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A decadent, daintily debauched, and delightfully improper dragon, Flame-of-Burnt-Brandies love scandal and sparkle and whispers of delicious nonsense. They make their homes in séance parlours, stately manors, and abandoned ballrooms, and their scales flicker like flame on a holiday pudding: lavender, lilac, and lemon peel curling over brandy-soaked honeyed fig and sugared plums.
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Beams of citrus, apricot, raspberry musk, and neroli herald daybreak, illuminating ambergris and myrrh shadows. Felix Edouard Vallotton
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13 is significant, whether you consider it lucky, unlucky or just plain odd. Many believe it to be unfortunate… …because there were 13 present at the Last Supper. …Loki crashed a party of 12 at Valhalla, which ended in Baldur’s death. …Oinomaos killed 13 of Hippodamia’s suitors before Pelops finally, in his own shady way, defeated the jealous king. …In ancient Rome, Hecate’s witches gathered in groups of 12, the Goddess herself being the 13th in the coven. Concern over the number thirteen echoes back beyond the Christian era. Line 13 was omitted form the Code of Hammurabi. The shivers over Friday the 13th also have some interesting origins: …Christ was allegedly crucified on Friday the 13th. …On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and sixty of his senior knights. …In British custom, hangings were held on Fridays, and there were 13 steps on the gallows leading to the noose. To combat the superstition, Robert Ingersoll and the Thirteen Club held thirteen-men dinners during the 19th Century. Successful? Hardly. The number still invokes trepidation to this day. A recent whimsical little serial killer study showed that the following murderers all have names that total thirteen letters: Theodore Bundy Jeffrey Dahmer Albert De Salvo John Wayne Gacy And, with a little stretch of the imagination, you can also fit “Jack the Ripper” and “Charles Manson” into that equation. More current-era paranoia: modern schoolchildren stop their memorization of the multiplication tables at 12. There were 13 Plutonium slugs in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Apollo 13 wasn’t exactly the most successful space mission. All of these are things that modern triskaidekaphobes point to when justifying their fears. For some, 13 is an extremely fortuitous and auspicious number… …In Jewish tradition, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy. Also, there were 13 tribes of Israel, 13 principles of Jewish faith, and 13 is considered the age of maturity. …The ancient Egyptians believed that there were 12 stages of spiritual achievement in this lifetime, and a 13th beyond death. …The word for thirteen, in Chinese, sounds much like the word which means “must be alive”. Thirteen, whether you love it or loathe it, is a pretty cool number all around. …In some theories of relativity, there are 13 dimensions. …It is a prime number, lucky number, star number, Wilson Prime, and Fibonacci number. …There are 13 Archimedean solids. AND… …There were 13 original colonies when the United States were founded. Says a lot about the US, doesn’t it? Thirteen notes of empowerment and good fortune soaked in bittersweet chocolate: red ginger, cardamom, star anise, cloves, coriander, fennel, black pepper, pink pepper, red chili, sweet aged patchouli, mallow root, ti leaf, and molasses.
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And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge. And he answered, saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. And it is well you should. The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. Lotus petals cast onto a dark and fathomless sea.
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I've tested this a few times and have also deathmatched it with a few scents. I was hoping to be able to definitely say, "oh, this is a match up of this and this!", but alas, I cannot make any such claims. Bloody Apple Tart is primarily a spiced, baked apple scent. The cinnamon coating the apples fortunately did not burn my skin, and I believe the apple note is something akin to the roasted apple in Lambs-Wool. The blood note in this definitely has some cherry, and may have a bit of red musk (although I'm not positive on that, because I usually amp the stuff, and the spiced apples were the dominant aspect of this scent on me throughout wear, although there were times when I felt there may be a bit of that in there). I deathmatched this with Blood, and I don't think this is a spiced apple holiday scent mixed with that, as this definitely lacks the dragon's blood and sour myrrh from that blend. I also deathmatched this with The Tell-Tale Tart, thinking maybe this could be a mash-up of the spiced apple with that scent, but while they both have cherry, The Tell-Tale Tart definitely has a lot of red musk, the crust of the tart is more noticeable in that one than this one, and I'm not getting any strawberry or currant here. This isn't something that I need more than a decant of, but I do think the apple note is really nice, and I'm curious to read other reviews speculating about the bloody part of this tart.
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A sturdy but soft lavender cotton twill, lightly flour- and sugar-dusted, with deep pockets full of kitchen mysteries.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape. And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand. And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words. In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence. When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue. Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear; For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more. Rhythmic silence: black tea and myrrh, frankincense and parchment.
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Cracked leather and faded ink, dust-heavy pages steeped in echoes of prayer. Beeswax candles gutter in the shadows, their pale, amber light feebly holding back the dark. Low murmurs of frankincense and oakmoss anchor the stern hush of eternity. Vincent Van Gogh
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An oil of courage, daring, and reckless, unbridled joy. Contains: dragon’s blood absolute, frankincense, Tahitian vanilla absolute, blood orange, master root, apricot fruit compound, ginger root, heliotropin natural isolate, and fossilized amber.
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Narcissus, white-gold and intoxicating, unfurls laconic petals over a jeweled heart of ripe plum, dark and dripping with amethyst-bright labdanum. Red musk coils around it like a silken ribbon, smoldering and decadent.
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Her scent is the salt-scraped flesh of blue plums, soothed by a panoply of bioluminescent musks and ambers, threaded with inky oil-spill tendrils of olibanum.
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Liqueur-soaked twin cherries reeling from a double pony-kick of pink pepper and white ginger.
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Black Butterfly Moon: Black Currant and Black Rose Lotion
doomsday_disco posted a topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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Peach Lipgloss.
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As many of you know, we recently moved the whole BPAL Carny Show to Philadelphia. It was a huge change for all of us in myriad ways, not the least of which was the adjustment of moving from a lifetime in a Mediterranean / semi-arid zone to a humid subtropical pocket of the mid-Atlantic. What is “weather”? What is “rain”? What is this white stuff falling on my head every winter? Wait, I have to salt the Earth? What does that mean? Like I said, it was a huge change for us Angelinos. Even though Pennsylvania is green and gorgeous, lawns aren’t the most ecologically-friendly option for your yard so when we moved here, we began the process of replacing our lawn with clover and wildflowers. Semi-meadowing, if you will. Last year, our neighborhood opp took issue with our garden design choices and reported our place to the city for being overgrown and neglected. This scent is for everyone that’s had to deal with That Guy in your neighborhood: a sinuous stream of Snake Oil slithering through meadow flowers and clover.
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Mist-shrouded woods: Siberian fir needles, white pine bark, aspen leaf, wild lily, bergamot, wood violet, thimbleberry, sun-star, golden bell, snowdrop, heartsease, and bloodroot.
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Sang-de-Boeuf Dragon starts off with a burst of black cherries, which are glorious, sitting on top of a bed of Kyphi smoke and incense. Alas, the cherry note does not stick around for very long. This quickly becomes an incense and resin blend on me, touched by what remains of the cherry, and the plum wine, which is not sweet like the Lab's other plum notes (fortunately!). I think the Kyphi smoke has some champaca in it that went a bit dryer sheet on my partner and me, so that's the other downside to this scent. However, if the cherry note had stayed as strong as it were initially, I wouldn't even care about the somewhat dryer-sheet incense smoke. I tested this twice, and the second time, I deathmatched it against The Woman Clothed With the Sun and the War in Heaven, because they both feature resins and black cherry (Celestial drama. Radiant pomegranate crowned with golden amber and saffron, a waft of singed frankincense, and velvet black cherry). They don't smell alike, as The Woman Clothed With the Sun and the War in Heaven isn't nearly as dark. I don't get the singed quality from the frankincense in that one, so it doesn't have a smoky aspect, and it is also sweeter thanks to the cherry being backed up by the pomegranate. Of the two, I prefer The Woman Clothed With the Sun, since it lacks the smokiness, the cherry sticks around longer, and the cherry and golden amber combo is more up my alley and perfect to pair with Pa-Pow Hair Gloss. I haven't decided if this one is a keeper yet. If the cherry weren't so fleeting, it definitely would be, as that black cherry note is amazing. But I don't love the Kyphi smoke, which becomes the dominant aspect of the scent on me. If I do keep it, I would probably slather it on my partner more than myself. I'll have to spend more time with it before I make my verdict.
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Jasmine Absolute and Champaca Petals.
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Moss and River Silt.
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Sugar-dusted and overflowing with Luxardo maraschino cherries and a hint of blackberry.
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I am reviewing the scent after I sprayed it on a paper towel, but will update this post with throw and longevity in wet and dry hair if I do end up testing it out in my hair. I bought a bottle of this hoping I would love it just as much as Dragon Bouffant HG, which was a Dragon Con exclusive of yore that sold out pretty quickly. My bottle of that one is not long for this world, so I am hoping to find another cherry hair gloss that could fill that void when it is gone. Based off of the notes, I thought that this would be a sure win and was the Dragon Con exclusive that I was most looking forward to this year. But you know when there's a descriptor in a scent and you're not sure if it is just poetic fluff or an actual note? Well, when I originally read the description and the reviews from people who sniffed it at the con, I had figured that the fluorescent lighting was just poetic fluff. But it's not. And it's a note that hovers over the rest of the scent. What does the fluorescent lighting note smell like? Well, it smells like a firework mixed with what I believe is the glowing amber of the blow mold scents. It was actually my partner who pointed out the firework aspect and said this smells like a sparkler that was just lit. I think that is a very apt description of this accord. I didn't try Pumpkin Sparklers, but I can't help but wonder if Beth happened to use whatever accord she used in that scent and incorporated it into this one, like she has been doing with her perfected lipstick accord in the various make-up scents that have been released since then (according to other reviewers). Beneath the sparkler-esque fluorescent lighting note, there is an absolutely lovely candy-like cherry note accompanied by the sugar crystals and a dry-smelling vanilla liqueur. I'm not really getting the currant, although I suspect it is lurking beneath the cherry. If it were not for the fluorescent lighting note hovering over the other notes, I think I would love this. The cherries and sugar smell exquisite. I'm going to hold onto the bottle and see if I can come to love it despite the unexpected industrial note in this. But if the Lab ever releases another sugary cherry scent sans a sparkler-like note, I will probably end up grabbing it and destashing this one. ETA: I get the firework note only when this is applied to wet hair, but fortunately, the scent doesn't really last very long. In dry hair, after the initial firework blast, I do smell the lovely cherry -- but I can't comment on the longevity because I got busy and forgot to pay attention to that throughout the day.
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Peaches and Smushed Grass.
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Peaches and Smushed Grass Atmosphere Spray
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Atmosphere
This one is different than I had expected, because the smushed grass note has some flowers in it. I'm not exactly sure which type of flowers -- definitely not dandelion -- but I'm smelling some white florals along with the grass, that make this smell somewhat soapy to my nose. I also get some fuzzy peach beneath those notes, but there's not as much peach as I was hoping for, and the atmo itself didn't have great throw when I tested this out on a paper towel last night. This would be best for someone looking for a fresh sort of scent. I haven't decided if I am going to keep my bottle yet -- if I do, I'd probably spray it on wool dryer balls to scent batches of laundry. -
Frankincense and White Tea.
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I mostly bought this for the sun tea note, but I don't mind the other notes. This is mostly a dry black tea scent on me. I am not getting much sweetness from the honey and apricot, which is weird since wildflower honey tends to be a pretty strong note, typically. I don't dislike it, but I also don't love it -- I was expecting this to be a lot sweeter with the fruit and honey notes, and I thought that the sun tea itself would be like a sweet tea note (because my mother would make sun tea with lots of those Red Rose tea bags that came with a figurine when I was a kid and then put a fuckton of sugar in the tea). So I think in this case, my memory of that sun tea influenced my expectations for this scent. I'm going to set this aside for a few weeks and see how this develops after more rest (maybe there will be more fruit and honey?), but at the moment, but I can't see myself reaching for this over other tea scents in my collection.