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Surely it would need honey.

On 8/28/2019 at 6:04 PM, Eastwood22 said:

I took this with me to my daughter's school for some testing. It's a warm sunny day, so I sat in the shade and opened the vial and got a blast of serious yum! Wet, it was lush and creamy, and I honestly wished it was a real beverage in my hand. On me, it was sweet. And I got absolutely zero cops. But, more importantly, let me tell you how it was perceived by a 10 yr old boy. 

 

My daughter has a very very sweet and talkative friend named Aiden. He said hello to me, I asked him "what's happening?" He indicated that my question needed clarification,  he sat down next to me and I said "what happened today that stood out as interesting and/or memorable?" He said, "I smell cupcakes." I said, "oh, that's me." He said "no, I really smell cupcakes," and I offered him my arm. Aiden then told me that he does that too, "sometimes I wear cupcakes to school." And then he hugged me. (He's never hugged me before.) I asked if he had seen my daughter, he jumped up to go find her, but left his backpack with me. My daughter told me that he told her that I was waiting for her, except that I was dead, because he ate me. Clearly she didn't understand, he then offered that I wasn't dead and he had only eaten my arm. He then beat her back down to me, grabbed his backpack, and told me to have a good day. When running away, he spun around, waved, and again told me to have a good day. 

 

This stuff will will be dangerous if it effects grown men the way it captivates 10 yr old boys on the playground. 

 

For the record, it doesn't smell like baked good to me. Definitely a delicious mocha. But boys will interpret as delicious, whatever their frame of reference. I wish cupcakes tasted like it smells!

"sometimes I wear cupcakes to school."

o.0  ...I have so many questions. 

💃 I got my shipping notice! 💃

I got an email a few days ago that had shipping in the title and had a brief moment of excitement until I realized it was just some shoes I'd ordered. It was a 5 second emotional roller coaster. But now I have my actual shipping notice. Hooray! 

On 8/21/2019 at 7:50 PM, Eastwood22 said:

@luna65 and @halo0073, the name caught my eye when someone reserved it in the sale thread, I think @greenappletart? It's on the Etsy site. So I saw the notes and really I should drink Teddy BB by the gallon, so it was an obvious choice. 

Yes, that was probably me. It wasn't on the sale list, but with limited numbers available I wanted to make sure I reserved a bottle. I posted my entire list of things w/ limited numbers because I panicked as soon as the sale opened, lol. I was afraid of missing out. I was so much more organized last year when we could see the list before it opened. 

I think they were posted to the website not too long before the sale started because I only noticed it when I was checking what I wanted. Those PEs sort of slipped in unnoticed. There were a couple of things that were either rebrews or scents where a few bottles must have been found, because I hadn't seen them in that section for a while. Plus a couple of new ones. I had my list planned when suddenly there were all these new choices. I was in a tizzy of last minute revisions.

On 8/21/2019 at 1:49 PM, Potion Master said:

 

A  gift PE I made for my god daughter Alexi when she was having a meltdown a couple months ago. It's just simple and comforting. She loves it. I had to work on it so fast I even reused an old label image.

 

https://luvpotionperfume.com/listing/711510472/alexi-relaxi-pheromone-enhanced

At first I thought it was a rebrew of something older. The pinup labels were before my time, but I've seen them floating around. I was confused why I couldn't find any reviews, but it looked so good I was willing to take a chance. Now I understand why and everything makes a lot more sense. I'm glad you were able to help her. Even beyond the perfume, it's good she has people around who care and are there to offer support.

Carta d'Amor is really gorgeous. It starts off fruity and so pretty. I love dewberry. Love it and am so happy to have a scent with it. As the clover emerges it adds a touch of dryness to complement the fresher, brighter notes. Then the whole thing settles down into a quiet, pretty scent that is just a touch perfumey, but not in a bad way. I wish it lasted a little longer, but even then it leaves a nice, close scent at the application points. It's just so pretty. My sale order includes two bottles, because I want to be sure I have a back-up. I wish I had a better description, but all I keep coming back to is pretty. So to sum up: pretty. (It's pretty.)

As for the phero, Alpha-nol on its own can give me a headache, but here it is tempered by the DHEAS, making it not a problem. In combination, these pheros made me happy, confident, and patient. 

This is very aquatic, though contrary to the name, on me it smells more like standing water. Not stagnant, just lacking the crispness of free flowing, brisk moving water. More like a pond. I can detect a lot of greenness, which I think is contributing to that impression. Possibly from the mosses, though I'm not sure. My brain is reading whatever those notes are as green and slightly forest-y. (It keeps shouting, "Pine!" even though this in no way smells like pine. Like those little kids who call all unfamiliar animals "doggies" even when it's, like, a horse. My brain's logic seems to be, "I don't know what it is, but it's green, so it's pine!")  

Back on topic, it starts out really masculine. However, in about 20 minutes that begins to fade and it becomes more truly unisex. After an hour, the oakmoss takes control and it turns powdery. 

ETA: Versatile! That's the word I'm looking for. It's versatile. Of course editing is turned off right now. Hope this merges. 

1220 B.C. is initially very herbal and grassy green with waves of spice underneath. There's also a warm heat bubbling underneath which I think is the sandalwood combining with something else, but I'm not sure what. This is a very intriguing scent and I can't seem to pinpoint the details. Despite the undercurrent of spice, it still smells very fresh. The spice itself isn't a heavy incense or dry spice, it's more of a cooking spice. Honey occasionally pokes through. 

This is one of those that I never reviewed on here, but have my initial notes for, and comparing it then to how it wears now, it has become a lot more feminine, mostly due to the floral notes intensifying. The flower is stronger, but I still wouldn't think of it as heavily floral. It remains light and airy until the base notes kick in, making it more rounded. It's a balanced scent that's, for lack of a better word, "inoffensive." There's no part of this that's going to blast someone away. It's the kind of scent that is appropriate for a lot of occasions. 

So the past several weeks, I have been super emotional. Just weepy and all kinds of vulnerable. Crying at the drop of a hat. It's better when I'm away from home, but it's like as soon as I get home the waterworks turn on. For context, my apartment is kind of small and I don't have a ton of seating. My desk chair is more comfortable than my love seat plus has easy access to my computer and tv, so I tend to sit there a lot. My desk has a ton of clutter on it, including a bottle of empathy potion I picked up a while back in a trade. I have it sitting out because I've been meaning to try it, but just haven't found the right day yet. So as I was shuffling things around on my desk last night I accidentally knocked the bottle of empathy potion over for the umpteenth time this week. As I was picking it up, I noticed the cap was leaking a bit. I'VE BEEN UNINTENTIONALLY PHEROBOMBING MYSELF WITH EMPATHY POTION FOR WEEKS NOW! No wonder I've been an emotional mess! 😂

Anyway, I put it in a plastic bag and set in in my perfume quarantine area and within  a few hours was feeling much better. Today I'm right as rain. If I didn't already know pheros worked, that accidental little experiment would have proved it to me. I can't believe that happened. I feel so very, very, incredibly, very dumb. 🙈

Mangelwurzel starts out spicy, led by cinnamon (which isn't in the notes, but that's what I'm getting. Maybe it's with the pumpkin? Idk) The dragon's blood is right up there with it. The earth and some of the other notes give a bit of an outdoors impression. There's a quality of dry wood. It's very much like kindling just as it's taking spark.  That might be the influence of the gunpowder. I detect the tiniest hint of something sulphurous, slightly like a match. I have a very strong sense memory of the toy cap gun I had as a child and the way the caps smelled. It's not a strong part of the fragrance, but it's there, contributing to the overall vibe. Approximately 20 minutes in I start to get a slightly sweet pumpkin just kind of hanging out in a cloud in the background. Eventually the patch joins in, and it becomes a base of patch with an overlay of the other resins.

Wet this is coconut forward with sweetness from the vanilla. It's a dry, sort of dark but fresh coconut. Not the sweetened kind. That initial scent stays as an underpinning throughout its wear, but as it dries down the orange blossom comes out more. My skin reacts to orange blossom differently than most people's and turns it kind of masculine. So it's a lot more unisex on me that I think it would be on most people. It's sort of airy and earthy and fresh yet somehow a bit dry all at once. It reminds me a bit of Coco Chrissy's. The low floral one. It's something about the type of coconut and the vanilla. Lariel is much more complex, though, and a bit sweeter. Despite that complexity, it layers really well. I especially like it with Dylan. It's also good for putting under something that's too bright. Helps give depth and grounding without competing too much or clashing. 

At first, I wasn't sure of this one, but I now have 2 bottles. That's a result both of it growing on me and the reactions it provokes. Lariel isn't pheroed, but it acts like it is. I get so many hits with this one. So many. On its own and when it's layered with something. It's magic. (Really, y'all. So many.)

Dianthus is a slightly masculine, sweet, sandalwood floral with an almost smoky quality. It's okay on me, but I would really like it on a guy. Carnation always reads masculine to me. The spiciness really starts to come in at the hour mark. I recently retried this again for the first time in a couple of years, and carnation is still the most prominent note, but it feels like it has mellowed a little. As if it has been rounded off a bit, like the edges filed down. I get a sort of chai aspect, as well, but without the milkiness. That is probably the combination of the tea and cardamom, with the carnation's inherent spiciness thrown in, too. To me, this is a floral, but a masculine one.

It turns out Alpha-nol on its own gives me a headache, which is a massive bummer because otherwise I would have gone full bottle on this. Goldfish is aquatic and bright. It is just a tiny bit on the masculine side, but still easily wearable for a woman. I was drinking earl grey tea when I put this on and something about the way the orange(tangerine) combines with the other notes made it very similar. I know bergamot is also a citrus, but it goes beyond that. There is something about the layering/complexity of it, combined with the liquid aspect. It's crisp, but anchored. I think SirenSong really nailed it when she called it a "brighter, cleaner version of Kissed By The Sun ."

Chant du Lac starts out so unexpected and delicious. I get a very sweet, ripe melon with the rose just peeking out. There's an underlying freshness. It reminds me of a melon agua fresca. It's sweet, but the wateriness keeps it from being cloyingly sticky. After about 30 minutes, the floral starts coming out more and it goes back and forth between floral and melon. Later on in the extended wear the lily predominates. Very glad I got a full bottle. It's quite refreshing and the interplay of melon and floral is really intriguing. A good spring or summer fragrance.

I amp leather, so on me that is the most prominent note. But the floral softens it. It's like a bouquet in a saddlebag. This is an adult scent, very sexy. It's also very fancy. I feel like to wear this scent you need to be going out in the evening wearing a black dress. This is a perfume you wear to impress somebody. There's no being a shrinking violet with this on. This is an "I know what I want and I plan on getting it" perfume. It is a perfume with a purpose. For when you want to intimidate, even if it's just with how sexy you are.  I can imagine it pairing well with Dom, Leather, Sexpionage, BI, or LFN.  On the very, very, very long dry down the floral becomes more pronounced. That's perfect for when they are already in your web and you can relax, knowing you're in control. 

This one reminds me a lot of Inna's Gadda Da Vita (Lemon variant), but lighter. It's light and a bit powdery/dusty, which I think is from the type of honey.  Later, I start getting wafts of a darker honey, though that might be the Aja. Aja tends to smell like dark, smutty honey on me (in a good way, 😉.) Up close there's an almost astringent quality, which you'd think would be from the lemon, but I think it's actually the tea. It seems to do that on my skin sometimes. 😕 Overall, this is crisp but powdery at the same time. 

This one is so much more unisex than it sounds. It morphs a lot in the first few minutes, though the vibe remains consistent. So my review is my impressions in the order I wrote them while wearing it. It starts off a bit soapy with a hint of something underneath, maybe the tobacco absolute? What I'm smelling is similar to tobacco flower, but not quite the same. Then, just a touch of smoke comes out, like there is a fireplace burning, but it's far away and you only get occasional whiffs of it on the breeze. There are constantly new notes coming to the forefront, yet it's still very quiet and subtle. There is almost a hint of wood, like tree bark, but I'm not sure where it's coming from. The woodsmoke? I have a hard time identifying the notes individually, but they are all good and working together. 

This is a scent everyone could wear. It smells like you just got out of the shower. It veers a little to musk, even though that's not in the list of notes. Though not outright musk, more the impression of a very quiet, skin like musk. Carny wears very close, and more than anything, smells like just washed skin. Perhaps a bit of non sweet vanilla. As if you're not wearing perfume, your skin just naturally smells this good. I think just about anyone could wear this. To quote Snoopyace, "It's really nice."

This is such a gorgeous, gentle strawberry scent. It starts out creamy and sweet, somewhere between a sugared strawberry and a fresh one. There is a freshness behind the strawberry itself, as if it was presented in a basket of fresh green clippings. It's a very spring scent reminiscent of new things and somehow reminds me of Easter. As it dries down more, the strawberry starts to feel as if it's spent the afternoon being warmed by the sun. Even an hour later it is still a very refreshing scent. The perfume doesn't morph much, but the changes feel like the passage of a day over the same scent, just very subtle changes. Petite Baie feels like one of those spring days where it is warm almost bordering on hot in the afternoon, but the morning and evenings are still cool. Where the sun is warming your skin, but a nice breeze keeps you cool. Surprisingly, the patch is not a problem for me in this at all even though I amp patch like mad. I didn't even notice it, which is a miracle. It doesn't come out at all. After about 3 hours there is just a bit of lingering scent, but it is still so nice. I'm picking up a second bottle because this scent is so pretty and makes me happy. 

There's also the aromatherapy aspect. The scent itself may not be the reason you prefer it, but it could still be having a calming subconscious effect alongside the phero. Have you tried the Balm Bomb phero in other scents? That may help to narrow down if it's the concentration in phero-enhanced scents that works best for you or if it's something about the Balm Bomb perfume itself. 

17 hours ago, Potion Master said:

I tried to make the Lemon and Lavender ones as close to the B&B versions as I could. Creamy Almond is a whole new recipe not exactly like anything else, but yes, several will be familiar. When you add copulins to fragrance, it changes the character of the final scent so there are little tweakings throughout, even if I went similar to an older recipe...it's always gonna be a tad different. But if you liked the other, you should like the cop'd version too!

 

I went conservative on the sweetness with the Mocha because people ran the whole gamut from bitter to very sweet in their answers, so it's in the middle. Even the Butterscotch did not turn out as syrupy as expected after the cops were added.  Orange Droolious is medium sweet as well, by my standards. I don't think anything is actually ultra sweet. My personal faves are the Mocha, Raspberry, and Resinate, btw.

Thank you! This helps A LOT in my decision making. I was already looking forward to the Raspberry, but now I have to decide if I should just get one bottle, or two. Hmm...

46 minutes ago, StrawberryKitten said:

YESSSS ! I am literally driving myself mad with it...no joke, I have like spreadsheets going, kinda like ' Here's my order if THIS scent will be included on the free list & I'm in time to claim it, here's a list if they don't have that scent but if they have this other scent, etc, etc...because I am ordering like 5 of the new OCCO's & I want to coordinate different scents with them 🤣 My original plan was  to set aside $100 for the sale. Then, the new OCCO list came out, I'm like okay, I'll up that to $150. Nope, now I'm up to $250 🤣 With spreadsheets & all kinds of different lists. I feel like I'm losing it, lol. But it's also so exciting ! Your OCCO list is badass, btw ! I'm doing orange & the raspberry too, plus Lavender Buttercream, Butterscotch & cherry. Among other things. 

I knew the sale was coming & still ordered 3 bottles in the past month & I'm kicking myself now, so I feel ya on that

Every sale I have the amount I tell myself I'm planning to spend, then secret amount in the back of my head that I'm actually going to spend, which is usually about $100 more. The sale is too tempting to resist. I keep a running list throughout the year of things I'm waiting to buy until the sale. 

I'm curious as to how sweet the Mocha, Buttercream Lemon, and Orange Droolious (great name, btw) ones are?

ETA: and the Butterscotch. Is the Buttercream Lemon like Butterscream the perfume was?

Definitely a bunch of the OCCOs, some mystery boxes, and I have to get to work on my wishlist. My list always gets turned upside down when the sale list opens and I see what they've found an extra bottle or two of and what gets categorized into the threebies. I feel like an athlete waiting for a big race. Gotta get in the zone!

21 hours ago, anchoredinopulence said:

Gotcha only has a small amount of cops and though Red Lace has added cops, the phero Lace is (as I recall) cops free, so I think what you're detecting in Red Lace and Honeyed LP may be the apricot? That's my hypothesis. With my skin chemistry anything more than a tiny amount of apricot has a mildly "body odor" type of feel on me. I know that's not true for many others, but maybe you and I have a similar skin chemistry? I love apricot but it does not love me.

 

ETA: other LP variants with less apricot don't bother me - like LP Original, Red. Etc are fine. Seems to really only be Red Lace and Honeyed LP, until the very long dry down. 

12 hours ago, Potion Master said:

 

It's likely the Honey then, not the apricot. Honey kinda smells like dirty undies...it's musky, smells like sex. That's why it goes well with copulins. On some people, they say honey turns to powder, on my chemistry it smells like pure sex.

 

And yeah, MOST guys love that kind of thing, unless they are the type that only like a freshly showered smell.

 

The apricots in Honeyed LP (the extra apricoty version) and Red Lace don't work on me, either. It's a too bright, verging towards sharp smell. I have a similar issue with grapefruit, only worse. Sometimes grapefruit works (Pallas is great on me), but sometimes it goes straight up b.o. When honey smells "dirty" on me, it smells smutty, sexy dirty. When grapefruit smells "dirty" on me, it smells like stinky armpits. 🤮 Body chemistry is weird.

Back on the actual topic, lol, I'm really excited for the Raspberry and Sandal, Sage, and Myrrh ones! And the pineapple rebrew!

On 6/16/2019 at 11:10 AM, Potion Master said:

Yeah, they are everywhere, thanks for calling that to my attention! We keep switching back and forth from editing to viewing and definitely missed that this is showing in the final version.

 

Hmm. It's still showing those "[Edit]" bits for me on the main pheromone list page. I'm sure it'll get worked out!

Made an account and already have 7 things on my wishlist! And that's just the stuff I REALLY want, not counting all the things I'd like but aren't as high priority.