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Still Life with Melon and Peaches is a very light and refined peach, a gentle fruity-floral with a slight purr of Darjeeling, sandalwood, and musk running underneath. I wasn't sure I'd love the charentais melon, since I'm not a huge melon fan in general. But here it seems very...restrained? I can smell it when I unscrew the cap and huff the contents of the bottle, but via the sprayer, it seems to just diffuse and melt into everything else. In my hair it smells like a tea-dimmed peach, well-blended with a very soft touch of roses, woods, and musk. It's quite pretty and falls into the category of 'could wear anywhere'. At the end of the day, the peach is only faintly detectable, and it's just a whisper of tea, roses, and woodsy musk.

Ask the Nearest Hippie, indeed. Looking at the notes, I wondered if this would be the kind of scent I could get away with wearing to work, as wafting hemp and cannabis might really put the rumor mill into action. But the cannabis is really only present in the first 20 minutes on me—wet, this goes on all vanilla and cannabis, with a shadow of patchouli. Cannabis has that herbal tang to it that's pretty distinctive (smells like college!), but it's not a note that I love in large amounts. Luckily, it recedes, and I'm left with a velvety patchouli and vanilla, with a bit of what smells like tobacco or smoke and a hint of pot. It sounds odd, but the balance ends up being great.

 

Definitely reminiscent of Revenant Rhythm, like if someone wearing RR toked up and the smoke clung to them a little. If that's your jam, I wouldn't puff puff pass on this.

I keep some notes on my favorite combinations.

 

Frosty Silkybat HG with A Lady Tall and White

Sin HG with O Love and Time and Sin

Sin HG with Gingerbread Sin

Implacable Beautiful Tyrant HG with Hal

Winter Lily and Sugarcane HG with Tumultuous Vultures

Eldritch Dark HG with Psychodynamic Discharge

The White Bees Swarming HG with Crib Girls

Shards of Looking-Glass HG with Jacob's Ladder

Red Apple HG with The Gas Lamps' Flare

The White Bees Swarming HG with Womb Furie

Implacable Beautiful Tyrant HG with Hesiod's Phoenix

Silkybat HG with Little Maggie

Dorian HG with Dumb Cake

Boo HG with Boomslang or Little Maggie

Rose Petals and Champa HG with 2, 5, &7

Black Vanilla & Cardamom HG with Furo or Blacker than the Raven Wings of Midnight

The Scales of Deprivation is a lovely, clean, very pretty skin scent on me. The lemon peel is so perfect here, there's just the lightest touch. The sage, frankincense, labdanum, and sandalwood together are woody and resiny and again, so light. The lavender fougere doesn't overwhelm on my skin, and the vetiver is barely present at all. This is one of Beth's blends where I marvel at how so many notes that could be heavy are made so airy. It feels like a pale yellow wash of incense touched with lavender, and I think I could wear it even in scent-averse workplaces and not trigger any concern. I'm so glad I got to try this, and will certainly finish up my imp!

I agree with Laurel that Anteros reads almost like a debauched Eat Me, way less foody and sweet and way more sexy. I got a frimp of this in a recent order and will be giving it to my husband to finish up, because I think this will be so great on him...I like it on myself as well. The red musk and currant and bergamot meld with the patchouli in such a seamless way, and the currant and vanilla bean are as good as they always are. Definitely a red musk-heavy blend, and incensey as heck (always a plus in my book!). It reminds me a bit of Sinus Amoris at times, not sure why, because aside from the vanilla, there's no overlap of notes. But I'm not complaining!

Plunder is all tea leaf and tobacco and a cornucopia of spices on me, very true to the description. It isn't until it fully dries down that it really blooms on me, but when it does, it's oddly satisfying even though spice-forward scents aren't usually my thing. This reminds me a bit of Bengal, as this is also a cosy, spicy skin scent.

The Night-Raven is so pretty...all the notes here are consistent winners on my skin except rose geranium, which can go either way. Here the balance falls just right. That purpley musk with plum is the primary brushstroke, and in it is the rosey, herbal, almost sour rose geranium (but in a good way, like a bit of citrus or vinegar in a composed plate) and then benzoin, jasmine, and patchouli—all good, and all good together. There is something that smells clean about this, like night air, and something that feels dusky. I like this on its own, or it layers gorgeously with Blacker than the Raven Wings of Midnight.

Peach Champagne is so fun, like a peach Jolly Rancher with a kick. Wet, it goes on with that champagne note fizziness that tickles the nose. Once it starts drying down, the peach really takes over as the primary note, and it's like peachy candy with a bit of effervescence. Nice on its own, or great layered with Snake Oil.

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.

Spooky, Green Tea Viper, and How Doth the Little Crocodile.

I got them all the first time around, and did not regret it. Stella and I have the same favorites: Temple Viper and Boomslang. I also love Green Tea Viper.

My bottle of Summer Lace has mellowed over the past couple of years, and I think it's even better now. Wet, the mandarin and apple blossom and honeysuckle practically sparkle. As it dries down, those notes fall back and the vanilla cream, caramelized tobacco, and green cognac come forward. The net result is a fruity-floral, dimmed by those luxurious notes that telegraph a summer well lived: cognac, tobacco, vanilla cream. It's really wearable and the honeysuckle note in Summer Lace makes it a beautiful scent layer with the Post's Nectar hair gloss.

Thanks for all the great suggestions, my list is growing, lol.

 

I really love a good "beachy" coconut, and am sad I missed the whole Tiki line!

 

You might be able to find some Tiki scents in the Swap/Sale area of the forum.

 

Beachy coconuts are especially good at this time of year, right? Sometimes I wear a coconutty perfume when I need to remember what a vacation smells like.

 

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Funnel of Love is so fantastic. I pulled the trigger on a bottle after the OLLA release, but was a smidge worried about the vetiver...I shouldn't have been. This is one well-blended scent. The patchouli that's almost old enough to vote, champaca, and leather blend into a supernote of smooth, resiny-floral goodness. The cardamom, coriander, and vetiver add a greenness to this blend that smells vital and adds depth. The red vegetal musk (wow), black pepper, and jasmine add darkness, sweetness, and shadow, cresting underneath in way that's difficult to tease out (for me) but is really meaningful in building to a more complex, layered scent. I put this on and I just feel relaxed. The vetiver does come out after a bit, but it's so mellowed by the other notes that I really enjoy it. Another great OLLA perfume!

Obatala is a great summer scent! I also like Babohan Sith. If going a bit heavier then XIuhtecuhtli

 

+1. I love Obatala in the summer, it's so perfect somehow!

I love the Lab's peaches, and Peach IV is such a good one! Ripe, golden peach, plus amber, woods, musk, pitch and a drop of oudh...it's a resiny, woodsy, peachy delight. Aging has condensed and mellowed this scent, and it's even better now. Like a forest peach...the taste of sunlight in shade. It layers beautifully with White Peach & Incense hair gloss, or any of the peachy hair glosses, for that matter.

Lady Una is another great summer perfume oil. On me, this is honey musk with just a hint of all the other notes—green tea, blackberry leaf, vanilla, and spices. It stays close and smells really clean. Sort of like a super fresh take on Blackberry & Vanilla Musk.

The Fairy Market is like a floral candy pastille. Blue flowers, green grass, and sugar is what I get both wet and on drydown. Great for those who love sugared florals, like Hope and Violet. This would also have made a wonderful atmo spray!

Aziraphale smells like sun on the pages of a book—something warm and musky, something woodsy and dusty. This wears very close to the skin on me, and has a fresh tang to it that comes out after a while that I can't really account for in the notes, but it's nice.

I have a bottle of Mama-Ji from when it was first released, and even though I can't recall having worn her in a few years, my bottle is halfway gone, so I must have a good run with her at some point. This oil goes on and smells vague and nondescript, but quickly warms up on my skin to a musky, spicy, exotic skin scent. The florals, at least on me, burn off quickly and I can't even decipher which kinds of flowers they might be. I definitely see a shared 'feel' with Morocco and Eve (OLLA). It's best on me after about 30 minutes—it takes some time to bloom on the skin, but when it does, it's lovely.

I've been loving Terra Vigoris lately—really fruity and fresh. If I want to sex it up a bit, I add a bit of Snake Oil.

I've had Countess Willie for years and wear it happily from time to time. As others have said, this is a lot like chocolate Bordello. My bottle is six years old and well aged, but goes on as red musk, candied fruits, and ginger, with a shot of amaretto. The chocolate plum musk is all around and soaked into those other notes, like some kind of amazing rumtopf. If I get close to finishing my bottle, I will definitely replace it...a clutch part of my permanent collection, just as Bordello is.

Fairy Wine is a pretty pure cross of honey, dandelion, and red currant. On my skin, the honey and dandelion really bloom, and the red currant warms things up with a berry blush of sorts. The dandelion note is so dead on, I always marvel at that. There's an afternote of something that smells a bit like rum here, but it's just a hint. If you like honey and dandelion, this is definitely worth a try!