Biocarbons
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Druids Cutting Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon
Biocarbons replied to Seajewel's topic in Limited Editions
Imagine it's yule season, and you walk into a herbalist shop. There are a handful of others browsing and the clerk is busy with a client so you browse. The clerk has a stone bowl and mortar they're currently using to mash up some unidentified combo of herbs. You watch them pause and sprinkle in some red berries and keep grinding. The smell is fresh, a touch herby, war with the creaminess from the hazelnuts, a light red sweetness from the berries, over a warm wood. There's a chewy, chocolatey background note. The water mint mostly adds a frosty chill. A nice holiday season alternative smell that doesn't immediately scream ITS CHRISTMAS (aggressive spices and apples / pine). It slowly gets sweeter as it sits on me. It reminds me of light betwixt the horns, but without the strong patchouli. -
PUNGENT. Very 'stone mason dust cloud', pepper, and smoky vetiver over a slightly sweet rooty, patchouli. The roots and patch come forward as it sits on my skin, but then the peppery dust comes back with a vengeance. If you like dust, clay or root notes and spicy scents, you might like this. This is too intense for me and I can feel the start of a headache, so I won't be purchasing this. It calmed down after about 20 minutes. Now it's smoky, dusty vetiver and much more agreeable.
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Wet: not at all what I was expecting. A dry, gray metallic hairspray smell and pepper capsicum over a slightly sweet floral tincture base. As it dries, it smells a bit like shaving cream (hay?). Amping the ginger now. It's a very spicy, dry smelling ginger that with an edge of smoked dried chili over leather and Neroli. the cedar so far is only a drop, and blends in with the other notes. Now the spicy elements have calmed down and I'm getting more leather, Neroli and what smells like a cold, linen note similar to the cold linen in dungeon crawl. The hairspray cloud is still there, but toned down. Several hours later what's left is a soft shaving cream smell. Masc leaning, unusual.
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Wet: oiled plastic, citrus with a touch of something spicy. Gets more citrusy as it dries down. The citrus is less fruit, more citric acid cleaner smell. The smell stays about the same component wise, but softens as it dries down. Eventually it gets a powdery quality to it like the powder inside latex gloves. This reminds of Carved wooden Railroad, but wooden Railroad has stronger metallic notes and wood. An interesting, experience sort of scent.
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I should preface this with I have never had a sufganiyot, but I have had jelly filled donuts, and ALSO I'm reviewing in 2023 so this decant is well aged. Wet: strawberry waffles? Strawberry gram crackers? Strawberry stoop waffle! The strawberry is a sweet candy strawberry but it's dominated by the spiced baked good smell that reminds me most strongly of stoop waffles. Thin, golden, crunchy waffle thins spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg with a little honey. OR! a strawberry fig newton (just a hint of fig?) Gets more gram cracker-like as it dries down. There is a powdery quality to it some may interpret as powdered sugar. Very foodie and cheerful, but not at all donut like.
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This opens with a good, in my face cloud of cherry musk that's close to the one in Cherry Red. The cherry backs off after a few minutes and I get a sweet, cherry tinged Ylang Ylang and orris scent that is somewhat syrupy. The sandalwood is a very mild background note. I find myself wishing there was a touch of something earthy or warm in this. Maybe tobacco? I get more musk as it dries down. A musky, fruity floral syrup to add seltzer and ice to for a refreshing summer drink.
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Vanilla Husk, Nutmeg, & Hay Absolute
Biocarbons replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Wow, the nutmeg and the hay combined into lemon pledge. There's some vanilla in the background, and it's supposed to be a good vanilla note that people rave about but the pledge smell is uncanny and dominating. 1.5 hours later this is a soft, dry vanilla with a touch of warm, golden hay. This is nice, but about that opener... I've only tried the Antique Lace re-release, but I would say they have a similar dry down. The vanilla in Antique Lace was very much like bottled vanilla extract with a powdery dry down to my nose. This is soft and shy, dry and smooth. -
You know, there's just some things you shouldn't skin test. Wet: plastic off-gassing and a saggy stack of moldy, rain melted paper. It's giving me a bit of a headache. Wow this STINKS, in an 'im cleaning out my water damaged storage with Ammonia' kind of way. Gets more solventy as it dries down. Now it's sweeter and almost a little floral. A weird, sweet, chemical, solvent drenched moldy floral for lovers of the strange and unusual.
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Wet: Tangy, reddish pink cherry in sherry. My hometown makes fruit wines locally, and I would say this is lighter and sweeter than the cherry wine I've tasted, and closer to sangria or another fruity cocktail. It gets sweeter and less tangy and less cherry as it sits on my skin, which is too bad. There's something warm and a little chewy in this that reminds me of tobacco. I really enjoy the novelty of this and I'm curious to see how my decant ages.
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Wet: more green than rose topped with an invigorating splash of regular gasoline and a drop of diesel. Dry: The gas calms down and the soft rose pedals become more prominent over time.
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I wasn't sure what to expect from this but I know I like cumin, and black amber. Wet: unexpectedly sweet. There's a lot going on here, but I can pick out wiffs of cumin, black amber, it leaf and just a hint of myrrh. The black champaca is a bit soapy, and the scent gets less sweet and more spicy black amber the longer it sits on me. All the elements blend well together, and I can only think to describe this is a savory, spicy dark amber with the occasional waft of myrrh.
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Wet: a sharp, green floral with white edges. A touch soapy. I almost like it but I need the soap to go away. The soap did mostly away, and I'm left with a nice green, slightly musky floral that reminds me a bit of the green part of orange blossoms with amber in the background. Very vintage perfume smelling.
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Wet: This is....very mentholy pine with the gritty, astringent ink note. The green tea is a powdery background note adding a touch of citrus and melds with the resin. As it dries down, the menthol evaporates a bit. I'm not mad at it, but I would need the menthol to calm down more with age for this to actually be wearable. 15 minutes later I'm left with an astringent green tea and pine. Disappointing the ink smell didn't last longer, but the simplicity of the green tea and pine is nice.
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Wet: very perfumey white floral (reminds me of tiare) and creamy, almost frosting vanilla. Right on the edge of smelling like the plastic in a baby diaper which I've found is often a problem for me with BPAL white florals. At first, the ginger is a background note just adding a touch of light spice. As it dries down, the white florals calm down (but are still vaguely unpleasant) while I get more effervescent ginger and vanilla.
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Wet: smells like I dipped my fingers into the syrupy brine of a jar of maraschino cherries and wiped it on my sweaty arm. As it sits, it smells more like that....powdered cherry candy dip? This reminds me of Un which is also a candy cherry powder, but add salty skin. There's definitely a background citrusy skin musk happening, so the whole thing smells like 'tropical starbursts water' on me. If you like powdery candy cherry and skin musk, this is for you.
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2020 version. Very, green, citrusy cardamom dominant with whiffs of pink cotton candy and confetti cake below. Still cardamom dominant on me 40 minutes after application. I'd like it more if the other notes were stronger, or the cardamom wasn't so intense.
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In bottle: Banana Circus Peanut. Wet on me: banana runts! And vaguely cologne-y/shaving cream, like bpals hay note when it's more masc. The sweater note is there under the banana runt shaving cream cologne. I agree that the sweater note does smell like cashmere. This gets more sweater-y on me over time. Sheepfold Moonlight + banana runts.
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I picked this one up out of sheer curiosity of the notes, and I expect other people's mileage might vary quite a bit due to skin chemistry. Wet: oh! Lightly citrus metallic and wooden toys for toddlers with the sanded rounded edges, but in a way I like. Green musk? Yeah, green musk. Or something else vegetal. The metallic smell does remind me of an oiled cast iron pan. Im not getting any dried beans or flour so far. It's mostly fresh green musk and metal now. I'm not mad at it.
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Fleece skeleton onesie smells like cotton, drugstore lipstick, something vaguely peach-like but isn't, and unsweet vanilla. There's also probably a white floral. After an hour it was mostly the floral and cotton, and definitely reminded me of dryer sheets.
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In the bottle: definitely a wiff of raw, cut potatoes and starch. Salt. Something citrusy. On me: citrusy and almost floral? doesn't read as raw potatoes now, but there's a still a warm/bright starchy potato/powdery quality to it. I'm not huge on citrus, but I don't mind the citrus quality of it. The potato peeks out again as the scent dries down.
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This opens with velvety lilac pedals over a touch of leather, cloth, and a bit of Frankincense. The vanilla is muted. I was hoping this would be like a lace, but it's more....simple. Not as well blended as a lace and doesn't have that cognac note. If you like creamy, powdery lilacs you will like this. As far as lilac scents, this one is very pretty (and what I had hoped vigil for harvest suitors would smell like), but I was hoping this would be less lilac and more the rest of the stuff. On dry down, the lilac calms down and I have a creamy cloth smell with frankincense and a touch of leather.
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This is pistachio forward (salty, creamy, nutty), with sharp concentrated points of cherry. It has the same cold melty ice cream smell as Spoopy Kid, which is interesting. There's just a hint of chocolate in the background. Not too sweet. I like it, but I wish it had a bit more cherry smell.
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Echoing the review above me, this is great wet. I get a lemon / lime syrup smell, with some creamy jasmine and a hint of mud alongside this, zingy ginger. The ginger note balances the sweetness well. On dry down, the ginger fades and the scent becomes lemon lime and a bit of Jasmine. Not nearly as enjoyable.
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On me I get grocery store vanilla pudding cups, snake oil, and a touch of donut. No fruit jelly to be found. Over time, the snake oil becomes more prominent but I can still smell the pudding and the donut.
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Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys
Biocarbons replied to Silvertree's topic in Limited Editions
Wet, this had a citrus rind sort of note (piquant) that dominated the scent and I couldn't smell anything else for about 20 minutes. After the warm up /dry down, it became a powdery clean linen smell. Linens fresh from the dryer smelling of the sweet, autumn themed dryer sheet you used. I was hoping for something earthy with the dead leaves note and this the opposite of that, so I'll be rehoming my bottle.