Myria Jean

Snake Oil with acai berry, amber, cardamom, white sandalwood, neroli, and smoked vanilla. The açai berry is dark, deep, and bittersweet. It's the strongest note. Neroli is a lovely floral touch on a background of Snake Oil and smoked vanilla. Snake Oil never smelled snakey to me, but this manages to be both gorgeous and reptilian.

Named in honor of the most notorious female pirate to ever set sail. Wicked, cruel, beautiful, intelligent, resourceful and dangerous: a true role model. A blend of Indonesian red patchouli, red sandalwood, and frankincense. A million thanks to Juliana Williamson-Page for inspiration! In the bottle, this smells sweeter than the Anne Bonny perfume oil, or at least sweeter than I remember it. I use bath oils on my skin in the shower - I think the scents would be better blended if I used it in the bath. As it is, I get a good hour where I keep wondering where the hamster cage is until it settles down. After that it turns into a warm spicy dry scent that is lovely on a cool day. I'm glad I got two bottles and now I think I should try Patientia. Anne Bonny reminded me how much I like sandalwood.

Ruined Roses is how I discovered I like oakmoss. It's lovely. Beauty, The Aggrieved has Bulgarian oakmoss and it works really well with the tobacco note.

On me, this is Snake Oil with extra powder and an acrid note. I suspect the teakwood. I gave the decant to my ex and he texted me "*This is just an imp of Black Silk that someone spilled Ovaltine on.*" (Black Silk is his HG so...I guess that's positive .)

On me this is a dark, smoky, slightly floral strawberry. Note though that I amp vetiver and most berry notes. This is a gorgeous rainy day scent.

Lights of Men's Lives, Pumpkin Lace, Jareth, Relics of Herself, Blacker than the Raven Wings of Midnight

White sugar and meringue sprinkled with cacao. This is less sugary than I was expecting - the cacao is nicely bitter and something smells a bit buttery. I got this for my daughter, but it might be more appropriate for me. I'm not sure yet. It's lovely though. ETA: No, not kid-appropriate and not something that works for me either.

Clean, floral, and herbal. The lily and muguet smell almost like lilacs. I really love this and am so glad I took a chance on a bottle. This will be lovely with Winter Stars.

I get a good balance of rich clean honey, patchouli, and oudh. The oudh makes this feel like a wintertime IBT to me.

This starts out with strong mint that fades almost instantly. It's a sugary slightly minty vanilla musk. I adore it.

I just got my bottle of Lick It with Consent and it reminded me of this thread. It's simple and much, much prettier than I expected.

The Cat is dark musk, honey, cedar, and benzoin. Goblin has already been mentioned. This World, Where Death Reigns is black roses and myrrh (LE). Lights of Men's Lives lists the wax and smoke of candles...lol...more helpfully, it definitely has the beeswax note, amber, and probably some vanilla. Rogue is black leather, hemp, and rosin. Neutral lists "flawless skin musk." Hunger has black narcissus, orange blossom, and vanilla. Kabuki has cherry, red musk, and star anise. (At this point I'm just going down the GC descriptions on the Lab's site)

Contrary to other reviews, I find this much stronger than most hair glosses - my bottle is as strong as Snake Oil HG and its throw is just as impressive. I shall use it sparingly. This scent knocked me over - not just with its strength and beauty, but its *reality.* I knew it smelled like a rose, thorns and dew and all, and I thought I understood that, but I really didn't get it until I smelled it. In addition to all the rose scents, I think this would go well with resin scents and possibly even berry scents.

Pine needles, black pitch, and golden-red pine sap with Oman frankincense, champaca absolute, and styrax. Soft incense with a little bite. It has light to moderate throw. I really love this.

The Phoenix, Having Burst Her Shell has really pretty orange in it. At the moment orange and tangerine are the strongest notes on me, though I do tend to amp fruits.

Goblin has a reputation of being a bit rough, but when I found out I don't dislike patchouli I got an imp from the Lab with the intention of aging it. That was two weeks ago. My imp is half gone. I'm gonna need lots. I can tell I will like it better aged, but even after two weeks the patchouli has smoothed out a lot. It's also starting to last longer - it was disappearing after about an hour and leaving me with only coconut and benzoin. Now I get lovely smoky patchouli for hours. It's a smooth, sweet,velvety smell that two different people have insisted to me must be amber. Far from being too much patchouli, I want more of it. It's my new favorite cuddly scent.

Thanks! I will go look.

Blacker than the Raven Wings of Midnight. The patchouli is so, so different than any other I've smelled - even my supersensitive, patchouli-despising friend thinks it smells amazing. It's LE, but currently available.

Velvet is really powdery on me - I had an imp that I held onto for at least two years and it never got better. For Chimera, I amp cinnamon horribly unfortunately. Just messaged someone about a bottle of Golgothan Myrrh SN that they are selling and am tremendously excited

I have absolutely fallen in love with the myrrh in This World, Where Death Reigns. Anyone have recommendations for myrrh-dominant blends that are not churchy incense?

I have never tried Black Lace, but some people are getting vanilla incense from Blacker than the Raven Wings of Midnight. ETA: Just saw that you were looking for GC, sorry! But at least it's currently available.

On me, the strongest note here is lilac, then white tea, then beeswax. It has moments of greatness and moments of "What was I doing again?" which probably means it will be better in a couple months. No bottle, but I will enjoy my decant.

The wet stage was strong rose and powdery myrrh. Dry, it's now myrrh, some rose, and I swear that's the same beautiful amber as in A Bright Flame Between Two Jacinths. I think there is dark musk too. It's like a dark sweet rose in a beam of sunlight.

A dark smoky orange that isn't too sweet or too bitter. It's warm and comforting on a rainy day while making me feel like I should bundle up and go play in the mud. I did not expect to like this - I got the decant for my partner - and now I want lots.

This is a nice amber that reminds me of the amber in Hesiod's Phoenix. The cedar keeps it from being as floaty as that one. The other notes are hiding in the background but I bet they will come out with age. This is really lovely and complex, but again like Hesiod's Phoenix, this is more of an elegant, dressed-up scent than the scents I usually wear.