part 370 fresh flowers on a side table in the morning

[aphanon_meme]

Um, 2020 was a year that happened. 2021 is a new year that will happen! With flowers! And side tables! And mornings! And I didn't want to make some sort of 20s-themed name because look what happened in 2020, look what happened.

Enjoy part 370!

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Re: to perfume anon

[(Anonymous)]

yeahhh i get we don't want to seem victim-blamey but come on, now. like somebody said, we're the type of people who are less pushy on these creators and giving so much leeway. like, i ordered my first indie makeup stuff on Black Friday and it's been stuck in pre-shipment. creator also ghosted me in e-mails. and i hate conflict so i've been all sidofjsdf about starting the dispute with Paypal. (it doesn't help that i want to scrub my info but their site is not allowing that which uhhh i don't want you to keep my info...) so i feel like that's really my sign to not put myself up for that again, especially after AlphaMusk. no fool me three times!

ohh i was intrigued by Death by Stereo. how detectable are the cider and the cannabis? because i didn't get any cannabis whiffs from Bad Reputation.

so, i loved all of my stuff i've gotten from Nui Cobalt last year (Red Squirrel, White Squirrel, Robin's Egg <---samples that i would like to upsize, and my full size Little Brown Rabbit). i haven't tried the other ones yet, but Fairy Lights was not what i was expecting, haha. i got it based on everyone else's raves, but it surprisingly smells like a really mature mainstream perfume at first, then it almost kind of stunk near the end like a jasmine gone bad, even though there's no jasmine? notes are bright white copal softens into golden cathedral incense and wild honeycomb, then nestles into a deep dark vanilla and luxuriant amber. just goes to show that experience isn't universal and sampling is important if possible! it's still early and it might change but y'know. i actually liked the free sample a lot more; Incense, Gold & Myrrh which is one of those Christmas in a bottle scents (Cathedral resins and angelica are warmed by tangerine pomanders studded with cloves, Tupelo honey, regal amber, calendula petals, true Ceylon cinnamon, and saffron.) i like Alkemia's Yuletide Blessings more for that as a full sizer, though.

the Bees i got on Ajevie are Queen Bee (creamy white gardenia and fluffy whipped honey) and Bees on the Bayou (Vines heavy with honeysuckle entwined with Easter lily, linden blossom, and neroli over a sweet foundation of pipe tobacco, pralines, and creamed honey. ) strongly thinking of getting more samples from Nui's site that aren't available on Ajevie anymore, too. i can tell you that all the ones i've tried have had really strong staying power for me.

maaan Cherries of the Night was right up my alley, too, but then i saw it was Private Reserve and yeah...i don't want to deal with that, haha. why couldn't it have been one of the regular scents! Calliope and All the Sins sound good...i think we are on the same page about cotton candy enticement~ i got a sample of one of their discontinued rose perfumes that's really lush, so that makes me want to try their other roses, too...but there's so many to try! i also noticed The Raven is back in their listings, at least on their website, so that's interesting.

Re: to perfume anon

[(Anonymous)]

Right. People give TOO much leeway, if anything, to indie brands. Good for you with the Paypal dispute! Indie brand owners need to learn that you can't play around iwth people's money, ffs.

There's a hint of cannabis in Death by Stereo, but it's more of a wisp, like you're smelling it from far off. The cider is there but not super prominent. On me it's like... night air (somehow this is a note, idk) + the nag champa that is subdued with undercurrents of sticky ice cream, sugar, cider, then a hint of cannabis swirling in the background.

Oh no!! The stink near the end. How strange. And especially how strange because there's no Jasmine. I hope that it mellows out with time. Oh man Christmas in a bottle... interesting.

The bees sound really interesting. Have you tried them yet or are they still in the mail?

I MEAN I GUESS... it's not a crazy price, but, gotta try a sample first at least. I'm glad we're on the cotton candy page!! I really love cotton candy scents. I want to get more "cloud" from Poesie if they have it during their resissue this year.

The Raven!! have you tried it?

sorry for late reply!

[(Anonymous)]

i just ordered the Bee things and Hexennacht things before you and i talked that day!

so the samples i got off Ajevie were:

Queen Bee - Creamy white gardenia and fluffy whipped honey

Bees on the Bayou - Vines heavy with honeysuckle entwined with Easter lily, linden blossom, and neroli over a sweet foundation of pipe tobacco, pralines, and creamed honey.

^ those from Nui Cobalt, and then from Hexennacht i got
Honeycomb Calcite - creamed honey, wild honeycomb, beeswax, cedarwood, amber, musk, vanilla, basmati rice, brown sugar, woodsmoke, almond, oats, benzoin, acacia absolute.

Southern Hospitali-tea - sweet tea, marionberry scones, freshly-made strawberry preserves.

Moloko Plus - steamed milk, sweetened condensed milk, coconut milk, and rice milk, infused with lavender simple syrup, coconut crème, and green cardamom poddiwods.

Hecate - Thorn-riddled blackberry brambles, Cabernet Sauvignon, sagebrush, dark patchouli.

Fallen Angel - rain-soaked granite, mountain air, petrichor, creeping ivy, damp earth.

The Evil Garden - prickly holly bushes, blackberry brambles, bamboo sugar cane.

Espiritismo - lavender wands, cowrie shells, coconut husks, tonka beans, black amber, hyssop, spikenard, tea leaves.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe - aged dark Maduro cigars, spiced vanilla, beeswax votives, golden honeycomb.

the other Nui Cobalt Bee scents i wanted to try were sold out on there, but i didn't want to just get two things, and figured i'd kill two birds with one stone by trying some Hexennacht scents. my choices were a combination of: one scent is disappearing except for Resurrection so i want a chance to try a sample while i can + i'm already getting honey scents from the Bees so why not compare to other honey scents + these scents were some of the ones disappearing fastest from Ajevie

speaking of houses never tried before, did you ever end up getting anything from Black Baccara?

and no, i never tried Alkemia's The Raven, but i saw a lot of people raved about it and there was an outcry when Alkemia announced they were retiring it a year or so ago! so i'm curious about it.