feyofthefellwood
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2024 version. It smells primarily like vanilla cream (a note I love), with a hint of makeup and cherry. Soft, pretty, and mild.
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I knew I should have just bottled this, because it's exactly what I hoped for from these notes. It's simple, creamy dark chocolate with a hint of whatever the blood note is. I'm unsure if it's a fruit note (pomegranate?) or dragon's blood, but it gives the scent a little bit of a perfumey edge that keeps it from being entirely hot chocolate. I'll update the review if I can figure out what the blood note reminds me of.
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I really like this one, especially in the wet phase, where it's reminiscent of Streets of Detroit and motor oil/gasoline. It's dark, metallic, industrial. As it dries, the resins and vanilla sweeten the scent until it reminds me almost of a champagne note? This is a morpher, but it's also fresh out of the mail and I'm curious to see how the oud and vanilla age. So far, this is one of my two favorites of all the decants I ordered.
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When I first got this I worried it would be too coconutty for me, but after a few days of rest I'm kind of obsessed. It's such a sweet, smooth vanilla that isn't as incensey or "dark" as some Snake Oil variants. A fluffy, cheerful Snake Oil, slightly gourmand and tropical but with that rich vanilla warmth.
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I'm not usually drawn to orange as a note, but I loved the past vintage blow mold scents so I had to get this one. And I *love* it. To my nose, the crystalline amber is different from the plasticky, milky amber of the previous scents. It's lighter and quite ethereal. The white musk is the game gorgeous, gauzy note as in My Soul Aquiesced. The orange note is sweet, not at all sharp or high pitched. It reminds me of those chocolate covered candied orange slices. I don't detect much pumpkin. Maybe there's a hint of it if I really try to find it, but I keep forgetting this has a pumpkin note honestly. This doesn't have much throw, but it lasts forever on me. I put it on one night and could smell it all throughout the next day. It's a backup bottle contender for me, and I'm not even an orange lover.
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This is so pretty. 🤍 I blind bottled thinking this would be like Tomie or Ava, and it has that fancy, cold vibe to it, but it also has a similar creamy, chilled vanilla as Snow White. I'm fairly neutral about white musk but I think it's really nice here, kind of floating and delicate. Overall this is a soft, cool, sweet rose that I think will be enjoyable for fans of Knave of Snowflakes, Katrina Van Tassel, and From Whose Eyes as They Glance Flowed Love.
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To me, this is a hyperrealistic imitation of what it smells like if you put your face up to a lichen-covered branch that's damp from the rain (which I have done because I hike a lot). The frankincense gives this a faintly smoky scent as it wears. It's like a forest in a bottle.
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To me, this is light and pretty and smells a bit like an expensive salon product, but also like classic BPAL (it has a hint of that effervescent cola-like incense to it). It's mineralic, but in a sparkly kind of way rather than an earthy one. It pairs well with The Grey Columns (grey and white amber), which is one of my favorite everyday scents. I wish there was a perfume version of this in addition to a HG.
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Deer Moon: Golden Tobacco and Beeswax
feyofthefellwood replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Bless reviewers, because this wasn't originally on my radar, but as soon as I saw the petrichor comparisons I knew I needed it. And I love it. It goes on very earthy and petrichor-ish, but it dries to a beautiful soft tobacco note gilded with honeyed beeswax. I've tried other tobacco/honey combinations but those were much heavier and sweeter than this. Overall, this is unusual but lovely. -
To me, this is quite a sweet scent. It makes me think of white chocolate even though that isn't a note. The honeyed date note is most prominent to me and is absolutely gorgeous; it reminds me a little of Lush's Sticky Dates. A pretty, sugary, decadent gourmand.
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When I first got this, I wasn't sure what to think of it. Now I'm really into it, which figures now that the Yules are down (at least I have a bottle!). IMO, this variety of lavender and plum initially clash and smell a bit odd together, but once they dry down and meld? Absolutely gorgeous. I can smell the flaky pastry and the caramel, but the caramel is never overly sweet or overwhelming. This isn't almondy to me at all. The plum note is so good and doesn't veer too tart or too sweet. Aside from Drow Yoga Instructor (which also features lavender but without the "clashing" phase), this is my favorite plum perfume I think.
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I know I've tried a previous version of this but can't remember how it compares to this year's . . . Anyway, this one is gorgeous. The green and woody notes are gentle and the dry-down is a creamy beeswax vanilla that reminds me a little of Snow White for some reason. I'd definitely call it more of a vanilla beeswax than a honey one.
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Worm Moon: Bourbon Vanilla and Teakwood
feyofthefellwood replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This one isn't what I expected, but I still like it a lot. Instead of the deep, woody teak note in Antikythera Mechanism and Glowing Vulva, this one seems lighter and "greener." With the non-foody vanilla, the scent as a whole reads as a "green vanilla" to my nose. It's fairly light and unobtrusive. -
To my nose, this is more gourmand-smelling than floral or aquatic, but I know the floral notes are adding to its complexity. At first, the honey dust dominates the scent. While I don't mind this note, it's also not one I gravitate towards. However, as the scent wears the other notes peek out. Next I get some saltiness, which turns the honey into a salted caramel kind of scent. The grapefruit is tart; the florals stay very tame (at least on me). I think the cerulean musk and amber keep this from going too far into the food direction and generally give the scent a "sparkly" feel (similar to Awake, if you've tried it), but they aren't easy for me to pinpoint on their own. As the scent warms on the skin there's a bit of a "toasty" note I'm guessing is the choya nakh? But it's pretty subtle. I dig it. As for the ambergris, I can tell it's adding to the backbone of the scent and just adding to the prettiness as it wears over time. It's more perfumey at this stage. This scent lasts a long time on me and in its final stage smells like cotton candy. It's a very interesting scent overall with a lot of fun changes as it wears . . . just beware the initial honey dust blast if that isn't your favorite note. A lovely mermaid treasure of a perfume. 🧜♀️ ✨
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I have so many rose scents that I almost skipped this one, but I love it and will probably have to upgrade to a bottle. It's the greenest, most forest-y rose scent I've tried. It smells like layers of green all deepening to emerald. I think it's the lime, pine, and juniper combination my nose is so enamored with.
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This has a similar soft, earthy yet ethereal vibe as my beloved Neutral Tones. The ambergris with the woody notes is a gorgeous combination. Throw is pretty quiet, so this is definitely more of a cozy your-skin-but-better type of scent. I love using this as a sleep scent, so it's a definite backup bottle contender.
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This is beautiful. Red musk can overpower a blend on me, but here, the (non-foody) vanilla and porcelain win on the dry down. I love the porcelain note. I agree the (lighter) red musk and violet combo is similar to that in Random Brothel, which I also love. I'll definitely be upgrading my decant to a bottle in the future.
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I'm usually kind of ambivalent about melon scents, but this one sounded really appetizing. And it is! The honeydew note is spot on and dominates at first, and complements the whipped cream really well (the cream note smells like vanilla cream, to my nose). The sponge cake becomes more prominent on the dry down. In the end, the scent becomes something of a vanilla musk on my skin, and lasts for quite a long time.
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BPAL ambergris is my favorite ambergris, so I had to get this one. I was preparing myself for this to be a jasmine heavy scent where the ambergris got lost, but this is a total win on the ambergris front. It's absolutely gorgeous with the tart green notes. The white musk and jasmine give this some floral headiness, but the ambergris is really the star, to my nose. I absolutely love this.
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I initially passed on this because I thought it would be a cinnabomb, but the reviews swayed me. To me at least, the cinnamon is mild and well behaved. The molasses is sweet but not overly so, and the "glowing amber" note is, to my nose, the same gorgeous glowing amber in Vintage Ghost Mold. Overall, quite lovely and come-hither.
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This is one of those scents I really love and feel I can't do justice to in a review. It's gentle and earthy, like an herb garden drying in the sun after a light rain. Even though the notes are completely different, it reminds me of Summer Rain, another of my favorites.
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Though this does not smell exactly like The Girl or Ava, it's definitely in that same cold white amber + delicate florals and vanilla category. No strong jasmine here. Tomie has a slight woody aspect due to the sandalwood, but remains airy and delicate. It's a lovely, wearable perfume to me and I splurged on a backup bottle.
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What the Snow? I Need to Know What Snow Smells Like!
feyofthefellwood replied to lilacea's topic in Recommendations
BPAL has a couple different snow notes. The "Snow White" snow note (which is the one used in TKSnow) is kind of like a cold floral vanilla, but has also been compared to coconut, almond, scotch tape, and chilled flowers. It's my favorite of the snow notes and I find it difficult to describe. The other snow note I'm familiar with is the "slushy snow" note. This one is more minty/piney and my enjoyment of it depends on what it's blended with (I like it with vanilla mostly). It's in most of the snowy forest type scents and it's in Marshmallow Snow. There might be other BPAL snow notes I'm not familiar with, though. It can be impossible to know which snow note is used in a scent until you smell it (if there aren't reviews). -
Lush, candied rose wine with hints of dark resins. The rose and wine notes are more prevalent to me than the resins or spices (though I definitely notice the dragon's blood, which I love). I saw someone on FB describe this like a rose-flavored jolly rancher and that description is quite apt to me.
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2023 restocked version. I like this even more than I thought I would. It's quite similar to Dorian IMO, but it smells much more green at first. I think the jasmine leaf and white musk make it a bit sharper, though the jasmine note never goes into super floral territory. It opens with stronger bergamot and some mossiness, but the dry down is a similar sugary vanilla tea. To me, it's a "colder" Dorian. For some reason the dry down also reminds me of my beloved Grey Columns, and even though I'm not sure why it does, that makes me happy.