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    Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Garment Nettle Tree at Oji

    I tried this a few times, because I kept trying it and then not having time to review it. This is mostly about the Japanese incense on me. I do get touches of all of the other notes intertwined with it, with things like the rice wine and lilac jumping out at me with it at first, but then it quickly becomes difficult to pick apart the notes in this aside from the incense. While I don't feel the need to hunt down more of this, I'll be keeping the decant that a dear friend shared with me. This is a pretty Japanese blend and I love the art that inspired it!
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    Pumpkin Buttercream

    So... all of the reviews mentioned smokiness worried me, and indeed, my decant smelled hella smoke-y, so I never tried this in my hair and only sprayed it on my skin yesterday after it sat in my to-test pile for months. I don't really get pumpkin from this, or buttercream, but a sweet smokiness. It reminds me of the smoke note from Hexennacht's All Souls' Night if it were toned down by a different source of sugary sweetness. Like dancingchair said, it's as if the pumpkin was roasted over a bonfire... but then they only incorporated the charred bits into the not-very-buttercream-y buttercream. I don't hate this, but I can see myself getting easily overwhelmed by it due to the smoke, so I'm glad I did not apply this to my hair. I'd recommend this to fans of smoky scents who don't mind a backdrop of gourmand sweetness.
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    Cat Churning Butter

    This smells like creamy, sweet butter to me. I don't get any frankincense from this. It starts off more sweet but gets more buttery over time, but fortunately isn't particularly salty on my skin. It's not something I need more of, but the scent is perfect for the artwork!
  4. When these great princes do not appear immediately on the foregoing Citations, or if they hesitate in their obedience, then take frankincense and myrrh, and cast them upon burning coals, and when the smoke arises, place the spirit-seal thereon… Ink-scratched parchment suffused with the smoke of Oman frankincense and Yemeni myrrh.
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    Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus

    Capturing the essence of another Pseudo-Albertine book Egyptian Secrets. A title intended to evoke exotic origins, Egyptian Secrets collects remedies for fevers and burns, alongside protective magics against witchcraft, dog bites, and thieves. Myrrh resin, green cardamom, golden saffron, and honeyed fig.
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    Long-Hidden Friend

    A perfume devoted to John George Hohman's Der lange verborgene Freund or Long Hidden (Lost) Friend, a work published in 1820 which collects a selection of spoken prayer and written charms such as the SATOR square. Hohman's work draws upon earlier works such as Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus and also offers practical remedies for everyday concerns. Mulberry, pumpkin molasses, and sweet clove dashed with sonnen-werbel to ensure that people speak to you with pleasant words and a sprinkle of caraway to keep you safe from frights and fantasies.
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    Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus

    Inspired by the fantastical collection of botanical, animal, and mineral lore spuriously attributed to Albertus Magnus which was widely popular throughout Europe and the Americas throughout the Middle Ages. Date palm, luminous fossilized amber resin, bay laurel, and frankincense.
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    Telling the Bees

    Inspired by the John Greenleaf Whittier poem. A red and white scattering of clover, pansy petals and crushed daffodils, a clutch of wild roses, and buzzing hives draped with velvety black musk.
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    Rose Quartz Hair Gloss

    Bulgarian rose absolute, rose otto, sandalwood, 3-year aged patchouli, orris absolute, rosemary, and rose hips. Soft and seductive, like a lover's kiss.
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    Spessartine

    Red vegetal musk, tangerine rind, King mandarin, fossilized amber, and neroli.
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    Ritual Spirit

    "RITUAL SPIRIT is inspired by the collections and ghosts that gather in the corners of the studio. All the stories in the walls, that come together to make us feel less alone during this ceremony, of remembering, honoring and holding this life that can feel so monstrous, and so beautiful. The healing that comes with the winds and waters as seasons change. That we want for ourselves, and we want for others." Amber beeswax, champaca absolute, and 7-year aged black patchouli dribbling over Victorian oak panels and web-dusted bones. A perfumed meditation for your body, and your personal altar space- that which might be as simple as smell, a calming moment, the stillness of the woods or standing in a window -- whatever it is, it is enough.
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    L’aurore

    I'm sorry this review won't be very helpful. This is mostly about the floral aldehyde throughout wear on my skin. The burst of lavender with the musk and aldehyde made me think of Skyborn on initial application (but I no longer have the decant around to compare). Aside from those notes, I noticed the violet leaf and muguet later on in the day, but they were beneath the floral aldehyde. Although vanilla is listed as a note, I wasn't able to pick up on it, so it's not an ethereal vanilla musk and lavender type of scent like I was hoping for... but those who would like a classic, sparkling floral musk may find this is up their alley.
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    Inez

    2018 version. I once tried this at Drag Con and loved the vanilla musk in it. I thought it was like Morocco with a ton of vanilla musk and had planned on buying a bottle for years, but kept putting it off. I bought a bottle secondhand through a decanter and just tested it yesterday. Sadly, I don't get get any vanilla musk from it at all. It smells like the musk from Morocco with the same sandalwood and carnation, but less spice and with some cedar. I don't find it to be as alluring as Morocco. Maybe the bottle I tried at the convention was magical because it was aged. I don't dislike this, but I'm not sure that it is worth keeping around since I like Morocco more and am not sure how long it would take for aging to bring the vanilla out.
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    Treasure

    I received a tester of this in a decant order. Take the Lab's toffee-like honey dust note from scents like Boop and Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco and swirl it with some aquatic notes, and you get Treasure. It is mostly honey dust meets salty sea spray at first before it becomes more aquatic than honeyed, although the honey dust is present throughout wear. I do think that the way that the aquatic notes combine with the honey dust is evocative of the scent's namesake, with the honey dust representing the chest of golden treasure that the mermaid is looking at in the painting. It's hard to pull apart the specific aquatic notes from this, but it was more aquatic than floral on me, and the orris, while present, didn't make me smell like I fell into a vat of baby powder this time. I'd recommend this to fans of the Lab's honey dust note that also curious about an aquatic take on it. This isn't something I could see myself reaching for, but it was nice to be able to try it.
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    The Extraction of the Stone of Madness

    This starts off with a blast of lavender and woodmoss, a bit of cypress, and what I originally thought was BBQ-y cedar, but I retested it and noticed there's some stealth smoky vetiver in here. So it's lavender, moss, cedar, and stealth vetiver for a while, before it becomes mostly about the moss and amyris (which is dry and woody and somewhat powdery on me when mingling with the moss) touched with a bit of brightness from the bergamot. The labdanum was not a main feature on me, even though it usually likes to take over. No flat cola here. The smoky vetiver and cedar was really not for me, and the moss and amyris made this too dry for me, so I'm not keeping the decant. I did enjoy the lavender, though.
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    Pink Moon 2024

    This mostly smells like very red, fresh, ripe strawberries on me, sweetened with some sugar. I'm surprised I only got a little bit of creaminess from this, but at least it wasn't a funky dairy bomb like Fairy Lobster Foam. I like this, but it's not something I'm sure I need more of... I'll retest it before it goes away just to be sure, but at the moment, I think I prefer Strawberries, Sugar, and Lime. ETA: I've now almost drained my Pink Moon decant, so maybe I should get a bottle after all? Anyway, I layered this with one of its duets: Sugar Crystals and Mandarin. Alas, I did not enjoy the combo. Maybe less of the duet would be needed, but for some reason, the duet brought out the milky qualities of the lunacy more and the citrus just did not jive with the strawberry milk on me. Second edit: The Nesquick-like strawberry powder ends up being very evident on me now, and it's more candy-like strawberry powder than fresh strawberry on me.
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    With Stars Surrounded Hair Gloss

    White gardenia petals, coconut meat, tobacco flower, white amber, orris root, violet absolute, red benzoin, tuberose, white tea, mugwort, and sheer vanilla.
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    Garnet Hair Gloss

    13-year aged red patchouli, Damascus rose resin tar, blackcurrant syrup, Egyptian myrrh, and crimson musk seed.
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    Wolf Moon: Green Fig & Cedar

    Green Fig & Cedar.
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    Wolf Moon: Balsam & Leather

    Balsam & Leather.
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    Fest der Bogenschützen

    A meeting of the mindless: trampled grass, crushed apples, and a flash of red currant motley.
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    Fest der Bogenschützen

    Fest der Bogenschützen is all about the green apple and the crushed green grass on me. I am not able to detect any red currant whatsoever. The green apple is a true green apple that doesn't remind me of jolly ranchers or shampoo. I deathmatched this against The Garden of the Hesperides. That one features a sweeter golden apple and the grass is more noticeable in this scent than the greenery was in that scent. This was absolutely glorious the first time I tested it (on the back of my hand), but it went wonky on my during the second test when I deathmatched it. I'm not sure why. I'm going to have to give it a full-day slather and see how it goes. If I don't get any wonkiness from a full-day slather, then there will likely be a bottle in my future (even though I have way too many apple scents, I don't think I have a true green apple like this in my collection). This is my favorite of the Surely You Jest scents that I tried.
  23. D is for Dog-Face: a Medieval marzipan suffused with frankincense smoke and splashed by sacramental wine.
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    Cynocephalic Fool with Bladder Stick Giving Jesus a Hard Time

    The wine is so sweet that it reminds me of red Kool Aid backed by some frankincense at first. It gets less fruit punch-y as the frankincense gains some strength and eventually overtakes the wine, but I am not smelling the marzipan in this (woe). I don't think I need more of this in my life (I really wanted the marzipan from this), but I do feel like this could fit in with past Liliths that featured something church-y with something sweet.
  25. The scent of denial, of looking the other way, of tolerating the intolerable: white peppercorn peering slyly through green tangerine, mandarin, mimosa, and red lotus root.
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