androstenol

I got a vial of this in the Halloween Grab bag (well actually more like Hallowe'en pumpkin bag). It surprised me for being included in the set, and I immediately reached for it. Somehow I had thought it was a male scent. Oh my goodness, just so happens I love me Mara's cherry scents, especially the ones that steer away from cough-drop territory. And combined with resins and coffee...this is drop-dead sexy on me. I am going to combine with Dominance and cops, or Sexpionage. This needs to be worn and not kept in a bottle !!!

luna65, you expressed that so much better than I. Yes, there is the essence of tea here but it's so much more. I ordered this in a spray with half Dom and half epi. I love it that much. I want to be surrounded by it. It vibrates at a high rate, very uplifting, beautiful, unusual.

I've had a spray bottle of 1/2 Dominance and 1/2 epi-androsterone mixed for me with lightly scented Love Potion Gold. Epi seems to work really well for me. This combo still garners me lots of respect but makes people want to be around me, not unlike SWS. The scent keeps it feminine, and I'd like to think I give off a vibe of "well-liked Queen Bee" when I wear it. Makes me confident without any aggression at all.

I think of this as a creamier, more social version of Sogni Incantati. Frigging love it. Not sure I'm getting any selfies from the phero mix but I smell so tasty that I just don't care ! I also appreciate a LPMP in spray form, it's fun to mix it up.

I can't detect the copulins in this at all. The dragon's blood and apple combo is inspired. It has me coming back for more, much like majmua does, because it's so complex. I think I'm going to need several days with this to really figure out what visuals I get with it and how it generally affects me. I'd put it down somewhere between "spiritual' and "sensual" as a category. Definitely not subtle.

Don't get me wrong, there's a tea note, but it's not like Love Potion Variant Ceremony. It's just got a certain something sweeter and more sensual. And constantly morphing.

My hands-down favorite of the October collection. I decided not to read any of the descriptions and to just let each scent speak to me. This wears on me in a very energetically interesting way, like a veil of positive yellow energy that moves in the breeze. It definitely has this sort of "ohhhh that is so unusual and pretty, ohhhh I need to smell that again" quality to it. On me, it's lemon-forward on application and then more like a delicious spicey honey scent, possibly even with musk. The Aja to me is light but then I've made friends with Aja over the last months and am super fond of it. Perhaps it's the Aja that gives it this 'moving' quality. It feels alive and I absolutely adore that in some of LPMP's perfumes. I think "Supernatural" is an excellent name for it. It's ethereal and sensual. Don't get hung up on the idea that this smells like tea. It's soooo much more than that !

Greetings friends, Im back from the dead, which is quite apropros for the season. I have the October sampler but I can barely smell it recovering from a head cold thingee that became a chest thingee. Missed you all lots, work should be slowing down soon and I can be more regular again. It's quite mysterious to smell the LP's when you're wondering what all notes you're missing.

Nothing specific to add except welcome ! And just an outpouring of affection towards my fellow LPMP'ers. You ladies rock.

I scored a FB of this off Etsy ? Artfire ? Can't remember now ... a while back, and thought that while it was nice and pleasant, it was nothing special and just stuffed it in my "wood" category and forgot about it.

Fast forward to last week. I've started chiropractor appointments twice a week, deep tissue massage twice a week for recovery. I am seeing some results, and I have a glimmer that MAYBE I can move my body and not be in pain. I wait until nighttime and the house is quiet. I put on some trance music and Im thinking to myself...would be nice to wear an LP. I meditate on my options and pull this one out. Looking back now, as I read the effects of the ingredients, the choice makes oodles of sense. Healing, cleansing, rebirth, protection, rejuvenation, grounding...more healing....I apply to several parts of my body because hey, why not ? I have plenty of it and I don't love it that much....

I start to move in slow yoga-like movements but the style changes and my arms swing in slow easy circles overhead. And the magic happens. I am so in the moment that I notice that my wrists are amping a different part of the LP than my neck, belly, and legs. I am, for all intents and purposes, now in a forest. I can paint myself a canopy with my arms, paint myself the moss I am walking on...the dance becomes something mystical and unexpected and ohhhh so lovely. I relax, I enjoy, there is no pain, only a desire to be in this space that Mara created, as much as I possibly can. To enter it, to live in it, to heal in it.

StacyK, they are all 'reduxes', they've all been released before, some have been renamed as Mara notes in the descriptions. You probably know a bunch of them, but they are "new" for me

Wowsers I don't know any of these, how exciting, and they already have the Forum Members' Seal of Approval !!

We all have our sorting systems for our LP's. One of my categories is metal/gems. Aquamarine is in there, turquoise, silver, and this beauty. I'd have to say that this smells even more of Iron than the "Silver" smells of silver. I get a sense of the metal being in front of my face, or next to me when I first apply it. Eventually it softens out but there's no mistaking that this perfume has a strong metallic quality. I find it to be on the feminine side of unisex and I LOVE to wear it.

I just researched champaka flower and found that very interesting ( It used to be used to make nag champa incense but is now much too expensive for that and it highly valued by perfumers). My brain refuses to let me analyze this scent. I cannot review when the vanilla appears, or whether I feel I like the amount of cedar. My brain fills it into one complete picture. One more positive thing I can say about it is that it a strong cover for pheros, should you have made the mistake of buying non-LPMP unscented phero blends at some point and now find they can't be covered no matter what you throw at them. Pheros can have a sort of alcohol/metallic/chemical scent and that very much works in your favor with this scent.

I'd say 1/3 is Aja, 2/3 the other ingredients which are well balanced. If your skin amps one ingredient over the other and you don't like the effect, try using a scent locket. Mara now sells several small ones that are super lovely and the leather cord is adjustable

With store items also available, all bets are off ! When I go into the store with my family, they buy about half non-perfume items (bath products, jewelry, incense...) Plenty to spend your money on that you would normally other places and earn FREEBIES !!

I'm jumping the fence but I'd like to somehow reserve a bottle of Mama Lion...pretty please...with sugar on top....I know it's too early....

Banshee,

I'm so glad you had the experience of meeting Mara. She and her team really do love to get to know her customers / forum members !

My daughter and I were sitting on our steps at night with our feet in the rain (It's been so dry here in Vancouver). She's still just a teenager but way beyond her years in many ways. Suddenly, out of the blue, she talked to me about what her life might be like when she's an adult, and how she would like it if I got to hold her baby. And then she made the most incredible remarks about imprinting, about scent memories, and about how cool it would be if I always wore the same LP when I held her baby, so the baby would remember me if I ever had to leave. Well my goodness, I got all choked up. There's another part to this, because only a few days back I made a comment somewhere here that I would wear this scent when holding a baby, it was a sudden and strong visual.

My daughter does cruise these threads but hasn't been online since I wrote that so we had some strong synchronicity about that. I brought the sample of this to her on the steps and she agreed that it was lovely and unisex enough for a baby of either gender. I will trust my feelings on this and stash a FB away, for years, who knows, for such an occasion. Whew, ok Momma needs to get offline and dry a few tears.

Blackcat, you should be super proud of this. I've been meditating on the ozone because it's the only ingredient I haven't addressed and yes, it does give it that 'wind or gentle breeze' vibe. Makes it come alive, I can't even imagine with a phero blend...they really give scents an accentuated 3- d effect to me, like going from High definition TV to Ultra High. I absolutely treasure this, it's becoming rather emotional and also making me feel connected to you !!! Hugggggggs !

Beccah, words fail me so I will try some visuals

I would totally try more PE's as well

Well it be summer so my choices are slanted towards that season:

1. Seaside Sizzle w/ Aja

2. Garden in the Rain

3. H2O-O-O

4. The Love potion variants

5. The OCCOs

So this came out 6 years ago, and the last review was a year ago. First time I tried it, it went immediately into the "Sell" pile, because I thought to myself " no way do I want to smell like a rice pudding". In the intervening months, I have totally detoxed off all commercial perfumes, not even attempting to use my leftover stash. The Sugared Layerables returned with a vengeance and I sat with them and learned to understand them. The Fairy Cakes came out and my daughter and I trained our noses to how lovely they are, played with them, and she took to them like a duck to water. I didn't buy myself any fairy cakes because they smelled a bit too girlish for myself personally.

So with all of that background, here I am now a year later. I open the bottle and I suddenly get it. I have no more preconceived notions about what is 'my kind of scent' and what isn't...or at least a lot less. I can perceive the beauty and simplicity of this blend. With only 3 ingredients, it's attempting to do what Love Potion #9 (2 ingredients) and what the Private Editions do (generally around 4 ingredients). This is simply brilliant. It's like Fairy Cake Plum all grown up. Each note is lovely but when you do the scent math and add them altogether, they end up being something 'more than'. Something I can wonder over, let wash over me, treasure. The plum, rice wine, teakwood combo I think is inspired. The plum is broad and not too sweet, the rice wine lends just enough of a tart/boozy undertone, the teakwood makes it smell like the concoction is steaming out of a wooden bowl, being stirred by a wooden spoon, perhaps in an age-old ritual. There's is also a silkiness to this that is just enchanting.

I'm so glad I did not sell this one. Im also a little bit proud of how my body and soul have opened up to scent. At first I pretty much only knew incense and vanilla. You've come a long way, baby !

Re: layering

My teen daughter likes to wear fairy cake apple, fairy cake lemon, fairy cake banana, and then sometimes Sugared French vanilla. It's totally cute on her. She's learning to appreciate this form of perfume and supporting a local business so I couldn't be happier.

WendyLynne,

What a fun review !!! I've got this one set aside, as all I was getting was pineapple and I generally love the Love Potion Variants. That Vanilla/amber/apricot/patch combo is so lovely but the pineapple just smelled wrong on top of it. Hopefully I will have happier news to report later. I'm also adding a note to myself to try this is in a scent locket, in case it's my body chemistry.