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Honeycrisp apples, jasmine tea, honeycomb, and cedar shavings.

This scent is white musk, lavender-tinged cognac, and smoke.

Cardboard, pajama cotton, tonka beans, and dried lavender buds.

Since this photo is from November of 2019, we decided to make this a pumpkin and gingerbread waffle scent washed down with coffee and hot chocolate.

Lilith’s gleeful middle finger to gender and beauty standards: a hot pink cherry chypre.

Artemis, standing in her golden chariot… driving off with her fast-trotting deer over the hills and far away to some rich-scented sacrifice: leather, gleaming golden amber, red amaranth, cypress, asphodel accord, a gleam of silver, and soft brown musk.

This is a treasure trove of boons from a host of celestial kings and queens: a glittering gift of courage and physical strength, honorable leadership and authority, wise counsel and prophecy, finding wonder and delight even under adversity, cleansing and purification, beauty and vitality, joyousness and affection, harmony and skill in the arts, honeyed speech and diplomacy, courage and physical prowess, stability and the blessing of bringing ideas into material form. In addition, this is an oil of manifestation. Used in conjunction, the strength and power you channel from the Queen’s Exultation can be further refined and expressed in the material realm through the Many-Jeweled Crown. Fossilized amber oil (Oleum succini), frankincense essential oil (Boswellia serrata) and tears (Boswellia papyrifera), gold copal (Agathis dammar), bay laurel essential oil and leaves from the TAL garden (Laurus nobilis), rosehips (Rosa rubiginosa), anise seed (Pimpinella anisum), star anise pods and essential oil (Illicium verum), lemon verbena essential oil and leaves from the TAL garden (Aloysia citriodora), sandalwood essential oil gleaned from wild-harvested Australian heartwood (Santalum spicatum), honeysuckle tips (Lonicera periclymenum), spikenard essential oil (Nardostachys jatamansi), immortelle essential oil (Helichrysum italicum), jasmine absolute (Jasminum grandiflorum), motia attar (Jasmin sambac), vanilla absolute and Madagascar vanilla beans (Vanilla planifolia), star jasmine petals from the TAL garden (Trachelospermum jasminoides), sunflower petals from the TAL garden 2018 harvest, honey amber resin, 24-karat gold, silver, and saffron stems.

I needed too many things today, so I figured I'd pop the Luminous Crown because I needed some Mars, Venus, and Solar persuasion going on, and I'd figure that I might as well just throw everything in there. I was going for a leadership punch, and this absolutely delivers. I'm all about manifestation and this delivers in spades. Will definitely have to incorporate the use of LC for material wealth now. As a scent though, I get mainly resins, and a bit sandalwood, and vanilla, and whiffs of jasmine, and amber. It's warm, golden, and very diverse.

Cherry pulp, crushed raspberries, and sugar

Leather, dust, a backpack full of cookies, and a hint of lavender.

Toasted sandalwood, frankincense, hinoki wood, hay absolute, peru balsam, choya ral, and ambergris accord.

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A scribble of honey-drenched strawberry and white pear. Honeyed pear, with a touch of strawberry. But really it's about the honey and pear. If you like either, give this a whirl. Good throw, low wear length.

110% manly bay rum, and a whiff of hearth wood. No carnation, no whiskey. Just a fine, fancy bay rum. Definitely masculine on me. Great throw and wear length.

Lemongrass and coconut. BBW is that you? This is tropical and lush and exactly as promised. And MONDO throw.

On wet, you get a ton more lemon. But then it dries to a more green tea blend. It's nice and light, and actually reminds me to a Kbeauty product. Maybe that's what you're going for? Medium to low throw, medium wear length.

Mainly creamy slightly woodsy gardenia. I don't really get much clove out of this. I do get gardenia though. Heady. Medium throw and wear length, which is not bad for me because I am not a gardenia fan.

On wet and in the bottle, this smells like sugary blackberry candy. It still has that sugary edge on it, but on the skin and as it dries down, the oudh comes out. Given how potent and visceral oudh can be, this oudh on me ends up more like ink. So slightly sugary blackberry ink. Yup, definitely have a heavy ink note to that. If you wanted to be a fae writer, I imagine your purple ink would smell like this. Medium throw and wear length.

Clary sage, verbena, oakmoss, and amber and sandalwood being the base. It starts off as a fairly citrus herbal, with some minty undertones, but then the sandalwood and amber pop right up warming this up. Fairly gender neutral, and actually would be at home in the Shunga collection. Medium throw and wear length.

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Incomparable loveliness: the perfect rose oude.

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A little melted, but fine if you pick out the foil remnants.

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Black oud, woodsmoke, mahogany, pine pitch, and blackened pumpkin.