Biocarbons
-
Content Count
556 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Everything posted by Biocarbons
-
I got a pop of the BPAL blood note right away, over a gauzy cloth smell and antiseptic spice. As it sits on my skin, I get a sort of band aid smell that reads more like a mix of charred spices to my nose. Nigella seed? Charred cumin? Tumeric, is that you? It gets a touch metallic and bitter, and is that laudanum? as it warms up. I like cumin in perfume, so I don't mind this. I like how savory it is. It gets more bandaid smelling for a while as it develops, but settles into antiseptic spices.
-
Okay, so I get floral (the small, white kind) marzipan (almond + cherry paste) mixed with dry incense over dry blonde wood and a hint of brown suede. Slightly foody and not at all what I was expecting.
-
On application, I immediately got a mental image of breakfast a freshly cut grapefruit and french toast. I get a pop of more herbal anise up front, but it's gone quickly. The grapefruit is lightly sweet, pink, tangy, and a little perfumey. The black licorice is the grounding/ background note. It's salted with maybe just a hint of maple? Bpal's grapefruit note tends to go a little 'car air freshener ' on my skin, which this starts to do. Fun and unique wet, but ultimately too 'citrus car air freshener' on me.
-
I get fruity sweetness with a touch of wool that comes off candle-y initially. As it dries, an oak-y quality to it comes out along with a tangy-ness from the cranberry. The oakmoss peaks out a bit after a while, but it's not overwhelming so far. Lightly sweet, woody, dusty with a hint of fruit and lightly boozy quality. Masc leaning. This is also my favorite of the three I tested today.
-
Green sap, a little smoke, and astringent dead leaves. A hint of spearmint. I am unsure if I like this or not. This has an astringent quality to it like cardamom.
-
On me this was a sweet, slightly animalic musk with sweet clove and a nuttiness that's probably from the vetiver. The musk is the strongest note. I couldn't detect the stone or the opopanax.
-
This is an odd one. Wet: goes on spicy and medicinal, almost camphorus...like cardamom and something else that isn't cinnamon (pink pepper?). Dry: extra spicy snake oil over bubblegummy red musk, and there's black rose around the edges. It's sadly not as rose forward as I was hoping. A few hours later it's mostly spicy vanilla red musk on me.
-
This the sweeter, candy peach note (peachy-os gummies) and the BPAL champagne note which smells very metallic to me. If you like candy peaches and bpal's champagne note this is for you. Sweet, fruity, effervescent.
-
Tovenares smells like it's the 90s and I'm wearing a freshly washed pastel sweatshirt with a cat design on it and sitting next to some rose potpourri while I put lotion on my hands.
-
Tea Leaves, Vanilla Bean, and Incense Smoke
Biocarbons replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This has a white tea + citrus smell that reminds me of gummy bears when first applied. After sitting on my skin for a few minutes the white tea gets really aggressive. The vanilla is a mustier vanilla and hangs out it the back. Now it's dusty incense and tea leaves over dry vanilla. I don't mind it. -
I wasn't expecting citrus, but this definitely has a lemon-lime opening like in a lemon drop or other hard candy. As it sits, a little spicy wood comes forward but combined with the citrus, the smell has an edge of spicy lemon lime armpit. Annoying. The white amber hangs out in the back. Dry down: This is so sweet and floral now, what a morph. It's still got that BO edge, so I'm calling this one as skin chemistry fail.
-
I've never eaten a griotte. In this perfume, I smell sweet lime and white musk, and what smells like pink lime and lemon sour powder candy. It smells like lemon lime pixie sticks and hand soap in a good way.
-
Sandalwood, Lime, and Tahitian Ginger
Biocarbons replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I got a nice puff of lime (sweet, generic) up front, but that quickly dissipates and settles into a comforting, summery, almost tropical scent. Very bath and body works but better. -
Dark pine tar with dry spicy birch, amber in the back. a minty, cold glow surrounding. As it settles I get more evergreen. Now it's more cold amber, less pine. Masc leaning. If you sort of like that men's pine tar soap, but you want something less smoky and aggressive and more green and cold, try this. Ok, now it's taken a complete 180 and is a slightly fruity, sweet pine scent with a touch of spicy wood. I can't decide if Id actually wear it, but as a pine scent that doesn't go pine sol or cat pee on me, I'll hang onto my imp.
-
Wet: like a mango mimosa without the bubbles. Dry: I get more lime, coconut and pineapple. Heavier and richer than your straight embalming fluid. A lovely summery fruit cocktail that isn't dominated by coconut.
-
Pinkish maraschino cherry juice and whipped cream with a touch of marshmallow and background vanilla. It reminds me of Gen Z Feminist Cenobite, but GZFC has whipped cream and this has marshmallow. After a while, the cherry lessens and the marshmallow increases. It's a soft, gentle marshmallow and acceptable to this person who usually hates marshmallow smells for being loud and cloying.
-
Wet: evergreen, bitter lotus root? Dry leaves. Kind of stanky. The white chypre comes in as a touch of citrus and possibly white amber. This stays animalic and slightly bitter the whole time I had it on me, so I'd call this a skin chemistry fail. However, it reminds me of I hear you call pine tree, but with more stuff added. So if you like that one, or you like pine animalic scents, you might like this.
-
Wet: sweet candy strawberry (similar to eat the strawberries), but it's overshadowed by moss ivy and stone. There's also a touch of something metallic, like a tomb gate, and a little cool water. The strawberry comes to the front now, which I like more. Now it's sweet, mossy slightly aquatic strawberry. Less aquatic than Sad Ted Behind The Wall. If strawberry candy and moss sounds good, this is for you.
-
Wet: candy, taffy guava with candy seeds. Pretty sweet. The strawberry blends with the guava to make a tropical pink fruit scent. As it dries down the guava distinctness softens towards a more general starburst sweetness.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.