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Spirit Photograph (Yule Prototype)

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Also previewed here by bheansidhe and here by TTP

 

So I definitely get that high, crystalline note that you get in House of Mirrors, but on wet and until about 30 minutes in, I got a pretty heavy dusty and papery note.

 

It dries to a slightly dusty, slightly aquatic, highly similar blend to House of Mirrors. I'd consider this to be very gender neutral.

 

Rejoice! If you were not around for Carnaval Noir and/or really enjoy high, crystal mirrors and always wanted a perfume that smells like the incantation "Mirror, mirror on the wall", fret no more.

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This really is a cold, ethereal scent, with a thin white floral floating over a dry papery note (orris?) and a slight saponin bitterness. (As a former darkroom developer, I can imagine that part is meant to evoke development chemistry). Is the dry note orris? As it develops, it loses the bitter edge and dries into a dusty papery base. I think I get something ghostly like lily-of-the-valley floating on top.

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This is a kind of dusty, papery, dried-flowery type of smell, something like you'd expect a Victorian lady in mourning to wear. It took me a while to figure it out, but it reminds me a bit of Shroud, but with a sharper, aquatic note that floats in and out.

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Cold aquatic cologne (has a generic, department store, clean, musky, aquatic men's cologne scent to it), a hint of bitter green plants, and something dry, dusty, and papery. Perhaps an amber or sandalwood note? Reminds me a lot of the Plague Doctor v10 prototype. Dries down to wafts of sandalwood incense smoke with just a hint of cold, clean cologne and that bitter greenery. Reminds me of burning notebook paper at times, or paper scented with sandalwood.

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Wood? paper? in the bottle. It's hard to describe this. Twigs? The root of a plant? Maybe orris. There's definitely a paper/plant/wood thing going on. Not very pleasant.

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