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Lemon Chiffon Pumpkin Pie
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
I wasn't sure how well lemon and pumpkin would go together, but it turns out that they actually make a really nice combo! At first, this smells like a lemon cream-filled cookie with some pumpkin spice, and I am here for the deliciousness. Over time, it gets less about the lemon and more about the pumpkin spice, but there's still some creaminess to the scent, as well as a creme brulee-like sugary aspect to the scent after a full day of wear. I'll be keeping my decant and wearing it until its gone like past pies (I used up my imps of Cherry Cream Pie Chypre and Pumpkin Pie Musk during the week of Thanksgiving last year ?). All of this year's Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday imps were winners! -
The predominant notes on me are lemon myrtle and sandalwood throughout wear, although the lavender, tangerine, and ylang ylang lurk in the background (and are most noticeable during the first few hours of wear). The sandalwood in this is a dry, dusty variety, but all of the notes combine together to make a really nice, calming scent. I will definitely be hanging onto my imp (and may end up trying to find more imps in sales/swaps).
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I decided to try this one since it contains lavender, although I was iffy on the metallic aldehydes (which can be too sharp). I am pleased to say that this scent didn't turn out to be too sharp at all! It starts off mostly being about the lavender and lemon pith (I agree with LavenderCoffee that the lemon pith lends some welcome sweetness to the scent), backed by the mineralic musk and ambergris. After a while, the musk and ambergris end up being the main players on me, and there's a light woodiness mixed in that I think may be from the patchouli. I'm going to have to spend more time with this one to see if I need more than a decant of it in my life, but I do enjoy this new lavender addition to the Evening with the Spirits line.
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Honey dust and fig aren't notes that typically work on me, but I wanted to try this because I love the art and the first two listed notes. This is mostly about the fig and dessert wine on me. The honey dust is thankfully subtle in this one, probably because the fig and wine are so loud. It takes several hours before the cake note shows up on me, but like Little Bird said, it is a dry cake. If fig and wine are your jam, you will probably end up liking this one. Alas, I wish it were less fruity and more cake-y.
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I tried this twice, and it is mostly about the candied orange and white honey on me. The orange is pretty light and smoothed over by the sugar and honey, and the honey is creamy, non-funky variety. After a while, I get the sugared freesia petals with those notes, and it becomes more of a honeyed floral with a touch of fruit than a honeyed fruit blend. The sugared freesia petals makes me think of a past Lilith scent: Muse of Fire, but this is much smoother than that one since there's just the one type of sugared floral here instead of like, a whole bouquet of them. I wasn't able to pick out the vanilla, but perhaps it will emerge with age. I like this and will definitely be keeping my decant. I'll have to give it a full-day slather to see if I need to upgrade this or not. ETA: A few full-day slathers and I've almost drained my decant in the original bottle. I agree that this is the honey from The White Bees Swarming Hair Gloss, which is love and goes so perfectly with the freesia and candied orange. I smelled this on a shirt I had worn and kept wondering what that amazing smell was, and when I realized it was this, I knew a bottle was in my future. This is a wonderful scent for spring with great staying power.
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2024 version. This one does smell like the holidays! This is evergreen-dominant at first (but not intensely so), backed by some soft myrrh, and a bit of berry. I get no sharpness at all here (I did read that some people had that experience with the previous version of it, so that's why I went the decant route). There's a phase where I wondered if there were some secret bit of orange in here, or if that was just a phase of the fir. Eventually, it ends up settling into a predominantly sparkly sort of scent. Like Lunasariel, I think it might be a musk, perhaps infused with a bit of aldehydes, but there's nothing fizzy about it. This is really pretty, and perfect for the holidays. I'm going to retest this to see if I need a full bottle, or if my decant will suffice.
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I'm not sure how helpful this review will be, but here goes. If you're worried about the blackened part of the fougere, there's no intense smoke or anything acrid here. I'm not sure what it consists of -- I think there is probably oakmoss in the fougere, maaaybe a bit of ginger or something akin to it, and perhaps some grassy (but not bbq-like) vetiver. I also think there's a soft smoke in this may be the same or similar as the smoke in Fir Needle and Smoke, but I didn't deathmatch them to be sure. The lavender is most prominent in the beginning, and it's wonderful, but it becomes more about the fougere and the non-acrid smoke with wear. Of the two lavender scents I tried from this year's An Evening With a Spirits collection (I didn't try Where Are the Dead due to the wormwood and orris), I prefer All Worlds are in Motion. This is not something I could see myself wearing over other lavender or fougere scents in my collection, but it was nice to be able to try it.
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Like most sufganiyot scents, this is more about the filling than the pastry, but the pastry is present. It goes on as cherry jam and powdered sugar, but the cherry has a tartness to it that doesn't make it sweet enough to veer into cherry lollipop territory. The pastry ends up showing up with wear, but is mostly noticeable when you smell the scent close to the skin. It remains mostly cherry in the throw. My partner and I both really enjoy this since we both are fans of cherry scents, so I'll probably have to get a back-up bottle before it goes away.
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This is mostly about the ruby chocolate on me, the same one from Millennial Pink, which starts off as like a white chocolate infused with raspberry, but gets creamier, less chocolate-y, and more fruity over time, so that it is more like a raspberry Mamba candy, or some raspberry yogurt. That notes dominates on me throughout wear, backed by some pink candyfloss and slightly smoky clove (which is more noticeable during the first few hours of wear than later on). Although I can't pick out the vanilla from the musk, these notes end up resting on a bed of musk by the end of the day. I like this, but I'm not sure it is something I need a whole bottle of... so I'll have to try it again and then make a decision. But I'm definitely keeping the coin!
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This time around, we’ve crafted an olfactory celebration of renewed hope and good fortune! Jamaican chocolate tea and gulab jaman with coconut, coconut milk, green and black cardamom, pistachio, basmati rice, saffron, dates, honey, nutmeg, and clove.
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Smoke trails of frankincense and myrrh threading around an expertly whittled maplewood tableau.
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Blood Orange and Champagne.
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Corn Husk and Nutmeg.
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Apple Pulp and Oats.
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Campfire Smoke and Bay Rum.
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A scarecrow’s cologne, crunchy with hay and spattered with foamy, sweet soil: a cornmeal fougere with patchouli root, clove bud, honey stout, roasted oats, fermented apple pulp, and bourbon cream.
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Harvest Moon: Black Clove and Wildflower Honey Hair Gloss
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
I ordered a decant of this and haven't tried it in my hair yet (only on a paper towel), but since this scent is going down in a few days, I thought I had better post an impression of it to try to help folks out. It's exactly what it says on the tin: black clove and wildflower honey, with more honey than clove. My partner didn't like it and said it smelled funky from the honey. I don't think it smells funky, but it is very strong, and I think I'd prefer the clove paired with a sexier honey like the honey in Hair Loosened and Soiled in Mid Orgies. While I don't dislike it, I can't see myself reaching for it over Hair Loosened or The White Bees Swarming for my honey hair gloss fix, and as far as clove goes, the Black Clove, Tobacco Flower, and Grave Soil hair gloss is heavier on it than this scent is, so even for a clove fix, my heart is elsewhere. -
Coffee Bean and Incense.
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Hunter’s Moon: Coffee Bean and Incense Hair Gloss
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
I've been testing my decant of this hair gloss yesterday and today, and I love it. It reminds me of Destructive Vagina of the Fox Spirit, which is one of my Shunga loves (Vanilla orchid, black amber, coffee bean, labdanum, champaca, and oudh). The coffee bean is dark, yet somehow creamy, with a hint of fruitiness. I think these two scents may share the same coffee bean note. The incense is not nag champa, but I do think it's more stick incense than resinous incense? It's hard to say exactly what's in it (I'll update if I can figure it out!), but the two notes are glorious together. I'm digging the indie coffee shop vibes and need a bottle! -
This features the slushy snow note (sans any evergreen) and some dry white musk (and probably amber) infused with some fizzy lemon lime soda and just the barest hint of cherry on me. I so wanted this to smell like a Shirley Temple, but the cherry and grenadine couldn't hold a candle to the slush and the lemon lime soda on my skin.
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2024 version. I don't know if it is just my skin chemistry running away with the citrus (the citrus is hella strong in the vial, though), but this is very bitter neroli-esque orange peel on me for the first few hours before the rum takes over... and then the rum is still infused with that bitter peel. I only briefly got any almond from this, and I'm not smelling any cookie. Where's the cookie!? The orange peel in this is way too bitter for me, and I really wanted it to smell more like butter cookie than anything else, so this isn't for me. On a positive note, I'm not getting cinnamon from this like reviewers who tried previous vintages?
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I also agree that this is cacao-dusted Snow White. There's a ton of cacao sludge in the bottle, so you would think that it would be waaay more chocolate-y than it ends up being. It starts off as a piece of chocolate-covered marzipan with an edible smelling cherry/almond note that also reminds me of those Italian Rainbow Cookies. But that is fleeting, and it quickly morphs into Snow White with just a hint of cacao in the background. While I was hoping this would be heavier on the cacao, I adore Snow White, so I'm not mad.
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This is mostly about the cherrywood and dried tea rose on me, with only a touch of vanilla lace. The combination of the wood and dried rose kind of makes me think of rosewood, although there's a touch of cherry in the cherrywood. On me, the emphasis is more on the carved wooden aspect of the scent than the other notes. I wish I were getting the experience of other reviewers and that the wood were more subtle on me!
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These five words, in this order, are like a spell that unlocks life-changing autumnal possibilities. So put this fragrance on your dessert mood board: fizzy vanilla ice cream spilling over the rim of a towering, froth-capped glass of ginger ale, drizzled with caramel.
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Caramel Apple Ginger Ale Float
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Event Exclusive Oils
This is mostly about the dry, fizzy ginger ale on me (more fizz with a light touch of earthy ginger) backed by a smidge of caramel. It's not very apple-y to me, and I never get the creamy vanilla ice cream. I thought this was going to be more apple-y and sweeter!