doomsday_disco
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This is mostly about the soft baked bun, which has an accurate yeasty quality to it. I've never had Lussekatter, so I can't speak to how accurate it is to that, but I do think anyone hoping for a bread scent would be happy with this. The lavender in this is strongest in the beginning, but seems separate from the bun note itself instead of being baked into it, and it eventually fades away (which seems to be the case with the lavender in most of this year's Lavender Kitchen Scents). I don't feel the need to upgrade to a bottle of this one. Of this year's bready Lavender Kitchen Scents, I think I prefer Lavender Avocado Toast.
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This is mostly about Mouse Circus' popcorn on me. The lavender is strongest in the beginning, and it's accompanied by some buttery popcorn and some sweetness from the cotton candy, and less of the polished wood that accompanies it in the original Mouse Circus. Of course, eventually, the lavender fades away, leaving behind straight up Mouse Circus. So if you missed Mouse Circus before it went away, this may be a good alternative for you. I only have a little bit of the original Mouse Circus left, but even so, I don't feel compelled to upgrade this variant, since I rarely wear the original since everybody around me seems to dislike the popcorn in it. So I'll be content with the drops I have left of the original and this decant. But I do wish that the lavender in this stuck around instead of just being there in the beginning, and then disappearing like an afterthought.
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This suf is mostly about the ube filling on me. There's not any obvious pastry or powdered sugar to my nose, and the ube is creamy and starchy, with a somewhat coconut-y sweetness, and it is on point. Sadly, it ends up turning somewhat waxy on me and veering into chapstick territory, so I don't think my skin chemistry is doing justice to the ube note. But if you're looking for an ube scent, this is the most realistic one I've come across!
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This is mostly about the pumpkin spice on me, which is smoother than the pumpkin spice in Pumpkin Spice Everything. I don't get any obvious fried dough or powdered sugar from this, but I'm sure they're somehow contributing to this smelling delicious. Although I don't see myself needing a whole bottle of it, I'll definitely be hanging onto my decant. I'm surprised I actually like this more than the Ube Suf.
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This one is mostly about the rosy rosé on me. I could smell the orange with it when the scent was freshly applied and for a while after (the combination of the two notes was going wonky on my skin), but I didn't get any clove from this, which was a little sad since the clove-studded orange was the aspect of the scent to which I was most looking forward (I was hoping this would be pomander-esque). The rosé note has a shares some similarity to the Lab's champagne note, with the fizz dialed down, but it's still bubbly. Tinsel Roses isn't something I could see myself reaching for, but it was nice to get to try it.
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I thought that I'd hate this after my experience with Hot Buttered Apple Cider, which was way too buttery and sweet for me. But actually, this is not super buttery or cloying at all. The musk and spices of the Snake Oil are most prominent here, spiced further by the spiced rum and sweetened up by the molasses. I'm not getting a buttery note from the cream or the musty patchouli that was in some of last year's Snake Oil Yule variants. And it has decent staying power, too -- I applied this around 9 AM yesterday and could still smell it on the back of my hand 12 hours later. The only downside to this is that it never ends up morphing into the good Snake Oil vanilla phase after all of that time. It's mostly just molasses-sweetened Snake Oil by the end of the day. So I don't really feel the need to grab more of this, but I'll probably hang onto my decant.
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Pomegranate Pastille.
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Incense and Blackcurrant Sufganiyot.
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The secret to this treat is the apple cider reduction infused in the dough. What you dunk it in is up to you! (Please do not dunk your nether bits or any other sensitive body parts into this oil.)
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Thirteen scents of comfort; a supplication for safety and succor during turbulent, dark times. Warm wool, fresh baked bread, steaming black tea, and a gooey brownie spiced with fresh ginger, green cardamom, black peppercorn, coriander, clove bud, fennel, star anise, honey, and cream.
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The color and scent were indistinguishable, and inescapable. Blood-tinged raspberries oozing into globs of blackcurrant and red plum.
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Bodegón Con Cesto de Frutas, Melocotones, Granadas Y Bernegal
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Limited Editions
Peaches, pomegranates, black figs, baked red clay, and cacao spiced with chili peppers and sweetened with honey. Juan de Zurbarán -
This perfume is a traditional Roman Catholic sacramental incense, most often used during a Solemn Mass. Traditionally, five tears of this incense, each encased individually in wax that has been fashioned into the shape of a nail, are inserted into the paschal candle. This is, of course, represents the Five Wounds of Our Risen Savior. Symbolically, the burning of the incense signifies spiritual fervor, the fragrance itself inspires virtue, and the rising smoke carries our prayers to God.
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A perfume simply inspired by a vintage Christmas postcard. Rose cream, jasmine cream, mallow, vanilla foam, and sweet amber.
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Satin-lined coffin wood stained with dried blood and a whiff of long-faded cologne, dusted with grave soil.
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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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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 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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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.