Casablanca
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Wet on skin: Ded red roses -- very ded, very red -- on a pale, woody sandalwood and oud. This is a well-behaved oud. The oud and sandalwood both smell whitened and dry. They remind me of the way white patchouli tends to smell more dry to me than darker patchoulis. This is a pale, dry, and woody Gothic-rose blend.
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Wet on my skin: A here-and-gone hint of cannabis, golden champaca, frankincense, sweet amber, and what I think is the silvery note. It's a cool, silvery metal, like staring into a newly polished silver platter. The silver metal note amps on me during drydown. It starts to veer toward plastic, but still more or less plays nice. This is a curious metallic silver amber-frankincense-champaca blend.
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Fir. Lots of wintery fir. I got a trace of oak, and a sense of a blended cold-weather forest behind the fir and oak. This was mostly chilly fir for me, though. In this way, it reminded me of Third Lash (white fir, olibanum, thyme, and leather) from last year, and other fir winter blends. I'll re-test.
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Black currant tea, dried leaves, nearby hearth. This did not go cake on me at all. I was going to bottle it, but it didn't live on my skin long. Very pretty while it lasted.
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Mulled red wine and syrupy myrrh, maybe a drop of cherry blood. This is a dark and heavy spiced-wine blend.
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Lavender poudh. Lavender and an animalic, slightly fecal oudh. Black oudh strikes again. Once it settles a bit, opium comes out to play. This is opium playing its somnambulistic notes in a lavender-diffused barn.
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In the decant, Lucy's Eyes are all lilac and blue musk. On my wrist: lilac, blue musk, and hey? Pepper? White and black pepper? Suddenly this reminds me so much of the Luper called Initiation Sentimentale (wisteria and white sandalwood with lilac, white tea, champaca, black pepper, benzoin, and white clove). Then some sweet golden amber flows in. Lilac blue musk with peppery spice and golden amber.
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An orchid-gardenia perfumey perfume edged in glass. I get less of a cold ice than a clear glass note, less a chill than a room-temperature crystal. All the crystals from the crystalline amber, maybe. This is a glass perfume bottle, and you can smell the glass and white flowers both. After drydown I find the ti leaf. It helps the blend smell clean. I find a little smoke when I hunt for it. It is faint for me, as though a candle blew out in the next room a while ago. This is a clean, glassy white floral blend.
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Poudh. Sigh. Animalic, fecal oudh and a whiff of leather. The oudh is so strong, I don't really get other notes. I'm in an office and smell like a stable floor, so I should likely wash this off.
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A heavily musky, perfumey orchid blends into golden champaca, creamy vanilla, almond, and amber. I'm so into the golden side of this: champaca, vanilla, almond, and amber. The red musk orchid is not my friend, though.
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This was a salty mess on my skin, but lovely on my friend. Her skin made this an ozone-heavy, salty night fog and soft leather, like a Noir detective in a leather duster wandering seaside streets at night.
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This was quite pretty. I got mainly a very green fig -- not a ripe, brown sort at all -- and cedar. Hints of oakmoss and blended other notes. A fresh early autumn scent, when there's still a lot of green in the woods. Outdoorsy, a bit airy, and sweet.
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This one produced extreme and opposite reactions from my friend and me. Her: Ahhh, that's really good. Me: Ahhh! Ugh! Get it off! (runs to sink) Me: It smells like chemical, tetanus-inducing rust chunks floating in old basement-leak water at the bottom of a bucket. Her: I just like it. 😊
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Dead leaves, something like ivy, and something chemical that faded and were replaced by faint whiffs of black currants and booze. This one didn't quite work on me.
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I had some hopes for this one (hay, chrysanthemums, oak? yes, please!), but it was a chemistry fail for me. I got mainly a pulpy, overripe-to-rotten apple-apricot mush on my skin. Like the mushy bottom of an old fruit bin. I'm already spending too much, so I'll call this a relief. 😎
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This was a pretty desert blend, kind of a springtime southern California. On my skin, it went surprisingly desert floral -- I think it was the cactus nectar. Cactus nectar, sage, and chaparral. Bit of a dry, brushy impression behind the cactus nectar. Desert bees, rejoice.
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Red musk is a one-way train to Hell on my skin. I was dumb and tried this on anyway. After I ran to the sink to wash it off, I tried to process what just happened. Red musk, red musk spice, and smoke. This is one for red musk lovers.
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This was beautiful, one of my favorites from the Weenies this year. Clean, dewy-aquatic grass and white sage. White sage is a favorite note, and it was clear and present here. I got slightly more clean, rain-washed dew and sage than green grass. Fresh and cleansing. This sort of blend usually vanishes quickly on my skin, so I was surprised when this one stuck around awhile. Cool. Bottle-worthy.
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At first this smells like pale serenity. Lavender, palo santo, white sandalwood, and a little rosewood. As it dries on me, though, it turns pale, powdery, and perfumey. This smells white musk does on my skin. Pass.
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I love this one. Cozy and fuzzy are great words for it! I get dusty brown sandalwood, dusty white patchouli, oudh, and clove mainly. The dust is a player, but it's not like the dust note in Quintessence of Dust. I like this dust, even though it tickles the back of my throat. I find the black pepper and vetiver only if I hunt for them. Because of the brown fuzziness, this reminds me of the cute Little Brown Bats common in my area. 🦇🦇🦇 If this lasted longer on me, it would become a bottle. But it flits off fairly quickly, like a bat, or a moth.
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This is delicious, though it went curiously doughy on my skin. It turned almost into a sticky cinnamon bun Snake Oil. It reminded me a little of the honeyed cinnamon of Don't Tell Me Heaven Is Under the Earth, which I love. The Snake Oil was definitely there, slithering around, and I quite liked this combination. Probable bottle.
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One of my favorites from the Weenies I've tried. This is an autumn-spiced, soft, comfy sweater. I seem to get hints of orange and pumpkin that seem to make the "orange" part. They are soft, and not intrusive at all. The sense of orange fruit isn't citrusy and seems part of the pumpkin. I also get some raw sugar blended with the spice. Mm, so good.
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All the sugary apples. Sweet, sugary apples and more apples. Hints of roses and golden wine. This fragrance is like motorboating a pile of sugared apples. It's lovely. I might have enough apple scents, but I'll love my sample.
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Softly golden, half-melted candle wax and polished mahogany, with a hint of leather. This smelled like the golden glow of flickering cream-colored candles in a wood-paneled study. Classy and soothing. This might not be a bottle for me, though, because it didn't last long on my skin.
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Such an airy blend! If you want to meet the Element Air, you could do well with this one... Clean, fresh herbal lavender -- a bit sharp at first -- and soft, herby mugwort.
