Laughing Seagull
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I feel that the perfume is more realistic in the cake department than the HG. In fact, I would say that the HG is not particularly cakey at all - it is sweet and vanillic, but it is dampened by that "incense" twang that people get from a lot of BPAL fragrances. There is no reality in which I would smell this and mistake it for the scent of real food, unlike the uncannily realistic Graham Cracker & Hazelnut that I tried out the week before this. Now all that aside, the fragrance does last a long time, and I do mean a LONG time. It has endured through multiple washes. It's not bad, but I was hoping it'd be more cakey like the perfume.
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Tried a decant of this because I wanted to smell churchy. Sadly, it brought back an oddly specific scent memory of baby wipes instead of church. I seem to have problems with frankincense in perfumes.
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I was worried when I first popped the top off and sniffed this in the bottle. My first impression was bitter, BITTER!!! dry orange pith. I'm guessing the "pith" that I'm smelling is the orange blossom identified by Teamama (I'm not familiar with orange blossom). Fortunately, it transforms when I spritz it. I still have an impression of orange peel instead of the juicy inside. At some point while I was wearing it in my hair, I double-checked my tea serving pot to make sure I hadn't made orange peel tea and forgotten about it. It has pretty good staying power, which is always a pleasant surprise for a citrus scent. I wish that I got more juiciness from it, but it's a nice, distinctly orange scent after that weird in-bottle bitterness. Hopefully the fragrance will develop more in the juicy direction with a bit of aging.
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Beaver Moon: Graham Cracker and Hazelnut Hair Gloss
Laughing Seagull replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Hair
I tried a decant of this even though it seemed like a pretty safe bet. In retrospect, it was silly of me. It was a safe bet. It does smell like graham crackers. I'd say that the hazelnuts add some depth or butteriness to it, but it is pretty much straight up graham cracker. Love it. -
I'm glad that this stayed up on the site past the other Flower Moon releases so I had a chance to buy a bottle. It reminds me a lot of some fancy dark chocolate-dipped mini pretzels that I received as a gift a while ago. The chocolate was so dense and rich that one pretzel made a satisfying dessert and it took ages to eat all of them. Occasionally it gets a dry edge, like a fancy truffle that's been rolled in cocoa powder. If you like how chocolate smells, you can't really go wrong with this one. It's relatively strong, but people in the next town over won't catch whiffs of it (unlike Mischief and Rose Petals, Marshmallows, and Afterglow). Like all glosses, it makes my hair nice and soft.
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Rose Petals, Marshmallows, and Afterglow Hair Gloss
Laughing Seagull replied to Jenjin's topic in Hair
Fun, playful, sugar-coated pink rose! It's fairly strong and makes me smile. Goes flawlessly with a goat milk moisturizer I use sometimes called "Victorian Rose." This is my favorite HG so far (I haven't tried many yet, but still, it's my favorite!). Hopefully I'll have some pocket change available to get some backup bottles before the Lupers go. -
Just a preliminary note that when I tried this immediately out of the mailbox, it went straight marzipan and cardamom. I had to let it sit around for couple days to make that not happen. After letting it rest, the Bastet hair gloss is resinous and rich, a little sweet with a high-class vibe just like the perfume oil. Myrrh, amber, and cardamom are on top here with gentle almond creating a nice background. I've tried putting it on wet hair and dry hair to see if there's any noticeable difference in things like throw (there isn't). For better or worse depending on what you're going for, this HG is very subtle. Unlike the Mischief HG, I don't get a blast of perfume every time I move my head. I can't even really smell it unless I move some of my hair right under my nose. Overall: This is a surprisingly passive iteration of Bastet. I put some lotion (HoG Mango Sticky Rice specifically) on my hands and later when I picked up some strands of hair for a Bastet sniff, the lotion smell had completely overtaken it.
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I agree with doomsday_disco, I am being utterly blasted with honey scent. I think it's the honey note from Jezebel, which is more pleasant than other honey notes but is also very, very strong. All I've been smelling for the last 12 hours is the honey from Jezebel with a different floral twang. Yes, 12 hours. The couple with the go board has a lot of stamina. They're still going at it.
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Wet greenery with lilac and what I'm pegging as moonflower but it's probably the Morning Glory part. The Morning Glory/Moonflower component smells a little bit fruity and sweet, providing whimsy to what would have otherwise been a straightforward lilac plus ivy. This is the very definition of a springtime perfume. The lilac and greenery are in a little tug-of-war with each other and that's the extent of the morphing that I detect (I have thankfully been spared the french fry experience). Absolute BANGER. Surprisingly strong, too!
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Strangely, this reminds me of a donut. A fresh, yummy donut filled with sweet coconut cream and dipped in chocolate glaze. I don't know how the taro became a donut, but I'm here for it. It makes me smile. Extremely edible, as everyone else has already said, with a medium throw and good longevity. An all-around winner. The box of chocolates seems to be exceptional this year!
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Snow Lotus is definitely worthy of being associated with Black Lotus, which is one of my all-time favorite scents. A compelling argument in favor of remixes, to be sure. Like Black Lotus, this is dominated by genuine sugary bubblegum-floral lotus. Unlike Black Lotus, this has the addition of what I think is some kind of evergreen. Maybe fir? The possibly-fir adds a refreshing frosty chill to an otherwise warm fragrance. There's something mildly aquatic about this one that wasn't present in the original Black Lotus. Also my cat likes this one for some reason. 10/10, a definite win for us lotus fans (and my cat, for some reason).
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Something has gone very wrong in this train station. In the container I got a nice plum scent, which could not prepare me for what happened after putting this on my skin. Initially my impression was vetiver and effervescent plum (makes me think of the limited edition summer plum La Croix). Unfortunately, it morphs into olfactory horrors beyond my comprehension. I think it might be the "hot iron" note doing something terrible because it resembles the smell of something burning, and not in a good way. I did end up with a residue of lilac-infused tea after ineffectually trying to rub it off. Maybe letting the oil rest and/or age will help.
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This smells exactly how I expected it to: sweet, syrupy opium brightened by dewy rose. My first thought was of a kinder, gentler, and much simpler Event Horizon. There's not a lot to say here. Poppies is simple and pretty. No surprises here. The fragrance faithfully sticks around over a long period with a medium throw.
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I received a decant of this from paperflowers as a bonus gift in this year's Luper decant circle. Apparently I had a weird skin reaction to a hair gloss before (I don't remember but left myself a note about it), but I'm giving it another go. Since I've completely forgotten about the previous hair gloss I tried, this will be my "first." It's surprising! I thought this would smell like cherries and cotton candy, but it's actually quite spicy. As others have said, allspice is the main vibe I get from this. I like throwing allspice corns(? Is that what you call pieces of allspice? Like a peppercorn?) in rice sometimes and this smells just like popping open the tin of allspice corns. Something in it also reminds me of Under the Foot Warmer from the 2021 Shungas. I'm guessing it's red musk. As for its performance as a hair gloss, just a few spritzes from the spray bottle and a run with a wide-tooth comb helps make my hair look smooth with defined curls instead of frizzy, and the scent is long lasting. If my skin doesn't do anything bad this time, I might try another HG because I like the way it makes my hair look/feel. I'd pick another scent though. Probably Razors in a Doll's House.
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Reminds me a lot of Flowering Peonies from the 2021 Shunga set, which was another lychee/peony scent. And like Flowering Peonies, it leaves me wishing it was fruitier or at least that the florals would settle down a little. This is a lone fruit in a room full of giant waxy flowers.