Blood onmy hands
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Soft dirt and sour moss with a sharp, perfumey aquatic note. I think that sharp aquatic note is the 'tears' in the soaked moss. Winds up strangely sour and not dirty enough for me, actually.
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Powdery, honeyed tonka, a watery, soapy, floral smelling dragon's blood, and a charred, ashy wood smell. Dries down to blackened, ashy wood, powder and a hint of soap. This one isn't working on me.
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This is awful on me. A mess of sharp things thrown over powder. White sandalwood gives this a dusty base of baby powder, the white musk and narcissus smell like sharp, cheap, drugstore white floral perfume with an edge of soapiness, and then the black pepper (which is a note I usually enjoy) just smells harsh and out of place with all of the white notes. This was a scrubber for me.
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This doesn't smell like Snake Oil on me (which is fine, I guess, because Snake Oil smells pretty bad on me, and is the same fresh or aged for years on end). It's just a bunch of buttery cinnamon. Pure pumpkin spice scent.
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Buttery, cinnamon heavy 'pumpkin.' The beeswax adds a cloying sweetness and literal waxiness that just makes this smell like a cheap pumpkin pie spice holiday candle on my skin.
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Dorian is one of my favorite bpal fragrances, and I find that I don't like these type of blends, where other notes are added to what is already a perfect fragrance I smell a hint of Dorian's sugared vanilla tea when first applied, and then this dries down to all pumpkin pie spice and a hint of weird, powdery vanilla.
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I love wisteria (pale blue, cool, sweet, and reminiscent of lilac to me), but I don't love the other notes that wrap around the wisteria in this blend. The narcissus is very sharp and perfumey, and threatens to go soapy. The hemlock is thick, heavy, green, and herbal-medicinal. And something about the resin in this is sharply smoky and keeps making me think of cigarette smoke.
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This is like a mix of thin, cedary, dry patchouli and white floral soap on my skin. The drydown is like generic, creamy white bars of soap covered in dust in an old wooden drawer.
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I don't care for this, but I've found that the leaf scents don't tend to age well. It's damp, sharp, sour green leaves with a soapy aquatic cologne feel, and a drydown of really powdery woods.
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Tons of cinnamon and a hint of red cherry syrup, which must be the marzipan going all weird. Too spicy and too sweet for me.
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I like this blend, and it's so rare that pom and red currant work out on me (I find them to be very tart and sour). The honey and myrrh really sweeten the fruits beautifully on my skin, with a warm, resinous amber that doesn't turn to full-on powder on my skin. The patchouli, cypress and leaves swirl together and smell like a mix of green, sappy leaves and spicy dead leaves on my skin. I can pick out most of the listed notes at once, but it's a pretty swirl of fall leaves, red fruit, golden, honeyed resins and slight greenery... and I really like all of the fall colors played out in scent-form.
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Jasmine, vanilla, frankincense and honey myrtle, with a little bit of earthy, smoky something in the drydown thanks to the oud and patchouli. I actually surprisingly like the initial application more, where the jasmine is softened and brightened by the other notes. It smells like natural, honeyed flowers, soft vanilla, and bright, golden frankincense. The drydown, unfortunately, turns a little musty and smoky, but the lab's jasmine and oud seems to rarely work out on my skin.
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I love the white leather in The White Rider (GC - Marchen blend); it's like the softest buttery suede note ever. This isn't strongly leathery on me, though, and I'm not loving the rose note, which is going kind of sharp and sour on my skin. The musk gives it a bit of a perfumey, powdery dryness. Mostly a warm, dry, sharp & sour red rose scent on my skin. Only lasted a couple hours, and I find myself wishing it had more leather and more sweetness to it.
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Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Blood onmy hands replied to claudia6913's topic in Halloweenie
Mostly red musk, but with some baby powder from the golden amber, a weird, burning mesquite bbq tone from the vetiver, and a dry spiciness from the carnation. Not my favorite red musk blend. -
I didn't like this when I first got it, because the emphasis was on all of the notes that I didn't want - sharp, perfumey/musky, white tuberose, herbal lavender and baby powdery white sandalwood. With age, though, this has lost some of the floral sharpness to let in the dark, incensey resins, and the moonflower's sweet, cool, powdery tones keep it from smelling like pure baby powder on my skin. Dark violets, cool and sweet moonflower, and incense with a backdrop of sharp tuberose department store perfuminess and a hint of herbal lavender. The lavender and moonflower make it smell like a night/sleep blend, but the other notes give it a sexy edge. Not my favorite, because still the tuberose, but I've felt like keeping my decant.
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Sharp, soapy white lily and baby powder from the sandalwood and amber. I can smell a hint of sour rose in the drydown, but no wine.
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A Phantasmagoria: Scene – Conjuring Up an Armed Skeleton
Blood onmy hands replied to Aviatrix's topic in Halloweenie
This is awful on me - baby powder, harsh woodsmoke and soapy rose. Three of my least favorite things. -
Beautiful, sensual, gothic fragrance. It's mainly sweet red wine with a hint of smoky leather and a background of champaca incense and snuffed out candles, swirling and smoky.
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Bright, rich, golden, sweet frankincense and sweet, spicy clove with just a hint of tobacco smoke. Like Cathedral with a smoked sweet clove added in.
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The sandalwood and mintiness smell like spearmint chewing gum on my skin, mixed with a creamy, soapy rose and gardenia scent. Clean, cool, powdery floral.
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Départ Pour Le Sabbat (Aufbruch Zum Hexensabbat)
Blood onmy hands replied to suki's topic in Halloweenie
The lab's red patchouli and oud are iffy on me, but I love this blend. The patch and oud have this warm, dry, slightly smoky woods smell, all wrapped up in the sweet, creamy, foodie notes. I love the goat's milk note (creamy, cool, smooth, milky, amazing), and the vanilla and honey sweeten it up beautifully. It winds up being a creamy, sweetened, woody patchouli. So gorgeous. -
Sharp, damp, sappy green leaves and dark green ivy with a hint of soft, black soil and sweet, woody fig. I almost like it initially, though the greenery is a bit sharp and sour. The drydown starts to shift into smoky evergreen, like someone set the cypress on fire and threw it into the middle of the greenery, and the dampness is turning a little soapy. I don't get along great with green scents, and the smoke and soap in this one are off putting to me.
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I agree that this is cologne-like. The lavender is turning sour and strange on my skin, with a sort of dry, sour undertone from the moss, something like sour lemons, and it smells oddly musky and clean. I like my lavenders to be sweeter and more creamy/smooth. This is a soured cologne scent on me.
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First on, this smells like pumpkin pancakes dusted with cinnamon and drizzled with melted butter, maple syrup and caramel. It was so sweet, but fun, and I'd be hoarding bottles if it stayed that way. Unfortunately, the spice amps up in the drydown and I'm getting a strange, waxy honey (like beeswax more than clover honey) note that really makes this smell like a generic pumpkin spice candle, with a hint of maple syrup.
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Ashy, smoky vetiver and a really sour, sharp apricot and citrusy tea. I don't like this one at all.