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This smells very RED to me! I thought of red candles at Pier 1, and opaque red hard candies... ?? Must be my mind taking the almond in an artificial-cherry-flavors direction. As it has dried down it has gotten more vanilla and cake bites-y. Nice but the red is iffy on me - might be leaning waxy/plasticky as almond sometimes does on me. Aunt Dot is visiting though so will have to retest.

Eyes roll back in head delicious. Dense girly desserty frostingy heaven. I don't find myself using levitation a lot so this isn't fb for me...only my wallet is grateful it's not available unpheroed....

Delightful!!!! This makes me want to spin around in a meringue tutu. It smells like a raspberry swirl creme saver looks. It is in the same family to me as things like Candytuft Tea and Goodie Tooshu -- that irrepressible, grinning, springlike, and very bright yet folded into thick frothy creaminess. Love

Being afraid of spray, I unscrewed the top and smeared a bit from the straw / stick part onto forearm, to be able to control how much I got. I took several huffs over about an hour period. First off it is absolutely scentless, at least on me. With every huff, it has made me relaxed, but spacey!! I can feel an almost physical effort to concentrate. It's like a running-through-mud feeling, or lifting a very heavy thing you resent having to lift. The relaxing effect may actually be a GOOD thing for this crazy back-from-the-holiday workday... but NOT feeling the 'motivation' usual fear / stress is stressing me out It's probably just a matter of my not being used to functioning in a calm rational manner. And I'm very DHEAS-lightweight, I think. ETA later effects: about 90 minutes in, I had a VERY STRANGE feeling, hard to describe, not physical but emotional / metaphysical, as though I suddenly learned that I was in fact a meerkat or something and EVERYTHING I HAD EVER THOUGHT I KNEW ABOUT THE WORLD WAS WRONG, and had a brief flare of incipient panic attack. I recognized what it was immediately, and sternly talked myself down. Very very very odd and again pretty sure it's a DHEAS thing. On the plus side, I have found that I have been able to do just ONE THING AT A TIME and FINISH IT. This is very hard for me as I usually instead flit at random from one thing to another, which is stress-inducing, which makes me flit MORE because while I'm doing thing X, I'm worried about thing Y, & so I'm pretty much in a spiral like that for extended periods. So this is a focus effect, if not of the "intense concentration" kind I expected. It's more like a patience and self-acceptance/tolerance thing. Could definitely use more of that.

I expected something similar to purple puff - this is as different as can be considering the overlapping notes. It's sort of like ice creamy vanilla versus that sheer perfumey non foody vanilla. I love lavender even when medicinal and this is not too bad on the pointy scale. It has just a little of that herbal bite. Especially while wet I kept thinking of freshly laundered cotton. The amber is pillowy and mellow and so soft. Couldn't be more perfect with the phero.

Hey hearts, how did the truffles handle the bang?

You mean PG Dominance! Yeah that is one of my all time fav scents but I wore it a bunch of days in a row once and by the end I was ready to stab everyone in the world for breathing, which kind of put me off it

YAY!!! so glad you like It always brings a smile to my face.

Oo I bet dabbing this together with your pussycat would % be wonderful - might take away whatever seems salty • you?

OMGGGGGGGGG This is the most instantly transporting LP I've ever experienced, even more than Taste for Lux, which is saying something. I literally had to lie down on the ground, moaning, it was so intense. It took me to this room: Jardin d'Hiver, the lobby restaurant of the Meurice hotel in Paris. It doesn't smell like this in there, but this scent feels so precisely like that room that it was like being beamed there. Wet it gave me a huge blast of pineapple (I know) and huge flowers. Pineapple often doesn't work on me in blends, but the not-pineapple in this (maybe the tangerine and verbena combo) loves my skin passionately. The blend is gushing, juicy, superbly elegant, and yet restrained. Two hours in and the scent has stayed pretty much the same. But the crowning glory of it is that, like fairy massacre, something about the floral is unbearably sexy to me. It's early tea in that room above, followed by non-eye-contact wordless fucking upstairs with a stranger in afternoon daylight with the heavy drapes thrown open... 6" Marie Antoinette heavy pink and green silk ribbons are definitely involved. ETA forgot to mention - in case the flowers got out of hand, I had smoothed a bit of Amazonian zee together with this, only on one arm. As planned it tamped down the floral and boosted the creamy aspect. I imagine layering this with sugared coconut would have similar effect.

Wet, i got an overwhelming sense of thin clear cold liquid - very watered down yet very tart apple juice. It was also oddly musty like a damp basement. Within a few minutes it was a clear spring honey over crushed green apples. The long dry down is very very sweet with the apple and apricot equally juicy, lush and gorgeous. It covers CB invisibly start to finish.

so funny, before I even opened the thread, just from the topic name, I thought LFM and Cougar

My trial just now went like this: CARAMEL! WOW, I THINK I CAN DO TH-- ohhh, no. I think it's the black musk, amber and/or patch - still haven't figured out which after all these years- maybe all of them - I just hate it. It brings me back to a store I was dragged to periodically in my childhood and just- no. Oh well, more for y'all... And I'm sure the dom will equal great workout. ETA yup it did. Made me feel competitive and super dead serious

This is SO different in vial vs on skin. In vial it is smells "thin" and is quite pointy. Wet, it immediately brought to mind the inimitable Pony describing how she amps fig, that it stands up and raises its tiny fig arms and shouts "I RULE!" Green fig definitely does that on me. Very tart and green indeed, plus with a freshly snapped tulip stem kind of green aspect too. But within a couple of minutes that all settled down and was completely wrapped and smothered with a velvety, plush vanilla musk...that LPMP vanilla musk... with a pinky-white creamy girly softness I'd probably never have identified as honeysuckle. Something about that as it emerges, is very sentimental for me too, BB. There was a honeysuckle riot on the fence near a place I lived when I was 3-4 years old and I remember playing by it / sucking the blooms with my "best friend", so maybe that's it even though I don't consciously recognize the honeysuckle as such. ZERO COPS SMELL at ANY stage. Incredible! ETA the bang was WAY too much firepower for this morning. It continues its run as an almost excesively effective popularity potion and -maker for me ... luv eet

This reminds me A LOT of Potion 31: they're both fruity cake with a pronounced EVIL feel! Absolutely fascinating. My nose is inferring nutmeg into it. A huge scoop of salty butter on apple brown betty.

Wore dab of un-CB with LP red last night to dinner with boy & his two guy friends. When I got there, the eyes of the friend closest to me widened and he turned his whole body away me, slowly, like a music box dancer - looked like someone trying to run away from danger in ultra ultra slow mo - looking back at it, it was actually pretty funny. He was VERY chilly and wouldn't make eye contact when we were introduced. I soon learned he was gay, hence the fleeing o' the cops 'n' est. We ended the evening as BFFs but I really had to turn the charm all the way to 11. IIRC CB has bothered gay men I encounter, more than other cops blends or even straight cops... makes sense but hadn't experienced it in a while...

YAYAYAYAYAY isn't it wonderful? It's all Mara as I really did not have any idea what it was going to smell like LOL

I don't have any answer although maybe people do vary in how much phero they put out - she sounds as though she was "naturally" emitting a shit ton of LACE 24/7 "faery glamour" !!!!!! What a phrase!

oh egg, I actually agree 1000% with your suggestion re how best to react (having experienced handling it both ways for my part, as well as having been on the other side of it)! I was more focusing on & sharing my read on the facts of how this particular person reacted to phergineer's (calm & IMO entirely rational) statement...

Ha! not that i know of! I think v was just talking about my early cry "DOM THEM ALL"

Oh, thank you for saving me a berry patch! but I would feel piggy (ha, accidental HAM reference) nabbing it when others want! Enjoy guys!!

None of the vets here will be surprised that I am less convinced that he is innocently blithely oblivious. As already perfectly stated upthread, his reaction was deflective and, I might even go so far as to say, gaslighting. His reaction was not that of a person who has just had someone say something completely ridiculous that OH SO GENUINELY NEVER EVEN ENTERED his head. If someone said to you that they were bothered by thoughts that you might be a unicorn, how would you react? Not the way he did. All this is to say I DO NOT think you (phergineer) are 'crazy' or 'irrational' or imagining things - not just on asshat's side but your fiance's.

I keep ordering small #s of sugareds instead of biting the bullet and doing the generous buy-10 thing...as if somehow I'm spending less money OVERALL if I only spend a small amount at a time. I am eyeing sugared coconut next.

@your most recent post phergineer, I hear OVER AND OVER your consideration and thoughtfulness toward him. I do not hear ONE INSTANCE of that being reciprocated. I don't say this to beat you up - I say this to SUPPORT the sneaking suspicion you seem to be developing that what you're dealing with is not acceptable. The ONLY thing he has said that I would agree with is to encourage you to speak up immediately when you're upset. You are very skilled at making excuses for him (to 'spare' him your being upset) and I haven't heard him do the same for you AT ALL in this situation (or show ANY consideration for your point of view or how the events, friend's behavior, his behavior make you feel). However 'poorly' you fear you might express it at the time, letting it stew 'allows' the situation to become worse, makes YOU FEEL worse, & makes it all that much harder for you to express it 'well' later on (as you can attest & have said repeatedly). ETA sorry I don't mean to shout at you; presumably you understand I'm just being "on your side"! Another ETA the reason I am thinking Dom is for the selfies as much as the effect on him - especially if it helps you speak your mind. oh also, the licking fingers thing is fucking disgusting. You're not being OCD - you're having a modicum of biological sense and manners.

ITA - none of that bitterness or sharpness - in fact it is replaced with a caramelly smoothness that reminds me of whiskey, I believe more so with even just the little aging mine has had. I wear it with a LOT of things and it is wonderful.