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A light, pure scent: white musk, green tea, aloe and lemon.
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Love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family: sun-warmed purple fig, wildflower honey, almond cream, jasmine absolute, mimosa, and bourbon vanilla.
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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.
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Pale lichen, sweet Oman frankincense, moss-covered bark, silver fir needle, golden myrrh, and green patchouli leaf.
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Lupine Musk & Ambrette Seed.
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I will be traveling between 9/25 - 9/27 without my laptop and may be slow to respond to PMs.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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Miel Et Ambre (golden honey and golden amber).
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While previous incarnations of our Pink Moon have been a celebration of the first blooms of spring, this year’s scent is a strawberry smackdown: sugar-swirled strawberry milk with frothed marshmallow cream.
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A fierce rush of pink pepper, carnation, pulsating red berries, and crimson musk. She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, “Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours…”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Strawberry Moon 2024: Green Tea and Green Strawberries
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
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. -
Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play, whose drowsy pow’r divides the nat’ral day: ink-black opoponax absolute, glittering amber, caramelized oud, black styrax, and Oman frankincense.
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Apple Liqueur and Brandy.
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Blackberry and Wild Lilac.
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A splendid shock of crushed lapis, vibrant and beatific: lilac resinoid, dried blueberries and blackcurrant, Oman frankincense, and Styrax tonkinensis.
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Blackberry and Lime Rind.
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The very morbiest: ink-black musk, opium tar accord, clove bud, and myrrh.