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I deathmatched this with the original Knave of Hearts. There is not a huge difference between the two scents, especially when you compare how drastic the Knave’s other variants are (Frostbitten Knave of Hearts and Knave of Snowflakes) from the original scent. Knave of Pumpkins is more knave-y than either of the snowy knaves. The pumpkin is sweet, syrupy, and not heavily spiced; it just adds more warmth and sweetness to the buttery tart component of the scent. I still get lots of rose and blackcurrant with it, but of course, those notes are more prominent in the original. I'm still debating on whether or not I need a bottle, or if my decant will suffice. But if you're looking for a variant on the Knave that's very knave-y, this one is for you!
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I deathmatched this with my Embalming Fluid Bath Oil (my imp is ancient and has lost a lot of its citrusy goodness). This is very much about Embalming Fluid's lemon at first, backed by its green tea, aloe, and white musk, but the pumpkin ends up peeking out and gaining strength over time. The pumpkin is sweet, not heavily-spiced, and just adds a warmth to the scent that ends up making this less bright than its GC counterpart. Although you wouldn't think that pumpkin would go with these notes, it's actually not very weird at all. I'm going to hang onto my decant to wear during Hottober since this is a more refreshing Weenie scent that will be perfect to wear while wishing the heat would just stop.
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Moonstruck with music and madness: warm russet musk, toasted sandalwood, cacao, blood-tipped blackberry thorns, and oak bark. Out of the mid-wood’s twilight Into the meadow’s dawn, Ivory limbed and brown-eyed, Flashes my Faun! He skips through the copses singing, And his shadow dances along, And I know not which I should follow, Shadow or song! O Hunter, snare me his shadow! O Nightingale, catch me his strain! Else moonstruck with music and madness I track him in vain! – Oscar Wilde
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Moon-kissed petals of night-blooming florals aflame with hypnotic opium tar, fae tuberose, and a sliver of metallic aldehyde. The effect of the full moon in such a state of brilliancy was manifold. It acted on dreams, it acted on lunacy, it acted on nervous people, it had marvelous physical influences connected with life. Mademoiselle related that her cousin, who was mate of a merchant ship, having taken a nap on deck on such a night, lying on his back, with his face full in the light on the moon, had wakened, after a dream of an old woman clawing him by the cheek, with his features horribly drawn to one side; and his countenance had never quite recovered its equilibrium. “The moon, this night,” she said, “is full of idyllic and magnetic influence—and see, when you look behind you at the front of the schloss how all its windows flash and twinkle with that silvery splendor, as if unseen hands had lighted up the rooms to receive fairy guests.”
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A scent both bright and subdued: bergamot shuddering through lime leaves, ruby-tinged amber sunlight, violet leaf, oak bark, and sandalwood smoke. We sat down on a rude bench, under a group of magnificent lime trees. The sun was setting with all its melancholy splendor behind the sylvan horizon, and the stream that flows beside our home, and passes under the steep old bridge I have mentioned, wound through many a group of noble trees, almost at our feet, reflecting in its current the fading crimson of the sky.
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Dead Leaves, Pumpkin Pie, and Hearthsmoke Atmosphere Spray
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Atmosphere
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I'm not going to be able to analyze this by note like I usually would. I love ube, but I've only had a halo-halo once, and I didn't love it... there was just too much going on in it for me. Yet, I was curious to see how this would translate as a perfume, especially with the addition of pumpkin spice. Let me just say that the starchy, creamy ube and taro notes are on point, and so are the beans and the jellies. The mango jelly is one of the notes I felt was a little jarring when it emerged (and maybe the sugar palm?) because to me, it didn't really go with the other creamy, starchy, earthy notes. And I didn't love the coconut with these notes, which was a main player on me by the end of the day. But I'm still impressed at how Beth nailed the various textures of all of these things. If you're worried about the pumpkin spice component, don't be. I tend to amp spice and did not get much of it here. Although this isn't a scent that I could see myself wearing, I think it is very interesting. I really love how all of the textures of these halo-halo ingredients come through. If you are a fan of halo-halo and want to smell like it, here's your chance!
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The oud in this is non-indolic, the pumpkin in this is pumpkin spice without any buttery pumpkin, and the amaretto and almond paste notes are glorious. The honey adds an additional welcome sweetness. If only it stayed like it was during the wet phase of the scent! Unfortunately, the almond notes burn off, and it ends up being a mostly oud-centric blend with some spice on me, with only a hint of the creamy sweetness that came before. There were some cocoa absolute specks at the bottom of my decant vial that I was not able to incorporate into the scent no matter how much I rolled it, and I did not detect that note on my skin. I'll retest this before it goes away, but I wish it had stayed more gourmand on me.
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Ugh, I wish this had stayed as it was for the first few hours. The blood orange takes the lead on me, backed by the cherry, and together, they remind me of sangria, but there's no booze note, of course. Unfortunately, the jasmine and the tuberose end up emerging and competing with the blood orange, and the cherry ends up disappearing. The resins aren't main players on my skin, and I could not detect any vanilla. I am basic and just want the blood orange and cherry without any of the heady florals.
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Dead Leaves, Lavender Buds, and Golden Sandalwood
doomsday_disco replied to Jenjin's topic in Halloweenie
This starts off with a wonderful lavender. Fortunately, the dead leaves themselves aren't bell pepper-y or neroli-infused this time, but they do have a musty and a dry, papery quality to them, and mixed with this particular sandalwood, this somehow ends up being somewhat perfume-y and soapy on me. Wahhh. -
This is definitely a lavender and clean linen blend throughout most of its wear, although it does end up becoming more labdanum-forward by the end of the day. The labdanum here is not cola-like like it is in The Death Grapple, but it is somehow more oudh-like (without the stank) than I was expecting. I like the lavender in this, but there's more sheet and resin than I was hoping for, so no bottle for me.
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I don't know why, but I got a coolness to this at first with the vanilla and rose that made me think that this was a cousin to Pink Snowballs, even though there's already My Soul Acquiesced in It in this update that has the chilly Snow White vanilla with white rose, and I wondered if my nose was drunk. But then it quickly morphed into Antique Lace 2017's floofy vanilla (which is similar to NAVA's Moonstone to me) with tea rose and stays Antique Lace 2017 + tea rose for the rest of the day. I was not able to detect the blackcurrant. Honestly, this is more lace-y than Tea Roses and Lace, so if you're a Lace fan who was hoping for more vanilla or more rose from that one, you should try this. Although I enjoy this, I don't know if I need another Antique Lace-y vanilla in my collection, and I already have so many rose scents. I'll retest this before it goes away just to be sure. But trying Millarca and Mircalla side by side was really fun, and I do think I prefer this one to Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.
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Hmm. I've only tested this once so far, the day after this decant arrived, so I may update my review if I have a different experience after this has settled some more. I get a coolness from this, and I don't think that there's stealth peppermint in this, but maybe another type of mint or something, and I believe that the black velvet note, along with containing musk, also contains a black tea note, and maybe a hint of tobacco. The blackcurrant plays a supporting role here. It's most noticeable when the scent is freshly applied, and I do smell it more in the throw than I do up close, but it is not as strong as these other notes that I think may comprise the black velvet accord. I'm also not getting a ton of rose from this... I swear I get way more musky, cool tea than anything else. I do not believe this contains the same black velvet accord as Vain Sorceress. I'll retest it after this has had more time to settle, mainly to see if I still have the same experience, or if I get more rose or blackcurrant after the oil has been sitting for a few weeks, but at the moment, I don't feel the need to grab more of this one.
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This one starts off somewhat vegetal on me, and I believe that's due to the musk. I also get the cherry, patchouli, jasmine, and amber, but this settles into pretty much a red musk only blend on me by the end of the day. I tried this twice, and although it started off vegetal on me twice, it smelled better on the back of my hand (with the cherry and amber briefly giving Moon When the Cherries Turn Black vibes) than it did on my upper arm (where the musk was much stronger and I got less cherry). I'm always chasing cherry scents, but I don't feel the need to add this one to my collection. Of the two Carmilla cherry blends I grabbed decants of, I prefer Die, Sweetly Die over this one. But someone who does better with red musk might have better luck with this blend.
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This smells like hot cocoa in the vial, but as soon as it goes on, it's cut through with a blast of dragon's blood. It ends up being more dragon's blood than cocoa on me, although the cocoa is definitely present throughout wear. I don't feel the need to upgrade this to a bottle, but it was fun to get to try this. I'd recommend it to someone who is looking for a chocolate scent with a spooky, non-gourmand twist.
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A dark and dreary fragrance, honeyed yet ominous, hovering in sweet shadows: overripe strawberries and bloody smears of red currant hovering in a gloom of indigo musk, black tea, plum incense tears, champaca, cacao, and hazy laudanum accord.
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Inspired by beeswax poppets, votary effigies, and wax cast funerary masks. Beeswax, ashes, and blood.
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Minotaur Landscaper starts off as a blast of soil and grass on me, with more dirt than grass, and some pepperiness from what is probably the copaiba balsam. Over time, the dirt and grass decrease in strength and it becomes more of a peppery musky amber scent. While this isn't something I can see myself wearing, it was fun to get to try it.
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I blind bottled this because it was a cake scent for a good cause, but sadly, I'm just not jiving with it. It's too cloying on me, and I think that's due to the frosting mixing with the powdery sprinkles. There's cake there, too, of course, with its olive oil to boot, but it's only slightly lemon-y (I was hoping it would be more lemony, but the description does say faintly, so...). This ended up being too sweet and powdery for me. Sprinklecake and I didn't get along either. Maybe one day I'll find a sprinkle-adorned cake scent that works on me.
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Globs of bubbling tar and rivulets of motor oil oozing through the grooves of rusted scavenged steel.
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The scent of a forsaken land: cracked earth, gasoline seeping into sun-scorched sand. The scent of balsam and leather drifts across desolate dunes the glimmer dully with shards of frankincense.
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The haunted stillness of a long-decayed cemetery plot choked by ivy and wild blackberry thorns. In this solitude, having just listened to so strange a story, connected, as it was, with the great and titled dead, whose monuments were moldering among the dust and ivy round us, and every incident of which bore so awfully upon my own mysterious case—in this haunted spot, darkened by the towering foliage that rose on every side, dense and high above its noiseless walls—a horror began to steal over me, and my heart sank as I thought that my friends were, after all, not about to enter and disturb this triste and ominous scene.
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“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.” Everything is in context, including this scent: coconut meat, coconut milk, coconut frond, and coconut husk. Proceeds from this perfume will be contributed to Emily’s List, an organization dedicated to helping pro-choice women win elections. Learn more here!
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Strawberry Moon 2024: Green Tea and Green Strawberries
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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Fleurs D’Oranger (orange blossom).