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blackbirdpie

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    The Twisted Oak Tree

    This is the closest thing I've smelled to Carlin, which I love. Same non-pine non-flowery greenness. Old growth forest.
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    Limited editions equivalents in the general catalog?

    Is there anything like Ded Moroz in the GC? Even a similarly deciduous forest, minus the snow, would be grand. I hardly dare to wear it because I love it so much.
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    Ded Moroz

    Based on Ded Moroz's reputation, I bought a bottle unsniffed. That turned out to be a very good decision. Others have said that it smells more like a forest thawing in late winter than a midwinter frozen landscape. To me it does smell like midwinter, but midwinter in a southern forest – chilly, but not frozen solid. Lots of moss, earth, and wood, with a touch of minty snow. It’s a beautiful scent that may be the next best thing to taking a hike through the Georgia mountains in January. These geographically evocative scents are the most impressive thing about BPAL to me. I keep thinking about that scene in Harold and Maude with the Smell-O-Ramas: “Subways, Perfume, Cigarettes, Cologne... Snow.”
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    Smokestack

    I just got frimped this and I LOVE it. It is the experience of standing on the El platform in Chicago on a cold November day, bottled. It smells like "city" to me. I'm going to put this on whenever I'm homesick.
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    Limited editions equivalents in the general catalog?

    Oops! I'm still learning my way around the lab. Thanks! P.S. - It starts off all misty and fresh on me, and then turns musky. Very nice.
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    Limited editions equivalents in the general catalog?

    Hello! I'm new here, and one of the first BPALs I've tried is Aeronwen, which appears to be (alas) LE. Is there a GC that's similar?
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