BetteNoire

Don't sleep on Persephone, either. It's simple, just pomegranate and rose, but it's fresh and fruity and lovely.

Pepper from Good Omens is GC, though unimpable, and has pink pepper and rose. It's lovely, I highly recommend it.

Brisingamen is back in stock! If you haven't tried it, you are missing out. :-)

My Little Grotesque was absolutely stunning, which actually prompted my resurrecting this thread. I missed it due to money, but can stop thinking about it. Oh well, a couple current Lupers look promising, and I have Bastet and Mama-ji.

ARISE, CHICKEN. I need more cardamom in my life. What are your favorites? If they are GC, so much the better.

I'm not good at going first, oh no. I can smell all the individual components if I think about it, but this Goblin really just smells like Christmas when you were a kid - magic and sparkles and sugar and snow. It smells like walking through a forest of mixed evergreen and deciduous trees, snow falling, while eating an amazing sugar cookie. I don't really get any cinnamon at all, but I'm not missing it either. So glad I got a whole bottle, and I've been spraying every room in my house today, feeling like Carol Kane in Scrooged. :-)

Every once and again I put on Snake Oil and wish it were heavier on the spices. Saw Scaled Viper is exactly what I've been craving on those days. It's the truest to Snake Oil of the Snake Pit blends, it seems less like SO plus other things and more like a tweaking of the original. The cinnamon is very realistic, no red hots or Yankee Candle here, and surprisingly sophisticated. The ginger almost has that "clean", fresh edge that ginger sometimes takes on, which actually keeps the Viper from going too far into foodie territory, thank all the gods. Overall, so very pleased. And it doesn't give me hives so far. Fingers crossed!

Mouse's Long and Sad Tale. It's very quiet and unobtrusive, but lovely.

Thanks for the help guys, I sent the email directly from my email client and had a response and fix within an hour. Chinkee, I'm sorry to hear you're having issues also. Which email client do you use?

Does anyone know if there's a good alternate way to message Customer Service at the Lab? I've sent 2 emails through the website form and waited a week with no response about the fact that a gift certificate I got for Christmas isn't working. Normally CS is prompt and fabulous, so I'm wondering what else to do.

I've tried Tattie Bogle and Agnes Nutter, and it's definitely the cordite smell from a firework or going to a gun range. Definitely give it a try, I think you'll be pleased.

ARISE, DEAD THREAD!!! I've recently fallen in love with the Beth's gunpowder note, it meshes so well with my skin. So, gimme some good gunpowder recs, please?

My Baby and a Baby Goat is creamy and buttery. It's currently available, and very pretty.

Definitely try those. I'd add Jiggery Pokery from the Scalia line, and Pepper from Good Omens. Both have a bright, citrus-floral feel that make them sisters to Happy.

Arcana might be up your alley. Smells like a new age shop, but not incensey. It's more clean and herbal, in the same sort of family as Aveda's lighter scents.