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Creamy cooked rice pudding (without sugar though), honey and a whiff of incense. Gooey, rice pudding and smoky honey. Very delicious. Good throw and wear length.

Soft amber honey with a touch of hay. Dried grass and soft amber honey. Medium throw and wear length.

Icy florals with a whiff of oudh under all that ice, cold florals, and touch of sugar crystals. Perchta in her previous incarnations didn't work for me, but this one comes the closest. However, the whiff of oudh is enough of a deterrent for me. Good throw and wear length.

Beeswax, salty nuts and incense. Oh look, its cream and nuts! Apply all the innuendo at all levels. Creamy, salty, and nutty. Great throw and wear length.

Sweet woods. I get mainly beeswax, wood, and more wood. Medium throw and wear length.

Clove, carnation, and creamy vanilla with a touch of sandalwood. It's a gentle spiced floral. Good throw and wear length.

Rice, white tea and lemon. I got something that smells like sweet and salty popcorn rice balls. Yup, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Good throw and wear length.

Buttery marshmallow and coconut, with a whiff of lilac. Coconuts, marshmallows, and lilacs. With a touch of cedar on the drydown. If you have been salivating for a coconut-marshmallow blend, look no further.

Carnation, hops, benzoin, and whiffs of lavender. This one is a clean resin musk with spiced carnation and lavender. Medium throw and wear length. Very comforting.

Grapefruit zest, ambergris, and powdery white musk. This is a citrusy white musk and ambergris blend on me. Medium throw and wear length.

[No additional description provided.] On wet, I get mainly a spicy pumpkin with a hint of moss. But as it dries, the pumpkin recedes, and you get a tidal wave of oakmoss. It's like a watery mossy with spicy pumpkin notes. It's like a pumpkin patch by a bog. In Arkham. Halloween at the beach? The Great Pumpkin goes surfing? More throw than the rice pudding. More of perfume, thanks to the oakmoss.

Lilith once told me that home is wherever her loved ones are. My sweet girl, may you always be surrounded by those who love and support you. White musk and lavender, frankincense and amber incense, sugar cookies, rose petals, and Florida Water.  I get mainly lavender, and then incense, with whiffs of rosy Florida Water. For me, this is mainly a lavender-based perfume, warmed by incense, splashed with Florida Water. It's very soothing.

All right, so we only saw the Panthéon for a moment because Lilith wanted to hurry the hell up and get some crêpes, but I can’t with this smile. It’s THE BEST. An incense for Sainte Geneviève, patroness of Paris: iris root, frankincense, and violet leaf.  Iris, violet and frankincense. This smelled like yellow flowers, which I think is the combination of the delicate iris and violet notes and the frankincense. Medium throw and wear length. For lovers of iris, violet, or frankincense. I think this one was one of the more subtle delicate blends that after you wear it you realize how gorgeous it is.

Ink, deep moss, and a whiff of rose. I get mainly a deep inky blend. It sort of reminds me as a softer more accessible Manus Dei/Typewriter Incident. Medium throw and wear length.

Creamy lemon, white tea, and lotus root. This is a creamy lemon/white tea blend. It's clean, creamy, and lemony. Gender neutral. Great throw and wear length.

Lilies and white tea. I am getting the lily of the valley, white tea, and hints of another lily and bergamot. If you love lilies, this is a wonderful one to try. Great throw and wear length.

Carnation, amber, and red musk with a whiff of cognac. I recognize that it's blood musk vs red musk, but it's got big jags of spicy carnation floral and amber embedded in this. Medium throw and wear length.

Dark vegetable musk, oudh, blackwood and labdanum. This one is a dark red murky sort of blend. It's musky, rich, and deep. Good throw and wear length.

Sheer vanilla, amber, and rice milk. I get hints of both the frankincense and sweet clove. This is a very sheer, sort of milky blend on me. My skin eats this right up and about 30 minutes of this I barely can smell it.

Black leather, bay rum, hints of smoke and black musk. This is a very manly black leather. Leather, leather, leather. Good throw and wear length.

DARKNESS. This about that oudh, vanilla, and a whiff of vetiver. I get mainly a vanilla oudh, with all of its oudhiness. Which isn't really my jam. Great throw and wear length, of course, because my skin likes to be loved by things my nose doesn't.

Labdanum and vanilla mix on my skin to come out as COLA. Yup, I get cola, amber and a brush of tobacco. But yes, this is a smoky cola. Good throw and wear length.

Snake's Tongue to me came out as a smoky vanilla cream with hints of wood. This one has great massive appeal. If you love Snake Oil, and love vanilla cream, and just ever sort of wanted to luxuriate in a creamier smokier Snake Oil, look no further. Medium throw and wear length. This merits more testing, and I'm not a Snake Oil fan.

A ritual companion to Jupiter’s Archer and Sphere + Sundry’s Jupiter’s Lightning Rod series, this tincture was created to charge ritual tools, cash boxes, talismans, amulets, statuary, and images that are dedicated to Jupiter, He Who Is Conquered By None, the Lord of Hospitality and Savior of the People, the Supreme and Most High, and can be utilized as an offering unto itself. This tincture is dedicated to Jupiter, was crafted and charged under his auspices, and was crafted to emphasize benevolent sovereignty, leadership, good health, wise exertion of power, expansion of opportunities, recognition, fame, and growth. Jupiterian Anointing Tincture contains CO2 extract of elder flower, essential oils of clove bud, clary sage, Atlas cedarwood, cedar leaf, and hyssop (steam distilled from tops), pinon pine resin, juniper berries, white oak bark, oakmoss, sassafras leaf, cinquefoil, and eucalyptus leaf – for Sagittarius – and local craft brandy. The tincture was charged on November 8, 2018 at sunrise, the second hour of Jupiter, the series election window, and the hour of Jupiter after nightfall. Lightning-struck wood, cedar berries, wildharvested English oak, aloeswood (courtesy of Jeremy Bechelli of Phytognosis!), a chunk of fulgurite, and pine resin were added during the election portion of the ritual. Each bottle contains a piece of lapis lazuli and a piece of quartz. Do not drink, do not eat. Do not use this tincture to dress candles. Do not keep this tincture near an open flame. Do not drop this into your eye or any other bodily orifice. Patch test before application. Please be advised that there may be solid plant material present in the tincture. I somehow ended up with a surplus of Jupiterian Anointing Tincture because that's how I roll. This smells like woods, pine, touch of cedar and sage. I dabbed this on my TAL Jupiter Conjure Bag this morning and , gave it a high five. I'll be checking in on it this evening, and will update this post, but wanted to put a placemarker/post or I'll forget. It has some pretty big energy to it, but I expect that for all Jupiter related items. Will give more details later this evening.

Peonies, cherry blossoms and a touch of vanilla. This is a lovely cherry blossom scent. UGH, perfect for the spring and if you want to celebrate cherry blossom season. It's like a less sweet and fruity Kamisuki HG to me.