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"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you… and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me… …love me… …do as I say and I will be your slave." Ethereal lilac fougere and gleaming leather with ti leaf, tonka absolute, white musk, and oudh. Jareth is definitely an older delinquint brother of Dorian's...they have that same smooth vanilla-musky swagger, but there is a subtle leather note layered in there, that definitely makes Jareth the bad boy of the bunch - You know, that vibe that says, "While my brother is sipping tea with the ladies, I'm stealing their children!" This, like Dorian, is very unisex I feel, though maybe bordering on the masculine side - though not so much that it's out of place for a woman to wear it. This for sure, is an amazing scent! out of 5 stars: 4.5 "I wish the Goblin King would come take ME away...Right now!"

A dark, earthy ginger cider. This was the other blend I was most leery about trying, since I really didn't care for punkie night or Lamb's wool (I never tried the autumn cider blend from this last round of weenies, so I can't compare it to that) - that being said, I LOVE this! The ginger and the spices are an amazing combination, and it has that zesty zing! that just makes this so refreshing, yet it really seems like it will be something I will definitely want to wear all the time in the fall. It has a great throw too. Out of 5 stars: 4

"I ain't never been no one's friend before." Fermented pumpkin, brown leather, dust, tobacco leaf, and dark woods. I thought for sure that Hoggle was not going to work on me, since 99% of the time, pumpkin in any form is a death note for me - BUT, this is amazing! the pumpkin is definitely a main player, but mixed with the combination of the tobacco leaf, brown leather, and a woodsiness, it's PERFECT! This actually reminds a little of Jack, but just so much better! This is definitely an awesome scent for the fall, especially around Halloween! out of 5 stars: 4 (for when you want a good Halloween scent) otherwise, a 3.5

"It bit me!" "What did you expect fairies to do?" "I thought they did nice things. Like — like granting wishes." "Shows what you know, don't it?" Osmanthus and raw honey with lavender, chamomile, white peppermint, raspberry, honeysuckle, thyme, bergamot, and Dracula orchid. This is stunning! It has a very ethereal feel, as you would expect - I think this is acheived through the balance of floral, fruit, and white mint. The mint isn't strong, but it's there just enough to pick up on, and to take the "bite" off of the floral and fruit. The florals that are in this, as just downright gorgeous - not cloying funereal flowers by any stretch! I also can pick up on the sweetness of the raspberry. This will be an awesome springtime scent! out of 5 stars: 4

My bottle is labeled XIX This has the same spun sugar note as silky bat and Go to Sleep, Darlings...LOVE! It seems like it also has a base of a vanilla along the same vein as Black Opal... I wish I could hoard this because it's stunning!!

"You have 13 hours in which to solve the Labyrinth…before your baby brother becomes one of us…forever." A scent of profound foreboding: dusty black stone, dried rosehips, black moss, and creeping ivy. Out of the 5 Labyrinth scents, this was my least favorite, though I still liked it quite a bit, so that is really saying something of how amazing these blends are! This one is definitely "airy" and the "stone" is definitely present - The ivy and stone are the strongest notes, though every now and then I was catching a whiff of roses - which must be coming from the rosehips. It's extremely well blended, and a really great representation of the stone Labyrinth. This actually evokes a scent memory for me, of it being wet and rainy outside while sitting on a stone wall waiting for the bus to school when I was a kid! crazy! this will probably be my rainy day scent - since it captured that SO well! out of 5 stars: 3 (but that's mostly just personal preference) ETA: I've been wearing this 2 days in a row, to really get a deeper feel for it, since my initial test was done while watching Labyrinth and testing the other 4 blends as well - I actually DO really like this blend a lot more than I originally thought; this one was an herbal almost masculine, but still unisex feel to it, that is softened by the rosehips - It warms up a lot the longer it's been on my skin, and doesn't have heavy throw, but just enough - someone would have to come close like for a hug or something to get a whiff of it, rather than it filling my office with it's scent. I think I'd bump this one up to a 3.5 - 4 out of 5

Deceptively sweet: bourbon vanilla oleoresin and benzoin resinoid. I tested this one out in the shower, and I'm in LOVE! In the bottle, It didn't seem very strong, almost like I could barely smell it. In the shower, I poured a little in my hand to rub in on my skin, and I could smell the sweet rich vanilla! It's not a buttery vanilla, it's a gourmand, grown up vanilla. On my skin, (not sure if this is just my skin chemistry) but there is almost the slightest undertone of sassafrass! It's absolutely DIVINE!

An exercise is unabashed sensuality: cacao absolute and a hint of oude. Just tested this in the bath! In the bottle, it smells like rich dark chocolate In the bath once diluted a bit, it smells like straight up Brownie Batter! I want to eat it! I also rubbed a bit on my skin before getting out of the bath, and it smells on the skin, like a creamier chocolate...this is SO GOOD. All three bath oils I bought from the lupers were a complete WIN!

Pussy Moth has amazing Tonka! (Orange blossom honey, brown sugar, saffron, tonka absolute, and tobacco leaf.)

L'EAU DE L'ARDEUR French vanilla, tea rose, champaca flower, and white chocolate. Got this today! and OH. MY. GOD is this gorgeous. This smells exactly like how I imagined (hoped) it would smell! In the bottle, it smells like creamy white chocolate covered roses...I almost wanted to eat it! as it diluted in the bath, this still smelled creamy, and like roses, but not overbearing roses...gentle, very subtle roses. and every now and again, a whiff of creamy white chocolate. The image this evokes in my mind is soaking in a large Victorian bathroom, with cherub statues all around - it truly is the essence of Love! I think I need a gallon of this!!!

Some of the ones I think are the most "Beachy" contain Tiare - reminds me of a tropical Island. some notes to look for: Tiare, coconut, Ambergris, ozone - some of my favorites are: Thalassa the Galapagod Mermaid (Carnival Diabolique) The Sea foams Milk (GC) Elegba (GC) Ambergris SN (LE, may be able to track down in swaps) Haumea v1 (found at the Lab's etsy page...not sure it they still have any left, but it's similar to the Coconut vanilla bean & Tiare hair gloss)

My two favorites are Dragon's Bone, and Ladon. Dragon's Bone isn't "dry" to me, it's just beautiful - It's the scent I go to whenever I need a big dose of confidence (for example, I am in management, and I sometimes has the unpleasant duty of talking to direct reports about performance issues, or addressing complaints against one employee from another employee...in those circumstances, I need a scent that makes me feel strong, confident, and unshakable...this is the one I go for!) also - Ladon is just stunning, and one of my favorite "fall" blends because it has this gorgeous apple note in there too...it's like the Dargon's Blood version of Coral Snake!

So I guess a good start would be to know which oils you have tried, so I can suggest some that maybe you haven't tried. Just form looking at your list, I would suggest: White Rabbit Vixen Snake Oil Haunted Visions of Autumn III (current Weenie) Coral snake (carnival diabolique - which should be coming back very soon)

Yes! I love Goldenrod Crab spider - I wear it a lot in the summer! also - not a perfume oil, but the Lightning storm Hair Gloss is awesome...Lime and Yuzu. I didn't get to try Lavinia though, so I am not sure if it was "limey".

Finally got my mitts on a decant of this, as this was one of the blends from this year's weenies I MOST wanted to try... In the decant: I get a very soft vanilla sweetened by the honey (but not a distinct honey note) and a soft patch that smells like the same patch from Banshee Beat HOWEVER, it is so much softer, that it almost could pass as Oud. The cinnamon is also a dry woody cinnamon (more like a cinnamon stick) than the spicy "red hot" type of cinnamon. I wouldn't compare it with Banshee Beat, Nor Feed Me and Fill Me with Pleasure, as it's very much it's own scent. (To me, BB was very a gorgeous vanilla with a backdrop of woodsy patch, and Feed me and Fill me was Mainly Patch SN on me, sweetened up by the honey, where as say, Tricksy is very much Patch and Honey fairly equally.) It's all about ratios here! Wet: very much the same as in the decant...not much changes when first applied. Dry: This scent to me, gives me the same "warm and fuzzies" that Ivanushka gives me (not that they smell anything alike - they don't!) it's just one of those scents that makes you feel like you've been wrapped in a soft woolen blanket - it's COZY. as for the notes, the vanilla is so soft and subtle, and slightly sweet form the honey, but it's not as if I would sniff this and think "Vanilla!" those two notes really just provide a softcozy backdrop. The patch is also very subtle and soft, and mingles almost imperceptibly with the dry cinnamon. If you took banshee beat, and diluted it WAY down to a much more softer and subtle level, and then took out the prominance of the vanilla - you'd have Visions of Autumn III. It is a VERY well blended scent!

Thank you! I'll have to add these to my *must try* decant list!!

I can really only make 3 suggestions based on your love of Shub, which I also share - you may or may not have already tried these, but if not, I HIGHLY recommend: Pickled Imp (carnival Diabolique), Mopsfledermaus (one of the Bat's day exclusives...you may be able to track down a decant or bottle), and Shark tooth (Dragon con 2014 exclusive) - all three of these seem like they are all in the same family as Shub, but all are slightly different. Pickled Imp, is even more foody than Shub, as they both start off foody, pickled imp stays foody, where Shub (at least on me) settles into this glorious ginger incense. Mopsfledermaus has more of that ginger incense feel from Shub, though with brown sugar and molasses added into the mix. it's a little foody, but no where near like what pickled imp is. Lastly, Shark tooth starts of as ambergris, but it morphs into this cinnamon/ginger-esque note that is lovely - it's a very strange blend, but Like I said, if you like any of those blends, you would like it! I'm going to ask for a more complicated recommendation for me! I LOVE red musk heavy blends, and would love recommendations from past lupers/shungas that may fit this bill. Things from our lady of Pain, or any past Lupers collections etc, since I only tried one of those which was not a red musk blend (feed me and fill me with pleasure). I have already tried: womb furie, L'Essence de la passion, and Smut - and I have a ton of weenie red musk blends, so I am specifically looking for Luper blends!

BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS SPITTLE Coconut meat, mango pulp, white mint, and melon. Woo! First to review! This bubbling bath brew takes me to a Caribbean island with a fruity drink in my hand; the coconut and mango stand out the most, and the mint actually compliments the fruit the same way it does in a mojito, not too overpowering, but definitely there lending a nice balance. The watermelon adds a sweetness that rounds it out very nicely. The brew creates a soft foam on the top of the water, not mounds and mounds of bubbles, but just enough. In the water, the scent is there, but very light. I actually took a bit of the brew in my hands, wet it, then rubbed it into my skin so that the scent would last a little, which it did a little. The brew also creates a softness in the water that makes you skin soft even after you step out. I really hope they create a perfume oil in this scent!!! I'm hoping Shango may compliment this - I'll report back on that.

I haven't tried Autumn cider, but if you are looking for a real apple smell, Have you tried Poisoned apple? It starts off fresh juicy *real* apple, and as it dries the hemlock comes out more giving it more of an herbal/apple. My favorite apple scents though are: Ladon (GC) Coral Snake (Carnival Diabolique) Glittering Apple of the Stars (LE Weenie from 2011) - there were several other apples in this collection that year too, but I haven't tried them. Snow Glass and Apples (LE Gaimen) also - if you can find a fairy, you may want to see about snagging one of the event exclusives from NYCC happening now, since those scents are ALL about apples! Here's the descriptions: ONE PALE WOMAN Apple and white mint layered with tobacco flower, pink pepper, white jasmine, bourbon vanilla, orange blossom, and champaca flower. DAYLIGHT KISSING HER WAN HAIR White pear, honeyed apple, ambrette seed, star anise, and a drop of clove. THE GAS LAMPS’ FLARE Glistening red apple and a drift of dark, smoky black copal, saffron, galbanum, sweet orange rind, and myrrh. LIPS OF FLAME AND HEART OF STONE Red musk and red apple with bourbon vanilla, tobacco absolute, Indonesian red patchouli, black clove, and khus.

I don't have any scent suggestions, but if you like survival horror games, the tell-tale games version of walking dead is awesome...I got very emotionally invested! Season 2 is already in progress...

If you can get your hands on Burning Book SN, that is perfect, IMO... The smoke isn't too overwhelming, it;s just perfect, and sweetened by a vanilla/paper note, but it's not overly sweet. There is also the leather, which again, is not overwhelming - it's just perfect. I feel it's very Unisex, as I can totally see a guy wearing it, but I also like it layer it with Snake Oil.

Glittering Apple of the Stars is one of my favs...it was a Halloweenie from 2011 I think... Glittering Apple of the Stars: Heirloom Malus, ylang ylang, white and blue musks, crystallized vanilla, tiare, frangipani, and bergamot.

I should mention - when I mentioned aged Elegba, I have a 10ml Blue cobalt bottle from 2006...it's 8 years old and DIVINE. It's all creamy sugared coconut - the booziness is toned WAY down, and almost in the background at this point. I've gotten so many compliments on it when I wear it, and it's AWESOME for layering if you want to add a little coconut to another blend. If you have an imp, or bottle, seriously just put it away for a LONG time...it'll become incredible, I promise! Alainn - if you're looking for a toasted coconutty scent vs the creamy vanilla/coconut one, I'd look for blends containing Black Coconut. Those seem to be the more "nutty" coconut blends to my nose rather than the sun tan lotion types. some good recommendations would be: Death Adder: Snake Oil with vetiver, black coconut, vanilla, and opoponax. Totally a bonus if you love Snake Oil too! Although it is an LE, the Carnival should be coming back *soon* Goblin: Black coconut, gnarly patchouli, and sweet benzoin - GC item in Diabolus

The Ambergris is definitely the strongest player here on initial application. As it dries, The ambergris fades a little into the background. I am getting that "cinnamon" note that people are describing, only I don't read it as cinnamon (I think it's the cedar and ambrette seed making this happen). as it dries, it (surprisingly) has a similar yet less strong feel as Mopsfledermaus from the Bat's day scents a couple years back - and feels like it could be a distant cousin to Shub-Niggurath without the foody aspect (that cinnamon/ginger/musk is what I pick up) Love this! so glad I got a bottle!

This is amazing...something in the blend, when used as an in-shower moisturizer (on my skin) is VERY reminiscent of the Candy Butcher! I think it's the dark chocolate/cream (fig milk?) note combo that stands out the most on my skin...this is gorgeous!