SophieCedar

This is GORGEOUS. White flowing peach and fig meat with a lovely clean peach glow when dry. Whatever makes white musk milky, I need more of it. Turning 42 can make you feel old and like your skin chemistry is molding from the inside out.. Chance Meeting reverses those feelings and effects. Another bottle buy for sure. Beth has outdone herself this year. All the lupers are beautiful.

2019: A total winner. So much better than any previous year I've tried. Much cleaner and simpler. A more understated magnetic sensuality.The ambergris is gentler in 2019 and I think that's the major difference. Very well balanced golden glowing coconut with sweet gentle floral and musk background. Smells a bit like Lush's Yuzu & Cocoa..? Strange!

This has the golden glow of Eos but fruity. Its gorgeous, smooth, glowy and syrupy. I'm not getting any spice, like the previous reviewer? MMV? Pretty great and unique. Feminine without being girly or stuffy. The drydown is soft, like drifting off to sleep totally relaxed, and musky with a fig sweetness. Better than I expected it to fare!

Sorting my decants execution style, I was sure due to my memory of how VEMR played out on my skin, it would've flown to the freebie bag vs keeper. Wrong. Its aged very well. Ti leaf has become the dominant note, with smooth creamy and earthy notes supporting it. I recommend everyone try this one again!

I agree. This is a quiet blend. Reading the notes, I was expecting boombababoommbababoom.. Instead its soft and melodic. Kinda an attempt to make a harmonious mix of some pretty big essentials. I think those with sensitivities, who can only apply in small doses, or ones needing a professional-suitable perfume will rejoice. It is a wonderful mix. Soft, warm, floaty, glowing. Well balanced vanilla, amber, musk and resin notes. I'd compare it to Haunted or a light application of Morocco. Hang onto this for summer, k?

Ok..disclaimer: I'm one of the unlucky few for which oudh smells like a freshly popped septic tank, when wet. That said, Snake's Shadow is worth the horror. I could smell something "sparkly" underneath the poop stink, immediately. It helped my endurance for sure! When finally dry, its lovely. ❤️ I found a gorgeous jeweled mantle at the bottom of a septic tank! Wow! Worth the pain every time. Snake Oil, something sparkly (labdanum) and effervescent like the lab's champagne note, deep resinous base. Its cascade is pretty wide and complex. It takes some getting used to, but I place this in the Leather Phoenix category: not sure why I'm repeatedly drawn back...complex, addictive, intriguing. This will age VERY well.

Beachy-clean on my skin. Much more floral than previous reviewers' experiences. Its lilac, coconut, white florals and musk hair conditioner. Tropical, floral, and a bit earthy from the benzoin. I'd put it in the family of Obatala, Pele, or Hi'iaka. ps: Black Phoenix Eggplant Lab...haaa! Worth buying the bottle for that little label surprise.

Another bpaler thoroughly happy with Thought Photography, here. Starts out smelling like commercial perfume, but changes into quite a unique sweet airy blend that smells like....mint tea? Really. There's something in the notes cascade that smells like sweet mint tea. Maybe its the mercury suggestion. Its true, this is airy, ethereal and refined. End of drydown, it settles into an even balance of all 3 notes and is sparkling, golden, refined lavender perfume loveliness. Don't expect the palo santo to scream. Its accompanied by 2 notes of equal strength. Its how I wanted my aunts to smell, but they couldn't think outside the Oil of Olay box.

Well, its true to form! Definitely smells like matted (slightly damp) fur, a little earthy brown outdoorsy oakmoss, and a slight breath but barely of clove. Very realistic matted fur scent. This could have been part of the RPG line, in some way.

I guess I never reviewed this because I didn't think I'd enjoy it, but I actually do! Warm, atmospheric, comforting, dusty but with a sweet floral glow from outdoor greenery and wildflowers. Feels like standing inside an open doorstep looking out upon wild greenery and surrounds me like a warm hug. The familiar smell of a well-loved home in summertime. It makes me smile and look forward to warmer months.

I never reviewed this...huh. Anyways, I've been hoarding this bottle. Surprisingly, all other bottles from this event went right back out the door via sales/swaps. This, though? Its too good and it stays. Its the perfect refined patchouli blend. Think of it this way: replace hemp with tea leaf, green tobacco,and sage for the earthy botanical piece (I love all 3, so this was appealing immediately). Cognac and rosewood make me smell like an adult (or so I like to think). Then...hey, there's benzoin and vanilla, my favorites! My logical conclusion is we have an Upper Crust Banshee Beat. Its totally excellent. Unexpected all-time favorite.

AN INCUBUS LEAVING TWO SLEEPING WOMENAn Incubus Leaving Two Sleeping Women, Henry Fuseli. Vanilla-infused white honey, magnolia, skin musk, ylang ylang, and beeswax with patchouli, olibanum, kurundu, and a feral brown musk. Just got this out of the mail, so it may need a little time to open up.. Wet: sweet earthy brown musk with ylang ylang, beeswax and patchouli. The magnolia is getting jumbled around and fragmented here. I think the vanilla honey is what's smelling like light caramel to my nose right now? This is a tricky one because it keeps hopping back and forth between honey sweet ylang ylang and fine wooden furniture with burning beeswax candles and perfume. I think if one was to rename it blindly, it could emote a woman's dressing table at dusk, say around the 16th century, with burning candles, fine perfumes, and provocative flashes of bare skin. Drydown: the olibanum and beeswax takes over on my skin. I can smell wafts of the vanilla honey and ylang ylang as well, but I would say the overall color impression is brown with bits of ivory. Sexy and very very dry.

Darkness and Decay can smell sexy and warm? Huh. There's a smoky element, for sure, but mainly this is sweet, warm, earthy blood musk. Suspecting this is majorly due to the tobacco addition. Its not metallic, just a deep red glow. Dark red musk lovers- rejoice!

Ok, so I can't say, see another person's review... because my previous review was reported. Oops. Guess I missed that part of the forum guidelines. so, here's a real review. "this does smell very effervescent. Its kinda like cedarwood and almond soda, I guess? Green, bubbly, sharp, and incensey."

Excellent amber blend. Its warm, grounded, clean, and evokes beauty. This isn't a hippie pungent overwhelming incensey amber. Its pure baltic amber incense.. the kind packaged in little black boxes, sold at expensive french lingerie boutiques and such, and looks like gold nuggets. I love it.

This is Alice on MSG, for me. Basically Alice with mucho staying power. I normally dislike pomegranate, so I'm very surprised that I absolutely love this. Getting a bottle.

Is there a spot of patchouli hiding in here? When wet, I can smell it strongly. Huh. Otherwise, yes, sage cypress and some alien glowy green smell I take might be the mysteriously strange california lilac? I don't know for sure because I haven't been to cali but maybe one of you can put me up and I can smell for myself

Yess! Pink peonies, sweet vanilla, sweet pea and a touch of spicy carnation lily and rose. Mostly sweet pink flowers and vanilla. Reminds me of Alice and Mouse's Long Sad Tale, in throw and overall cascade. A bit grassier in drydown, but that's a good thing. Keeps the flowers smelling fresh. Excellent!

Before I read the description or remembered anything about Suffragium, I smelled it and murmured to myself "solemn". Yup. It is. Solemn meditative incense yet to be burned. Blue is the color that comes to mind.

Wet: the cream does a heavy burnout in my face. Whooo. Then ..a moment of clarity at the end of a wormhole. Smells like white flowers, very mineralic spa water, clean mint, and sweet fig. Drydown: I have no idea what this clean note is, pulling to the forefront but its wonderful. The floral spa water smell doesn't go away but I really REALLY like it. Super clean in an ayurvedic calming way. No astringency. I think this is the hallmark scent of what many want their house to smell like after a massive cleaning and purchase of new bedding and throw pillows for every goddamn surface..but alas its unachievable because its in the wood and atmosphere, not the accessories and cleaning supplies. Try this instead. Totally unique scent. I highly recommend it.

Where's the milk? Huh. My skin ate the milk, so this is all sugary honeycrisp apple (my favorite type of apple anyways). I'd still get a bottle

Lavender, yes. Coconut-yes. Playing with Sun's Eye Oils in every new age shop for 20 years- ABSOLUTELY. They must have a similar proprietary blend? I believe in the previous statement that Beth snuck in bits of jasmine, cade and lemongrass. Something jasmine and citrusy in here. They're amping on my skin coconut is moving to the back quite a bit!

ZZ is correct with the Mouse Circus association - popcorn and sweet. This is stronger though...better. No real pumpkin spice to be found and no soda zippiness, just sweet sugary pumpkin cream, buttery popcorn and fresh fried ice cream. Its brilliant. I love it.

You did not need to creep into my heart The way you did. You could have smiled And knowing what you did, you have kept apart From all my inner soul. But you beguiled Deliberately. - Alice Dunbar-Nelson Honeyed tea rose, lavender water, red benzoin, bois de rose, and rose amber. A very straight-forward scent, exactly as described. Wet, there's a sugary powdery burn off period. Raises up around me in a powdery pink cloud and dissipates after 30 min. Smells like super fine dusting powder. Drydown is even-keeled, sweet, and glowing roses. I'm loving this! Roses and lavender water with plenty of warmth from the benzoin and amber. Victorian-ish, but way sexier. Yesssss.

I've tried this twice with drastically different results. There's something in here reminiscent of a red oudh..like some kind of wood that goes sour when 1st applied. 2nd application, I'd have to totally agree with the egyptian vibe. Deep egyptian musk smell with a rose background. Interesting and confusing and I'll probably be seeking a bottle.