doomsday_disco
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I got no soil from this whatsoever. I got sour smoke and vetiver. And it smelled sour to me in the vial, too, so it wasn't just skin chemistry. Not for me.
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L'Inverno atmo is mostly an orchid-laden, pine-tinged snow to my nose. I only gets hints of the woods, and none of the honeysuckle (which I was really hoping would be a main player!). I am not a big fan of orchids, so I'm a little sad that it's so prominent here. But if you enjoy that note and a snowy floral blend appeals, this might be up your alley.
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This smells like a candy cane, but the mint was shorter-lived on me than the vanilla, powdered sugar, and musk notes -- I'm wondering if that's because this is a tester that remains of a decant and if the mint was stronger once upon a time. It doesn't have much longevity on me, either. I think this is nice, and I'm happy to have tried another Lick It variant, but I'm not rushing out to find a bottle of this one and will be content with the various Lick It bottles I have.
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This goes on as mostly cucumber and spearmint on me at first, backed by the woodsy, green mistletoe. Over time, it becomes a somewhat soapy cucumber on me, and eventually, a sour, soapy woodsy scent with some coolness from what remains of the cucumber and spearmint. I enjoyed the wet phase of this scent, but the end result is not my jam.
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I get a lot of pine from this at first, and possibly some cypress along with it. Then it becomes more woodsy once the evergreen notes calm down, and papery, which I think is the oak at play here. After that, I get a clean note along with the woody note, which I think is some cotton, and maybe some musk behind that? It's soft and pretty evocative of the image of TP'd trees! It isn't something I would end up reaching for, but I'm glad that I got to try it!
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I decided to swap for a decant of this because of the spruce, but dead leaves are historically bad on me. And the dead leaves are the dominant note on me for the longest time, and they're all that I get in the throw, although I can smell the spruce and ti leaf up close. Eventually, the astringent white tea note shoves the dead leaves aside in order to take the center stage, but the dead leaves remain behind that note. The spruce was very short-lived on me, alas. But hey, it wasn't the bell pepper type of dead leaves, so there's that. I so wish I had gotten more spruce!
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At first, I get the dried grasses from this along with the moss, thorns, and the ash. Over time, the moss, woods, and ash become the main players on me, with some mud that becomes more noticeable with wear but never overtakes that note -- and it's a dry mud, not a wet one. It ends up being somewhat cologne-y on me after a while, which I attribute to the moss (and possibly the way it combines with one of the woody notes). While I'm glad I got to try this, it's not something for which I could see myself reaching, so my decant is off to swaps!
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I had to try this just because of the name. This kind of gives me Gourd of Deprivation vibes, but with like, the ghost of cherry or almond that I can't attribute to the listed notes, but maybe it's something in the breeze part of the scent, or the creaminess others are getting? The soil and spices aren't distinct to my nose, and it's not in your face corn like Ceres. I feel like it's mostly hay and dried corn husks, so if you're a fan of those late summer/early fall scents featuring hay, this would be a good one to try. Don't let the corn part or the spiced part in the description scare you! (Or the dirt -- I'm a dirt lover, and there's no mound of dirt here!) I don't think it's something I need more of, but I am glad that I decided to try it!
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My experience (and my partner's experience!) is different than all of the other reviews! We both got cherry from this (well, my partner said almond/cherry), from the bottle and on our skin! So it's like spiced cherry and maybe some apple in the background??? I get no pumpkin souffle, pumpkin spice latte, or candy corn from this, and I don't know if the cherry is like, the Lab reusing some of last year's Spiced Cherry Bourbon in this blend and that's blending with the apple, but we're bringing out the cherry??? Or if there was a bottling mix-up or batch variation. In any case, I'm not mad. I'm down for my spiced cherry fate!
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Green Cardamom, Irish Fern, and Hinoki
doomsday_disco replied to Silvertree's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This was so comforting when I first applied it -- a blast of cardamom, green fern, and the woodsy hinoki in the background. But my skin ended up amping the fern, which it is wont to do, and it ends up being a mossy sort of scent on me, without any trace of the cardamom or hinoki to be found. The beginning is SO NICE, though. -
Avocado, Lemongrass, and White Musk
doomsday_disco replied to Silvertree's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
How am I the first review? I got a decant of this because avocado is a note you just don't see very often! And I don't really know how to describe it but like a green creaminess beneath the lemongrass? It has been a long time since I've smelled Lush's Avobath, but it is giving me Avobath vibes. It's very bright and refreshing and a scent that will put some pep in your step. Over time, the white musk gains strength, and it settles into a lemongrass-infused white musk by the end of the day. I like this way more than I thought I would, and I might have to grab a bottle before it goes away. -
Poolside was mostly about the floral notes on me. I got a ton of peony and jasmine, with the jasmine gaining strength with wear, and the blue musk joining in so that I was like, "Where is that smell of floral soap coming from???" Welp, it was me. I so wish I had gotten some of the vanilla tea and lavender in the description. Alas.
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On me, Secret Donuts is more about the glazed and maple doughnuts than the chocolate ones. It really does smell like a box of doughnuts (and has none of the horrors of Peach-Glazed Donut with Mango Chunks, which was not doughnut-y to me at all). I think if I were enjoying maple a little more right now, I'd be wanting more of this. And it's not overbearing here, even though I sometimes find scents that contain that note to be too cloying as of late. But I do wish I were having the experience of some of the above reviewers who got mostly chocolate-glazed doughnuts!
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I get a ton of somewhat perfume-y Earl Grey, with a tannic tea note and strong bergamot (stronger bergamot than in the Earl Grey trio from this year, but I believe it is the same tea note), backed by the honeyed marshmallow, which becomes more noticeable and floofy over time, yet never manages to overtake the Earl Grey. Sometimes cream notes turn to butter on my skin, but I didn't have a problem with that here. I don't think this is a scent that I need more of, but I'll probably hang onto my decant to see how it ages.
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It's frozen strawberry, alright! I feel like this is a not-quite-ripe, slightly pink strawberry note, but a realistic enough one that allows me to envision a glistening pale strawberry with its little seeds. The frozen note makes me think more frozen beverage than any of the Lab's snow notes, and the sugar syrup, while present, doesn't make this a super sweet strawberry. I don't think I need a bottle of this (I'll retest before it goes away to know for sure), but the decant is a keeper!
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I get some fruitiness from this along with some herbs and rose. I have to confess at being influenced by glancing at a few reviews on either the first or last page -- the fruitiness is sort of like, the memory of one of those strawberry candies in the strawberry wrapper? o.0 Then I smelled some rose and I was like, what scent on my arm is doing that??? And it was this one. Curiously enough, I don't get a ton of honey from this unless it's a fruit-infused one, and a fruit-tinged rose coated in a smattering of herbs is what I get by the end of the day, but it is pretty light by then. I'm glad I got to try this one, but it is not something for which I could see myself reaching.
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When I first tried this, I thought I got more tangerine than blueberry, but a retest a few weeks later had the two notes more balanced. I get both of those at the front of the scent for the first few hours, backed by the frozen petals. But then the frozen note is the dominant part of the scent by the end of the day. The frozen note has a bit of a clean aspect, the bite of chill winter air that gets up your nose, and a smooth aspect to it that I think might be benzoin or some very smooth, light resin. There's no evergreen component to the snow, and it doesn't smell slushy, either. I think this one is nice and will be holding onto my decant!
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I get lots of the dry texture of the cake crumb at first, along with some hazelnut. It gets creamier as it sits on the skin, so that after a while, it is chocolate-y hazelnut-infused cream and mousse with just a much lighter cake note. I like this enough to keep the decant, but I'm not sure I need more than that, even though this is different enough from other chocolate offerings due to the hazelnut. That said, I do like it more than Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins (which I blind bottled).
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This one is mostly about the herbs on me (somewhat soapy herbs that are giving me aquatic vibes, and maybe some secret moss) and a high-pitched amber. I wish the honey were present on me to help sweeten up the scent. Alas. This is just too clean and high-pitched on me.
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Oh, this is so interesting, and a morpher! The ozone and rain from Lightning are particularly prominent in this Lightning variant throughout wear (with the salty sea spray joining in later). I got a bit of citrus from this during the wet phase, and I don't know if it were some lemon-y aspect from the ozone or what, but my first thought was orange. I also got what I think may be the velvet curtains. Then I got the dripping umbrella note, which has a latex-like quality to it to my nose. This phase lasted on me for a while. I have no idea what hot celluloid is supposed to smell like, but I definitely did smell something that smelled hot at one point (but not cinnamony!), and the tobacco is present, too, with just a bit of it peeking out early on, but it becomes much more noticeable with wear. By the end of the day, it's the rainy ozonic, slightly salty aquatic of Lightning swirled with tobacco and what I think is the velvet curtains. I was debating a back-up bottle of Summer Rain from the Lilith update, but this is such a unique atmospheric rain scent that I may have to grab a bottle of this instead.
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I love citrus scents, but sadly, Nightfall is not for me. It is a very bitter orange scent, and it smells like there's orange blossom or something orange blossom-adjacent in this, even though none is listed. And some orange peel. And the deep velvet musk is either red musk or very similar to it to my nose, also a no-no note for me. So it ends up being a bitter orange blossomy musk on me. Woe. 😭
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Final Girl starts off strong on the honey and marshmallow on me, with the honey being a main player throughout wear. The marshmallow is overtaken by the currants, so that it ends up being a honeyed currant scent with just a little bit of marshmallow in the background. The clove didn't show up on me, which I'm surprised by, as my skin is usually happy to amp up spice notes, and I love clove! I almost didn't try this, and that would have been a mistake! I like this more than I thought I would have, and the decant is definitely a keeper. I'll consider a bottle if it ends up getting restocked, but I probably won't try to hunt one down if it is forever ausverkauft.
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Witchecraft: Consulting a Book of Spells, Performing Various Rites
doomsday_disco replied to Seajewel's topic in Halloweenie
This one is nice! And in fact, when it arrived, it was one of my Weenie decants that smelled most promising in the vial with a super strong clove note! But I let it rest a few days before testing it, and by then, the clove had calmed down. Still, it's mostly about the yellowed parchment and clove leaf on me, with some creamy sweetness from the candlewax that becomes more prominent over time. I get a touch of the ylang ylang during the wet stage of the scent, and perhaps some moss and cardamom with the clove, but it is mostly a bookish scent on me, cloved up and sans leather! On one hand, I feel like I probably don't need another book or beeswax scent. On the other, the clove with those notes is so nice! So I'm debating whether a decant will be enough. -
Ghoulish goes on as cherry/almond due to the cherry and amaretto combination, but that is very quick to calm down, and then it becomes more coconut-y on me. It was not noticeable in wet hair a few minutes after application. In dry hair, it lasted a little longer but couldn't be smelled four hours later, so this is a light hair gloss on me. I do like the cherry almond, but I wish it had lasted longer/that I got less coconut. Dragon Bouffant remains my favorite cherry hair gloss!
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I really like this one! It's mostly about the almond, vanilla and/or tonka, and allspice on me. It's sweet and creamy and the allspice just goes with the almond so perfectly! The patchouli in this is present, but pretty light, as are the woods. I do think the ambrette seed adds a bit of a musky quality in the background over time, so it's not as awesome by the end of the day as it was during the first few hours on me, but it is still pretty nice. Debating a bottle.