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    Dark Rosaleen

    This is beautiful, and seemingly very evocative, and different for everyone. It reminds me of Gacela of the Dark Death, but somehow less aggressive (no clove), and more sophisticated. Just gorgeous, it's piney without being Pine Sol baby, and as I wear it it softens but somehow is still very present. Smells almost sandalwoody in the bottle. Very wearable and absolutely unisex.
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    Anesthesia

    The absolute perfect cool on the skin minty lavender go to sleep thing. Aptly named. Absolutely an out in front not buried in the back of others bottle.
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    Dark Rosaleen

    This is really beautiful. It reminds me of a gentler Gacela of the Dark Death (sp?), the same pine and darkness, but a little less ferocious.
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    Wine, Beer, Rum, Bourbon... the booze scents

    I love wine scents, that is my absolute favorite. It's really rich and deep.
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    Ivory Vulva

    Oooh so delicious...the coconut is not too overwhelming, it's sort of soft and delicious. Then pouf it was gone. That said I only really tried it yesterday, which was sort of a difficult perfume day, nothing seemed to stick around. So, for now, this is awesome, will retry to see if it wants to hang out.
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    Wine, Beer, Rum, Bourbon... the booze scents

    Obsidian Widow for sure. It's amazing. The wine listed is Pinot Noir, and it is juicy dark and red. Winning. The rose in this is not strong at all, in fact I didn't even know it had rose in it. It's much more of a wine scent than Blood Rose IMO.
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    Grounding Scents?

    ugh I feel the same way, it's hard for me to get out of bed lately. I feel like a hibernating bear, not getting anything done. Personally, I really like fresh fruity things right now, that remind me of nicer weather. The Fruit of Paradise, any of the Peach Pits, Red Moon, Adoration of the Mi Goh, and I am loving the vetiver things from the Lupers which remind me of dirt, vetiver always smells like dirt to me, like Mars Alator, and The Commentary, with fig and apricot respectively. Fruit is better for me right now than flowers. I might also recommend some TALs, I like Perpetuum Bonum, which is very cherry heavy, there is also Radiance of Ra or even Energy, which you might need right now.
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    Late Autumn Honey Bath Oil

    This may be too good to pour in the bath. I am clearly going to need more bath oil, this is the perfect lovely honey, with other outdoorsy stuff. Really fresh and nice.
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    Blood Rose Bath Oil

    Ummm, delicious Blood Rose...I want to rub this all over my body...wait! I can! Just as advertised.
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    Red Patchouli and Fig Hair Gloss

    Shoot me an kill me, this is awesome. Patchouli lovers, get this right now. It's different from the GC Amber & Patchouli. I won't be able to wear this to work, but that's OK. I have been filling my patchouli needs with Silky Bat, but this is patchouli with a backbone.
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    Rose Petals and Champa Hair Gloss

    Ooh pretty pretty... lovely incensey, light-ish but still present. LOVE this. This will go nicely with many different things, and be a well behaved rose when I don't want to live in a cloud of Rose Red.
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    Black Vanilla and Cardamom Hair Gloss

    Well, I got the same batch as annemathematics, very vanilla heavy. I wouldn't have minded the tobacco, but as I already have Fallen Woman, which is a beautiful tobacco, I am happy to have this vanilla gorgeousness. Edit : after a week or so, I do get the tobacco, and it's very nice. Not as strong as Fallen Woman but quite good. No anise smell whatsoever.
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    The First Love Fades Too Atmosphere Spray

    Whoa this is amazing. Beautiful. I have to hoard this for my job, my girl loves lavender like a maniac, so I spray all her stuff and often my clothes with it. She's very scent sensitive (I am a personal makeup artist for an actress) for instance hates patchouli (probably due to having hippie parents), but loves lavender, and loves scented things, so I am always on the lookout for something with a specific scent, that isn't obnoxious, as we work in a room with other humans. This is perfect.
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    Olibanum, Blood, and Clove Atmosphere Spray

    This is gorgeous. And MCS4096, we must be scent relatives because I agree, it's amazing with the Whiskey one, as I found out yesterday, spraying stuff willy nilly with glee and abandon. I get clove in here, and it's lovely. I do really really love this, but I find it goes poof. Silly stuff...
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    Whiskey, Candlesmoke, and Musk Atmosphere Spray

    OMGosh. Raving here, previous poster MCS4096. This is awesome. It doesn't smell like a bar to me (hey I am a child of the 80s, I think bar I think McSorley's at 7am, which smelled like 50 years of spilled beer, throw up and cigarettes. Blergh), but it could be the idea of say, a speakeasy in the 1920s? There is a boozy smell, but it's not overwhelming or extremely specific to me. It just adds beautiful depth. The musk makes an amazing incense. I sprayed it last night and kept thinking what is that? Is that my perfume? but it wasn't, it was the sofa where I'd spray the stuff. Just beautiful. Sorry this review makes no sense, but I am so overwhelmed by this. I thought it might be "fun" but instead it's really serious and gorgeous. It's like falling in love.
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    For Each Ecstatic Instant

    This is a beautiful well blended perfume. I am not picking out anything in particular here, could be the stormy weather dulling my senses. Again. That said this is lush and Velvet-y (referencing the perfume Velvet, it has that same dark plush vibe), and the jasmine is lovely, but it's not that sharp sort of jasmine. I think those who fear the jasmine might be fine with this one. It marries with the bourbon vanilla, amber and laudanum into something very smooth and nice.
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    Looking for a BPAL that Resembles a Favorite Perfume

    I love Agent Carter, and that whole time period. I think that for Peggy In Templum Dei is too frankincense heavy, too medieval/modern if that makes any sense. Lady Death could be good, it's a very well blended cologne type fragrance, one of my own DH's favorites, and he tends to slightly feminine scents. Spooky Action though could be amazing! I think Haunted could be worth a shot, it smells very "of that period" to me, the top notes smell very much like Shalimar. For Each Ecstatic Instant could also be nice for Peggy, it could be of that period. When I think of Peggy personally I could see her wearing Dawn Mourning Victory, which is a strong deep floral or (yes I know it's corny) Avenger. These are only personal impressions though.
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    Sweets to the Sweet

    I never reviewed this, bad me. This was a gift to me, with a wink, as I tend to turn most things sweet anyway. I love this, it's a delicate sweet sugar scent, kind of perfect and light hearted without being silly.
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    Osmanthus

    seeing the picture I know I have seen that flower in California (I used to live in LA) but I never noted the scent of it. My strongest scent memories from living there are the Jacarandas and the night blooming jasmine.
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    Venus Libitina

    This was another "cloud of gorgeous" from this years Lupers. I seemingly amp or can smell mostly the black cherry, and this is more like real cherry than cherry candy, everything else is there for back up. More creamy than tart, a gorgeous, delicate perfume.
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    Chocolate Stout Cupcake

    This is amazing. The chocolate is perfect, and the "stout" is also. I love this. I totally don't get any weakness from this, great lasting power.
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    Red Lantern

    Oh my this is some seriously good stuff. Wet there's a sharp almost buttery note, ok, if you say it's caramel, I'll go with that, and then it turns into heaven. I haven't really been able to pick any notes out except maybe currant. It's heavenly.
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    Osmanthus

    I have no earthly idea what Osmanthus smells like, can you give me any idea? I might be able to give you an idea in Fairy Bites or Brusque Violet and I also have imps of Oiuji Fairy Bites is great btw.
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    Mars Alator

    Surprisingly, I would have never picked this one for myself, but I was gifted a bottle of it, and I love it. It works really nicely on me. The vetivert is very strong at the top, but then it turns into a nice wine sort of scent (must be the fig) that is quite pleasant and almost like Dragon's Blood. The vetivert gives it a nice earthy thing, it's quite dreamy. Thankfully, I do not get any meat here, and it's not too boy for me.
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    Discussion of all things Amber

    Black Lotus has amber and sandalwood, but it also has myrhh, which can be a little bitter. Also Fallen, but there is vetivert, which also can be strong. The Little Wooden Doll may be just what you are looking for, without the citrus note. Tombeur (one of my favorite BPALs) has both notes. Other blends with sandalwood and amber include Mastermind, Sin, and Vasillisa,
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