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Inspired by a strawberry-tinted albino corn snake that I met many, many years ago – strawberry-infused Snake Oil with a froth of marshmallow fluff and a hint of vanilla sugar.

Belladonna Berries and Sugared Black Tea.

9/5/2024 Anything in Paintbox Soap Works Halloween release that you'd like? I added some to my Universal Wishlist last week! Fairytale and Putney Road are my favorite fall offerings of hers, in wax melts, glycerin soap, or mini sorbetto. I also am interested in a few others as wax melts that I added to my wishlist. Anything hand knit or embroidered you might like? Perhaps a cute ghost or bat? ? I make shower steamers, salves, candles, soaps and other such. Are you interested in any such homemade goodies? I'd be happy to try any of these! 9/7/2024 Would you like a small watercolor painting? I'm talking 3×5". If so, would you like it based on your preferred Halloween motifs or something else? I would love that! Especially if it featured a cute bat or a cute ghost. Or a black cat! I make light-weight hair falls ( I can do single or double, if you have a preference for pony tail or pig tails)- I make them out of things like soft yarns, up-cycled silk and bits of lace. Is this something you'd like? If so, tell me up to three colors and a length in inches you'd like. I was already fortunate enough to receive these from you in a Krampusnacht swap. Anything from the Haus of Gloi Fall update? My favorite Haus of Gloi item is actually their unscented pumpkin butter, but I wouldn't say no to Blood Orange Marshmallow pumpkin butter. How about the Nocturne Alchemy Halloween update? I ordered decants of all of the new scents I was interested in, but I'd love to try Haunted Portrait: Helena Hackley from the Resurgence. 9/8/2024 Milk, Dark, and or white Chocolate? Milk or dark, but I generally prefer milk chocolate. No straight-up Hershey's chocolate bars, please. Would you like a gently-used tarot or Lenormand deck? My partner is getting into Tarot and I've been dabbling with her Rider-Waite deck. I also have a fantasy deck from a past 13 Nights swap, and I own The Nightmare Before Christmas Tarot deck. I wouldn't mind a gently used deck, or a shirt or some sort of art featuring the Queen of Wands design with the black cat for Halloween. I'm going to Disney World all next week!!! Can I get you something? (Maybe you have a favorite Disney / Star Wars / etc character or fandom? Maybe you're a Pin Trader? Maybe you like cute kitchen-wares / tea pots / nice English tea / pot holders tea towels?) My favorite Disney movies are Alice in Wonderland, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and The Sword in the Stone. And, of course, The Nightmare Before Christmas. I would love anything Archimedes the Owl, anything Alice in Wonderland, some cute fall Winnie the Pooh (I have a fall-themed Winnie the Pooh lanyard and some ankle socks), or an Everybody Wants To Be a Cat shirt from The Aristocats. I'm also always down for cute kitchenwares because I cook and bake a lot and I love getting things that are practical and can be used. This is has been alluded to in other questions, but feelings about candles/wax tarts/incense and scent profiles? Candles - I enjoy candles. I'm on a self-imposed candle ban, so you do not have to worry about me buying them myself. I prefer soy candles with wood or double wicks, but am down for almost any candle that is indie and isn't from Sihaya (I have too many of her candles, and they tunnel). Wax melts - I melt wax every single day and have five warmers throughout my apartment. I'm currently on a self-imposed wax ban because I have so much of it, but I don't mind if my bat gets some for me. I'd especially love Willow Waxcraft's Harvest Hayride wax melts, or the Fairytale and Putney Road wax melts from Paintbox Soapworks. Incense - I usually don't burn incense, but I bought this coffin-shaped incense burner from Voltaire at a show just to support him in some way (because what I had wanted to buy was already sold out). So now I wouldn't mind dabbling in Japanese incense, but I'm not interested in my abode smelling like nag champa. Scent profile: My scent profile for home scents is pretty much the same as perfumes, but I'm more lenient about notes that wouldn't work on me, except for anise and violet, and I don't want any straight-up fruity wax (some fruit notes are okay). are you interested in skincare, such as trying travel sizes of various types? (would be cruelty-free, cleaner options coming from over here, if that matters to you!) I just bought a bunch of skincare for redness/very dry skin from Paula's Choice. I wouldn't mind trying travel sized skin-care that is cruelty and fragrance-free if it helps with redness or dryness. 9/9/2024 Let's talk earrings. Pierced? Stud, dangly, hoop? Any ear wire preferences? Large or small? Other preferences? My ears are not pierced. If there is something extravagant on your wish list, would you like one large gift and the rest of your gifts quite modest, or would you rather forego the lavish item in favor of more of a mix among your other gifts? I'm leaning more towards a mix, but I would be happy either way! The Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer is out with all of their autumn offerings. Is there anything you would like? I just went there yesterday! My only regret is that I didn't smell the candles (I already have two of the honeycrisp ones from last year). 9/11/2024 I have in my possession a selection of real Bakelite bangle bracelets! Definitely from the 1940s-1960s era. Would this be an exciting gist for you to receive? No, thank you! Would you like anything from sock dreams? I added the Lotions and Potions purple socks to my wishlist yesterday after looking at the website. I also like their striped armwarmers. 9/13/2024 Would you be interested in a spooky mini waffle maker or spooky playing cards? No, thank you! I was already gifted a mini pumpkin waffle maker, and we recently got some playing cards from a tea room. Does anything from SnagTights strike your fancy? No, thank you... they have cute offerings, but I have noticed that I am very bad at picking the right size for tights. What about from Michaels or JoAnnes? From Michaels - I'm still waffling on that cat shelf. From Joanne's - They had a lot of cute sock offerings this year, and I liked the cat on the pumpkin that lights up. This is what I did buy: bat mirror, moon mirror, ghost, pumpkin, and black cat plates, the socks specified in my questionnaire, and the moon phase tapestry. Their selection this year is pretty awesome. Oh, if my vampire bat is crafty and would like to make me a Halloween wreath, I would love that! do you like Ren fairest? Might there be a fun little thing I should find for you there? If there's something small a cute! 9/14/2024 Weather permitting I'll be going to a witchy Florida themed night market next week! Is there anything you may want from it? I'm not sure! Maybe something orange-y? 9/17/2024 Do you desire any Samhain ritual-type items, if so, what? No, thank you! Tell me, my ghoul-friend, would you love to see things from these places (and what?) as you unwrap your gifts? I will be going to the Pacific coast soon, and there are witchy stores (one with serious occult supplies, many handmade including inks, quills, books, etc), a HUGE gem & mineral store, a huge yarn shop, shells and way too much sasquatch stuff, also an amazingly diverse mercantile in Yachats, OR, and the Green Salmon, where unique PNW teas, coffees are sold. Tea would be nice! 9/18/2024 Would you like spooky-themed stationary supplies? What kinds if so? Yes. I like using cute notepads, washi tape, and stickers for swap packages. What about unanointed spell candles? No, thank you! Could you use any clever storage boxes like these? Normally I would be down for these, but I bought a bunch at Home Goods last year when they had a ton of Halloween ones, and now I have too many that are empty and taking up space. 9/23/2024 If I were to place an order from Cellar Door, what strikes your fancy - they're having a fast 20% off sale through Monday so I'd need an answer fast. Autumn Apple Fest, Basic Witch, and Spooky Season sound interesting, especially the latter. Soap or candle. 10/2/2024 Would you be down for baked goods as a day zero gift? If so, are there any you particularly enjoy that travel well? I am down for baked goods and am not picky! But I think cookies probably travel the best. Is your perfume wishlist up to date? 'Tis! 10/4/2024 Last minute question. Do you need herbs? Rosemary, thyme, winter savory, oregano, sage or such? Mugwort for tea/burning? I grow lots of herbs and I'm happy to share! I would be happy with any of those (although I'm not sure what winter savory is!). I also enjoy mugwort for tea. I cook and bake a lot, so yes to any and all herbs that aren't licorice-adjacent!

Tombstone is one of my favorites, so I took a chance on this despite not knowing how heavily spiced, pumpkin-y, or leather-y it would be. I am pleased to report that this is not weird. The pumpkin in this is not spiced... it is syrupy! So it actually just makes Tombstone be even more like Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener because it goes on like you've been hit in the face with a bunch of root beer barrel candies. The scent stays that way for a really long time, and eventually I think I'm smelling a bit of leather, but if I didn't know there was leather in it, I wouldn't have gone looking for it. Actually, I wasn't sure if this would actually contain leather or if it would be like... dried pumpkin rind or something. Anyways, what little leather I do think I'm getting reminds me of a leather in one of the GC ____ Rider scents, but I no longer have any imps of it around to know for sure. And again, it's so light that I wouldn't know it existed if I hadn't seen the scent description. Eventually, this settles into a syrupy scent. It's not vegetal, buttery, or spiced. My brother thought I was wearing maple, but I didn't think it was like that, but more like if the syrup you'd put in a pumpkin coffee drink got mixed with some soda machine syrup. I don't think this is as swoonworthy as the original Tombstone, but as a root beer ho, I'm still happy to have it in my collection... especially since it has still been over 100 degrees here in OCTOBER FFS, and it's nice to be able to actually wear a Weenie scent that isn't too heavy.

I blind bottled this one and have no regrets. My initial thoughts upon reading the notes were that this might be in the same perfume family as scents like The Girl, Ava, and Tomie. But actually: IT'S BASICALLY A WHITE ROSE SNOW WHITE SWIRLED WITH SOME WHITE MUSK. (So it's different enough from Pink Snowballs to own both.) My brother and I were swooning over this. Rose + Snow White fans: REJOICE. People that had high hopes for this but don't love Snow White: sorry if this review crushed your dreams. I can see this being very popular.

Pale lichen, sweet Oman frankincense, moss-covered bark, silver fir needle, golden myrrh, and green patchouli leaf.

Lupine Musk & Ambrette Seed.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly: fig milk, white cedar, white pear, vanilla cream, bourbon sandalwood, clove, honey cake, and sweet musk.

This starts off with a blast of rum on me, which actually smells very boozy this time. The rum is accompanied by the honeyed dates and some almond, and the almond quickly burns off and leaves the rum, honeyed dates, and some brown sugar. The rum is not overly spiced, but damn, is the rum + honeyed date + brown sugar combo hella sweet. It stays like this for a long time, until the resins emerge, of which the myrrh is the most prominent on me. It reminds me of the myrrh in OLLA Eve. Actually, I kept huffing this at the end of the day because there was this spiced resin thing going on that reminded me of that scent, although honey and myrrh are the only notes they have in common. I could also see the comparison above to Bastet, although Bastet's myrrh is a softer variety, to my nose. The vanilla and marshmallow are not distinct on me, but perhaps they would become more noticeable with age? The final morph of this is intoxicating, but the first phase of this scent is just way too sweet and boozy for me.

I really wanted to love this one, but for some reason, this mostly smelled like honey on me for the longest time? I think it's the caramelized aspect of the cedarwood (although I don't get much cedar), but I'm really taken aback by how honeyed it smells compared to other scents with caramelized wood notes that I've tried in the past. And I don't even hate honey notes... it was just unexpected. Sadly, the vanilla cream and tonka are not main players on me. By the time the honeyed aspect of the scent calms down, it just smells like amber on me. I let my decant rest for several days before trying it, but maybe it needs more time to settle? I wish I had had the experience that other reviewers are having!

I'm not big on coconut, but decided to try this just because it's a cat scent and I like the art. The coconut here is indeed not like suntan lotion, nor is it super buttery and foodie. It has a fresh coolness to it. The sugar cozies right up to it and gives the scent decent throw. While I don't feel the need to upgrade to a bottle of this, I do think it's one of the best coconut scents I've tried. Coconut lovers should rejoice!

This smells exquisite in the vial and freshly applied. The oak note is smoothed over by the gourmand notes, while the oak and wool keep this from being straight-up foodie. It starts off as freshly baked bread, pumpkin, oak, and wool (which I am delighted to say does not smell like laundry), with a dash of cocoa and herbs. There isn't enough cocoa here to make the scent very chocolate-y, and the herbs here are much more tame than they were in A Snug Corner. Over time, the scent becomes mainly about the pumpkin on me, which is indeed sweet, syrupy, and not heavily spiced. If this had stayed the way it was when it was initially applied, it might've been a bottle purchase. But the syrupy pumpkin it ends with makes me think that the decant will suffice. Still, of the new cat scents, I enjoyed this one the most.

This starts off with the bright lemon rind note being the loudest aspect of the scent at first, backed by the skin musk-y bourbon vanilla, amber, and a bit of cacao and patchouli. As it sits on the skin, the lemon calms down, and the bourbon vanilla, amber, and patchouli gain strength. I deathmatched this with White Cat because it has bourbon vanilla and lemon amber. White Cat is smoother and creamier, and the lemon isn't as strong as it starts off in Morning Follows Night. However, the creamy lemon in White Cat has more longevity than the lemon in this scent. Although both scents do become pretty amber-centric by the end of the day, they feature different ambers, with White Cat's accompanied by creamy lemon, and Morning Follow Night's mostly being backed by the bourbon vanilla and patchouli. This isn't one I need more of, as I prefer the creamy lemon amber of White Cat, but it was fun to deathmatch the two.

This Snake Oil variant isn't my cup of tea. There's just something with the way that the musk combines with the candy-like strawberry that smells funky on me. I'm not able to pick out the marshmallow fluff or vanilla sugar. It's synthetic strawberry plus musk for the longest time, before settling into synthetic strawberry plus Snake Oil's spices by the end of the day. I'm not planning to keep the decant around to see how it ages, as I have so many Snake Oil variants in my collection, that I don't think I need to see if this one will get better with age. I think the fake strawberry plus musk will always be too much for me, sadly.

The wild grasses and the mock strawberry steals the show at first, with a bit of vetiver and a fleck of ink. The mock strawberry mostly just smells like strawberry to me. Over time, it becomes more about the amber and vetiver on a bed of grass, backed by what is left of the strawberry. I was not able to pick out the dandelions in this one. The amber and vetiver varieties featured in this scent are not for me, but it was fun to get to try this.

I primarily get a balsamic amber from this, backed by some deeper ambers (perhaps one of them is the fossilized one?). Ambers I am not getting among the five: the Lab's white amber or sparkling amber. I'm not digging the balsamic quality of the amber (it's too astringent for my taste), so this one isn't for me.

I am surprised this doesn't have any reviews yet. A lot of green tea scents are very much about the green tea. Not this one. The green strawberries are the star here, and you can tell that this isn't the same juicy red strawberry note that you're used to... yet there is no bitterness or tartness like you might expect from it. The green tea is not super distinct to me, even when slathered, although I'm sure it has to be doing something in the background... I ordered a bottle with the Dragoncon release. This is my favorite duet released so far this year.

Apple Liqueur and Brandy.

Blackberry and Wild Lilac.

Blackberry and Lime Rind.

The very morbiest: ink-black musk, opium tar accord, clove bud, and myrrh.

Prune and Nag Champa.

Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment. A strangely serene scent: French lavender bud, woodmoss, cypress, amyris, white cedar, labdanum, and bergamot.

Bourbon Vanilla and Teakwood.