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Nocturne Alchemy: the Cardamoms, Malban and Mummy Mommy
Cardamom Chai Tea
In bottle: sweet, almost creamy vanilla chai with a hint of something like anise, and cardamom.
On skin: oh, this is gorgeous! Sweet vanilla chai with cardamom and cinnamon, just the way I like it. This is competing with Arcana's Chai to become my new favourite chai scent. Imagine blending the sweet cinnamon-clove of the original ( ( Read more... ) -
CB I Hate Perfume
Sweet Smoke
In vial: not much of the sweet but loads of smoke. An amazingly realistic bonfire smoke note. I hope this isn't too smoky!
On skin: smoke, but it's not the full out 'I smell barbecued' scent I was fearing, but a gentle breeze of bonfire smoke. The scent of distant bonfires on an autumn wind, burning leaves, smouldering woods and cosy ( Read more... ) -
Love Potions reviews:
Messalina's Passion Potion
In vial: a soft, creamy, smooth, floral-fruity-incense scent.
On skin: interesting! This is a complex but well blended scent. Apparently this contains about 100 notes…the notes I smell now are ylang ylang, some fruits like pears and peaches, maybe some berries, and maybe lychees, a soft white musk, some other sweet floral ( Read more... ) -
Nocturne Alchemy LEs
Some LEs from Nocturne Alchemy:
Shomu
Part of the 'Egyptian seasons' LE series: Shomu is the Egyptian harvest season. Available until June.
Mandarin, smoky clove, subtle pepper, nutmeg, amber and the essence of the rising of the sun in a lavender and poppy filled garden.
In bottle: a soft, dainty lavender with mandarin and a hint of something lightly ( Read more... ) -
More from Mara.
Some more Mara Fox scents:
Love Potion Gold
In vial: it's golden, but it's not the foody-sweetness or citrus tang I expected…it smells like dry golden hay?
On skin: that's more like it. Now the honey comes into it's own, and there's a tangy bite of green tea as well. I also smell a lovely amber note underneath the honeyed green tea. I can just about ( Read more... ) -
Possets Cambienne part 1.
My first bottle of Cambienne. More will be coming-including my birthday bottle of the Cold Snap.
Cambienne (Spring Equinox edition)
In bottle: BOTTLED SPRING!!! This smells like spring-I smell rain, grass, blossoms and earth! SPRING!
On skin: oh, this is beautiful. It really does smell like liquid springtime. So fresh, so natural-I smell soil soaked ( Read more... ) -
BPAL up and coming/unreleased scents I look forward to...
Up and coming, unreleased, prototype and future BPAL!
Some of these scents already exist as rare prototypes/exclusives (eg Pumpkin King and Naked Singularity), some of these prototypes may or may not be released to the public...but the majority of the names listed do not exist as real BPAL blends yet.
(Starred scents indicate rather serious jonesing ( Read more... ) -
Possets reviews
Reviews of Possets: GC blends and a couple of random LEs.
Giddy
In vial: creamy milk chocolate, or a milk chocolate drink. Yum.
On skin: no! No, why is this happening? Everyone else loves this but this chocolate scent does the same thing that the Arcana chocolate notes do-it turns to sour milk on my skin. No longer the sweet chocolate scent promised ( Read more... ) -
Woobie reviews: Wizard of Oz, Halloween, Valentine, Scorned Love LEs
More Woobie reviews:
Ruby Slippers
In vial: exotic sandalwood incense, almost nag-champa like.
On skin: amber, and lots of it. This is a glorious amber fragrance, rich and golden and sweet and sticky but with darker, woodsier, resinous and smoky undertones. This reminds me of a black/ Tunisian amber fragrance and also of the woodsy labdanum of ( Read more... ) -
Mara Fox reviews: Sugared Scents
Reviews of the Sugared scents by Mara Fox:
Sugared Honeysuckle
In vial: a slightly soapy floral scent with a hint of sugar.
On skin: soft honeysuckle drizzled in sugary nectar. It is a little soapy but it’s not bad, this honeysuckle scent is very pretty indeed. The sugar in here is gentler, less caramelised or treacle like than other sugared scents, ( Read more... )