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Woodsy, cozy fall scents for sure. Scarecrow, Jack, Thanatopsis, Nylarlahotep (The Beast) Magnificent Autumn, Samhain, Hallow-e'een 1914, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Hearth (Yule), Scarecrow Turned Philosopher (2018), Illimitable Dominion Over All (2018, the edelwoods), In A Whispering Gallery (2018, the tea plantation), Nothing But Death (there's a river scent in it!), The School-House, The Death of Autumn, November (Yule), The Governing Dark's Begun (Yule), Frostbitten Jersey Devil (Yule)

Daemonorops, star thistle, wild tobacco, and asafoetida intensified by hemlock accord, black musk seed, mortuary cypress, and black gum leaf. Super dark, balsamic, medicinal woods, resin and herbs. The scent has a brooding men's cologne feel to it. Really not as offputting as it sounds, not "fetid" at all. (Drydown does have a strong camphor element though.) It smells like black musk, with faint highlights of dark red and wintergreen.

I smell the airy/earthy Spanish moss when it's first applied. After that I get the patchouli. It's a sweet-ish patch on me. My main impression is black, glossy polished wood. While the green tea doesn't exactly smell like lemon polish it's close enough to be a less-offensive version of it. I do get a bit of green vegetable-ness overlaying the dark wood. This scent is weirdly formal to me. I could see it as a painted representation of a swamp, all black waters with a little bright green duckweed and a few sprays of gray moss hanging.

I keep forgetting that violets + clove turn to powder on me and the oakmoss doesn't help. The chypre is prominant, it's black and matte and a little scratchy. Overall I was hoping for something more slinky.

This is super refreshing. I'm reminded of Green Tree Viper, but with cream and faint waxy honey. It does smell like citrus, but not in a loud, bright, sour lemon way. It's more like the lab's green tea note. My only problem with this scent is that it gets faint after wear on me. It is cool, summery, and totally work appropriate. The cream does not curdle on me like I'd feared.

I don't get the smoke from smokestack. This is not an industrial smoke on me by any means. While there is a lot of smoke/ashes, it doesn't overwhelm the other elements of the scent on me. The sandalwood and sage are at least as strong as the smoke and I can certainly pick up the frankincense, or maybe I'm confusing that with the copal. This is very much like an earthy incense braiser. I really like it.

Very sweet, almost warm berry syrup, sometimes with an odd savory note from the roses. This seems to have a medium wear length and despite the overwhelming sweetness, I really like it. Wearing it outside I occasionally got whiffs of a pale purple berry scent. The currant is not as perfumy as it usually is on me. I sort of regret trading off my bottle a few years ago now.

Sweet tea roses, like The Rose to me, but slightly more lemony and without the stem note. Plus Shea butter. It's a warm, sweet rose lotion. Surprisingly, I'm considering a bottle. It is similar to Knave of Hearts, yes, but there's no blackcurrent. I get a weirdly savory note from Knave. This also seems to last longer on me.

Resin, tobacco, clean cologne (Jareth or Dorian-like fougere with vanilla and lilac?) with a dark, tight, thrummy feeling. I'm reminded of tobacco scented wool over clean linen. This is good, but I'm not sure I need a bottle. I do recommend this for anyone that wants a tobacco flavored masculine cologne.

Yes. This is just what I wanted. It is very rosy but then I enjoy a couple of single-rose scents, including The Rose. I imagine the sugar could be mistaken for soap, but on me it's more like rose scented marshmallows, soft and fluffy. This scent isn't super strong on me because I don't amp rose, but it lasts overnight.

At first this smells strongly like blueberries or blackcurrant and pine. There might be some sweetness coming from the oppoponax and myrrh. My skin sweetens those. There is amber here, certainly. Quickly, it goes a bit powdery, and I almost smell lavender somehow. It's not stinky like lavender sometimes is on me. It must be the combination of the tobacco and oudh which gives it a faintly medicinal tinge. Especially in the early stages this reminds me of Odd Portents from the Weenies.

Black musk, clove, and myrrh are normally great things that go well together in my opinion. My skin does well with resins too. But I think the coconut makes everything seem more "funky,". The clove being a very smoky clove doesn't help much. The unpleasant element dies down a lot with wear and it's possible that with the way black musk ages, the whole scent will mellow and become very palatable eventually. Still, I have other black musk and clove scents I prefer.

At first sniff from the bottle I got nothing but waffles. After I put in on, however, I was reminded of hard, sugary glaze with the cream filling that comes in king cakes. I like it but I'm a little on the fence because it is Very sweet and fairly simple Edit: On further wear I also get a soft yeastiness.

Testing this one, I get real blueberries, but canned blueberries in syrup. The crust smells like gram cracker crust to me, but that may just be me. I do get cream, not much, but it's really there. It doesn't go sour like milk sometimes does on my skin. Overall this is inky, sweet and glorious, but it tends to be faint and quickly fading.

I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment. The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion. The workshop of filthy creation: electricity-scarred cypress beams, ancient stone slabs, damp metal, the coppery tang of coagulating blood, and ozone. First review! I think most people were too hesitant to touch this. The first thing that comes out is the cypress. It's not too harsh and it almost smells like tobacco. I'm pretty sure there's some myrrh involved somewhere. Overall there's a sleight rootbeerish smell. Ozone is very iffy for me since scents like Lightning often turn into pure soap. Metallic scents can become sharp, manly aquatic cologne. The damp metal note here is surprisingly pretty, though. It's a clean, true unisex scent that would work very well on a guy. I'm actually getting a sense of charged electricity from this one. Very pleasant, not sure I'm in love with it but it was unusual and surprising. I hesitate to compare it to Ekhidna, since Ekhidna's spicy and murky and has an almost sour note but I can't think of any scent that comes closer to this. Clean, unisex rootbeer with an electrical charge. No contents of the slaughterhouses, thankfully. Edit: With aging, the rootbeer smell mostly disappears to be replaced by cypress and metal. Still a good smell, though.

Swirls of sweet dark myrrh and red benzoin. This is nothing at all like what I expected but I like it. There's a tart, hibiscus heavy tea called Red Zinger. This smells just like a heavily sweetened version of that. Below I think I can sense some dark myrrh resin, but not a lot. This hovers on the edge of being a red powdery drink mix smell, but it's better than that. I really like this.

This is lovely. The pumpkin spice is soft and not harsh. The only thing is that it tends to disappear surprisingly quickly. That should be solved by aging the Snake Oil.

I like this even more than regular Perversion. The spices are soft but a lovely addition, I mostly get nutmeg and clove. The clove isn't overwhelming though. I recently tried regular Perversion and realized it's started to smell way too strongly of grapes in the final drydown. This is more of a gentle mulled wine. Not a huge change, but a good one.

I don't get oakmoss so much. Or maybe it blends in seamlessly with the patchouli right now. In either case, that's odd for me. This scent is dark and very perfumy and wafts everywhere. I would swear there's a floral here, but there isn't. The fruit is very apparent, non-foody and blends well with the Indgo musk, which I recognize from the special event version of Miss Addie. Indigo musk is a bit hard to describe, but it's inky, almost leathery. I can pick out the olibanum as well. This is one blind bottle order I don't regret at all.

This is everything I hoped it would be. A smooth dark patchouli and golden labdanum are most noticeable. It's cola sweet, but not like I spilled rootbeer on myself. Dark resin lovers who can do patchouli, try this! I'm considering a backup myself.

Black-rusted gates swinging wildly on broken hinges. Weed-choked mausoleums and crumbling marble thick with corpse-green mold. Claw-streaked soil and broken pine boughs. I get a soft, powdery, misty green scent. There's a huge amount of moss and pine is soft, menthol-y, and not like floor cleaner at all. I don't get a lot of dirt, but then dirt has never been a strong note to my nose. It could be that it's mixed into the moss smell.

This is a very sweet, strongly jammy scent on me with some sugared pastry crust. My only complaint is that it doesn't have a lot of depth and disappears fairly quickly. This scent is pure foody.

This is very much a Yule scent, quite calm and still. The oleander is very subdued and well behaved though. The cypress reminds me of pencils, but thankfully it doesn't take over the scent. Soft, green, herbal, clean without being soapy. The oleander and ivy give a faintly ominous, toxic edge, but on the whole the scent is soothing and yes, cerebral. This is like a non-aquatic, non-mugwort, gently floral version The Waters of the Well of Wisdom

I wish I'd tried this before I put in my order, but I didn't think it would go well because I don't like sour scents much. But this turned out to be pleasantly tart fruit more than smoothed over by the rich resins of Schwarzer Mond and the spiced vanilla in Snake Oil. The pine is present on first application but on me it disappears into the Schwarzer Mond on drydown.

I am getting a bit of Revenant Rhythm and The Antikythera Mechanism. Except the whole thing seems to be sweetened by the root beer-ish birch tar and the tonka bean. Plus the oakmoss lends an earthy element to the tobacco. I get the feeling of a stone fireplace with cedar logs. This smells like something sacred, protective and comforting. Edit: It's just getting better and better. The vanilla patchouli, wood, and caramelized tobacco are extremely cozy.