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Softly smoky incenses with a waft of evergreen. This reads fairly cozy/cuddly to me, almost a champa vibe in long dry down. The resinous pine adds a nice touch to keep it from being too samey to other frankincense and myrrh blends. Wintery, churchy, and lovely~
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2024 version. Awwww yes. Spice scents can go so awry but this is soft, autumnal goodness. Not a cinnamon bomb. No Yankee Candle vibes. No sugary sweetness. Just cozy, cuddly dry spices, like a really good pumpkin spice herbal tea blend. Great on it's own, perfect for layering. Peak fall-winter vibes.
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I thought I was fully safe to pass on this one, having entirely too many rose and rose-vanilla scents, but then reviews started comparing it to Pink Snowballs, which I've seen compared to Love Lay Upon Her Eyes which is one of my all time favorite BPAL roses. So here I am. And it's really pretty y'all. I can definitely seen the comparison, although I haven't deathmatched em yet. Millarca is airy, delicate, elegant, and soft. The rose is equal parts jammy and fresh, maybe from the blackcurrant since I can't pick that out on its own. Ughhhhhh I love it. Adding it to my stupid little rose perfume shelf. Right next to Love Lay ♡ Eta: I decided to go ahead and deathmatch em! It's quite similar tbh, but Love Lay is still my true love. Comparing them, the white amber in LL reads rounder with a sort of soft glow of warmth, while the rose is decidedly pink. There's a creamy-milky semi-opaqueness to it, like a scent moonstone. In comparison, Millarca reads more dry from the lace, the rose reads as a true tea rose, and the blackcurrant is more evident, lending a tart, dark edge. Both are gorgeous in their own right and I'm pleased as punch to have a sister for LL, but I'll continue to hold out hope for another white amber rose from the BPAL gods. 🙏
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Pretty much agreed with the above. I haven't smelled Traditional Ghost for comparison but...this smells like sheets that have been slept in, motel hallways, and yea.... coconut oil. How it manages to smell oily is beyond me, but it's immediately identifiable. There's something in the combo that really makes me think of sheets that have been bleached and will need to be bleached again. I also get something like a skin musk in here. The lightly lemon frankincense from Vintage Wiseman Blow Mold is here, and a waft of marshmallow. The cotton (I think) is kinda crisp to me, a little sinus pokey but it's also not very present. The coconut oil and motel-iness are strongest at first, with a hint of that cigarette burn, then it's kinda strangely wearable. Like a person would just smell this way, no perfume required. It's weirdly nostalgic of road trips from my youth. (If there was the scent of hairspray and my mimi's Oscar de la Renta, it would be dead on for many a vacation from yesteryear haha)
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I can definitely see the latex comparison, the musk is indeed squeaky. I probably would've guessed a white musk if I was going in blind, (something about it reminds me of one of ye olden Love's perfumes, the ones that every girl child of a certain era was doomed to receive at least once). A sharp, clean black musk and vibrant, prickly tomato leaf. The tomato creeps up in prominence as it wears. Unisex for sure. This smells like a cool urban gardener. I was hoping the black musk would be the one from Iago but alas. This would probably be nice in summer, but we finally got a "cold snap" (the mid 60°s 🫠) so I'm ready for cozy things and idk that this fits the bill lol
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(Ok I swear to God I'm not just terrible at picking out notes. Maybe I'm just really good at picking scents that will inexplicably conjure up grade school memories?) I digress. This smells so uncannily like scented pencils at first. Kinda generically fruity and pencil shaving-esque wood. On the skin, it opens up a bit and the notes are more discernable. There's a dry woodiness from the oak and sandalwood, beeswax (might be the one from that deer moon duet?), a hint of chewy tobacco, maybe some brown leather, and i still get a bit of a fruity vibe for awhile.... maybe there's red musk in the crimson velvet? It has a very "shut up in the library" feel to it, definitely hits the vibe of the painting. Bookish without being heavy. Not as rich as expected tbh, but I'm not mad about it. Throw and longevity are average on me.
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This one started out kinda iffy for me tbh. The lavender reminded me of the one in Lavender Plum Galette which was almost....peppery(?) at first, and there was a note that was coming across as cloying, which I get sometimes with silk notes. But after it's had time to think about it's life, it's now a lovely lavender musk and incense scent, that strangely dries down to something that keeps making me think of nag champa. It smells like lavender laundered sheets in a home that burns incense. Cozy, fluffy, soft, dreamy. No regrets on this one! 💕
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I really hesitated to review this but, here we go! I gotta be honest.... this one baffles me. When I first got it, it reminded me of those little crappy erasers that are shaped like stuff? The ones that you used to get as a kid from like dentists reward treasure chests? That just me? Idk. It smelled like a rubber eraser. And it..... still kind of does. I feel like this is mostly the clove, which is a note that I don't often have good luck with, doing something weird. There's something almost.... honeyed about it? So like a sticky sweet eraser. This sounds like a crazy person review lmao. But I've had this for a few weeks now and it hasn't really changed. I might be getting a little incense smoke but I might also just be trying to convince myself it's there. I.... got nothing. I'd never be able to guess these notes blind. It does somehow conjure up the concept of frostbite or a burning cold flame. Probably better for lovers of clove.🤷♀️
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Tart citrus(lemon peel maybe?), glowing absinthe, and a truly foggy ozonic note that isn't an icepick to the sinus like ozone can often be for me. It smells like a humid chilly night, when the fog rolls in, but you're watching it while sipping a dry martini splashed with absinthe. Very refreshing and unique. Kind of reminds me of Toad Hall but without the wood notes that lurked at the base of that one. Perfect for this 80° Halloween weather here.
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Agreed with above! Rich dark berries and flaky crust when wet, then the SO starts slinking around the edges until it become dark berry snake oil. The molasses is lovely, but I love molasses and I'll raw dog it straight from the jar so 🤷♀️. The berries really do smell cooked, like when you're making jam. Definitely a different vibe than Serpent Berries, this is more rich. Darker, purplier, and more saturated. Both of these snakes were slam dunks and I'm glad to have grabbed em. ♡
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Came here to say this, basically! This... is phenomenal. I hate buying backup bottles, I never ever do it but this.... this I might get a second bottle of. It's coconutty af, drizzled with SO, so it's not too foody. It's perfect. It's great. It's every positive adjective. ✨️ Longevity and throw are also excellent. Possibly my new favorite SO variant. Don't tell my other bbs.
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Adding to the 'agreed' pile haha! At first sniff I was like "In Templum Dei? Is that you?" but this is a little woodier in comparison, and on skin they share DNA but are cousins at best. FUOVFU dries down to a soft, woody patchouli and frankincense, gilded around the edges with a very much not red-hots cinnamon. A cuddly, personal scent. Low throw but good longevity.
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This smells wet and damp for sure. There's something sharp and bitter, the rue? It's almost like a very concentrated pithy citrus essential oil, but more green? It's only really evident if I sniff directly. The throw is herby and wet, like a bundle of freshly rinsed ingredients foraged from a wild wood. Interesting but a little too forest hag for me lol
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My experience mirrors @sea turtle's pretty closely! The vial sniff is.... not great. Almost...mildewy? But that vanished within seconds of application and it turned surprisingly fruity. A sort of mixed bag of fruity candy. Like those Twinkle candy lollipop on the long plastic sticks. A crystalline fruit candy with floral nuances and a chilly musk. Great for hot weather!
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I didn't love this in the vial or freshly applied. It was just kinda meh spicy floral with something kinda funky around the edges, but as soon as it starts to warm and dry on my skin it quite literally blooms into velvety lily petals with a really nice dragonsblood wafting around. The woodier/haylike notes get stronger as it wears and it's warm, spicy, woody floral that manages to stay airy and light enough to not be oppressive in hot humid summer weather. This went from meh to the FS contender list.
