LavenderCoffee
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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.
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Ayup. That's the stuff. Marvellously sticky sweet chewy gooey patchouli. Not sweet sweet like on the foodie end of things, but definitely sweet for a patch scent. Plus the floofy marshmallow is so great with the unctuous vanillic benzoin, unf.
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Swift as Light, Beauteous in Color, Charming in Song
LavenderCoffee replied to aphrodite's topic in BPAL Anniversary
I can't help myself with orange blossom/honey combinations, and musky floral is also a genre I love, so I am very pleased to have this one. I especially appreciate the addition of magnolia and mallow, it's wonderfully balanced and surprisingly light. Such a perfect summer scent! -
Clove discussion! including bitter clove and clove cigarettes
LavenderCoffee replied to amaltheagray's topic in Recommendations
Oh hell yes clove! A few additional newer clove scents that are amazing: And I Wede My Corne Well I-Now for a perfect summery clove Black Pepper, Amber, and Clove for a fancyy clove Cacao, Sweet Patchouli, Smoked Clove, and Green Cardamom for unfff stop it Gingerbread and Leather for even more unff Gooped Familiar and now also Cinder Paw for clovey cats Kobold Barista for clovey coffee Lavender, White Clove, and Ambrette Seed for a calm clove -
Between sawdust and red musk, somehow the sawdust wins. It's a rather clean sawdust, and I would not have guessed sawdust either. I might have guessed plum wine, which is almost correct. Maybe silly to guess at interpretation but this is almost like taste of something delicious in a cheap setting, ie., on a hastily assembled wooden platform - although the backdrop is lovely. It's unique for me in a couple ways: haven't got anything else with sawdust, and my skin doesn't take off with either the red musk or the frankincense. Clean, dark fruits, drop of wine, easy to wear.
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A perfect fruity black tea scent. I'm too much of a space cat to brew properly most of the time, so I get something bitter and oversteeped, but! If I got my hands on the perfect blend and I didn't louse it up, I imagine it would smell like this. Plum can go super sour on me sometimes, but here it's well balanced with the other fruits and I can still smell the tea. I love how the mandarin adds a juicy pop at the beginning and then lingers around in the background too.
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Oh my this blackened lavender is exquisite. That and the red labdanum are strongest out of the gate. Lavender recedes as it often does, but the gorgeous floral champaca takes over for the lavender, slowly unfolding and developing through the drydown. Labdanum settles down too and folds in with the other resiny bits. I'm also really enjoying the tobacco backbone of it. Overall it's murky and moody, but in an elegant way.
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Hmm, yep: there's a bit of spice in the figgy puds. or perhaps the smoke is reading as spicy? Plus the vanilla reads more like a vanilla musk than a gourmand vanilla. A strange combination of the edible and inedible, like the curious anthropomorphized characters on the label. In the end it's mostly smoky spiced figs.
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This is a lovely tribute to the lord of dreams. Some of the individual notes pop out when freshly applied - a true herbal lavender, a shot of sophisticated oud - then everything swirls together to transport you somewhere else entirely. The sweet agarwood settles in at the center of this scent, intertwining with warm amber and subdued lavender to tug at your heartstrings, while white musk sparkles around the edges. It seems like it could disintegrate into powder at any moment, but it stays soft and true and skin close.
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I ordered a bottle of Death Adder in September 2022 and may have tested it briefly in the weeks after I got it, I don't recall having a strong reaction to it at the time. I think the coconut was most prominent so I set it aside. Fast forward to today, eight months later. I felt like some Snake Oil, pulled this one out of the drawer, and opened it to sniff: wowwww hello vanilla! What a luscious resiny treat this is. The black coconut adds a deft touch of sweet fruit that is perfectly balanced. The warm grassy vetiver emerges as it dries. But danggg the SO + vanilla + opoponax is knocking me out in the best possible way. I am just gonna be sniffing myself all day now sheesh.
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Basically agree with Beary Strange: this is a yummy pink lotus scent. The dragon's blood acts as a warm backdrop for creamy vanillic lotus. I'm not getting anything bubblegummy and it's very wearable and comforting.
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I was wary of this one based on my experience with Cacao, Black Leather, and Incense from the '22 Lupers. That one was a big ol miss for me. This one is much better, but the leather and nag champa still dominate on my skin. I've had this over a month now and it's settled in really nicely, the black leather is giving a good leather jacket vibe, but I wish I got more sweet patch and clove. Anyway patchouli is one of the notes that tends to age well, so I will find a nice little cave for this bat to hang out in. Plus the label is so dang cute! In my heart tho, I think a Snooty Bat would really smell like Cacao, Leather, Oakmoss, and Black Oud from the '23 Lupers.
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This is delightful. or deliriumful? It's fun! Pink lime floats in and out of the soft cloud of mallow in the top range after the initial burst of grapefruit subsides. I love how the cannabis threads itself through the citrus and lavender. Playful, pillowy, summery.
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This is also a surprise hit for me. I don't usually want to smell outright like cake or food, and "cologne" as a note can be a fun roulette wheel, so I wasn't sure what to expect. To lean on the theme, this wears less like an actual cake scent and more like someone in drag as cake. A playful wink at red velvet and cherry, with no small amount of swagger. You can definitely tell that the artist is portraying cake, but you can also tell that it isn't actually cake, and it's also more fun that way (at least for me). By the time a hint of buttercream appears in the drydown, it's making eye contact with you from the stage and asking "you wanna bite of this, sweetie?"
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fwiw I am super ultra mega sensitive to the smell of dryer sheets and I'm not put off by this scent. Agree that this is very much like smelling a person, so it's ever so slightly unsettling to smell someone else on me! But as person scents go, it's quite nice: like someone who spritzed on perfume earlier and then did laundry all day. Maybe they had to go up and down some stairs, so the perfume scent has melded with their personal scent. Not a ton of throw on this, but imo it's just the right amount.
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We meet our friend the toad doused in rich earth and green musk. The first few sniffs are like being ankle deep in swampy terrain. But since you came all this way, toad invites you to stay and visit! Now there is a charmingly refined cologne of oud and moss about your host, and shouldn't you accept the refreshment offered? There is something adding the slightest hint of sweetness, perhaps the musk settling in, which is still unapologetically green. Could be from the oud though, which I find quite polite here, ancient and black though it may be. First time I dabbed this on, the mosses ran away with it after an hour, and now even a couple days later they seem to be more in balance. I kinda dig the vibe of this dapper amphibian.
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OK you know what? Yes. A real lil’ creeper of a scent. First few times I tested this on a wrist or a forearm it was just dusty and then it disappeared, so I put it back under the stairs (in the drawer). Now that I've had it four months, it's starting to creep up on me. I have noticed it wears differently in different spots. In the crook of my elbow I'm getting the peppercorn/cedar/patch as well as some fig, and on my wrist I'm getting resins and a nice whiff of vanilla. I also got some on my shirt and that's where it smells dusty, but in a nice homey way. A surprisingly nice scent for a curious critter.
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This is magical. I tend to think of hay as a warm golden sunlit scent, but this is much more of a twilight blend. The sun has set, the warm stones are cooling. I wasn't sure how much the datura would come through, but it floats to the top once the grassiness subsides, adding an ethereal accent to the hay. This rabbit hole doesn't lead to wonderland, it leads to the faerie realm, and who knows what the rabbit has been up to.
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I am a fan of the BPAL cat scents, so I was excited to get my paws on this ? Ash and burnt clove take you right up to the well-used fireplace, and rooty patchouli suggests some witchy alchemy, but there is also a softness to the scent. I thought there might be some black or dark musk to represent the black fur, and usually my skin will amp those notes, but I'm not really picking up on a distinct musk. It's almost as though the scent captures the paw itself, having prowled through the soot. Dark, fuzzy, smoky-spiced - and claws retracted, at least for the moment. I'm a clove-head, so maybe take a grain of salt when I say I don't find this excessively clovey, but it's also not an overwhelming smoky fire scent to me either.
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If you love these notes, you will probably love this scent, but like its inky feather namesake, it is wonderfully multi-faceted. Freshly applied, the licorice root flies to the foreground, but just as quickly the composition shifts to feature the stunning black amber. I don't anticipate getting "who smells like a root beer" when wearing this. Patchouli and licorice root beome as inseperable as the colors reflected in the metallic sheen of a dark, sleek wing. And then when you think you have the size of it, there is absolutely a rich, non-foodie vanillic moment against the murky backdrop - perhaps the resinous incense is benzoin, sweetened by amber. I find this phase comes more quickly on skin exposed to air, and it put me in mind of the striking white and black coloration of Jessamy the raven, as depicted on the Sandman tv series. A subtle stunner of a scent to help build your resolve, whether you need to draw on cunning, courage, or mercy. I am trying to talk myself out of a second bottle, but Ink Feather might approve of collecting the shiny.