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Capax Infiniti Limited Edition (Lilith’s Birthday!) Scent Dear Lilith, Your giggle makes me smile. Your tears touch my heart. Your hugs give me strength. I love seeing the world through your eyes. Thank you for letting me hold your hand as we walk along your path of life. I love you infinity. Dad A scent warmed by a whole lot of love: honey-snuggled skin musk, sweet vanilla ice cream residue, and lavender oil (Lilith’s favorite!), with a gentle hint of Dorian. This is kind of exactly what I was imagining it to be. I had heard someones impression mentioning something about butterscotch, or something that gave me the impression of syrupy sweetness, but I dont get that at all. It starts very similar to the lavender Beavermoon (the cheesecake-heavy version), where the lavender is noticeable, but not the main player. Definitely primarily a creamy scent, as opposed to a sharp or herbal one. As it dries a bit, the lavender seems to step even further back, and I would call whats left a 'powdery ice cream musk'. Its delicate and fuzzy, and soft and creamy, and slightly powdery. I can see the Dorian in it, but just barely, and only because it was listed. I wouldnt have thought so just from smelling. Hours later, it reminds me a bit of aged Sed Non Satiata. The powdery creaminess really becoming the lasting fragrance. I guess I do get the honey too, but I think for me, the faded lavender and hint of Dorian really help balance it out. The wisps I get from this throughout the day is very nice. Soft and gentle and pleasant, but non-obtrusive. Huffing from wrist, it is a little too powdery-clean for me. Like, but not love... even though I love the bottle (cool metalic labels) and the inspiration
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LITTLE PYTHIA Ever since toddler’dom, Lilith has had a thing for tarot cards. What kid wouldn’t? They’re big, they’re colorful, and each of them has a story to tell. She has her own decks now (Rider Waite and Thoth), but she still steals mine all the time. This pic was accidental, and, to me, hilarious. She was playing with her Thoth deck when out of nowhere, she grabbed these cards and smooshed them on her cheeks. I’m not sure why she did it, but I’m hella glad I had a camera handy! Channeling Uncle Al, perhaps? An incense for a budding baby magus: vanilla frankincense and rose champaca with a little bit of red licorice. First? I'm first? In the bottle: Oh this is a happy smell. It's soft and sweet and comforting with a little bit of dryness. I'm not really picking out anything specific, but I like. Definitely not getting the licorice. Which is OKAY! Wet: Hm. I think that's the licorice. But it's not sickly sweet like I thought it was going to be. A little floral ... some of the dryness is coming through too. I'm guessing that dryness is the frankincense. Drydown: Well here's another change. Hellooo rose champaca! I didn't expect you to come out quite that strong. You can go away now. Dry: This is very interesting! I sniff my wrist and feel like I just walked into a little used bookstore! That scent of the books, the pages ... that soft, sweet, dry smell that only book paper has. But these books have been touched and loved and have all of the skin smells and the soft lotions and perfumes of a hundred hands have fragranced the pages beyond the simple lush book smell. I love it! I'm craving a bit more of the vanilla sweetness, but I hope that comes out with a bit of age.
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TARANTULA FASCINATOR This summer, Lilith got to play with a ton of bugs, reptiles, and other wigglies during a special event at her preschool. She made a new friend that day – Ursula the Tarantula. “Lilith, what would a tarantula smell like?” “Maybe fuzzy chocolate? With stripes?” Done and done: fuzzy cacao-drenched hazelnut with hay absolute, black pepper, and nutmeg, laced with stripes of wild plum and white sandalwood. In bottle: this really does suit it’s concept. The dominant cocoa note does read as “fuzzy” when supported by sandalwood and hay. The hazelnut adds a richness to the cocoa. The spices give a prickliness to the cocoa. The plum is a surprising counterpoint to the cocoa, giving a sense of unpredictable movement. Wet: Simpler on the skin. The Cocoa is still strongest with the plum in second as counterpoint. The hay and sandalwood fade into each other, still supporting the chocolate, while the hazelnut and nutmeg fade into the cocoa a bit. The pepper keeps its sharpness. Dry: Mostly cocoa and plum with some sandalwood and nutmeg.
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BUTTERFLIES, FLOWERS, AND JEWELS ATTENDING Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things Inspired by the moment in time frozen in this photo - my fairy child, laughing and playing amongst gargantuan flowers. An ethereal, iridescent, twilit scent, sparkling with mystery and innocent joy: white patchouli with provence rose, delicate freesia, pink tuberose, jasmine sambac, orange blossom, butterfly musk, vanilla orchid, and delicate spices. I joined a decant circle for the Lilith blends because I wanted them all, but after reading the reviews, I knew this would be a bottle purchase unsniffed and glad I thought so - I ordered 9/18 and got it today! Now for the review: sophisticated and one of the more commercial smelling BPALs which there aren't a lot of to my nose - and I don't mean it in a negative way at all. I think A LOT of people will like this one, as it's edgy but still not something that a person might freak on and think it's too strong or headshoppy (patchouli component) or anything like that. I wish I could describe it better, but it's absolutely lovely! Balanced perfectly. ETA No notes stick out for me or make a huge presence, it just blends into one gorgeous scent - I can see people picking this for a signature oil! For anyone wondering, I do not smell rose at all. ETA2: I figured out what this reminds me a bit of- Eternity for Women by CK. The description of that perfume is: A contemporary floral bouquet of freesia, white lily, narcissus and sandalwood.
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LILITH'S FEEL BETTER FLOWERS I've been trying to teach Lilith a little bit about herbalism, aromatherapy, and plant lore. We talk about all the plants that are growing in the yard, we talk about all the tinctures, simples, and other concoctions that mom makes, and we play a board game that's all about wildharvesting herbs. Lilith and I were talking about oils one day at work, and she told me that she wanted to make a perfume with all the "feel better flowers". I told her that I'd put in every flower whose purpose she could remember… … so here's what she made: + carnations (to make people happy) + lavender (for sleeping and keeping away bedroom monsters) + honey (it's for smiles and good throats) + ginger (for tummies) + aloe (for too much sun) + blessed thistles (for buronic (sic) plague) + chamomile (for happy families) + chocolate peppermint (because mom grows it just for me) Please remember! – this is a perfume, not a medicine! Please don't drink, rub on wounds, use as a suppository, or anything else nutty. Lavender is the dominant note when wet. I can detect a hint of chamomile as an earthy deeper mustier floral note, ginger and honey are now sweeping to the front. I'm getting a tiny bit of peppermint. A bit more herbal than most blends but still a beautiful sweet spicy lavender scent. As it dries it would do well for people who like smooth, sweet honeys. It has turned into something like the trading post's Xvclemab (sp?!?!) soap. Very nice. Debating a bottle.
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BLUE LOLLIPOPS Preschool graduation celebration! Blueberry-swirled blue lollipops! Wet and in the bottle: Sticky sweet, refined white sugar crystals. Hint of the fruity sweet wet blueberry note, reminds me a lot of the note in Blue Flasher (I think? That was the buttefly one with lilacs and blueberry). On my skin, it blossoms into something like Sticky Pillowcase (YUM!) and definitely goes towards the boppy, fruity, sugary, tween-y scent. This not a bad thing! While wet, the fruity scent also brings to mind the stickiness of taffy, and I can even taste it a little bit as I'm smelling it. Lasting power is fair, but it's definitely a little bit of a nostalgia rush. There's even a flash or so of something I read as 'Bubble Yum' bubble gum, like big tubs of chewy super fruity gum. I'm not sure I have to get more, but it's fun, delightful, and totally full of blue tongues. Incidentally, my happiest patients usually have eaten of the blue candies in my waiting area and when I ask them to say aah, you can see the blue all over their tongues and their guilty yet very pleased looks. This scent (minus the hairy tongue, of course), is that scent of happy blue tongues.
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THE FUTURE BALL One day, Lilith digs up one of my old crystal balls and asks me what it does. I tell her that some people read the future in crystal balls, so she asks me to tell her what's going to happen tomorrow. "I see a little girl waking up and asking for spaghetti for breakfast." "I see a yellow building and a yellow toy bus." "I see a big brown dog. The dog is trying to steal a little girl's dinner." "I see a little girl surrounded by stuffed animals. Her mother is trying to get her to go to sleep, but the little girl keeps asking for more stories." This went on every day for weeks. She'd pull out the ball, and ask (demand) that I tell her what was going to happen to her tomorrow. Fun stuff, motherhood! Crystalline white musk, Somalian olibanum, smoky benzoin, Damascus rose, dark myrrh, sacred sandalwood, life everlasting, rock rose, and gummy bear fingerprint residue. A very complicated scent. Wet on my skin this goes directly to 'smoky resin' and does not pass go. I'm getting much of the sandalwood, myrrh, with an overarching golden resin note that must be the rockrose/costus. The immortelle doesn't add too much sharpness to this. I can hardly detect any white musk at all, and for some reason these gummy bears must be in some kind of resin-drenched cult (or made of frankincense) because I do not detect the fruity note that I would expect from BEARS OF GUM. Over time there is a transition towards smoky, spicy rose, a beautiful fragrance chord that Beth does very well. It remains on the skin a very ecclesiastical, church like aroma. It is magnificent. Like a slightly updated Penitence. My imp should last me, but otherwise if you like churchy resins and angels made of BEARS OF GUM, do try this.
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LILITH'S BUBBLEGUM AND ROSES This summer, Lilith spent Tuesdays and Thursdays with us here at the Lab. One day, she decides that she wants to make a perfume for herself that all her friends can wear, too. We talk for a little while, and I let her smell some components before she finally decides that she wants her fragrance to smell like bubblegum and roses. Little lady, your wish is my command. Lilith's creation: a spray of pink roses, red rose petals, and pink sticky bubblegum! Sweet, sweet, gummy, sticky, chewy pink Bazooka Joe bubble gum at the top. No flagrant fragrant rose yet... I get a lot more spice than expected, almost a cinnamon note that is becoming stronger as the sweetness of the gum dissipates. As this goes on my skin, any rose that is present is only very quietly coming to the forefront. This is weird because I am a rose-amper. I'm actually getting more fiery spice. This is kind of like Sin, except with bubble-gum. It is a perfect spicy bubblegum / cinnamon bubblegum scent. I actually need a bottle. There are moments where I want to smell like this. ETA: about an hour out, it smells like tiny toy roses. /squee