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A very pretty close-to-the-skin scent that I find sensual without being bold. It loses its complexity on my skin as it dries and mostly smells like honeycrisp apple, but I don't mind. It's gentle and warm, almost glow-y from the honey and frankincense combo.

Thank you both for the suggestions! I will keep my eye out for those.

Resurrecting this thread because I've been really into honey/honeycomb/beeswax scents this spring. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good honey forward scent with frankincense. I have Les Bijoux and really like it, but something with more emphasis on the honey/frankincense would be amazing.

Spicy green honey! It almost smells a little minty, but not quite. The honey is very sugary, which compliments the green notes nicely. It's sweet, but with an undercurrent of danger. I could see this one becoming addictive for me.

This perfume is quite interesting (and, being a weirdo who likes reading about poisonous mushrooms, I love the theme). I don't like the way it smells at first, kind of like sweet decay, but once on the skin, it changes to an earthy-yet-poisonous smell that's oddly pleasant. At this point, I don't think I'll wear it much, but it might be nice for days when I'm feeling especially prickly.

I never thought I'd get to try this one! All I can say is that this community is amazing when it comes to noticing people's ISO's, and I'm really thankful for that. 💕 As other reviewers have attested, this is a gorgeous blend. Whether from being well-blended or from aging, to me, The Girl is almost all vanilla musk. I'm not able to pick out many individual notes. It's *very* similar to Ava from the OLLA collection; at first, I thought they might be identical. However, when comparing them, I found Ava sweeter (which is funny, because I never thought of it as being that sweet before), while The Girl is cooler and more subtle. It's probably the most wispy, ethereal vanilla perfume I've tried so far (although vanilla isn't listed in the notes . . .). It has a silvery, glowing feel similar to Zorya P, but the vanilla in Zorya P is much more sugary than in The Girl or Ava, IMO. I think the birch here gives it that neutral, silvery tone. Overall, I'm definitely going to cherish this one and will hope for a resurrection someday.

Randomly got a decant of this, and wow, it's really pretty! I was expecting something more mineralic, but this is soft and sweetly elegant. As in Storge, the rosewater is very gentle in comparison to other rose notes (I wish it was a more common note). The oud is also very gentle and just adds a woody base to the scent without making it too strong or earthy. Crystalline and effervescent are good descriptors for Hypatia, and that star-musk thing is definitely something I'll have to be on the lookout for in other blends.

From the notes and theme, this seemed like a scent I'd like. After failing to find decants, I got impatient and blind bottled. And I am glad I did! If this scent had a color, it would be a pale golden-green. The honey musk is an absolutely gorgeous honey note, spun into something sheer and airy. At the same time, though, it's the most prominent note on me, in part I think due to the vanilla reinforcing its sweetness. The blackberry leaf lends a juicy but not overpowering blackberry note and the green tea balances the honey. Everything is very well blended. The scent lingers close to the skin, though I get delightful wafts of it from time to time. I would definitely recommend this to honey fans who also enjoy Elf, Fairy Market, Shanghai, and Bewitched.

Lemony sugar with creamy honey and vanilla. Love it! There's a hint of Snake Oil but it's fairly dialed back; as others have noted, it will likely strengthen with age. This isn't super strong, but is more noticeable in my hair and has more longevity than I expected.

The pink pepper gives this an almost fizzy element that makes me associate this with cherry cola. I really like it, but it doesn't last long on my skin. Maybe I should try it in my hair as well. Pink pepper is one of those notes I have a weakness for, and it's bright and fun paired with the cherry.

I love leather as a note and like almond, but am learning I'm not super keen on the two together. (I also tried a leather-almond blend earlier this year from another house and it just wasn't my thing. I think the contrast with the leather makes the almond smell sweeter to me?). However, once the almond settles down the leather-vanilla-patchouli combo here is eyes-rolling-in-back-of-head good. Sort of dark and gritty but smoothed and elevated by the vanilla. I don't think I'll bottle this one, but I'm glad I got to try it!

Sometimes, I get enamored of a scent description and stubbornly track it down even if it's discontinued. I longed for Szespasszony for ages and finally stumbled upon an imp. It definitely does conjure up images of a storm rolling in with lots of wind. Scent wise, it reminds me of both Denna and Sixteen92 Supercell, although it's less sweet than Denna and less green than Supercell. It's more airy than both. Actually, the "pale petals" in the recent Luper, Green, also reminds me of the floral aspect in this. Anyway, this is a nice addition to my little rain-scent collection and I'm grateful to have gotten the chance to try it.

I'm pretty picky about aquatics, but the reviews for this one intrigued me enough that I found myself a decant. And this one is good! The beeswax reminds me of Lights of Men's Lives, the salty wood and crimson musk of Anne Bonny, and the sea salt of Mary Read. But where Mary Reads goes too sweet on me for me to enjoy the leather and more grounded notes, this one maintains a good balance on my skin. Sexy pirate lady is an accurate vibe! ⚔️ I definitely want to try this layered with Anne Bonny.

I got this as a lab frimp. I like it better than I thought I would - the honeysuckle note is gorgeous and forward, and is pleasantly heady combined with the opium. I'm not sure I enjoy the vetiver beneath it, though, it's a tad bitter for my tastes.

At first, the rose in this is very dominant and soapy. (Disclaimer: I've noticed that cherry blossoms also tend to veer soapy on my skin, so skin chem weirdness probably has something to do with this). This does eventually dry down to a pretty nice, light cherry blossom scent, but I'm not sure I want to go through the soapy rose phase to get there. I don't smell much of the red sandalwood. The cognac peeks through once the rose quiets down.

I'm in love with this one. ❤️ I don't smell the leather very much (I love leather), but that's okay. The sweet cookie component balances so nicely with the sugared florals and paper. The paper smells more like fresh paper to me than antique: light and smooth, glossy with ink. This, combined with the name of this scent, brings back memories of reading the Trouble With Trolls books around Christmas as a child. The flowers in this actually remind me a bit of the candied floral aspect in Fairy Market, which is of course a plus. Underlying it all is that creamy almost-almond thing that I smell in Snow White. The only downsides to this scent are that it doesn't have much throw or longevity on me, but I will definitely cherish my partial bottle.

I like this one! The tea rose goes slightly soapy, but doesn't overpower the Lab's lovely vanilla musk note. The lily is so good, but a bit faint and I wish I got more of it (I love me some heady lily, though I've heard it's hard to capture in perfume). Although the rose is a tad soapy, it's light and not at all matronly.

This is so nice! Gentle, sweet incense over an almost green carnation. The carnation's spice gives this a nice spark, although overall this is pretty understated on my skin. I think I prefer There's No Bliss Like This for my spicy carnation needs, but this is also a good one for carnation lovers.

Blends like this remind me of why I love carnation so much. This scent also has clove and cinnamon, which makes the carnation extra spicy in a very good way. The vanilla and ylang-ylang give this blend some sweetness to keep it from being bitter, and I think the ylang ylang also helps with throw. The vanilla gives the scent a creamy quality that reminds me of Morocco, which is one of my ultimate favorites. This is definitely a winner in my books.

Wet, this is pure tart green apple on my skin. It dries down to a dewy apple musk with a hint of white floral. Understated and pretty.

I knew I'd like this after seeing the comparisons to Skadi and Elf. To me, this is a vibrant green forest scent, which is apt for a scent encapsulating winter turning to spring. Weirdly, smelling this makes the top of my tongue tingle . . . An odd side effect, but otherwise, 👍. 😄

This kind of smells like fancy shampoo to me - elegant and pleasantly floral, but also a bit soapy. I haven't rested my decant yet though, so I'll update if it changes.

A light, sweet, floral scent. The honey-flowers combo actually makes me think of honeysuckle, although this has no honeysuckle. The white honey is much lighter and sweeter than the other types of honey the lab uses; it's a kind of ethereal honey. The star jasmine (a note I adore) is almost soapy but never actually gets there; it's lifted by the powdery orris, amber, and sweet osmanthus. This is basically the scent equivalent of eiderdown, soft and pale and floating. I'm tempted to get a bottle.

Hmm, my favorite foresty scent is Elf, but that would probably be too sweet for your purposes (plus, it has a lily note). Black Forest is a good one, although you'd have to like the black musk that emerges as it dries. Epidote Phoenix was a LE, but it's a really nice redwood forest scent with amber. Oh, and Berzerker is quite foresty and nice! It brings me back to the juniper forest around the place I grew up. I definitely smell the trees more than the leather or metal in that one (although skin chemistry can always vary).

I wanted to try this one because I feel like Denna is an unfairly maligned character and was curious about a perfume interpretation of her. Mostly, this smells like sweet, green grass to me. There's a hint of dewiness and florals. The scent doesn't have a lot of throw (although I don't usually slather, so maybe it would be different if I did), but I do catch a whiff of springtime about me when I wear it.