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sixteen92.com/ Full Bottles: Telepathy Baba Yaga Vials: Mercy Lewis La Llorona Blood & Honey Combined Thoughts: These strangely beautiful fragrances may not seem to fit a single category to anyone else and you are right they each have different note profiles from floral to a little gourmand with an edge but they all have a mysterious depth about them and changed my mind about exploring different combinations of components and inspirations taken from nature, legends and history that all can be somehow placed in a vial or bottle by independent fragrance mistresses and masters. Absolutely every one of these perfumes are too good not to share and deserve a treasured/featured label. Brava Sixteen92! One scent at a time: Telepathy *from the Winter 2017 collection (Listed Notes: Winter narcissus, tonka bean, immortelle flower, sleet, ozone, white amber) In the vial/bottle: Crystallized MINT with a hidden green note underneath. This is a combination that is allowing my mind to clear and fits the concept and name perfectly as a "distant feeling". Applied: *This is truly a unique perfume and I had to hurry to jot down each time something morphed and surprised me with Telepathy. This exceptional fragrance starts out a clear frozen green (resembling mint) with a slight peppery note underneath that was completely hidden in the vial and the overall impression this perfume gives is marked as: "icy and like glass" (think standing in a secret Victorian winter garden that is blanketed with snow but there is life underneath the white and glass). I've reached for this vial and bottle throughout this never-ending winter/pseudo spring and each time I can detect the ozone adding to the seasonal mood and I don't know how these mistresses and masters of olfactory magic do it but you can smell the actual frost on the petals in this secret garden. The heat from my skin seems to make this scent potion come alive and it reveals so many new facets. Hours later the white amber, tonka course through and get my full attention once again as I'm working and this goes from a frigid graceful snow queen quality to another refined stately essence and stays until the next morning with a faint warmed honey note I don't want to pull my nose away from (I simply adore Sixteen92's honey notes and want to purchase every perfume they have that has that component hidden or is freely displayed on the note list). Absolutely a haunting floral composition that transitions from winter to the wick of spring. Mercy Lewis *from the General Catalogue (Listed Notes: Heliotrope, honeyed tea, rosehips, sugared almond, creamy sandalwood, milky vanilla) *this was a bonus sample that appeared in my second order with this amazing house of fragrance (thank you so much Claire!) In the vial: Sweet ALMONDS, VANILLA, TEA and SANDALWOOD. It's so hard to concentrate as each time I open a vial or bottle from any favoured house of fragrance my imagination races and I forget my intentions of training my nose to pick up different individual notes and only want to slather myself with these types of perfumes. This one, in particular, is a sweet indulgent inviting vial that I can't wait to try. Applied: Marking another fragrance down to get a full bottle of as soon as possible. Right away Mercy Lewis turns to almond vanilla buttercream on my skin but it's strangely not all gourmand (or too young smelling) and it feels just "right" on me. This is a wonderful example of inspired olfactory art that captures home comforts (served on a tray) and has a power of persuasion all its own just like the unassuming figure from history whose false accusations sent several innocents to their tragic deaths, but then again who wouldn't believe a well-mannered smiling servant girl when asked for the truth? Getting back to this superb scent experience, the vanilla along with honeyed tea and grounding sandalwood are blended so expertly and here is another oil that is very work appropriate (the compliments keep on coming whenever I wear this out), a seasonal transitioning wonder and has changed my mind on a note (almonds) that I always thought as a death note on me (thanks to a certain Bath and Body shop or all the years of alcohol drenched lies I have endured from commercial products). Believe it or not, almonds don't smell like rancid things that give you stomach turning headaches, in the right patient hands almonds can actually smell like the perfect garnish to a dessert or unexpected featured perfumes. La Llorona *from the General Catalogue at the time of purchase but has been discontinued and will only be found on the Resurrection sales listing coming January 2019 according to a recent announcement (Listed Notes: Bulgarian and Egyptian rose absolute, pink and white pepper, pink grapefruit, wisteria, cashmere wood, pale amber) In the vial: GRAPEFRUIT and PEPPER (peppery lemonade anyone?) What a great way to wake up the senses heralding something is coming and forget the horrible weather outside (I swear 20 minutes ago I saw green on the ground and my lilacs trying to bud). Applied: Hello spring I finally found you today! Oh I love La Llorona and am saddened this gorgeous creation has been discontinued. I mentioned peppery lemonade when I first opened the vial but the rose that appears after a few minutes blending with pepper and grapefruit is hands down the best true to life "kissed by morning dew roses on the bush" scents I have ever had the pleasure to find. THIS is how a rose perfume should smell (once again the big stores lied and made us accept what they presented in plastic bottles)! It's invigorating but at the same time also touches brilliantly on its inspiration about a legend of a forlorn ghost with a distinct delicate but mysterious quality as the cashmere wood and pale amber slowly surfaces. This is a fragrance that is approachable but also carries a secret when someone gets close...As much as I adore La Llorona, I must admit that it does sadly fade faster than other perfumes in my collection and needs an application of fixative (Alkemia's Perfume Fixative aids nicely) to delight me more than a few hours. That one unfortunate negative aside, I still had to have a full bottle and was lucky enough to purchase one from Sixteen92's site before it was moved to the limited edition vault but I am also hoping that I can get La Llorona in the hair detangler soon (or can figure out how to add it in a bottle of unscented detangler) but if need be I can apply this oil to my locks alone and happily walk around in a halo of pepper, amber and magnificently executed floral. Blood & Honey *from the General Catalogue (Listed Notes: Blood orange, wildflower honey (vegan), pale amber, honeysuckle) *this was a bonus sample that appeared in my first order (thank you so much Claire) and is inspired by the Jazz Age. In the vial: Three classic beauties: HONEYSUCKLE, ORANGE and HONEY. It matches perfectly to spring/summer in the 1920's but is ultimately a very memorable timeless feminine scent combination. Applied: This is such a channelling fragrance as the first name that came to mind when I put this on was Zelda Fitzgerald and in turn, I must mention Daisy Fay Buchanan (the character Zelda is strongly believed to have inspired in The Great Gatsby), it's dazzling, fascinating and even a little extravagant. Once again Sixteen92 surprises me as Blood & Honey captivates my imagination and works with some unseen power on my chemistry because the orange and honey are staying and not turning waxy (I must note that this perfume lasts 12+ hours on me). The honeysuckle is just lovely, the amber light but romantic and I would love to own the supernatural hair serum in this fragrance for summer because I would be a beautiful little fool whenever I wore it. Baba Yaga *from the General Catalogue (Listed Notes: Fiery dragon’s blood incense, sweet woodsmoke, dried herbs, dripping candle wax, forest dirt) In the vial: I'm not sure what I'm smelling it's a collection of ancient mystery, it's not smokey and it's not floral or spicy it has a scent category all its own. Applied: Right away there is a sharpness or medicinal quality but that quickly is swept away and becomes something completely unexpected which is powdery bubbles with a hint of candle wax and maybe rose? Perhaps this perfume taps into and conforms to your secret comforts and yes powder or any rose and pretty rainbow shifting bubbles from a wand are three of my secret forgotten comforts (judge as you will but you could have entertained me for days as a child if you gave me a bottle of bubbles to blow into the winds and the powder and rose reminds me of a missed loved one), the candle wax is just an unfortunate thing my chemistry always latches onto but is not overly noticeable at the moment and is not that bad. Hours later I am finally getting the earthiness and something is definitely reminding me of a soft rose (finally realized after wearing this perfume and comparing it to others it must be the dragon's blood). It's actually quite lovely not scary or a sharp scent. I'm always on the hunt for scents that can help me fall asleep in the morning after bracing the long night hours and this Bone Mother has been a surprising giver of pleasant vivid dreams. This and The Wild Atlantic Way by Alkemia Perfumes are the two bottles I have been wearing the most after chaotic work nights and whether I feel sentimental when I finally get in the door or desire a complete romantic escape, I know which perfect oil in my slowly growing collection to reach for. sixteen92.com Comments are closed.
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