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My first purpose is for making a spray specifically for layering under other 'fumes, but I might like to use it just by itself too.  What got me onto this thought was wanting something to slightly modfy a commercially produced EdT I have (Elizabeth Arden Sunflowers) that I've been wearing a lot lately.  I feel like it could benefit from a vanilla note under it, which got me to wondering what FOs I could use to make a basic spray for layering like that.  What do you all think?  What are your favorite vanillas?  Would you use a simpler, less complex vanilla if you were intending to layer it with other scents?  I'm kind of thinking Vanilla Bean Noel for all purposes but would love to hear your thoughts too.  Please discuss any vanillas at all, not just something for making a body spray.

I was looking up datura scents the other day and landed on an interesting article (link below).  Do any of you know if that is a note in any FOs?  If not I may just invent or rename something.  I place datura in the " goth " category so it goes in this thread. 

https://www.fragrantica.com/notes/Datura-378.html

On a related note, do any of you have any Angel Trumpets in your yard?  I've wanted some for years but haven't gotten any.  My soil here is so bad it'd probably be a PITA to get one established so I didn't have to mollycoddle it every week.

On 5/15/2019 at 3:32 PM, soshiegirl said:

Leather from Texas Candle Supply and Lone Star are amazing.  Sorry can't help you with BOP.

I'm glad to read that because I ordered a sample from Lone Star.  How are you all using leather FO?  Straight up or as a mixer?  What are some blends you like with it?  I ordered that sample not because I have specific plans for it but to see what fun I can have with it.

Lone Star sample sale going on right now.  Feel free to add to the above recommendations.  Somebody a while back mentioned one smelling like "dirty pinecones" so I'm definitely looking for that one!

I know you might not can pick one scent that pleases everyone anyway, but I have one friend who absolutely abhors vanilla as a room scent.  I (and she) would go for something kind of fresh outdoorsy.  Cracklin' Birch from NG comes to mind as a non-too-masculine version of an outdoorsy scent.

Or does wax add some chemistry that helps the FO smell and perform better than when it's with water only?

I'm not ready for the full-on hay and falling leaves and spicy pumpkin scents, but I'm tired of oceany aquatics and rose and airy florals.  What do we have in FOs that have a late Summer / not quite Fall vibe?  I'm thinking honey, maybe carnations, or something that makes you think of sunflowers.  Suggestions?

Making a guess here:  the hot, liquid wax is melting the glue enough on your wick stick'ums that they're sliding around a bit.

I have been working in my craft / FO storage room today, and I don't appear to have any cinnamon.  I may be about to order a pound of their Cinnamon Styx for the upcoming months, since I'm already planning to get some samples right now.  Good idea or bad idea?  Anybody want to talk me out of that?....

https://rusticescentuals.com/search.php?mode=search&page=1&q=cinnamon&keep_https=yes

I'm trying to pick what to scent with next, and I'm thinking of reorganizing my FOs by a category or type or "feeling" than how I currently have them (by supplier first, then alphabetical order by FO name).  Fall and Christmas scents I actually do put in their own areas, regardless of supplier of origin.  But then everything else is segmented by company and I tend to forget what scent notes they're composed of, and names and a bottle sniff don't always really help you know how they are in use.  I'm wondering if I'd make more use of them if instead of just Fall and Christmas, I did some non-holiday Winter, Spring, floral, outdoorsy, or some other categories?

I don't see a mention of trimming the wick.  If it's flaming too much because it needs trimming could that burn off the scent too hotly?  Destroy it because the flame is too hot?

RE has something called Amazon Mist and from their description the first note is "dew" but there are others:

https://rusticescentuals.com/Amazon-Mist.html

When I was perusing their site yesterday I saw several that had watery, dewy type notes to them so it might not be a waste of time to read through all theirs.  Here's one they call London Fog:  https://rusticescentuals.com/London-Fog.html

There was something called Lake Adventure, and a bunch of other watery things that might work for what you're looking for.  Good luck.

Oh wow, that is PRETTY!

Heads up:  Rustic Escentuals sample sale starting tomorrow so what's everybody's favorites?  I saw some older posts mentioning Candy Corn, Vanilla Voodoo and Toasted Marshmallow, and I'm going to finally order that Children's Room I've been wanting for ages, so what else is worth checking out?

4 hours ago, bfroberts said:

I'm desperate.  I'll order samples of both.  Thank you!

Hang onto whatever amount you have and if those two options don't pan out then get it duped!

9 minutes ago, bfroberts said:

Has anyone tried Library from CS?  I want to, but I don't need anything else and hate to order just that.

The reviews there are saying it smells just like their Antique Sandalwood.  Do you by chance already have that?

In case anyone was curious, I remembered the other one I was trying to think of:  Whispers in the Library by Replica

https://shop.nordstrom.com/s/maison-margiela-replica-whispers-in-the-library-eau-de-toilette/5329412?siteid=QFGLnEolOWg-_lMlsq_LwjuRu_t2Owr6VA&utm_source=rakuten&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=QFGLnEolOWg&utm_content=1&utm_term=688428&utm_channel=affiliate_ret_p&sp_source=rakuten&sp_campaign=QFGLnEolOWg

Bumping this back up to ask if anyone's tried any discussed above?  I wonder if I combined MMS's Books Abound, NG's Money, Indigo's Library, and WSP's Spank Me Leather what the result would be? 

What got me back on this is coming across a mention somewhere of Sucreabeille's Antiquarian scent:  https://sucreabeille.com/products/antiquarian

It sounds lovely:

Scent notes: sumptuous leather, old yellowed books, pipe tobacco, soft sandalwood, white musk.

It's just $39, and that would buy a few different FOs to try.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab as a couple (again, not FOs):  https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/neil-gaiman/good-omens/

The Buggre Alle This Bible:

"Crumbling paper and ancient cracked leather with a touch of tobacco leaf and incense. "

The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch:

" A seventeenth-century tome, pages lined with witching herbs and lightly spattered by gunpowder residue. "

There was another "books" perfume (not an FO) I came across recently and I can't remember now what it was.  But these commercial producers are getting some kind of FOs that they're blending to create these.

Don't do it.  Put the wax down and back away.  Run while you can still afford running shoes.

I have leather furniture, no carpets, & no curtains, so I don't have much for a spray scent to grab onto.  The reeds and potpourrri give out fast, so I   don't really like those.  I'm just difficult, I guess.  😉

But I wouldn't mind a little scent on my bed comforter, so using an alcohol spray on it won't damage the fabric?  I bought Everclear a couple weeks ago for my perfume exprriments, so it would be easy to try this.

It's too hot for candles & tarts, and I'm missing my house smelling so good.   So I'm wondering if it's possible to get some of my FOs into those things?  Seems they're not as heat-producing.

HOW do they deconstruct an FO to figure out what it takes to dupe the scent?  I somehow don't think they have a magic box where they stick in an FO & it spits out a piece of paper saying "3\4 blackberry, 1\8 apple, 1\8 vanilla".  And some combos meld in such a way that you can't pick out the constituent parts.  So how do they determine what to try mixing to recreate a scent?

If a bottle of FO comes out of a maker's factory today, does it smell differently when brand new like that than after it's been on shelves for a while?  I'm pondering on if that's the problem I'm experiencing that I mentioned in another post.  Maybe I got one that's just too new at the moment and it'll improve if I ignore it for a bit.  

I have been working and reworking this in a perfume spray for a couple of weeks and it's just awful.  I've gone back to WSP's site and re-read reviews, and mine is nothing like what people are describing there.  There's lots of comments how great it is right OOB, but it's been rotten from the get-go for me.  There's a harsh, ugly asphalt edge to it, and I hoped it would mellow with dilution and time but it just hasn't.  I'm dropping it in a bit of wax next and if that doesn't turn it to sweet blackberries and candy I'm ditching it.  At least I only got 2 oz and on sale, so no great loss.

I didn't buy any.  I found some bad reviews somewhere that scared me off.....