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if you remember Regan, this is very very similar.

 

perhaps i'll dig out my Regan and do a double test, but based on scent memory, this could be a good stand-in for folks who loved Regan before it went the way of the dodo.

 

not vanilla. orchid. creamy pale purple. a floral for folks who don't think they can do florals, maybe?

i spilled about a decant's worth of this while i was decanting, and the room reeked of this for days.. surviving incense, a/c, the furnace (ah, Georgia weather!), and trying to air it out. either it is finally gone, or i'm just used to it and can't smell it anymore.

 

my thoughts didn't change from the initial sniff, though, and all i can think is the "I got mah pencil" line from Van Halen's Hot For Teacher.

i'm surprised by the notes listed here, it is a little sweeter than i would have thought. on me, once it settles in, it reminds me a bit of The Other Miss Spink, which makes no sense but it does. like a dusty, fuzzy brown, clove-y, swamp plant. with pepper. and how i hate pepper. on the right person, though, i can see how this would be amazing.

 

something about it also reminds me a bit of some 80s power-perfumes, like Passion, Poison, or Palmoma Picasso... or other perfumes starting with P?

my bottle of this is going to a better home. i wanted to like it, but on me it only smelled like Laundromat. ... like the Demeter scent. which isn't necessarily bad, but a little bit confusing.

i'm hesitant to post this, because i don't want to spoil this for anyone or cause anyone to dislike it based on my review...

 

y'all know that a lot of my BPAL collection are things i want to keep because they're scent memories - not necessarily things i want to wear as perfume, but just little bottles of memories.

 

this is what my furbaby Cleo smelled like after a bath with pet shampoo (probably Hartz? something we'd get at the grocery store, in the late 80s/early 90s). so a combination of warm (angry) kitty and the shampoo.

 

i keep trying to move past that, to try and smell apple, lavender, patchouli or vanilla but all i can smell is an angry Cleo. this is one of the BPAL scents that makes me cry, because it is a precious memory in a tiny little bottle.

i guess i've had this for, what, a dozen years or so and just never posted a review? my bottle is going to a better home, so it is probably time.

 

 

i love the Money House air freshener scent. and incense. that purple smell. in high school i probably reeked of it, but i loved it, so whatevs. still love it, but my husband doesn't.

i also love fake-strawberry smell. and flavour.

 

so, back in the day, i'd often have strawberry incense one day and Money House another. one time a friend gave me a Strawberry Money House pack of incense... and it rocked my world. and on my skin, that's what this smells like. pink and purple, incense.

 

and i love it.

if it was a GC i'd probably wear it a lot of the time. but it isn't.

 

and this is also one of those scent memories for me that, because it reminds me of one particular weekend, with someone who's no longer with us, half the time it makes me smile and half the time it makes me wanna cry. sometimes both, simultaneously. so that's probably not the best thing.

 

i think i've got a sniffie of this somewhere, and if not maybe i'll be able to get hold of one sometime in the future, as a memory of a weekend in 1994, trapped in a wee little vial.

 

not especially related, except as part of that memory, but i heard the other day that they're bringing back Zima in a limited release...

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i don't wanna be first! my reviews aren't that good

 

this is slightly stale, but clean hay. no poop! just the hay. i think it is the same hay note as from a couple of scents we've had before. i loved Gunpowder, and i think the hay note in the background was one of the things that made me like it so much, and this is similar. fans of Hay Moon and Scarecrow, etc, might want to give this a try?

in the bottle this is stronnnng!

this is fancy holiday 'taters, made with skins on and a little roasted garlic, chicken stock, and buttermilk. not your everyday taters, but fancy 'taters!

there's the faintest hint of buttery microwave popcorn in there, too.

on my skin it settles and becomes less garlic-chicken stock-popcorn and becomes more buttery-tatery. it really reminds me of the potato cookies i used to make. they aren't really cookies, just look like them.

 

this is not as awful as last year's Day Old Ham. that was gross. this one i'd be willing to wear again.

i also really love garlic, though.

depending on what your skin does with the garlic-y-note, this would be a wild scent to wear for any vampire-hunter characters...

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oh, i don't wanna be first! my reviews aren't that good! but, well, here we go anyway...

my point is ... i enjoy wrapping presents! i'm good at it! and i know me the smell of wrapping paper. which is a fairly specific cheap-processed-paper smell, mingled with inks, and just the faintest hint of cellophane.


and yep. that's been bottled.


as far as wearing this, i think it would make an interesting layering note. or character-building scent for RPGs

Actual Lump of Coal bears no similarities to the Lump of Coal from a decade ago. this is dinosaurs. this is chimney sweeps with bad cockney accents dancing in the streets with penguins. it is an actual piece of coal. not to be confused with the "coal" i've included in some of the pakkitches i've sent out which have been rootbeer flavoured, chocolate-with-crisped-rice, or bouncey balls.

i'm kinda surprised the oil isn't pitch black. which would make it hard to wear, sure, but boy howdy, this is potent stuff.

i had hoped would be like Shill but it really isn't, it's air-popped popcorn but no butter or anything. like... just plain popcorn. which is interesting, don't get me wrong, but it reminds me of the horrible dry and stale popcorn they gave us sometimes as a snack back in kindergarten. which they always served with lemonade, which was also bad.

 

i like my popcorn with both butter and sugar!

Graveyard Dirt, ice cold water, and crushed up candy canes. if there was a way to remove the mint, this would be glorious!

i put a drop of this on my arm tonight before i started packaging up stuff from my decant circle.

 

and i kept getting wafts of it, and being confused as to where the smell was coming from until i remembered what was on my arm.

 

 

full disclosure: i don't like the smell of cherries, or almonds. i don't much like to eat almonds, but cherries can be ok by themselves in small doses, but only raw, not in baked goods.

 

 

on me this had crazy strong throw, and staying power. and smelled like a fancy Jergens pastry. some sort of pastry thing crusted with almond slivers and filled with a cherry goo. feels like there's some kind of spice or seasoning in there, but i don't know what. just a hint of something.

 

 

i was hoping for a sugar cookie with a maraschino cherry fluff frosting, which might have been interesting. this is really more of some kind of fancy pastry with a name i can't pronounce.

i gave this a quick sniff-from-the-bottle at the DSLE when i picked it up and it seemed to be super chocolatey. like a melted Lindt truffle smooshed into chocolate cake batter.

i'm not much a fan of chocolate, so i closed it and went on to sniff other things.

 

The other night someone asked me to try it again and maybe post a proper review - so before i settled in for decanting, i opened my bottle of this and sniffed it again...

 

now, at the DSLE, the room is full of scents! so sometimes things can lose nuances, or i might not be able to pick up on them. i don't have the best sense of smell as it is.

 

but at home, with no other competing scents... the chocolates are still there, but they aren't the star of the show.

 

when i opened this to sniff and test... i was transported back to Baskin Robbins - the ice cream shop in the mall when i was tiny. chocolate chip was my go-to flavour at the time, mostly because it was the only one i'd tried, and it was always in the same place in the shop. which was good, because i wasn't tall enough to see into the glass display case. so when the clerk asked me what i wanted, i pointed to where the chocolate chip should be. which was right between rum raisin and butter pecan, and my grandmother would get one of those two. i still have to get a small container of those every so often. that Baskin Robbins is long gone, so's the mall it was in.

 

but instead of a trusty chocolate chip, what i got was mint chocolate chip ice cream. and i haven't had many truly disappointing food moments, but that was one of the first and most memorable. it was also the first time i was let down by a store i trusted.

 

my other most memorable gross food moment? going to take a sip from my grandmother's cup, which normally had Coca~Cola in it, but for some reason that day she was drinking black coffee. there's still a stain on the carpet there from where i spit it out. i just couldn't help it, it was so terrible. that was over 35 years ago and i still can't drink coffee.

 

 

but i digress. sorry. i had a little wander.

 

 

this? is mint chocolate chip ice cream, in a bottle.

sniffed from the bottle and wet on skin : i feel like i'm drinking a glass of The Great Bluedini (the original version, not the one they brought back), while slurping on one of the blue Otterpops, after having just washed my hands with Rock Star.

 

after about half an hour to an hour, the blue raspberry-ness calms the f down, and a pastry note comes out. around that same time the fake blue raspberry changes to more of a real raspberry sort of note, so while wet is more candylike, on skin it turns into more real fruit and pastry.

 

 

now, i suggest you go watch Blood & Donuts. a movie, wherein a jelly filled donut saves the day.

 

 

 

full disclosure: i don't like raspberries, or raspberry flavoured things. i never liked The Great Bluedini, or the blue Otterpops. Rock Star can be ok, but there are batch variations which means sometimes i like it and sometimes i don't.

last year's strawberry version, though? OMG, i wish i'd bought several more bottles because that stuff's amazing.

ran across an imp of this on my desk, thought i'd give it a wear.

 

 

eleventymillion years ago, at the first GothCon, the one in Atlanta, some friends and i participated in the themed-room party contest. our room's theme was The Chartreuse Disco Lounge. and as luck would have it, even the tiles in our bathroom were green! (the ones in the room next door weren't, so...)

and we went a little nuts decorating the room with any green thing you can imagine. from lights, to bottles of actual chartreuse, bottles of nail polish scattered about, honeydew melon, some snow peas for snacking, i even put green towels, soap, shampoo, and conditioner in the bathroom.

there was way more, but you get the idea.

 

if we could have bottled the smell of all those things (even the ones that weren't scented - but the idea of them?) i feel like this is what it could have been.

 

but mostly, in reality, i think it is probably the green soap, and green fern, and maybe a hint of the green flower stems (very Morticia - just stems, no flowers).

a fun memory, but not really what i think of as perfume.

i picked this up at the most recent DSLE.

 

i don't know if this was reformulated at some point, or if there are just substantial batch differences? the bottle i bought, and did a test coat of, is silver holo glitter in a clear base. one coat was substantial glitter, but still very much shows the base colour i had on.

(side note - the BPTP polishes play nice over Essie ones. some brands don't mix and will bubble/crinkle/do other bad things but these two work well!)

 

there were two other bottles of Nuclear Winter on-hand that night, and they were different and were nearly full-coverage with one coat. a more pewter-y silver, and looked to have both regular silver/pewter coloured glitter as well as the holographic kind.

 

now please don't judge - i've never tried to take one of those holding-a-bottle-of-nail-polish photos before, and it is the middle of the night (*not on the open road, though) in a room with lighting not good for pictures. and the base of this manicure is a week old now, and we've been doing yardwork so my hands are a bit mangled. i did a quickie touchup on the grown out part. i don't normally look this closely at my nails

 

the glitter, Nuclear Winter, top coat was applied haphazardly while standing and talking last Friday night (*do it all again). the dink on my ring finger nail was me testing to see if it was dry too soon. and the very tip of my pinkie finger has one coat of the other version of Nuclear Winter, which looks more like puck_nc's swatch.

 

 

the base is three thin coats of "Demure Vixen" from Essie. (not my blog, but her swatches show the actual colour really well!)

 

i will say this is very, very similar to China Glaze's Fairy dust, which i love, so that's probably why i like this so much

(i also have Shine on Crazy Diamond from Orly, which takes about three coats to look like one coat of this or Fairy Dust)

(i love my holo glitter topcoats, can you tell?)

this is so unlike what i expected / hoped for based on the notes.

 

i wanted rose-tinted amber.

 

i got a Go To Sleep, Darlings / Snow White / Lady Tall and White type slushy snow. boo. i mean, yeah, it is pretty, but it isn't what i was wanting

i don't like mint or cucumber so i had very low expectations for this. i figured it'd be a Lick-It-y version of Squirting Cucumber.

 

 

instead, Green Tea Therapy from The Healing Garden, izzatchoo? it's all, like, 1994 up in here.

 

herbal, crisp, and very green - but no mint (which makes me queasy) or cucumber in sight. or, er, in nose.

 

maybe a little like a high-end shampoo, or a day spa. nonoffensive and clean.

 

 

 

 

also, i only know how to spell Rendezvous because of a Sheila E song, from back in 1984.

coconut and me don't get on well. in food or fragrance. even palm oil in anything is enough to make me avoid it because it smells like coconut.

 

there are a few tiny select exceptions - and of those few (that i can count on one hand) - one of them is Blood Pearl. apparently now i have another.

 

 

i had a teensy accident when decanting this scent, and spilled about a decant's worth of oil. now, in all the years i've been decanting, this has almost always happened when it was a scent i hated.

but for now, that room smells quite happily of what i'd swear was Blood Pearl. i haven't done a side-by-side skin testing but they're really similar. which is fine by me, i quite like them both!

i never liked Skadi, way back when. and at the DSLE i sniffed Sleet and my first thought was that it reminded me of Skadi. i didn't spray it or try it, just sniffed it and knew it wasn't for me...

i will say that i might not have even sniffed it if i'd read the notes first. it just smells cold and slush-y... i didn't get mint or eucalyptus, lemon, or fritos out of it.

Jinkies, i don't wanna be first!

i had no real interest in this scent, based on the notes, but i was going to an event anyway and so happily brought along a donation. (and was a fairy for a few other folks).

One of the first things i did when i got there was sniff this on a friend, and it was amazing on her. i sniffed it on her off and on, and on a few other people, and finally got around to sniffing my bottle and holy cow!

i've tested it a time or two since i got it on Friday night. And i don't get blood musk. not really red musk, either, but that's closer.

sniffed from the bottle, and wet on skin, my initial thought was that it was the love child of Snake Charmer and Smut. but much softer than either of those

after a while, it settles into something almost powdery - maybe dusty? - not like baby powder but possibly a dark amber, but maybe that's bees being fuzzy?


i freely admit i'm not entirely sure what a red poppy smells like. this isn't the best review to start off a thread, and i apologize for that essentially i wanted to make sure that anyone who was, like me, not interested in something with the copper-meat blood scent didn't pass this up...
after Day Old Ham i feared the worst from this!


after about six hours, on me it smells oddly almost exactly like Gentle Lentil, my old favourite Lush shampoo, although maybe with a little dark musk or dark amber mixed in. which i've got no explanation for.

this is moving on to a better home, so here's what i had in my notes from testing it:

so confused! i love musk, tobacco, and patchouli. currant often goes sideways, the Lab's honey and i don't get on well. i dislike smoke smells, and i'm not sure i know the difference between red patchouli and others...

 

this was a blind buy, and once we got it to try at the DSLE and i tested it, i knew i shouldn't have ordered it. it *sounded* amazing, but on me it was just a smoky almost-vetiver kinda thing with a wrong-y brown kinda sweetness. (like brown sugar or molasses, unlike a white kinda sweetness like a doughnut glaze or the cracklike icing Cinnabon uses)

 

like a more masculine version of The Other Miss Spink. Maybe this is The Other Miss Spink's intended? i dunno. glad it is going to a better home, though!

i like dirt. or, as we're fond of saying at the DSLE, i'm a dirt-y girl. there are a couple of us there (Hi Eoife!)

so i tend to want to at least try all possibly dirt-heavy blends. for my Graveyard Dirt obsessionistas out there? i get none of that here.

 

i love the Lab's roses, but i also don't get any rose bloom here. lotsa rose bush/stem/leaves smell (i used to hang out inside a gigantic rose bush, for hours at a time, so i know that scent well).

 

i do get something nose-pinchy and dusty smelling that reminds me of vetiver (but without the wet paper bag full of cigarette ashes-y-ness) but isn't. maybe some sort of bitter patchouli? none of my gramma's cedar chest. maybe a bitter sandalwood?

 

if Down The Rabbit Hole is to girly-rosy-sweet for you, this might be just your cuppa.

 

i'm glad i got to try this, but it isn't something i'll ever want to wear.

i love so many of the Lab's rose-heavy blends. and i have countless straight-up rose perfumes and perfume oils. it was one of the first scents i loved as a little girl, and i still love it.

 

 

this is so similar to The Bear Prince from this year's Yules. so very, very similar.

 

i don't care for Snow White at all, or most of the "snow" notes in other things. but i like Snow-Flakes. and this (and The Bear Prince) are like Snow-Flakes, with roses. that one has musk, this one has amber (not baby powder). i think this one might be slightly more wearable for me, but they're really similar.