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An oil of energy, power, authority, and inner strength geared to help you keep the fight going with passion, alacrity, and infectious fervor. Contains: sweet orange, dragon’s blood resin, master root, and High John the Conqueror root.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears. Violet water and plum juice with wormwood accord, pungent tagetes, and dry, bitter, wholesome green tea.
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Speed and light translated through divine geometry: quicksilver and chrome musk blaze through bergamot, French lavender, white frankincense, blood orange, blue lilac, tangerine, yuzu, and cubeb. Giacomo Balla
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Don’t let him know she liked cream best, For this tea must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me. White chocolate filled with black tea and cream, splooged with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla.
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White and red roses, a blood-touched thorn, and a sprig of myrtle. José de Madrazo y Agudo
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A fuzzy black scent flittering in bittersweet shadows: 11-year aged patchouli, dried blackcurrant, wooly tonka bean, tobacco absolute, toasted vetiver, and a sprinkling of sugar crystals.
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A briny ballad sung by crustacean troubadour: salt-crusted red currant and driftwood strumming cheery chords of ambergris, orange blossom, and bubbly bergamot-squeezed pink grapefruit. Brynolf Wennerberg
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Melancholic white rose petals drifting in a pool of white musk, bitter almond, and icy vanilla. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome, possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.
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Chocolate, chocolate, every where, And marshmallows too, I think; Chocolate, Chocolate every where, Nor any drop to drink. White chocolate froth and marshmallow fluff cresting on an ocean wave. Don’t drink it!
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The essence of grit and obstinance distilled into 5ml of pure oil: crumbly kiln-fired clay and a hint of sand.
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White Pumpkin and Bergamot.
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An unexpected collision between BPAL’s Sea Foams Milk and Sea Foams Blood, but sans Sea.
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Rust, dirt, and a half-eaten chocolate bar. Unused prototype for a television promo.
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Aomono sakana gunzei ô-kassen no zu: a chaotic clash of peppers, komatsuna, kabu, and daikon splashed by salt water and kelp with a dash of wasabi. Utagawa Hirokage
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Tomato fruit and leaf, a skritch of soil, spicy geranium petals, orange blossom, marigold, and sultry musk. Takahashi Shōtei
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This features a sharp, polished black leather note, the sharp orange blossom/neroli-infused vegetal dead leaves accord from the brick, and a cotton note that starts off as a background player, but eventually pushes its way through to become the dominant note in the scent. It's also somewhat sharp and laundry-esque at first, but it eventually does settle into a soft cotton scent. I didn't get a decant of this one, but I was frimped a tester of this with the rest of the brick decants that I ordered, so that's why I was able to try the entire collection. Although this isn't in my wheelhouse (too sharp for me -- I need some sweetness with my leather scents), I'm glad that I got a chance to try it!
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Above is my review of the 2013 version, and last night, I deathmatched my friend's bottle of the 2007 release with the 2024 release (that I ordered early on in 2025). The 2007 version is like the 2013 version: like hot cocoa sweetened with brown sugar, accompanied by a little bit of coffee, and some tame cinnamon. It is glorious. The 2024 release is really different from those two, and it's not due to age because I reviewed the 2013 version when it was new. My bottle from the 2024 Yule Collection goes on with a blast of dark coffee. I thought it was coffee beans instead of actual coffee, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, the scent is very strongly coffee during the wet phase of the scent and stays that way for the first few hours of wear, with the hot cocoa, cinnamon, and brown sugar lingering in the background. Those notes end up gaining some strength and become more noticeable by hour number four, but it never ended up smelling as strong or as delicious as the El Dia de los Reyes that I'm used to... it's just not as hot cocoa-y and not as cinnamony or sweet. I think even the atmo that came out in the release is heavier on the hot cocoa than this scent is, but I'll have to retest and review it later this week to be sure. And I'm not saying this is bad or anything, because it's still really nice, but the ratio of notes is just really different. I'm curious to see if it will age into something more akin to the 2007 or 2013 versions, or if this batch is just particularly coffee-heavy. I'm going to tuck my bottle away to age. ETA: The atmo is heavier on the cocoa than the perfume oil, but still has more coffee than the 2007 and 2013 versions. It settles into something similar to the older versions, so I have hope the perfume oil will as well, with time.
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Because it’s almost Hanukkah and we still haven’t taken down our Halloween decorations. Sorry, neighbors!
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So I get some non-skunky weed at first with the marshmallow and the plastic-y note that is present in some capacity in all of the blow mold scents, but then this immediately becomes a sugared dark musk (but not black musk) dominant scent on me. I believe it is one of the musks found in Smut, but it has been so long since I've smelled that, that I can't be sure. I don't dislike it (even though I don't love Smut), but the plasticy amber note that characterizes this as a blow mold scent keeps me from enjoying this more. I also wish I got more of the rice milk and marshmallow from this. Of the two 4/20-themed Easter scents from this year, Four and Twenty Blackbirds is more of my jam.
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Nox adveniet: a somber waft of incense curling through night-blooming jasmine, poisonous berries, opium poppy accord, sugared absinthe, and bergamot blossoms.
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I received a tester of this in a decant package and have tried it twice. On me, Death Moon is mostly about the jasmine and the incense. It starts off being more jasmine forward, but the incense cozies up along side it and eventually becomes stronger than the jasmine after a few hours of wear. I get touches of the berries and opium poppy behind those notes, but the bergamot and absinthe don't really stand out on my skin. This one is definitely one for jasmine lovers, especially those who would enjoy it paired with incense.
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The Dregs of a Bottle of Vanilla Extract (Discovered in the Mud)
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in The Edward Gorey House
This goes on as a blast of cool, mentholic mud (which I totally was not expecting, and I've tested this three times now and have had the same result each time -- I'm guessing that's tied to the ethanol note, or this mud is a little frozen?). It doesn't take long for the mud note to soften, and for the vanilla note to emerge and quickly become the dominant note. The vanilla in this reads as a sheer, skin musk-y vanilla to my nose, especially after it has been on the skin for a while. There is only a hint of soft dirt (that's no longer mentholic) in the background by the end of the day. I don't feel the need to upgrade to a bottle of this one, but I'm glad I got to try it. -
Golden hay, vanilla bean, toasted amber, hazelnuts, white carnation petals, and cream. Artist - Shibata Zeshin
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This is another hit from the Wild Hearses atmo series. It smells like the most delicious fizzy, citrusy, berry-infused drink, and it's unapologetically pink and perfect for summer. Like the other hearse scents, I should have just blind bottled it, but since I went the decant route and this is so good, I will be keeping the decant in addition to the bottle I upgraded the decant to so I can have this scent on the go.
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A little nod to my Filipino-Ashkenazi heritage!