'We haven't managed to flee far enough away yet?'
She didn't understand what he (Ihuarraquax) telepathically told her in answer. There was no far or near? A spiral? What spiral?

General Catalogue

• Initially it smells like cocoa, coconut, and sweet alcohol on my skin. The nutmeg, amber and sandalwood bloom on drydown but the fragrance remains coconut-heavy throughout. Overall the scent reminds me of a Caribbean black cake, a sweet boozy cake with dried fruits and spices eaten near Christmastime. I originally really didn’t like this because initially it just smelled like red wine and nutmeg 🤮, but after resting I actually think this would be a great wintecozy fragrance since the amber and sandalwood have come out a lot and make it quite a warm scent. Medium sillage, good longevity. 4/5 would buy FS.
• Wear while reading: Bacchus: A Biography, by Andrew Dalby. Smells like the God of wine himself - boozy and spicy with some warmth from sacred woods.

• Opens with tart passionfruit and grapefruit, and sweet apricots. I can’t detect any florals in this blend at all though. Maybe it’s my nose tricking me but I almost smell some slivers of coconut in the background, although it might just be me expecting it in a tropical/summery scent like this. The fruits in this blend smell very juicy and vibrant, but overall I’m getting a ‘tropical shower gel’ vibe from this scent. Good sillage and medium longevity. 2/5 would not buy FS perfume, but would be nice as a scrub.
• Wear while reading: Where The Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. A fun and innocent tropical scent perfect for these playful monsters!

• This was the indie perfume that really sucked me into indies. I’d say this is a straightforward and linear summery scent, but is overall really pleasant and well-balanced. Smells a little bit like a tropical cocktail, with creaminess from the coconut milk, balanced by the astringent black tea and tart litchi. It’s sweet but not overly so on my skin, with the sweetness mainly coming from the litchi note. Medium sillage but good longevity. Have bought FS. 4.5/5
• Wear while reading: The Trickster series, by Tamora Pierce. Whenever I read this series I have bad cravings for coconutty/tropical food from the Copper Isles.

• So, this one just smelled like a mango candle and toasted sesame oil on me. Simultaneously was too cloyingly sweet and too savory at the same time. The sesame oil also smelled rancid on my skin during the drydown. Unfortunately a rare scrubber for me (but I kept it on for testing), and I’d say medium sillage. 0/5 would not buy FS.
• Wear while reading: Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Couldn’t bear to pair it with a book I actually like so here you go. 🤧

• I loved this one straight from the bottle. It smells very ‘hot’ and ‘dry,’ opening with peppery nutmeg and clove and coconut shavings rather than coconut milk. Overall it reminds me of a summer version of Depravity. Similar minus the booze and richness from the amber, and heavier on the coconut and sandalwood. The drydown smells like a spicy coconut. Medium sillage and longevity. 4.5/5 would buy FS.
• Wear while reading: Dune, by Frank Herbert. “Arrakis ... Dune ... wasteland of the Empire, and the most valuable planet in the universe. Because it is here—and only here—where spice is found. The spice. Without it there is no commerce in the Empire, there is no civilization. Arrakis ... Dune ... home of the spice, greatest of treasure in the universe. And he who controls it, controls our destiny.” My desert planet fantasy in bottled form.

• What can I say, this smells ‘pink,’ reminiscent of Nestle’s strawberry milk where the berries don’t smell true to life but still tasty. If you’ve read my other review, you’ll know that I generally don’t like any true gourmand scents, but HoG’s marshmallow note is just SO delicious smelling! It’s like you’ve opened a new bag of marshmallows and stuck your nose in for a good whiff - sweet but somehow not cloying. Good sillage and longevity. I have this in a hair oil, and can smell it over 48 hrs after applying. Have bought FS. 4/5.
• Wear while reading: Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets (Book 4), by Kate Leth. Reminds me of the Land of Ooo and our pink Princess Bubblegum.

• First impression - amaretti biscuits fresh from the oven. The almond is very strong in this blend at first, but that fades quickly. The drydown is mainly clean linens on my skin, with the subtle sweet plant milks in the background. Very well blended. It smells incredibly similar to the Barr & Co original bath salts [Blend of milk, oatmeal, vanilla and vetiver]. Not overly sweet or loud, this scent would be a really comforting bedtime fragrance. Low sillage and medium longevity. 4.5/5 would buy FS.
• Wear while reading: The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A comforting bedtime story.

• First impression - did I accidentally swatch Troika again? It also smells like amaretti biscuits. After a couple seconds the almond fades a little and the extremely realistic sugar cookie note comes out. The drydown smells exactly like a coconut-almond macaroon cookie, very buttery. Delicious even as someone who doesn’t like many gourmands. Low sillage and longevity. 4/5 would consider buying FS hair oil.
• Wear while reading: The Celtic Twilight, by W.B. Yeats. Smells like a fairy banquet, but I’d definitely fail the test by eating some.

Seasonal/Limited Edition

• I’m glad I let this age, because initially when I bought this all you could smell on my skin was rancid/artificial spices (not cardamom) and white sugar - not at all pleasant. After a year of ageing it opens with a fresh/tart apple note, and spices. Unfortunately my skin chemistry must not like HoG’s cardamom note because it doesn’t smell anything like true cardamom on me at all. Would not buy FS. Before resting 0/5, after resting 2.5/5.
• Wear while reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving. Ok, I know this isn’t set in an apple orchard but when I think of the story I feel like it should be.
• Alternatively, wear while watching: S1E07 Supernatural, Hook Man. Apple pie, murder, religious cults - what more could you want?

• Smells like a true cup of coffee with milk on my skin. Not sure if this is just my nose, but after 15 minutes I also get a ‘butter’ note, like movie popcorn butter. The blend has some sweetness, but it smells a bit more like sweet milk or cream than sugar. Good sillage, medium longevity. 3.5/5 would consider buying FS bubbling scrub.
• Wear while reading: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Smells like the perfect accompaniment to whispered conversations and Minny’s famous chocolate pie.
• Alternatively, wear while watching: Any episode of Gilmore Girls

• This fragrance smells like Johnson&Johnson baby oil or baby powder on my skin. It’s a powdery floral from the sweet pea blossom, fabric softener and clean skin, but the milk note sours to yoghurt on me. Good sillage and longevity. Would not buy FS 1.5/5
• Wear while reading: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury. If I could bottle the smell of childhood innocence in the form of a milky, powdery, pink floral fragrance.

• HoG’s cocoa note is realistic, but unfortunately smells like the chocolate I don’t like - think Hershey’s rather than Ghirardelli’s chocolate. If you’ve ever been to the M&M store in NYC or London and have smelled the scent they pump into their stores there, that’s almost exactly the same as HoG’s cocoa note. That being said, the peppermint is very well balanced in this blend and neither overpowers the other. The mint also tempers some of the sweetness in the cocoa and the entire fragrance comes off as less cloying than Spiced Cocoa. The sillage on HoG’s cocoa scents is crazy strong, as in my partner can smell it in a different room when I’ve only put on a couple drops of hair oil. I regret blind buying FS hair oil of this one 2.5/5
• Wear while reading: The Father Christmas Letters, by JRR Tolkien. The most straightforward Christmastime scent suitable for kids and adults alike.

• This is a really atmospheric and interesting fragrance. Opens with a strong dirt and dandelion leaf notes. Drydown is mostly leather and clean skin musk, with a hint of unlit tobacco. This fragrance is really evocative of a Wild West Cowboy - think of a cowboy that’s stepped into a saloon and is kind of sweaty from a hard days’ ride, caked in dirt and grass, with his trusty cowboy boots. Masculine/unisex fragrance. Medium sillage and longevity. 3/5 would not buy FS.
• Wear while reading: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. It’s how I imagine I’d smell after the apocalypse (minus the cannibalism.)

• Same cocoa note as Peppermint Cocoa. I smell primarily sweet cocoa in this, and a bit of clove after the initial drying phase but not many other spices. Insanely strong sillage, and good longevity. Would not buy FS 2/5
• Wear while reading: Any book from the Chronicles of Ixia series, by Maria V. Snyder. “We’ll use Theobroma for the first lesson,” he said. The lumps triggered memories of my time in Ixia. Theobroma was the southern name for Criollo, a delicious sweet that had the unfortunate effect of opening a person’s mind to magical influences.”

• This is a pretty sharp and herbal blend and smells like HoG has used a lot of essential oils in this rather than fragrance oils, especially since it’s not as long-wearing as other HoG scents. On first application, the lavender, tea tree, and rosemary have quite a bitter, cooling, and herbal quality while the sweetgrass smells like clean hay. The aquatic notes morph on my skin into a clean laundry smell, which isn’t unpleasant but unexpected with the herbal notes. I wouldn’t describe this as a sweet fragrance. 3.5/5 Would consider buying FS as a bubbling soap/scrub but not perfume.
• Wear while reading: The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Green and fresh with a hint of freshly laundered clothing.

Layering accords

• This smells very similar to Milkmaid on me, minus the floral note. It’s actually quite powdery on my skin, and is definitely what was giving Milkmaid the ‘baby powder’ smell. I would consider it more of an interpretation of the idea of sweet cream rather than a true-to-nose representation. Medium sillage and longevity. Not bad per se, but not really what I expected from this scent, 2/5 would not buy FS.
• Wear while reading: A Month in the Country, by J. L. Carr. Feels like spending the summer recovering in a sleepy English countryside village.

• Astringent, sweet, and slightly citrusy almost bergamot note. On me, the drydown is very bitter with lingering sweetness (similar to a strong earl grey with the bergamot). I also get a strange plasticy hint to this scent though. I might wear this with an overly sweet gourmand to temper some of the ‘cloying’ sweetness in the blend. Low sillage and longevity. 2/5 would not buy FS.
• Wear while reading: Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Poor Alice never did end up getting a cup of tea at the Mad Hatter’s tea party!

• First impressions - Do any other 90’s babies remember Bonne Bell’s lip smacker in Vanilla Frosting? I smelled this and immediately was hit by a wave of nostalgia remembering this smell along with my butterfly clips, crunchy glittery gelled hair and jelly sandals. The drydown smells similar to SS’s Flowers Nocturnal vanilla blend. Low sillage and longevity. 3.5/5 would consider buying FS pumpkin butter.
• Wear while reading: The American Girl series, by Valerie Tripp. Serious 90’s childhood nostalgia vibes.

“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”

I'm still trying to untangle most of this...so forgive me for going back and forth on some of these 'issues'...it is INTENTIONALLY OBFUSCATED; BUT I WILL EVENTUALLY FIGURE IT OUT!!

The ongoing war against women; The 'churches' (Apollyon; man posing as a lover in place of the Feminine) torture and destruction of the Indo-European people

? I have never denied Jesus...I have been completely and utterly freaked out by what I understood, but I haven't denied him...it is the 10 Kings or the X or the YHVH that worries me...I guess I don't understand; all the good that you mention is completely encompassed, without diminishing any of the evil at all, by the statement:
Isa 45:7

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

I feel like Alice running because there is a MONSTER, here in the cube with me, and sometimes it thrashes and tortures humanity/me and other times it is good to humanity/me...but I never know which way it will see me or what it wants to do now...it is the ultimate 'bad boyfreind'...just because he buys me roses one day, doesn't mean I feel like kissing and making up with him the next...I am still too bruised up and beaten to consider kissing anyone.
And he can tell me it is 'my fault' because of the 'original sin' all he wants...but he never steps up to do anything about it either...so it is similar to how I feel about the 'angels'...they sit and observe and they don't DO ANYTHING about the evil in our world...so what 'good' are they? To me they are the direct equivalent of EVIL because they know good and do nothing to prevent EVIL...ergo...they are EVIL as hell...
In the end, they are just like some fat sweaty slob who likes to watch snuff porn on TV...he gets off because he doesn't have to do anything to prevent it and he likes watching it, loves watching while people get raped and then suffer and die...would you argue that he is 'moral' or 'righteous' too? I mean he is just watching too, not actually doing the murder himself...you know, for kicks...because he could do something as simple as 'turn off the porn' but he doesn't because honestly, he just doesn't care that much...and watching while people die is fun for him.

Subversion and destruction of a people; Know your KEEPER; the Babylonian Whore of Destruction; Apollyon the Destroyer (the Adversary/Enemy of Women; those who uphold the Culture of the people)

S A T O R (SoweCulture)
A R E P O (Unrest A REPO)
T E N E T (PossessoInheritoOccupy)
O P E R A (EntertainMent; transducer of the mind)
R O T A S (Wheel; Roth <---yes, as in Rothschild, but I bet you all think this is about 'MonEye' the god of MonoTheism)

So, look at the image of the Sator Square; just reading it flat out;

To possess the Earth in every direction, subvert or transduce the mind and sow unrest (destruction) in the people

Transduce

1924, "device which converts energy from one form to another," from Latin transducere/traducere "lead across, transfer, carry over," from trans "across, beyond" (see trans-) + ducere "to lead," from PIE root *deuk- "to lead."

Morals

mid-14c., "pertaining to character or temperament" (good or bad), from Old French moral (14c.) and directly from Latin moralis "proper behavior of a person in society," literally "pertaining to manners," coined by Cicero ("De Fato," II.i) to translate Greek ethikos (see ethics) from Latin mos (genitive moris) "one's disposition," in plural, "mores, customs, manners, morals," a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps sharing a PIE root with English mood (n.1).

Dogma

dogma (n.) c. 1600 (in plural dogmata), from Latin dogma "philosophical tenet," from Greek dogma (genitive dogmatos) "opinion, tenet," literally "that which one thinks is true," from dokein "to seem good, think" (from PIE root *dek- "to take, accept"). Treated in 17c.-18c. as a Greek word in English.

Culture

mid-15c., "the tilling of land," from Middle French culture and directly from Latin cultura "a cultivating, agriculture," figuratively "care, culture, an honoring," from past participle stem of colere "to tend, guard; to till, cultivate" (see colony). The figurative sense of "cultivation through education" is first attested c. 1500. Meaning "the intellectual side of civilization" is from 1805; that of "collective customs and achievements of a people" is from 1867.

For without culture or holiness, which are always the gift of a very few, a man may renounce wealth or any other external thing, but he cannot renounce hatred, envy, jealousy, revenge. Culture is the sanctity of the intellect. [William Butler Yeats]

Wheel Shield (Rothschild)

1731, from Medieval Latin rotarius "pertaining to wheels," from Latin rota "a wheel, a potter's wheel; wheel for torture," from PIE root *ret- "to run, to turn, to roll" (source also of Sanskrit rathah "car, chariot;" Avestan ratho; Lithuanian ratas "wheel," ritu "I roll;" Old High German rad, German Rad, Dutch rad, Old Frisian reth, Old Saxon rath, Old Irish roth, Welsh rhod "carriage wheel"). The international service club (founded by Paul P. Harris in Chicago in 1905) so called from the practice of clubs entertaining in rotation. Hence Rotarian (1911).

Opera

"a drama sung" [Klein], 1640s, from Italian opera, literally "a work, labor, composition," from Latin opera "work, effort" (Latin plural regarded as feminine singular), secondary (abstract) noun from operari "to work," from opus (genitive operis) "a work" (from PIE root *op- "to work, produce in abundance"). Explained in "Elson's Music Dictionary" as, "a form of musical composition evolved shortly before 1600, by some enthusiastic Florentine amateurs who sought to bring back the Greek plays to the modern stage." No good opera plot can be sensible. ... People do not sing when they are feeling sensible. [W.H. Auden, 1961] As a branch of dramatic art, it is attested from 1759. First record of opera glass "small binoculars for use at the theater" is from 1738. Soap opera is first recorded 1939, as a disparaging reference to daytime radio dramas sponsored by soap manufacturers.

Know your target

ALRIGHT enough for now...heading out the door to run errands