Lucchesa
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Hi, lovelies! Since I wore Aziraphale yesterday, today I wore Crowley. I did about a 40-minute walk to the drugstore to pick up some photos I’d ordered. I got sweaty, which is kind of my goal. Crowley is still faintly hanging on, many hours later. My perfume was definitely the sexiest part of my day.
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@Seajewel Welcome back! I’m so glad you were able to run yesterday! I don’t know that scent and would probably avoid it because champaca is one of my death notes, but the name is awesome. This morning I gave a talk on the National Gallery in London. I wore Aziraphale because it seemed like someplace he would enjoy hanging out, and I was showing several slides of angels. Later I got in a quick rain-free walk to the library to return my books, about 25 minutes.
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Fragment 38 was a frimp in a swap, and it's much fruitier than I would have expected from the notes. It's candy-sweet and almost citrusy, and while the olive blossom doesn't go to soap as it often does on my skin, I never get the wood and amber combo I was hoping for. Sweet, summery, and higher pitched than I normally wear. It definitely has that high-end spa vibe that others have mentioned.
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Witchy workout friends, hello!!! I'm sorry I haven't been checking in. I've been exercising pretty regularly, and wearing perfume pretty regularly. But today I forgot to put any perfume on before heading out to play pingpong for an hour with a friend. In the brilliant December sunshine. In Seattle, where the sun never shines in December. Win! Now I'm testing Leather, Indigo Incense & Red Amber and Dark Chocolate with Sun-dried Tomato, Pink Peppercorn, Thyme & Comfrey. I hope you're all doing well -- @VetchVesper, maybe a 20 minute walk would be a good break from decanting?
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Dark Chocolate with Sun-Dried Tomato, Pink Peppercorn, Thyme and Comfrey
Lucchesa replied to Gwydion's topic in Lupercalia
I received a sniffie of this in a decant circle, and I dug out enough to skin test because gosh darn it, this is the only blend I have with sun-dried tomato in it. And this is an oddball. At first, I'm not a fan. It's chocolatey in a way that doesn't seem to go together with the savory ingredients. I wouldn't choose this to eat except for curiosity, and I wasn't buying it as a scent. But it got less weird and more interesting the longer it wore. The chocolate gets less sweet, and the thyme and comfrey get to shine, with the chewy dried tomato note tying together the rich dark notes. I don't need any more of this -- I have no idea where I would wear it -- but my initial distaste transformed into admiration. -
Leather, Indigo Incense & Red Amber
Lucchesa replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
When this first hits my skin, it's soapy, but that lasts for less than a minute. It settles into a rich, fruity incense, and I do agree with supreme_C0rt that it's tinged with opium. The amber and leather are barely making an appearance on me, although an almost spicy note plays around the edges. This is not at all what I expected -- I wanted a lot more leather than this and some amber too -- so I'm going to hang onto the decant to see if it gets more balance with age. I'm also going to hang onto the decant because it's a gorgeous incense blend, even if it isn't what I was hoping for. -
Iambe is super floral on me, mainly gardenia with a little rose. There’s some perfume-y amber. Any white tea is obliterated by my skin. Perfumey flowers — not for me.
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I love lavender but it never lasts on my skin. You Are Not Alone's lavender lasts. It's not strong -- it's very gentle and soft, and the paper and cotton notes are as well, but it stays with me. For a quiet scent, as any book scent seems meant to be, this has really good staying power. It's hard to describe the "paperback book" and "cotton hoodie" notes except that they ring true. Comforting, soft, clean (but not dryer sheets clean), You Are Not Alone does wrap you up in a protective scent blanket of well-being.
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The Dorian is strong in this one. Walking My Daughter starts off as a citrusy Dorian, with the bergamot and white tea notes prominent, floating on a cloud of marshmallow vanilla. The tea fades, and while lavender never lasts on me, here it doesn't even really show up. So bright citrusy marshmallow Dorian. Sweet and spirit-lifting.
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Hi, everyone! Yesterday I wore Dumb Cake and rode my bike to the U District to pick up a couple things I needed. My fitness tracker clocked it as 2 17-minute bike rides. There are hills in Seattle so I got plenty sweaty. And @Madame Mew, I love your city too, and my son theoretically goes to college there (actually at the desk in his bedroom here), so when this is all over, I'm going to come take a long walk with you! Today's WOSOTD: Black Annis while I wait for Black Licorice Smut and DL & Black Licorice to materialize. Abby and I met my aunt, uncle and mother-in-law at the arboretum and went for about a 2.75 mile walk. The weather has been glorious. Later in the day did another brisk mile to run an errand, and ended up with over 10,000 steps for the first time in a few days.
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The Contrast, which was a frimp in a recent swap, starts out almost all frankincense on me, a soft spicy frankincense, lovely. Gradually the vanilla benzoin comes into play. This is very pleasant and perfectly unisex. In the imp it's a very pale oil with globules of darker amber -- I wonder which is which. It doesn't have great staying power on me but is very nice while it lasts. So glad I got to try it!
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Good job, @Madame Mew and @VetchVesper!!! Today I wore The Contrast and took Abby for a walk she didn't want to go on. About 30 minutes -- I put her in the car halfway through. And yesterday I wore Sissy the Ascendant, which is like smoky rootbeer on me, and did about a 40 minute walk. The weather should be dry all week!
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I am going to be very boring here and suggest that you not overspend on a decade-old rare that you yourself admit you're not fully satisfied with. It's my experience with older bottles that the strength does not just keep increasing; at some point it starts decreasing, and you can't be sure how it's been stored and cared for. OK, if you have oodles of money, ignore me, but does that describe any of us at this point? Today's WOSOTD was Fake News, which held up really well to walking to a local park and then playing pingpong for over an hour with a friend who doesn't look like she should be able to play pingpong at all but who is surprisingly good, then walking home the long way. The breeze made things interesting. So I got my 10,000 steps in and got some sunshine.
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I was only baking for myself and my kids, so I only made one pie. Pumpkin with a cocoa crust. The crust was good and easy, made in the food processor. I'm sure the filling would have been good too if I hadn't forgotten to put the sugar in. It wasn't terrible; we put powdered sugar on top.
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Happy Thanksgiving, fragrant witchy workout friends!!!! Yesterday I wore Illustrated Woman and walked to the natural foods store with my little pull cart for my last minute Thanksgiving needs (including nabbing the penultimate can of organic evaporated milk). Then I got an impromptu invite for tea on my friend's porch and biked to her house (a hard 20-minute bike ride there, an easy 15 minute bike ride home). Today I put on Coiled Serpent and did an online yoga class with my local studio, one of my favorite teachers. It goes so well with yoga! I got sweaty (which brought out an interesting musk effect in Coiled Serpent) so I showered afterwards and now am wearing Pumpkin Spice Silkybat HG and Pumpkin Queen in the hopes that they will bless my pie baking.
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Hi, everyone! @Madame Mew, did you decide to work out or to eat pizza? Yesterday I wore Tombeur, which I hadn’t worn in ages. So cozy and sexy! I walked to the drug store and back, not even three miles, but I had a talk to finish so I couldn’t do more. Tombeur held up beautifully. This morning I gave my talk, which was on Beatrix Potter, so I wore Mole from the Wind in the Willows scents, which was as close as I could get (actually, she raised sheep, so I could have gone with Two Sheep and Two Goats but I didn’t think of it). Mole did not last on me at all so I may be deaccessioning it soon. I’ll pick something else and go for a walk after dinner.
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Hello, workout friends! Today I wore Falling Leaf Moon which is gorgeous! I walked around Green Lake, about 50 minutes all told.
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I was just gifted a decant of Blessing Summer 2014. It is definitely heavy on the rose geranium, a note I tend to amp, and I believe there is frankincense as well as the sandalwood alterosen mentions. It's not the sort of thing I generally wear, so I'm going to keep this for its ritual purpose of healing and blessing new endeavors. There is a sense of psychological uplift when I sniff the wand of the decant!
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I honestly didn't expect Bakeneko to work as well as it is. I love the black tea note but it's fugitive on me; same with tangerine. And cherry blossom is iffy. But amber musk sounded so good. And this is a terrific comfort scent, like Market Spice tea in a handmade mug with a wrapping of amber and gentle musk. I'm not getting cherry blossom at all. It doesn't last super long on me, but I've happily reapplied twice today, I'm enjoying it so much on this dreary, rainy day. (Also, there's a cat on the label.)
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Hi, everyone!!! Thanks, @Amazonia, for calling me back to the fold! I have been doing at least 20 minutes of something most days, though obviously I haven't remembered to check in. Or more honestly, I think to check in at night, but it's too late and I need to go to bed. A few days ago I hurt my shoulder in a yoga class -- doing what I'm still not sure, it just kind of pinged in the middle of nothing special, but it was weird and wrong for a couple of days. Then I had a really stressful weekend with three new or partially new lectures in three days, Saturday-Monday. Sunday I had to actually go to the venue and record live, to an audience of one (and an auditorium full of paper cutouts, which were surprisingly effective in fooling me into thinking I had listeners), and when I finally got home (it's a ferry ride away) it was just getting dark but I had so much nervous energy I went for a walk/jog. I don't jog anymore because it hurts my knee. But I did three 3-minute intervals of jogging, and on the third one, as I rounded a corner in my neighborhood, I tripped and went sprawling on the sidewalk. I nursed my hurt for a moment then picked myself up, did the rest of the interval and walked home, but my right palm is all torn up. And sure enough, within an hour my knee was hurting badly. I'm such an idiot. I had used Earth bath oil as after shower moisturizer that morning but forgot to get any perfume on (it was going to be #Occupy). Today it's supposed to rain all day, decreasing to showers in the evening, so I might go for a walk tonight. But I'll have to do yoga or something before that. I'm testing A Dead Death and Bakeneko, and I'm actually surprised at how well the latter is working on me.
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I admit I misread the description, because I was hoping for the scent of clay. Mitti and tulsi are new notes to me, and I was curious to try them, but they are not reacting well to my skin. At first they are astringent, then merely sharp, and they overpower the sandalwood. I think this would be a lovely atmo, but it's not working on me as a perfume.
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Delicious! Sweet tobacco, chewy butterscotch, not too foodie. A wonderful addition to scents like Pumpkin Tobacco and Gingerbread Tobacco.
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Civil Twilight is a lovely spring/summer blend. It's mainly sweet peach on me with amber and honeysuckle. The lemon blossom isn't appreciable when it's wet but comes out in drydown, a kind of creamy lemon-adjacent note. Soft, feminine, very pretty.
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My grandmother had this rose dusting powder in her bathroom, in a pink box with a ribbon. This smells uncannily like it.
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Ugh, Vampire Lace wet is all stinky fecal oudh on me. And it stays that way for a good half hour. An hour after application it's beginning to be bearable, with red musk and tobacco and vanilla lilies appreciable under the animalic agarwood. And at this point I really don't care what kind of beauty this turns into. I will not go through that opening again.