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For the spooky kids down the shurr.
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Cocoa butter, coconut, tiare, and a squirt of pumpkin juice. (This is a perfume oil inspired by the scent of old school 80’s tanning lotions. Do not use this as a sunblock, as it’s… a perfume oil. Please be cautious with sun exposure, use sunblock every day, etc.)
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Hungry Ghost Moon: Charred Cedarwood and Smoked Black Pepper
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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BPAL’s first Hungry Ghost Moon in 2006 was a celebration of the moment when the Gates of Hell burst open and ghosts pour forth from the Nine Darknesses into the sunlit world. Inspired by Drew Rausch’s artwork, 2025’s incarnation is a bit different: a spectral slice of pizza, dribbling with a cool, herbal ectoplasm. Blobs of white musk, white tomato, a memory of sourdough crusts, white peppercorn, and rivulets of beeswax candles dribbled on cardboard pizza boxes. May we all find the sustenance we need, in this life and in the next.
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Amber-bedewed skin musk, golden honey, vanilla cream, and a trickle of sugared lemon. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Then said a teacher, Speak to us of Teaching. And he said: No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding. The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it. And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither. For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man. And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth. A perfume for knowledge and the wisdom to wield it well: frankincense, green cedar, white sandalwood, bay leaf, and hyssop.
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Prototype for a dapper gravedigger scent for an illustrated book. Spiced cologne, well-worn leather, a spatter of mud, and upturned dirt.
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Third in a series of prototypes for scents that were supposed to smell like… er… fucking, crafted for a musician’s promo.
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Crimson musk, sacramental wine, iron oxide, saffron threads, stained linen, and frankincense. Oskar Kokoschka
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Lightning Moon: Ylang Ylang and White Apple Lotion
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Ylang Ylang and White Apple. -
Lightning Moon: White Musk and Golden Frankincense
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
White Musk and Golden Frankincense. -
Graham Cracker and Hazelnut.
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Jasmine Rice and White Musk.
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A prototype created for a local bakery promotion.
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Bottled sunshine.
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Treat this more as an impression than a review because I sprayed it on a paper towel and did not do a test in wet and dry hair like I usually do with my hair gloss reviews. Valencia Orange Hair Gloss is more about orange blossom than an actual juicy orange. I get the bitter pith of the orange peel pretty strongly at first, but once that calms down, it mostly becomes a floral orange to my nose, although fortunately, having this around me hasn't given me a headache (that sometimes happens with orange blossom and neroli scents, alas). I grabbed a mini decant of this from Ajevie long ago and am only just now getting around to spraying it. I can't see myself reaching for this over the blood orange gloriousness from The Geisha and the Samurai Hair Gloss, so I won't be keeping my decant. This is definitely one for orange blossom fans.
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Golden Tobacco and Beeswax.
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Deer Moon: Golden Tobacco and Beeswax
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I tried this a few times last year but apparently neglected to review it, so I retested it again last night in order to write this review. I am glad I went the decant route on this one. I would have thought this would be a home run based on the notes, but I agree that there's something petrichor-esque in this because I get some dirt when this is first applied (that does quickly fade though) , and then there's what I think may be a rain note that, when combined with this tobacco note, makes this scent more sharp and cologne-y than expected. The beeswax is doing its best to try to smooth things over with its creamy honeyed sweetness, but alas, this is just too sharp for me. -
This smells AMAZING! It's definitely one for honey fans. I get a sexy, musky honey infused with ylang ylang and some velvety myrrh. The almond is adding some creaminess to the scent that keeps making me think there's vanilla mingling with the honey when there's not. I haven't deathmatched this with anything, but I think it may share some similarities with O or Formula 57 Massage Oil (the latter does have honey and ylang ylang). This has fantastic throw, too. Ugh, this is swoon-worthy. I feel very lucky that twilighteyes sold me a bottle of this one.
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Honey and Summer Herbs.
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Strawberry-chunked prosecco.
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Oops. I forgot to review this when it was available, so I retested this again last night for this review. This smells exactly like the description: chunks of strawberry in a glass of prosecco. It doesn't take long for the prosecco note to become the main aspect of the scent on me, and it is on point. It may be one of the most realistic alcohol notes I've come across from the Lab, with its crisp fruitiness and fizz. Alas, my skin does to this what it happens to do to some scents for some reason where something in this goes a little tomato soup-y on me. Wahh. I have no idea what could be causing that. But anyways, if the scent description sounds good to you, definitely give this a try. It was pretty nice until my skin ruined the party!
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This is mostly about the leather and the leaves on me. Leaf and leather... leather and leaf. It is somewhat sharp at first due to these both being very loud notes, leaves being generally sharp on me, and the leather taking some time to settle down into a musky well-worn leather. I get a little cypress behind those two notes, along with some warm cedar, but the patchouli is somehow not very noticeable on my skin (I've tried this twice). There's never any point at which the leather and leaves are not the dominant notes on me, though. It was really nice to get to try this, but the sharpness of the leaves and leather in the beginning and the fact that this is a leather scent without any sweet note means that it is unlikely one that I would end up reaching for. But if you do want some leaves with your leather, look no further!
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Mineralic Amber.
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Sultry, sticky crimson juice dribbled on bare skin, a flash of teeth, a breathless laugh in the dark.