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Sadly Pyewackett isn't working on me -- the later drydown is nice enough, but it takes too long to get there. Wet, it smells like something's on fire that shouldn't be -- smoky with an acetone tinge. I never get a recognizable patchouli or amber note; I do get ink and paper and a dark red musk. The smoke never goes away but eventually it gets less chemical, more mad wizard's laboratory.
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Wild Sweet Pea is a lovely soft springtime scent. Almond milk is always good on my skin and there's a lot of it here. These are all gentle, delicate notes and for me they work together nicely. Low throw and wear length (which is fairly normal for my middle-aged skin) but I gladly reapplied.
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Deer Moon: Caramel and Dark Musk
Lucchesa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Caramel and Dark Musk reminds me so much of Haunted that I wonder if there’s a stealth amber note in here. This is very much a black musk scent, not at all foodie. My experience is very much like topazphoenix’s, with the musk front and center, the caramel in the background. Decent throw and wear length on my middle aged skin. It’s lovely, but if you missed it, just pick up some Haunted from the GC — it scratches the same itch. -
I chose this decant largely out of curiosity plus love of all things ancient Egyptian. There are unfamiliar notes here for me: carmine, elemi, blue lotus. I thought the carmine might be a blend of Egyptian and red musk, but I was being too literal; instead this is lighter and brighter than I expected, with something almost citrusy. The cinnamon and cassia are very subtle. It’s pretty — I think my mother would have enjoyed it. In fact I think most people would enjoy it. You could dress it up or down. But I don’t have strong passionate feelings about it.
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White Flowers. It kind of stopped there on me and for hours was something akin to single-note magnolia. Or gardenia or one of those exceptionally heady, fleshy white flowers that I never wear without some red ink or black paper dirtying them up. So I was hoping for maybe something ashy in the black note, maybe blood or red musk in the ink. I envy the minerals and resins and red musk Little Bird is getting; the florals are just drowning everything else out for me.
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2025 version. My carnations experience is the opposite of my lilacs one in that here I get much more SO than carnation (or clove), especially at first. And it’s fresh SO where I’m used to wearing very syrupy aged SO. The carnation and spices come out eventually, but I think it’s going to get much better with age. I’m definitely holding onto the slonk and I’ll try to check back in a few months or so with an update.
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I waited on reviewing this decant because it seemed like it needed a little more time to mature. It’s still not there yet, at least on me. It’s very pink. Berries often go berry candy on my skin, the musk is apparently an extremely fruity one, and I’m not yet getting any spice from the pepper or carnation. I didn’t upgrade to a bottled but am still hoping this becomes a more prominent carnation scent on me someday.
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The Serpent in the Lilacs is mostly lilac on me. Beautiful, stick your head in your neighbor’s bushes and inhale lilac. I love this note. The SO is very much a backing note, at least now, though I suspect aging will make it more prominent. It’s mainly making the innocent springtime note feel a little deeper and sexier. I knew this would be magic and I think it’s only going to get better.
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Seconding Debauchery. Read the review before mine and I think you’ll need to try it. Blood Kiss and Perversion and O also come to mind.
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Drow is definitely in the same family as Event Horizon, which I’m always surprised has no plum. It really should have plum. So Drow is like Event Horizon with plum and leather. It’s much quieter on me than Event Horizon, and the leather takes quite a while to develop. I think it will layer nicely and will probably also age well.
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Champaca ruins just about everything for me. I was hoping this would be an exception, and wet I got some musky patchouli and hemp, and then it was all champaca all the time. I think this would really good on me without the champaca, which I loathe and therefore amp. Sigh.
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I tend to amp DBR so am not surprised that Dragonborn is just about single note dragon's blood on me. Fruity DBR with great throw, just the faintest whiff of leather or smoke.
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Winter Night Figure on the Bridge from the Yules a couple years ago would scratch that itch if the mood recurs. Indigo musk, blackened lilac, wild plum rind, opium tar, tobacco flower, and snow. So gorgeous.
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Hunter’s Moon: Chestnut and Patchouli
Lucchesa replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
When I did my junior year abroad in Italy, I rounded a corner one frigid fall day to be hit with the most extraordinary aroma. I knew immediately it was "chestnuts roasting on an open fire," which I'd sung about most of my life though I had never to my knowledge smelled them previously. A street vendor was roasting chestnuts on a brazier and selling little paper cones of them. The chestnuts tasted wonderful, but the aroma was even more heavenly, and I've been looking for it in BPAL for years. I thought it would be Chestnuts and Hearth Smoke but the smoke is still a little off-putting on my skin. I somehow missed One Good Turn Deserves Another and have one coming in a swap. But here it is in an October lunacy whose decants I am only testing now, when they're no longer available from the Lab. Earthy, nutty, warming, and somehow tied to a genetic memory of a beloved fall ritual. I will treasure my tiny bottle of Chestnut and Patchouli as a reminder of the scent of one of the happiest times in my life.