Soupy Twist
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Mostly a juicy green leaf or stem — dandelion sap, cut grass, cut leaves.
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I think I like this a little better than the original! A cozy spruce pine with the sweetness of cranberry.
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Sweet green lilac in the bottle. Goes on as a gorgeous lilac, but the green plantiness of the leaves takes over quickly. Ends up being too green for me, alas. Zero blackberry.
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HOOOOO CHERRY with a clove dusting in the bottle. Goes on as fuck, cherry, so much cherry. But I have to remember that cherry, like almond, never ever lasts on my skin. And so the resin of the laudanum appears and mixes with the clove until it becomes dental anesthetic, and I’m done. Gotta add this to my list of “stop breaking your heart with this” notes.
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2009 version: Oily. How in the fuck do you make something smell oily, Beth? honestly. Oily snow in the bottle. Goes on as the minty snow note (not the Snow White one), but sour — maybe that’s the ozone? It dries into a spruce, but this develops an oily note to it. It smells greasy. No grapes.
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Elegba (which is Werther's butterscotch candies on me) plus French Tobacco SN. If you dig the Lab's French Tobacco, this is your jam.
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Condensed milk and something slightly sour or off in the bottle. On application I realize it’s toasted coconut. This dries into a honey note which cycles between the Lab’s perfumy and foodie honeys — the foodie one is too cloying for me. A bit of the toastiness sticks around. I absolutely see where zankoku_zen is getting Dana O’Shee vibes.
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Odin smelled very masculine to me, and the herbs might work with the fir aftershave. Some pine scents: Loup Garou Knecht Ruprecht (just re-released this Yule!) 21 (gin, juniper, they're related) White Fir single note Take the Moon
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Cypress and juniper, juniper and cypress. Nuffin’ else. If you like cypress, this is your jam. I don’t like cypress. how come my scent twins upthread got all the other pretty notes?
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Goat’s milk in the bottle. Goes on as milk and… something toasty? Porridge? Oatmeal with scalded milk? Ghee? Very similar to Halfling. But once it dries, it morphs completely into the Lab’s gorgeous perfumy honey note which I adore.
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Sage and a harsh, freshly-broken juniper branch in the bottle. Goes on as that fresh harsh juniper — like I’m running through a pine forest and breaking branches as I go. This eventually softens around the edges, but the sweetener is weird. Maybe that’s the aquatic/ivy? not what I expected that to smell like. I apparently got all the pine, but not one I enjoy. Not working for me.
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FIZZZZZZZZZZZZ!! of champagne in the bottle. I fucking love Beth’s fizzy note. Some lovely orange and then peach combine in the drydown to sweeten and soften the edges. The whole thing doesn’t last very long, alas — the Lab's orange note doesn't last long on my skin, so that may be just me. Lots of fun while it's around.
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Brûlée in the bottle, but it goes on and stays on as a pleasant dry cinnamon spice blend. No pumpkin, no vanilla. It’s not even “pumpkin pie spice,” because there’s no nutmeg or allspice; it’s mostly cinnamon. It’s a nice blend, very accurate and with plenty of depth and longevity; just a bit monotone.
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2018 version: Sweet perfumy apples (like the Lab's perfumy honey) with a touch of vanilla. Holy crap is this a bottle. Not much longevity on first test but I’ll retry it.
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2018 version: A savory kind of orange in the bottle. The best way I can describe how it goes on is “the bottom of a baked pound cake which is heavy on the butter.” Then some OOF orange liqueur comes in, which is good for a bit, but once it’s dried the whole thing devolves into a mess of gross flowers, and I’m done.
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2018 perfume oil: Maraschino cherry in the bottle. Goes on as an intense, concentrated, almost liqueur black cherry. Wet there’s coconut and something slightly dusty — maybe the saffron? A little stale amaretto creeps in as it dries, but the entire thing fades quickly, which the Lab’s almond always does on my skin. I like it, but I didn’t expect it to last.
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Two of my favorite aquatics are both Liliths and neither are supposed to be aquatics : Storyboard: The Tempest (Ivy and lime rind, marigold and moss) which opens with a grassy note but dries as a beautiful cool blue-green aquatic Potamides (Honeysuckle and honey, water lilies and white sage) which is an aquatic lily of the valley Amsterdam (Tulips, peony, fresh flowing water and crisp green grasses) is also a nice combination of grass and aquatic. My notes say The Sea Foams Milk (Milk cresting on an ocean wave) is an aquatic also, but I didn't care for it.
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Toffee and brûlée in the bottle. Goes on as a wet, molasses-like brûlée. There's more of a heavy spice mix (cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.) as it dries. Finishes as boozy, slightly dry brûlée notes. Excellent longevity. A lot like Sugar Skull, so if you don't have a bottle of that, absolutely grab this.
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Cherry-almond and wet chocolate in the bottle. Goes on as cherry-almond, which is a surprise. As it dries, the best way I can describe the note is “the scent in a backpack after you remove leftovers.” It’s airy, and food-adjacent, but not actually food. Fuck me, Barrials, I have no idea how you do this. This eventually settles into a stale, bloomed chocolate, which is accurate but not something I want to wear. I don’t get any coffee out of the mix. Ridiculously on point to the story. Just amazing.
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Okay, so you know how there’s “floral vanilla” and “foodie vanilla”? The Lab/Post definitely has “perfumy honey” and “foodie honey.” This is the foodie honey, which is too wet and cloying for me. Not getting any of the salt or biscuit.
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What BPAL would this fictional character wear?
Soupy Twist replied to Flowermouth's topic in Recommendations
something cold (as in undead) but sweet: I'm thinking Grief or Snow White. -
Apple juice with a breath of perfumy sweetness. If I didn’t already have, like, half a dozen bottles of a pure apple note, I’d get this. Delightful.
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A fake, candied grapefruit in the bottle which never reaches my skin, but that's what my skin does with citrus. Goes on as sweet fizzzzzz!! Wet it's all sweet sliced apples, with perhaps a dash of vanilla rounding it out. The honey debuts here — it's the foodie honey, which is a little cloying on me, not the perfumy honey from Honeyed Apple. As it dries, there is absolutely a white floral note — I'm going to agree with the others upthread and say probably plumeria, maybe gardenia, but definitely not tuberose. This is prettier than I expected but I was hoping for honey, apples, and fizz, and none of them stuck around. Oh well. Still a nice floral.
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In the bottle: A light clove, like I'm smelling the actual stem of a physical clove itself. Goes on as a hay or dry grass, which is where it stays. Pleasant, but unremarkable.
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White florals (that gorgeous gardenia/tuberose combination from Swans on the River) in the bottle and on application. I am swooning in this. A green/planty note comes in as it dries, but it doesn't overwhelm, and finishes as the white floral with faint green notes. Similar to the wet stage of Swans, which, oh dear. Imma have to do a death match, because I might get a bottle of this and rehome Swans.