doomsday_disco
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Tonka and Fossilized Amber.
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Chestnut and Patchouli.
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Black Musk and Black Honey.
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Mineralic Amber.
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Melancholic white rose petals drifting in a pool of white musk, bitter almond, and icy vanilla. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome, possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.
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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 cozy floof of sugared coconut. Sei Koyanagui
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A luminous cold flame: chilled bergamot, Ceylon cinnamon, white clove bud, amber, and incense smoke. Between these passionate moments there were long intervals of commonplace, of gaiety, of brooding melancholy, during which, except that I detected her eyes so full of melancholy fire, following me, at times I might have been as nothing to her.
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Whatever your preferred term for this eye-catching bodega snack, its iconic design undeniably lingers in the backdrop of core New York memories. A simple, jumbo-sized treat, it unifies by transcending differences to mostly taste all like one thing!
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Sweet roasted pumpkin rind, raw wool accord, polished oak, baked bread, cocoa absolute, and kitchen herbs. Antonio Rotta
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Vanilla cream, tonka absolute, caramelized cedarwood, and sepia-washed amber resinoid. Byeon Sang-byeok
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Honey Dust and Oudh.
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Fleur de Citronnier (lemon blossom -- the site also has this tagged with lemon).
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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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Distant, enigmatic, shadowed: delicate heliotrope and pale rose petals, muted and soft, resting atop a chilly, intimate base that blends white musk, cashmere woods, and a touch of tonka bean. There was a coldness, it seemed to me, beyond her years, in her smiling melancholy persistent refusal to afford me the least ray of light.
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Toffee-touched vanilla bourbon filigree, antiqued white rose petals, auburn musk, honey dust, and white silk.
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Addressing you directly, dear reader, with this important message: NYAHHHH!! Cheeky blackcurrant against a backdrop of scorched goat’s milk, festooned with ribbons of scarlet musk, dried plum, and sweet rose-infused amber.
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Dead Leaves, Pumpkin Pie, and Hearthsmoke Atmosphere Spray
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Atmosphere
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With apologies to my ancestors. Ube halaya and ube ice cream chonked with mango jelly, flan, boiled taro, evaporated milk, sweetened kidney beans, dried coconut, kaong, gulaman, tapioca pearls, and a copious shake of pumpkin spice.
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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.