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doesn't list a "fur" note, but it really does smell like cats to me. it's nice, but i can't stop smelling cats now? strange, better with other people's skin i think! (maybe the label art is trying to tell me something!!) 😺 👀

this one's pretty great actually? sweet, bourbon vanilla, hay. i like it but i never seem to grab it to wear. i'll hold on to it & see how it goes over time though!

i really thought i'd like this one more? i actually quite like it in the bottle, but i think it's maybe too feminine for me, since i never seem to grab it to wear.

really intriguing scent. not too heavy. i don't think it's quite for me, but i stay curious about this one, as the notes puzzle me, like a rubiks cube that i can't quite figure out. i'll be holding on to this for awhile to see what i think over time. plus the label art is frickin awesome.

WOW this smells awesome! i want to eat it??? but smelling foody really throws me off, so i think it's not for me. really glad i got to smell this though! it's like bakery in a bottle ❤️ edited to add: honestly, even though i have a hard time imagining myself wearing this, i think that EVERYONE should try smelling this, an imp even - the scent experience alone is SO worth it. what a crazy, unique, and lovely little scent. i really hate foodie scents, and i can't get this one out of my head. it's worth it. oh it's so worth it. just try it, folks!

seems to be just fancy grass to me.

super fruity & pretty! feels kind of too "foody" for me at the moment, so i don't think it's for me.

it's nice! but for me, this is really similar to "Travelers Under A Tree Observed By Foxes" from the same collection, and I think I prefer Travelers!

smells really nice! i actually think of silk when i smell this. but it seems to be too faint for my skin chemistry. i wish it were stronger! i'll age it, but if it doesn't get much stronger than this, then it won't work for me. oh well.

this wasn't in my top picks at first, but once i tried wearing it, the scent gets stuck in my head. really lovely. plus i love foxes. light, pleasant, calming. not "too light" of a scent to disappear in my skin chemistry though. a keeper for my collection!

Full Shunga Collection: A Karasu Tengu Copulating With The Knot-Hole of a Pine Tree Adventuresome Encounters Balancing The Sake Cup Butterfly Dancer Cascading Silks Cherry Blossom Vulva Coy Mermaid With A Vulva Shaped Head Cycling For Pleasure Discarded Sandal Dragon, Rabbit, & Snake Ecstatic Dancing Penises Erotic Sake Bowl Famous Kabuki Actors in Imagined Scenes of Lovemaking Flowering Peonies Fracas with Eleven Kabuki Actors Imayo Irokumi No Ito Inspecting The Lantern Kimi Ga Dai Wa Levitating Phallic God Peach Vulva *(shipped separately - don't have yet) Raucous Games Inside a Bathouse Rippling Water In the Stone Basin Shadow Pictures Travelers Under a Tree Observed by Foxes Under the Foot Warmer Unsubtle Euphamism Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace Initial Impressions: Day 1 (Friday): Fresh out of the Mailbox - Cherry Blossom Vulva is the Day 1 winner. Beautiful fresh daytime florals. Easy to wear, not lotiony/soapy - just fresh! Butterfly Dancer leaves a good impression & gets set aside for my personal collection immediately. Cycling For Pleasure is immediately intriguing, & different than everything else I own. I can't stop smelling it, & it is the second one I try out. Balancing The Sake Cup is strong, & intense. I don't think I like it. It needs to calm down some. Erotic Sake Bowl is much more pleasant, very bright, fresh, happy, citrusy. Unsubtle Euphemism is somehow like the most delicious bakery smell ever. I don't know If i want to wear it - but I could definitely eat it. Everything else smells interesting but it's too much at once. Some things are disappointing, but initial impressions can be that way. I am surprised by the amount of varied scents, & how even throughout such variety they really do feel like part of a cohesive collection together. Day 2 (Saturday): wore Cycling For Pleasure. What a treat to wear. A new favorite. my partner tries on Ecstatic Dancing Penises. It is definitely a bit more of a men's scent. Day 3 (Sunday): Attempting to organize my thoughts on the variety of new scents. Initial impressions have left me skeptical of (4): Balancing the Sake Cup (too sharp), Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace (sickly sweet florals), Imayo Irokumi No Ito (too grassy), & Shadow Pictures (parchment note is strong). Of those, the first two seem least likely to fall into my personal collection. The latter two just might age to be much nicer - & I'll admit I'm coming around to Shadow Pictures more and more over time. Although I do intend to hold on to most of these as a set for quite some time, to see how they age, some things just don't sit right at first. The ones I do set aside for my personal collection immediately: Butterfly Dancer, Cycling For Pleasure, Cherry Blossom Vulva, Under the Foot Warmer, Discarded Sandal, Erotic Sake Bowl On Sunday at some point I tried on Kimi Ga Dai Wa - and I didn't quite like it. It may have been the wrong moment for me - it is very toasty & warm, definitely smells like someone who owns cats - it smells nice, but isn't something I see myself personally wearing. Late that evening, before bed, & after a shower, I tried on Raucous Games Inside A Bathouse - and it's quite lovely. Fresh & clean, fruity & steamy, beautiful spa vibes. Day 4 (Monday): Wore Under The Foot Warmer I think I just knew I'd love this one. Fresh, sharp woodsy notes, and a hint of pepper & smoke. I think this could easily be a daily wear / new favorite of mine, and it should age beautifully. It's a bit light at the moment, and I think it will grow into a bit more heaviness / staying power after some time resting. Day 5 (Tuesday) Tried to wear Erotic Sake Bowl. It turned from the beautiful bright citrus smell to soap on my skin. Disappointed, but saving it to try again later. Maybe it'll work differently with age.

Coming back to this after a month and a half - FAVORITES - (Backups needed) *** Rippling Water In The Stone Basin ***TOP PICK*** - i could literally wear this everyday. it's beautiful. fresh mountain pine, juniper, reminds me of a fancy spa resort in the mountains with trickling water surrounded by forest. ❤️ Travelers Under A Tree Observed By Foxes - wasn't in my top picks at first, but once i tried wearing it, the scent gets stuck in my head. really lovely. plus i love foxes. Under The Foot Warmer - warm, resiny, & foresty. definitely in my favorite categories of smells, so i knew this would be a winner. Coy Mermaid With A Vulva Shaped Head - beautiful powdery incense. light, calming, & peaceful. Cycling For Pleasure - salty pleasure! this smell made me seek out a lot of other Sea Salt notes. I have since found one I grab slightly more often than this one, but I still love it. Cherry Blossom Vulva - a wonderful lightly creamy floral. a perfect floral for someone like me, who does not usually like florals. Like // Will Hold On To - Raucous Games Inside a Bathouse - a nice, fresh & clean spa smell that i like, but is ultimately too fruity for me to grab more often. still keeping it for now. Discarded Sandal i don't grab this often, but it's a really nice smell! honey & wood, not too heavy. Shadow Pictures (at the boyfriends') Ecstatic Dancing Penises (at the boyfriends') Holding on to // Want to see how it ages over time - A Karasu Tengu Copulating With The Knot-Hole of a Pine Tree - i like the pine forest smells, but i think the rose throws me off? I honestly thought i'd like this one more. Flowering Peonies - WOW BAM FLORALS! super fresh & springtime. i like it but i'm hesitant to wear florals this strong. Levitating Phallic God - really intriguing scent. not too heavy. i don't think it's quite for me, but i stay curious about this one, as the notes puzzle me, like a rubiks cube that i can't quite figure out. Erotic Sake Bowl - it smells so awesome! but kinda just smelled like soap once i tried to wear it. maybe over time it won't do that for me? Butterfly Dancer - i thought i'd like this one more? i actually quite like it in the bottle, but i think it's maybe too feminine for me, since i never seem to grab it to wear. Dragon, Rabbit, & Snake - i was excited about this one, and it is lovely, but i think it may be too light to stand out on my skin chemistry. still really nice, so i'll wait to see if it ages into something slightly stronger. Famous Kabuki Actors in Imagined Scenes of Lovemaking - this one's pretty great actually? sweet, bourbon vanilla, hay. i like it but i never seem to grab it to wear either! Good, but Not-For-Me scents - (Oh hey they're all gourmands! hah. they actually all smell awesome! but smelling foody really throws me off, so i think theyre not for me.) Unsubtle Euphemism Peach Vulva Adventuresome Encounters Definitely Not-For-Me scents - Vaginal Tales of The Nocturnal Palace - too sweet Imayo Irokumi No Ito - seems to be just fancy grass to me Balancing The Sake Cup - I initially hated this one - & I will say this one has calmed down a lot in the past month! It's already gotten much nicer, so I'm still a bit curious about it tbh Kimi Ga Dai Wa - doesn't list a "fur" note, but it really does smell like cats to me. it's nice, but i can't stop smelling cats now? strange, better with other people's skin i think! Cascading Silks - smells really nice! i actually think of silk when i smell this. but seems to be too faint for my skin chemistry. Fracas with Eleven Kabuki Actors - it's nice! but really similar to "Travelers Under A Tree Observed By Foxes", and I think I prefer Travelers! Inspecting The Lantern - i actually really like this one. i just wish it were stronger, as it's also in the "too faint to be noticed much on my skin chemistry" category

I am really loving Sea Salt notes lately, and this is a new favorite. Extremely wearable, feels fresh & wet. Probably the most wearable "Sea Salt" note that I have, and I've been collecting quite a few! Definitely grab this if you'd like to check out more Sea Salt/aquatics Crusted driftwood planks & clean, beachy, kelpy goodness. Edited 3 weeks later to add: After going on an adventure to find as many salty aquatics I could - & Out of 14 different perfume oils I have tried that listed Sea Salt as a note, Alien/Siren is my favorite one. Hands down, a great aquatic. If you like aquatics, definitely try this. This one is fresh in a way that I cannot quite describe, not crusty-old-salt-wood-planks - the "High-end-body-wash kind of aquatic" described above is probably the most apt description, although the "Sunken-ship's-laundry-room-got-covered-in-seaweed" is, y'know, not wrong? in a way? haha this is one of the things i pick often when i'm fresh out of the shower, to add that "fresh from the beach" feel i think i kinda love Kelp as a note!

Smells really lovely in the bottle; like fresh, wet, bath salt water. Stepping out of a bath tub soaked in epsom salts or lightly rosy bath bombs. Tears, maybe. Unfortunately, this seems to disappear entirely once on my skin, until it isn't even discernable. This happens immediately, no matter how much i've slathered on my arms. I'll hold on to it to see if it ages into any strength, but so far I'm bummed that it just disappears so completely, and so quickly.

WOW! Smoke! Oh my goodness I knew this one would be an instant winner. This scent gets stuck in my head. I will likely need a second bottle of this. Or a third. It's simply that beautiful. I love amber, and I was almost worried about the smoke, as I wasn't sure what kind of smoke it would play as. This is the scent of the jacket you wore out all night to the bonfire (but you were standing upwind not downwind), mixed with strong ambers. Love.

This one is just so much more.... fruity ? than I expected. hah The blackcurrant seems to be the strongest note I get from sniffing the bottle (smells very plummy & delicious) The fruity notes do not play as "gourmand" however - this is very much an Elegant Perfume smell, of the Dark Elegant Plum variety with beautiful background florals. I think I was hoping for more of an "aquatics" experience from this perfume based on the scent description (having recently learned that I love salty ocean aquatics), but it doesn't play as an aquatic to me at all. Just strong florals & fruits, very perfumey. it's quite lovely, really. Just not what I was expecting from it, so I haven't grabbed it very often yet. However, I'm very happy with it as a purchase, and glad to add it to my collection. Interested to see how it ages as well - it seems like it could get much darker over time.

I wasn't sure what to expect - I think I was surprised when I first smelled it because I thought there'd be so much more resiny/heaviness to this. Smells light and citrusy at first, but it does actually have a lot of heavy depth to it. Floral, but shockingly wearable in the daytime for me (I typically have a hard time wearing anything floral in the daytime) Those bright citrus topnotes keep it very "daytime" & "active" Never becomes soapy for me - as some floral/citrus blends can do. I feel like this is the daytime citrus blend I've been looking for - every time I try a new one, I am disappointed that it isn't this one. & so I keep returning to Alice. She is wonderful. A keeper in my collection.

Mmmmmm. Absolutely a wonderful beeswax & balsam scent. I almost feel like I smell sandalwood, but it's likely just the balsam? I am liking how the beeswax feels "honeyed" without actually being that intense honey note. An almost subdued (but still strong scent) that feels very warm & wearable.

the initial whiff i took of this bottle, straight out of the mail one week ago, felt un-blended, and a bit harsh still. i couldn't tell if i would like it yet, but i was curious. it's been slowly growing on me, & after many sniffs from the bottle this week, curiousity struck. I tried it on finally this evening, and I love it. this has been the best slow burn out of my box of shungas so far. coy mermaid is somehow light, crisp, & refreshing, while also full of incense smells. The scent of the freshest incense that hasn't been burned yet. this is one of the first sandalwood scents i've found recently that actually smells strong - most of them i've found a bit too "tame," or "pale" maybe, as I typically like heavier scents. this is a very wearable sandalwood, & feels feminine without being too floral or girly. really looking forward to wearing this more, & seeing how it ages. ❤️

Definitely candied sweet potato/yam. This smells quite delicious, & although gourmands are not really my thing, I think I'll try holding on to this one for awhile - it may be something I enjoy wearing much more in the Fall.

I was so excited to smell this one after everyone's rave reviews here. Alas. I don't want to say I *hate it*, but there is some top-note in here that smells very pungent to me in a way I really dislike, immediately, so much so that I will not even dare try this on my skin. There is *something* that is oddly banana-like to me, & I will say that I *hate* bananas. I keep opening the bottle & smelling it again every so often hoping that the pungent note has left but it just does not go away for me, and it is seeming unlikely that it will. Even though this does not work for me, I can smell the beauty that is underneath the note I dislike. It makes me that much sadder to say that this one doesn't work for me, because if it weren't for that one note I dislike in it, it could be really lovely. At least since everyone else seems to love it so much, I should be able to find this bottle a new loving home eventually! Edit::: many months later::: this is just blending overall better. this scent still isn't really for me, but i will say it's calmed down a lot & i get why a lot of people love it.

You may want to try out Discarded Sandal from this years Shungas! Discarded Sandal: Beeswax, hinoki wood, Japanese black pine, juniper, tolu balsam, and muguet. I think it is quite delicious. The Witch/Strega may also be interesting to you - it doesn't list honey, though it has a sweetness to it. It's a personal favorite of mine. The Witch/Strega: Leatherbound tomes and rose cream, flickering flames of twin ambers, and a cascade of shadows: black oud, teakwood, black beeswax, 13-year aged patchouli, cinnabar, balsam, sweet labdanum, tonka bean, and smoke.

Very beautiful while wet / in the bottle! Fresh, bright, sharp citrus. Lovely. On my skin, it turned into a soapy smell. A little disappointing. I'll have to try this one again after it's aged a bit to see if there's any changes.

I'll have to agree with the above: wet, fruity, & steamy. There's a lot of sweetness to this, but it is overall a very clean & fresh smell. I put it on last night straight out of the shower & proceeded to lounge around in a robe. It was perfect. I kinda love the Bathhouse vibes of this collection, I feel like so many of these Shunga 2021 scents are reminiscent of a very expensive japanese spa (specifically thinking of the Kabuki in SF) and I am now falling in love with aquatics. Who knew I wanted to smell like a fancy bathhouse! I sure didn't. Maybe, I can even just imagine the massages now..

This is really refreshing. Like stepping out into cool night air. The sort of freshness you'd smell at an expensive spa. A hint of something that is peppery, with fresh wet river rocks & a trickling fountain, and a woodsy background with a slight apothecary/herbal smell. I really adore Juniper, so this one was an easy win for me. Edited to add::: this has become my signature scent, my daily wear perfume. It's so incredibly easy to wear, I'm surprising myself with how often i reach for this one - especially with how many options i have! I really really adore this one, so so much more than i initially realized!!