zankoku_zen
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The lack of love for this blend is bordering on the criminal. This is a soft fougere, very gender neutral but full of ginger, lime, and a burst of mandarin. As it dries, you get a tiny bit of khus, which honestly just makes this sort of smell like a gingery celebration for Christmas. This is fun, cozy, and bright. It's hopeful, playful, and merry. Fine. Y'all don't love Hank. I'll love Hank, and appreciate Hank for the awesomeness that Hank is.
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A mouldering, mossy oudh. Ooof, this one is for you oudh lovers. It smells aquatic and like oudh. Great throw and wear length.
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Green, mint, and a whiff of fougere. This one is a very green cologne on me. Low throw, good wear length.
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Sweet black currant, rose buds, sugar, and a whiff of moss. This one is soft, fruity, and sugary. Very soft, and glowing. Medium throw and wear length.
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Redwood and pine, and a whiff of amber, but my skin chemistry eats this up. Sad, because I sort of really love this.
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Sage, bush, and dusty desert flowers. This smells like desert sage, if you were a desert witch you'd smell like this. Sage, flowers, and the dust of the desert. Low throw, good wear length. Gorgeous and understated.
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On wet, the iron and vetiver are overwhelming, but as it dries, the fig, frankincense, patchouli come out, and then I get a dark resinous blend with a spash of rootbeer, and a touch of iron. It's actually softer and very wearable. It's like well worn armor. Sort of delicious. 10/10 would follow any dwarf that smelled like this home.
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Salt, ambergris, and the ghost of popcorn (or is it corn chips). This a salt/ambergris blend that makes me think of salt in an ancient mineral sea that is no longer a sea but a giant ass desert. And its also making me crave chips. For all of your salt cravings, this phoenix is for you.
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Take Aegir, the Lunacy, which was a sea-faring masculine lavender, and then give it a Tom Ford makeover by draping it in black orchid and black musk, and amping it up to 11. Is that more like Alexander McQueen? No idea. Great throw and wear length. Aggressive, salty, lavender.
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Birch beer, mineral water, and a touch of cedar. This is if rootbeer went out west, riding a horse, and developed some grit in the process. Rugged, gritty, rootbeer. Medium throw and wear length.
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In your face blueberry. This is the meta-blueberry. It's blueberries but like with hints of both vanilla and black currant. I think it has a whiff of amber. Honestly, just call this Blueberry SN, and call it a day.
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Cacao, fur, and a whiff of patchouli. Honestly, this smells like it should be Baby Krampus. Slightly dusty, cacao and cozy fur. Good throw and wear length. If Krampus is too much for you, give this a whirl. It's a softer, less in your face, Krampus.
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Honey, cake, whiff of booze and smoke. This one is cozy, oozy honey. It's cozy and comforting, and also sort of smells like honey cake. Ugh, I feel like I slathered myself in honey. And then sprinkled myself with vanilla cake. Good wear length, low throw. Why more people aren't into this, I have no idea. I am going to go and pretend to be the best honey cake in the world.
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A Samhain offering to those who have come before, a balm for restless spirits.
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Icy musk draped in osmanthus and white gardenia, a whisper of ti leaf and orchid, crystalline amber, and incense smoke.
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Oleander, orange blossom, and frankincense.
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Honey biscuits in warm cream. Biscuits in creamy honey. I don't really get cream - but there is a creaminess. Both the honey and biscuits are more present. Very foodie. Good throw.
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Keening melancholy, suffocating despair: blue lilac and violet leaf, white musk and eucalyptus, carrot seed and ti leaf.
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Black musk, bay leaves, galangal, bourbon vetiver, blackcurrant, and rum.
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I find Cone of Silence helpful. It's a gentle lavender, and I've actually used it at work to let some of the passive aggressive comments not get to me. I think this would also be helpful for those with anxiety impacting your sleep. I just found it to be gentleness personified.
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Coffee Bean, Indonesian Vetiver, Black Oud, & Patchouli
zankoku_zen replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Yules
Black coffee, and smoky patchouli, with a hint of vetiver. No oudh for me, which makes me super happy. This is a coffee-patchouli blend on me. Smooth, dark, comforting. Medium throw and wear length. -
Mead and coffee! I swear the sugar and honey smell like mead, and with a good shot of espresso in it. So mead coffee. Good for those nights when you're out caroling because you need both the alcohol, sugar, and caffeine. Good throw and wear length.
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I get smooth coconut milk and cashmere wool. This is a cozy, comforting blend. I don't really get much coffee, but the milk and wool aspects are very clean and comforting. Good throw and wear length.
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I get a ton of cardamom and coffee. Did I mention the cardamom? It's mainly a cardamom + coffee blend on me. No vanilla. Good throw and wear length.
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Smoky copal! I mainly get copal, and its a clean smoky light sweet resinous smell. Good throw and wear length.