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Your friendly neighborhood sex shop: gleaming black leather, latex, and musk. This post is merely a placeholder for future reviews. Whoever is first to review, please report this post using the report button below, so a mod can merge it with yours. Thanks!

Your friendly neighborhood sex shop: gleaming black leather, latex, and musk. This post is merely a placeholder for future reviews. Whoever is first to review, please report this post using the report button below, so a mod can merge it with yours. Thanks!

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Yes, total Blood Countess family vibe. Lots of poppy smoke and jasmine at the opening, with patch and plum wilding in the foreground. Ends like a 'clean' incense, entwined florals and a through-line of something slightly soapy (in a good way) with a ringing tang. Really great use of the poppy note, recommended for aficionados who want to experience it writ super soft.

Caressing the Wild Rabbit definitely smells like it could happily join the Mad Tea Party crew. Every note here reads to me, this smells absolutely like a straight split of white tea, honey, and the vanilla orchid SN, with just a smidge of sandalwood grounding it. Very soft and pretty, very genteel.

A "warrior worth a thousand, ready to confront a demon or a god, mounted or on foot." Tomoe Gozen was a fierce, noble, and courageous samurai, first captain, as well as a renowned beauty. She was an excellent swordswoman, famed for her riding ability and her skill at archery. She fought for Minamoto no Yoshinaka at Battle of Awazu, and her forces were defeated. Legend says she was seen holding the severed head of one of her foes on the battlefield, and vanished, never to be seen again. Red currant, golden amber, blackberry, honey, and pink pepper. This post is merely a placeholder for future reviews. Whoever is first to review, please report this post using the report button below, so a mod can merge it with yours. Thanks!

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Golden honey, white carnation, honey amber, ginger blossom, and white tea. This post is merely a placeholder for future reviews. Whoever is first to review, please report this post using the report button below, so a mod can merge it with yours. Thanks!

Golden honey, white carnation, honey amber, ginger blossom, and white tea. This post is merely a placeholder for future reviews. Whoever is first to review, please report this post using the report button below, so a mod can merge it with yours. Thanks!

Madagascan vanilla bean, vanilla orchid, orris root, and saffron. This post is merely a placeholder for future reviews. Whoever is first to review, please report this post using the report button below, so a mod can merge it with yours. Thanks!

Peach and Moroccan sandalwood with wild strawberry, vanilla pod, and caramelized benzoin. My goodness, Peach XIV is so good. The description says it all: peach, sandalwood, strawberry, vanilla, and benzoin. The fruit, vanilla, and caramelized benzoin give this a very fruity-foodie feel, like some kind of scrumptious dessert dreamed up by an ambitious chef. The sandalwood drowns everything in its book, planes it down until it's smooth and golden. The strawberry is particularly nice here, there's just a hint and it gives a lovely blush to everything. This Peach Pit is right up there with my favorites Peach IV and Peach VIII...sweet, fun, and totally wearable.

I Suppose You Are a Princess hair gloss is just good fun. This is sweet sweet pea on me, like floral candy. Very springy and layers beautifully with Mouse's Long and Sad Tale.

Spectral Courtesan hair gloss is an oakmoss-heavy scent on me, which surprised me a bit. I get a ton of oakmoss, then patchouli, and then very subtle notes of cassis, bergamot, and blackcurrant trailing. The oakmoss and patchouli are a combo I like, as I love patch and oakmoss smells like a mix of moss, vague aquatics, and water damage on books to me (swoon). So this is definitely within my ambit. I would recommend this to people that love patchouli and oakmoss, as I think this features those notes to great effect.

Terebinth, hemp, and champaca resin. Yum, champaca. The Emerald Kaya atmo is champaca-heavy, with the terebinth and hemp rounding this out. On this balance this smells like champaca (white-yellow sweet-spicy flowers) with an earthy streak, and it is glorious. I need at least one moar bottle of this one.

I didn't pick up a bottle of Honey Snowballs the perfume oil, so can't compare on that front. But I really like Honey Snowballs the hair gloss. Honey and snow, pure and simple, but the combination of the two in my hair smells like if honey was imbued with something creamy and ever so slightly coniferous. The snow note really cuts the sweetness of honey in a nice way, making this very wearable for me.

A strange swirl of hot baked gingerbread biscuits, champa incense, and hemp. Gingerbread Champaca hair gloss is wonderful. This smells like real hot water gingerbread made from scratch with tons of ginger, cloves, cinnamon, and molasses—sweetened just enough to bring it into dessert territory but not so much that the sweetness overpowers the spices—plus a shot of heady champaca. The result is like gingerbread incense, chewy and slightly floral. I don't get any hemp until after the gingerbread and champaca have tired themselves out, and then it adds something that smells a bit like dry grass/"grass" to the mix. It's something I have to actively search for to smell. I would say that the prevailing waft is that of divine gingerbread, so those who fear champaca may have no issues here. Are you the kind of person who loves gingerbread and nag champa? (If so, come sit next to me!) This one may be for you, as it is for me.

The whip-wielding Goddess of Divine Retribution, Justice and Vengeance, and is the force that balances the scales of Tyche's fortune. She is also called Adrasteia, 'she whom none can escape', and Erinys, 'implacable'. Nemesis is the executrix of Olympian justice, and her primary duty is to punish hubris and mankind's offenses against the natural order with inflexible, remorseless and raging fury. Her symbols are a sword and scourge, a measuring rod and scales. Cypress, ginger, fig, dried rose, red patchouli, tonka bean and cyclamen. After experiencing the wonder that is Kali, and the effect of wearing an oil named after a deliverer of retribution (I kind of went on a tear the first night I wore Kali), I thought perhaps I would try my luck with Nemesis. The cypress and patchouli vie for attention at first, but underneath them the rose, ginger, fig and tonka tumble restlessly. The ginger and rose win out on my skin, and the effect is of a black opal, where bright colored pink and yellow glints play out across the darkness. But overall the scents are so balanced that every time I sniff my arm I catch a different note order. Those who are not fans of patchouli, never fear. The patchouli is like a velvet backdrop to the delightful tumult of the other notes. (If I didn't know it was in here, I don't know if I would guess.) I love this blend and it's good for me personally, as I probably need to get in touch with my sense of fury. But I think I will also turn to it when I want to feel feminine and strong. This is for wearing with my knee-high boots and cashmere sweaters. It's gorgeous and I'm taking no prisoners. ETA: Because of the delicious tonka/rose mix, this reminds me a little of Mata Hari but is much smoother (and lacks the espresso scent!).

Lucille's Room perfume is just as good as the atmo. This is lilac- and oakmoss-heavy on me, with black amber flowing in between. The lily of the valley and violet leaf are subtle, although they bolster the lilac and broaden it. It's a beautiful, slightly morbid floral—perfect for the filmic inspiration.

A lively bit of larceny: tinkling amber and well-worn boot leather ensnared by covetous, envy-green strands of mint and raw frankincense. I'm so fascinated by It is Gold! It is Gold! hair gloss. It's such an unusual combo of notes and does smell so green. Mint and leather are strong right out of the gates. The mint is really nice, a very refreshing, super-green mint. Just after spraying, I would say that the strength of the mint might actually be on par with the strength of mint in Lick It. The leather is also strong, though, so they're evenly matched. (I'm getting a brown leather note rather than black, although there are surely leather lovers here who would do a better job of parsing.) The frankincense holds things together at the bottom, knitting these two notes together in a really nice way. As it settles in, it remains minty leather and frankincense, all notes ascertainable, but blended together to create a non-foody mint scent that feels wintry and warm at the same time. I find this scent really head-clearing and calming. I think this will be great during the winter, but also wonderful when it's warm out.

With cinnamon, clove, allspice, and a bit of apricot. Yum. Frosted Apple Gingerbread atmo is heavy on the frosted apple and spices, with the gingerbread in the background. I pick up the apricot only slightly. I sprayed this and my husband said it smelled like stewed apples—a compliment. Very festive!

[No additional description provided.] Mmm, this is really interesting—this is really dry, not spicy or sweet. It smells like powdered incense. The amber, frankincense, and ginger root are well-balanced, and the impression I get after spraying is that of a resinous ginger. I have a lot of sweet holiday atmos and I like that this is so different. My husband swiped the bottle for his home office, so he clearly likes it as well.

Thin wisps of frankincense smoke drifting through a snow-dusted cluster of red spruce boughs. This post is merely a placeholder for future reviews. Whoever is first to review, please report this post using the report button below, so a mod can merge it with yours. Thanks!

When haughty expectations prostrate lie, And grandeur crouches like a guilty thing, Oft shall the lowly weak, till nature bring Mature release, in fair society Survive, and Fortune’s utmost anger try; Like these frail snow-drops that together cling, And nod their helmets smitten by the wing Of many a furious whirlblast sweeping by. Observe the faithful flowers! if small to great May lead the thoughts, thus struggling used to stand The Emathian phalanx, nobly obstinate; And so the bright immortal Theban band, Whom onset, fiercely urged at Jove’s command, Might overwhelm, but could not separate! - William Wordsworth Observe the faithful flowers: snowdrop and sweet pea, wintersweet, winter-flowering honeysuckle, and deep purple honeywort. On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm is a really pretty winter-into-spring floral. Wordsworth's sonnet* about the noble snowdrops, underdogs of winter, is a lovely inspiration for this snowdrop-strong blend. Appropriately, snowdrop is the strongest note on me, with sweet pea and pale honeysuckle right behind. Dry, it's a waxy, lightly buttery, pale white and yellow floral with a salty, almost marine flume. *Arguably, the grand tension/conflict in Wordsworth's poetry is Nature versus God, which we see in high relief in this particular work. I highly recommend reading The Prelude (the 1805 version, not the 1850 version!), if you haven't already.

The Harbinger of the Dawn: shimmering mugwort-infused crystalline musk painted by a glowing arc of sheer vanilla, pink grapefruit, honeyed benzoin, almond blossom, tangerine rind, rose water, green cognac, and neroli. Montes Harbinger is so pretty, like a sparkling, citrusy play of light above a very gentle musk. No one note overshadows on my skin, and it's hard to pin down any individual one as they're as fleeting as the jittery prisms cast by a spinning crystal in a window. On the drydown I think I smell the rose water and the almond blossom, and then I catch the grapefruit and tangerine. There's just a hint of vanilla to it—the balance of citrus and the grounding benzoin and musk keep the blend from being too sweet, at least on me. This would be a great BPAL for work or a day when I want something clean and light but with real complexity.

Padded and Painted Beauties is lovely peony, orris, carnation, and vanilla orchid under a thrum of musk. Agree that this is Morocco-adjacent! I’m traveling for work right now and poured an ungodly/godly amount in the hotel bathroom tonight for a good hot soak. It was more beautiful than I was bargaining for and I ended up leaving the water in the tub for a while after I climbed out because it perfumed the whole space.