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An oil of courage, daring, and reckless, unbridled joy. Contains: dragon’s blood absolute, frankincense, Tahitian vanilla absolute, blood orange, master root, apricot fruit compound, ginger root, heliotropin natural isolate, and fossilized amber.
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Narcissus, white-gold and intoxicating, unfurls laconic petals over a jeweled heart of ripe plum, dark and dripping with amethyst-bright labdanum. Red musk coils around it like a silken ribbon, smoldering and decadent.
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Her scent is the salt-scraped flesh of blue plums, soothed by a panoply of bioluminescent musks and ambers, threaded with inky oil-spill tendrils of olibanum.
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Liqueur-soaked twin cherries reeling from a double pony-kick of pink pepper and white ginger.
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Peach Lipgloss.
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As many of you know, we recently moved the whole BPAL Carny Show to Philadelphia. It was a huge change for all of us in myriad ways, not the least of which was the adjustment of moving from a lifetime in a Mediterranean / semi-arid zone to a humid subtropical pocket of the mid-Atlantic. What is “weather”? What is “rain”? What is this white stuff falling on my head every winter? Wait, I have to salt the Earth? What does that mean? Like I said, it was a huge change for us Angelinos. Even though Pennsylvania is green and gorgeous, lawns aren’t the most ecologically-friendly option for your yard so when we moved here, we began the process of replacing our lawn with clover and wildflowers. Semi-meadowing, if you will. Last year, our neighborhood opp took issue with our garden design choices and reported our place to the city for being overgrown and neglected. This scent is for everyone that’s had to deal with That Guy in your neighborhood: a sinuous stream of Snake Oil slithering through meadow flowers and clover.
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Mist-shrouded woods: Siberian fir needles, white pine bark, aspen leaf, wild lily, bergamot, wood violet, thimbleberry, sun-star, golden bell, snowdrop, heartsease, and bloodroot.
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Sang-de-Boeuf Dragon starts off with a burst of black cherries, which are glorious, sitting on top of a bed of Kyphi smoke and incense. Alas, the cherry note does not stick around for very long. This quickly becomes an incense and resin blend on me, touched by what remains of the cherry, and the plum wine, which is not sweet like the Lab's other plum notes (fortunately!). I think the Kyphi smoke has some champaca in it that went a bit dryer sheet on my partner and me, so that's the other downside to this scent. However, if the cherry note had stayed as strong as it were initially, I wouldn't even care about the somewhat dryer-sheet incense smoke. I tested this twice, and the second time, I deathmatched it against The Woman Clothed With the Sun and the War in Heaven, because they both feature resins and black cherry (Celestial drama. Radiant pomegranate crowned with golden amber and saffron, a waft of singed frankincense, and velvet black cherry). They don't smell alike, as The Woman Clothed With the Sun and the War in Heaven isn't nearly as dark. I don't get the singed quality from the frankincense in that one, so it doesn't have a smoky aspect, and it is also sweeter thanks to the cherry being backed up by the pomegranate. Of the two, I prefer The Woman Clothed With the Sun, since it lacks the smokiness, the cherry sticks around longer, and the cherry and golden amber combo is more up my alley and perfect to pair with Pa-Pow Hair Gloss. I haven't decided if this one is a keeper yet. If the cherry weren't so fleeting, it definitely would be, as that black cherry note is amazing. But I don't love the Kyphi smoke, which becomes the dominant aspect of the scent on me. If I do keep it, I would probably slather it on my partner more than myself. I'll have to spend more time with it before I make my verdict.
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Jasmine Absolute and Champaca Petals.
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Moss and River Silt.
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Sugar-dusted and overflowing with Luxardo maraschino cherries and a hint of blackberry.
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I am reviewing the scent after I sprayed it on a paper towel, but will update this post with throw and longevity in wet and dry hair if I do end up testing it out in my hair. I bought a bottle of this hoping I would love it just as much as Dragon Bouffant HG, which was a Dragon Con exclusive of yore that sold out pretty quickly. My bottle of that one is not long for this world, so I am hoping to find another cherry hair gloss that could fill that void when it is gone. Based off of the notes, I thought that this would be a sure win and was the Dragon Con exclusive that I was most looking forward to this year. But you know when there's a descriptor in a scent and you're not sure if it is just poetic fluff or an actual note? Well, when I originally read the description and the reviews from people who sniffed it at the con, I had figured that the fluorescent lighting was just poetic fluff. But it's not. And it's a note that hovers over the rest of the scent. What does the fluorescent lighting note smell like? Well, it smells like a firework mixed with what I believe is the glowing amber of the blow mold scents. It was actually my partner who pointed out the firework aspect and said this smells like a sparkler that was just lit. I think that is a very apt description of this accord. I didn't try Pumpkin Sparklers, but I can't help but wonder if Beth happened to use whatever accord she used in that scent and incorporated it into this one, like she has been doing with her perfected lipstick accord in the various make-up scents that have been released since then (according to other reviewers). Beneath the sparkler-esque fluorescent lighting note, there is an absolutely lovely candy-like cherry note accompanied by the sugar crystals and a dry-smelling vanilla liqueur. I'm not really getting the currant, although I suspect it is lurking beneath the cherry. If it were not for the fluorescent lighting note hovering over the other notes, I think I would love this. The cherries and sugar smell exquisite. I'm going to hold onto the bottle and see if I can come to love it despite the unexpected industrial note in this. But if the Lab ever releases another sugary cherry scent sans a sparkler-like note, I will probably end up grabbing it and destashing this one. ETA: I get the firework note only when this is applied to wet hair, but fortunately, the scent doesn't really last very long. In dry hair, after the initial firework blast, I do smell the lovely cherry -- but I can't comment on the longevity because I got busy and forgot to pay attention to that throughout the day.
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Peaches and Smushed Grass.
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Peaches and Smushed Grass Atmosphere Spray
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Atmosphere
This one is different than I had expected, because the smushed grass note has some flowers in it. I'm not exactly sure which type of flowers -- definitely not dandelion -- but I'm smelling some white florals along with the grass, that make this smell somewhat soapy to my nose. I also get some fuzzy peach beneath those notes, but there's not as much peach as I was hoping for, and the atmo itself didn't have great throw when I tested this out on a paper towel last night. This would be best for someone looking for a fresh sort of scent. I haven't decided if I am going to keep my bottle yet -- if I do, I'd probably spray it on wool dryer balls to scent batches of laundry. -
Frankincense and White Tea.
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I mostly bought this for the sun tea note, but I don't mind the other notes. This is mostly a dry black tea scent on me. I am not getting much sweetness from the honey and apricot, which is weird since wildflower honey tends to be a pretty strong note, typically. I don't dislike it, but I also don't love it -- I was expecting this to be a lot sweeter with the fruit and honey notes, and I thought that the sun tea itself would be like a sweet tea note (because my mother would make sun tea with lots of those Red Rose tea bags that came with a figurine when I was a kid and then put a fuckton of sugar in the tea). So I think in this case, my memory of that sun tea influenced my expectations for this scent. I'm going to set this aside for a few weeks and see how this develops after more rest (maybe there will be more fruit and honey?), but at the moment, but I can't see myself reaching for this over other tea scents in my collection.
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This is another one of those times that I wish someone else were the first reviewer and wondered if I should review it at all, as my review might make this even harder to destash (like with my review of a previous peach con exclusive). But I'm going to be honest. I was originally going to get a decant of this, but I decided to go for a bottle, since I loved Peach Candyfloss Atmo from a Dragoncon of yore and thought that maybe this could fill that void. Alas, I should not have gone the bottle route. Peach Rocky Candy smells like a tootsie roll (which doesn't hang around too long after this is sprayed, fortunately), artificial grape sugar, and the type of peach you would find in gummy peach rings. But I get more of the fake grape than that peach. I don't know if I'm describing it in a way that makes sense, but I don't mean grape candy -- it's like the grape-like sugar that some of the crappy boba places use in their drinks. The initial spray of this is more like a candy bag with a forgotten gummy peach ring in it than peach rock candy to me, and I get more of that fake grape-like sugar I detest than peach from this (although I do smell more peach after the scent has been on the paper towel I tested it on after a while -- it just never has more peach than that grape-like sugar to my nose). Whenever I smelled this, I couldn't help thinking, "I hate it." I'm also not the only one who smelled tootsie roll in this in the bottle and freshly sprayed -- I held the open bottle up to my partner's nose and asked them to smell it and tell me what they thought it smelled like, and they said tootsie roll, without me having put that idea into their head. I have no idea where the tootsie roll came from, and I don't like artificial grape at all, so I am probably more sensitive to it. I did see one reviewer on social media say that they love this and would have bought 12 bottles if it were a perfume oil, so there's a least one person who had an experience at the opposite end of the spectrum from mine. I truly hope my experience is an outlier and that other reviewers love their bottles just as much as the person who wished this were a perfume oil. As for me... I think I'm either going to have to hope it actually moves in a future destash (unlike Peach Glazed Donut with Mango Chunks) or give it away to someone who will hopefully appreciate it.
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Fear and fascination: blackened vetiver, amber smoke, clove, and oudh. …It was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified.
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O transient voyager of heaven! O silent sign of winter skies! What adverse wind thy sail has driven To dungeons where a prisoner lies? Methinks the hands that shut the sun So sternly from this mourning brow Might still their rebel task have done And checked a thing so frail as thou They would have done it had they known The talisman that dwelt in thee, For all the suns that ever shone Have never been so kind to me! For many a week, and many a day My heart was weighed with sinking gloom When morning rose in mourning grey And faintly lit my prison room But angel like, when I awoke, Thy silvery form so soft and fair Shining through darkness, sweetly spoke Of cloudy skies and mountains bare The dearest to a mountaineer Who, all life long has loved the snow That crowned her native summits drear, Better, than greenest plains below – And voiceless, soulless messenger Thy presence waked a thrilling tone That comforts me while thou art here And will sustain when thou art gone – Emily Brontë Morning rising in mourning grey: tobacco flower, white oud, lavender bud, and ambergris accord.
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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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Red musk, red pepper, and honeycomb.
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Lady of the Unicorn skull – queens escape to majestic mountain air, lace parasol and riding gloves in hand, corseted and bustled, heart filled with longing. An early 19th-century Italian perfume dabbed on black satin and lace – magnolia blossoms, lilac, orris root, and ambergris accord.
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Angora, Lady of the Rabbit skull – ceremonial matcha added to a steaming cup of earl grey, family heirlooms and artifacts, a packed suitcase, ruffles, buttons and bows, awaiting adventure. Earl gray and matcha, blackcurrant bud, white sandalwood, pink rose petals, honeysuckle, and white musk.
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Corvissa, Lady of the Yale skull – gold-plated armor and warm, sweet promises, steel striking steel, stolen glances and secret kisses. Gleaming gold-plated armor, sharpened steel, fossilized amber, and frankincense tears.
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Pomegranate, Carnation, and Peonies.