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My favorite coconut scent that rarely gets mentioned in the "coconut" category is Snake Charmer. It's a discontinued scent, but you may be able to track down an imp or bottle.

 

The Lab's description...

 

Sensual, sibilant, sexual and hypnotic: Arabian musk and exotic spices slinking through Egyptian amber, enticing vanilla, and a serpentine blend of black plum, labdanum, ambrette, benzoin and black coconut.

I've been wearing Dia for the last 2 weeks, it's perfect for warm weather. <3

To buy or to review?

 

to buy.

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This reminds me of Panther Moon a little, or is it Velvet Panther? Or Scwarzer Mond? There's heavy musk and syrupy cola. I get a little Snake Oil from this but it's nowhere near as sweet and vanilla. I actually love this, and will be grabbing a couple more bottles before it goes away.

I've tested most of those and I like Port Royal and Jolly Roger best. I think they have similar notes of rum, woods, and salty ocean, but JR has leather.

 

Another great pirate scent, and hands down favorite is Anne Bonny: "...A blend of Indonesian red patchouli, red sandalwood, and frankincense..."

 

I'd also recommend Pirate Moon, which is a limited edition and not available anymore, but you may be able to find a decant around the sale/swap pages.

 

Pirate Moon:

Red musk, ambergris, coconut palm, red sandalwood, balsam, date, warm leather, tobacco, ebony, lingum vitae wood, pandanus grass, an' a touch o' lime.

This is such an amazing scent! It's not registering as perfume to me, but it really smells like the India ink I remember from art classes in college. There is a strange resiny smell that reminds me of one of the notes in Ivanushka or the 2010 bottle of Midnight Mass when it was fresh (frankincense maybe?). There's also something that smells like fresh motor oil.

 

I am getting the "peppery paper" others mentioned in the dry down also.

 

Rad.

Dolly Kei is like a lighter, flirtier Haloes or Antikythera Mechanism to me. Something, the tobacco-smells like teak/oak. It's a creamy golden vanilla. It's positively gorgeous!

This is just delightful! I can close my eyes and see the rabbit hole with dirt and greens and gardeny stuff.

 

I wish this wasn't such a light scent despite all the heavy notes. The teak is glorious. The patchouli-vanilla combo is slightly reminiscent of Banshee Beat. The musk makes it a little perfumery but in a good way, and tobacco is a supporting note. I'm not too familiar with some of the other notes or they just aren't showing up to the party.

 

This is a beautiful scent. I'm glad I got a bottle. :-)

This is not my favorite scent. There is sweet, cloying rotted flowers and herbs, and dirt and grapey wine. No...

To me, Chimera smells like the Aphrodite Kypria room spray, but a little less sweet.

 

I live cinnamon smells but can't usually wear them because it irritates my skin and it amps and turns into cinnamon red hots. This smells cotton candy sweet with warm resins and I love it. I would only be able to wear this in my hair.

I always hoped an imp of Depraved would come my way because I'm not a big fan of apricot in perfume but I do like patchouli.

 

At first, this smelled like overripe peach or apricot. I was pretty sure I'd have to wash it off of my skin because the patchouli and apricot we're not playing nice together. After a few minutes the apricot calmed down and I was able to smell more of the dirty patchouli coming through. Later, it becomes patch with an occasional apricot bursting through.

 

This scent really captures the idea of something sweet encountering something dirty and lecherous. I'm not sure I'd wear it often--I prefer patchouli with other dark notes a lot more.

I have a bottle of Comptior Sud Pacifique "Aloha Tiare" perfume and this hair gloss is a dead ringer for it.

 

It's so tropical and coconutty, and strong! I'm going to spritz a little on my hand to mix with my Marrakech hair oil so it's not so OMG-beach-explosion. I love this, glad I got a bottle. <3

Many thanks to my wonderful fairy.

 

I can't pass up anything with woods, and when it's combined with patchouli, musks and chocolate, I'm sold.

 

It smelled like Boomslang with a bit of #occupywallstreet in the bottle. Dark chocolate and dirty patchouli. Once it touches my skin, the cacao is smacked down by mahogany woods and balsam. I'm not that familiar with tonka bean so I can't tell what it lends to this perfume, but eventually this settles into a cocoa-dusted heady patch/musk with some sarsaparilla. The musk reminds me of the ones in the original Black Lace.

 

It's a bit on the masculine side but it's teh sex. The dry stage reminds me more of La Mano Del Destino than anything else. Slightly sweet dark patchouli.

I my fairy!

 

I wanted Silver-Haired Bat from go because of the ambergris.

 

I think the combination of benzoin with ambergris is making this scent a little Midway cotton candyish. It's butterscotch-vanilla-sugary in between the wet-dry phase, with a hint of the same cedar I recognize from Tombstone. At the end I get a slight whiff of pepper but it's not spicy, if that makes any sense.

 

This scent is fantastic!

Saqqara v2 is an amazing clove scent. It's by far my favorite sexy clove and worth hunting down.

This.

Jareth is Dorian with leather. It's not as sweet as Dorian can get on my skin, and the leather note is delicious. Too bad it doesn't last long on me.

I admit I bought this for the label art and the fact that it was dragon-related. While I love patchouli, woods, resins and pine...I was afraid the lavender, peppermint, magnolia and sage would make it icky.

It's difficult to tell what I'm smelling in the bottle. I guess I'd call it sweet pine? On my skin, I get a lot of gorgeous Schwarzer Mond-like patchouli, sweetgrass, coriander and dragon's blood resin. The peppermint is hanging in there somewhere but it's not obvious, kind of like like peppermint note in WILF does. Dry, it smells like smooth patchouli with a bit of coriander and dragon's blood.

I think Dragon Moon is a rather unique, pretty, "dark" scent. Everything is very well blended, definitely a keeper.

I have a love-hate relationship with rose. I love the smell of real roses, but BPAL rose is always sharp and sneeze-inducing unless it's blended with musks and resins. I wanted this bath oil forever since the notes sounded perfect for me.

 

The rose here is very lush. Like moist, dark red, velvety rose petals. There is an initial whiff of mandarin in the bottle, as well as some sugared berries. On my skin, the sugared-berry rose is joined by a soft sandalwood, vanillic red musk, and a dash of sensual tuberose and champaca. This stage reminds me a little of The Unheavenly City, but with rose instead of gardenia or whatever lush white flower is in that blend. It makes me feel beautiful and sensual.

 

This oil is the most magnificent rose Beth has created, and it makes me tear up a bit knowing how lucky I am to have a small bottle of this.

Oh FFS

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Try The Illustrated Woman -- on me it smells almost exactly like the scent you've described.

 

Thirding the recommendation for The Illustrated Woman. It's one of my favorites. I also love Black Forest: "Thick, viscous pine with ambergris, black musk, juniper and cypress." It's not as piney as it sounds, there is an initial forest scent, but the ambergris and black musk tame it pretty quickly.

 

Try The Illustrated Woman -- on me it smells almost exactly like the scent you've described.

 

Thirding the recommendation for The Illustrated Woman. It's one of my favorites. I also love Black Forest: "Thick, viscous pine with ambergris, black musk, juniper and cypress." It's not as piney as it sounds, there is an initial forest scent, but the ambergris and black musk tame it pretty quickly.

In the imp, this is all orange zest with a drizzle of orange blossom honey. I don't have much experience with linden, but once applied to my skin I get a fir/pine tree note which must be linden. It's not woody, but more like the needles. I can smell the honey in the background with some fuzzy warm amber and some orange zest. I get no vanilla whatsoever. This is a really Christmas-sy scent. It evokes a "cabin in the woods" feeling at this point. Once dried, the linden/fir note fades more and I'm left with a powdery amber and honey scent, with a touch of orange and vanilla. I really love this after it dries completely and the linden and orange are gone. I'm not terribly sad I didn't get a bottle, but if I see one at a good price down the road I may pick one up.

Initially, Thousands of Lights is a beeswaxy floral - champaca is always a creamy honeyed floral to my nose and it's one of the flowers I can actually tolerate if not in a 100% floral blend. I applied the oil to my skin and for 2 seconds I thought, "why did I not buy a bottle of this?", then it turns cinnamon spicy! There are no spice notes listed, but I'm getting a smooth ambrette, with a drop of frankincense, and borderline soapy sweet floral. It's almost getting into holiday candle territory like all cinnamon scents do. I think the bergamot is making this soapy, because almost all of the Lab's citrus notes (except lemon) tend to do that on me.

 

So, I must wash this off. I had high hopes because of the ambrette, frankincense, beeswax and champaca, but I just amped the soapy-cinnamon notes.

Beth has bottled Brownie Batter. Brownie Batter Chocolate Ice Cream to be exact. It's a deep, dark, sinful death-by-chocolate batter that you lick off the spoon and the bowl. There's a creamy note here, not milky, but smooth as silk. I think the oude is giving it a slight woody smell, nothing that really stands out though and nothing that takes away from the gorgeous chocolate.

 

Don't wear this while pms-ing. You will want to drink a bowl of brownie batter.

 

 

eta...just purchased 2 bottles from the Post.