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Sleek black fur, fuzzy tonka bean, bronze amber and yellow bergamot, black patchouli, honeyed chestnut, and pumpkin incense. I and Pangur Bán, my cat, ‘Tis a like task we are at; Hunting mice is his delight, Hunting words I sit all night. Better far than praise of men ‘Tis to sit with book and pen; Pangur bears me no ill-will, He, too, plies his simple skill. ‘Tis a merry thing to see At our tasks how glad are we, When at home we sit and find Entertainment to our mind. Oftentimes a mouse will stray In the hero Pangur’s way; Oftentimes my keen thought set Takes a meaning in its net. ‘Gainst the wall he sets his eye Full and fierce and sharp and sly; ‘Gainst the wall of knowledge I All my little wisdom try. When a mouse darts from its den, O! how glad is Pangur then; O! what gladness do I prove When I solve the doubts I love. So in peace our task we ply, Pangur Bán, my cat, and I; In our arts we find our bliss, I have mine, and he has his. Practice every day has made Pangur perfect in his trade; I get wisdom day and night, Turning darkness into light. – From the ninth-century Irish poem, Pangur Bán, translated by Robin Flower
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Black Peach, Black Tea, and Blackcurrent
doomsday_disco replied to Jenjin's topic in Event Exclusive Oils
Tangy is definitely how I'd describe this peach scent. I can smell all of the notes, with the black tea adding some astringency to the scent, and the blackcurrant adding a bittersweet, earthy quality to it. I think it's the same blackcurrant note featured in Snow Moon: Yuzu and Blackcurrant. The peach itself is not as bright or juicy as the Lab's other peach scents. While I can't see myself reaching for this over the other peaches in my collection, it might be up your alley if you're looking for a peach scent that's not hella sweet. -
Incense and Blackcurrant Sufganiyot Atmosphere Spray
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Atmosphere
I no longer have the Blackcurrant Sufganiyot perfume oil (it was one I destashed), but I do think it's the same blackcurrant suf from that oil, with powdered sugar to boot, combined with an incense note that smells partially resinous and partially like a stick or cone of incense. I sprayed this on a paper towel to test it twice, and I thought the two aspects of the scent were pretty balanced. I think this smells nice, and I'll keep my decant around, but I don't think I need a whole bottle of this one. -
Sweet brandy, dark rum, heavy cream, sugar, and a dash of nutmeg.
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The cream note in this is too buttery for it to smell like actual Egg Nog to me, but it still smells better than an aged decant of the 2013 version of the perfume oil that I tried a few years ago. I sprayed this on a paper towel and got tons of buttery cream with the rum and brandy at first, but it gets less buttery and more sugary over time, and I appreciate the creamy sweetness despite it not smelling like the actual drink. While I don't feel the need to upgrade to a bottle of this, I do think the decant is worth keeping around.
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A slightly more sinister take on our usual Beaver Moon offerings: black cherry and blackberry cheesecake with a smear of chocolate brandy sauce.
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That’s right, we added squished apples to marshmallows in pursuit of maximum squishiness. Give us the Nobel Prize already! You can squish the resulting concoction directly into your hairs: pillowy marshmallow fluff infused with a cidery sparkle.
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The Rev. Joseph Glanvil, chaplain in ordinary to Charles II., was a writer of great erudition and ability. In his “Sadducismus Triumphatus,” written to show that the phenomena of witchcraft were genuine occurrences, he gives an account of Mr. Mompesson’s haunted house at Tedworth, where it was observed that, on beating or calling for any tune, it would be exactly answered by drumming. When asked by some one to give three knocks, if it were a certain spirit, it gave three knocks and no more. Other questions were put, and answered by knocks exactly. Glanvil himself says, that, being told it would imitate noises, he scratched, on the sheet of the bed, five, then seven, then ten times ; and it returned exactly the number of scratches each time. Melanethon relates that at Oppenheim, in Germany, in 1620, the same experiment of rapping, and having the raps exactly answered by the spirit which haunted a house, was successfully tried ; and he tells us that Luther was visited by a spirit who announced his coming by “a rapping at his door.” In the famous Wesley case, the haunting of the house of John Wesley’s father, the Parsonage at Epworth, Lincolnshire, in 1716, for a period of two months, the supposed spirit used to imitate Mr. Wesley’s knock at the gate. It responded to the Amen at prayers. Emily, one of the daughters, knocked ; and it answered her. Mr. Wesley knocked a stick on the joists of the kitchen ; and it knocked again, in number of strokes and in loudness exactly replying. When Mrs. Wesley stamped, it knocked in reply. It is not surprising that John Wesley was a Spiritualist. “With my last breath,” he writes, “will I bear my testimony against giving up to infidels one great proof of the invisible world ; I mean that of witchcraft, confirmed by the testimony of all ages.” Planchette, or The Despair of Science : being a full account of modern spiritualism, its phenomena, and the various theories regarding it : with a survey of French Spiritism, Epes Sargent Green balsam, bay leaf, fossilized amber, blackened vetiver, and clove bud cloaked in oud.
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The shed of autumn is a fiery blaze of reds, oranges, and yellows, their embers raining down and collecting at my feet. Each leaf that falls thins the veil between the worlds, between the crisp exhilaration of the fall and the barren stillness of winter. November wind is the prelude to the ghosts of the year, when the stories are still being whispered through the woods before the silence of snow. An explosion of autumn: Leaves, Vanilla, and Leather.
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Black velvet steeped in tea leaves, infernal cologne, and crimson resins, Vinegar Tom exudes shadowy seduction. The scent evokes honeyed flatteries, secret pacts, and whispered promises slipping from the lips of a finely dressed lothario. Please note: this oil contains honey absolute.
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A symphony of rust and fire: dust-blasted leather and the jagged concrete and steel teeth of time-blasted ruins, spattered with blood, choked with smoke, and thrumming with the distant drone of engines.
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Clove and Pink Pepper.
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Gleaming red-tinged eyes peering from the shadows. Ink stains and smoke weave tendrils through aged blackened patchouli, rich amber, and infernal musk.
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I received an imp of this as a freebie in my Yule order. ? Rakshasa Party Magician is all about that spiced amber, which is a deep amber that is also somewhat dry. The cocoa powder was fleeting on me, and the rice pudding just lends a hint of creaminess in the background, so the cotton candy plays the biggest support role here, adding some sweetness behind the spiced amber, although it also is gone by the end of the day, with only the spiced amber remaining after several hours of wear. The amber isn't heavily spiced, if you're worried about that -- I'd say this is a deeper and less spiced amber than the amber featured in The Lion. I'd definitely recommend this more to amber fans than gourmand lovers.
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With apologies to my ancestors. Ube halaya and ube ice cream chonked with mango jelly, flan, boiled taro, evaporated milk, sweetened kidney beans, dried coconut, kaong, gulaman, tapioca pearls, and a copious shake of pumpkin spice.
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Lemon Chiffon Pumpkin Pie
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
I wasn't sure how well lemon and pumpkin would go together, but it turns out that they actually make a really nice combo! At first, this smells like a lemon cream-filled cookie with some pumpkin spice, and I am here for the deliciousness. Over time, it gets less about the lemon and more about the pumpkin spice, but there's still some creaminess to the scent, as well as a creme brulee-like sugary aspect to the scent after a full day of wear. I'll be keeping my decant and wearing it until its gone like past pies (I used up my imps of Cherry Cream Pie Chypre and Pumpkin Pie Musk during the week of Thanksgiving last year ?). All of this year's Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday imps were winners! -
The predominant notes on me are lemon myrtle and sandalwood throughout wear, although the lavender, tangerine, and ylang ylang lurk in the background (and are most noticeable during the first few hours of wear). The sandalwood in this is a dry, dusty variety, but all of the notes combine together to make a really nice, calming scent. I will definitely be hanging onto my imp (and may end up trying to find more imps in sales/swaps).
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I decided to try this one since it contains lavender, although I was iffy on the metallic aldehydes (which can be too sharp). I am pleased to say that this scent didn't turn out to be too sharp at all! It starts off mostly being about the lavender and lemon pith (I agree with LavenderCoffee that the lemon pith lends some welcome sweetness to the scent), backed by the mineralic musk and ambergris. After a while, the musk and ambergris end up being the main players on me, and there's a light woodiness mixed in that I think may be from the patchouli. I'm going to have to spend more time with this one to see if I need more than a decant of it in my life, but I do enjoy this new lavender addition to the Evening with the Spirits line.
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Vanilla sponge cake, royal icing, pudding wine, honey dust, and black fig. Rubens Peale
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Honey dust and fig aren't notes that typically work on me, but I wanted to try this because I love the art and the first two listed notes. This is mostly about the fig and dessert wine on me. The honey dust is thankfully subtle in this one, probably because the fig and wine are so loud. It takes several hours before the cake note shows up on me, but like Little Bird said, it is a dry cake. If fig and wine are your jam, you will probably end up liking this one. Alas, I wish it were less fruity and more cake-y.
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I tried this twice, and it is mostly about the candied orange and white honey on me. The orange is pretty light and smoothed over by the sugar and honey, and the honey is creamy, non-funky variety. After a while, I get the sugared freesia petals with those notes, and it becomes more of a honeyed floral with a touch of fruit than a honeyed fruit blend. The sugared freesia petals makes me think of a past Lilith scent: Muse of Fire, but this is much smoother than that one since there's just the one type of sugared floral here instead of like, a whole bouquet of them. I wasn't able to pick out the vanilla, but perhaps it will emerge with age. I like this and will definitely be keeping my decant. I'll have to give it a full-day slather to see if I need to upgrade this or not. ETA: A few full-day slathers and I've almost drained my decant in the original bottle. I agree that this is the honey from The White Bees Swarming Hair Gloss, which is love and goes so perfectly with the freesia and candied orange. I smelled this on a shirt I had worn and kept wondering what that amazing smell was, and when I realized it was this, I knew a bottle was in my future. This is a wonderful scent for spring with great staying power.
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2024 version. This one does smell like the holidays! This is evergreen-dominant at first (but not intensely so), backed by some soft myrrh, and a bit of berry. I get no sharpness at all here (I did read that some people had that experience with the previous version of it, so that's why I went the decant route). There's a phase where I wondered if there were some secret bit of orange in here, or if that was just a phase of the fir. Eventually, it ends up settling into a predominantly sparkly sort of scent. Like Lunasariel, I think it might be a musk, perhaps infused with a bit of aldehydes, but there's nothing fizzy about it. This is really pretty, and perfect for the holidays. I'm going to retest this to see if I need a full bottle, or if my decant will suffice.
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I'm not sure how helpful this review will be, but here goes. If you're worried about the blackened part of the fougere, there's no intense smoke or anything acrid here. I'm not sure what it consists of -- I think there is probably oakmoss in the fougere, maaaybe a bit of ginger or something akin to it, and perhaps some grassy (but not bbq-like) vetiver. I also think there's a soft smoke in this may be the same or similar as the smoke in Fir Needle and Smoke, but I didn't deathmatch them to be sure. The lavender is most prominent in the beginning, and it's wonderful, but it becomes more about the fougere and the non-acrid smoke with wear. Of the two lavender scents I tried from this year's An Evening With a Spirits collection (I didn't try Where Are the Dead due to the wormwood and orris), I prefer All Worlds are in Motion. This is not something I could see myself wearing over other lavender or fougere scents in my collection, but it was nice to be able to try it.
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Like most sufganiyot scents, this is more about the filling than the pastry, but the pastry is present. It goes on as cherry jam and powdered sugar, but the cherry has a tartness to it that doesn't make it sweet enough to veer into cherry lollipop territory. The pastry ends up showing up with wear, but is mostly noticeable when you smell the scent close to the skin. It remains mostly cherry in the throw. My partner and I both really enjoy this since we both are fans of cherry scents, so I'll probably have to get a back-up bottle before it goes away.
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This is mostly about the ruby chocolate on me, the same one from Millennial Pink, which starts off as like a white chocolate infused with raspberry, but gets creamier, less chocolate-y, and more fruity over time, so that it is more like a raspberry Mamba candy, or some raspberry yogurt. That notes dominates on me throughout wear, backed by some pink candyfloss and slightly smoky clove (which is more noticeable during the first few hours of wear than later on). Although I can't pick out the vanilla from the musk, these notes end up resting on a bed of musk by the end of the day. I like this, but I'm not sure it is something I need a whole bottle of... so I'll have to try it again and then make a decision. But I'm definitely keeping the coin!