doomsday_disco Report post Posted November 20, 2024 Vanillekipferl plunked in a pile of pine needles. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doomsday_disco Report post Posted November 29, 2024 (edited) Take the Lab's Sugar Cookie scent and smush some pine needles into it, and you get Eighteenth Lash. That's it. That's the scent. It starts off more pine forward, but very quickly becomes all about the Lab's Sugar Cookie scent with a hint of pine. I wish the pine stuck around longer, but I like the Lab's Sugar Cookie scent, so I'm not mad. I'm about to go layer it with Thirteenth Lash and see how that goes! *edit* I'm editing in my review, because I've since worn the Lab's Sugar Cookie scent for the first time this year, which has a warm, toasty, syrupy aspect to it that this cookie note does not have, so I was misremembering what it smelled like. It may be more like the sugar cookie in Sugar Cookies With Extra Sugar, which I no longer own to compare. The scent I can most compare it to probably isn't helpful for very many readers, but the closest thing I can compare it to is a body butter from Angel Milk Beauty called Betty's Shortbread Cookies, which is a vanilla almond cookie scent, but that one is a little sweeter than this. I made Vanillekipferl this year in my Christmas cookie line-up, and it was one of my favorite cookies that I made. They are just so amazing with a cup of hot tea! But I digress. Although the cookies contain a lot of almonds, there is no overwhelming almond in this scent to the almond-averse. This is more about the powder-sugar dusted vanilla shortbread-esque cookie. While I still wish the pine would stick around longer, I do really enjoy the cookie note and am still happy with my bottle. Edited December 31, 2024 by doomsday_disco Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
white_jenna63 Report post Posted December 31, 2024 When I read the notes on the label before testing, I thought maybe I had requested the wrong Lash. I love vanilla, but I don't wear gourmand, and I don't care for pine. Regardless, that is indeed what I had ordered, and I was SO pleasantly surprised! On me, there's a burst of sweet and then it settles into a huffably gorgeous clean unisex scent. It's not soapy, mind you, but fresh and sweet. I don't think I could pick out notes beyond that. I want to bathe in this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghoulnextdoor Report post Posted Thursday at 09:56 PM This is the scent of buttery, crumbly, melty cookies with a base of bitter, oily walnuts and a rich, caramelized shortbread bottom. Baked in the steam and sap of an enchanted pine's resinous heart, they've taken on the deep forest's secrets - as if being born in the heart of an ancient conifer has imbued them with its balsamic soul. Wear this scent and imagine this treat while Chelsea Wolfe's haunting voice carries you far over misty mountains cold, where dark things sleep in hollow halls beneath the fells. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LavenderCoffee Report post Posted Thursday at 10:36 PM These cookies have way more va-va-voom vanilla to them than other sugar cookie scents I've tried from the lab, and it's in the name so I suppose they ought to. Plus the cookie aspect is staying true on my skin longer than the others as well, so that's a bonus. I was hoping for more pine needles, but that may evolve with time. For the moment I smell like I've been plunked in the powdered sugar and I'm not mad about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
