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!~Happy to decant from most bottles in 1 or 2ml! I might be willing so sell bottles I'm decanting from, so just ask if you're interested in Queen Crossbones or whatever and we'll come up with a fair price. ×# after an item denotes the amount of decants left in the bottle!
Some labels might be oil stained. Happy to take pics if you want. I'm always down for a swap, so send your lists my way! I'm constantly updating so check back often, and don't be afraid to ask any questions/ask if I have something not listed, cheers!
Alkemia

• A Darkness Shining in Brightness: An illuminated darkness of aged dark labdanum and spiced infused Turkish tea reflected through the golden light of aged amber 5ml $12
  
• Ambre D'Autumn: A rich woodsmoked amber infused for thirteen lunar cycles with tobacco leaf, cinnamon vine, green bayberries, chaga, birch tar, maple sap. Rollerball $14
  
• Carmen 7: An indecent proposal of succulently spiced pear, exotic lychees, decadent french pralines, bourbon vanilla, and crushed almond blossoms leads to a ménage à trois of gardenia, star jasmine, and magnolia illuminated by the afterglow of a sensuously musky amber. 90% $12
  
• Halloween Alchemy 2020:Tasty delights and sugary treats, decanted into a potion sweet. A mystery feast, this Hallow's haul! Can you guess these scents of Fall? 5ml $12
  
• Lady Luck: Combining lucky conjure ingredients with guaiac wood, vanilla musk, coriander aldehydes, mandarin, red and green peppercorns, and a whisper of Fast Luck incense. Rollerball $10
  
• Viridis Arcanum: A dark green mystery of Turkish galbanum incense resin, Russian leather, and the fresh tips of coniferous Siberian forest greens. $14
  
• Mystery Grab Bag! of Alkemia samples and decants of varying fills/age. 10 samples for $15
  

Andromeda's Curse samples $2

• Black Phillip: Pink pepper, dirt, chypre, hay bale, moss, butter, black musk, dusty wood, musk, oakmoss, incense. 5ml $10
  
• Pumpkin Cauldron: Pumpkin spice, firewood, Egyptian musk
  
• Sea of Trees: Hinoki wood, bamboo, black musk, cedarwood, agarwood, uncense
  
• The Hermit: Artemisia, balsam fir, dirt, fall leaves, nag champa, sandalwood, oakmoss
  
• The Witching Hour: Frosty mint, copal resin, birch, sage, oakmoss, amber
  

Arcana 1ml decants $4.5

• Black Amber: A deep, resinous black amber layering note. ×2
  
• Bone Mother: The scent of an ancient forest with Russian pear, hand-cured tobacco, warped wood, 20 year vintage iron-distilled patchouli, dark, Slavic musk and tea tannin. Half remaining $12 ×2
  
• Chocolate: single note. Arcana sample
  
• Glittering Black: Black amber, black musk, ice-coated black metal, motor oil, smoky vetiver, and just a hint of our Glittering White (an opening of cold peppermint settles into a heart of sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla musk). ×5 $24 bottle
  
• Glittering Green: Jammy fir balsam, a bit of black spruce, and our Glittering White (an opening of cold peppermint settles into a heart of sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla musk).
  
• Golden Musk: A clean, strong, voluptuous golden musk layering note. ×3
  
• Jarnvid: Fir absolute, black pine needles, warm labdanum absolute, spicy cardamom, and one drop of sweet heliotrope. ×4
  
• Kraken Canes: A mashup of The Kraken (gorgeous smoked vanilla, black vanilla, saltwater, China musk, and black musk) and Candy Cane (wild-harvested sweet peppermint with French vanilla extract and a hint of bright white musk).
  
• Marshmallows Crush!: Marshmallows with Bourbon vanilla beans, Italian bergamot, pink pepper, and French cognac absolute. ×5
  
• Peaches Crave Forests: Sweet woodsmoke, juniper, Douglas fir, cedar, wild peachwood, and a few drops of 10 year old patchouli. ×2
  
• Peaches Crave Trance: Peach crème with honeyed red musk. ×3
  
• Peaches Crave Ultraviolet: Delicate white peach with Arcana Wildcraft's Ultraviolet accord (piquant white tea, tender violets, sweet vanilla, bubble gum, and cotton candy). ×4/Remaining bottle $18
  
• Puck: An impish, confounding blend of cotton candy, green fig, coconut milk, cannabis bud, mugwort, Indian sandalwood, Omani frankincense, brown sugar and a sprinkle of fairy dust. ×4
  
• Queen Crossbones: Creamy Egyptian musk, wild honey, sweet coconut, and exotic resins. ×2 Remaining bottle $10
  
• Romani Princess: Dark garnet grapes, burnt sugar, fir needle oil, iron-distilled patchouli, river water, dragon's blood extract, Fair Trade shea butter, coconut milk, and a swirl of amaranthine poppy seeds. ×3
  
• Snow Witch: Moonrise: Cool, pale lunar musk, white amber, fluffy snow, Boswellia sacra, silken robes, purple iris, soft cedar, and Egyptian blue chamomile.
  
• Snow Witch: Ritual: A dark, mysterious mix of blackened amber resin, wild-harvested fir and spruce branches, aged iron-distilled patchouli, frankincense tears, and bitter orange nectar. x5/$24 bottle
  
• Strigoi: Black rose petals and violets with dragonsblood resin and kush. ×2
  

Astrid decants $3.5

• PENDINGConfectioner's Sugar: single note.
  
• Fur: Wild, animalistic fur accord, blackened amber, vanilla, vetiver, oakmoss, toasted almond, Peru balsam, nagarmotha, frankincense, and oud. ×2
  
• Hauswolf: Wood cabin accord, oud, tonka bean, frankincense, tulsi, tobacco, fig, bay leaf, glowing citrus, and star anise. ×2
  
• Lumina: Soft fig, oriental chyphre, marshmallow, champagne accord, champaca blossom, and lemon myrtle.
  
• Poisonous Path: Alpine strawberry, cranberry, geranium absolute, fir absolute, dark patchouli, and carrot seed. ×8
  
• Polyhymia: Champagne grapes, Loire grapes, peach brandy, olibanum, beeswax (not vegan), rosewood, key lime, and rock rose. $2
  
• She is Feral: Orchard wood, golden delicious apple, Anjou pear, pomegranate, oat and barley accord, vanilla, black spruce, wild Atlas cedar, red musk, Ceylon cinnamon, and rain accord. ×7
  
• Snowglobe: Ruby pomegranate, marshmallow, shimmering pale ginger, raspberry, white tea, pink pepper, and radiant Moroccan rose. ×2
  
• Sugared Pale Patchouli: single note. ×6
  
• Witches Witches Spooky Bitches: Pomegranate, Moroccan rose, rosemary, dark patchouli, tobacco, vetiver, and vanilla. ×5/ 8ml bnnu backup $24
  
• Wolves in the Orchard: Apple, woven basket accord, tulsi, sandalwood, dragon’s blood, patchouli, fir needle, vanilla, and plum. $2
  

Bath Sabbath:

• Brown Leafed Vertigo: The smell of Autumn leaves and berries, rounded out by earthy timber and fresh soil. 5.5oz Soap $5
  
• Brown Leafed Vertigo: 2ml $3
  
• Ex Cider: Classic Apple Cider, a base of warm apple with notes of Cinnamon, Clove and Orange zest. 2ml $3
  
• November Coming Fire: The smell of a Bonfire on a cold autumn night. Hints of smoke, sweet woods and patchouli. 2ml $3
  

BPAL All full unless noted.

• 13 October 2017: Thirteen comforting, soothing notes, including three chocolates, coffee husk, molasses, smoked sugar cane, rum absolute, almond, cozy cardamom, black sage, coconut meat, red benzoin, and bourbon vanilla pod. $20
  
• Dalliance with an Amorous Bat Demon: Honeyed patchouli, sweet benzoic, smoky labdanum and white sandalwood. $24
  
• Ebisu Making Love as Two Octopuses Look On: Oakmoss, skin musk, and nectarine. $25
  
• Falling Leaves Moon 2020: A cascade of fading leaves against a backdrop of grey ambergris, grassy vetiver, carrot seed, fossilized amber, green cardamom, cinnamon husk, saffron, tobacco flower, and bay laurel. $25
  
• Faster Kittycat?: A sheer white chypre with cashmere amber, orris butter, and patchouli. $25
  
• Midnight Bonfire: Lighting the path between worlds, the beacon at the threshold: night-blooming jasmine, smoldering maple leaves, a cluster of patchouli and blackened ti leaf, black sage, and pinewood smoke. $24
  
• Pomegranates and Date Palm: Pomegranate, dates, and cypress infused with ketoret smoke veiled in violet, purple, and crimson. $18
  
• Sekhmet V5: No notes, review page 50% $10
  
• Sticky Pillowcase: Smushed candy corn, rock candy dust, marshmallow gunk, strawberry goo, spun blue sugar, globs of salt water taffy, and lint. $30
  

Samples/decants $2 if not priced otherwise. (if you're looking for something not here, I might have it or be able to decant!)

• Aglaea: Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle.
  
• Al-Shairan: Clove, peach and orange with cinnamon, patchouli and dark incense notes.
  
• Cairo: The essence of holy Kyphi, beloved incense of the Egyptian Gods.
  
• Centzon Totochtin: Bittersweet Mexican cocoa with rum, red wine, and a scent redolent of sacrificial blood.
  
• Chimera: The fiery, volatile scent of cinnamon, thickened by myrrh, honeysuckle, and copal.
  
• Debauchery: Mingled heady civet and red Egyptian musk, thickened with opium.
  
• PENDINGDragon's Musk: Dragon’s blood and five deep musks.
  
• Enyalios Lord of War: Patchouli, frankincense, olibanum, thyme, cocoa absolute, Peru balsam, oakmoss, and juniper.
  
• Falling Leaves Moon: A cascade of fading leaves against a backdrop of grey ambergris, grassy vetiver, carrot seed, fossilized amber, green cardamom, cinnamon husk, saffron, tobacco flower, and bay laurel. $4
  
• Goneril: White geranium, calla lily, cedarwood and black orchid. Disc.
  
• Jezebel: A gloriously decadent blend of honey, roses, orange blossom and sandalwood.
  
• Kyoto: A gentle, soothing blend of cherry blossom, white sandalwood and star anise.
  
• Liquid Gold is in The Air: Three glittering ambers, golden oud, golden apple, saffron, and orange blossom honey with vanilla husk and gilded cedar. $4
  
• Mictecacihuatl: Copal, precious woods, South American spices, agave nectar, cigar tobacco, and roses.
  

-Moonflower and Orris: A celestial dreamscape. $4

• Nero: Rosemary, bay, pine and a touch of lemon. Disc.
  
• October: Dry, cold autumn wind. A eustlebof red leaves, a touch of smoke and sap in the air. $4
  
• Pumpkin Doob: ajevie slonk $5
  
• Pumpkin Pie Musk ×2 $4
  
• Red Rider: Red leather, red moss, and balsam.
  
• Rogue: Soft, well worn black leather, hemp and rosin.
  
• Server Gremlins
  
• Sloth: Vetiver over black myrrh.
  
• Squirting Cucumber: A spurt of wet, grassy greenness.
  
• PENDINGSugar Skull 2012: A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits. $3
  
• Sybaris: Bright violet with sweet clove, Mediterranean incense notes and tonka bean. ×2
  
• Tanin'iver: Dragon's blood resin, patchouli, pomegranate, myrrh, mimosa, cassia, blood musk and smoke. Disc. Maybe bad, smells weird. $1
  
• Terra Caloris: Red musk flickering with hot red Amber, red pepper, scorched thyme, frankincense, green cardamom, and Ceylon cinnamon.
  
• They Shut Me Up in Prose: Sweet bourbon vanilla, pale sandalwood, mallow flower, osmanthus, and shards of frankincense. $5
  
• Tweedledum: Green mango, fig, patchouli and green tea.
  
• Tzadikim Nistarim: Frankincense, olive, spikenard, hyssop and galangal.
  
• Veritas: The essence of honesty, integrity, and veracity: frankincense, white carnation, angelica, chamomile, and heliotrope.
  
• Vice: A deep chocolate scent with bbn black cherry and orange blossom.
  

BPTP Hair Gloss/Atmos Decants 3ml/$2 5ml/$4

• Dead Leaves and Black Musk Bottle remainder $15
  
• For the Love of God, Poetricia: Dried red fruits, red benzoin, poppy tar, and amontillado.
  
• Hair Loosened and Soiled in Mid Orgies: White honey, warm musk and ambrette seed.
  
• In The Shadow Room: Inky black pomegranate, blackcurrant, cassis, red sandalwood, ambrette seed and fossilized amber, pink peppercorn, and guiaicwood.
  
• Midnight at Midwinter Atmosphere Spray: Terebinth pine, fir balsam, frozen sap, blackcurrant and vetiver. Atmo
  
• My Secret Deeds: Thick darkness, black as pitch: opoponax, oily labdanum, and birch tar disrupted by a bubbling carnation chuckle. Almost full $25
  
• So Below: Amber and black copal with black coconut, Sumatran red patchouli, green cardamom pod, and golden musk. Almost full $40
  
• Totality: An abyss of black patchouli, tabac, burgundy pitch, smoky frankincense, and black fig surrounded by a glowing nimbus of fossilized amber. Full bottle available $45
  
• The Shadow of it's Dress Atmosphere Spray: Black plum, black currant, opoponax, olibanum, sinuous labdanum and opium tar.
  

Bloodbath 10ml rollerball $6

• Buried Alive: Earthy patchouli, graveyard dirt
  
• Trick R Treat: Candy corn, sweet tarts, circus peanuts, milk chocolate and cotton candy in a plastic pumpkin pail.
  

Cocoa Pink 2.5ml oil samples $5

• Telekinetic: Mysterious star jasmine, paperwhites, Italian bergamot, white wild rose, sensual balsam, fresh tobacco leaves, spicy pink peppercorn shocked with an ambergris accord.
  
• Wild Hunt: Forests of oak, cedar, and juniper; mist, black soil, woodsmoke, dragon’s blood, wild dark musks.
  

Linen Spray Decants 3ml/$1.5 5ml/$2.5

• Black Forest: The haunting fragrance of Scotch pine boughs, burning firewood and dried fall leaves married with CP’s warm sensual amber note.
  
• Demogorgon: Dried autumn leaves, golden amber, bright red maple leaves, dark blackberry wine and old wood overcome with patches of moss
  
• Monster in the Walls: Smoky, aged patchouli swirled with sweet agar wood and sparkling aldehydes.
  
• No More Wishes: Lush coconut and musky ambrette seed, warmed by chypre, copal and sweet tobacco; an offering of golden honey, figs and plums before a brazier of champaca and flames of ginger; a rising sinuous thrill of black musk.
  
• Padre: Holy incense and unholy smoke wreathe this hard-fighting, hard-drinking preacher, a little bit of good and a whole lotta bad: Frankincense, ambergris*, dark musk, patchouli, oud, smoke accord, vetiver, tobacco, chypre accord, bourbon, neroli, balsam, and sandalwood.
  
• Pink Bonfire: The delicious aroma of Pink Sugar mingling with the sweet presence of bonfire smoke and burning leaves.
  
• Run For Your Life: Crisp autumn air at night, damp fall leaves scattered about, blackened vanilla, woods and delicate wisps of burning leaves.
  
• Sleigh Ride: Dashing through the snow on a wooden sleigh, passing by frozen mulberry bushes; Finally, coming to a halt at the bottom of the slope where pipe smoke lingers in the winter air.
  
• Winter's Day: Outdoors on a winter day. Begins with top notes of bergamot, orange and lemon; middle notes of geranium, lily and rose; and base notes of patchouli, vetiver and tonka beans
  

CP Other New, only sniffed.

• Winter's Night: Woodsy smell of a winter’s night in the country. Blended with tangy fruits, pines and a warm, smoky scent. 6oz Shine Sweetie Moisturizing Conditioner $10.50

Death and Floral Take all 5 rollerballs for $35! Or $10 each
Nihilistic Winter Set

• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like [REDACTED]: Glidingly smooth Fresh pen ink, warm Vetiver and red leaves 4ml
  
• Merry Christmas, Time has no Meaning: Gentle fir needles and red pine, comforting outdoor woods on a brisk December night. 4ml
  
• ‘Tis the Season to Acknowledge the Void: Black musk, black amber, pinyon pine needles, and the knowledge that times arrow marches on. Contains a very slim Profile of warm nuttiness, black coffee, and dark cocoa beans. 4ml
  
• Santa Baby, So Pay My Student Loans off Tonight: Freshly fallen snow, peppermint hot cocoa, crushed red velvet
  
• A Hundred Times I dreamed I Was a Star: Grey pine needles and tea rose blended with light black pepper and sage. Woody and fresh, reminiscent of a chilly autumn night sky peppered with a million stars. 5ml rollerball $14
  

Deconstructing Eden

• Nature: Redwoods, mahogany, conifers. 4ml remaining $10

Fantôme

• Ectpplasm: Spooky, goopy marshmallow over bone-chilling white musk, sweet amber, a gossamer sugar glaze, dark myrrh, and creeping greenery. 10ml $18

Firebird $2

• Black Moon: Lavender, licorice candy, burnt sugar, charred wood
  
• Cocoa Pumpkin: Bitter cocoa, spiced pumpkin, vanilla, lavender, firewood
  
• Coconut Fig: Fig, coconut milk, caramel, candied bergamot, vanilla musk
  

Haus of Gloi

• Persephone's Descent: Pomegranate, pale musk, narcissus blossom and black amber. 2oz Hair oil $12
  
• Ploughman: Well worn leather, dirt n' dandelions, carrot, a pinch of tobacco and a light sheen of feral skin musk. 2oz Pumpkin Butter, mostly full $3
  

Hexennacht samples/decants $2-3

• Creaky Floorboards: Old, weathered wood, aged patchouli.
  
• Hans Trapp: Dark patchouli, clove, cherry.
  
• Middle Earth: Chocolate, amber, nag champa, dark patchouli.
  
• Molokini: Plumeria, coconut, sea moss.
  
• Myrrhe: spicy (almost cola-clove-y), resinous, warm, premium myrrh accord.
  
• Nicotine: deep, rich, Oscuro cigars. Plumes of sweet, fire-cured pipe smoke. Fresh-cut tobacco, rum-dipped cigarillos, cacao Shisha, vanillic vape clouds. Dram $8
  
• Thanatos: Desiccated leaves, hedgerow blossoms, charred pinyon, aged cedarwood boughs, petrified tree sap, crisp fall air, laurel, clove bud, smoke-tinged balsam, santalum, and graveyard dirt. ×2
  
• Waking the Witch: Patchouli, vanilla, cashmeran, oakmoss, black pepper, laurel leaf. ×2
  

Immortal Perfumes

• Lady Day: Tonka Bean, opium, Hawaiian sandalwood, lily of the valley, white peach, gardenia. 9ml $25

MX Perfume

• White Sunshine: Bergamot, Grapefruit, Geranium, Iris, Jasmine, White Musk, Civet (*animal-friendly/synthetic), Oakmoss, Patchouli, Vanilla, Labdanum)

NAVA $3/ Take a NAVA for $20 and free shipping on your order!

• Miss Cassandra: Bulgarian Rose, Aged Black Patchouli, Egyptian Sweet Musk, French Lavender, Soft Carnation, Amber, French Vanilla and Egyptian Myrrh
  
• Nibiru: Tobacco Leaf, Vanilla Bean Liqueur, Kenyan Cardamom, Vanilla-infused-Patchouli, Tunisian Amber Attar, Amber Paste, Sweet Sandalwood, Copal Resin, Vetiver wood embers, Oudh resin and South African Black Frankincense Resin.
  
• Octopoda Potion: Chocolate Cake and Almond Cake and Rum Cake accords, toffee, vanilla bean, butterscotch, toasted coconut and Santalum Sandalwood Absolute. 1-2ml in original bottle.
  
• Pink Grapefruit Frankincense Crystalline: Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil, Crystalline, Egyptian Frankincense Resin, Ruby Red Essential Oil, Caramelized Grapefruit Skin, California White Sage and a drop of Amber Musk Absolute.
  
• Purple Potion: Black Currant, Sandalwood, Vanilla, Nutmeg, Bourbon Vanille Absolute and Black Patchouli leaves.
  
• Purple Vegas Vampire: White Patchouli, eNVie saphir, Kashmir Absolute, Bastet Amber, Oak Moss, Sweet Wood and dead roses
  
• Teal Vegas Vampire: Blood Neroli accord, Kashmir Absolute, Santalum White, Bergamot, Orange Blossom and
  

Nui Cobalt Samples $3

• Ascended Masters Set: 14 .5ml samples, decanted by Ajevie. Tested a couple of times, but plenty of life left! More info/notes $28 (retailed $42)
  
• Hibernate: Golden oak, a bed of hay, fertile earth, peru balsam, maple wood, and an accord of dense winter fur.
  
• Silver Bullet: Wolf musk accord with wild white currant, chilled clary sage, dried lavender, lime leaves, and a subtle hint of almond bark infused with homegrown hyssop, lemon verbena, and white peppercorn.
  

Possets samples $3/ Take all Possets samples/decants for $50 and free shipping on your order!

• Beethoven's Fifth: Lime as the top note, with bottom notes of threeambers, aged patchouli, two frankincenses, and dry pekoe tea. 5ml available $16
  
• Capezzoli di Venere: Vanilla, spring snowfall, mixed flowers.
  
• Courtly Love: Coconut, apricot, jasmine, vanilla.
  
• Chocolate Incense: Sandalwood, amber, frankincense bring out the smokey tease in chocolate. ×2
  
• Diaphanous Dress: Deep rich Mexican vanilla with the chill aquatic of snow. Chlorophyll is in the background and a hint of the flowers it all overtakes.
  
• Field of Reeds: Black pepper, sandalwood, two ambers, labdanum, golden musk.
  
• Indigo: Lavender, vanilla, black pepper, coriander.
  
• Min-Min: Three sandalwoods, leather, patchouli, rose.
  
• Mistress of Power: Musk, patchouli, chocolate, clove, ambergris.
  
• Morgan Le Fay: Clove bud, vetiver, sweet musk, patchouli, rose.
  
• Over the Rhine: Amber, molasses, musk, sandalwood, clove, black pepper.
  
• Passion: Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, milk, coffee.
  
• Pippin Pie: The juiciest and most tart apples, the flakiest and most buttery pastry, heaps and heaps of sugar and a kiss of spice.
  
• Silver Carnations
  
• ** Silver Chypre**
  
• Taj: Jasmine, patchouli, red musk, oud, lemon zest. 5ml (Valentine's Day 2015) 5ml available $18
  
• The Flirty She-Corpse: Italian bergamot, Georgia white peach, sambac jasmine, French oakmoss, and American cedar wood. ×2 decant
  

Redwood Alchemy

• Basilisk: A sharp grapefruit gaze that freezes the heart, then the serpent's coils unfurl into exotic florals of peony, champak and heliotrope, finishing off with fragrant sandalwood incense. 5ml Parfum Spray $16

Samples $3

• Areté: White florals of lily of the valley with spicy, animalic notes and the sweetness of musk throughout.
  
• Loup Garou: An extreme, animalic scent with notes of cyprus, bloodthirst, amber & desiccation.
  

Siren Song Elixirs

• Black Widow's Kiss: Ripe plum, black amber, sweet resin, peony, patchouli, jasmine, cotton candy. Dram $8
  
• Dracula: Oud wood, white musk, moss, fir, mahogany, heliotrope, violet, dark ozone, elder flower, labdanum. Dram $8
  
• Dread Wolf: Dark chocolate, black tea, smoke, moss, dark woods. 5ml $14
  
• Hades: Icy cold musk, black mist, narcissus flower, black amber, frankincense, myrrh, vetiver, french lavender, anise seed, labdanum, patchouli, leather. 5ml $14
  

Smelly Yeti

• Scarlet: Deep red Bordeaux wine with oaky overtones and a subtle and smooth leather. full size, wandcapped $10

Stereoplasm

• The Velveteen Stranger: Stolen peaches, yellow marshmallow, chopped cedar, blackberry aftershave, and cigar smoke. 7ml $16

Solstice Scents 1ml samples $3

• Covered Bridge
  
• Devil's Tongue: Chypre, Brown Leather, Warm Tobacco, Woods and more.
  
• Jack and the Devil: Pumpkin, Amber, Spices, Vanilla, Patchouli, Oakmoss.
  
• Nightgown: Vanilla, White Chocolate, Tuberose & Tiare Flowers
  
• Shadows in the Night: White Amber, Fir, Somalian Frankincense, Elemi, Bayberry, Spruce, Amber, Peppermint, A Puff Of Incense, Edge of the Night Base. Disc. Decant $5
  
• Winter Dove
  

EDP samples $6 (PBM, only sprayed 1 or 2 times)

• Edge of the Night (decant)
  
• Manor Fire
  
• Parlor Trick (decant)
  
• Riverside Sleighride
  
• Smoky Mountain Mallow
  
• Thornwood Thicket
  
• Tropical Moon
  

5ml Rollerballs

• Wardrobe: Creamy woods blend with cashmere, fur, velvet and a touch of dry woody spice. $18

Strange South samples/decants $3

• Dear Bones: Three musks, plum incense, amber, Indian sandalwood, and fuzzy tonka bean.
  
• Gertrude: Holy basil, chrysanthemum accord, driftwood, frankincense, and haircloth.
  
• Je Veux Mon Livre: Tea leaves and sage pressed between the ancient pages of a leather-bound grimoire.
  
• Piece of Calico: Pumpkin, white chocolate, and patchouli flower.
  
• Slipped Between His Teeth: Ambergris, white florals, cedarwood, bone metal, blackcurrant and marjoram. 5ml $10
  

Sucreabeille

• Goth as Fuck: Rich dark resins, thick incense, beeswax candles, frankincense and myrrh. Cool stone floors and cloves, red musk and sassafras. Clary Sage and wormwood. Guiac wood and patchouli, and a whisper of black jasmine. Edp 85% of 10ml rollerball $10

Twinkle Apothecary Take both for $18

• Bad B*tch: A deep, dark, earthy blend of amber, oakmoss, and patchouli, with coffee, clove, cannabis, cognac, and black pepper. 5ml Alcohol based rollerball $10
  
• Date Night: Rose, cocoa, tonka bean, jasmine, vanilla, almond, cardamom, pink peppercorn, patchouli. 5ml Alcohol based spray $10
  

Wicked Good 10ml oil rollerballs $14

• Get Your Kicks: Lemon peel, yuzu, ginger extracts.
  
• Relax: French lavender, violet, moss.
  
• Rise + Shine: Manderin, tangerine, basil grande vert, clove, jasmine, patchouli, myrrh, Amber, Egyptian musk.
  
• White Pumpkin Chai: Sweet potatoes, white pumpkin, chai tea, bourbon vanilla, melted butter.
  
• Sparkling Champagne: Citrus, mistletoe, light greens, woody tones
  
• Wing of Fairy: Quince, lotus, muguet, peach blossom, hawthorn, orris, cedar leaves.
  

Other

• Candy Corn Buttercream: Marshmallow cream, vanilla, powdered sugar. Whipped Soap 2oz? $8 Brand new
  
• Champagne Apple Honey: Red apple, anjou pear, nectarine, honey butter, vanilla sugar, coconut milk, soft musk. 2.5oz.? $10 Brand new
  
• Root of Hemlock: Black sandalwood, Hatian vetiver, clove, black pepper, amber, incense. Bamboo charcoal incense. 4 left, $3
  
• Spiritual Gangster: Orange flower, champaca absolute, davana, patchouli, sugared musk, santal, vanilla, amber. 30ml/1oz perfume spray $22
  
• Winter Splendor: blue cypress, rosemary sprigs, vintage teak, sugar mint, moss, bourbon vanilla, tiare flowers. 30ml/1oz perfume spray 1cm missing $18
  

Sorry this is so long.. I might have a problem. Shipping is $4.50.
!~Happy to decant from most bottles in 1 or 2ml! I might be willing so sell bottles I'm decanting from, so just ask if you're interested in Queen Crossbones or whatever and we'll come up with a fair price. If you're looking for something, I might have it.. send a chat or PM, I'm nice I swear! Sample of my decants.. yes, I am very exited about my new label maker so your decants look nice finally!
Some labels might be oil stained. Happy to take pics if you want. I'm always down for a swap, so send your lists my way! I'm constantly updating so check back often, cheers!
Alkemia

• A Darkness Shining in Brightness: An illuminated darkness of aged dark labdanum and spiced infused Turkish tea reflected through the golden light of aged amber 5ml $12
  
• Ambre D'Autumn: A rich woodsmoked amber infused for thirteen lunar cycles with tobacco leaf, cinnamon vine, green bayberries, chaga, birch tar, maple sap. Rollerball $14
  
• Carmen 7: An indecent proposal of succulently spiced pear, exotic lychees, decadent french pralines, bourbon vanilla, and crushed almond blossoms leads to a ménage à trois of gardenia, star jasmine, and magnolia illuminated by the afterglow of a sensuously musky amber. 90% $12
  
• Halloween Alchemy 2020:Tasty delights and sugary treats, decanted into a potion sweet. A mystery feast, this Hallow's haul! Can you guess these scents of Fall? 5ml $12
  
• Lady Luck: Combining lucky conjure ingredients with guaiac wood, vanilla musk, coriander aldehydes, mandarin, red and green peppercorns, and a whisper of Fast Luck incense. Rollerball $10
  
• Viridis Arcanum: A dark green mystery of Turkish galbanum incense resin, Russian leather, and the fresh tips of coniferous Siberian forest greens. $14
  

Andromeda's Curse samples $2

• Black Phillip: Pink pepper, dirt, chypre, hay bale, moss, butter, black musk, dusty wood, musk, oakmoss, incense. 5ml $10
  
• Pumpkin Cauldron: Pumpkin spice, firewood, Egyptian musk
  
• Sea of Trees: Hinoki wood, bamboo, black musk, cedarwood, agarwood, uncense
  
• The Hermit: Artemisia, balsam fir, dirt, fall leaves, nag champa, sandalwood, oakmoss
  
• The Witching Hour: Frosty mint, copal resin, birch, sage, oakmoss, amber
  

Arcana 1ml decants $4.5

• Black Amber: A deep, resinous black amber layering note. ×2
  
• Bone Mother: The scent of an ancient forest with Russian pear, hand-cured tobacco, warped wood, 20 year vintage iron-distilled patchouli, dark, Slavic musk and tea tannin. Half remaining $12 ×2
  
• Chocolate: single note. Arcana sample
  
• Glittering Black: Black amber, black musk, ice-coated black metal, motor oil, smoky vetiver, and just a hint of our Glittering White (an opening of cold peppermint settles into a heart of sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla musk). ×5 $24 bottle
  
• Glittering Blue: A cooling blend of tart blue lemonade, iced lemon bundt cake, creamy blue musk, a drizzle of blue chamomile, and Glittering White (cold peppermint, sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, vanilla musk).
  
• Glittering Green: Jammy fir balsam, a bit of black spruce, and our Glittering White (an opening of cold peppermint settles into a heart of sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla musk).
  
• Glittering White: An opening of cold peppermint settles into a heart of sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla musk.
  
• Golden Musk: A clean, strong, voluptuous golden musk layering note. ×5
  
• Jarnvid: Fir absolute, black pine needles, warm labdanum absolute, spicy cardamom, and one drop of sweet heliotrope. ×4
  
• Kraken Canes: A mashup of The Kraken (gorgeous smoked vanilla, black vanilla, saltwater, China musk, and black musk) and Candy Cane (wild-harvested sweet peppermint with French vanilla extract and a hint of bright white musk).
  
• Marshmallows Crush!: Marshmallows with Bourbon vanilla beans, Italian bergamot, pink pepper, and French cognac absolute. ×5
  
• Peaches Crave Forests: Sweet woodsmoke, juniper, Douglas fir, cedar, wild peachwood, and a few drops of 10 year old patchouli. ×2
  
• Peaches Crave Trance: Peach crème with honeyed red musk. ×5
  
• Peaches Crave Ultraviolet: Delicate white peach with Arcana Wildcraft's Ultraviolet accord (piquant white tea, tender violets, sweet vanilla, bubble gum, and cotton candy). ×4/Remaining bottle $18
  
• Puck: An impish, confounding blend of cotton candy, green fig, coconut milk, cannabis bud, mugwort, Indian sandalwood, Omani frankincense, brown sugar and a sprinkle of fairy dust. ×4
  
• Queen Crossbones: Creamy Egyptian musk, wild honey, sweet coconut, and exotic resins. ×4 Remaining bottle $18
  
• Romani Princess: Dark garnet grapes, burnt sugar, fir needle oil, iron-distilled patchouli, river water, dragon's blood extract, Fair Trade shea butter, coconut milk, and a swirl of amaranthine poppy seeds. ×3
  
• Snow Witch: Moonrise: Cool, pale lunar musk, white amber, fluffy snow, Boswellia sacra, silken robes, purple iris, soft cedar, and Egyptian blue chamomile.
  
• Snow Witch: Ritual: A dark, mysterious mix of blackened amber resin, wild-harvested fir and spruce branches, aged iron-distilled patchouli, frankincense tears, and bitter orange nectar. x5/$24 bottle
  
• Snug: Dark honey amber, marshmallow, and the glow of beeswax candles.
  
• Star Light: Sugar cookies infused with Mexican vanilla and sprinkled with tiny hints of peach, fig, and raisin.
  
• Strigoi: Black rose petals and violets with dragonsblood resin and kush. ×2
  

Astrid decants $3.5

• All the Black Cats in the World Lush vanilla, orris, amyris, amber, star anise, rose, black berry, tonka, patchouli, and jasmine. ×2
  
• Black Amber: single note.
  
• Confectioner's Sugar: single note.
  
• Fur: Wild, animalistic fur accord, blackened amber, vanilla, vetiver, oakmoss, toasted almond, Peru balsam, nagarmotha, frankincense, and oud. ×2
  
• Hauswolf: Wood cabin accord, oud, tonka bean, frankincense, tulsi, tobacco, fig, bay leaf, glowing citrus, and star anise. ×2
  
• Lumina: Soft fig, oriental chyphre, marshmallow, champagne accord, champaca blossom, and lemon myrtle.
  
• Poisonous Path: Alpine strawberry, cranberry, geranium absolute, fir absolute, dark patchouli, and carrot seed. ×8
  
• Polyhymia: Champagne grapes, Loire grapes, peach brandy, olibanum, beeswax (not vegan), rosewood, key lime, and rock rose. $2
  
• She is Feral: Orchard wood, golden delicious apple, Anjou pear, pomegranate, oat and barley accord, vanilla, black spruce, wild Atlas cedar, red musk, Ceylon cinnamon, and rain accord. ×7
  
• Snowglobe: Ruby pomegranate, marshmallow, shimmering pale ginger, raspberry, white tea, pink pepper, and radiant Moroccan rose. ×2
  
• Sugared Pale Patchouli: single note. ×8
  
• Witches Witches Spooky Bitches: Pomegranate, Moroccan rose, rosemary, dark patchouli, tobacco, vetiver, and vanilla. ×5/ 8ml bnnu backup $24
  
• Wolves in the Orchard: Apple, woven basket accord, tulsi, sandalwood, dragon’s blood, patchouli, fir needle, vanilla, and plum. $2
  

Bath Sabbath:

• Brown Leafed Vertigo: The smell of Autumn leaves and berries, rounded out by earthy timber and fresh soil. 5.5oz Soap $5
  
• Brown Leafed Vertigo: 2ml $3
  
• Ex Cider: Classic Apple Cider, a base of warm apple with notes of Cinnamon, Clove and Orange zest. 2ml $3
  
• Moonchild: Bergamot, Lavender, and Brown sugar. 1ml sample $2
  
• November Coming Fire: The smell of a Bonfire on a cold autumn night. Hints of smoke, sweet woods and patchouli. 2ml $3
  

BPAL All full unless noted.

• 13 October 2017: Thirteen comforting, soothing notes, including three chocolates, coffee husk, molasses, smoked sugar cane, rum absolute, almond, cozy cardamom, black sage, coconut meat, red benzoin, and bourbon vanilla pod. $20
  
• Dalliance with an Amorous Bat Demon: Honeyed patchouli, sweet benzoic, smoky labdanum and white sandalwood. $24
  
• Falling Leaves Moon 2020: A cascade of fading leaves against a backdrop of grey ambergris, grassy vetiver, carrot seed, fossilized amber, green cardamom, cinnamon husk, saffron, tobacco flower, and bay laurel. $25
  
• Faster Kittycat?: A sheer white chypre with cashmere amber, orris butter, and patchouli. $25
  
• Midnight Bonfire: Lighting the path between worlds, the beacon at the threshold: night-blooming jasmine, smoldering maple leaves, a cluster of patchouli and blackened ti leaf, black sage, and pinewood smoke. $24
  
• Pomegranates and Date Palm: Pomegranate, dates, and cypress infused with ketoret smoke veiled in violet, purple, and crimson. $18
  
• Sekhmet V5: No notes, review page 50% $10
  
• Sticky Pillowcase: Smushed candy corn, rock candy dust, marshmallow gunk, strawberry goo, spun blue sugar, globs of salt water taffy, and lint. $30
  

Samples/decants $2 if not priced otherwise. (if you're looking for something not here, I might have it or be able to decant!)

• Aglaea: Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle.
  
• Alice: Milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot.
  
• Al-Shairan: Clove, peach and orange with cinnamon, patchouli and dark incense notes.
  
• Black Lily: Breathtaking darkness, a vision of grace in shadow. (Realistic lily)
  
• Blood Popsicle: The scent of frozen type O negative. $3
  
• Cairo: The essence of holy Kyphi, beloved incense of the Egyptian Gods.
  
• Centzon Totochtin: Bittersweet Mexican cocoa with rum, red wine, and a scent redolent of sacrificial blood.
  
• Chimera: The fiery, volatile scent of cinnamon, thickened by myrrh, honeysuckle, and copal.
  
• Debauchery: Mingled heady civet and red Egyptian musk, thickened with opium.
  
• Dragon's Musk: Dragon’s blood and five deep musks.
  
• Enyalios Lord of War: Patchouli, frankincense, olibanum, thyme, cocoa absolute, Peru balsam, oakmoss, and juniper.
  
• Falling Leaves Moon: A cascade of fading leaves against a backdrop of grey ambergris, grassy vetiver, carrot seed, fossilized amber, green cardamom, cinnamon husk, saffron, tobacco flower, and bay laurel. $4
  
• Goneril: White geranium, calla lily, cedarwood and black orchid. Disc.
  
• Jezebel: A gloriously decadent blend of honey, roses, orange blossom and sandalwood.
  
• Katharina: White musk with a trickle of bright, sharp apricot and orange blossom.
  
• Kyoto: A gentle, soothing blend of cherry blossom, white sandalwood and star anise.
  
• Liquid Gold is in The Air: Three glittering ambers, golden oud, golden apple, saffron, and orange blossom honey with vanilla husk and gilded cedar.
  
• Magdalene: White roses, labdanum and wild orchid. Disc.
  
• Mictecacihuatl: Copal, precious woods, South American spices, agave nectar, cigar tobacco, and roses.
  
• Moonflower and Orris**: A celestial dreamscape. $4
  
• Nero: Rosemary, bay, pine and a touch of lemon. Disc.
  
• October: Dry, cold autumn wind. A eustlebof red leaves, a touch of smoke and sap in the air. $4
  
• Pumpkin Doob: ajevie slonk $5
  
• Pumpkin Pie Musk ×2 $4
  
• Red Rider: Red leather, red moss, and balsam.
  
• Rogue: Soft, well worn black leather, hemp and rosin.
  
• Server Gremlins
  
• Sloth: Vetiver over black myrrh.
  
• Squirting Cucumber: A spurt of wet, grassy greenness.
  
• Sugar Skull 2012: A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits. $3
  
• Sybaris: Bright violet with sweet clove, Mediterranean incense notes and tonka bean. ×2
  
• Tanin'iver: Dragon's blood resin, patchouli, pomegranate, myrrh, mimosa, cassia, blood musk and smoke. Disc. Maybe bad, smells weird. $1
  
• Terra Caloris: Red musk flickering with hot red Amber, red pepper, scorched thyme, frankincense, green cardamom, and Ceylon cinnamon.
  
• They Shut Me Up in Prose: Sweet bourbon vanilla, pale sandalwood, mallow flower, osmanthus, and shards of frankincense. $5
  
• Tweedledum: Green mango, fig, patchouli and green tea.
  
• Tzadikim Nistarim: Frankincense, olive, spikenard, hyssop and galangal.
  
• Veritas: The essence of honesty, integrity, and veracity: frankincense, white carnation, angelica, chamomile, and heliotrope.
  
• Vice: A deep chocolate scent with bbn black cherry and orange blossom.
  

BPTP Hair Gloss/Atmos Decants 3ml/$2 5ml/$4

• Dead Leaves and Black Musk Bottle remainder $15
  
• For the Love of God, Poetricia: Dried red fruits, red benzoin, poppy tar, and amontillado.
  
• Hair Loosened and Soiled in Mid Orgies: White honey, warm musk and ambrette seed.
  
• In The Shadow Room: Inky black pomegranate, blackcurrant, cassis, red sandalwood, ambrette seed and fossilized amber, pink peppercorn, and guiaicwood.
  
• Midnight at Midwinter Atmosphere Spray: Terebinth pine, fir balsam, frozen sap, blackcurrant and vetiver. Atmo
  
• My Secret Deeds: Thick darkness, black as pitch: opoponax, oily labdanum, and birch tar disrupted by a bubbling carnation chuckle. Almost full $25
  
• So Below: Amber and black copal with black coconut, Sumatran red patchouli, green cardamom pod, and golden musk. Almost full $40
  
• Totality: An abyss of black patchouli, tabac, burgundy pitch, smoky frankincense, and black fig surrounded by a glowing nimbus of fossilized amber. Full bottle available $45
  
• The Shadow of it's Dress Atmosphere Spray: Black plum, black currant, opoponax, olibanum, sinuous labdanum and opium tar.
  

Bloodbath 10ml rollerball $6

• Buried Alive: Earthy patchouli, graveyard dirt
  
• Trick R Treat: Candy corn, sweet tarts, circus peanuts, milk chocolate and cotton candy in a plastic pumpkin pail.
  

Cocoa Pink 2.5ml oil samples $5

• Telekinetic: Mysterious star jasmine, paperwhites, Italian bergamot, white wild rose, sensual balsam, fresh tobacco leaves, spicy pink peppercorn shocked with an ambergris accord.
  
• Witches Cottage: Pale calla lily, wild blackberries, orange, October blooming osmanthus, oak, Indian sandalwood and patchouli softened by trickles of amber.
  
• Wild Hunt: Forests of oak, cedar, and juniper; mist, black soil, woodsmoke, dragon’s blood, wild dark musks.
  

Linen Spray Decants 3ml/$1.5 5ml/$2.5

• Black Forest: The haunting fragrance of Scotch pine boughs, burning firewood and dried fall leaves married with CP’s warm sensual amber note.
  
• Demogorgon: Dried autumn leaves, golden amber, bright red maple leaves, dark blackberry wine and old wood overcome with patches of moss
  
• Monster in the Walls: Smoky, aged patchouli swirled with sweet agar wood and sparkling aldehydes.
  
• No More Wishes: Lush coconut and musky ambrette seed, warmed by chypre, copal and sweet tobacco; an offering of golden honey, figs and plums before a brazier of champaca and flames of ginger; a rising sinuous thrill of black musk.
  
• Padre: Holy incense and unholy smoke wreathe this hard-fighting, hard-drinking preacher, a little bit of good and a whole lotta bad: Frankincense, ambergris*, dark musk, patchouli, oud, smoke accord, vetiver, tobacco, chypre accord, bourbon, neroli, balsam, and sandalwood.
  
• Pink Bonfire: The delicious aroma of Pink Sugar mingling with the sweet presence of bonfire smoke and burning leaves.
  
• Run For Your Life: Crisp autumn air at night, damp fall leaves scattered about, blackened vanilla, woods and delicate wisps of burning leaves.
  
• Sleigh Ride: Dashing through the snow on a wooden sleigh, passing by frozen mulberry bushes; Finally, coming to a halt at the bottom of the slope where pipe smoke lingers in the winter air.
  
• Winter's Day: Outdoors on a winter day. Begins with top notes of bergamot, orange and lemon; middle notes of geranium, lily and rose; and base notes of patchouli, vetiver and tonka beans
  

CP Other New, only sniffed.

• Winter's Night: Woodsy smell of a winter’s night in the country. Blended with tangy fruits, pines and a warm, smoky scent. 6oz Shine Sweetie Moisturizing Conditioner $10.50

Death and Floral Take all 5 rollerballs for $35!
Nihilistic Winter

• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like [REDACTED]: Glidingly smooth Fresh pen ink, warm Vetiver and red leaves 4ml
  
• Merry Christmas, Time has no Meaning: Gentle fir needles and red pine, comforting outdoor woods on a brisk December night. 4ml
  
• ‘Tis the Season to Acknowledge the Void: Black musk, black amber, pinyon pine needles, and the knowledge that times arrow marches on. Contains a very slim Profile of warm nuttiness, black coffee, and dark cocoa beans. 4ml
  
• Santa Baby, So Pay My Student Loans off Tonight: Freshly fallen snow, peppermint hot cocoa, crushed red velvet
  
• A Hundred Times I dreamed I Was a Star: Grey pine needles and tea rose blended with light black pepper and sage. Woody and fresh, reminiscent of a chilly autumn night sky peppered with a million stars. 5ml rollerball $14
  

Deconstructing Eden

• Nature: Redwoods, mahogany, conifers. 4ml remaining $10

Fantôme

• Ectpplasm: Spooky, goopy marshmallow over bone-chilling white musk, sweet amber, a gossamer sugar glaze, dark myrrh, and creeping greenery. 10ml $20

Firebird $2

• Black Moon: Lavender, licorice candy, burnt sugar, charred wood
  
• Cocoa Pumpkin: Bitter cocoa, spiced pumpkin, vanilla, lavender, firewood
  
• Coconut Fig: Fig, coconut milk, caramel, candied bergamot, vanilla musk
  

Haus of Gloi

• Persephone's Descent: Pomegranate, pale musk, narcissus blossom and black amber. 2oz Hair oil $12
  
• Ploughman: Well worn leather, dirt n' dandelions, carrot, a pinch of tobacco and a light sheen of feral skin musk. 2oz Pumpkin Butter, mostly full $3
  

Hexennacht samples/decants $2-3

• Creaky Floorboards: Old, weathered wood, aged patchouli.
  
• Crowley: Black tea, bergamot, tobacco, vanilla, amber.
  
• Hans Trapp: Dark patchouli, clove, cherry.
  
• Le Chat Noir: Chimney smoke, freshly fallen snow, and the cool, dry, musky scent of a cat just in from a long winter stroll. ×3
  
• Middle Earth: Chocolate, amber, nag champa, dark patchouli.
  
• Molokini: Plumeria, coconut, sea moss.
  
• Mossypeach: peach, sun-warmed meadow, cedar, sandalwood, vetiver, tree moss, oakmoss accord.
  
• Myrrhe: spicy (almost cola-clove-y), resinous, warm, premium myrrh accord.
  
• Nicotine: deep, rich, Oscuro cigars. Plumes of sweet, fire-cured pipe smoke. Fresh-cut tobacco, rum-dipped cigarillos, cacao Shisha, vanillic vape clouds. Dram $8
  
• Nightshade: Amber, oakmoss, galbanum, vetiver, bergamot, violet, vanilla, musk.
  
• Thanatos: Desiccated leaves, hedgerow blossoms, charred pinyon, aged cedarwood boughs, petrified tree sap, crisp fall air, laurel, clove bud, smoke-tinged balsam, santalum, and graveyard dirt. ×2
  
• Waking the Witch: Patchouli, vanilla, cashmeran, oakmoss, black pepper, laurel leaf. ×2
  

Immortal Perfumes

• Lady Day: Tonka Bean, opium, Hawaiian sandalwood, lily of the valley, white peach, gardenia. 9ml $25

MX Perfume

• White Sunshine: Bergamot, Grapefruit, Geranium, Iris, Jasmine, White Musk, Civet (*animal-friendly/synthetic), Oakmoss, Patchouli, Vanilla, Labdanum)

NAVA $3

• Black Musk: imported Egyptian black Musk
  
• Miss Cassandra: Bulgarian Rose, Aged Black Patchouli, Egyptian Sweet Musk, French Lavender, Soft Carnation, Amber, French Vanilla and Egyptian Myrrh
  
• Nibiru: Tobacco Leaf, Vanilla Bean Liqueur, Kenyan Cardamom, Vanilla-infused-Patchouli, Tunisian Amber Attar, Amber Paste, Sweet Sandalwood, Copal Resin, Vetiver wood embers, Oudh resin and South African Black Frankincense Resin.
  
• Octopoda Potion: Chocolate Cake and Almond Cake and Rum Cake accords, toffee, vanilla bean, butterscotch, toasted coconut and Santalum Sandalwood Absolute. 1-2ml in original bottle.
  
• Pink Grapefruit Frankincense Crystalline: Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil, Crystalline, Egyptian Frankincense Resin, Ruby Red Essential Oil, Caramelized Grapefruit Skin, California White Sage and a drop of Amber Musk Absolute.
  
• Purple Potion: Black Currant, Sandalwood, Vanilla, Nutmeg, Bourbon Vanille Absolute and Black Patchouli leaves.
  
• Purple Vegas Vampire: White Patchouli, eNVie saphir, Kashmir Absolute, Bastet Amber, Oak Moss, Sweet Wood and dead roses
  
• Tawaret: Ruby Grapefruit Essence, Pear Essence, Apple Skin, White Vetiver, Vanilla Milk, and a soft dry down of Coconut Cream Incense.
  
• Teal Vegas Vampire: Blood Neroli accord, Kashmir Absolute, Santalum White, Bergamot, Orange Blossom and
  

Nui Cobalt Samples $3

• Ascended Masters Set: 14 .5ml samples, decanted by Ajevie. Tested a couple of times, but plenty of life left! More info/notes $28 (retailed $42)
  
• Hibernate: Golden oak, a bed of hay, fertile earth, peru balsam, maple wood, and an accord of dense winter fur.
  
• Silver Bullet: Wolf musk accord with wild white currant, chilled clary sage, dried lavender, lime leaves, and a subtle hint of almond bark infused with homegrown hyssop, lemon verbena, and white peppercorn.
  

Possets samples $3

• Beethoven's Fifth: Lime as the top note, with bottom notes of threeambers, aged patchouli, two frankincenses, and dry pekoe tea. 5ml $16
  
• Capezzoli di Venere: Vanilla, spring snowfall, mixed flowers.
  
• Courtly Love: Coconut, apricot, jasmine, vanilla.
  
• Chocolate Incense: Sandalwood, amber, frankincense bring out the smokey tease in chocolate. ×2
  
• Diaphanous Dress: Deep rich Mexican vanilla with the chill aquatic of snow. Chlorophyll is in the background and a hint of the flowers it all overtakes.
  
• Field of Reeds: Black pepper, sandalwood, two ambers, labdanum, golden musk.
  
• Indigo: Lavender, vanilla, black pepper, coriander.
  
• Min-Min: Three sandalwoods, leather, patchouli, rose.
  
• Mistress of Power: Musk, patchouli, chocolate, clove, ambergris.
  
• Morgan Le Fay:
  
• Over the Rhine: Amber, molasses, musk, sandalwood, clove, black pepper.
  
• Passion: Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, milk, coffee.
  
• Pippin Pie: The juiciest and most tart apples, the flakiest and most buttery pastry, heaps and heaps of sugar and a kiss of spice.
  
• Silver Carnations
  
• ** Silver Chypre**
  
• Taj: Jasmine, patchouli, red musk, oud, lemon zest. 5ml (Valentine's Day 2015) $18
  
• The Flirty She-Corpse: Italian bergamot, Georgia white peach, sambac jasmine, French oakmoss, and American cedar wood.
  

Redwood Alchemy

• Basilisk: A sharp grapefruit gaze that freezes the heart, then the serpent's coils unfurl into exotic florals of peony, champak and heliotrope, finishing off with fragrant sandalwood incense. 5ml Parfum Spray $16

Samples $3

• Areté: White florals of lily of the valley with spicy, animalic notes and the sweetness of musk throughout.
  
• Loup Garou: An extreme, animalic scent with notes of cyprus, bloodthirst, amber & desiccation.
  
• Salt: This revitalizing fragrance is reminiscent of fresh diffused pink himalayan sea salt - with undertones of sweet citrus.
  

Siren Song Elixirs

• Black Widow's Kiss: Ripe plum, black amber, sweet resin, peony, patchouli, jasmine, cotton candy. Dram $8
  
• Dracula: Oud wood, white musk, moss, fir, mahogany, heliotrope, violet, dark ozone, elder flower, labdanum. Dram $8
  
• Dread Wolf: Dark chocolate, black tea, smoke, moss, dark woods. 5ml $14
  
• Hades: Icy cold musk, black mist, narcissus flower, black amber, frankincense, myrrh, vetiver, french lavender, anise seed, labdanum, patchouli, leather. 5ml $14
  

Smelly Yeti

• Scarlet: Deep red Bordeaux wine with oaky overtones and a subtle and smooth leather. full size, wandcapped $10

Stereoplasm

• The Velveteen Stranger: Stolen peaches, yellow marshmallow, chopped cedar, blackberry aftershave, and cigar smoke. 6ml $17

Solstice Scents 1ml samples $3

• Covered Bridge
  
• Devil's Tongue: Chypre, Brown Leather, Warm Tobacco, Woods and more.
  
• Jack and the Devil: Pumpkin, Amber, Spices, Vanilla, Patchouli, Oakmoss.
  
• Nightgown: Vanilla, White Chocolate, Tuberose & Tiare Flowers
  
• Runestone: Natural Earthy Forest Blend With Aged Patchouli, Vetiver, Oakmoss, Cedar, Violet Leaf, Dirt, Leaves, Cypress, Spruce.
  
• Shadows in the Night: White Amber, Fir, Somalian Frankincense, Elemi, Bayberry, Spruce, Amber, Peppermint, A Puff Of Incense, Edge of the Night Base. Decant $4
  
• Winter Dove
  

EDP samples $6

• Edge of the Night
  
• Manor Fire
  
• Parlor Trick
  
• Riverside Sleighride
  
• Smoky Mountain Mallow
  
• Thornwood Thicket
  
• Tropical Moon
  

Rollerballs

• Wardrobe: Creamy woods blend with cashmere, fur, velvet and a touch of dry woody spice. $18

Strange South samples/decants $3

• Dear Bones: Three musks, plum incense, amber, Indian sandalwood, and fuzzy tonka bean.
  
• Gertrude: Holy basil, chrysanthemum accord, driftwood, frankincense, and haircloth.
  
• Je Veux Mon Livre: Tea leaves and sage pressed between the ancient pages of a leather-bound grimoire.
  
• Piece of Calico: Pumpkin, white chocolate, and patchouli flower.
  
• Slipped Between His Teeth: Ambergris, white florals, cedarwood, bone metal, blackcurrant and marjoram. 5ml $10
  

Sucreabeille

• Goth as Fuck: Rich dark resins, thick incense, beeswax candles, frankincense and myrrh. Cool stone floors and cloves, red musk and sassafras. Clary Sage and wormwood. Guiac wood and patchouli, and a whisper of black jasmine. Edp 85% of 10ml rollerball $10

Twinkle Apothecary Take both for $18

• Bad B*tch: A deep, dark, earthy blend of amber, oakmoss, and patchouli, with coffee, clove, cannabis, cognac, and black pepper. 5ml Alcohol based rollerball $10
  
• Date Night: Rose, cocoa, tonka bean, jasmine, vanilla, almond, cardamom, pink peppercorn, patchouli. 5ml Alcohol based spray $10
  

Wicked Good 10ml oil rollerballs $14

• Get Your Kicks: Lemon peel, yuzu, ginger extracts.
  
• Relax: French lavender, violet, moss.
  
• Rise + Shine: Manderin, tangerine, basil grande vert, clove, jasmine, patchouli, myrrh, Amber, Egyptian musk.
  
• White Pumpkin Chai: Sweet potatoes, white pumpkin, chai tea, bourbon vanilla, melted butter.
  
• Sparkling Champagne: Citrus, mistletoe, light greens, woody tones
  
• Wing of Fairy: Quince, lotus, muguet, peach blossom, hawthorn, orris, cedar leaves.
  

Other

• Candy Corn Buttercream: Marshmallow cream, vanilla, powdered sugar. Whipped Soap 2oz? $8 Brand new
  
• Champagne Apple Honey: Red apple, anjou pear, nectarine, honey butter, vanilla sugar, coconut milk, soft musk. 2.5oz.? $10 Brand new
  
• Root of Hemlock: Black sandalwood, Hatian vetiver, clove, black pepper, amber, incense. Bamboo charcoal incense. 4 left, $3
  
• Spiritual Gangster: Orange flower, champaca absolute, davana, patchouli, sugared musk, santal, vanilla, amber. 30ml/1oz perfume spray $22
  
• Winter Splendor: blue cypress, rosemary sprigs, vintage teak, sugar mint, moss, bourbon vanilla, tiare flowers. 30ml/1oz perfume spray 1cm missing $18
  

✨Seeking suggestions for minty perfumes, where the mint/similar note is on the strong-ish to very very strong end of the spectrum. Reviews of ones I’ve tried below. ✨
Mint in perfumes used to turn me off soooo badly ~ it all smelled like some kind of toothpaste breath to me.
And then one fine day, I came across poesie - frosted mittens
And I was immediately obsessed ever since ~ Now I need more : D
So I request your most expert knowledge on the matter (Especially about possets - lavender girl)
Reviews:
poesie - frosted mittens a peppermint mocha topped with mini marshmallows and crushed candy canes, white chocolate peppermint bark, chill winter air
It’s perfect, not too sweet, and smells exactly like the description. You get the chocolate in it but it doesn’t read the same way as most chocolate perfumes do, it’s almost like frothy white hot chocolate with a ton of dark chocolate peppermint bark shards and thin mint cookies crumbled on top ~
It stays pretty minty for a decent amount of time before the white chocolate becomes the star of the show. The mint is at a decently strong level, but it’s more sophisticated and doesn’t go all lopsided-mint heavy/plays well with the other notes. .... but I want it to be even more minty 😈
Rating 9.9/10
Mint level 8/10
I would LIVE for an EDP of this ~ especially if it made the mint a little stronger and hang around even longer.
black baccara - fairy forest Aroma palette is earthy and fruity. Highlights include airy patchouli, forest floor, spearmint leaf, fresh coffee beans, and clementines.
I got this sample a while ago and I think I sniffed it and thought “EUGH NO.” And shoved it away for months ~ but since my mint awakening, things have changed. I picked it up again not long ago and wow is this gorgeous.
The vibe is like a crisp misty early morning in an ethereal silvery pale green forest covered in dew. Everything is very airy . But definitely in a cold misty way. And now I’m repeating myself. The herbal spearmint is quite strong with nice projection and is like a cast over the other notes ~
What peeks through is mainly a beautiful natural airy but juicy mandarin/the loamy forest flooand slight whispers of leafy brown patchouli. I never get the coffee in this scent - but maybe I’m just missing it somehow. The mandarin sweetens in the most natural beautiful airy way the longer i wear it and the more everything fades. Airy. Hahaha
I literally want to bathe in this stuff. Alas, that’s probably what it would take for this perfume to stick around on me. It largely disappears within an hour of wear, and all the super special magic is over in about 20 mins.
Rating: 8.9/10
Mintyness: 8.5/10
NAVA - peppermint coffee cat Peppermint essential oil, Morning Coffee, Egyptian Coffee beans, Caramel accord, Marshmallow, Sandalwood essence and Vanilla
So.... I like it, but..... this is an “I’m gross and want to be drowned in mint and also like really oddball scents like motor oil and ‘burning’” kind of like here.
I don’t think this one would work for the vast majority of people. It’s intense rich almost burnt/fruity DENSE rough luke-warm fancy black coffee + you decided to dump a bunch of peppermint essential oil in there one morning to clear your sinuses. Kinda sorta nauseating and kinda sorta awesome/wakes you up at the same time.
It’s so strong that i can smell this wherever I store it - like, as a closed bottle haha.
It’s disjointed but has been uniting more as it ages and blends more once you wear it for a bit. (Not that I care - as I want mint to blast me in the faceeee). The marshmallow is like a thin sweetness that eventually comes out a litttllleee bit.
But all this isn’t my complaint with this scent - my issue is that - it’s so hardcore, but then the whole shebang just kinda suddenly disappears within an hour. It talks a lot of smack, but in the end, it can’t hold its own in a fight. (At least at this stage in its aging- I’d say half a month)
Rating: 5ish/10
Minttttt: 9/10 (before it flies away)
arcana - Les Cannes de joie A mashup of Fille de Joie (delicate lavender marshmallows and yellow peaches cured in a vanilla absolute bottle) and Candy Cane (wild-harvested sweet peppermint with French vanilla extract and a hint of bright white musk).
This is one I tried months ago and hated and now I kinda like it. It’s very pretty in the beginning with lots of mint that I wish was sharper, with much more gentle fleshy light peach, vanilla cream and lavender. The musk works for it nicely, keeping everything in check and kinda ethereal, like viewing the notes through a frosted window or something.
Unfortunately a lot of arcana scents just do not sit right on me, and after the scent settles down more it really just goes to this stage of... the notes all shriveling into one another and becoming nauseating and waxy. I want to think coconut is in this somewhere because of the way it’s acting on me, but it’s not in the notes. I still wear this sometimes, as the “nice part” is pleasant to experience for a bit before it gets weird on me.
Rating: beginning 6/10 later stages 2/10
Mint: 5/10 (nice amount of mint, but gets swallowed up by the waxiness eventually)
arcana - winternights three vanillas, frosty peppermint, a dab of white musk, and a hint of ripe young berries encased in ice.
This one is perhaps mintier than Les Cannes de joie- and I like that. I like the concept. But as off as LCDJ went on me - this one is ten times worse, and a serious scrubber. Smells like berries encased in minty wax and has really strong projection hahaha.
Rating: 2/10
Mintttt: 8/10
arcana - glittering black Black amber, black musk, ice-coated black metal, motor oil, smoky vetiver, and just a hint of our Glittering White (an opening of cold peppermint settles into a heart of sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla musk).
Yaaayyyyyyyyyyyy here she isssss ~ one of my favorite scents of all time. Good amount of mint (I want even more though), delicious gourmandy and strong industrial notes with black musk ~ which gently morphs into a beautiful vanilla sugar cookie.
Rating 9.8/10 (a little more mint and it would be a 10 hahaha)
Mintttttt: 8.5/10 (actually on second thought - just tested it again and the mint is probably closer to like a 5 or 6))
BPAL - baku Our Nightmarebane. Named after the Baku, benevolent Japanese spirits that eat nightmares.
This one is bizarro. Scent-wise - I really like it a lot. It’s close to a certain scent profile that really helps with my migraines. Like bright/sharp/fresh herbal lavender, and sinus clearing mint with a non queasy anise/absinthe like note. Very medicinal and lasts a long time. Strong enough that it literally opens your sinuses sniffing the bottle.
Unfortunately this gave me one of the creepiest waking nightmare experiences ever - felt like some kind of entity wanted to eat my happiness or something in a systematic way. I freaked out and had a major panic attack and went to scrub it off but was up all night like terrified.
AND THEN I RESEARCH THIS SPIRIT AND WHAT DO I FIND - That the lore is that if called upon when there hasn’t been a nightmare - the Baku can get angry and basically eat your positive dreams and happiness so that you will never experience joy again. BRO.
I’m so glad I got up and scrubbed it off. I’m so superstitious ~ now I can’t wear this scent even though I want to haha. I didn’t realize that if you are to follow the belief, you shouldn’t like preemptively call on the Baku to “eat your dreams” - only if you wake up from a bad nightmare. 🤦‍♀️
Rating: 7/10
freaking myself out: 10000000/10 (Freaked myself out even more after I saw a reviewer or three in the bpal forum having a similar experience!!)
mintynessś: 9/10
solstice scents - snowmint mallow (EDP) Peppermint, Vanilla Cake, Sugar Cookies, Flaked Coconut & Marshmallow Creme
This is an indie fan favorite, so I had to give it a try. I love solstice scents, I love marshmallow, I love cakeEEeeEee, I love cookies, I like-a-the mint.. but I friggin HATEEEEEE coconut smell in perfumes.
The problem is, I want to like coconut smell in perfumes. So I keep buying and buying scents that have coconut involved- and every single time it’s shrill headache inducing thin vanilla wax on my skin.
So in the case of snowmint mallow - it opened up beautifully - kind of like a great big soft vanilla cake with peppermint vanilla ice cream sundae and sugar cookie crumble on top/ marshmallow floating around.
But then the coconut wax disaster crashes the party- and my migraine begins. It also wants to friggin hang the F around even after I scrub it off several times. But that’s what I get for constantly trying to force coconut down my nose holes ~
(On me: 3.2/10) (on probably most people- betcha it’s a solid 8.5-9/10)
Mint magic: 4ish. Slight blast in the beginning but immediately becomes a very subtle chill.
solstice scents - snowshoe pass (EDP) White Amber, White Musk, Vanilla Accord, Peppermint Cream, Cold Winds
In addition to coconut - I also hate white amber 99.99999999999% of the time. I can smell it a mile away and EUGH. It pains me, the white amber.
A lot of people like this scent and it has mint, so I picked some up to try. Surprisingly it is one of those few instances where I can enjoy the white amber present. I think the balance of the peppermint/white musk and whatever makes things feel “cold” in this scent is what’s making it work.
It smells like a snowman cloud breathed freezing cold air at you and the air smelled like cold minty vanilla and winter. I love it and wear it often but sometimes it also smells like “toilet” to me. Like toilet spray. (But only if I’m in migraine aura mode- so it’s not the scents fault.)
Rating: 8/10
Mint levellll: 7ish/10 (its noticeably minty at first but then it becomes a distinct “chill” and not exactly recognizable. Pretty neat stuff.

After fully delving into both worlds. I now only keep about 3 or 4 frag oils around because I was able to reproduce it with safety data sheets. I consider them to be accords. I have since moved on to making perfumes from scratch and it truly makes a huge difference. Sharp chemicals cutting through to the top with no white noise effect. (I am still unable to get peppermint from Perfumer's Apprentice. Which is a main chemical for my line.)
Essential Oils: can be acceptable in all perfumery. Aroma Chemicals: used in REAL perfumery. Fragrance Oils: used in "MLM natural perfumery" sold on etsy as "Oil based perfume"
"Fragrance oil/essential oil only" perfumes are popular among thegreenmom, mymerrymessylife, livesimply, wikihow, wellnessmama, gardentherapy... etc. Most of them also have backlinks to doterra or youngliving EO pyramids. They recommend you mix it in a bottle with distilled water. Shake well before each use.
Any perfumer knows oil and water don't mix. You can see what kind of audience leans towards this direction though. The healthers, naturalists, green thumbs, etc.
The oils aren't dissolved and do not mix. It will also have literally 0 projection. This is the art of "Natural Perfumery." I consider it a marketing ploy to convince people to invest in buying essential oils from MLMs. In India women would mix essential oil with petroleum jelly then rub it onto the skin.
That is the level of "perfume" you have here.
Good news: Fragrance oils make excellent soaps and candles. You can package them in gift boxes with your perfumes.
Very simple to mix together. If you are able to dig into the safety data sheets, most can be remade using your own chemicals. I was able to remake a few so far without the watered down carrier oils. I intended to use them as complimentary accords to the ones I have developed.
Having the individual chemicals allows you to take only the parts of the scent you love. For instance, peppermint candy is a fragrance oil. It has a green flavor to it different from peppermint you normally smell with toothpaste. And it didn't have more than %5-%10 menthone.
I now have a pure peppermint smell, twice distilled, with menthone added. It is amazing. Smells like nothing I have ever had my hands on. And it makes premade peppermints laughable. Take it from me. I have tried so many different brands of peppermint, peppermint absolute, peppermint diffusions, etc. NOTHING COMPARES TO THE STRENGTH I HAVE NOW. NOTHING. I have a scent that reached people over 10ft during field testing. Of course that effect died down after 15 mintues. If I can figure out a way to make this last 30minutes, I will be happy. No way to do that with a premade. It is an easy fix with individual chemicals. I can lower the menthone. I can have a heavier fixative base. Add some vetiver. Etc.
"It's almost like that moment you find something that smells just like something else but 1000 times better because it doesn't have that one thing you DON'T like."
Not to mention, some aromachemicals cost much less than fragrance oils. 80ml for $10 is cheap. That will literally make over 80 full size bottles of perfume. You stand to make huge profit margins with this in mind.
Fragrance oils 100ml for $20. I might use these in an instance where I can't recreate the smell myself. One had something called Himalayan Sea Salt... even with the salt accord from Perfumer's Apprentice...I was not able to get close to this. Also METAL. Omg I have struggled trying to create a metal/titanium/carbon accord. I looked at everything on basenotes and fragrantica that had comments related to metal, iron, steel... since it has no real smell... what we smell is the scent of oxidation. For things like this, I morally think it is better to use someone else's accord than it is to spend a year of time trying to perfect it yourself.
(Very close using carbonyl 1 3 octenol cyclogalbanum globulus, and something like alpha geranium in terms of it is geranium minus the floral side which leaves something similar to rose oxide)
Don't allow one letter of the alphabet to stop you from learning the rest.
But if that letter is peppermint, it means more to me than all the other letters. For that I would gladly spend a year tinkering away to find perfection. Metal. Not so much. Just a side quest.
Other perfumers might disagree but the truth that matters to me is: Do I like the smell of my end result? And is it safe for human skin?
Fragrance oils are nothing more than training wheels. I love the idea of making my perfumes using individual segments of scents. I can literally divide a tree into the air around it minus the tree, the tree itself, or the smell that happens when you cut the tree and there is fresh cut wood. Maybe my fragrance is a forest but the trees are not there. It smells like they were...ever so slightly... so it establishes a concept of nostalgia. At the same time the forest is wet instead of dry. There is a crisp tinge in the air.
Alpha pinene+Callone+Linalool oxide. <--- (mic drop) Quick maths fam.

#trillnoel

Me: I never knew that there existed a "fragrance community." Now that I found it, it's interesting to me. I've always enjoyed "smelling good" and in champagned fueled poking around reddit, I found this sub. So, I thought you guys might be interested in my thoughts on some of the fragrances I've accumulated over the years, essentially immune from an internet community that I really didn't know existed. A little bit about me, if you're interested. I'm 44, male and am "in finance." I am at a point in my life where I am divorced, financially independent, and dating women across an age range from 24-50. I mention this only because it seems like a lot of the fragrance discipline seems to be oriented around what the opposite sex seems to find attractive. Sure, all that is fun but mainly, I enjoy the ideas of scent memories and the stories that are in the smells I wear. Probably unnecessarily romantic but in the long run, we're all dead so..who cares? May as well have a blast while we're here..
Anyway, here is a quick look at my "scent wardrobe," I think you guys call it? And my thoughts about some of them.
Adidas: Sport Fever I bought this probably 15 years ago at a drug store because once upon a time, I enjoyed a Hugo Boss fragrance which came in a round ball and smelled like oranges and coriander. This had orange on the label and seemed "sporty." It smells approximately like Creed Aventus (more on that later) because it has a lot of fruit and mint business going on. It doesn't smell anything at all like the Hugo Boss that inspired its purchase. It's just ok. It smells like a drugstore cologne that cost $5. It's not terrible but don't buy it. There's nothing exciting going on, here. If you want to toss this on after a shave, no problem but don't expect to smell amazing. Also, though, you won't smell bad. Next.
Aqua Velva: Musk This stuff.... It's another $6 drug store smell but it smells like getting deals done in New York City in 1986. It's too strong and it smells artificial but it somehow smells like business. I feel like this is what men think men should smell like to get the secretaries excited in the movie "Big." There is a woman out there who will follow you anywhere because you wore this but you better want her because all the others will think that you smell like Harvey Keitel in "Bad Lieutenant" but maybe you A, don't care and B, want to smell exactly like that. You should own this.
Aqua Velva: Aqua Velva Ice Blue This will make you smell like you just got back from a submarine assignment in WW2. It's great to throw on liberally after a shave. Least of all because it burns like a mother fucker and will mix with your coffee and morning cigarette to wake you up. I used to wear this all the time because my cheating ex wife liked it. Probably because it reminded her of her grandfather. Even at the time, I thought, "This appeals to women who have daddy issues." It probably still does but for probably obvious reasons, I don't wear it anymore.
Ariana Grande: Cloud I bought this because a really cute sales 20 something year old sales girl at Ulta told me that it smelled exactly like a much more expensive perfume while I was there buying nail polish with my kid. To be honest, I didn't give a crap what it smelled like. I was hitting on the 20 something year old Ulta girl. It smells like dessert. I'll wear it sometimes but not when I expect to be taken seriously. This is actually a fun fragrance and not offensive. If I'm "jeans and a sweater" and picking apples or something, I'll wear this. It's like an actually reasonably well made version of what I think I remember the freshman girls in college wearing (which was probably Charlie or Teen Spirit deodorant or something.) I should probably throw this out or give it to my kid. The 20 something and I went out a few times for drinks but I think she needs surgery to remove her cell phone from her hand and an intervention on her social media addiction.
Bath and Body Works: Bourbon I go to Bath and Body works because they sell Proraso shave cream, which you can really only get in Italy, under the name of "Bigelow." They also have fragrances which I will occasionally sniff when I go in to buy shave cream. This one was one of those. I have a thing for stuff that smells ambery and churchy and this one gets there. This has that "new perfume" smell. I don't know, is that "ambroxyn?" who knows. But once it mellows down, it's really rich and smooth. Very woody and masculine. It's probably a little "young" for me but it's pretty generic and just smells like "fall." That said, I haven't worn it this fall, yet. It's strongish and I've had people either tell me that it smells "nice" or not comment on it at all which is potentially a worse indictment since they definitely smell it.
Bath and Body Works: Dark Amber This shit smells delicious. It smells like powder and amber. Period. I like the smell of amber way more than powder but this is really nice and cold weather feeling. I think that this is might be a shittily created scent because Bath and Body works, right? But it consistently gets me told that I smell good. This seems inoffensive, generally pleasing and I like the way that it smells, even though it isn't really that complex. You can buy this pretty worry free. Could also easily be worn by a woman.
Bigelow: Lemon 1999 This is, to my mind, just great. It smells like lemons and salt water and once you spray it on your skin, it almost disappears unless someone is right on top of you. There's very little complexity here but the lemon smell is so pure and clean. I cook a lot so I really appreciate pure smells like garlic, lemon and strawberries. This doesn't smell "like" lemon. It smells lemon. It smells like you just walked by a lemon tree in Sicily. I don't wear this because I want to smell good to anyone but me. It stays tight and really close to you. You're not going to leave a lemon cloud behind yourself. This one, impossibly, came also from Bath and Body Works. If it were $200 at Bloomingdales, I would have bought it. I think it cost me $30. This is great. Next time you're in Bath and Body Works getting cookie scented hand sanitizer, buy this.
Burberry: London This smells like the drawing room at Christmas from the Nutcracker. It's fucking brilliant. I'll wear this in the middle of the summer when I want to smell like Santa Claus is coming. It hits all the spots. It's clean but heavy. It just smells like home and comfort. If you want to feel at peace while things are seemingly out of control, wear this. I don't remember why or when I bought this but it smells like comfort. Buy this.
Burberry: Touch People have commented that this smells great on me. I think it smells like shit. It smells like a baby powder bomb. I really only wear it very occasionally because it apparently smells much better on my skin than I think it does. Don't buy this. I don't trust people who say that this smells good. Too heavy, too sneezy and too much powder. No go.
Burberry: Brit for Him This is ok but only smells "sophisticated" if you don't know what Guerlain fragrances smell like. I honestly think that there are $5 CVS fragrances that smell better than this. It's really thick and has a fake rosy smell to it. I smells like they tried hard to make it smell good but focused mostly on making it smell "strong." I don't love this one but will very occasionally wear it to convince myself to not wear it next time.
Burberry: Brit Rhythm This smells better than the Brit. But is also probably too "young" for me. It's got a nice vegetal flavor going on and smells like it wants to smell like basil and patchouli but it also smells very grating and aggressive (while still not offensive.) I could wear this but I'd vaguely smell like everyone else in my firm. Pass on this one. It's ok but not great. It's pretty generic and smells at the same time like everything else but just enough different from everything else that it's not quite the same.
Cartier: Pasha de Cartier Now, we're starting to get into serious business. This smells like money and also, vaguely, my pediatrician in 1979. Pasha just smells aggressive. I'm pretty sure it will fill a room with a strong but tolerable smell. It smells uniquely like Pasha de Cartier. You know it immediately, when you smell it. It smells like you paid an interior designer to tell you to have no furniture except for Relling chairs in your office. It smells like you own a 911 turbo which you've never taken above 80 mph. It smells like you could fuck the wife of the guy you're talking to but you'd probably chicken out if it came down to it. I love Pasha de Cartier.
Cartier: Declaration This shit stinks. I love it but it stinks. When you put it on, you think, "Do I smell like cumin seed? Will people think I stink?" The answer is "Yes." I wish I were brave enough to wear this more often. It is an absolutely fascinating smell. But the only one who will find it "fascinating" is you. Do NOT wear this in public. But DO buy it. I dare you.
Creed: Aventus I paid way too much for this because I was in Bloomingdales and was looking to spend "stupid money" for no reason whatsoever and the shopper girl told me that this was the next hot thing. It seems like this is highly regarded in the fragrance reddits but I don't think that it's worth the price. It's funny because somehow, in the store, it seemed a little steep but not wholly unreasonable. So I bought it. But I have worn this very infrequently. I can't put my finger on it but it's simultaneously strong but weak. Sweet but not. Cloying yet subtle. I originally thought that it smelled good but I don't anymore. When I put this on, it somehow convinces me that it smells great and will smell even better but it never makes good on that promise. It's weird. I don't hate it but it aggravates me that I paid so much for it, to smell essentially like fruit cocktail. It's just ok. I feel like maybe Guerlain and Penhaligons have spoiled me and I would have enjoyed this more if it had been way less money.
Davidoff: Cool Water Coral Reef This one, I like. It seems like "dirty" Cool Water to me. I like cool water just fine but this is a little bit more (or less.) There's nothing ground breaking, here. It smells like the sea, sans fish and stink. When I'm on a boat, I will wear this. I don't know how to be more plain. It seems like there's a minty bit in there that pushes it a little beyond the saltiness of Cool Water. I think Cool Water is really a classic and this is a good if slight improvement on it. You can't go wrong with this one but it's also not going to knock anyone's socks off.
Dior: Sauvage This is garbage. Plain and simple. I bought this because I was talking to another guy in my office about fragrance and he told me all about how Sauvage was that best thing that had been released in the past hundred years. So, I went to see my guy at Bloomingdales and got a bottle. This shit stinks. It smells like Axe body wash. There's something in it that makes me think of the "too much cologne" guy. I don't even care about the stuff that's under that. The primary smell is the "too much cologne guy." I was honestly shocked. I didn't figure that Dior would release something so brutal and blunt. Maybe this is just too "young" for me but I think that it's unnecessarily heavy and falsely deep. Not impressed. I like Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue Sun for women WAY better. More on that later. Regardless, Sauvage is a no go. Do not buy this.
Dolce and Gabbana: Light Blue Sun This is a women's fragrance. I don't care. It smells amazing. It's not unisex. If you're a man and you wear this, you're going to smell like a chick. But a really sophisticated chick with her shit entirely together. This smells like the beach and salt water and the sun and coppertone. It smells like a day that you wished you'd known was going to be as perfect as it turned out to be so that you could have paid attention better. This smells like a sexy librarian with a trust fund who you think, "She has no idea how hot she is." You're wrong. She knows exactly how hot she is and she wrecks men like you. I love this and wear it regularly during the summer. When told that this smells good, I always think, "Of course you think it smells good. I smell like the woman with the story you'd like to be yours."
Dunhill: Edition Do you want to smell like Magnum PI? For an hour? Buy Edition. Edition is magical. For a very short time. If you want to smell like James Bond, killing people after you just met a smoking hot spy at some roulette table, you need Edition. I don't know what this smells like. But it doesn't last long. It just smells like British. I don't know what more to say about that. It smells like green plants and assertiveness and a Jaguar XK150. You'll think you smell good and you'll be right but nobody else will be able to smell you after you leave the house. Edition smells absolutely amazing but you better do whatever you're up to quickly because it will leave you just as quickly as you put it on. This is like a less aggressive de Pasha. Buy it and then, be annoyed that it lasts for shit. Come to think of it, James Bond movies are only 2 hours long so maybe it lasts exactly as long as it needs to.
Dunhill: Fresh Do NOT buy this. Because it smells amazing and like very few other fragrances and it is my secret. This is very near all the other "sea" fragrances but goes further, somehow. This smells like the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in the best way possible. This smells like Nice in August. The sea is there, the flowers are there, the food is there. This smells like that linen shirt that you almost don't put on because you think, "This makes me look like P. Diddy...I probably shouldn't wear this." But, yes, you should and who cares? Dunhill Fresh is so slick and subtle but also different. Nobody will tell you that you smell great because you just will and it smells like you're expecting to smell great and it's not a big deal. I've worn this on the Mediterranean and it was exactly perfect. It doesn't need to be warm and sunny to wear this. But it will definitely remind you of the days of summer.
Guerlain: Habit Rouge I bought this because my grandfather always had it. This smells like your grandmother's ass and lipstick when you first spray it on. But....wait. It turns into something amazing. I don't know how but it does. Habit Rouge starts out smelling like fake roses and playdoh. And then, it somehow morphs into something that can't be described. It smells like meritocracy and maturity and magic and the drawer of a dresser that has smelled exactly the same in one of the houses on Bellevue Avenue in Newport for 100 years. Be clear. You will not like or "get" Habit Rouge the first time you wear it. You will think that it smells like an old lady. You will think that it's a lot of things but none of them, "male." Stop. Let it sink in. Let it sit. Habit Rouge is so good it should be illegal. You need to have balls the size of Godzilla to wear Habit Rouge. Or, wear Habit Rouge and you will end up with Godzilla sized balls. I don't want to be crass but, there are two fragrances (both Guerlain) that have elicited the statement, "You smell fucking amazing" in bed. The first is Habit Rouge. Once you get Habit Rouge on your skin it's nearly impossible to understand why other fragrances exist at all. Habit Rouge mixed with light body odor and the smell of having been outdoors is so good it should be a federal offense.
Guerlain: Heritage This is what Chanel Egoiste would smell like if they took the "bug spray" smell out. Again, almost impossible to describe. It's got that "Dead Poets Society" smell but deeper and more serious. It's got a warmer, velvety feel to it. There's a leather background to it and something that just makes you want to keep smelling it. How Guerlains are around $100 a bottle, I have no idea whatsoever. Heritage isn't my "signature" scent but it could be. It could be anyone's. I'm probably wrong but if you're a young guy who has been told to get Sauvage...ignore that and get Heritage. They don't smell the same but trust me that you'll realize that this was a great idea much later.
Guerlain: L'Instant I'm going to keep this short and tell you two things, here. 1. L'Instant smells like chocolate covered orange peel, incense, vanilla and the heavy red velvet curtains in a French whore house and will change but lasts almost 24 hours. 2. L'Instant WILL get you laid. Guaranteed. By women or men who know exactly what they're doing and are unnaturally talented at fucking. I'm sorry to be coarse but some things need to be stated exactly as they are. L'Instant goes great with my Ferragamo loafers. L'Instant smells like you've never made a bad decision because even your bad decisions turn out brilliantly. L'Instant smells like the integrity of Abraham Lincoln crossed with the filth of a really artfully shot porn film. If all Guerlain made was this, they could consider themselves "done." This stuff is in an entirely other league. This is the other Guerlain that has elicited the contextual comment referenced in the Habit Rouge summary. The things that you will do and the situations that you will find yourself in while wearing L'Instant will ruin your life and you'll love every minute. Please, don't buy this. I'm warning you. You'll accidentally buy a boat. You'll have a soundtrack that only you can hear. You'll feel bad for Chris Isaak and Helena Christensen that they were so prudish and awkward in that Wicked Game video in comparison to you.
Guerlain: Vetiver I read somewhere that JFK used to wear this. I can see that. If you want to smell like Don Draper, wear this. It's pretty straight forward and smells like Vetiver. How do I know that? Because I have Royall Vetiver and the smell is almost identical. You can tell that this is well made and classic but it might not be the smell for you. I think that maybe, once upon a time, vetiver was a man's smell. But I think that enough time has passed that nobody remembers when men smelled like this. You'll have to decide how you play that. If you want to know what vetiver smells like, get this. If you want to smell like vetiver, get this. I haven't given this one a fair shot but I want to. It's very even toned and reasonable. It smells like it could be worn by someone dangerous but probably wouldn't be.
Lacoste: Pour Homme This is a great middle of the road smell. This is suit but with no tie. It's citrusy but also smells a little like burning leaves. I had a friend in high school who wore United Colors of Benneton and this reminds me of that. I don't think that they smell the same but I get the same, fun, innocent feeling from those days when I smell this. I think this would smell great on a man or a woman. I wear this now and then when I think, "Oh, I like that one. I haven't worn it in a while. I think I'll wear it today. This smells like a really solid concierge at the Hilton. He'll get you whatever you want and make you feel like a million bucks. No reason not to have this one.
Lacoste: Essential I like this Lacoste, too. It's very simple and very fresh. It smells like a fancy tennis game in 1983. Another high school memory, here. When I was in high school, I spent my summers working at the pool restaurant at the country club. This smells like that. It smells like sporty money but nothing too obnoxious or simplistic. It's exactly what it needs to be. This is a good fragrance for a steak dinner at one of those places where everything is a la carte. If you're wearing a polo shirt with an alligator on it, you should wear this because you'll smell exactly right and it's what everyone is imagining you probably smell like, anyway. Give the people what they want. I don't remember where or when I bought this but I feel like it's probably too cheap to not get. Again, if you're a young guy and someone told you to buy Dior Sauvage buy this instead. I say that because demographic-wise, this skews towards the younger women I've dated. 25 year old women with their first "real job in the city" seem to like this scent.
Lalique: Encre Noir I bought this at Neiman Marcus. I think that I'd be blown away by this if I hadn't smelled anything from Guerlain. This is heavy and smells like Dracula in a mossy forest. This might be one of my favorites if I could stop wearing L'Instant. This is very dark and thick. It's almost choking and intoxicating. It smells like new money. It smells like someone who knows that class and manners are important and is trying their best to be appropriate but didn't stop to consider whether smelling like forest Dracula is necessarily appropriate in all instances. This smells great and is very forgiving despite its heft. I wouldn't let my daughter date a guy who smelled like this but I would appreciate the hell out of his effort. On the right woman, this would smell incredible and dangerous. Buy it but don't wear it all the time.
Lalique: Encre Noir Extreme I also bought this at Neiman Marcus at the same time as the other one. Everything I said about the first one stands but this one somehow has a more citrusy furniture addition and the smell of incense inside a confessional. It's hard to decide which of these is better because they're simultaneously very close but also very different. Another solid one. I'm not as convinced that this one would be good "on the right woman" it might be good on the "wrong woman." If you smell her, let me know. I bought this once and would again.
Lalique: Bentley Intense Ok, in defense of "Sauvage guy" in my office, he also recommended this and he was right. I wasn't keen on the idea of a car fragrance. It seemed tacky to me. Is that the second place prize? "I can't afford a Bentley but I smell like their perfume?" But I must admit that this stuff smells great. Super easy to wear with a suit and tie or open collar and jeans. It's very rummy and a little bit leathery and has a smell of iced tea. Maybe it doesn't and I just get confused because it's the color of iced tea. This could almost be a Guerlain scent if Guerlain didn't insist on making everything smell like it came out of a steam powered time machine. It's modern enough to be modern but classic enough to be classic. This smells like a solid upstanding family man who was a little wild in his younger days but has toned it down and has settled into his adult life but still probably shouldn't be allowed to go to a bachelor party.
Michael Kors: Extreme Sky I feel like I shouldn't like this but I do. To me, Michael Kors is synonymous with people buying a Michael Kors bag when they really want a Vuitton but don't have the coin and convince themselves that Michael Kors is just as good. But this stuff smells like lightning and rain. I don't know another way to describe it. It's fresh and windy and feels like what the Sharper Image should smell like back when Sharper Image was cool and not just more expensive Spencers Gifts. (Are these references contemporary? Do those places still exist?) This smells like chrome and glass and track lighting. This smells like the guy at the BMW dealer who's the best salesman there and is somehow making 6 figures selling cars and has no idea that he could triple his income doing exactly what he's doing but selling something other than cars. I don't wear this often but I will miss it when it's gone because by that time, you won't be able to get it anymore. I probably shouldn't like this one but I do.
Penhaligons: Bayolea Do you want to spend an insane amount of money to smell like a barber shop in 1952? Then, this is for you. This stuff smells like a pirate ship if pirates weren't filthy and showered. This is like the best Bay Rhum that you will ever inhale. It smells like someone else's signature smell that they found ages ago for next to no money in some little shop in the Virgin Islands but which you will never be able to get. It smells like it should be cheap but the quality is just beyond next level. This is classic. They say that vetiver is the classic male scent but I think, really, it's this one. This smells like the guy with the 150' sail boat who used to sail his own boat but then hired a captain to sail it for him but then decided that he was going to go back to sailing his own boat again.
Penhaligons: Endymion This stuff is unbelievable. It reminds me of a very British Guerlain. This is up there with L'Instant and is somehow similar but with the addition of espresso. Very sophisticated. You might want to take up pipe smoking if you want to wear this. Or, at least, increase the number of leather bound first editions that you own. This is what Winston Churchill would smell like if he looked like George Clooney. I don't think that a younger guy could wear this. It doesn't smell like an old man but just like you need to mature into your first Kiton shirt, you need to be ready to step into this one. This smells like an F-50 CEO who somehow never has to do any work. No problem whatsoever with a woman wearing this one. I have one in particular who always uses a bit when she leaves.
Penhaligons: Juniper Sling. Gin martini. That's it. This smells like a gin martini without the alcoholic stink. People will ask you if they're correct that you smell like a martini. They will be. This one is fun to wear and I feel like it's a companion to Bayolea. To be fair to this one it only really smells like a martini for the first hour and then it turns into something that smells like the flowery freshness of a garden on a not too humid day. This reminds me of the 100 year old tile bathroom on the first floor of the NYAC. It smelled that way 100 years ago and will still smell the same 100 years from now, long after you're dead. This just smells like class in a bottle. If you actually want to embrace smelling like Gordon Gekko with absolutely no apologies, you should buy this. I don't think women like the way this smells. I don't think that the men wearing it particularly care.
Pinaud: Clubman Classic Vanilla This is in a plastic bottle and costs $6 at your local Walgreens. Penhaligons could easily take this and just dump it into fancier glass bottles and sell it for $150. I think that they've been making this the same way for decades and it is such a sleeper that I almost hesitate to mention it. This has so much going on and is spicy without being too spicy, only faintly vanilla-y and is an all around great scent. I'll go through phases where this is my go-to for a month at a time. This smells the way Mrs. Robinson from the Graduate wanted her men to smell. Benjamin didn't smell that way because I'm sure he wore Old Spice but she let it slide. You're a fool if you don't buy this the next time you have to refill your tooth paste supply.
Royall: Vetiver I find this one interchangeable (more or less) with Guerlain Vetiver. It's a little bit citrusy and very thickly vetiver. I read somewhere that the origin of vetiver was from the fact that they used vetiver oil to ship very expensive men's clothing and keep bugs away from it but that the Vetiver smell never really went away. That seems to make sense to me on this one. This is exactly what I imagine a very nice suit would smell like if it were shipped to me in 1870. It smells classic and grassy and seems like it wants to be cloying but never really gets there. I think that for a while Royall stuff was cheap and then expensive and then cheap again. I bought all my Royalls ages ago at Brooks Bros so I'm sure I paid way, way too much for them. But whatever they cost, it's worth it just for the cool bottles with the crown caps.
Royall: Spyce This Smells like super fantastic Old Spice. It smells like a super deep version of your grandfather after he just got back from playing golf in a nice cashmere v neck sweater. If you want to smell like old spice but better, this is a very refined way to go. It really does smell like allspice, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom but it never ventures into cookie territory. It's very warm and fairly heavy. I think that Royall, being Bermuda based, thinks that it has mostly warm-weather type scents. I'd be careful with this in warm weather. It's not unwearable in the warm but I'd go light on it.
Royall: Muske Musky and powdery. This is like a warm manly blanket. If you want to smell like you're very clearly in charge and nobody needs to worry anymore because you've shown up...this is the one. Mrs Robinson wanted her men to smell like Clubman Classic Vanilla but when they smelled like Royall Muske, she was immediately made weak in the knees. This is another one that could almost be in the Guerlain / Penhaligons mix but isn't subtle enough. And it's not apologetic about it's unsubtlety. It's very refined but still rough around the edges. This is what Ernest Hemmingway should have smelled like if he had gotten his shit together, grown up and conquered his alcoholism. Easy buy.
Viktor and Rolf: Spicebomb Fresh I bought this accidentally because I thought that it was Spicebomb. This is nice and easy to wear. It's got a little bit of smokiness, somehow and a lot of citrus. I don't detect much spice there but who knows. I've been told more than once that this smells good on me. It's easy when I'm not in the mood to think too hard about what I want to wear or be bothered to "pick one." Middle of the road, probably could be worn pretty easily by women.
So there you go. Going back and reading this, I'm realizing that I likely have Peter Pan syndrome but also want to smell like something from 200 years ago. But the stories are fun. I look forward to continuing to read all about everyone else's excitement about fragrances. It's a real kick.

I tried soooo many of these, and still have more on the way 😬 totally lost my mind with this collection but had a lot of fun doing so!
Here’s some quick reviews of the ones I’ve tried so far since lots of folks didn’t get their decants yet and the collection is coming down. Hope I could help : ) feel free to ask any questions or anything
Sorry for any auto correct typos - I typed this all out quickly on lots of coffee haha, and will be editing any lingering mistakes out shortly
catcoa and Cardamom Cocoa chocolate accord, Crystalline Mallow Studio blend, Green Cardamom essential oil spice, Hot Cocoa and melting Marshmallow accord
Dreamy rich chocolate and strong Cardamom with a bit of bite. The chocolate sometimes seems like hot chocolate with cardamom stewing in there, other times it seems like rich powdered chocolate with dry pods but in a good way. It’s leaning more toward hot chocolate as it ages ~ as you wear it the marshmallow emerges through the chocolate. A very delightful bouncy fresh mallow note that isn’t too sweet. Like those small batch square ones from a specialty confectioner : p One of my favorites from the collection.
NAliday tree Siberian Fir Tree essence, Balsam Tree essence, Pine Needle essence, Crystalline and a little Forest Pine Wood essence
When I first got this, it was one of the best Christmas tree scents I had ever tried ~ the sweetness gave a fuzzy warm feeling, lots of lovely lightly sweet gentle Christmas tree in the siliage ~ long lasting and the tail end is a delightful clear warm sweetness ~ As it ages the Christmas tree has been seeming more camphorous ~ wondering if anyone else is having that issue. Hopefully it’s just a weird phase it’ll grow out of. I decided not to FS because of that, when prior it was an immediate “I always need this scent” haha
noodle juice Egyptian Black Tea, Sandalwood, Blue Sugar accord, Egyptian Sugar. The term ‘Noodle Juice’ was for the Roaring 20’s party goers that drank caffeinated tea throughout the night to keep the brain sparking.
Sparkly almost bitey delicious exotic tea with a rounded sugar note if that makes sense ~ bright and earthy simultaneously. A touch of floral to the tea but not quite ~ one of the best tea notes I’ve tried, doesn’t smell like anything I’ve tried before. Really loved this one.
ducky Fresh Pear, Bastet’s Amber Absolute, Skin Musk, Vanilla Bean Liqeur, Crimson Red Musk.
I didn’t like this one as much as others did ~ for me the pear is quite realistic but quickly swallowed up by what smells red musky+ skin musk to me and it turns into pear powder. I was hoping for more of a juicy pear note that kinda remains juicy and sits on top of the musk of that makes sense. I seem to be in the minority though. It’s still really pretty and is sophisticated for sure.
bastet’s amber red pine Canadian Red Pine Needle, Siberian Fir, Balsam Gum, Pine Needles and Bastet Amber Absolute (Amber Resin imported from Alexandria, Guaiacwood, Crystal Benzoin and Crystal Frankincense)
My favorite of the three - I had issues with all of these just not being noticeable on my skin at all outside of an initial burst of the realistic top notes. I don’t mean in a “bastets amber is ethereal” way - like either I’m anosmic to these or they don’t like me. They have been deepening and getting stronger with age though, so it’s possible these need lots of time to mature. Didn’t get noticeable coconut from this (thank god) (edit: wait whatttt why did I think coconut was listed in this 😂) ~ it’s like a bed of realistic dry warm pine needles. On the sweeter side, but not so sweet that it feels too musty. It’s comforting and nice to wear and makes me feel safe.
bastets amber brûlée woods Brulée Castor Sugar, Santalum-Sugar, Sweet wood Essences of; California Redwood, Vetiver, Patchouli, Sandalwood - and Bastet Amber Absolute (Amber Resin imported from Alexandria, Guaiacwood, Crystal Benzoin and Crystal Frankincense)
The brûlée is deepening and getting more lasting power and stuff as it ages more. It’s like a whole bunch of different kinds of dry more sweet and complex wood tinged by the brûlée ~ the sweetness in this one lasts the second longest before it becomes all hard to pin down bastet amber. I think it needs to age a while because it still reads as oddly thin to me ~ or maybe I just need to adjust my expectations for how I thought it would smell. Regardless all three of these ones were really interesting works of art I’d say even if they aren’t working on me.
bastets amber grey pine Canadian Grey Pine Needle, Balsam Resin, Evergreen, Pine Needles and Bastet Amber Absolute (Amber Resin imported from Alexandria, Guaiacwood, Crystal Benzoin and Crystal Frankincense)
Really realistic delicate foresty pine needles ~ green for sure. More fresh than the red pine which is sweeter in a natural way. I have the most issues with this one lasting on me. The pine does a big hallo moment and then is gone in under 20 mins where it becomes all bastet amber - which quickly becomes quite invisible on me and I have to really concentrate hard to smell it. It’s only improved with age and I ended up FSing it anyway because it’s really pretty. I’m hoping it’ll keep improving with time because right now I have to slather it unlike anything I’ve used before and I usually amp all perfumes like crazy. It makes you smell like you rubbed against a pine tree in a cold snowy northern forest and the scent is just lingering. Super realistic - leaned ever so slightly cologne-ey in the first few days but that is long gone now.
ians fantastic rum raisin cookie Raisin Cookie accord, Orange zest, light dash of Cinnamon and Clove, Bay Rum, Sea Salted Caramel, Rum Buttercream and Condensed Soy Milk accord *don't tell Seth there are raisins in this.
Kinda thin and ethereal but also not. a lot more orange than I expected. Like someone made homemade cookies and put too much orange zest in there. There’s a lot of longevity and projection ~ floofing around me is like slightly slightly burnt buttery a bit salted caramel and atmospheric cookie ~ im not sure if it smells a little oaty, or if I’m tricking myself into thinking it’s there because of the connotation. I’m not smelling the raisins in this I don’t think. The scent really hangs around and makes you smell like “something good is baking” and I like that about it. It’s more the idea of cookie than straight up “a cookie”
unicorns and stars Buttercream accord, Moonstone Absolute, Eternal Ankh Vanilla, Soy Butter accord and lots of Vanilla beans and vanilla icing
Very buttercream vanilla frosting wrapped around what smells like to me a core of vanilla white amber. I can not deal with white amber 99.9% of the time ~ so this did not work for me.
garden rose bee Orange Blossom Honey accord (creamy honey – this is a new honey we’ve created that is not like previous Black Honey accord), Black Rose, White Garden Rose, Bastet’s Amber Absolute and Eternal Ankh Absolute
Thick earthy schmear of more musky honey that almost goes powdery but not quite. Rose is present in the scent immediately, but also does this thing where it’s like slowly peeking out in a more fresh way through the honey as it wears before it gets kinda blended and all musked together. It’s not really a red rose to me ~ more earthy, musky, little bit lemony, bright. It floofs over to - everything mixed together and a bit powdery. Like sniffing a jar of a small batch honey that isn’t filtered out and has all the bits in it. You only need the tiniest drop as this stuff is potent AF. Not a “clear” honey scent. I enjoy it ~
pomander chai Vanilla Chai Tea with Clove, Nutmeg and Allspice, Creamy Vanilla and Indian Chai Tea accord, Orange essential oil, Orange Zest, Mulled Apple Cider accord, Pineapple and White Cinnamon and eNVie saphir amber underneath
Lots of fresh orange - like when you first make the pomander and just stuck all the cloves in rather than when it’s been drying out. It fades eventually to a lil bit fruity kinda thinner chai spiced scent - less intense than say sandalwood chai is by far. It’s slightly creamy after a while in comparison to the others.
incense chai Creamed Incense accord, Chai Black Tea and spices of Allspice/Clove/Nutmeg, Sweet Myrrh Resin, Vanilla dust, Vanuatu Santal, Bastet’s Musk
Maybe my favorite of the chais from the ones available ~ a wholllleeee bunch o incense - I’d say medium to light in terms of the darkness of the type of incense in there. It’s all wrapped up and flavored with chai spice. I’d say “creamed incense” is a good word for it. It’s a bit perfumey but very nice. Reminds me of how I smelled after working at the psychic store I used to work at all day.
sandalwood chai Chai Black Tea with spices of Allspice/Black Clove/Nutmeg, Santalum Absolute and Vanilla Beans
Punch of raw chai spices - nearly on the same level of strength as the opening of koaliday. Lots of clove and allspice. It stays quite spicy the whole time but settles down enough i can smell the black tea peek out for a moment. The sandalwood adds an oddly savory bit to it all and seems a little out of place. Long lasting with a lot of projection. I’m into smelling like exotic holiday spices and am a sandalwood fiend though so I’ll be using my FS of this quite a bit. Not sweet at all, not creamy ~ all of the chai scents I’ve tried aren’t like Starbucks chai - they’re more like the mysterious raw spices in a witches house or a temple.
koaliday Bastet’s Australian melty Vanilla Ice Cream, Crystalline Absolute, Vanilla Bean Fleck, Fried Dough accord ala Funnel Cake deliciousness, White Cinnamon and Vanilla infused Powdered Sugar
Super punch you in the face white cinnamon. It’s brighter, pretty spicy, less musty than other cinnamon notes ~ the fried dough smells more like vanilla donut to me. It starts to peek out and become a part of the spices which sweeten up and start to smell like you got some fresh donuts that got way too much cinnamon and powdered sugar dumped on top in a bag, but it’s like... good like that. Donut comes out and sweetens more over time but never goes into fake territory ~ it’s intense but super good. Warm sweet creamy vanilla is left behind ~ I guess the ice cream. Not for people that hate cinnamon haha.
the Charleston Gin infused Champagne Musk accord, Juniper Berry, eNVie saphir, Bastet’s Musk, Olive Leaf, Lime and Orange essence. Our dancing GnT scent for the new Roaring 20’s. This is a skin scent that will awaken when you attempt the Charleston.
Sorta hard to describe ~ it smells like an elegant and clean lady’s skin~ velvety tawny kinda creamy + bits of the juniper Berry and lime/mandarin subtly peeking through now and then one at a time, stronger with the warmth of your skin. It’s not boozy at all ~ if anything the gin gives sort of a not quite recognizable clarity or lift to everything in contrast with that velvety skin/tawny olive leaf kinda thing that makes up the bulk of the scent.
my heart is filled with twisted light NA Egyptian Kyphi accord, Lavender, Mandarin, White Clove, Nutmeg, Amber and eNVie saphir
Very powdery/musky to me - in the way unlit incense can be ~ tough to explain. It’s like imagine the way musky dragons blood reads to the nose but replace that feeling with the notes listed ~ it’s all fuzzied up, bright, ladylike. Everything is very blended together and has a lot of longevity. I can smell the lavender and mandarin in it as more of like a well blended cast through the musk- they don’t read separate for me. It’s a bit like an unlit incense of some brighter blend intended for sleep maybe. I can see this being kinda calming to some folks. The tone of this didn’t speak to me so much.
foxes in sweaters and scarves Vanilla infused Maple accord, White Cake accord, Vanilla Icing, Vanilla Bean Whole and Absolute
Was really gross to me at first, nothing was reading right in the worst way. A week later I tried it again and it morphed into lovely rich warm natural maple syrup and warm vanilla cake. Has a lot of throw and lasts a while.
bellus (latin for Beautiful) – Neroli, Lily of the Valley, Jasmine, Tuberose, Rose, Honeysuckle, Musk and Kashmir Red Musk
Lots of musk ~ a melange of flowers tinged by Lilly that get swallowed up by red musk and prickery white musk. The red musk isn’t fizzy, but it smells quite like sniffing the fizz on a cold freshly poured cola. It’s a mainly cola like red musk perfume tinged with white floral - Not my thing but I was glad to try it.
opal vanilla I will definitely need a FS of this when it’s available. It’s like sweet cakey vanilla rich buttercream frosting with bourbon vanilla ~ reminds me a little bit of flick by hexennacht in some ways. It wears on the skin in a unique way ~ rich but flickering, ethereal. It’s sweet but the way it wears makes it more adult. Becomes more bourbon vanilla tinged with cakey frosting rather than the other way around as you wear it.

Photo of bottles!
Paring down my collection - I’ve gotten some BB limited editions this year that just didn’t smell right on me; also have some scents that are similar to others and don’t get used. I’m open to swaps! Mostly, I hate being wasteful. Kalliope is incredibly talented, so I’d like to know these are being enjoyed. Everything listed here is near-full - I will note individually if something is missing a smidge more, but essentially if I don’t LOVE it, I don’t wear it.
Swaps: I’m really into gourmands, particularly of the autumnal variety. Spicy and/or sweet scents. Warm. Occasionally I enjoy fruit scents. Anything cinnamony, pumpkin, dessert-like (minus anything chocolate), orange or blueberry (more dessert-like scents than fresh fruit). Not too concerned about brands!
Black Baccara (all are 5ml euro dropper bottles EXCEPT Victorian Yule):
Beloved Ghost this is one of her botanical blends, retails for $32 “Aroma palette is warm and floral. Highlights include nutmeg, clove, patchouli, lavender, dark citrus accord, and marjoram.” Bottle is nearly full, oil level resting at the top of the label.
Black Cat “Aroma palette is dark, spicy, and earthy. Highlights include toasted cardamon, church incense, ancient cedars, tendrils of oak moss, cloves, and earth.” this was in a package with a bottle that leaked, see label in photo - if you are looking to display you will not want this. Bottle is over 3/4 of the way full, oil level a tiiiiiny bit below the top of the label.
Boneyard “Aroma palette is dark and earthy. Highlights include rain misted freshly tilled soil, cedar trees, cemetery moss, dark patchouli, extinguished candle wick, bouquets of clove and cardamom.” Bottle is full to the neck.
Christmas Ghost (limited edition/sold out) “Aroma palette is woodsy, spicy, and warm. Highlights include aged wood, fireplace smoke, cherry pipe tobacco, dried pomanders, antique paper, and church incense.” Bottle is full.
Corvid “Aroma palette is spicy, earthy, and bewitching. Highlights include clove, molasses, anise, amber musk, frankincense, and light patchouli.” I love this in the bottle, but my skin pulls anise sooooo bad! Bottle is over 3/4 of the way full, oil level a tiiiiiny bit below the top of the label.
Falloween “Aroma palette is earthy, spicy, and slightly green. Highlights include freshly fallen autumn leaves, extinguished candle wick, fresh sage, pumpkin pie spice, freshly carved pumpkin, hay bales, and a dash of vetiver.” this was in a package with a bottle that leaked, see label in photo - if you are looking to display you will not want this. Bottle is 3/4 full.
Mermaid Potion “Aroma palette is aquatic, ozone, and fruity. Highlights include ocean spray, lemon verbena, grapefruit squeeze, saltwater taffy, and cool vanilla.” label has a slight imperfection/bubble which can’t be seen in the photo . Bottle is 3/4 full.
Nosferatu “Aroma palette is vinous, earthy, and dark. Highlights include dark patchouli, deep red roses, aged red wine, dirt, tobacco smoke, and fireplace embers.” this was in a package with a bottle that leaked, see label in photo - if you are looking to display you will not want this. Bottle is full to the neck.
Poison Apples “Aroma palette is a fruity, earthy musk. Highlights include apple cider, almond slivers, woodsmoke, orris, burning violets, macintosh apple, aged patchouli, and Egyptian musk.” Bottle is full.
Victorian Yule (limited edition/sold out) “Aroma palette is spicy and woodsy, Highlights include burning yule log, pine cones, fireplace smoke, pine needles, and apple cider.” 10 ml roll-on - bottle is full.
Witch House (limited edition/sold out) “Aroma palette is dark and earthy with a touch of fruit. Highlights include black patchouli, plum wine, cinnamon smoke, black honey, blueberry, and burning sage”. Bottle is nearly full, oil level at the top of the label.
I have several samples as well: -Bewitched -Black Cat -Cemetery Moss -Goddess of Light -Maman Brigette -Resurrecting Ophelia -Snow Angel
If you want to buy something and want any of these samples let me know and I’ll throw 1-2 in...I didn’t pay for them, so I’m not interested in selling them. They’re all mostly full, but some have been used a couple times.
Berrysweetstuff:
Orange Spice Perfume Oil, 10ml roll bottle: Cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, orange. Bottle is full.
Little Book Eater: Old Books, 3ml sample roll-on: Gingersnap Walnut Cream and Maple Sugar. Bottle is full.
PRICES: open to fair suggestions/negotiating for most. I’m hoping folks will want more than one item, which would make shipping much easier :D.
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" -The boy's not here. He must have been claimed by the sea.
-I am the sea.."
Hey guys! I was looking to talk about aquatic fragrances or fragrances that are dedicated to the ocean/marine theme in unusual, realistic, artistic way. Why can't I just google it? Because some fragrance houses do not advertise their fragrances much or hide their notes. Big YouTube fragrant reviewing channels often do not mention any small indie/niche brands and focus on the mainstream (probably because of sponsorship and ratings) fragrances, SO we could just miss "hidden gems".
At first I was thinking to do a short reviews on some fragrances I've already tried and later notice ones that probably worth trying. With your help, we can discover and mention more!
I'm going to mention or capture some different people's opinions/takes from the different sites as well, so forgive me that.

• Zoologist Squid

Notes: Pink Pepper, Solar Salicylate, Incense, Black Ink Accord, Salty Accord, Opoponax, Ambergris, Benzoin, Musk.
I would say opinions on this one are pretty controversial. "Gingerbread cookie dipped in ink and sprinkled with salt and pepper", "Catholic Church at the bottom of the ocean", "Bic pen ink" etc. Many people get this as a fragrance not even close to the oceanic theme. Fortunately, I do. My first impressions was like "creamy milk spilled in the ocean". But later I got that underwater vibe, when salty water fills nostrills and ears and you just get out of deep water. Performance is good, better than average. Love to notice many "what is that?" compliments I've got.

• Kerosene Walk The Sea

Notes: Sea Salt, White Florals, Cedar, Ambergris and Musk.
First of all, I liked it. I don't feel it complex or changing through wearing, but it is a good take on aquatic theme. When I first sprayed it I've got a strong, slightly sweetened seagrass vibe. Like, some of the air fresheners is on steroids! Don't get me wrong, it is not that generic as an air freshener but could give that vibe. Time later I decided to look at notes and found out that it contains white floral notes. What a surprise, perhaps combination of salt or ambergris with white florals could give that seaweed vibe. As a whole it is very atmospheric fragrance: I was imagining a walk on the beach that was all spammed in seaweed at the half-dark, cloudy day. Performance was good on the skin. At least 4 hours of medium projection, last even longer.

• Gallagher Fragrances Amongst Waves

Notes: Ginger, Green Apple, Honeydew, Lime Zest, Orange, Pomegranate, Aquatic Notes, Iris, Sea Salt, Tulip, Patchouli, and Vanilla Bean.
Another interesting take on aquatic. Imagine you just got a fresh honeydew and walk to the beach. You actually don't care that it isn't sunny today, but you are got such delicious, fresh, smoothened and slightly sweetened by vanilla and other notes honeydew. That honeydew smell actually reminded me about some flavored bubble gum (don't laugh!), but it is still almost perfectly executed smell. So, you rip that honeydew on the beach and salty air from the seaside starts to blow. And that mix of smells is actually what you probably going to get from that fragrance. BUT, I'm not sure about it's performance though. Overall, it was a good experience.
Well, I can't remember if I tried anything else from that vein. Here are some honorable mentions that probably worth trying:

• WienerBlut Sale Marino

Notes: Algue Absolue, Seaweed, Laurel, Marine Salt, Juniper, Clary Sage, Hyacinth, Wild Pistachio, Cedarwood.
Around the turn of the century, the seaside resorts between Abbazia and Lauranade (in present-day Croatia) became a popular destination for the jet-set of the Habsburg Empire. This Austrian Riviera, also known as the "Laurel Coast", because of the Laurus Nobilis that grows here in abundance. The region was known for its mild climate and the beneficial effects of the salty air.
Sale Marino is like the fresh Bora wind that blows over the Quarnero bay and along the "Lungomare" promenade with palm trees and oaks. A salty sea scent with laurel in the top note, greenish fresh algae in the heart and a hint of wild juniper, the bushes overgrowing the stone ruins of the hinterland.

• Imaginary Authors Every Storm A Serenade

Notes: Danish Spruce, Eucalyptus, Vetiver, Calone, Ambergris, Baltic Sea Mist.
"When Stina, a burgeoning writer, decamps to her mother’s summer house for the winter to write a book, her trip overlaps for one day (and one steamy night) with a brawny fisherman named Ulv. While she struggles to gain traction with her novel, her fixation on the mysterious seafarer results in countless unsent letters, the contents of which chronicle the spiraling psyche of lust and longing. Set on the desolate west coast of Denmark during the tourist off-season, Every Storm a Serenade is a meditative masterwork that will lull you with its well-designed sentences and intimate tone."
A story from official site.

• Heeley Sel Marin

Notes: Lemon, Italian Bergamot, Sea Salt, Moss, Algae, Vetiver, Cedar, Musk.
"Sun, sea and sea air."
Sun, warm sand and a gentle breeze of fresh sea air. A refreshing and striking note of lemon fades to reveal an aquatic green, algue note, while vetiver and drift woods of cedar and birch dry slowly in the sand and salty, sea air.

• Nishane Boszporusz

Notes: Sea Grass, Cypress, Galbanum, Sage, Jasmine, Gardenia, Seaweed, Oakmoss, Transparent Patchouli, Amber, Musk.
Captures the flavor of Marmara Sea both with sea notes and seaweed spiced with sage and galbanum. Flowery notes add the final touch to this fresh and sparkling fragrance. Inhale the wonderful smell of Bosphorus.

• Profumum Roma Acqua Di Sale

Notes: Myrtle, Cedar Wood, Seaweed.
The sea waves that brake on the shore donate new shells, with a multitude of sizes and shapes, to the sand that glimmers in the morning sun of August. In the desert beach flutter heedlessness and freedom.

• Chatillon Lux Admiral

Notes: Lemongrass, Verbena, Bergamot, Aquatic Notes, Sage, Black Currant Bud, Riverboat Smoke, Tonka Bean, Musk.
Named after and inspired by the famous riverboat that spent many years patrolling the shores of the Mississippi River and was one of the art deco icons of 20th century Saint Louis. This is a sweet breeze on a summer day patrolling the banks by Laclede's Landing. It is a modern scent inspired by the modernist design of the iconic mid-century modern riverboat.

• Orto Parisi Megamare

Notes: undisclosed.
"Alessandro Gualtieri's new olfactory creation is Megamare. With this fragrance the master perfumer exploits the richness and originality of the marine notes. Marine accords know how to arouse emotions with a soothing effect. In addition to that, the watery essences are capable of recalling pleasant associations, releasing romance and making us happy. Alessandro Gualtieri does not discover the secret of the olfactory bouquet of his fragrance." - a note from the brand.

• Fzotic (Bruno Fazzolari) Unsettled

Notes: Bergamot, Black Tea, Clary Sage, Pineapple, New Caledonian Sandalwood, Labdanum, Vanilla, Ocean Breezes.
"Tropical cocktail of big sandalwood, black tea and pineapple. Fresh, delicious and long-lasting." © note from official site.

• Tom Ford Oud Minerale

Notes: Salty Seaweed, Pink Peppercorn, Oud Blend, Styrax, Ambergris Accord, Fir Balsam.
Oud Minerale merges rare and precious oud with the fresh exuberance of the ocean, capturing the refreshing play of surf and sea against the burning flame of smoked wood. Tom Ford's reinvention of oud marks an olfactive watershed that pairs two of the world's most intriguing elements to reveal tonalities both exhilarating and powerfully transcendent.
"By combining two elements from different worlds, smoked oud and fresh ocean, I wanted to create something surprising and unprecedented, as addictive as it is inventive." © Tom Ford

• Hermes Hermessence Epice Marine

Notes: Sea Notes, Vetiver, Oakmoss, Hazelnut, Sesame, Bergamot, Cumin, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Whiskey.
Epice Marine offers aromas of spices cut through with the invigorating tang of the sea.

• Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt

Notes: Sea Salt, Sage, Grapefruit, Ambrette (Musk Mallow), Seaweed.
"Escape the everyday along the windswept shore. Waves breaking white, the air fresh with sea salt and spray. Alive with the mineral scent of the rugged cliffs. Mingling with the woody earthiness of sage. Lively, spirited and totally joyful."

• Tauer Perfumes Phtaloblue

Notes: Bergamot, Sicilian lemon, Bulgarian Lavender, Fennel Essential Oil, Bourbon Geranium, Orange Blossom, Aquatic Herbs, Amber Chord, Tonka Beans, Aquatic Cedar Notes.
"Surrender to an eau de parfum encapsulating the nativeness and briskness of a day at the sea. Phtaloblue is fresh and bright with elegant citrus and herbaceous notes , and at the same time rich and deep with balsamic woody and floral accords. Phtaloblue will accompanying you through your day redefining the aquatic genre."
So, that is the ones I think could be a part of "unusual, artistic, realistic aquatic" family of fragrances.
I didn't mention:

• Creed Virgin Island Water
• Creed Millessime Imperial
• Tom Ford Soleil Blanc
• Tom Ford Costa Azurra
• Maison Martin Margiela Sailing Day
• Maison Martin Margiela Beach Walk

If something of this or anything not mentioned gives you an ocean vibe in any unusual way let us know please.

So I’ve been a skincare enthusiast for almost 7 years and my journey has lead through soooo many products so I’ll just start right away.
Cleansers:
The Face Shop Rice Rich Oil Cleanser - My HG. Melts any traces of make up off like a dream and feels somewhat moisturising to my super dry skin.
Bioderma Micellier water: the standard pink bottle. HG. I use this when I am lazy or I’m not wearing make up although this works like a charm on hardest of the make up. I’ve noticed my skin is clearer without any comadomes when I use this regularly vis a vis simple one step cleansing with a face wash on no make up days. I don’t use this daily per se but yes regularly. I find this one to be much better than garnier micellar water because I feel this is more heavy duty.
Organic Harvest Skin Whitening Facewash: MY ALL TIME HG. Using it for the last 5 years. Yes please don’t go by name it does no skin whitening but it is a a cream consistency, makes no lather, is soap and foam free and removes makeup and dirt Like. A. Boss. Also because it’s soap and foam free it’s a dream come true for dry and ageing skin. You have to try this in winter.
Himalaya Neem face wash: I’ve used many soap cleansers like Clinique, Nuetrogena, Kama, Forest Essentials etc but this is a simple no non sense formula I love when my skin feels tacky. Also I don’t find any SLS or Parabens in the ingredients unlike the Cetaphil gentle cleanser.
Cetaphil Gentle Cleanser: Hard pass. I know people rave about it but I’ve noticed it clogs my skin over time and makes it dull. I don’t like the squeaky clean feeling on my face lmao that’s a nightmare for dry skin but this is just not it. I prefer the organic harvest SW face wash over this any day.
TONERS:
I know the general consensus is that toners are useless if you apply your products directly on wet/semi wet skin but I think they give a boost of hydration on dry dehydrated skin like mine. Can’t live without.
Kama toners: be it rose, lavender, mogra, vetiver they are all my favourite. My HG. Very refreshing and they don’t clog my pores or dull my skin with heavy molecules.
Dermafique all cleanse toner: the one and only blue one. SO refreshing and hydrating. Love this. I notice my skin is very hydrated and clean when I use this. I use this only on my periods or when I’m breaking out because I tend to avoid hydrating toners in general as they dull my skin with too much layering lol. If you have a simple routine go for it. Its under 400 rupees.
Cosrx two in one poreless Power Liquid: THIS DRIED THE FUCK OUT OF MY SKIN IN 4 DAYS. I’m talking about Desert Fucking Dry. Like Kama coconut oil couldn’t moisturise my skin for more than 3 hours dry. I would NOT recommend this to dry skin but I see how IF YOU HAVE CYSTIC ACNE THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE. Or if your acne has pus then go for it but use with caution this has like 80% willow bark water which is a BHA. I will use this if I have a cystic breakout which I do sometimes.
Pixi milky hydrating toner: skip it. Wouldn’t recommend it’s just a hydrating toner which is too pricey and smells like perfume. It dulls my skin over time.
Pixi glow tonic go to pads: it’s just like the toner but in round cotton pads. Love it. Helps me with simple exfoliation when I’m not using other actives.
SERUMS:
Minimalist 10% Niacinamide + Zinc: Love it. Regulates my dry skin. Has prevented any new PIH as my PIH is almost as good as gone over the last two years. I love the aloe base and overall consistency.
Minimalist 2% alpha arbutin 1% HA: Love it it definitely brightened and lightened my skin just like hydroquinone. I use it during the nights as my skin colour has definitely lightened a shade over the last 2 weeks. If you don’t like skin lightening then use it to tackle PIH or redness it’s a wonderful product.
Minimalist multi peptides serum: I noticed my skin is bouncier and the crow feet which were juuust starting were nipped in the bud. Totally recommend to anyone approaching or over 30.
The body shop anti blemish daily solution: used to be HG till I was introduced to the minimalist. Still my go to when I have a break out. Noticed some skin dulling when used regularly. Like my face would positively look brown and arms would look yellow. That’s what I mean by dull skin in the entirety of my post.
Este Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum: My HG on some extremely dehydrated nights. It’s works like a charm on my eyes too. I don’t need a face oil when I use this and this makes my skin glow. Love it although it’s not something I would absolutely recommend to someone with normal skin.
Biotique visibly ageless dandelion serum: it’s under 270 rupees and it was my go to during my broke college days. Works like a charm and my skin used to be visibly declogged,brighter and smooth when I use it. I still go for it sometimes when my skin feels like it needs a more watery serum. Love it. But because biotique does not disclose its full ingredients list I’ve fallen out of love with it but in college my motto was “if it ain’t broken don’t fix it”
Etude House Moistful Collagen Essence: love it. It has 42% hydrolysed collagen and I notice visibly plumped skin whenever I use this. I especially love it around my eyes which are much drier than the rest of my face. Would recommend to people approaching or over 30.
Cosrx snail mucin: I notice a brighter and more even skin toner with less visible pores when I use this regularly but it does make me depend on a much thicker moisturiser somehow. My skin feels stretched if I leave it on without a thick emollient. But it works wonder so yes, recommend.
Neutrogena Hydroboost Serum: Used about 3 bottles of this before moving on to the minimalist after discovering this sub. I used this as a buffer serum when I didn’t use any actives on a rest day. Now the Minimalist 2% alpha arbutin has effectively replaced this serum lol. However I still use this under tret or hydroquinone sometimes.
MOISTURISERS:
Neutrogena oil free moisturiser: This was my HG in college. It’s a no nonsense formula with no alcohol or perfume. Non comedogenic. Works as a beautiful emollient too over a humectant moisturiser. My skin always felt softer and smoother with this.
Clinique 72 hours moisturising gel: Hard pass. Preferred the Neutrogena Hydro boost water gel over this any day as this did nothing to my skin. No moiturising, it would just vanish and also it’s double the price of the Neutrogena.
Neutrogena hydro boost water gel: love it in summer or when I’m on my periods when I need a light moisturiser. Enough said. I’ve used some 5 jars of it now.
Neutrogena hydro boost Emulsion: HG day moisturiser. It works like a charm. It has a thick gel like emulsion consistency and works 10 times better than the water gel on dry skin.
Tony Moly timeless ferment snail cream: MY HOLY GRAIL NIGHT CREAM. This is a perfect blend of snail cream and a thick occlusive moisturiser. Like the cream itself has separate parts of the snail mucin and the cream and you can control how much to use of the snail mucin or the cream. For a price of 3500 it comes with a free 20 gram snail mucin eye gel which I’ve noticed is better the 15 grams of Este Lauder advanced repair eye gel priced at 4500. Absolutely recommend.
I’m tired for now I’ll update a few more moisturisers later.