LavenderCoffee
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I do love a white tea note, and an oud, so I am pleased with this, and I expect this oud to age tremendously. Not getting anything crisp/laundry/linen personally. In fact, the amber and sandalwood attempt to be fuzzy together but ultimately it's more sleek than floofy, a nice soft shorthair situation. A lovely contrast of grey and white in scent.
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This is a fun bit of chaos freshly applied: feels a bit like scent notes clashing with each other, or maybe it's something my skin chemistry adds to the composition. Maybe it smells like what is going on inside a cat's head when they play with one of these toys and the feathery bits are zipping back and forth. As it dries down it settles into a minty floofy situation with florals peeking out, and that is more agreeable.
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Oh no, this is the prettiest frankincense I've ever smelled! Love how it's working with the vanilla skin musk. Softly sweet, simple, perfect.
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I am a fan of many many BPAL honey scents, finally getting around to trying this beloved one. it is impossibly delicate. some of the honey scents I like have a funky musk quality to them, but this particular honey musk is quite elegant, gently sweetened by vanilla bean. there is briefly a bit of juicy berry while the oil is still wet but it is not generally a berry scent on me. I'm not sure what sort of spice counts as fae, but it is also not a spicy/spiced scent as far as I can tell. maybe not a "me" scent but a lovely option to have on hand.
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Just snagged a bottle off etsy and it's so upsettingly good. Wearing it feels less like playing dress up and more like putting on a new persona: I may be on my couch in slouchy costco pants but by adding a dab of Gun Moll I'm a total smokeshow, a dangerous dame, not to be crossed. It's a timeless femme fatale type scent, gorgeously blended.
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Hilf, Ach, Hilf Mir, Kriegsgeselle
LavenderCoffee replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Limited Editions
I love this blend so much! Yesterday I wore a mandarin scent and I thought "I don't wear much orange" but I realized that is a lie, bc I am a big sucker for honey sweetened orange. This is very honey and beeswax forward on me, however, so it's more of an orange touched honey. I am also a big fan of khus and patch, so having those as a cozy backdrop is perfection. -
Twelve Tastes in the Classification of Passion
LavenderCoffee replied to torischroeder9's topic in Lupercalia
1 Gorgeous juicy mandarin 2 backed by carnation 3 touched by clove. I haven't worn much orange traditionally but I'm into mandarin at the moment and I'm super impressed with this one - it really hangs in there! I love all the clove I can get, so this is a bit subtle in that regard, but the dusky spicy carnation backdrop for the vibrant citrus is pretty darn great. -
Hellooo nurse: deliciously dirty-sweet patchouli and fig. When I first tested this (a year ago?) it was not as big and bold as I wanted it to be, but trying it again today and it actually has a really nice amount of throw. A tremendous under-the-clothes scent that may put you in mind of removing your clothes. There is definitely some component separation in the bottle, so give it a nice rolleroo.
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White Chocolate with Mate, Hazelnut, and Banana Cream
LavenderCoffee replied to amanderinorange's topic in Lupercalia
Tested from a decant. Looking back at the earlier reviews, seems like the mate was a bit more potent 10 years ago. Today it is seamlessly blended. White chocolate and banana cream could have gone super duper sweet, but the hazelnut and mate add a perfect amount of earthy grounding. Sometimes hazelnut has gone a bit weird on me but this one is behaving quite nicely. It is more of a banana tinted white chocolate scent than an outright banana scent, and I am enjoying it that way. -
I also dig this. A springtime witch scent that could sit alongside the witches from halloween 2022. I think the galbanum comes out kicking hardest for me when I first apply, a bitter sort of scent, but it really finds its place in the market basket quickly. Earthy, rooty, herbal, mildly ominous. I thought the pine pitch would be louder, and the fig doesn't pop out until it's dry. Not much throw in my experience today but it's just a great little mood.
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Oh it is the marquis! This scent is a delight. It really conveys what a person would actually smell like, rather than just a perfume. A very pleasant leather based scent that doesn't become a fully leather scent, with warmth and spice and swagger.
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Clove discussion! including bitter clove and clove cigarettes
LavenderCoffee replied to amaltheagray's topic in Recommendations
Testing Arachne of Lydia today and had to shout it out here! So simple and so rich. Soft brown and Tyrian purple: dusty clove and blackcurrant. -
Halp! Anything similar to Na Nin’s mujer fuerte?
LavenderCoffee replied to Stuffforkeeps's topic in Recommendations
Two BPAL scents I've tried with palo santo/sandalwood both have lavender, but I don't find them sweet or sharp. They're both out of stock but may be available secondhand: A Look of Peace: white sandalwood, palo santo, rosewood, and lavender (Halloween 2019) Soft Reboot: copal, white sandalwood, sage, frankincense, elemi, lavender, palo santo, salt, and nutmeg. (December 2020 Lunancy) -
My nose brain may be confused today, I put this on and immediately thought to myself I'd goofed and put on black temple burlesque. They have zero notes in common, but the darker resins in this one are working some magic with the amber to make my brain go "musk!" As it wears the amber opens up and makes things sweeter and fuzzier. It's another stellar bpal cat scent and I'm glad to have it.
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Gosh this is lovely. I wasn't sure about the ambergris and coconut components, but I love how this scent comes together. The wear for me is a light vanilla rose. If you don't think you like rose because it's too bold, this may be a good one to try out. The throw is pretty subtle for rose, but still mostly a rose scent.
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Mandarin, Black Vanilla, and Patchouli
LavenderCoffee replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
It's just so good. If it sounds good to you, get it! The mandarin/vanilla kinda reminds me of juicy fruit gum at first, but then the patchouli is right there being awesome and that is definitely not a food smell. It reads as a sweeter patch to me, but obviously it's blended with fruit and vanilla, so who knows. The black vanilla really opens up with wear - not blackened, btw, just kinda deeper in tone. So good! Plus it does indeed pair delightfully with Erotic Drops of Flower Petals hair gloss from this year's Shungas. Gonna go out and knock people over with all this mandarin patchouli goodness. -
A Chocolate Cat (Yule 2021) might be the best option if you can find it secondhand, and The Small Brown Cat would probably be next best. The Cat (Coraline) has got the cat on the label and the wonderful character from the story, but not sure if the scent would appeal to a kiddo.
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Huzzah for all the different leather notes from the lab! This one is a stunner: dark and soft, and tantalizingly tangled up with tobacco. I think the agarwood is cozied up in there as well, and who wouldn't be. Oak is present but not dominant at the start, and builds very gradually. I'm not getting aquatic as much as the very realistic impression of just having come in from the rain, which maybe qualifies as ozonic? I think Brianna really nails it tho, this is a perfect leather jacket situation. A good smelling samaritan has insisted that you take this jacket to drape over yourself so you can get out of the rain. Drying down there does seem to be a touch of sweet floral, but you gotta lean in to get a whiff. Maybe that's what I was wearing when I ducked under the dark leather. I feel like I gotta go write a romance novel now. Give this one a sniff, it is quite a composition!
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There is something ever so slightly and fleetingly sour happening when I first apply this, and at first I thought it could be the cypress or the rose, but maybe it's those in combination with another note - could well be a lemony aspect of the frankincense. It doesn't stay sour, anyway: it quickly settles into a delicate scent of mourning, with somber resins, dark rose, and gentle cypress. There's a softness to all of it, a spare sweetness from the incense and herbs that is calming and elegant. Low throw, decent staying power.
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The marshmallow foam in this is what makes it magical for me. I get the cherry candy at first, but then it's all cherry tinted marshmallow, warm and gooey, like it wants to turn into toasted marshmallows on my skin, but it's still goo. Like leaning in to sniff a cherry meringue pie, except the topping is all sticky marshmallow fluff, gently toasted. Of course there isn't really pie filling or crust happening here, but it is pure comfort food for those of us with a sweet tooth ...of the nose. Thank you, fairy lobster!
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I've really been enjoying this. I can get in close and pick out some notes - the berries and the maple are tied up in the honey for me, and a leaf breezes by in the top range - but the experience of wearing it is a comfy bear hug of honeyed musk. Not too much honey, not too much musk. Perfect amount of personal scent bubble.
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Coffee Bean, Jasmin Sambac, and Vanilla
LavenderCoffee replied to Seajewel's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is stunning. It's definitely not coffee forward, but coffee and vanilla provide the perfect amount of dark and sweet to back up a delicate jasmine. And I do mean delicate - it's neither an indolic nor a big brassy "get ready boys!" kind of jasmine. On application, the jasmine is definitely the leading note, but this only lasts for the first 15-30 minutes or so. As it wears on my exposed wrist the vanilla really opens up, and it's a scrumptious rich vanilla flavored with coffee, but the scent stays close to the skin. In the crook of my elbow and under my shirt I get a sultry combo of jasmine and coffee together, and where the oil has gotten on my shirt a bit, the jasmine remains forward. This seems like the kind of vanilla that might age well, and I really enjoy how it wears right now, so I'm thinking about a bottle. -
Can't recall when I last tasted the rainbow, but this scent seems to skew to the fun sugary lemon/lime part of the spectrum on my skin, and it's lighter on the cannabis component than the cookies or the brownie.
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Magic Double Chunk Chocolate Chip Cookie
LavenderCoffee replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Limited Editions
Ahhh nostalgia: it's keebler soft batch (and/or chewy chips ahoy) but with weed. I cannot stop sniffing it, it's great. -
I smelled 2021's Brood X before I smelled the previous decade's batch of Cicadas. They're completely different but I prefer this one. I love the earthy sweetness of it underscored by the amber, and I love that I can smell the acorn! What a great note to throw in with hay and corn stalks. Plus it really comes together and smells like something more than rolling around on the ground at the edge of the corn field. Lovely summery goodness.