theredkilt
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This is an unexpected hit. Sweet cassia powder mingled with oily myrrh and gentle curls if red musk. I smell no vetiver or dragon's blood. This could be Chimera's brother or sister but with a cassia twist. Love!
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Fresh dewy green rose, low-key soapy and constantly making its presence known, and a bit vegetal from the sap.
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White Honey, Cucumber, & Wild Lettuce
theredkilt replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Freshly applied, the wild lettuce smacked me in the kisser ?? reminds me somewhat of the Lab's green grass note. Later on the crazy lettuce note significantly died down and the white honey emerges. The white honey gets stronger and on final drydown i get a white honeyed aura with very faint touches of green bitter lettuce in the background. -
This gives me some Tom Ford Black Orchid vibes. The black musk-tuberose-vanilla-truffle combo is so smooth and addictive. A truly bewitching scent!
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After it has aged for more than 10 months, Leon blooms on my skin into soapy incense-like champa. The white tea and other notes are MIA. At least the champa flower has settled and no longer screams in the bottle.
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Lab Frimp: grapefruit tinged with neroli or orange blossom and musk? The neroli/ orange blossom come out later prominently.
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Victorian gentlemen's colognes - best options?
theredkilt replied to PrinceofcatS's topic in Recommendations
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This is a very dainty, refined and floral clean scent. I get the unsweetened coconut and the jasmine. The rice milk and almond give off this powdery cloudy base. Not sure where cardamom and ti leaf are. I expected more oomph from these Courtesans, a bit more subdued debauchery. As it is, it feels more like Courtesans relaxing and applying make up.
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I get a very gentle translucent honey glowing on my skin. I don't get the cheesecake or matcha. Feels more like a perfume from the Lupercalia Honeypot serie.
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This is a white rose, similar to the one in Herbert West, with the green elements, reminiscent of the one in Venus Murcia, amped up around the edges. The green leaves stop the rose from becoming too dewy, but some dewiness lingers. All in all, it's a white rose dipped in green musk.
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I get a buttery pie crust with no lavender or coconut in sight. Later on the lavender comes out and renders a cool breeze quality to the drydown. The coconut is kind of weak and it's more of a very vague suggestion. I wouldn't even know there was coconut had it not been listed in the scent description.
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I get the milk note and the gingerbread cookie note, not necessarily in equal amounts. Looks like the gingebread cookie wins over the milk note. The blend is slowly evening out and i finally get a mental picture: a freshly milk dipped gingebread cookie. The gingerbread cookie smells like a real freshly baked one that had some to cool off, while the milk adds an extra layer of milky sweetness and texture. The gingerbread cookie note, notably the spices, gradually assert themselves over the frothy milk.
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Tobacco flower is the most assertive note on my skin. It reminds me of the cherry tobacco variety. Lavander shows up in the beginning but then disappears. I've smelled something similar before, most likely in another Yule blend from the early to mid 00s.
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I got 2 imps of the recent SO, one must be from 2021 and the other one from 2020. I'm very bummed out because they don't smell anything like my 2016 bottle. I get a very strong smell of sage on the drydown and instantly it reminds me of Western Diamondback. Maybe there was a mix up ???
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I have Serpent in my collection since its release. I still can't discern what I'm smelling. There's a vague resinous element and a pale whisper of rose. The whole thing disappears in less than 2 hours. It doesn't resemble Snake Oil or any variation of it. I'm seriously puzzled with this blend and not sure what to make of it.
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This is a violet blend to my nose, only a restrained one. Smells like dainty black violet petals dipped in sweet and delicate plum/ oppoponax nectar. The throw is close to the skin. Witch-Birds, imho, is a distant relative of Sybaris, imho,
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The opening is so gourgeous and zesty. I wish it stayed like this the entire time. Little by little the bergamot fades away and you get a very approachable and mainstream scent. I can't put my finger on it, but i've smelled something similar before. I have to be honest - the white pom rind does make the difference and pulls the blend in a whole different direction. It's still has the citrus aura, while the white musk/ pom rind combo creates this clean freshness. Later on the white musk gains strength and has the final word.
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Raminou, falls, for me, in the honey/patchouli/musk family just like Feed Me and Fill Me w/Pleasure, Visions of Autumn III, Third Charm. Raminou is gentler, more well blended and not very red musk forward. I can smell the honey/vanila/patchouli/red musk combo right away, but here it's more hazy, subdued and mellow, wafting like smoke curls.
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Indoors, this blend smells on my skin of dry crunchy dead leaves with a sour undertone and marshmallow sweetness. Outside, the dead leaves subside and i get a pale marshamallow blend.
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Rose Otto, Vetiver, & Blackcurrant
theredkilt replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Freshly applied it reminds me of the Lab's snow-pine note, for a moment i thought it was a Yule blend. The scent smells green-ish. The vetiver doesn't stand out; i think i smell more the black currant leaf than the currant/ berry itself. The rose is the white variety that goes a bit green berry-ish. -
I get rose petals drenched in red wine. These are not particularly sweet rose petals. They have underlying resiny bite. The scent is quite bright which i didn't expect from the description. Later on it gets a bit dusty rosey and wine-ish.
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The cardamom starts out strong laying atop of the cacao. Overtime the cacao sweetens up and gets dustier while the cardamom lingers around quietly. No sign of the hay absolute.
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So i blind bought "Sleeping Cat" over "By day she made herself into a cat". Wrong call. Sleeping Cat on my skin is balsam with a glitter of pine. I was expecting a completely different kind of amber. As time goes by, Sleeping Cat develops a faint salty vibe. I wanted the somnambulent purring amber, but looks like the cat decided to relocate under the Christmas Tree.
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This is one of the rare instances when the red musk behaves on my skin and doesn't take center stage. "How to write the beat of love" reminds me in composition of the GC Mania, red musk with fruits, only here it's more complex considering the multitude of notes. Upon drydown i get a perfect balance of mango with honey anchored on a bed of unassuming red musk. The gardenia and champa blossom are more apparent when freshly applied, but i guess they meld sleemlessly into the mango/honey/red musk melange. I'm happy this works on my skin and the red musk behaves for a chnage.