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I grabbed a decant of this instead of a bottle, because I already have several apple hair glosses (Apple Marshmallow; Apple Pie; Green Apple, Bergamot, Vanilla Orchid, and Tiare; Red Apple, Blackened Honey, and Opoponax). So I was like, uuuuuuugh, do I really need another? But golden apples are my favorite, so I had to try it. Well, my bitch ass should have just gotten a bottle. It is a true golden apple scent with a light honey. I don't get any bubblegum-y lotus from this, nor any buttery cream. And the scent is STRONG. Seriously, this is a hair gloss that I could smell just going about my day, without lifting my hair to my nose, and I was hit with a cloud of glorious golden apple when I washed it out of my hair two days later. And this pairs wonderful with The Garden of the Hesperides, another golden apple scent and the best apple scent that was released last year. I'm sure I could make my decant last, but I think I need to grab a bottle before it goes away because it's just so good.
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Pink Moon: Marshmallow and Candyfloss Hair Gloss
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
My bottle leaked in transit. (I ordered it through a decanter instead of through the Lab, but it still was in the Lab original packaging and the sprayer lid was off and that's where it was leaking from. The sticky stuff the Lab uses to cover the bottle didn't do anything to prevent the leaking, plus I find it to be a chore to get off bottles and it sometimes scuffs up labels, so I miss the colorful tape of yore. But I digress.) The reason I am mentioning this is that it arrived in triple digit heat, and I could tell that it was leaking through the package, which was wet in spots from it, and the smell was really strong. It ended up being so intense that I still felt engulfed by the scent after throwing out the packaging and wiping down the bottle of hair gloss and placing it in another room. I think some of it must have gotten on a blanket on the couch from the packaging, and plus a lot of it got on me after I tried to clean the bottle. After this experience, I was sure I didn't need to test it because the scent wasn't going to be for me. Still, I decided to wait a few days and test it on the back of my hand (I didn't want to put this in my hair and then feel overwhelmed by the scent). Fortunately, the scent wasn't engulfing me, probably because it was no longer being amplified by the heat it absorbed in the mailbox. This is mostly about the pink candyfloss, backed by some marshmallow. The marshmallow gains some strength over time, but doesn't overtake the candyfloss on me. I was really hoping this would be like Pink Wig Spray, but the cotton candy note in this is not the same, even though they are both pink. This has more of a powdery candy dip or children's vitamin vibe to me than fluffy cotton candy. I wish I had gotten a decant instead of a bottle. -
Pink Moon: Sugar Crystals and Mandarin
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I agree that there is no bitter pith accompanying this mandarin note, but I am getting an incense-y quality from this that I sometimes get from some orange blends. So on me it's mandarin backed with an incense-y quality and sweetened with sugar. I like this more than Peach and Sugared Orange Slices, but not as much as Pomelo, Mandarin, and Pink Grapefruit, where the mandarin features the strongest on me, but doesn't have an incense-y backdrop. I'm going to retest this after it has had more time to settle to see if that incense-y aspect is a fluke, since nobody else is getting it. But at the moment, I could not see myself reaching for this duet over that trio. -
Grass & Moonlit Dew.
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Lilac cologne and luscious blackcurrant, blonde tobacco, laburnum petals, and sugared absinthe.
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Coconut and Icicles.
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White Sandalwood and Honey Cream.
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Worm Moon: White Sandalwood and Honey Cream
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Note: This is a review of a tester that I was frimped, but I was able to test it twice. This features a dry white sandalwood that's the strongest note at first, before being overtaken by a very strong honey that made me think of Honeyed Pear Tart from last year's Black Friday imp offerings. I don't get any cream from this, just a very strong honey with some funk to it. It ends up being predominantly honey for most of the wear, but the sandalwood manages to creep back in and join the honey on the center stage by the end of the day. This duet wasn't a win on me, but it was fun to get to try it. -
Clove and Pink Pepper.
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Worm Moon: Clove and Pink Pepper
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This starts off with a very bold clove, with the pink pepper cozying up to it. I really enjoy it for the first few hours, but then it somehow ends up taking on a vegetal quality to my nose. I'm really not sure how. While I love clove scents, this one inexplicably went wonky on me. I'll be sticking with my bottle of Sweet Clove SN. -
Worm Moon: Bourbon Vanilla and Teakwood
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
On me, this is mostly a skin-musky vanilla, the same bourbon vanilla from the original Drag is for Everyone, with a light backdrop of teak. The teak in this is surprisingly tame on me. Everyone keeps saying Glowing Vulva is a your-skin-but-better scent, and it's not on me, as the teak screams at me in that one. This is more of a your-skin-but-better scent to my nose. The vanilla is not very sweet on me, and it is not a floofy, billow-y vanilla. This is not something I need more of, but now I'm wondering how similar the new Bourbon Vanilla hair gloss will be to this. -
Incandescent, glittering musks, pearls of sweet Florentine iris, and an indigo sigh of blue cypress, Italian bergamot, pink jasmine, cistus, white amber, mimosa, and black lilies.
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Beeswax & Pine Needle.
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Blackened lavender and sensual rivulets of labdanum with Oman frankincense and raw cacao.
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A new year’s blessing! Peony, China’s national flower, with bamboo for flexibility, plum blossom for perseverance, courage, and hope, tangerine for wealth, orange for happiness, lychee for household peace, pine resin for constancy, golden kumquat and quince for prosperity, narcissus and King mandarin for good fortune, and peach blossom for longevity, with a splash of blazing red of dragon’s blood to help you scare away the rampaging Nian.
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Snow-covered stroopwafels, ice-rimed brown leaves, and a swish of boot leather.
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Harpocrates would never. Peru balsam, dusty leather accord, jingling brazen amber, oakmoss, crushed mint, teakwood, and a coxcomb curl of red musk.
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Ambergris foam, twinkling white musk, lime rind, frosted lemon, Norway spruce, sour green apple, night-blooming jasmine, Icelandic moss, and yellow bergamot.
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Patchouli and Wormwood.
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Flower Moon: English Ivy Leaves and Milky Hemlock Sap
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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Control your own fate? You can’t even control your fête! A rollicking scent that upturns hierarchies and flies in the face of conventions: cacophonous red poppy, sweet almond cream, wildflower honey, molasses, gingerbread, scarlet jasmine, red amber, lemon peel, Spanish moss, and black musk.
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“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” Pulsating globs of red musk oozing through a hot, crusty strawberry, red currant, and black cherry tart.
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Lavender-infused vanilla cream with crystalline flowers and a hint of red velvet cake. Normally I let scents rest for at least a day after arrival, but I was too excited to test this one! I'll update this if it ends up being really different after it has had time to settle. In the bottle: The crystalline flowers are the star of the show, shooting through the lavender-infused vanilla cream (more vanilla than lavender) and red velvet cake, the latter of which I can smell most prominently after I've inhaled deeply. Some of the flowers I think I am smelling are honeysuckle and orange blossom. I'm reminded of Muse of Fire, if it were accompanied by foodie elements. Wet: I'm getting a blast of bright, somewhat effervescent florals (they read as yellow and orange) tamed by the lavender-infused vanilla cream. The ice cream note gains strength as the scent sits on my skin, further taming the bright floral notes, and the lavender aspect of the vanilla cream starts to really gain its footing, so that the scent is beginning to read more as purple, although the yellow and orange flowers are still very present. Dry: The red velvet cake note has emerged, and I can smell both the cake and the frosting really well. It's the scent of red velvet cupcakes drifting through a garden full of bright flowers, where a tea party is being held, and the lavender-infused vanilla cream is beginning to melt. I think there may be some orchid in this, and maybe some freesia, but I could be wrong. Although the bright flowers haven't gone away, I'm definitely getting the darker colors of the rainbow now. Verdict: This one is certainly evocative of its name! As a fan of sugary florals, I am thrilled to have it! But it's not one that I feel the need to hoard (as the lavender and vanilla are not the main players on me). This is more floral than gourmand, so if you're mostly hoping for vanilla cream and red velvet cake, this one is probably not for you. The florals play a very big role in this one. *edit* Retest on 4/26/18, three months later: I'm getting strong strawberry from this now, but it's more like strawberry candy or jam than actual strawberry. The crystalline florals are next in prominence, followed by the lavender-infused vanilla cream. I'm also getting more of the red velvet cake than I did initially. I thought the lavender-infused vanilla cream or red velvet cake might become more prominent with age, and while I get a bit more of the red velvet cake than before, it's mostly about strawberry candy and crystalline, Muse of Fire-like florals on me.
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Winter Apple and Lily of the Valley.
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So... I have tried the original, but not when it was new. A kind forumite sent me a decant from their bottle back in 2018, so the decant I received was of an oil that had already aged for five years, and of course, decants themselves age quicker than bottles do, so any comparisons I make to the original release aren't from when the original was fresh. Here's my review of the aged original release. So the main notes I get from both versions are the patchouli, lavender, and opium, but the aged decant of the original I have is far stronger (I deathmatched them). That is not abnormal for an aged oil, though. The red, Sumatran patchouli in it is particularly bold in the aged version, so the lavender and opium aren't as prominent in the aged version. Although I still get a lot of patchouli from this one, it's much lighter than the patchouli from the aged decant, so I get more lavender and opium from the new release (with the opium being longer lasting), which is fine with me. I just wish it had the oomph of my decant, but maybe it will with age? The blood musk in here is not like the Lab's usual red musk note at all, so I would still give this a try if the other notes appeal. Right now, I like this, but I don't love it, and I'm wondering if that will change with age, so I'm going to hang onto it and see how it develops. I thought this would for sure be my pick from the Our Lady of Pain re-release, but Hair Loosened and Soiled in Mid-Orgies is my favorite from that collection.