green grass and a chilly, cold air type of vibe over really smooth, pleasant, dry woods. The green part fades away quickly and then the orris root comes in powdery and sweet (reminding me of LUSH's Silky Underwear powder), with the dry woods enhanced by the creamy yet smoky vanilla. Copperhead snakes were plentiful where I grew up and this cozy blend really does make me think of their favorite hiding spots; of their cozy little burrows of dry wood and leaf litter. Sweetened and softened with the vanilla, orris, and warm, resinous amber. I love the way the smoked vanilla and amber meld together. I've been sick of cardamom and orris lately and appreciate the softer touch of them here, just adding more warmth and a small touch of powder and spicy complexity that works very well with that vanilla amber combo. It's quite powdery after an hour and I usually hate powdery scents, but this one has that resinous, woody glow and the vanilla that just works for me. Very well blended with none of the notes feeling heavy handed or overpowering. Warm and cozy. My surprise favorite of this year's Weenies.
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Soapy, sharp ozone with a dusty incense undertone and strong frankincense. The resins are a mix of dusty, dry, and honeyed, with hints of cola, woody evergreen and pine sap. I wish the "electrical burn" would dissipate because I do like the other notes. Overall, it's like beeswax candles, resins, and evergreen bundles next to a sink with hand sanitizer and soap bubbles left over from someone washing their hands. Sometimes I even like that strange impression, but I wish the ozone weren't so sharp.
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I've had this bottle for over a month now, so it's had time to settle. I don't get any of the Snake Oil at all, and didn't get much SO from Berry Sonker either. This one smells like cardboard, dry and scratchy coconut husk, and a sprinkling of sugar that shows up after a couple hours. By the time it gets creamier and sweeter (about 3 hours in), it's faded to a barely there skin scent. I wanted more cake, frosting, and SO, but it's an oddly dry fragrance to my nose.
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The reviews on this seem so varied. First applied, this snake reminded me of the Snake Oil Sufganiyot with its sugared berries and slinky, dark, musky and vanilla tones. Then the drydown, after about 5 minutes, turns to all sour, musky, fake raspberry, like Bath & Body Works type raspberry, and that's where it stays for me. I much prefer Serpent in the Berries, Snake Oil Sufganiyot, and Snake Oil Jelly Donut to this blend.
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Marshmallow Chick Sanguinem Menstruum is one of my favorite bpals (perhaps even my #1 favorite these days), and the opening of Chocolat Viennois is like MCSM with a chocolate covered marshmallow instead of just marshmallow. A similar fluffy sweetness, honeyed creaminess, and tangy blood musk feel. When I first got Chocolat Viennois in the mail, it smelled like that and lasted for hours. However, after having Chocolat Viennois for several weeks, I still get that chocolate covered MCSM impression, but only for about the first half hour before it dries down much stronger on the dragon's blood incense and it's very much a dark, smoky, headshop incense on my skin. It settles into equal parts a strong milk chocolate and strong, burning dragon's blood incense. In the drydown, I don't love it as much. I already own a lot of chocolate incense oils, and this one is too heavy and intense for me to reach for it a lot. I tend to find it sort of suffocating and too much after an hour. That said, if you are looking for sweet chocolate and slightly ashy, smoky dragon's blood incense, this one is strong and long lasting.
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The plum is the sugar-coated, juicy, glossy variety that smells just like the sugar plum in Midwinter's Eve, paired oddly with a very dry incense and a starchy, slightly soapy fabric note. I wanted more of a deep, luxurious, spiced fruity-floral with an incense afterthought, and I'm not sure that I like the sugar plum mixed with the dry incense and fabric. Midwinter's Eve with dry incense smoke and starchy, soapy fabric.
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Goes on with a chemical ink and intense smoke (made me think of burning gasoline at first). After a few minutes, begins to make way for a dry, earthy patchouli with a hint of resinous amber and what smells like a type of animalic, slightly sour, slightly fruity (raspberry-ish), red musk. The ink and patchouli meld together into a dark scent that I enjoy because of the mix of industrial/chemical and natural notes. The sharp smoke lingers in the background, giving off the imagery of ink soaked, smudged notebook paper that's been set on fire. I can really smell all of the listed notes at once in the drydown. I wish the gorgeous patchouli were stronger, though, as that note gets softer on my skin over time. I don't love the smokiness, but this is a 'like' for me.
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I wore this without remembering the notes and I kept thinking that this is what I wanted The Sea Foams Milk to smell like. It's a salty, chilly, slightly soapy, aquatic, clean smell with lots of sweet milk. The blood and black venom impression isn't there for me. Clean and sweet. I like the chilliness that it has at first, and then the sweeter drydown. I bought this for the name and wound up really enjoying it.
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A friend brought me a batch of almond cookies studded with cherries this morning. I ate one and then I decided to wear Sacke & Sugar about an hour later, and I was surprised that this scent reminds me of those cookies. I get a lot of sweetness from the sugar and then what smells like fluffy almond cake. I can smell the sharp, sugary cherry of almond extract very strongly. There's a whiff of movie theater popcorn butter for a while, and then it's all fluffy cake drenched in almond extract and sugar syrup. I wanted more cream, milk, marshmallow, butter and bread, as per the description. I'm disappointed that I bought two bottles of this one because almond extract is one of my least favorite scents.
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I wore this today without checking the notes, and I didn't get anything reminding me of lead, perhaps because I wasn't looking for it at all. 7" of Blood is actually very tame, in my opinion. It didn't shift at all the entire time that I wore it, and it smells like dry wood, clove, and cinnamon. No cocoa, dragon's blood, or red musk that I can find either. The red quality that I get from the scent is more from the spice. It's a warm, powdery, dry, spicy scent. Not a ton of throw and staying power, even though spices usually amp up on my skin.
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This year's Sturgeon Moon does the usual Sturgeon Moon thing in that has a strong scent of soapy dryer sheets, but this one starts off wrapped in a creamy, smooth, blue-green aquatic that is cologne-like. The drydown has a soft, powdery, almost floral and cotton-ish tone to it. Bath & Body Works' Sea Island Cotton, a dash of Cool Water, and sharp, soapy dryer sheets. The soap and dryer sheet thing does get stronger on me over time, and the whole thing lasts about 3-4 hours on my skin. Definitely a clean laundry type of scent.
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2024 Candied Apple. Doesn't remind me of 2015 Candied Apple. I didn't even remember there was a 2015 version until I searched for this topic, though. Anyhow. 2024 CA broke my heart today. It starts off like intensely bitter, cherry cough syrup and then dries down to cinnamon potpourri and stays there. I can smell apple underneath the spice after a while, but it's a dry, sour, sharp apple. It doesn't smell edible or sugary to me at all.
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It's rare for me to enjoy a coconut scent, but I love this one. The coconut is thickly sweet and super creamy, but not in suntan lotion territory. The white amber makes things a little powdery at first, which I also usually hate, but the Oman frankincense is gorgeous. It has qualities that smell of spicy everygreen sap and wood and a rich, honeyed edge that's like beeswax candles, but minus the wax and smoke, if that makes sense. The resinous, woody amber is also more present in the drydown. The sweet parts are meshing so well with the resins, which I didn't expect. The Paintings of the Month series continues to be one of my favorites ❤️.
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Strawberry Moon 2024: Green Tea and Green Strawberries
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is an odd scent. I don't get green tea at all and the green strawberry is like a hint of red strawberry covered in green twigs. It's also very musky, dry, and sharp to me, though, and reminds me of potpourri and air freshener. It has a scratchy, dry, white musk quality to it, but it also does smell slightly green, so I was wondering if it has green musk (but it doesn't smell like the usual green musk that the Lab uses either). A little breezy, soapy, and reminiscent of dryer sheets as it dries down. It's a scent interpretation of green strawberry while not smelling natural at all. I don't like it when perfumes smell like cheap home fragrance or laundry products, so this blend isn't working for me. -
I get headshoppy amber incense (dark, slightly powdery/dusty, richly resinous and sweet, with a slight, hazy smokiness) and a spicy sweetness that smells like cinnamon dusted hot cocoa. The oud smells of dry wood and sharp smoke, and it's present for me in the drydown. So it's lots of labdanum, a sophisticated oud, and a mug of spiced cocoa. The dragon's blood gives everything an edge of sensuality and a dark, glowing red tone. Almost red musk-ish, but more incensey. The overall feel is very heavy from the strong labdanum/amber, and I don't love the powdery/dusty sides to it. After a couple hours, it leans towards a vanilla-y amber that's quite powdery, with the other notes having faded away underneath the labdanum. I can't smell the patchouli or opoponax at all.
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Pink Moon: Marshmallow and Candyfloss Hair Gloss
Little Bird replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
My feelings are the same as Amoraexcena's. I thought this was a safe blind buy and figured it'd be a sweet, simple gloss and I couldn't go wrong with marshmallow and cotton candy. I was also hoping for creamy Stekk marshmallow. This is like circus peanuts on me, though. Gummy, chewy, unpleasant, slightly artificial banana and generic froot smell mixed with sugary dye. It's like a cheap candy that tastes sickly of dye and artificial things that you probably shouldn't be consuming. It smells stale rather than creamy, and not fluffy or gooey or marshmallow or reminiscent of real cotton candy at all. I 100% get that sickly orange color and stale chewiness and artificial monstrosity that is circus peanuts. -
The only note that I was worried about was the orris (I think its powdered sugar sweetness would ruin this for me), and thankfully it is the only note that doesn't show up on my skin. Emeralds is beautiful. I always want to love green scents, but I rarely end up wearing them. Emeralds is a green scent that I've loved wearing this summer. I can smell the rose sap, ivy, oakmoss, pine, lime, and juniper. All of the notes sort of fade in and out around the rose sap, like they all want to be rose sap's leading man and are jostling for attention. It's not chaotic or jarring, though; everything melds together so well and so smoothly. I love the burst of lime, which is like a key lime squeezed over the scent, giving everything a citrusy lift that's mouthwatering to me. It's a very realistic lime note. There's a lot of lime for the first half hour and then it softens and enters the dance with the other notes. Ivy is there with its smooth, cool, dark greenery, the oakmoss with its earthier, dry green, and the pine and juniper smell like sweet evergreen sap and fresh needles. Nothing sour or harsh to me. The rose sap truly smells like I took a rose, tore off the petals on the top, and kept the rose-tinged, green stem. Very much that green, smooth, cool scent of walking into a florist's fridge, which is a scent that I've always loved. All of the notes are wonderful, like the best versions of themselves, and they dance around each other in a way that keeps the scent interesting for me. One of my favorites of this year's Lupers.
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I like Cat Sleeping On An Armchair a lot more than the Coconut Tree blend that also recently went up on the Lab's site. Coconut Tree smelled like coconut suntan lotion, oily and cloying, but Cat Sleeping reminds me of a coconut Boo. The coconut here is super creamy, sweet yet not overly sweet, and just slightly buttery, like cracking open the best coconut ever and eating the meat of it. Then there's a slight undertone that keeps reminding me of breezy linens hung out to dry and, simultaneously, snuggling into a warm blanket. It's rare for me to find a coconut scent that I enjoy, but I love this one because it's so creamy, like a vanilla-y sweet cream mixed with coconut.
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Starts off with fuzzy tomato stems and a dusty sharpness that I didn't enjoy, but it thankfully went away after a few minutes. Then it shifts into a phase where it's a little animalic and a lot earthy, and I love this midstage where it smells like some sort of dark patchouli musk. After about an hour, Black Cat With Tomato Plants settles into its final form and stays there for about 5 hours before it fades away. It's the clean musk of a men's department store perfume and a zesty orange blossom with a sharp orange note. It's interesting how this goes from earthy and animalic to a clean, masculine, slightly soapy, proper men's fragrance with a dose of orange zest and orange blossom that leans just slightly bitter, but it works as a men's fragrance. I happen to love wearing traditionally masculine fragrances, so I love this one. It winds up being simple and clean with a bit of a bite from the orange tones, softened by the creamy blossom part of the orange blossom. I was expecting a very literal scent of a tomato garden interspersed with the herbal-spicy scent of geranium and marigolds and dirt, but this is more refined and the musk and orange blossom are the drydown for me.
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Old Woman With Cat is as cozy and autumnal as I hoped it would be. It starts off as soft, sugared spice, a cloud of cocoa powder, and flour dusted over a wooden board. Warm and sweet. I get a hint of dried herbs for the first few minutes, but that disappears quickly. After a half hour, I'm left with a pile of sugar with warm spices (cinnamon-ish from the pumpkin) sifted through it and a hint of flour. Every once in a while, I still get a random whiff of the chocolate, which is wonderful. By the 4 hour mark, the chocolate is more present again and it's darkening everything a little and it's so good. It makes the blend feel a bit shadowy and mysterious to me. Sugar with cinnamon and cocoa powder sifted through it. The description lists cocoa absolute, but there is no sludgy cocoa absolute in my bottle, so there's nothing that needs to be mixed up to experience the full scent and get the chocolate-y tones. I keep thinking 'sugar and spice and everything nice' as I wear this. It is the cozy autumn vibes that I need right now 🦇🧡🖤.
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I got my new cats in the mail today! I wanted to let these rest a little, but couldn't resist slathering this one on immediately. First thing of note is that this is super strong with tons of throw, enveloping me in a gorgeous, caramelized vanilla cloud with enticing, slightly powdery, slightly spicy tonka and tiny drops of golden, smoothly woody amber. It's like a caramelized vanilla custard perfume in the sense that it smells delicous and vanilla-y, but you know that this is still an elegant perfume and not food in front of you, thanks to the other notes. Leans slightly tropical in feel, the way that some Tahitian vanilla and vanilla orchid notes strike me. The drydown after a couple hours is still that perfectly caramelized vanilla custard (sweet yet not too sweet, and this is super creamy) with the sense of a hint of vanilla orchid and a good dose of amazing tonka with its spicy, powdery nuances. Tonka notes are often pale and powdery to me with a weakly honeyed scent, but this picks up the spicy, creamy, well rounded sweetness that good tonka can have, so I'm really enjoying it. I love Cats & Sparrows just as much as I thought I would ❤️.
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Blue Silk Rose is so pretty and unusual. I usually dislike violet in bpal fragrances because they're so strong and overpowering on my skin, but the powdered sugary, deliciously sweet violet in this is wonderful, bolstered by the blackberry that still smells sweet and juicy to me, not dried. The blue musk adds a smooth, cool quality to everything (but not minty) and when the rose comes through in the drydown, it's subdued by the other notes so that this isn't in-my-face rose or violet. The opium and orchid are light, but there, and add a sultry quality to the scent, a hint of dark resin and proper perfume floral. It really does have a blue feel to it, which is unique. I like this a lot, even though it does fade on me pretty quickly, gone in about 2 hours. It's a perfume that I'd have to wear in my hair to get more longevity out of it, but that's okay.
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I agree with MamaMoth that this is like fuzzy tomato stems at first. You can smell the slight herbal spiciness and juiciness of a tomato, but it doesn't quite smell as intense or rich as a tomato plant generally does because this is quite clean smelling to me. The patchouli comes through in the drydown as a warm earthiness paired with the peppery tones and a very clean, watery tomato juice. Soup is very light on me. It sits right on the skin with no throw, and it barely lasts a half hour before I can't smell it at all anymore. All in all, I'd say that it's a clean and light scent, in spite of the patchouli.
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Deep, rich, sweet, oaky (and in the drydown, slightly leathery), red wine, clean and milky skin, and smooth, woody, forest tones with a spicy warmth to them. I really enjoy this blend. It feels like a joyous romp between forest spirits, with wine flowing and no inhibitions. Sensual, playful, happy, wild scent. I love fragrances that feel both masculine and feminine at the same time, and I get that feel from Nymph & Satyr, appropriately. I almost missed this fragrance, lost in all of the updates, but I'm glad that I randomly decided to grab a bottle on the secondary market. This is one of those scents that the Lab does so well, that feels like offerings in the forest to me, because I usually offer red wines and honeyed milk.