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I received a tester of this in a decant order. The toffee-like honey dust note is the dominant note on me throughout wear. I get more sandalwood than amber lurking in the background, on a bed of musk. It's not a soft scent at all on me, but that's probably because I tend to amp the Lab's honey dust note. I'm not big on the Lab's honey dust note and prefer other honey notes from the Lab, but if you are a fan of honey dust note, this scent has it in spades.
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Sheer white vanilla with strawberry cream, star jasmine, mallow blossom, vanilla sugar, pink lotus petals, lychee, rosehips, russet amber, and pink sandalwood. Alphonsine De Challié
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I mostly wanted to try this because of the linden blossom and the art. This isn't as earthy as one might expect based off the notes. It starts off being a mostly green scent (probably thanks to the moss and the creeping jenny) and then becomes more of a floral scent after several hours of wear. The vetiver in this lends a light smokiness to the scent that's most noticeable during the scent's green phase, but it's pretty subdued for vetiver. I'm not getting the soil note, nor the delicate mushroom note (I was looking for it after trying the hair gloss). The honeywort isn't something I would have been able to pick out were it not for the duet, but that adds a touch of something akin to a lemony cough drop when the scent is morphing from the green phase to the floral one. I do get the linden blossom I was here for after a few hours, but it is also accompanied by iris, which is high-pitched on me. While this isn't something I feel the need to upgrade to a bottle of, I do think that this scent befits our sad frog friend from the art, and I'm glad that it isn't wet/swampy in any way.
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We won’t go until we get some! Dense and chewy, lively with spices and sticky with figs boiled in wine, decorated with pomegranate seeds and dried lavender petals.
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Mushrooms and Moss.
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I received a tester of this in a regular decant vial and tested it on my skin instead of in my hair. So think of this more of an impression than a review? I get both notes, but the moss is stronger on my skin (I tend to amp the note, so maybe it would be more evenly balanced in the hair?). The mushroom note doesn't really smell super earthy and has a sweet, but pleasant powderiness to it that I also get from Death Cap. I don't need a bottle of this, but it was fun to get to try it! I actually enjoyed it more than Frog Moon itself.
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Lady of the Black Cat skull: sweet innocence with a dark mystery, wrapped in black leather and lace, guided by dreams and succumbing to nightmares. Sugared amber, orchid petals, and vanilla chiffon spiced with smoked cardamom.
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I've tried this three times (a test, a full-day slather, and then another test in which I deathmatched it with a few other scents containing vanilla, amber, and cardamom notes). Dahlia is stunning. This weekend, I deathmatched her with Aasimar from the RPG line and Nocturne Alchemy's Sky Amber. To me, Dahlia is the clear winner. Each scent featured a different amber, but I like Dahlia's amber most of all, since it is sugared and deeper. Each scent contains cardamom, but it is far prominent and sticks around in Dahlia. This cardamom has a bite to it. The cardamom in the other two scents is much lighter and quick to fade away. Each scent contains vanilla, and both Dahlia and NAVA's Sky Amber feature a floofy, billowy vanilla (in the same vein as Antique Lace 2017's vanilla and Nocturne Alchemy's Moonstone, for those who would like a non-BPAL frame of reference). That said, the amber and vanilla are more balanced in Dahlia, while Sky Amber ends up becoming more about the vanilla than amber on me. And Dahlia has decent throw and longevity, too. Dahlia is worth the hype! I've already used up over half of my decant, so a bottle will be in my future.
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Lady of the Unicorn skull – queens escape to majestic mountain air, lace parasol and riding gloves in hand, corseted and bustled, heart filled with longing. An early 19th-century Italian perfume dabbed on black satin and lace – magnolia blossoms, lilac, orris root, and ambergris accord.
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I received a tester of this with a decant circle and finally got around to trying it the other day. This is predominantly a lilac scent on me, with it almost being a lilac single note, except there's a bit of powdery orris lingering in the background. That said, I'm not that familiar with the scent of magnolia, and I don't think I've isolated it in the few scents I've tried that feature it, so it's possible that it's there, but not registering to me. The lilac is so very loud on me, though, that I would recommend this to lilac lovers. Since I don't seem to love lilac lately, this isn't for me, but if you enjoy the note, you should give this one a try.
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This one is a fruity floral scent on me that morphs into a mostly floral scent touched by strawberry at the end of the day. I believe the strawberry (not really getting the cream on my skin, which I don't mind) and star jasmine are the dominant notes on me throughout wear, although the star jasmine wins out by the end of the day and is somewhat high-pitched, but it isn't heady or indolic like actual jasmine. I sadly don't get any of the mallow blossom or vanilla sugar on my skin, although perhaps those would be more prominent with rest/age. The pink sandalwood might also be contributing to the high-pitched quality this has on my skin (as I think it's the same one from Easter Egging, but there's no white chocolate in this one to smooth it over). I didn't deathmatch the two, but I believe Vasilissa, which also contains star jasmine and sandalwood notes (albeit a different sandalwood), is smoother. I'd also say this could be a cousin to some of the Pink Moon scents... not the strawberry milk one, but the ones that are full of floral notes with a smattering of strawberry. Only, this one starts off stronger on the strawberry than most of those, and the floral notes in Pink Moon 2019 seem to jive better with my skin chemistry. This is definitely a very pink that goes perfectly with the art, but I think I'll stick with Pink Moon 2019 and 2023.
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I've tried this like three times and have neglected to review it because I've been trying to pinpoint what the unlisted citrus note is in this one, but alas. I still don't feel confident enough to say which one this contains. I would say that this is mostly an aquatic musky floral scent with a touch of citrus. I'm not sure if the citrus note is secretly the blue spruce (I know I've at least definitely tried a fir scent that has an orange-y aspect to it) or if there is a stealth citrus in here. My initial inclination was that it is grapefruit, but other sniffs, I thought maybe its orange, but there's definitely a citrusy element at play. As usual, the eucalyptus blossom adds a coolness without being bracing like straight-up eucalyptus would, and the white mint note also lends a coolness without being bracing like peppermint. The unexpected citrus and cool notes mingle with the aquatic notes, lotus, and blue musk, but the scent quickly gives way to the aquatic notes, blue musk, and lotus, and settles into a soft scent comprised of those notes by the end of the day. This was almost a blind bottle for me, but I decided to go the decant route first since aquatics are tricky for me. This is pretty tame for an aquatic: its not super salty, and there's no soap of doom. But I would have appreciated it more if the blue spruce had been a main player (I love the Lab's coniferous notes) and if the eucalpytus and mint had stuck around longer. So I don't need a bottle of this one, but I do think it is pretty and would recommend it to someone looking for a musky, aquatic floral scent that has been smoothed out around the edges.
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A big, wet blue raspberry blown to the idea that asexual people never get off, don’t enjoy relationships, or are generally anti-sex.
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I've tried this twice, and I don't really know what to say except for that it actually smells like blue raspberry candy? I wasn't sure about the 'wet' part of the scent when I got the decant, but there's nothing aquatic at play here. It's just a true blue raspberry candy scent. And it's better than the Blue Raspberry Cream Soda Slushie scent Nocturne Alchemy did one summer. While I don't feel the need to upgrade to a bottle (I'll probably test it again before it departs just to be sure), I think I'll keep the decant around for those times I want to be hit in the face with this nostalgic candy scent. This would fit right in with the Lilith collections of yore.
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Honeywort and Sage.
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Frog Moon: Honeywort and Sage
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Okay, I got this because I have no idea what honeywort smells like, but I wanted to find out. And this duet is a good way to be able to isolate that note, because I wouldn't have been able to identify it in Frog Moon if I hadn't tried this duet! The honeywort in this smells like a lemony cough drop, and the sage is a Thanksgiving-y variety. It becomes less about the honeywort and more about the sage with wear. While I can't see myself wearing this, I am glad that I got to try it. For science! -
I tried this one twice, and I had the same experience both times. This is predominantly about the silk, powdery orris, and white amber on my skin. The vanilla is there with the silk, but it is pretty light and sheer (maybe it's the Lab's bourbon vanilla) and not a floofy, billowing variety. The cardamom in this is very light and quickly flees, so if you're looking for cardamom, you might be disappointed. The second time I tested this, I retested it at the same time as Dahlia. Dahlia features a different amber note, a billowy vanilla, and waaaay more cardamom. So if you're looking for more cardamom and vanilla with an amber, give Dahlia a whirl. This is sadly too silk-dominant on me with not enough vanilla to smooth the fabric and powdery orris over. It seems to be a win on most other folks, though! But I'll be sticking with Dahlia.
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I tried this when I initially received the decant, and my immediate thought was GREEN BANANA PEELS. That was in the vial as well as during the wet phase of the scent, so it wasn't a skin chemistry thing. And then I tried it months later, to see if that still held true. The answer is yes. This starts off as smelling like green banana peels. I'm so glad I'm not alone in thinking this, @patina! Eventually, it becomes less green banana peel-y, but remains a green scent. I think its the zucchini flower and the leaves that are the standout notes in this scent, with the zucchini flower having a squash-y sort of watery feel with its greenness after a few hours of wear. I don't get any green tea or sandalwood incense on my skin. This isn't something that I would end up reaching for, but it certainly is a scent experience with that unexpected green banana opening!
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Drink Me, but make it figgy. No, seriously. This features what I believe is the same buttery pastry note from Drink Me, accompanied by a Fig Newton sort of fig filling. The cardamom is there in the beginning, but it pretty fleeting on me. I'm not someone who particularly enjoys fig notes, but if you want a foodie fig scent in your life, here you go.
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You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, And when you destroy them the ocean laughs with you. Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers, But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness? What of the cripple who hates dancers? What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters lawbreakers? What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows? And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth? But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weather-vane shall direct your course? What man’s law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man’s prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man’s iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man’s path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? Serpent scales in the sunlight: green leather, smoked oud, black cardamom, and osmanthus bathed in amber.
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At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff. And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment. You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour? In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes. And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free? If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead. You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them. And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride? And if it is a care you would cast off, that cart has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you. And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared. Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling. And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light. And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. When the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light: frankincense and myrrh smoke, silver musk, ambergris accord, ti leaf, benzoin, and violet ash.
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A briny ballad sung by crustacean troubadour: salt-crusted red currant and driftwood strumming cheery chords of ambergris, orange blossom, and bubbly bergamot-squeezed pink grapefruit. Brynolf Wennerberg
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Rain-soaked leaves, lightning-struck wood, gleaming black myrrh, smoked cedar, hinoki, and black tea. Yosa Buson
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White and red roses, a blood-touched thorn, and a sprig of myrtle. José de Madrazo y Agudo
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An oil to help modulate nervous system function, encouraging rest, recuperation, and calm. Contains: tangerine, lavender, patchouli, ylang ylang, Roman chamomile, bronze fennel, bergamot, wild carrot, and Himalayan cedar.