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SAMHAIN: SABBAT OIL Twilight Alchemy Lab’s Samhain Oil contains essential oils, absolutes, and CO2 extracts that are organically-grown and pesticide-free, and many of the oils’ components are first distillations from small farms. This oil includes 10-year old iron-free patchouli oil, steam-distilled North African myrrh, Austrian pine needle essential oil, mugwort, tarragon, rue, Tunisian rosemary, wild crafted steam-distilled bay laurel, clary sage, and wormwood essential oil gathered from leaves and twigs. This oil was charged under tremendously auspicious circumstances during a complete lunar cycle, and was created utilizing the specific astrological aspects that will be active on Samhain 2011. I am reviewing this oil for the scent only, although I know it's not supposed to be used as perfume. In the bottle, it's all patchouli and myrrh. A little dab on my skin and the edge of my sleeve reveals a deeper, cola-like fragrance that is very similar to Schwarzer Mond, which is also very heavy on patchouli + opoponax (sweet myrrh). I also smell something a little menthol-like, but I realize that it's rosemary. I can also pick out the pine-which smells like fresh sap, clary sage, and perhaps a bit of the tarragon.

I was iffy on this blend because I haven't had much luck with chamomile and definitely no luck with orris. They always funkify any blend they are in, but I figured with red musk, Nepalese amber, cedar, lotus, and star anise--what could possibly go wrong? In the bottle, it's a murky red musk with sweet star anise. On my skin, the red musk has a sharp metallic tang that reminds me of The Elephantine Colossus, but it's quickly smoothed out by the amber and lotus. The black musk is definitely "vegetal", and the star anise makes me think of root beer sometimes. I don't get any cedar, perhaps it'll come out another day or as the oil ages. Also MIA are chamomile and orris, (which is a good thing). I'm pretty wowed by Senelion fresh from the Lab, and I can imagine how gorgeous it will be in 6 months! ETA, now that I've had more time wearing this. Every time I wear this, I notice at the end of the day a sweetness mixed with amber that always makes me wonder what I'm wearing because there's no red musk, and it takes me a few seconds to remember that it's Senelion. I know it's the lotus note. It's so beautiful.

This gloss is a lot lighter than the SO hair gloss. I can tell because when I tried the SO gloss on dry hair, using 3 squirts rubbed thru my palms and spread through my hair, it made a greasy mess. This gloss provided the perfect amount of shiny smoothness my bed-hair needed, without making it look oily. I don't get much clove from this, but the frankincense note is gorgeous. It reminded me a lot of the Midnight Mass perfume oil (which now smells a-may-zing) after a year of aging. It's not a heavy scent at all, my hair faintly smells of the gloss but it's not overwhelming. As it should be.

Baked goods always go with coffee! You're a guy so most likely you don't want to smell like a danish... I've seen a few perfumes that combine coffee and leather, so maybe a leather-dominant blend will work for you? Perhaps wood and tobacco notes would work as well? I haven't had my coffee this morning so I'm at a loss for specific suggestions other than A Bachelor's Dog and The Arabian Dance (which has a coffee note), but there are a few threads here which may be nice for you to browse thru and check reviews on some of the suggestions. Leather Smokey + leather Woodsy Good luck and welcome back!

Off the top of my head, Rose Cross was primarily rosewood to me. As a matter of fact it smelled just like the rosewood rosary my mom has.

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Goblin. Patch + Coconut and benzoin I think? It's delicious. ETA...also, if you can find a decant of Death Adder. It's from the Carnaval Diabolique line which is on hiatus while the Lab makes new labels, but it's "Snake Oil with vetiver, black coconut, vanilla, and opoponax." also divine.

If you can find it, Hod. The notes are unlisted but it's a smooth amber-carnation to me. The carnation notes are similar, but Hod worked better on me.

Welcome! Midnight Mass is a good one, but try to find one on the forum that's aged. When I bought a bottle last Yule, the frankincense was very sharp and it took almost a year of aging to mellow it out. Cathedral is lovely but there's a "wood" note with the incense. Heavenly Love & Earthly Love is another incense scent (sweeter and lighter than Midnight Mass) but it's not sold on the bpal website, it's sold at the Whole Foods somewhere in GA I think. You can post an ISO in the Wanted section...someone may have a decant for you to test.

I also hoped this would be a chocolatey Banshee Beat. I have to accept that it's gone and nothing can come close to it. OWS is a woody/rooty patchouli, similar to The Coiled Serpent but a bit sweeter. I smell a bit of cocoa, but unfortunately this oil is virgin-fresh from the Lab so I can't detect the other notes very well. I freakin' love patchouli, so it's not a complete disappointment...besides, this will age and get richer.

Smells exactly like aged Snake Oil, and the Bath Oil. It's extremely potent also, a little goes a long way.

Caramel Cotton Candy! Caramel usually makes me go ACKBURNTSUGAR! but this is very light and airy. There's a fluffy tart lemon note in here upon first application, but mostly it's just caramel cotton candy. I love this, it's such a change from my usual bath oils.

Devil's Night 2011 was the first perfume I tried when I ripped open my Weenie box. I put it on the tops and bottoms of my wrists, and was greeted with the same sickly, smokey sweetness that I smelled in the bottle, magnified 10x. The combination of sweet with BOOZY, smokey musk is something new to me, and I'm not sure if I like it yet. It dried down to a sugary musk that I ignored as I was playing with my new phone. Later I applied some more, but this time to my upper forearm and I could smell the cool air and autumn leaves along with the sugar-musk-booze smokiness, which was quite nice. I don't think I can wear this right now, my nose is doing weird things tonight. I hope it calms down by next Halloween, or it will make a great room scent.

Samhainophobia smells like what The Coiled Serpent would smell like if it died and crawled out from the grave. It's one of the darkest, scariest bpal scents I've tried yet. The geranium is giving me a sick/headachey feeling when I sniff it on my skin, but after it dries I can smell the menacing vetiver and heavy patchouli. I'm stashing this bottle away to age, which was my intention from the beginning.

HALLOWEEN: LAS VEGAS Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. On Halloween in 2007, surrounded by our loved ones, I married the man of my dreams in Las Vegas. True to the nature of our relationship, it was a costumed event - a pirate-themed wedding - and it was as merry, strange, and wonderful as a Halloween wedding should be. Ted, I love you. You are the poetry in my soul, you are the dreams of my heart. You are everything I need, and I love you with a passion that transcends all time, space, and logic. The aftermath of piratical nuptials: walls smeared with red and black frosting, copious amounts of spilled red wine, the leftover contents of three full bars, dry leaves and desert flowers crushed into carpet, tobacco smoke, and champaca incense in a cloud of body-heat amped Snake Oil and Dorian. This is Cake Smash all grownz up. It has the same elements: Red velvet cake, Dorian, and a bit of Snake Oil. But there's also ruby red port and a fresh cigar thrown in. I love love love this so much, and I'm thrilled to have a scent that represents awesome Beth & Puddin's pirate wedding.

After going over reviews, I've made a list of the bottles that will be my 2nd Weenie order: -The Gorobble -Expressive Head -Sentimental Initiation -An Incubus Leaving Two Sleeping Women -The Triumph of Death Maaaybe Muse of The Night, and definitely a backup of Samhainophobia. I just know I'm going to love it.

Thanks for posting! Halloween: Las Vegas' label is hot, and Pumpkin Princess is just priceless.

Although popcorn isn't listed in the notes, there is a popcorn note in The Elephantine Colossus. I just tested it now, and there's definitely a kettle-corn in here.

A very generous forumite gifted me a nice sample of Crypt King, so here I am to review! I'm surprised at how light this is. It doesn't have a lot of throw and wears very close to my skin, but the oil is incredibly smooth and well blended. Wet, it's sweet pomegranate juice with a subtle hint of dirt-like oakmoss (yum) and a very green-smelling patchouli. I think I recognize coriander because I had coriander perfume from Kiehl's and it's the same note, and a teeny bit of pepper. I've tested this for 2 days straight, and you know what? The finished product reminds me a lot of the very late dry down stages of Mme Moriarty. The dry stage is not as sweet with red musk and plum, but there's that unmistakeable pomegranate-patchouli scent lingering on my skin. To my delight, I amp both of those notes so this makes me incredibly happy. While I was expecting it to be darker and grittier, it's gorgeous and I can imagine it'll improve with age. I hope one day I can find a reasonably-priced (heh, arm + leg + kidney...) bottle.

Dark, powdery Snake Oil soap. It smelled like a sweet sandalwood soap I had once, then it morphed. I love incensy-powdery perfumes, and I'm glad this isn't a floral mess. I think the florals are just making it too soapy for my tastes.

Snake Oil, Banshee Beat, Mme Moriarty are the three most complimented scents I wear.

Velvety amber, dry patchouli, and spices - I'd love to know what "embalming spices" are, but cinnamon stands out the most. Cinnamon and I don't have a good relationship, it usually overpowers any blend it's in, turning it into a Red Hot Mess. I'm reminded of Hellhound on My Trail, which turned out awful because of the cinnamon, but these "spices" are very subdued and tolerable amongst amber and patchouli. I'm also being reminded of Cat Allingham because they both paint a desert landscape in my mind. I'm looking forward to this one once it's aged a bit--I'm hoping the patchouli gets stronger.

Too bad the Carnaval Diabolique is on hiatus - Temple Viper is pure nag champa incense and Mme Moriarty is plummy incense. I would go with the ones already mentioned such as: Snake Oil Cathedral Oblivion The Antikythera Mechanism Spellbound and add: Old Demons of the First Class - Siberian musk, black clove, opoponax, tonka, black pepper, and neroli I would say that both Snake Oil and Cathedral smell a little sharp/intense at first, but after some aging they are both beautiful. If you don't like them at first, don't write them off forever.

I can smell fresh pumpkin in here, and sweet powdery marshmallows. Once again, cinnamon red hots turn what could have been an amazing blend into a craft-store Halloween candle.

I sprayed this in the bathroom, on the shower curtains (they are cloth). It smells like spiced cookies with some fruit and resins. It's very light.