broccoliwitch

in the bottle it makes me think of chocolate coffee not pumpkin spice. it also reminds me of candy like old root beer barrels or old hard caramels. wet is more of the same with a little vanilla. my partner said “it’s what headshops should smell like” (high compliment from them). still not getting “pumpkin spice” per say but gourds and spice? I had never smelled og snake oil before this but this was what I imagined “vegetal” smells like, the gourd/root veggie/earth smell. (I'm into it… maybe i do want to smell like dirt?) dry there’s more vanilla and spices (but not spicy, ya know? its a cool spice). I can't quite tell if the vanilla is creamy or powdery but I can’t complain either way. oh and the coffee comes back in the background. yum! I bought this from a forumite to be my fall scent so I'm excited for this to sit around for a few months although I did find myself wearing it over the summer. it just smells better as time goes on and there's actually some good throw from a tiny dab from the cap (god bless). I've never smelled boomslang but I definitely could see why people would say these are similar based on the notes. ultimately, it also makes me nostalgic for something I can’t quite place (is it chocolate scented markers, root beer lip smakers, tootsie rolls, fake chocolate baby doll smell??) its subtle but interesting and I imagine a lot of future layering potential, a big plus for me. blind buying wins again.

I’m on a quest for milks (peach milk I’m coming for you!!) and I couldn’t pass this one up if only for novelty sake. my impression was that it was going to be a soft sweet and tangy milky perfume. I was nervous about the white chocolate note though. I typically don’t like chocolate notes and i’m not a huge fan of white chocolate irl. in the bottle this smells like egg nog or maybe cereal milk. my partner said it smelled like gingerbread which I totally understand even though I didn’t really smell it. also wow this is strong, but will that translate to a lot of throw? wet it’s sweet and spice. spice cookies and milk? I think I'm getting a bit of the honey dust here which is adding dryness to all the wet. I can’t truly discern any one of anything but it’s all really lovely. I’m a newbie so I guess that means that this is really well blended! I thought this one would be a gourmand but it definitely has more of a traditionally perfumery smell to me. surprisingly, i don’t mind it… dry I can start to pick out some notes. marshmallow is the the first thing I can recognize in all of this sweet. I’m loving this and I can see myself layering it with everything (hello lick it’s and snake milk). as time goes on I think the vanilla cashmere starts to come out as well because there is something reminiscent of a sweater about it. it definitely gets gentler overtime and i really have to stick my nose in it to smell but after about an hour I’m getting the white chocolate anchoring with the honey dust and it’s quite nice. When wet this almost teetered on being too sweet even for me a certified gourmand fiend. thankfully, it lightens up as time goes on. I don’t love this but i really like it and i can see myself using it regularly for layering! It sweetens in a different way than Sugar Cookies with Extra Sugar (my current go to sweetener) and I’m digging having options. the only thing missing for me is more of a tang from the goat’s milk. this is indeed the ghost of a milk and I want more milk! I might have to finally brave trying White Larry to get it…

I’ve been eyeing this one and I was lucky to scoop up a decant because I was very close to blind bottling and I think I would have been disappointed. Rose is usually a slam dunk but this one is tricky… in the bottle dewy roses, very promising. wet is very juicy roses, fresh cut from the garden. it’s a green sort of rose smell that makes me think of pink roses over red. I haven’t smelled the lab’s snow note before but this is coming across to me as sweet vanilla and powdery. i was hoping for more of a minty snow though… pleasant but i want the mint! Or even coconut snow but I’m not getting that either, just sweet. hmm, i wonder if what i’m perceiving as powder is actually fur… dry fresh out of the mail was awful. I understand why people don’t like rose now. it went straight to rose soap and something that made me think of cat pee and sweat (ugh, tends to neutralize my funk so maybe that's why? no idea about the cat pee). dry day two is much more powdery/snowy than roses and I'm not sure if I'm into it. I don’t hate this but it’s definitely not what I wanted. I'm not sure why I thought this would be more gourmand-y but to me it’s firmly in the clean laundry perfume camp. I also think my skin is eating all the rose and that’s why it smells so clean to me. I'm getting mostly snow and fur/musk and the little bit of rose I do get is the gentle rose scent you find in skin care and cleaning products (I would totally buy this as laundry detergent… hmm maybe an atmos spray would be nice?). this is the cleanest bear ever and I think I was expecting something a bit dirtier. *side note: I am on my period so I think that may be affecting things, especially since my skin loves rose so much. i’ll test again in 2 weeks and see if anything changes. I'm glad to have finally tried this! I love the name and the imagery and I think it will be lovely around the holidays. I want every blanket I'm snuggling to smell like this.

American Gods is a favorite of mine and I’ve been looking forward to trying something from this collection. in the bottle cool vanilla and sweetness. my partner described it as a snuggly scent and I agree. wet has gorgeous almost peppery florals starting to come out with the vanilla and it’s lovely. the salty ambergris is just underneath everything too. this is another very well blended scent, nothing particularly stands out more than anything else and yet they all work together to elevate each other. dry is both gentler and stronger somehow. this scent kind of comes and goes on me like I almost forget im wearing it and then I get a whiff. a ghost of a perfume is a great descriptor! i can also see the comparison to ghost milk while they don’t really smell the same they remind me of each other (and smell fantastic layered together 😍). This makes me think of a fancy perfume but the perfume is being casual about it. vanilla and floral, gentle yet complex, snuggly and comforting. I think this perfume captures the character of Zorya P perfectly. I can totally imagine smelling this before actually seeing her and I bet getting a hug from someone wearing this is divine (pun intended 😝). There is something almost sexy and very intimate about this scent, it makes me think of nighttime... I think I love this and a full bottle purchase is very likely.

I tried to convince myself not to buy a full bottle for several months after receiving a sniffie because it smells so similar to another perfume I already own a oil dupe of and never wear. But after getting an imp to try and tide myself over I decided to just get a full bottle anyway, whoops. While the other perfume has a sharpness to it that is almost headache inducing the tang from this that comes from fleur de lait is so much creamier. I love rose and so does my body, I can't tell if I amp them or eat them but I know that I tend to gravitate to rose blends in all aspects of my skin and body care and this is definitely ROSE. I think I might also like peonies but I can't really pick them out over the rose. The rest of the notes mostly get eaten up except for at the end of the day where I smell like goat's milk (leftover fleur de lait i assume) and amber (yum also i would totally buy that duet if it ever existed). Roses and milk... apparently that's what I want to smell like now... and somehow it's working. Also as a former Lush employee I think the comparisons to Rose Jam are accurate.

Green and clean but I agree that it's not soapy, because i actually enjoy it. I like how it smells on me ok and when I'm in a more masc mood I think i'd like it more. I definitely agree that this is a unisex scent and that end, it smells fantastic on my partner. I really love being able to share scents with them so that's a personal plus for me! I don't feel like any one note stands out more than another. I love the muskiness (brown musk?) and it definitely evokes a feeling of a furry animal in lush green environment. The weed is very gentle like nugs or shake instead of anything smoky like the description. I think the thing holding me back from really loving it is that i'm not a huge fan of pine but it's more tolerable in this iteration than most. It's a fun one to have in my collection and I'm another step closer to finding a green scent that I love.

I cannot lie... I also bought this for the name. Thankfully, I also really love peppermint! To me this is a very gentle candy cane scent that's lovely to layer with and add some sweet minty goodness to whatever smells are already going on. My mom always has candy canes around so this also hits me a little in the nostalgia center as well.

gimme a bathe oil now! if i were to have a signature scent i could seriously see it being snake milk! plus it layers so well with my other scents, super win for me! i have nothing more to add than i very much agree that it smells like creme brûlée, condensed milk, and flan. any sweet custardy dessert plus snake oil muskiness. this smells better on me as time goes on and i’m very strongly considering a second bottle just to age it. also the first time i smelled it, it brought me right back to making eggnog ice cream with my dad at christmas. i might need two just for the nostalgia slathering i’ll do in december.

right out of the mail the lemon (more rind than juice) was so strong and bitter i was aghast i’d considered buying a full bottle. the first time i tried it on it made me think of cleaning products but i tried it on again after work and i guess it needed more rest because this time on my skin... wet i get that lemon rind again for a few seconds and then it melts into a lemon cream. it’s almost gourmand but not. dry even more of cream comes through. oh man i like this. i'm back and forth on if i like citrus or not and it seems that i (surprising to no one) do in fact like foody citrus. i can’t quite pick out the amber or golden musk but there is something under the lemon cream that rounds out the scent and takes away some sharpness. it’s at this point that i'm once again considering getting a full bottle. another person said it reminded them of a Lush soap and to me it’s spot on for the lemony flutter cuticle butter. after about an hour what i think is the amber (deeper sweetness than the lemon cream) starts coming through as well as a “your skin but better” scent which must be the golden musk. i’ve been really into musks lately even though i'm usually i'm a spice and gourmand fan. it’s not quite a "me" scent and i was actually between this and Penis Penetrating a Vagina in a Pickle Barrel which is, to my nose, much more foody/edible and bright. i thought these would be too similar to own one of each but this one is much softer and sweeter and i could see them layering amazingly. of the decants i got this (and imose-yama) was my partner’s favorite so a big bottle may be necessary.