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I get a pale orange honeyed note. It smells a lot like honeybush tea but I think it's the amber. The clove isn't super sharp. Right now this is dark but the throw isn't very intense. This should age well because of the vetiver and oudh.
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The art was too tempting on this one. It smells Irish Spring adjacent, but not harshly soapy with wet leaves. I've smelled horse chestnut leaves. They don't have a particularly strong smell to me, but this is accurate. It's definitely not the usual Dead Leaves scent. This might be an August painting, but it works for November rain too. Very relaxing actually.
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I was hoping for something comparable to Opium Poppy. This has the floral, but the agave is prominent, giving off a green sweetness that almost seems aquatic. It is unlike Opium Poppy's dark, silky floral but is pleasant enough in its own way.
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2024: A bit of rich buttercream with gobs and gobs of cheap whipped cream plus a thin but undeniable layer of sunscreen. That last note is jarringly unfoody compared to the rest of the scent. I can't tell whether I like this one or not. It's straightforward and very simple but also weird. The makeup/suncreen element isn't exactly pleasant on its own, but it is interesting. Edit: I really like this layered with Datura.
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If you can find the Day Old Ham scent....joking. That's not terribly morbid, just hammy. I don't know. Most of the blood scents just smell like cherry to me. Blood is a pretty good perfume representation of the elements of blood scents without smelling like blood itself. Nosferatu did remind one reviewer of cremation grounds, though I get more of a wine spill on dirt. The Grand Inquisitor's Heretic Fork did really kind of smell like burning flesh, though I think it's hard to find. There's also the infamous Gore Shock from Dark Delicacies. I never tried it but someone compared it to "making out in a burn unit."
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I was about to say Deathrock. But, hmm. Mx. Nobody has cannabis, lime, and leather. You might want to try some Dead Leaves scents, the dead leaves and champa ones might work. A Melancholy of Goths has hairspray. Also there was the Blacklight Reactive Posters series that might fit. I wish I could come up with something more current and available. There's Convertible Hearse from this year's Halloweenies, but I think it would need something more colorful and maybe cigarette smoke to be rocker.
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That is lipstick. Waxy, cheap cherry berry lipstick that smells like the smudged tissues at the bottom of an old purse smell. There's some clove hovering about as well.
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I am so confused. Is that red musk? wine? Maybe the "black" element in black oud is oppoponax? The oud must be giving it the perfect backdrop to vamp against. I meant "amp" but you know what? It's vamping. It is both loud and making a strong attempt at seduction. Something does feel like toasted grains. Pumpkin seed as much as pumpkin. I like dark scents a lot but this is a screaming kind of dark and right now it feels like a bit much. EDIT Overnight this settled down and stopped screaming. There are some lingering toasted grains. I stopped wondering if there was wine here, but there's still an element that is sweeter than I expected. EDIT #3 Okay, I think I figured out the sweetness. It's got to be the pumpkin (weirdly waxy and maybe a little citrusy too somehow) plus maybe something in the black oud like I thought before.
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Trying the 2024 restock of Erebos and I can't tell any difference. It's got the same lovely vanilla lavender and melon coolness and it's perfect for a sweltering day.
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I had to try this for the opium poppy. The rose is lovely in the bottle, but waffles on turning into rose soap. The poppy and dry oud may be influencing that. It doesn't take long for the soapy phase to resolve. I get dried rose petals and smoke from candles and incense along with oud.
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Disclaimer: I'm trying this straight from the mailbox. The champaca is immediately there, however it's not as mothball-esque as Nag Champa goes on me, it's floral. I get a vaguely fruity rose along with the warm amber and furry black musk. This feels a little heavy for a hot summer day. Next day test: I take back every bad thing I've said about champaca. This is a lovely realistic floral. It does actually remind me of the scent of the small flowered kind of magnolias except it's strongly orange. The musk is now taking a backseat to champaca. It may be the name influencing me but I get faint impressions of amber as golden strings.
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Faint red rose suspended in labdanum and myrrh, like one of those flowers captured in paperweights. I love both labdanum and myrrh so this was an easy choice. I expect the rose will get stronger with age.
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Immediately in the bottle, I think of ginger. Fresh, not very spicy ginger. Then a liquid amber comes out. These resins meld together so well I can't really pick them out, though. Sweet, maybe a little baby powder in there but mostly liquid resin. This makes me think Byzantine, even though the amber is not the super bright gold you'd associate with the era. Dusky soft blue-black and dull pallid gold.
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This is indeed an amber silk scent. I can imagine it would be better diffused by spraying and might smell better that way but it isn't exactly weak on me either. It probably helps that oude usually plays nice on my skin. The ginger doesn't go bitter on me and right now the sweet gold amber is triumphing over everything else.
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I think I may actually like this one more than The Serpent in the Carnations, probably because of the peony and the opium as a base note. It's a bit sweeter up top and the base is dark instead of the Snake Oil red musk. This doesn't overwhelm the carnation. My favorite Luper so far. This disappears fairly quickly which is a shame
