RoseThornAndOak
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White Sandalwood, Purple Orchid, and Tuberose
RoseThornAndOak replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Light, dusty wood, agreed, like incense, with a dusky floral, a tad peppery like carnation, a rich, deep purple (heh Deep Purple). The tuberose is not the usual indolic kind, I get something vinyl-like, waxy, a little plastic here and there, but not bad, overall more floral than artificial. I picture the petals, but also the pistils and pollen. Springy, purple dusky floral incense. A little like Midnight on The Midway w/o the musk and rain, more in mood than the notes being very similar. Hard to get the carnival association out of my head, maybe this is a lady at the carnival in the 40s or 80s, when waxy florals were more vogue, it's dusk on the midway before the flowers have closed up for the night and that storm hits, and someone is burning sandalwood incense to keep the skeeters away. I dig it. -
I found a lovely one at Maryland Renaissance Faire! They are called Silk Road Traders and also do custom blends. They did a Tonka, Wisteria, and Nag Champa for me and it is divine! Their straight up Nag champs is gorgeous. For BPAL, Charcoal, Champaca Resin, and Tobacco Absolute is 100% chef's kiss. An Opiate Vapor is not 100% champy, but it's got swag! Hexennacht's Spirit Temple is also soo soo good along with Champanilla. You might also like dragon's blood anything by Sunrise Soap Co, it came across champy to me! Edited to note they also have a Nag Champa scent. Theyre both champy! I've got the Goose Moon Nag Champa & Gardenia duet coming in the mail as well as the Jasmine and Champaca one, here's hoping they're lovely!
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Yae it be like Lyonesse a bit! It has a bit more of an ozoney edge and less, maybe bready's the word but kinda not. Like arrow, I shoulda maybe got more. It's a lovely smoothed out aquatic with cool notes not unlike Lady of Shalott, but with less green floral, more vanilla and fabric notes, a bit like silk, a bit like polyester (but not unpleasant in it's polyesterness), and a bit like fresh laundry/Boober. If you like cotton flower notes, this is similar/adjacent. The moss here is understated. It brings to mind playing in a fresh pool of clear rainwater, not yet muddied, it's still raining, and you're wearing a silky new pretty outfit but said skip it and jumped in because YOLO, and your vanilla perfume is mingling with all of it. Another win! Huzzah!
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Okay this maiden has just touched down from her flight, so we'll see how she fairs many a Spring to come, but, oof her entrance...or en-trance... Poinsettia Gown took off her hot, stuffy, red taffeta, to reveal a sylvan dress that moves like the air, shimmers in white and pale gold, bedewed in moonlight, her skin turning luminous on contact with that olde orb's gentle beams. This is a wild and free, springtime, Elfen Gown. I don't find it as strong on the cream as PG, I suppose her preferred moisturizer in Spring is dew captured in elfcups mixed with cream elixir. Nothing too tangy either, like in some milk notes. The sandalwood is not heavy or sharp, not even too dry, bairly a whisper of it with the vanilla smoothing it and the other notes out. I do not find the vines too green or forward either, more hidden and shy, letting the blooms fluorish and take in the night. This is a different honeysuckle than I'm used to. Less headshop incense/frag oil, more fresh, sweet, and with more depth. Alhough I have yet to find a hyperrealistic honeysuckle, I do like this more than most other honeysuckle blends. The florals read white, nocturnal, and glimmery with a bit of powder, so it still has that elegance of PG. Some might find it too powdery, but I love it's use here. Oh Poinsettia, she's running with the wolves tonite she's treading the trail of elves, barefeet, let her hair down like the mist across the pond Through sweet blooms and soft-shimmered woods, she besmittens all forest creatures with her joy and fairy abandon. TL;DR: Spring Poinsettia Gown, dewy white floral vanilla cream w/ lite green & woods
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At first, this looked to be just a lily & rose scent, but looking at the notes tags, there is: white amber, lily, calla lily, orris, rose, rose sandalwood, sandalwood That changes things! I get a fresh, crisp lily note (different than the lily note in say Karl Lagerfeld's Sun, Moon, and Stars and DMP's Mourning Glory), on top of creamy white amber, with a bit of light wood underneath, and a thread of bright rose. Maybe tea rose? Possibly red, or white? The high soprano one that edges on soap but is overall pretty chill and dewy. This creates an atmosphere that makes me think of movies where some dude chats up some chick that's wearing a floofy dress on a white painted veranda overlooking a flower garden in the moonlight and that's where they fall in love. Could be 1940s, could be 1940s trying to be 1870s, could be 2024 trying to be 1812. I don't know, that's the vibe. Fresh dewy florals over vanilla-like white amber and sandalwood, miraculously not too powdery. Maybe a hint of orris, but honestly I forgot it was in this. As far as spooky creamy rose/florals go, this is up there with Carved Wooden Bridal Shop, Millarca, My Soul Acquiesced, Tomie, A Spirit, Katie, and Love Lay Upon Her Eyes for me, and I do like it better than LLUHE, the white amber is less feral in this.
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I get mostly fresh, meaty, coconut flesh (not the overtly sweet or plasticky kind, more like cracking open a fresh one), a nice creamy rice note, kinda like rice pudding but again not too sweet, and a little bit of fresh, dry ice cubes in a glass instead of slush (Roseus is right no pine or mint). The milky note is not sour or tangy at all to me and along with the vanilla (lite) holds this together making it creamy. The snow dude looked really sad, so we invited him to a party and had chilly coconut rice drinks over ice and it was awesome!
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I'll enthusiastically wake this scent from it's watery grave! I somehow overlooked this. It is buried on the main website, under shiny new waves, but still available, and being that the vibe is aquatic + Poe, uhhh, YES? So let's dig em up, says I! I get zingy aquatic, bright and fresh, with a bit of that mint mentioned above to create electricity, but not so much like it is in Shattered. This is salty, but not in a popcorn way, the sea salt way (both are great, but leaving this here for distinction). There's a bit of wood underneath, smooth, not too sharp, no smoky bonfire, or piney notes, more polished ship decking. Ocean waves, I'd agree with the above, this is closer to Y'ha-nthlei and Calico Jack on the fresh cologne vs murky scale. This is brighter than CJ, which has more wood and reads slightly sweeter, as well as Mary Read, which has more spice and grit. This is a bit more refined and polished like a Navy officer. I'd put this up there with Calico Jack, Mary Read, and Frederic, however being this is a bit more genteel, I'll declare it a naval victory over a pirate one. Huzzah!
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Thuy is so right, no screechy DL! No pepper! ITI, this brings to mind what I remember the spices in Samhain were like, but sans patchouli, like the DL replaces it, keeping it grounded. Deep, dark, autumn spices, but with something sweet and rich to hold it together. This might be a good substitute it Samhain doesn't work on you, although I don't have it anymore to give a fair comparison. Dried down to a mostly spiced honey on me. I prefer the initial stages but oof will this make a great room scent.
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ITI juicy sweet, like a cross between Juicy Fruit candy and, lush juicy fruit, with cinnamon warmth and glow. It conjures up the DCD Aion album cover. Sadly goes sour on my skin, as pomegranate is wont to do. If you fair well with the notes, this might be a gorgeous cinnamon pomegranate pomander/cider blend. I'd 100% buy this as an atmos if it came back as one.
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This is mostly a powdery floral musk on me for the longest time. Goes a little plasticky fruity floral on me after a while. I wish I had a more glowing review for this but glad I had a chance to try it.
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Ooo this is nice! Upon application and for a few hours, this is a sweet vanilla lace type rose, with a hint of wood to anchor it. It has a Luper feel and reminds me of To Lallie, Rose Petals, Marshmallow, and Afterglow HG, and, to an extent, Katrina Van Tassel and Roses, Pearls and Diamonds in that rose plus not quite gourmand but sweetened aspect. Later on, I do get the Little Wooden Doll quite a bit more, the wood notes coming out and the lace and rose receding (the sweetness receding more than the rose) with a clean and refined feel. They're not dark heavy woods, but add depth and grace. Kinda like Tovenares at this stage, less powdery, and more sweet rose woods soap. I prefer the initial stages, but I am quite fond of the clean rose soap vibe as well, there's a touch of the aquatic + rose blends here, and those remain some of my favorite BPALs. Romantic, classic, let's go to dates to tea houses, play the harpsichord, and have picnics at historical places and stuff. Glad I went for it. TL;DR: Vanilla lace tea rose w/ hint of woods opening and for a few hours. Soft woods aquatic rose soap w/ hint of vanilla later on.
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TL;DR: cologny woods w/ white resinous overtones Uhhh, herro? No one here to tempt the hour of dehhhth? This reminds me strongly of DS & Durga's Mahogany Kora out of the gate. Clean sharp, cologny woods. Where that goes a bit more chocolatey and warm, this goes even more cologney and reads a bit more fresh pirate than weathered and seasoned pirate. I don't get much of a smoky, charred note, but the sandalwood is a variety that does go a bit sharp on me. White amber is not very soft or creamy here and lends more of a blinding white light/fancy lift. I also don't get much of a cedar vibe, not in a pencil or cedar chest way, at any rate, just more of a wooded atmosphere. I'm not sure what cade is supposed to smell like, but Fragrantica says it is a "tar-like, smoky, phenolic fragrance". There is something that is a bit gummy, chewy, and resinous, but not sweet. The moss takes this in a slight fougere/fern direction, but it's not green though, more if fougere was white. Although I don't like the sharp bite, this is nice overall and very accessible. If you enjoy more commercial, traditionally masculine woody blends, want something safe for work, or go out in the world meeting folk and, hopefully, not your doom, this is a good, unisex blend. But it is also a nice staying in, cozy blend. It makes me think of a well-kept, clean, upscale cabin in a forest somewhere very cold:
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Brown leather is prominent, with creamy notes and a touch of fir throughout. It goes between really nice and a little offputting on my skin for a while. Settles down to a nice sweet soft brown leather with a Christmas edge.
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Ok HerbGirl, I'm glad I'm not losing my damn mind here. This is a stronkedy stronk stronkerson spice, that is stronk. Cumin ain't far off, like at all. My bottle is cloudy AF, there's speckles, I'm confused and WTH. It's like, the most animalic black musk you have ever encountered, and cranked past 11, with spices amping out the wahoo. They don't mingle at all. I'm gonna hide and let this rest. I almost went with just this one from the Krampus update, and I'm glad I didn't and took a chance on Fourteenth, because that one went better on me.
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Ooo this is nice. In the bottle, it is toasted and not super sweet, the patchouli base is there, but this doesn't read as errmagerd patchouli, but there is a base there that is dark and gritty. The nuts are also not too sweet like nut butter, this is roasted and dry. There is cacao running throughout, dry again, with champaca adding +3 glamour and keeping this from being strictly foody. On the skin the toasty foody notes chill out and the patch sits down. The champaca brings this into Melancholy of Goths territory, and I really like it. It's a nice glamorous incense champaca with a touch of the other notes now, although I feel like the other notes will come out in time. This feels like 13 decided to go full goth.
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Druids Cutting Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon
RoseThornAndOak replied to Seajewel's topic in Limited Editions
Twigs, light evergreens, savory herbs, roasted nuts, acorns, all dried, and almost a hint of distant smoke. The juniper doesn't go in a gin direction and doesn't go weird on me. I picture a cutting board with dried offerings, sitting ready for a gathering, in a forest where the trees are boney and clackling amongst themselves. No snow, but, there is a cool freshness in the air, maybe from the dew. The air is still, everything surrounding is in shades of brown and soft green. It almost wants to go pencil shavings, but doesn't quite get there. There's a somewhat balsalmic quality, kind of how oak goes in that dried tobacco direction but there's a sweet/savory/almost syrupy thing going on. Not a lot of berries, maybe dried. It dries down to mostly soft woods and herbs. I fully expected to destash this, but I really like it. It almost feels like a TAL, but I'm glad for the label art. This makes me want to listen to Tull's Songs from The Wood and dance in the forest. Layers beautifully with this year's Wolf Moon. -
Heavy resinous frankincense & myrrh with powder and ambrette. It goes weird on me and reminds me of the inside of a vintage velvety box from our Christmas decorations that, wait that's not right. My Dad has a little wooden log cabin incense burner that is super cool, and this reminds me of that, but I prefer the smell of that. This is nice in a way, but so heavy and strong and powdery. I prefer Rose Cross. Room scent!
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A frottle from the Lab! I get Pine-Sol and cedar, so think woodsy and clean, athough I can see something citrusy in this. It makes a pleasant clean atmos scent.
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The dirt note is prominent with some purple florals surrounding. I was hoping for a graveyard with flowers at night sort of vibe, more emphasis on the florals and maybe a ghostly amber glow and some Snow White or cold Skadi snow. This is more astringent dirt with something not unlike dill. Not for me but I'll use it up for a room spray.
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2024 version. Vanilla cream, a bit smeary and like white makeup, just a tad sweeter with something a bit dark underneath. Mmm. Fits the vibe. Layering with Black Lipstick, you get Corpse- ...sorry errr, Demon Warpaint, But Stealth Paint. Or Work Paint, corpse paint you can wear to work. Alright, give me a full. This next song's called, Black Wallets Weeping in Despaired Reveries.
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Guys, this is soo spot on. It's that orris-like waxy, dry AF black lipstick straight from the Halloween store. This used to be the only way we could get it in the early 00s without much internet. The online stores, like Black Rose UK and Goodgoth would carry similar, with some variety, but that was about it. Nowadays, there's all types of black lipsticks with varying tastes and fragrances, but this is the old school black lipstick with a hint of clove cigarette. Not just, clovy clove spice, but like you just pulled out a Djarum black and sniffed it before lighting and annihilating your lungs with it. I love this so much and layering with Clown White and soon, Gingerbread & Leather.
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Ahhh, the Jamestown weed. Apparently, during Bacon's Rebellion some dudes got pretty riled up on it. I used to spot these little trumpets around the edge of the corn field growing up and stick my nose in the purple veined white petals, not knowing anything about the plant other than they had these cool spiky pods, and they seemed magical and faerylike. They did smell good overall, like a cross between snappy green stems, and a heady sweetness similar to gardenia kinda, just more green and more like drying vines. I'd say, 70% dried vines, not unlike tomato or pumpkin vines, 30% night blooming floral, sweet and soporific. This is much stronger, and although I do get a green vine type note, it's not as natural smelling as walking by an actual withery datura vine, so no tomato or pumpkin-like vine sadly, but it's nice. Here the floral takes over, maybe 95% white floral, 5% green. The floral here is heady, yet not quite like what I remember. This rests somewhere between white lily, gardenia, moonflower, and white rose, like a powdery yet waxy white floral, night blooming. There's something slightly vanillic and sweet, like how Le Sepent Qui Danse has that bit of vanilla. I picture a white flower powdering her cheeks, putting on some moon glitter, and become a narcotic faery menace to society. So it kinda doesn't fit the vibe but kinda does? Overall, I really like it. To me, it is most similar to Young Woman Powdering Herself which, while indeed powdery, is not the most powder puff POAHHHH thing I've ever smelled, it's classy, elegant, and gorgeous, and highlights the floral aspect. This is the wild faery cousin, or the Young Woman powdered herself, then went on a twilit, moonlit date down the lane with her beau in a pretty white dress, and enjoyed herself some mystery flowers. I feel like it would layer well with Starlight and Spidersilk, so I'll probably get a full before these come down!
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Ok I need to know about turtle vs crab. Annd how did I sleep on this scent so long? It is aquatic, for sure. There is a bit of ozone but it is softer than many, not electric and zingy. I think the other notes are tempering it. The leather is not strong or chemical. It's smoother than black leather, although it's not as soft as say the leather in Rogue, Black Haus, The Montebank, or John Locke, although it's edging there and miiight be the same leather note. I think the aquatic notes keep this from sloshing too much in that direction (I find those sweeter). There are some spices, the wood and kelp are present and salty, just enough to add to the atmosphere. The musk, if I were to wager a guess, maybe a clean musk, blue musk (maybe, not quite), or aquatic musk of some kind? It's not red, black, brown, grey, Egyptian, animalic, russet, African, golden, or skin musk. It's just nice, fresh, and clean with a badass edge. Yeah, I'm getting a full.
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Ok, it's pumpkiny pumpkin, with some dark chocolate, and peanut butter, then when you sniff close, that's when the bourbon gets you. It's like the fancy drink your aunt is excited to make you on Halloween, all like "it tastes just like pumpkin fudge! You can't taste the bourbon 'til it's too late! Hahah!" *shimmies off, keels, steps on cat* It's surpisingly fruity on the drydown, how pumpkin can have a fruity glow. There's not much chocolate now, or peanut butter, or booze for that matter, just a general sweetness surrounding the pumpkin, similar to brown sugar maybe but yeah a bit fudgy I guess, with a spike of a lil somethin somethin that you might not know was booze. Tad smoky? Hmm. It's nice. I probably don't need a full but I recommend for a spooky good time. It's December and these are putting me in the Halloween mood again.
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The label art is giving "it's autumn 1997, The Mummer's Dance just dropped, the radio is still playing all the hits from Mellon Collie and we're heading to the corn maze and the Ren Faire" so naturally, I had to try it despite my hangups about vetiver and honey. In the vial: sweet, vaguely gourmand, warm kinda bready, kinda outdoorsy, yellow brown in hue. It kind of reminds me of the Lab's mushroom note, buttery, vegetal, gourmandish. The maple leaf is not the normal dead leaf note, so no green pepper. I don't really get honey, booze, vetiver, pumpkin (other than rind + vegetal + gourmand, but it doesn't read quite like pumpkin? hard to explain), but it is a little like cornbread. There's also nothing barnyard about the hay thankfully. It's just a nice warm, autumn goumand, sweet, but not overtly so. The final drydown is fresh, warm, autumn air that is a smidge ozonic, just enough to lift it, without any smoke notes, with a lingering hay and corn husk sweetness. This would layer beautifully with a smoky fragrance, yet I'm glad to have something autumnal and atmospheric that is also wearable that isn't smoky, for the variety. So does it fit the vibe? Yes, but to make it 1997, I would burn some Wild Berry Lilac incense or wear the fragrance oil over it, which is my signature (very similar to B&BW Fresh Cut Lilacs), and it would be autumn heaven to me, as we would pick up the incense on the way to the corn maze. I could also see lavender being a beautiful layering option for this. Verdict, I'll probably get a bottle.