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    Oh, the strawberries, the strawberries!

    Well, now there's a review but the Seesaw sounds odd...
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    Metallic scents

    Little Sister is Watching You: metallic cherry, ozone, and static Palace of Electricity? Kataniya the Clockwork Woman from the Carnivale: flowers and hot metal, shocked to life with electricity
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    Oranges, Satsumas, Tangerines & Mandarins

    If we're including atmosphere spray, Geisha and Samurai is very much blood orange dominant.
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    Oh, the strawberries, the strawberries!

    Mason and Jenkins Port Jelly? Hollywood Babylon Strawberry Moon, including prototypes Bon Vivant, if fresh Gollettes!
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    Milk and Cream Notes

    This thread has most of the cream and milk scents that I've tried covered but I feel compelled to mention My Baby and a Baby Goat! This is pure milk and soft musk on me. So comforting, milk is so primal in it's soothing quality.
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    When your favorite GC blends are discontinued

    Maybe Jersey Devil with a layered dirt note? The moss/foresty parts were like Jersey Devil to me, but Nocnitsa had those added dirt / soil / earth notes. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a try. Jersey Devil is already a favorite so getting a mossy dirt to go with it may help.
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    What's the best coconut blend?

    Has anyone pimped Tarot: The Star yet for coconut recs? Or, Obatala? Pure coconut milk... Also, Black Pearl, So Below, and Body, Remember are high on my list. And, I just tried Harigata Two, very coconutty For foody coconut, try to find some Spooky, it's delicious I've seen most of these on the sales thread here I second or third recommended Snake Charmer and Death Adder Also, I get coconut from fresh Snow White Hidden Pearls is like Black Pearl minus the hazelnut and add pear,yum. Mine is faint though. Brown Jenkin and Blood Pearl have coconut but it's muted by the other notes, however I like both. I don't smell any coconut in Perversion, but I love it! Lovers and a Fan, definitely has coconut, but I'm not sure if the lemongrass is bearable, I'm hoping it mellows out with some aging. Goblin has dry, husky coconut, but it's overpowered by the patchouli in my opinion, it's much better aged! Shoggoth, is an odd coconut beast, who glows... phosphorescent!
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    Red Musk

    SmutAged Mme Moriarty Fenris Wolf Great Sword of War Lucy, Kissed Hollywood Babylon Bloodlust Bathsheba
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    When your favorite GC blends are discontinued

    Any thoughts regarding a replacement for Nocnitsa? I love the smell of moss in a forest, at night?
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    Ambergris

    A Specific Aberration has shot to the top of favorite scents and I think it is due to the ambergris! I think the Lab's ambergris accord is similar to the white amber accord I love in The Girl and Hunger Moon too. So, if I can necrobump this thread, I'd love to hear about newly discovered ambergris (or Grey amber) blends that are beloved.
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    Springtime scents

    Necro bump. I know Spring is still technically two and a half weeks away, but it's been unseasonably warm here courtesy of La Niña. What are some good Spring scents? Of course I am digging out last year's Shunga and Rose Red will be worn, Budding Moon, and Peony Moon. Fairy Thorn seems a clear choice. I'd love more inspiration.
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    Vampiric scents / gothic heroine scents

    My faves: Count Dracula (from the long ago Halloween series, Order of the Dragon) Lucy, Kissed (also old, from the Post) Carfax Abbey from Order of the Dragon for a vampire's castle
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    Tuberose

    I second the recommended Ava and Butterflies Flowers and Jewels Attending and add two of my favorite oils: Stardust and Radiance of the Opium Dream
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    Stekkjarstaur

    This thread does not need my review but I feel compelled to express my love. I mean, I'd be exaggerating only a little bit by saying that I heard angels singing when I opened this. This smells like marshmallow cream, the ice cream topping, but no dairy products here. Then there is the fabric note. I can describe this as more wool like than linen. There is a similarity to the pillowcase note, in Sticky Pillowcase. But more wooly. The drydown is exquisitely vanilla plus wool. Which doesn't sound appealing but it is. So, this oil, unaged (I let it rest a week, but otherwise it is quite fresh) on my skinistry, is Vanilla that is foody nonfoody, sans butter, sans cake, sans crust, with a modest dose of sugar, and a hint of wooly fabric. I'm amazed at how the wool has a texture, created olfactorily. Which is not technically even a word. I just made it up, that is how inspired by the majesty I'm feeling here. If you wanted pure unadulterated marshmallows without any milk, butter or other foody complexity or burnt notes, this is your grail. Needless to say, I totally love this and purchased an unprecedented amount of back ups. I never want to run out and imagine aging will just make the vanilla sublime. Don't even get me started on the layering possibilities/mind blown. The sillage is respectable, but they won't smell this across the room. The lasting power is quite respectable too for such a young oil. I predict aging will improve both of these parameters. I think that the wool note adds needed complexity to the simplicity of the sugary marshmallow topping. Epic fucking delicious!, which is my buzz phrase of highest praise.
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    Oak blends?

    Oak Moon...
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    Osmanthus

    Fairy Bites is nice for a blend with osmanthus.
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    Osmanthus

    I found single oil of osmanthus on Eden botanical website, quite reasonable. I'm considering an order, I think it would be even more affordable to buy and split if anyone else is interested...
  18. La Ronde Du Sabbat Satan Summoning his Legions Satan Starting from Uthuriel's Speer Pan Twardowski and the Devil Witchcraft Scene Mars Corotiacatus Midnight Mass Autumn Fancies (grass) Autumn Coolness (grass) Interfector Prosperous Flowers of the Elegant Twelve Seasons Doc Constantine Organ Grinder Visions of Autumn VII Looming Spectre of Inutterable Horror Ian This is Your Wilderness Streets of Detroit Wild Indigo Duskywing Ichabod Crane Tatie Bogie Cuchulain Fight with the Sea Marche Funebre Graveyard Dirt Dawn: Cernnunos Young Pine Saplings WILF The Christmas Tree phobia scent from 2014 Yule that I cannot spell If you like musk, Faunalia Bloodlust Bonbon Memory of Primal Secrets I'm a chic, but I do love masculine scents, especially leather, incense and wood These are from more or less the last 5 years
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    ISO *Perfect* Winter Scent!

    Hunger Moon is my frosty Winter sky scent. No berries, mint, holiday spice or pastries. Just the smell of the cold sky with a hint of ozone. I've tried many, many Winter scents in my quest to find that crystalline, pure sky scent like the space between the stars. This one does it for me, maybe it is what you're searching for...
  20. Any of the BPALZ dirt blends feature a prominent petrichor note?
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    Pears - different BPAL pear scents

    Blue Moon 06 was a nice pear, not sure how hard it is to find
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    Père Noël

    This is an Insta bottle purchase for me. In vitro: oranges! The oil is orange too. Wet: sweet orange oil and zingy, effervescent tangerine! Early dry: Each of the notes are discernable, orange/tangerine, anise, candy sweet lavender, cookies Drydown: Father Christmas dries to slightly sweet pizzelle cookies. Lavender candies are like the Belfana note. Final analysis: The notes are all present but combine to smell like a tray of delicious treats. This is perfect. The pizzelle cookies are dead ringers, slightly sweet with just a hint of anise. If you liked La Belfana and Sugar Cookie, this should be a no-brainer. I'd love it if the sillage was stronger, but aging could improve that. The only question I have to ask is do I need multiple bottles or not?
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    Pears - different BPAL pear scents

    Pleasant Embrace, a Shunga from last year's (2015) Lupers was lovely, but hard to find, as it went out of stock before most people could test their decants. LA Belle au bois Dormant is beautiful and easily obtained as it is general catalog, which is easily overlooked
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    Haute Macabre smell alikes

    Hi! I'd recommend trying Antikythera mechanism, Haloes, Liz (Hellboy series) and Sachs. For related, consider Dee, Tombstone, Le Serpent Qui Danse, Whip, Perversion, White Rider...
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