filigree_shadow
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I'm going to have a terrible time reviewing this. It doesn't smell like dry leaves, bonfires, wine, or winter chill to me, at all. It mostly sells like a sweet creamy scent with a little bit of light musk underneath. It smells just a twinge grape-y, so I think the sweetness comes from the wine. Not nearly as feral and musky as the previous version of Hunter Moon. I like this one better. It's softer. In fact, I like this a lot.
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This is much sweeter than I was expecting! I thought I'd get a very masculine cologne-y scent out of this, but it doesn't seem particularly masculine to me. It's dry and smells a little leafy, and the leather is barely noticeable. It smells more like a plant scent than anything else, really. I'm not sure what date palm or snakeroot smell like, so I'm not sure what I'm smelling here. I think I can smell tobacco, but it's not like a cigar or anything. Alls I can tell you for sure is that this is a sweet, dry scent.
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Sweet, dry patchouli! The benzoin + patchouli combination is very nice. It smells so dark and resiny. The coconut isn't the creamy Obatala or Black Pearl kind, it's more of a dry coconut. Adds beautifully to the scent. If you really like patchouli, definitely try this one.
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Dark amber, dead leaves, khus, saffron, bitter clove, chrysanthemum, camellia, galangal, and a drop of oud. Very dark and dank. Reminds me of vetiver a bit -- that smoky dank almost grassy scent. I like the saffron and leaves in this, but I'm not crazy about that root-y smelling galangal. The smokiness is kind of odd -- it doesn't smell like a burning leaves scent, and I'm not sure exactly what it does smell like. Hmm. I can't figure out what I think about this scent. I sort of like it but I sort of don't. I think I'll have to try it again later.
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Wow, what a surprise! This smells wonderful. Beautiful, warm, and deep. It smells almost like caramel at first, but then the woodsmoke comes out. I agree with deleahrium; it reminds me of Pinched with Four Aces. It's not the same scent but it has a similar feel. Love it!
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This smells like vegetables to me. Well, no, not vegetables exactly. Like a vegetable vine. Like tomato leaf more than a bit. Smells like a vegetable garden in fall after everything's been harvested. It's not a bad scent at all, just not the sort of thing I'd wear as perfume.
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This smells like a humid, heady floral blend to me. Like what I imagine a garden in the southern US would smell like. Very green and almost damp. I don't think I can identify any particular notes in this, it just gives me the overall impression of a dark creepy garden. Really not the sort of floral scent I like, but it's soft enough that I don't especially dislike it, either.
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After reading the description for this one, I thought there'd be no chance I'd like this. But I was wrong. The wine part isn't overwhelming at all, and it really does smell like clay with a metallic tang. It's basically impossible to describe because it doesn't smell like anything I could name. Doesn't smell like a particular wood or flower or anything like that. It has a subtle "perfumey" haze that I usually get from metallic blends, but it doesn't smell like perfume, exactly. It's sweet but not it's not a fruity sweet or a floral sweet. To me, it's a very comforting scent. It smells familiar to me. Reassuring, somehow. I like it.
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I really like the Lab's oak and I was hoping I'd like this. The ivy's a little too strong in it for me to like it, though. It doesn't smell very mossy; mostly like dry wood and ivy. Except there's something really sweet in it, which is I guess the "decaying" part. Interesting scent, but it's not for me.
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This is lovely! It seems like mostly a dark fruit scent, but not sweet-and-juicy fruity. Dry fruit. I can smell the pepper in it, and although I thought pepper with fruit sounded like an odd combination it actually works really well. The dryness of this reminds me a bit of Chrysanthemum Moon. It's kind of hazy a little bit like that one was, too. The rose musk in this is fantastic. The whole scent smells so rich and warm. Brilliant. This is wonderful.
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A Murder of Crows
filigree_shadow replied to Heavenlyrabbit's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
This smells like verbena and amber on me. Not much of anything else, sorry to say. I don't like verbena, and I have lots of amber perfumes. In fact, this reminds me a bit of the Salon's Death and Life Completed. That has grey amber in it too. I like that scent better than this one, though. Honestly, I'm glad this one didn't work on me because I'd be very unhappy if I fell desperately in love with it. -
The pear and grapes in this one make it extremely sweet. Like candy. I don't think I smell any jasmine. I thought I'd like this one because I like both pumpkin and pear quite a lot, but this smells like grape candy. The thing I hate about grape candy and gum is they can never get it right and the grape part always tastes artificial. That's what this smells like. There's a little bit of pumpkin behind it, and I like that part of the scent, but I'm not interested in that weird grape candy scent.
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This is the Pumpkin I was looking forward to the most. And... I love it! It's mostly a dry scent; it's not that buttery pumpkin I've smelled in other scents. The flowers in this one give it a little bit of spice and complexity. The tonka and pumpkin combination is extremely pleasant, and I like it a lot. Definitely my favorite of the Pumpkins this year!
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Oooo. Not a sickeningly sweet foodie scent, more of a deep creamy scent. One of the patches from last year had pomegranate in it, so I already knew I liked the pumpkin + pomegranate combination. Wasn't sure how I'd like chocolate and caramel with it, though. But it's nice! Definitely a pumpkin scent, but it's kind of a creamy pumpkin with a little bit of caramel. Not sugar, caramel. It's definitely caramel. Smells yummy.
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I'm not sure I can smell the pumpkin in this one. I'm not a big fan of sage or sweetgrass, and I can't say I really like either of them in this one. Still, it's not bad. It's a dry, autumn scent. Not a creamy or buttery foodie pumpkin, more like the dry pumpkin from Pumpkin Queen last year. ... You know, the more I sniff this, the more I like it. It's a warm, comforting scent. ... Yeah, I do like this. I thought I wouldn't, but I do.
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Eek. This smells good -- complex and interesting and less pumpkiny than the others -- but I think I'm allergic to red ginger. As soon as I sniffed this my eyes started to itch. The last time I tested an oil with red ginger (War), I got little red welts on my skin. I believe it is time for me to stop putting oil with red ginger in it on my skin. I was hoping that the last time was an isolated incident, but I don't think it was. This is a damned unsatisfying discovery because I like this scent.
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When I first put this on, I had forgotten what the notes were so I didn't know what to expect. I sniffed it and thought Whew! What's the powderiness? Smells a bit pungent. A few minutes later I sniffed it again and thought it had developed an extremely familiar sweetness that I couldn't quite place. I was starting to like it a little more. A few minutes later I sniffed again, and this time I definitely liked it. Still couldn't place the scent, though, so I finally looked up the notes. Cognac! That's it. That's what I'm smelling. I don't really smell any brimstone or rot, just cognac and mahogany. It doesn't smell like big barrels of brandy or anything like that, it's much more refined. Quite elegant. Despite the initial few minutes of not liking the scent much, when it's dry I like it a lot. I definitely like it better than Montresor, Fortunato, Mad Sweeney, and other boozy scents. Wouldn't mind having a bottle of this one... 4 July 2015 ETA: This scent is pretty awesome aged. It has turned all viscous and thick, and the sweet wood note with just a light hint of booziness is veeeery appealing. If you haven't tried this one in a while, give it a whirl.
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The pear in this one is strong and very noticeable at first. That's just fine with me because I happen to love pear scents. But it doesn't take long for the pear to fade into the background, leaving mainly a lovely soft vanilla scent with some sweetness I'd be unable to define as pear unless I knew that's what it was. Soft and delicate, and very, very pretty. It was a given I'd love this, since I love both pear and vanilla, and the Perilous Parlor does not disappoint.
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This is a hard scent to describe. It smells a bit masculine to me, but not overly. It's still something I'd wear myself. It smells like... like comfort. Something familiar. Your favorite chair, or blanket, or sweater. It smells lived-in and loved. It's completely and totally inoffensive. There's nothing about it at all that I find off-putting or slightly off, or like there's some component in it that doesn't seem to match the rest. It's... you know, it's like that scent on your lover's pillow. Not just his/her cologne/perfume, but the scent of his/her skin and hair, and clothing, and shampoo, and all those things that go into making the person smell like the person. It's like that. All those individual comforting scents mixed up into one, and there's nothing else like it in the world. I would like to never be without some of this oil.
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This is beautiful. A light, gently floral creamy scent with wisps of old linen. It smells dreamy and innocent. It reminds me a bit of Beatrice (my favorite floral) but even more gentle than that one, without the slight spiciness. This one is all soft, lovely, and nostalgic. Stunning. I love this. It's definitely my favorite of the Haunted House.
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I'm really not a fan of herb scents and did not expect to like this at all. Myrtle is usually a killer note for me -- it kills an otherwise pretty scent. Virgo, though... it doesn't smell like the shouty sharp herbal scent I was expecting. It's almost soft. Not really gentle, because it's not a faint scent, but it's not sharp. It sort of reminds me of being in a shady forest. I bet that's the fern. It seems like it's definitely a gardeny sort of scent, except not the flowery kind. I would not have been able to tell you what ferns smelled like, and if you'd asked I would have said they don't have a distinct scent. However, since I cannot get away from the image of a shady forest, I'm pretty sure this is what ferns smell like. After I've had it on for about 30 minutes or so it develops an odd very sweet powdery tone that I don't care for much. Reminds me of what sweet pea does on me. (I wonder if that's the honeysuckle?) But if it weren't for that I would like this scent.
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This is mostly rose on me, but it's not just rose. I don't really smell much of the cherry or currant, but I can tell there's some carnation in there. Carnation and plum is always a good combination, I think, and I like it in this. Hmmm, fig and honey? Can't really smell them. Maybe a wee bit of honey. I'm quite picky about rose scents, but I like this one. It's not an old-fashioned rose scent. It smells fresh and sweet.
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YAY! I got Pumpkin Cheesecake for my Treat plea! The one I wanted!! When I sniffed this in the bottle I thought it smelled like a cross between Jack and Egg Nog. I was very eager to try it on, but I was a little afraid because Egg Nog didn't work on me. Sometimes foody scents have a tendency to smell a bit plastic-y on me, and not like the creamy goodness they're supposed to smell like. Beaver Moon is one of the few BPAL foody scents that smells good on me (very good, in fact), so I was really hoping the cheesecake part of this one would be good on me too. For the first few minutes it smelled like mostly pumpkin with some sweetness, reminding me a little of Pumpkin Patch #4, my favorite pumpkin scent ever. As it dried, the cheesecake part came out more. Well, mostly the graham cracker crust part and not so much cheesecake. It doesn't smell like pumpkin pie, it's definitely a cheesecake scent. The pumpkin is that sweet lovely pumpkin -- dry-ish like in Pumpkin Queen rather than buttery like in Jack. It smells great! I really love this, and I'm thrilled that it works on me!
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Gleaming eyes, screeching voices, glistening wings: black amber, black orchid, black currant, olive blossom, wood violet, lavender, blue musk, rose attar, and cedar. This has a distinctly caramel-like scent to me, and yet I've read the description about 8 times and I see no caramel listed. Weird. Anyway. Black amber = deviously fiendish powder culprit on my skin. I feel pretty blargh about lavender and cedar too. So why in the world does this smell so good? I can't pick out any individual notes, except I would have guessed there was some kind of musk in here. The sweetness from the currant isn't screaming CURRANT at me, it's just a light indistinguishable sweetness. I think I love olive blossom, if that's the soft floral note I'm smelling here. (Doesn't smell like orchid, violet, or rose to me, so I guess that means it's olive blossom?) I think the lavender is giving that caramel scent a bit of an edge, and believe it or not, I like it! Yes, a lavender-hater is enjoying lavender. Will wonders never cease. Very, very pretty. Soft and feminine. Warm, rich, and sweet too. I like this one a whole lot.
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Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Garment Nettle Tree at Oji
filigree_shadow replied to nikkoblue's topic in The Salon
I thought I'd like this one because I usually like the Asian-themed perfumes, but this smells like extraordinarily perfumey powder on me. I can't pin down why. I wouldn't have thought any of those notes would be powder culprits on me, but something sure is. I can't pick out any individual notes at all, not even the cherry. Just musky, perfumey powder. It seems like it's a little on the sour side, too. It doesn't smell bad perfumey, not like cheap perfume or anything, but it's just not what I was hoping for.