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I know everyone is in a hubbub about lupers- but...I was searching the old posts and I'm tring to find out which pumpkin from 2005 is which. I found photos of I and V courtesty the poster above me, but I dont know how to sort out 2-4 and it looks like the link to the bpal posted key is long gone. Can anybody help me figure this one out?
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in the bottle - definitely the scent of fire/smoke here. very sweet but i can pick out the rice, and mead and fruit notes as well they blend together really closely. Sugar yes, not really picking up the cinnamon. wet - cinnamon, sugar, honey, rice pudding. O.o Foodie. Good foodie at least wet. dry - cinnamon, a boozy honey, and the fruit in here is odd. I have no idea what. But it's...interesting. It's not fig. But it makes me think kinda like it is. I like the wet stage better as well as the in bottle stage but this isn't bad. I think i'd like to see beth do a honey, rice pudding, cinnamon, sugar blend. just on it's own. rating - 6/10 (waffling on 7/10 here)
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in bottle - ginger, orange, bergamot, lemongrass, a hint of incense not much. dont get rose or floral really. wet - ginger orange lemongrass! with a..there's something that cools this scent down a lot. It's a little odd. dry - ginger, lemongrass, orange...soap. Darn it. I want an orange scent that works on me! Like...superbad. Rating - 4/10
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in bottle - rose, slight plasticky scent which I believe is my nose misinterpreting something. and vanilla.. Wet - a very faint rose. With lots of vanilla. It's somewhat like victoria, but not. I don’t get the plastic bit anymore. Dry - mostly vanilla, and...something else. a non rose floral? There's just a hint of rose in this. 6/10 I was really hoping for something more like Victoria, or Rose Red.
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in bottle - nuts, berries, with the afterscent of hay and honey and carrot. wet - hay, carrot, and an almost cherry like berry. dry- gunpowder, with BERRIES. I like it! a hint of hazelnut here too. But the carrot and the hay...yum.. Rating - 7/10
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in the bottle - I can definately pick out the slightly bitter scent of red peppers. woods, leaves, and then I get a hint of floral and some musk underneath. wet - aquatic? and peppers? is exactly what i'm getting. masculine. dry - mostly aquatic, colone like, and a hint of peppers. Another very good guy scent I'm not going to wear myself. Rating - 4/10 (but it'd be really good on a guy!)
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in the bottle - tobacco. peach. these stand out the most to my nose. then musk, and tonka. disturbing, dark, yet somehow warm and pleasant. I wouldn't want to smell like this wearing it in a locket, but I could see wanting something I own scented with this. A small stuffed bear. Something...Yeah, how odd right? wet - the tobacco doesnt stand out as much, peach, currant, tonka, ..something else that's not the musk. As it dries the redwood though is taking over. dry - this is suprizingly, and shockingly to me, pretty. I can definately smell the peach and it stayed true. It's delicate, and contrasts the darker harshness of the tobacco and clove, and musk. The redwood sort of serves as a wood table for it all to sit on top of. and a hint of tonka kind of mellows and blends it together. I will only want to wear this fall/winter, I can tell, but it's worth wearing. . Something about this is oddly familiar, and very comforting too. Rating - 5/10 I'll be wearing this, but only sometimes.
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in bottle- pine. whoa. scary pine. Pitch like in illustrated woman. Clove like in pickled imp. wet - the pine is taking on a slightly astringent quality here. Pine Sol? Oh dear....no no now it's settling. And there's clove. and astringent is becoming more "cold" and "fresh". dry - this dries fast. it's clove, and smoke, and pine afterwards. It's cold and fresh and warm at the same time, there's no pine sol here folks. It's too masculine for me to wear however. THIS is what christmas smells like in my head. Rating 5/10 even though I dont want to wear it. I want to find a guy friend to cuddle and douse him in it however....
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in bottle- super sweet chocolate, coffee, a hint of cinnamon wet - I'm suprised. it's a lot less sweet, the coffee and cocoa stand out in a mix here, but the "over" sweet to the point of ick that sometimes coffee/chocolate/cocoa bpal does on me isn't here very strongly. it's by no means bitter, and still very sweet just not overly so. the cinnamon is still very background here. I think the coffee note isn't playing nice on my skin though, it's not staying true. dry - chocolate, coffee, no cinnamon really in here to speak of. The coffee note isn't workin for me, but...I totally can see how this would be spectacular on someone else. rating - 3/10 but dont let that deter you!
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in bottle - florals, and a hint of citrus wet - this turns into ...an indistinguishable perfume like smell on me. dry - same thing, but dustier. This just doesnt work with my skin chemistry at all. 3/10
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in bottle - complex. wow. I dont know what to say . I can pick out...lemon verbena. and some darker herbal. maybe the opoponax? I'm not familiar with but half these notes. wet - lemon verbena, the herb scent is less, i'm definately getting almond now. and some floral too faint to differentiate. the lemon verbena totally dominates. This scent has depth, but I'm not sure it's for me. dry - this is very lemony, but not candy vanilla like. it's lemon with herbal background. it's too much like pledge or a cleaner for me. rating 3/10 My god, talk about notes i dont know and difficult to differentiate. This makes me so wish beth would make "imp flights" of single notes for us poor ignorant fools.
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in bottle - ginger, patchouli, vanilla, and an odd berry. This is a very complicated scent to say the least. I want to say cocoa, and know it's not, but there's definately some dark herb scent here that's sort of halfway trying to be . wet - this stings a little on me. i get a clean patchouli, thankfully, the kind I like, I was worried when I saw it in the list. I can pick out the myrrh and sage however. and oakmoss. then berry and vanilla and smoke and herbs. The ginger and the clove dont really show up anymore. It's going kinda dusty on me though. dry - huh. berry. kinda reminds me of the grape in shivering boy, but the rest of the notes dont. it's dusty on me for sure. mostly really it's dust. i'm wondering if it's not oakmoss that does it on me. *hrrm* later - it's less dusty. more berry and spice. rating - 5/10
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2008 Version in bottle - lavender, amber, incense, what i guess is poppy or rose geranium. hints of woods. wet - lavender and amber. but it's definately a "dark" scent, and the incense/poppy are still there. I'm not getting any of the woodsy scents. though. dry - mostly lavender and amber and this is well dark. it's not too different from wet, other than i can smell rosewood now. I'd almost give this a "fruity" quality. rating - 5/10 2009 Version in bottle - amber, geranium, poppy, lavender, incense. No real hints of woods here. wet - this is much more poppy, rose geranium, and much less lavender but that's still strong, and much less incense/amber. dry - about the same as wet here. rating - 5/10 In short- the 2009 version is much more floral on me than 2008. 2008 has a lot more amber than 2009.
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A radiant blend of solar oils: golden amber, saffron, heliotrope, hibiscus, citron, frangipani, frankincense, tangerine, mock orange, and orange blossom. 2006 Version in the bottle - frankincense, a spicy/odd floral, amber in the background. There's "citrus" here but I"ll be darned if I get orange. wet - citrus, frankincense, and floral, it's slightly powdery. dry - incense went to powder. and there's floral. no thank you. Rating 3/10 2009 Version in the bottle - Amber, orange/citrus, then floral, then sort of a spicy incense note, guessing this is frankincense and maybe the saffron together in the back. Much more citrus much more amber, much less dusty floral than 2006 wet - HELLO ORANGE! amber and florals temper this a little. what incense? Why hello again orange. Yes, yes..seriously...I saw you. No really. dry - a little powdery on me, much less than 06, there's still distinct citrus, amber, and floral here. Rating - 4/10. Sadness on the powder...
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in bottle- menthol/snow/cold + grapes + trees (i'm gettin evergreen) + resins. I'm leery. I like "snow/cold" notes but I'm finding I'm picky about what they're paired with. I'm picky about evergreen notes too. wet - whoa, grapes, frostily covered in mint, with resins. the evergreen scent is vanished. the mint/menthol/cold note quickly fades down and I have grapes + resins + that in the background. I dont associate this with "cold" anymore. It's more like an empty warmth, it's there, it's warm, but not really. Dry - grapes, and resins are what i get, with evergreen and snow in the background. rating - 7/10 but this really smells like another yule blend. Not sure which or what year (isn't that helpful?)