Jenjin

Strong, dark seriously soapy rose with a bitter tobacco tang upfront. I'm iffy on rose notes but wanted to try this for its gothic quality. Yep, the rose remains super strong and soapy on me, and the tobacco is earthy and dirty which gives it a roses scattered on a muddy grave sort of feel. Very dry, any sweetness takes a backseat on me. This is definitely a boutique hipster rose, but it goes all soapy rose bubbles falling on grandpa's cigar dribbled molasses chew to my nose, but my rose nose is slightly broke ((weep)) I had my family take a sniff because I'm slightly befuddled by the outcome here. My daughter said brown sugar and flowers, while the hubs called it coffee cake with a cigar.

This one took me back to the days and nights when I was a milk bar. Warm and cozy with my baby all cuddled against me. Bottle sniff was seriously sour milk to me, oops somebody's tummy hurts. I was hoping for more coconut and carnation in this, so this baby's shuffling off to a new crib.

I'm a HUGE fan of the lab's sugared florals and Cave of Treasures hits that sweet spot for me. The lilac floats on top, reminding me of driving around in my car with the windows down while the lilacs are in bloom. Even though the notes are different, the cream note in this is a bit like NYCC Mrs. Dunbar with a big drop of lilac. If you love Mrs. Dunbar I would at least suggest a tester. Also, lilac is just one of those perfumes that can be overthetop perfumy, but here it's perfectly balanced and tampered by the amber, spice and cream. Very wearable and lovely, it has a silvery like quality to it, like blue water droplets on the flowers turned to diamonds. The honey, that can be hit or miss for me, is super delicate, almost like a honey tea mixed with floating flowers and glints of sunshine. This one totally knocks it out of the great big dreamy flower garden. It is full of springtime, blue, creamy floral notes and something like a big deep breath of fresh air

VIVA la slinky nightclub~ When I first saw Dusky I was attracted to the smoked vanilla bean and indigo opium blossom notes. It just screamed GOTHIC ya but huh? Black coffee PASS~ Then I saw a people waving their shroud cloths in the air shouting HALLO TOP 3 ever! so I went trotting with my pocketbook to the post (last minute) for a try. I'm so glad I did because it's complex and downright fantastic. All the notes floating together create an elegant, perfumey cloud that is bewitching and let me say "lux". I love this creamy beautiful, nightsky blossom puffing on a cigarette with cafe'.

Exotic, sweet twigs, forest, woods and herbal notes. I'm still searching for the bourbon vanilla and hoping this peeks out a bit more after aging. Earthy, yet fresh and classic, the oudh in this reminds me a bit of the sweet oudh in Spider Witch. If you like wicked, sexy oudh you NEED to entertain this Maiden.

This is one of the first times i've seen a Shunga highlighting homoerotic art. Color me intigued~ “An extremely rare (possibly unique) Hokusai design featuring a homosexual couple in a rather complicated pose.” This is beautifully complex, exquistely blended and just a little "glittery velvet goldmine". I can't pick out any discerning notes right away except maybe a very smooth elegant, silvery amber vanilla. It's slightly dry, sophisticated, and uplifting. After a few minutes, the coconut husk appears along with the smooth, creamy, sueded leather. It's an instant classic and reminds me of an upscale boutique fragrance. Very wearable and versitile, I can see pairing this with either jeans and t-shirt, little black dress, or even "to bed". Another HIT for me from the lupers.

Finally getting around to reviewing this one. First off, the name is epic. Sometimes I just want to wear this for the chance someone asks me if I've been riding horses. So onto the review! Top note is the lab's GORGEOUS RED MUSK! I love it. Perfect, red sexiness like mountains of all sorts of red blossoms swimming together is a sex soup. What a delight that it's dancing along with shiny, shiny leather. I swear it's patent because it's glistening somehow. The honey adds even more depth here, but in the drydown the batteries start to wear out. POWDER. It goes REALLY soft and WAY dry on me, the red notes fade fast and the leather starts to scream. Something about my body chemistry seriously amps any sort of leather note, and this turns into a SN. I love it at the beginning, when the sweet RED is fresh, but after 3O minutes, I smell like the inside of an old, leather jacket. I can see those sexy leather lovers hoarding bottles of this!

This is my holy grail of strawberry BPAL. The strawberry in it is certainly sweet, but it never goes musky, bitter or plastic on me. Just true, chewy fruity wafts of gorgeousness and UGH MARSHMALLOW GOOEY . I love it so much and wish I had MOAR~ hahaaa I only have one little bottle but watch me. I am always lurking for the sticky eyeballs and floppy entrails GRABBY HANDS MINE!!!!!

Not so long ago, candles were the only source of light in the dark night. This beautiful scent, brings to mind these magical places with their flickering light of paper lanterns, bringing warmth and sweetness into a lover's dark, and secret room. Simple yet refined, as soon as it hits the skin i'm getting the lab's transformative beeswax note: sweet and creamy mixed with the bewitching purple rose. It brings to mind the traditional Japanese paper lantern, burning with soft, diffused light; ever altering the ambience the night has to offer while creating a seductive space. The wax and the rose are the main notes on my skin, along with tiny wiffs of spicy tobacco and silver smoke in the background. Overall, it's cozy and wearable -- warm, nostalgic and intoxicating. I already have a bottle of The Light of Men's Lives, but Flickering Lantern is a mysterious, feminine version, with it's delicate and creamy purple note that I'm guessing is created with a drop of either violet or lavendar. OF NOTE: I ordered a second bottle of this just before the Lupers came down and it was VERY different. No purple rose, no wax, just sour dirt.

~Prostitution and Madness Dominate the World~ I am MAD for this scent. JASMINE JASMINE and more nose-in-a-dewy blossom JASMINE when you first put it on, but the candy sugar mountain riding behind makes it okay. These blossoms are literally swimming in the sweet vanilla creaminess. This is NOT a gourmand scent, but it makes me CRAVE Jasmine Ice CREAM! Jasmine White Cake, a big bowl of Jasmine Frosting. Just gimme all the JASMINE YES!!! This is JASMINE STEKK I'm telling you. It also reminds me of last year's The Bride with a Jasmine focus instead of the Magnolia. It's so hypnotic and lovely with its perfect creaminess, I could see wearing this on the hottest summer night and still feeling elegant in the sultry bayou. I think this is a fragrance even Jasmine HATERS could wear. Stunning and one of my favorites of the lupers so far and as Jasmine blends go, a DREAM COME TRUE.

Strawberry BLAST at the beginning. The mallow blossom almost gives this strawberry a "fizzy" quality. After dry down, i'm also getting hit with the dreaded plastic note, but hopefully with a bit of aging, this will fade. I can see strawberry lovers hoarding this one, but if you're looking for Stekk, this isn't it. Mallow blossom is quite different than marshmallow root on me. I'm jealous of anyone getting creamy marshmallow

THIS is the Luper I was most excited about and I'm not certain exactly why. It has TWO great big notes in it that can go terribly wrong on me but I wanted to take a risk because it looked like an interesting, complex blend. I've been wanting to explore Jasmine more lately, the cool beauty of the night. The small blossoms look like stars painted on the ceilings of the tombs of the pharaohs. Just after application, the jasmine is high-pitched front-and-center. Fortunately, after a few minutes it settles into the rose and becomes a lovely, complex yet soothing note. The rose and carnation swim together and create something almost cherry on me, while the resinous amber and ancient, earthy patch provide an overall regal quality. Waiting for the drydown is worth it. This is certainly a deep, dark and glowing oriental, with a resinous purr and ruby red glow

This is in the same vein as my beloved Lady Tall and White, except the sugary vanilla sandalwood is replaced with blue musk and a kiss of mint. I'm also reminded of Mat Night, and Snow White. Fresh, pretty and maybe just slightly fruity, like the musk is coming from black plums or grapes. The musk remains in the background, but is very lovely and never goes bitter or too soapy on me. This one takes me on a snowy, nighttime sleight ride, all bundled up in warm blankets while rushing through the soft, evergreen forest and midnight blue snow.

Like a Priestess richly adorned. Oh yeah, I love this one. A clean, watery reed pool start that dried down to creamy, vanilla smoke incense. I'm not so familiar with the scent of papyrus, but its quite fresh and magical. It's like standing in a ancient, crumbling temple, surrounded by a green croaking pool, while meditating in the burning spicy, vanilla myrrh resin. Hypnotic, sweet and I think will be perfect for springtime.

Cover my eyes with orchids and push me into the ocean. I'm not sure what came over me on this one, but it was practically shouting to me while I was deciding. It is tremendously lovely, I find it almost soothing yet inspiring. It makes me want to create beautiful things, put on flowing robes, drape myself in lush, damp blossoms and frolic in a rainstorm with all the Loas. What a spectacular dance it will be.

Sugary, fruity, round, and sacred, the amber gives this a resinous basenote that warms it up and gives it glowing sweetness. I can see wearing this a bunch of places because it comes across as pommie, cherry with a splash of grape without any booziness. Initially, I was concerned about the blood note which can go metallic and make me feel like i'm chewing tin foil, but here the blood is delectable and rich. So glad I took a chance because Sekhmet is a treasure.

This was a blind bottle purchase on the first evening of the Post Yule release. I'm ALWAYS tempted by anything with marshmallow, so I took a risk with this one, but foodie scents can be iffy. Butterscotch caramel toffee brittle in the bottle, this is more gourmand than I can wear. After wearing it for a bit, the butterscotch ROARS and i'm wishing for some marshmallow stat to overtake the butter, which I tend to seriously amp on my own. I had my husband take a whiff 30 minutes in, and all he could say was butterscotch, butterscotch, bluttersplof. I'M A BIG, SLOPPY BUTTERSCOTCH PANCAKE BLARG An hour in, i'm finally getting some sugary, marshmallow creaminess. It's just too long of a ride to get to the good part for me. Keeping this for now because it does smell delicious, and my gourmands are seriously lacking, but I don't think I'll be reaching for it too often.

The Comforter is Yule 2016 The Magpie on me

Swirly smoky, wooded rose notes at the front, along with a raunchy, indolic musk i'm trying to identify. It kinda smells like booty but I'm thinking it's the oud. Fresh, sweet, and just a hint of your lover's bum. This is what I would imagine a black rose in the forest to smell like, glistening and rare. I can't really detect the fig or the amber except for a creamy note and a touch of wet spice that accentuates the gothic quality of this FANCY queen. After dry down, it is sultry, dark heaven. I know it's rose, but the way that the other notes blend with the floral, it becomes grounded, smooth and oh so sexy. I haven't tried it out yet, but i'm seriously guessing that Bestla is a man-killer. It smells like a long afternoon boff in the sack while you're wearing lacy red tartan, snogging red wine and rolling over thick, black red rose petals. Toss me on those plaid satin sheets my McQueen UPDATE: Honestly, this has aged beautifully. Perhaps the oud was "fresh", but after a several weeks of aging, I barely get any indolic whiffs at the start. I love this one!!!!

The Bluebird with the triple dagger calls to me in a bewitching way. A cry of truth to look through the veil. GORGEOUS green patchouli, clean leaning toward slightly minty. Fresh, feminine and upscale, it's perfectly balanced/blended with the white tobacco. Hot DAMN this is sweet, sexy and let me say exquisite, it settles into an exotic and intoxicating cloud. It's so wearable and makes me feel like a BOMBSHELL. I can't really detect the "slashes of gold" except to say it smells like a million buck$$$ I'm picking up a backup bottle

First of all, this has crazy, strong throw. I can smell it outside the bottle from a distance I've had this several weeks and it's finally settling down. The blend is very distinct, with a recognizable, almost "signature" scent. If I smelled it on someone else, I would immediately recognize the scent. I can understand the reference to Ava here, in a "expensive boutique fragrance" sort of way. Straight-up, first bottle sniff reminds me of (strangely) Skin-So-Soft? and I'm getting that just after application, but it fades fast. My mother and aunt bought tons of it back when I was playing with dolls, and it takes me back to the days I chopped off barbie's hair and drew a beard on her. After a few minutes, the creamy, sugary cognac vanilla blossoms and GAH! it goes all beautiful. The tobacco note warms the whole thing up and gives it a blonde caramel sweetness that is cozy and sexy at the same time. I'm so glad I waited on this one and let it age a bit. I can only imagine what this will be like in a few more months. Yes, you need this

I'm a fan of amber scents, so I jumped on this one. It is a resinous, sappy amber with a tiny bit of smokiness and moss covered wooded pine in the background. Unfortunately, this also had a weird, bitter aquatic note on me. Must have been the moss note? It was a bit like flower vase water mixed with very thin amber after dry down. I tried aging my bottle a bit, along with warming and rolling but never got enough amber to make it wearable. t has a very woodsy, bewitching quality to it that I can see being beautiful on many people, just not me.

This is a lush, TIKI beach scattered with gleaming driftwood and heavy, hanging, fuzzy coconuts. I'm getting smoky, incense note along with teenytiny bit of sweetness from the patchouli. This is truly a unique blend. Velvety smooth with a perfect balance of gleaming sandalwood, a whisper of dry coconut meat and a perfect patch base. Rich and moonlight dreamy, the sandalwood is the lead singer, as the other notes weave in and out like a symphony. I'm not certain this has enough sweetness in it to suit me, but very wearable for anyone who prefers very dry scents.

Oh yah~ fun and flirty, this is all full of blackcurrant candy fruitiness and creaminess from the sandalwood and vanilla snow note. This is definitely a mood lifter, and kinda snuggly, like hugging a great big, fluffy stuffy. As it dries down, it does become more velvety and smooth from the sandalwood note warming up with an elegant, blackcurrent woody vanilla finish. I can almost see the magical bubbles~ I slather this one!!

The Fir, Spruce and Pine are dancing in a snow filled plastic BERRY field. I gotta say, unless that snow is in a fruity meadow, the notes really aren't jiving with the scent. I'm getting a strong, menthol, medicinal smell at first with a weird sweetness underneath. After application, the menthol is still very strong, along with that artificial berry note. This smells like opening a stored box of pine scented Christmas tree limbs, where you accidentally left your hot pink, scented sex toy. This doesn't work on me and thank the stars I only went for a sample