sea turtle
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I also get a lot of sour, almost mineralic (Flintstone vitamins, anyone?) berry in the drydown, with minimal Snake Oil, vanilla, or molasses 😕 It's a shame because in the bottle, this was a yummy cooked berry jam
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I'll be the only outlier here and say that this is super toasty to me, even after a bit of rest 😳 This smells like dry roasted rice with a syrupy lightly poached peach. Not a lot of coconut to my nose
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This opens with a strong! Boxed yellow cake note, highly processed and artificial (and super nostalgic for me). As it dries, however, the lemon and olive oil do a lot of work to tame the cake mix and it turns into a lightly lemony yogurt cake batter, to me -- raw, unbaked, kinda flour-y. It's like smelling a cake get unbaked! Very soft and short-lived
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This was tested with the smidge of oil left in a freebie sniffie -- very fresh and cool! The coldness makes this read vaguely masc cologne-y to me, but it's like a 3.8 on a 5 point scale (where femme = 1, neutral = 3, masc = 5), but I don't think this would be out of place on anyone regardless of their gender identity. This feels like if they made a masc flanker for Theodosius, the Legerdemain (Earl Grey tea leaves, a white fougere, jasmine leaf, pearlescent white musk, and vanilla bean.)! I'm glad i got to try this because the notes sounded very appealing, but this is a bit more cologne-y than I expected. As others have mentioned, I don't get much smokiness as well.
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Pink Moon: Ylang Ylang and White Musk
sea turtle replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is predominantly ylang ylang on me -- lush, tropical, heady, a little bit stinky yellow floral. This is somehow simultaneously harsh and soft to my nose, which I attribute to my partial anosmia to floral notes (perhaps the white musk is rounding the harsher edges of the ylang ylang?) Edit: Tried this with Pink Moon 2024 and it's pretty fun! The ylang ylang + strawberry combine to make a tropical fruity vibe that you can't quite pin on a specific fruit - strawberry in one whiff, orange in the next, and mango-y when you're not paying attention. -
I was hoping to get Strawberry Nequik like many other reviewers but unfortunately all I got was an intense strawberry hard candy 😥 No creaminess here!
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Pink Moon: Sugar Crystals and Mandarin
sea turtle replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Uncannily similar to orange Skittles. Not a super realistic citrus imo, but it hits a certain spot 😊 -
No reviews yet? Well, here goes... I'll preface this with the caveat that I'm likely anosmic to the white florals in this mix because I get no flowers here! This is like one of the duets from earlier in the year (Wolf Moon: Grass & Moonlit Dew) with a vegetal layer on top -- blue ocean-y potpourri with something akin to raw carrot. The veggies and potpourri burn out after a bit and you get left with a puddle of (albeit, refreshing) river water. This was much more aquatic than I expected!
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This is my favorite of this year's Lupers! Interestingly, I get a certain minty coolness in the opening, despite the listed notes, but this dissipates somewhat quickly. The red currant and honey combine to an almost-mainstream fruity sweetness, but the coconut milk really keeps it in check with a creamy smoothness. The coconut milk isn't coconut-y to my nose, but is instead a neutral milkiness. Comfy and snuggly without the usual "fall" or "winter" snuggly vibes if that makes sense! The only thing keeping me from immediately FS-ing this is that after a few hours, this turns a bit waxy on my skin.
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Wolf Moon: Grass & Moonlit Dew
sea turtle replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I got a decant of this for the grass and like Biocarbons, got ocean potpourri instead 😂 This is a perfume-y reimagining of that potpourri note and pleasant enough, though it remained dewy for most of my wear. -
Must be the tamest orgy ever because this smells like high end baby oil — a little powdery, a little soapy, and overall very clean. I think this is a decent "your skin but better" scent, but it's not for me. As an aside, this is the most viscous of all my Luper samples!
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The lavender note is the only thing i smell in the vial, but it literally disappears seconds after I apply this! What's left is an unremarkable plantiness and subtle sweetness from an underripe fig and some cedar wood shavings. Low/medium throw and not nearly as titillating as the poem that inspired this fragrance
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Wow, I'm surprised there are no reviews for this yet 👀 I'm not sure if I'm anosmic to the floral notes but this is fruitier and brighter than I expected, predominantly tropical but dainty sweetness. Both calla lilies and narcissus (daffodils) are rather musky and dank to me in real life and I caught a ghost of something like that when wet, but it seems to have dried off! This vaguely reminds me of CocoaPink's Just Breathe (vanilla bean, vanilla orchid, lilac, lily of the valley, cactus, exotic fruits, pale musk), which also read rather fruity and sweet to me as well so i believe it's a scent perception issue on my part.
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Way tamer than expected! Despite having three potentially sweet notes, this is a rather dry mango with musky floral nuances in the background; I think the pink musk and incense keep this from turning into a teenaged body spray. I do catch fruity whiffs now and then but sniffing my arm directly gives me a muskier impression, which gives me the visual of a hapless traveler approaching the namesake of this perfume 🧐
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I get a fizzy lemon soda with a handful of lychee gummy candies. Rather bright and cheery throughout its short stay! I wish I got more of the white tea note since I love BPAL's white tea but alas
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The lilac note here reminds me a lot of Alkemia's Lilacs Along the Winding Drive with a bright, hard candy sweetness. The greenness helps tame the candy tone but not enough for my tastes. I much prefer The Lilac Wood for a lilac + (albeit, soapy) greenery perfume!
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This is astringent! This reminds me of how my hands smell after removing newly formed figs in late summer (since they won't ripen before the season ends) and my fingers get covered in fig sap. Initially it's a nose tingling greenness, but as it warmed on my skin it grew a tiny touch sweeter and more powdery. I don't get very much cedar but I think it's there to support the chlorophyllic fig note. This reminds me a bit of Diptyque's Philosykos but Philosykos is notably milkier and sweeter while Green Fig & Cedar remains greeeeeeeeeen
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This smells as if you're eating a dried fig (one of the fancier, chewy ones) while browsing a quiet antique shop, complete with complete with dust particles floating through the stream of sunlight from the front window. Very heavy on the dried/earthy elements and not as fruity or creamy as I expected! I will add the caveat that my decant had about an hour's rest out of the mail.
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Just commenting to say that I agree with all of the previous posters: Picture of Dorian Suf is a sweeter version of Dorian (in my case, 2023 Dorian). I will say that the difference is most prominent in the opening, but after an hour or so of wear, the two smell nearly identical to me with maaaaaaaaaybe an extra pinch of sugar in Dorian Suf.
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I loooooooooove galbanum so I was quite excited for this trio! Unfortunately, none of it really jived with me. It opens with a bundle of dried grass with a cabinet-y musk and dried down to a soft aquatic note😭 This is my first time trying BPAL's galbanum and balsam notes so not sure if that's how they typically smell
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Red Amber, Orange Blossom, and Pink Pepper
sea turtle replied to Jenjin's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
The orange blossom goes *poof* on me almost immediately (though it was lovely during its brief visit) -- I'm left with a powdery red amber and a perfume-y pink pepper. It vaguely reminds me of Twilly de Hermes Eau Poivre (pink pepper/rose/patchouli), but without rose and more of a musky and somewhat powdery base. I rather like this but I don't see myself wearing it often, though I'll be on the lookout for other pink pepper scents in the future 💞 -
I'm unfamiliar with what BPAL's snow/frozen note should smell like but to me, TKSnow opens with an herbaceous lavender tempered with a sweet (but not gourmand) amber/vanilla base. The lavender is indeed quite strong but recedes quickly, leaving a faint memory of lavender in a lovely pool of the golden vanilla base.
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This particular blend of sandalwood and vanilla reads very similarly to some mainstream perfume I've smelled in the past -- it reminds me of the Chanel (either No5 or Coco) that a classmate used to wear back when I was a wee one; somehow spicy and peppery and rather piquant, contrary to my expectations. The florals are quite well blended together and I have a hard time picking out a specific flower. This is surprisingly strong on me but it disappears almost entirely after 3-4 hours.
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In the bottle, this is indistinguishable from a cup of coffee with a healthy dose of hazelnut creamer -- however, on my skin the coffee calms down considerably, settling into an intimate skin scent. I'm having a hard time discerning any chocolate but I'm also unfamiliar with BPAL's chocolate notes. If I press my nose to my arm, I get a wee bit of a bitter note that might be from the dark chocolate, but it seems more like a coffee bitterness. Surprisingly, not as sweet as it sounds!
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For some reason I don't pick up a whole lot of evergreen in this one - if it is, it's verrrry soft on me. This is a young, charming cozy amber fragrance that's a bit ubiquitous to my nose -- I get the same type of commercial vibe as RoseThornAndOak.