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Gold Dust Kitten

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  1. Gold Dust Kitten

    Searching for the Perfect Vanilla?

    Have you tried Gypsy moth? It's a LE but i'm sure you can find a decant around.
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    The Butterfly

    Sweet amber and citrus. It has a powdery-fuzzy feel, like butterfly wings.
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    Mommy Fortuna

    The first time I sniffed this, I felt ill. It wasn't the honey, but something else. I tried again today, and I smell mostly honey with something metallic. The honey reminds me of O, but I can't get past the gunpowder/metallic smell that's making my nose wrinkle up.
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    Arachne of Lydia

    This smells like an actual clove. It's a bit dusty as other reviewers have said, and faintly fruity but I can't say that I recognize that as black currant.
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    The Last Unicorn

    This smells like a lighter version of White Chocolate & Marshmallow Coconut Truffle in the imp and upon initial application. Then I smell perfumey, powdery lilac/orris? and a bit of lettuce. It seems like there is very little white sandalwood and oakmoss in this because I smell a little woodiness but just barely. It ends up smelling like a "greener" version of the truffle I mentioned before. It's very ethereal. I can't say that this is something I would wear but I'm still tempted to get a bottle just for the artwork. Edited over a year later... Finally bought a bottle with some extra funds I had lying around, and I've been wearing it for three days straight. Maybe because it's Summer, but I feel like this is the most perfect scent right now. It has all the things I love.. sandalwood, white chocolate and coconut but it also has notes of death like iris, orris, & violet. For some reason though it's just really working, and it lasts all day. Beth did a wonderful job if capturing the scent of the Unicorn.
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    Autumn Moon of the Mirror Stand

    I don't see a lot of quince around so it's nice to have a bottle of this. It's a tart-citrusy honey/vanilla with a shot of booziness. It's not gross boozy though. The quince is delicious, and it smells exactly like the membrillo paste in my fridge. Someone mentioned Li Hing Mui powder covered plums, and I have to agree. Not so much the plum, but the tangy powder. This is beautiful and unique.
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    Blue Pumpkin Floss v3

    Now this is what I expected the released version to smell like. The released version was red hots cinnamon so intense that I couldn't smell pumpkin or blue candyfloss. The prototype is mouthwateringly perfect. It's spicy pumpkin pie with an amazing berry candyfloss running through it. It's funny how much I love this, because I really hate pumpkin pie and I don't tend to like many of the spicy-foody BPAL scents. You would have to pry this from my cold dead hands.
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    Amaterasu v3

    Be still my heart, a leather that works on me! Amaterasu v3 is a perfectly clear amber with a soft and barely noticeable (that's a good thing) leather note, and white cherry blossoms. The dry down is a glorious golden powdery haze that stays very close to the skin. I'm in love.
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    Phyllocrania Paradoxa v1

    Creamy herbal vanilla...and sassafras that made me think of Snake Oil. It smells nothing like Snake Oil, but there is something in this oil that is tricking my nose to think there is a common note. The vanilla is similar to the one in Gypsy but with sassafras not cardomom. Most random review ever! I really love this scent. ETA: I'm comparing this to The Anti-Saloon League now, since others have commented on the similarities. PPv1 is like a lighter, less cologne-y version of ASL.
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    Elf v4

    Elf v4 is like Dorian-lite, and more feminine. It's a creamy vanilla and lemony skin musk, with a floral note that makes me picture a field of white daisies on a hazy day. The vanilla note is beautiful, and it seems to be the same vanilla as Celeste and XCDL13. (ETA 4/19: There is a bit of a white chocolate note that I didn't notice before.) The throw is alright, but it doesn't last very long. I'm still lucky to have found a bottle and will cherish it.
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    Half Elf v5

    At first sniff, I thought of Mead Moon: Beeswax. I'll have to agree with yeahbunobut on the "spun honey" comparison once it hits my skin. It's a beautiful, pearlescent white honey with a good bit of pollen. I don't smell anything floral and I can't compare this to O or Glowing Vulva, either. It's the same delicate honey note in Lady Una. I think it's lovely.
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    Mead Moon

    This perfume is beautiful. It's such a lovely, clear honey with something that reminds me of the faint lemony note in perfumes like Dorian, Velvet Nudie and Giant Vulva, and a bit of beeswax. While it is a honey scent like O and Womb Furie, it lacks the "skin musk/sweat" aspect of O or the powderiness from the combination with Snake Oil in Womb Furie.
  13. Boo for marshmallow. It's a Halloweenie limited edition but you can check around the sales/swaps for a decant or bottle. It does have a bit of a cotton/linen note along with the marshmallow, but I think it levels out the sweetness. Another good marshmallow perfume is White Chocolate, Coconut and Marshmallow Truffle which is also LE but harder to find. As far as the chocolate cake, there is a lovely chocolate recommendation thread here.
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    Different smells/colors, same perfume

    I have the same situation. 4 bottles of TIL, one with no red musk, 2 with very heavy almost single note red musk and super dark oil (I can barely see light thru the bottle), and 1 bottle of medium red musk that is much lighter in strength and color. I don't think they are aging issues either, because I received them all around the same timeframe. I will always wonder what happened. ETA: I just skin tested heavy vs. medium versions. The medium has a faint cola note to my nose compared to the heavy. Then it's gone. Curioser and curiouser...
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    Womb Furie

    The 2010 version is definitely my favorite. I put some of the 2011 version on last night and it wasn't as yummy. I woke up with a very powdery honey scent that wasn't very pleasant. With 2010, the Snake Oil sticks around longer to keep the honey from going powdery.
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    Coconut

    Thanks to a lovely forumite, I finally had the chance to test this. I would say this scent is right in between Hawaiian Tropic and coconut milk, with a little sweetened, shredded coconut on top. It's not plastic or cloying at all, but rather it sits close to my skin yet has a pleasing amount of throw. I'd kill a distant relative for a full bottle.
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    Liz

    I finally received this as a tester from a sale. Soft vanilla, florals, incense smoke and leather. Leather makes my nose itch and gives any blend an almost men's cologne smell to me. Why does leather hate me so?
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    Saturnalia

    Finally, I get to review the perfume that makes most everyone recoil in horror. It's terrible OMG. I'm sorry to write something bad about Beth's perfumes but O.M.G. the combination of violet and vetiver is making me cry.
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    Thy Godfather's Present

    Watery floral/stinky violet aquatic. Not for me.
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    The Deep Ones

    Hmm, this is a deep green aquatic. It's rather nice initially, then it turns into detergent.
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    Yew-Trees

    OMG Pine! My nostrils flared and my eyes bugged out when I sniffed this. I can't skin test.
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    Voodoo Lily

    This is citrusy, spicy and boozy. Like a Maker's Mark & ginger ale with a twist of lemon. It's a little syrupy and cloying.
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    Lady MacBeth

    This smells like what I wanted Pom IV to smell like. There's dark berries and thyme, but not overpoweringly herbal. There's a bit of the wine/boozy note that I get from Smut too. Now it's turning funky.
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    High-Strung Daisies

    This reminds me of Underpants (without the cream and saffron) and Loli.Goth. Very strange. It's PINK (strawberry?) and sugary but not bubblegum. I want a bottle of this to slather in the Summer.
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    Coyote

    This is a grassy, woody musk. It's very light that I can barely pick out anything once it's dry.
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