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    If your top 5 scents are... Then try these!

    I totally second Pepper, it's creamy and beautiful. Another creamy scent is Al Azif. I would also suggest Night Raven if you love Scheherazade.
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    Appropriate Scents for Teens?

    That's also the impression I got of Djinn from reviews, but I thought it better to check. Teenagers...taste just like chicken... Seriously though, perfume is so subjective. I know you don't want to run around in a cloud of perfume at your age, but some people amp up certain fragrance elements. I tend to turn everything very sugar sweet. That's just my body chemistry. It's also what smells good to you, that's another thing that is totally personal. My youngest daughter loves the smell of coffee, so I have bought her a few coffee scented things. She does not drink coffee however, go figure. And THEN you have to think about other people, which is why you might want something on the lighter side. You can save the heavier stronger smelling stuff for non school days. If I have to go to my kid's school I tend to avoid patchouli, I don't want to overwhelm. If you would like, I can send you some imps, I have many many many of them. I may be able to find things that you want to try. If so send me a PM.
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    Appropriate Scents for Teens?

    My eleven year old loves Snake Oil. I don't find it sexual, it's vanilla to the power of ten.
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    Gacela of the Dark Death

    I bought the 2012 version, and I still have a bit of it. Strangely although I am not crazy about it, it seems to call to me on some dark gloomy days. Also on some deadly hot days when I want to smell a cool snowy forest. I have to dig a little deep for the snow however, it's mostly a big burly pine tree trying to take over everything. No clove. sigh. It is really deep and lovely, my BFF told me I HAD TO HAVE IT, and seemingly I did. This bottle's fine though...no backups required.
  5. El Dia de los Reyes, which is a Yule that you can get this year is a very nice chocolate. It has that same sort of vibe as Boomslang to me.
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    Snow White Hair Gloss

    This is, like Snow White, so beautiful. Lovely, feminine, but not department store perfumey. I love Snow White as a perfume, because I can wear it in situations where I don't want to smell like Ye Olde Hippie, but want something that is more than just clean. I have to experiment what I can layer this with besides Snow White...
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    Oranges, Satsumas, Tangerines & Mandarins

    Thanks for that LiberAmoris, that's going right on The List. I had it there but then was like ??? knowing it's orange gets it a top slot. I love the lab's orangey notes, like in Vampire Bride, and Ruddy Daggerwing.
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    Sandalwood Scents

    Antimony V9 is my favorite, glad to have nabbed backups of this one.
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    Gingerbread Sin

    Yes indeed, this is Gingerbread. And Sin. Totally winning. It did disappear like poof on me though, sigh. Might need some old aging. I still go for Gingerbread Snake or Poppet before this one, we'll just push it to the back of the shelf and let it mature. and...a year later... Well. Can I just say that I am wearing the hell out of this one now? Strangely it smells like a Snake to me, but deeper, richer. It's awesome. I think if I had known how incredible these Gingerbreads would end up I would have bought all of them...love love love
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    Vasilissa

    Ooh, I like this one. I don't remember if I ever got this as an imp before. I know I have been curious, being that Marchen is a favorite world of mine, and very nostalgic as The Little Wooden Doll was my first bottle purchase from Black Pheonix. To me it's very yellow and pink, very pretty, it smells like lipstick. There's an almost candle wax thing going on too, the scent is very round. A little fruity. That might be the myrrh, which is a note that mystifies me. This is on my next to buy GC list, I could see wearing this on many occasions where I want to be soft and pretty and Nice Mommy, tempering the Actual Mommy, who has a lot of tattoos and a ring in her nose.
  11. Am so confused about myrrh, I don't know if I like it or not
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    Sell me on patchouli?

    Funnel of Love. Awesome patchouli but very nicely blended with other things.
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    Streets of Detroit

    Heavens to Mergatroid, I have no clue why there is any of this stuff left at the Lab...it's because the description says "motor oil" and many I am sure like me clutched the pearls and said oh my...and moved on to other more gentile things...that said I bought this for my gear head Jim Jarmusch/Black Pheonix lovin' son thinking ok right up his alley. But, of course I had to test it before gifting, duh... WOW. This is amazing. I need 14 bottles. This is beautiful black musk with incense (I should learn anything with black musk = buy here in BPAL land) with some beefy throw and lasting power. This. Is going right in the cart in my follow up Yule order.
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    This is Your Wilderness

    I got this for my son as a gift, and I liked it but wasn't heartbroken to see it go. It has that Fuzzy thing, if you loved Sylvia or Shiny Furball Hair Gloss, you will love this. It's furry and lush. Very nice but not totally me.
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    Lick It Softly

    This is the only other Lick It I have besides this years (2014) and I am down to the last quarter of a bottle. I have a feeling I would love any of this series, I really enjoy the skin cooling feeling with this. I wore it a lot in the summer, and also paired it with Gelt, to be a mint chocolate thing. To anyone having their own personal weather system, especially at night, this is a very pleasant relief...it's cool and sweet without being baked goods, or too cloying. Fresh and relaxing. I could not see being without a Lick It...
  16. I guess I should learn that when the first ingredient is Black Musk, I should just buy it and not ask questions. I got Streets of Detroit for my son for Xmas, and of course had to try it, wow. It's amazing, I need my own. It was straight up incense, like the kind in The Diamond's Gong but stronger, to me. He took it out and tried just a drop on, and I could smell it, and I was sitting about four feet away. zomg amazing.
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    Frosty Silkybat Hair Gloss

    Lawd have mercy this is gorgeous...I thought Silkybat was amazing, I didn't really get how the snow stuff was going to go with the Silkybat, but yes, it goes. And it stays! I smell it in my hair hours later. So. Good. Trust me, you need 3 bottles. Edit!!! I am not one of those people who regularly says, oh I put a drop of this on and I still smell it after two showers...I am a notorious slathering oil-eater, who regularly says, huh, can't smell this one at all, BUT...two days later and I can still smell the snow note of this in my hair...gosh it's awesome.
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    Practical Occultism

    Really really happy I got this one. It's quite dark and sophisticated, what it ultimately reminded me of was a grown up Scrappy Damsel. Wet it starts off with a sharpish almost olive fruity scent, like red wine. It drys down to something very lush. I am a huge cinnamon fan, but the cassia in this is not like the sweeter cinnamon in Playful Wooden Mallets, it's more of a dry spicey cinnamon. It does as the previous reviewer said, have a "magical " oil feeling, in fact I feel like the middle phase smells almost like my money mojo bag when it is scented with Prosperity from TAL. This oil has great staying power, and does go through really nice changes. I got a little nervous because it felt warm on some parts of my skin and I was afraid that like Chimera or Harlot I was going to be skin sensitive to it and not be able to wear it, but it never hit that ouch burning phase, it remained just warm, and I reapplied a few times in the same spots. It does smell nice for right now, it's warm and spicy. This smells how potpourri would smell if Beth made it, really spicy and not vile.
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    Lick It With Consent (2014)

    This years is nice and sweet, very candy. I love these for summer...the oil actually feels cool on the skin
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    Claircognizance

    This!!!!!!!!!! This has the same thing that I don't know what it is, the same strange creamy but fizzy note that is in Stardust and Wretched Rose Window. Whatever it is I love it. Love it.
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    Splendid Summer Days Atmosphere Spray

    I love this, it's really lush, has that sort of "florist's" smell to me. I often spray my clothes with the atmosphere sprays, I could see wearing this with any number of rosy things.
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    Single Note: Stage Blood

    Thank you everyone for your reviews, so happy I have this. I know there will be days where the candy goodness of this will be perfect. Can I just edit to say that this single note is not a single note really, it starts off obnoxious cherry (which I love) with Dragon's Blood and eases into a DB softened by the cherry candy. I am so surprised by how much I love this one, it may break my No Backups rule. I have been looking for the perfect Dragon's Blood, most of them disappear like poof for me, even my beloved RIP Dragon's Reverie was gone in a half hour, but this one lasts, and morphs beautifully.
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    The search for the perfect Violet....

    Strangely I do not get any rose from Marie, it's straight up violet for me.
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    Beachy, Tropical Scents

    Mary Read, it's in Bewitching Brews : Salt air, ocean mist, aged patchouli, sarsaparilla, watered-down rum, leather-tinged musk, and a spray of gunpowder. I really love this one, the patchouli is a light grounding element here. It's very nicely blended, the sarsaparilla just giving a tinge of sweetness.
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    The White Witch

    This is a nice red musk, playing well with everything else, not just stomping around and taking over. Edit : I don't get it. Clearly it was fine when I got it, but after resting a couple weeks, it's turned into pure evil. All I smell is that top note of molasses from Black Taffetta, and herbal who knows what, like the same thing as Witch's Garden, frimps of which have gone straight into the oil burner. Blergh. This is so sad...I had to dig up my sales thread for this one.
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