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Biocarbons

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  1. Biocarbons

    The Sixth Veil

    This started out as cold steam with screechy rosemary booze and white tea, but settled into this refreshing tea and steam smell. I think this would be very refreshing to wear on a hot day.
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    The Fifth Veil

    Super earthy with an edge of brown banana peel, mixed with fig. The silk blends into the earthy notes and doesn't stand out to my nose. I really like this.
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    The First Tea Ceremony of the Year

    Wet, this was a soft matcha with sugar water and little bits of floral and fruit. Now its green tea and sakuma drops candy (fruit flavored hard candy). I really like how this one wears, but it's not quite what I was hoping for.
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    Annual Events of the Vagina Hair Gloss

    Sharp, cold pine needles. This is more bitter than I was expecting. I'm not mad about it. I think this would be refreshing during hot weather.
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    Jiroft Red

    Wet, this was artificial mixed fruit flavor narcissus and wax, but after it settled, I got an interesting vintage blend of narcissus and rosewater with a nutty date note and a mineralic quality. Try this if you're interested in scents like Gun Moll or the Century Guild Kickstarter blends.
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    Couple Engaged in Intimate Acts as the Man Pours Tea

    LOUD gas station Jasmine incense and buttery vanilla rice. Epic skin chemistry fail.
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    Vintage Frankenstein Blow Mold

    This smells like a thin mint cookie, or an andes mint. The mint in this sticks around, so if you were disappointed by the mint in the 2024 lick it hair gloss which had a chocolate note, try this. It doesn't smell like Hohensalzburg Fortress on me, unfortunately.
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    The Great Battle of the Vegetables and the Fish

    The veggie scents are always the ones I'm most curious about the lupers, and this is basically a Shunga. Upon sniff: fresh, breezy aquatic with lettuce and what smells like jamica instead of radish, and pepper spice. On me: I like it so far. It's fresh and light. I can smell wasabi, but it doesn't have that burning quality of horseradish (most wasabi in the US is mostly horseradish). I get a bit more starch as it dries down and the aquatic becomes a bit perfumey. It's settled, and it's a radish starchy aquatic. Still fresh, but that slightly spicy edge is mostly gone and that's what I liked most about this scent.
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    Murió la Verdad

    I picked this up for the Angelica root. This does indeed smell rooty. Dry, dusty and rooty with a nutty edge of what smells like cacao to me but is probably tonka? I didn't get much bourbon upon initial sniff, but the bourbon and vanilla blooms quickly on my skin and becomes noticeable. There's eventually a slight sweetness I am assuming is from the fig wood. The root note here is similar to other BPAL scents with root notes such as screaming mandragora, and The Wind and the Willows: Badger. The nutty dustiness also reminds me of Haute Macabre: As Above. Try this if you like the Haute Macabre, and Bloodmilk scents. I like this after it settles on my skin. This smells like a drier version of Bloodmilk: Grief Moth part 1 on me.
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    Carved Wooden Livery Stable

    I picked up a low partial out of sheer curiosity. Upon sniff: grassy hay, a bit of sweetness from the apple, barnyard oud. You're walking by a horse stable during hay bailing, and you can smell that 'horses poop here' distant scent. Skin test: about the same, but the oud is getting a little louder. Okay, it's settling. Dank musk forward, grassy hay and apple. I don't mind it. The musk eventually settles completely into the background. If I could go straight to the dry down I'd get a bottle. Compared to In lctu Oculi, this is more generally wearable with the musk settling as a smooth background note. This is also a bit sweeter.
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    In Ictu Oculi

    Sweaty, cow patty oud with strong metallic and stone notes and a sour edge from the myrrh. I pick up hints of vellum and ink initially, but it all blurs together as the scent settles on my skin. Now the ink note is getting stronger, and the stable smell is receding and I'm not mad at it, though freshly applied this is not for the faint of heart. The oud slowly morphs into something deep and animalic, reminding me more of the smell of a horse and less of the stable. I am curious to how this smells to others on me.
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    Gothabilly

    In the bottle I get a tiny bit of cherry, amber musk and boozy vanilla. On my skin, the cherry shows up briefly and is a luxardo sort of cherry. Still very musk and vanilla forward. I think I need to come to terms with my skin absolutely eating cherry scents as this happens to every single one. On the right person I think this would be really sultry and dark without being too foody. That person just isn't me, sadly.
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    Amber Encased Red Peach Hair Gloss

    This smells like peach rings with a hefty dose of BPALS red amber. I was hoping for something a bit more earthy with a more realistic peach.
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    Ectoplasm

    2024 Version This is very close to the Avocado, White Musk, Lemongrass trio, but not as creamy. The combo of lemongrass and white amber over davana is zingy and refreshing.
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    Pomegranate, Carnation, and Peonies

    Pom flavored sweet tarts. Now it's floral sweet tarts. It settles into tart peony. I think this would be refreshing for summer.
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    Poinsettia Gown Hair Gloss

    This is different from the oil to my nose. The poinsettia is there in the background always, but isn't forward enough for me. The jasmine is flatter...more papery? This tickles my sinuses in a way the oil doesn't unfortunately.
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    Black Pine and Incense Smoke Atmosphere Spray

    This has cumin or paprika in it or something similar because I can smell pine, and incense, and spicy lime corn chip... actually now it's black pine and cool ranch Doritos. I'm not mad at it....but I'm going to set my decant sit for a bit and see if it smells different with a little aging.
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    Lick it with Consent Hair Gloss

    This is definitely chocolate and peppermint vanilla. Like, the waxy chocolate ice cream parlours dip ice cream in. The peppermint is a little sharp for this to read like mint and chocolate chip ice cream to me, but it's in the ball park.
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    Black Cherry Sufganiyot

    LOUD black Cherry over vanilla. Black Cherry syrup over vanilla. In a good way. The pastry is a barely there background note.
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    Incense and Blackcurrant Sufganiyot Atmosphere Spray

    Opens with a big, loud vanilla HELLO and then it's all about the jammy blackcurrent and incense. This has more blackcurrent to my nose than the oil did.
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    Midnight Mass Hair Gloss

    Waxy frankincense and myrrh. It almost smells like it has tobacco in it. I'm going to age this a while and see what it does. It doesn't smell like the midnight mass oil to me, but my bottle of oil is really aged.
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    Tattie Bogle

    2009 Version This smells to me like a horse stable in need of a clean, and some gunpowder.
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    Vision

    Spicy, woody pink florals with a bit of neroli over the top. There's a smoky quality to it that I don't like. This is one of those scents where the combination of the smoke and citrus translates to me as air freshener sprayed to cover the stale cigarette smell in a room. As it sits on my skin, the smoke calms down and the clove comes forward then settles and the pink florals bloom. Ok, now it reminds me a bit of gun moll. The mid-2000s version of gun moll. Ultimately this dried down to a clove spiced pink floral with a hint of neroli.
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    Cemetery in the Moonlight

    Wet: MOSSY, grassy, vetiver with iron railing poking out haphazardly over oud. This is mostly green oud now. I'm not mad at it, but I want to compare it to ruins of castle Karnstein. Karnstein is sharper and slightly more 'masc' than cemetery.
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    Porcelain Krampus

    Wet: wow, I was not expecting this to open with hella koolaid fruity, but here we are. The leather and switches are very light, while this scent is dominated by the musky rice milk, orris, vanilla combo. Ok, now I'm getting more leather. Ultimately this settled into a slightly fruity (currant?), musky porcelain over the traditional Krampus notes of leather and wood.
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