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post #361 of 785
1/23/13 at 5:19am
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Originally Posted by SteelerOpera View Post

I got my samples today from Slumberhouse and was so excited and pleasantly surprised by Josh's generosity as I opened the package. I had heard so much about Norne and had just enough time to spray a bit and walk out the door for work. I loved how dense and dank it was and thought it was perfect for the ultra cold day we were having. With that I was a bit worried about wearing such a mystical fragrance to commingle with department store frags, but I had it under my sleeve.


Although I love Norne I was a bit surprised that I didn't get more longevity out of it. I could barely sense it on my 4 hours later. Not a bad thing at all, but with how thick this frag was and some of the other comments I read I thought it might last a week or 2. It wasn't a full wearing so I'm confident the longevity will be different next time.

I get home and next try Pear and Olive, what a neat one this is and I am getting some nice longevity and projection.

Looking forward to trying the others!

I had the same experience with my Norne sample. I mentioned it to Josh and he though it was weird and decided to wear it for himself, and sure enough, he got the 24 hour longevity everyone else gets. It's weird because Sova and many of the others last for 24+ hours on my skin, but for some reason Norne doesn't. It's not a dealbreaker for me, but it's a little saddening.
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post #362 of 785
1/23/13 at 10:18am
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Originally Posted by OctaVariuM View Post

I had the same experience with my Norne sample. I mentioned it to Josh and he though it was weird and decided to wear it for himself, and sure enough, he got the 24 hour longevity everyone else gets. It's weird because Sova and many of the others last for 24+ hours on my skin, but for some reason Norne doesn't. It's not a dealbreaker for me, but it's a little saddening.

Weird...I get insane longevity from Norne. It will last 24+ hours easily on me. I wore it yesterday and I was in a hurry and it sprayed only about half a spray and it lasted all day and all night. It amazes me how long lasting it is.
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post #363 of 785
1/23/13 at 10:30am
I also have no longevity issue with Norne. In fact, I can still smell it after shower.
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post #364 of 785
1/23/13 at 12:16pm
Got my first bottle of slumerhouse today.

Jeke

Great juice.

I'm actually testing P+O. It's not bad...I am getting a weird bo smell from it. Will sample a few times.
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post #365 of 785
1/23/13 at 1:32pm
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Originally Posted by Oupavoc View Post

Got my first bottle of slumerhouse today.

Jeke

Great juice.


I'm actually testing P+O. It's not bad...I am getting a weird bo smell from it. Will sample a few times.

Jeke was my first Slumberhouse, too. It's a slippery slope, my friend. Now I also have Baque, Grev, Norne, Sova and Vikt! :-)
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post #366 of 785
1/23/13 at 3:06pm
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Originally Posted by OctaVariuM View Post

I've been talking back and forth with Josh for weeks, and he was nice enough to allow me to use a $100 gift card to buy Sova. There were TONS of problems getting it to work, and in the end he gave me a slightly discounted price in order to get things to work. He really is a top-notch guy.

And I agree with Kybid. I've sampled the main 5 fragrances plus Sova and P+O the last few weeks, and while I didn't love them all (though I did really like Rume, odd that others don't), I really appreciate what he is doing. To be honest, I'd be proud to have any of them in my collection. He is a guy I will continue to support, especially now that he is exploring lighter, "easier to wear" fragrances for Spring.

Hmm. It sounds like somebody has some inside scoop here. What new lighter spring fragrances???
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post #367 of 785
1/23/13 at 3:43pm
Update on the P+O....the dry down is beautiful. I need to test this again. I may need to get myself a bottle
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post #368 of 785
1/23/13 at 6:38pm
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Originally Posted by CompassRose View Post

I placed an order for a full bottle of Sova a couple weeks ago (after agonising long and hard between Sova and Jeke).

I haven't sampled the whole line, but I have sampled both of those myself - and I am also torn between them. They're a bit alike, in texture...they both have that old, forest, sweet spice thing going on. I am not really a fan of strong tobacco notes, but the one in Jeke is really worn down and...warm. I think you made the right choice though, the weeks a month ago when I wore Sova were quite wonderful. There really is not another scent like it, except of course, Jeke.

I'm wearing Jeke right now, second night in a row that it's been my 'going to bed' scent. Makes the sheets and my night shirt smell wonderful!
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post #369 of 785
1/23/13 at 7:48pm
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Originally Posted by Tonyprince View Post

Hmm. It sounds like somebody has some inside scoop here. What new lighter spring fragrances???

I do have a little information, but I'm not sure if I should really share what he said in a personal email. He is experimenting with some lighter fragrances, and is going to mix up a batch of one specific one in a few weeks to see how it works out. There is one specific note he is exploring a lot, but I'm not sure if it will be included.
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post #370 of 785
1/23/13 at 8:08pm
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Originally Posted by OctaVariuM View Post

I do have a little information, but I'm not sure if I should really share what he said in a personal email. He is experimenting with some lighter fragrances, and is going to mix up a batch of one specific one in a few weeks to see how it works out. There is one specific note he is exploring a lot, but I'm not sure if it will be included.

Cool!
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post #371 of 785
1/23/13 at 8:14pm
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Originally Posted by OctaVariuM View Post

I had the same experience with my Norne sample. I mentioned it to Josh and he though it was weird and decided to wear it for himself, and sure enough, he got the 24 hour longevity everyone else gets. It's weird because Sova and many of the others last for 24+ hours on my skin, but for some reason Norne doesn't. It's not a dealbreaker for me, but it's a little saddening.

Yes, this is what Norne is like for me too. It's very quiet and retiring on me, as well. The others aren't projection monsters waving out feet in all directions when I wear them, but they have an intensity about them, you know, and I never forget I have them on. Norne, though, practically disappears into my skin even when it's fresh. "Oh, maybe you recently brushed against a pine tree. Perhaps."

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Originally Posted by mikeperez23 View Post

I haven't sampled the whole line, but I have sampled both of those myself - and I am also torn between them. They're a bit alike, in texture...they both have that old, forest, sweet spice thing going on. I am not really a fan of strong tobacco notes, but the one in Jeke is really worn down and...warm. I think you made the right choice though, the weeks a month ago when I wore Sova were quite wonderful. There really is not another scent like it, except of course, Jeke.

I'm wearing Jeke right now, second night in a row that it's been my 'going to bed' scent. Makes the sheets and my night shirt smell wonderful!

Yes -- I totally felt they were in the same family! The only reason I went with Sova instead of Jeke in the crunch is that at the very end of the day, Jeke turns into something very reminiscent of Old Spice on me. I'm not averse to Old Spice at all, but it's disconcerting, as Old Spice smells like my dad.

I still haven't got my package. According to tracking, it left Oregon on January 9, so I'm sure hoping it didn't run into a Customs officer all bursting with New Year's zeal.
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post #372 of 785
1/24/13 at 6:38am
Norne was really hard for me to wear. On to Pear + Olive.

- - - Updated - - -

Pear and Olive was a much easier fragrance to wear than Norne. I'll have to give it another wearing to grasp it a little more, but it was nice. Both scents lasted and projected very well.
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post #373 of 785
1/25/13 at 9:59pm
I found Jeke a little hard to wear on first try. I wish Norne lasted longer on me.

QUESTION on that subject, does anyone think that these frags might have to be shaken up a bit? The reason I ask is because I sprayed this on a friend of mine at work and it came out really green on her skin. This was after my sample was tossled around in my coat and got shook up a bit before I sprayed it. I am going to shake my sample up next time I wear it and see if the longevity is a bit better. Any thoughts?
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post #374 of 785
1/26/13 at 7:31am
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Originally Posted by Tonyprince View Post

Jeke was my first Slumberhouse, too. It's a slippery slope, my friend. Now I also have Baque, Grev, Norne, Sova and Vikt! :-)

Tony, you must be the other person who owns Grev
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post #375 of 785
1/26/13 at 8:13am
I really liked Grev as an idea, but whatever bitter thing it shares with Kere makes my head feel funny.

My bottle of Sova finally arrived! I'm wondering if SteelerOpera has something on the shaking, because I found my sample of Sova got more and more smoky as I used it; the new bottle has just the hint of smoke with honeyed apricots that I first loved. (It also has a new wisp of something buttery floating around it. I caught a whiff of what I thought was buttered caramel popcorn while I was wearing a spray from the bottle out for the first time (not unlikely; I work in an office where people do microwave those popcorn packages now and again) and then realised it was me.)

Tragically, of the three samples Josh sent me, one was the uncomfortable Kere. One was Baque, though. Wearing it now. I like it. It's another one in the Slumberhouse Dark Brown Honeyed Liquors family, but although the first spray has an aura very much of aged single malt scotch about it (Lagavulin, or another peaty one) it's less smoky than either Jeke or Sova once it sits, and the sweetness seems a bit drier to me. It also includes a touch of what I'm pretty sure is camphor, which is a nice departure.
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post #376 of 785
1/26/13 at 8:24am
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Originally Posted by Brian Chambers View Post

Tony, you must be the other person who owns Grev

Yep, we're a small club from what I understand. :-)
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post #377 of 785
1/26/13 at 8:24am
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Originally Posted by Brian Chambers View Post

Tony, you must be the other person who owns Grev

Yep, we're a small club from what I understand. :-)
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post #378 of 785
1/31/13 at 5:34am
Holy cow. I just got my samples in and I feel like I need to scrub my apartment down after testing them nearly 24 hours ago. My place is covered in the smell of Rume and Grev - not a pleasant thing in my opinion (and I've trashed my testing strips and stored the samples). Sova was the only wearable one in the 7 samples (with Pear + Olive being solid for a woman, I think) in my opinion. I like Norne as a smell but it's akin to wearing the smell you get when you walk into a Jo-Ann Fabric or Michael's around Christmas time here in the US. Not sure that's what I ever want other people smelling on me. Grev gave me a headache (I tried wearing it yesterday evening) with my going really light on the trigger. The clove note is insanely potent. Vikt and Jeke just were too overbearingly strong for my nose.

I appreciate what the house is trying to do, but this stuff is for serious fragheads who are cool with wearing super daring scents or just want to appreciate the juice in their home. That said, I'm happy indie perfume houses exist and I'll continue to try them as they come about.
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post #379 of 785
1/31/13 at 6:13am
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Originally Posted by Bostonguy View Post

Holy cow. I just got my samples in and I feel like I need to scrub my apartment down after testing them nearly 24 hours ago. My place is covered in the smell of Rume and Grev - not a pleasant thing in my opinion (and I've trashed my testing strips and stored the samples). Sova was the only wearable one in the 7 samples (with Pear + Olive being solid for a woman, I think) in my opinion. I like Norne as a smell but it's akin to wearing the smell you get when you walk into a Jo-Ann Fabric or Michael's around Christmas time here in the US. Not sure that's what I ever want other people smelling on me. Grev gave me a headache (I tried wearing it yesterday evening) with my going really light on the trigger. The clove note is insanely potent. Vikt and Jeke just were too overbearingly strong for my nose.

I appreciate what the house is trying to do, but this stuff is for serious fragheads who are cool with wearing super daring scents or just want to appreciate the juice in their home. That said, I'm happy indie perfume houses exist and I'll continue to try them as they come about.

Yeah, I'd say Slumberhouse takes some time to appreciate. Wear each one a few times, take note of the subtle nuances, and then consider what you've smelled. It's pretty amazing, and some of these fragrances are extremely unique and indeed daring.
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post #380 of 785
1/31/13 at 6:36am
Funny how people are different, isn't it? For me, most of the Slumberhouse scents aren't daring in the least; I find them very comfortable, and I by no means qualify as a "serious fraghead" either.

On the other hand, I had a similar experience to Bostonguy... with the two Amouage samples I ordered last month. Gah. Ack. Yeurgh! Nearly killed me. I had to cart the blotters out with the quickness to the outdoor trash can.
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post #381 of 785
1/31/13 at 6:42am
My personal favourite is Vikt - together with Leather Oud, the best oud base fragrance for me. Smells like it contains real, natural oud (or how I imagine that to smell).
Norne is very good after the overbearing first 30 minutes or so.
Grev is interesting but takes getting used to.
With the rest, I have not enough experience to state an opinion at this point.
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post #382 of 785
1/31/13 at 6:43am
My personal favourite is Vikt - together with Leather Oud, the best oud base fragrance for me. Smells like it contains real, natural oud (or how I imagine that to smell).
Norne is very good after the overbearing first 30 minutes or so.
Grev is interesting but takes getting used to.
With the rest, I have not enough experience to state an opinion at this point.
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post #383 of 785
1/31/13 at 6:55am
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Originally Posted by Bostonguy View Post

Holy cow. I just got my samples in and I feel like I need to scrub my apartment down after testing them nearly 24 hours ago. My place is covered in the smell of Rume and Grev - not a pleasant thing in my opinion (and I've trashed my testing strips and stored the samples). Sova was the only wearable one in the 7 samples (with Pear + Olive being solid for a woman, I think) in my opinion. I like Norne as a smell but it's akin to wearing the smell you get when you walk into a Jo-Ann Fabric or Michael's around Christmas time here in the US. Not sure that's what I ever want other people smelling on me. Grev gave me a headache (I tried wearing it yesterday evening) with my going really light on the trigger. The clove note is insanely potent. Vikt and Jeke just were too overbearingly strong for my nose.

I appreciate what the house is trying to do, but this stuff is for serious fragheads who are cool with wearing super daring scents or just want to appreciate the juice in their home. That said, I'm happy indie perfume houses exist and I'll continue to try them as they come about.


Your reaction is by no means unusual, I feel the same as you about the line in general. Different strokes etc.
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post #384 of 785
1/31/13 at 8:09am
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Originally Posted by Bostonguy View Post

Holy cow. I just got my samples in and I feel like I need to scrub my apartment down after testing them nearly 24 hours ago. My place is covered in the smell of Rume and Grev - not a pleasant thing in my opinion (and I've trashed my testing strips and stored the samples). Sova was the only wearable one in the 7 samples (with Pear + Olive being solid for a woman, I think) in my opinion. I like Norne as a smell but it's akin to wearing the smell you get when you walk into a Jo-Ann Fabric or Michael's around Christmas time here in the US. Not sure that's what I ever want other people smelling on me. Grev gave me a headache (I tried wearing it yesterday evening) with my going really light on the trigger. The clove note is insanely potent. Vikt and Jeke just were too overbearingly strong for my nose.

I appreciate what the house is trying to do, but this stuff is for serious fragheads who are cool with wearing super daring scents or just want to appreciate the juice in their home. That said, I'm happy indie perfume houses exist and I'll continue to try them as they come about.

I would encourage you to try P+O. It is thoroughly unisex. In fact, the drydown is like a beautiful caramelized cognac with some very intricate herbaceous and floral underpinnings. It works superbly as a masculine.

I think the rest of your assessment was arrived at fairly. I love this line, but I am definitely what you call "a serious fraghead," and I love to treat my nose to things that it hasn't known before.

My initial reaction to Norne was the same as yours. Fir smells have been appropriated my air fresheners and Christmas crap, and I thought I didn't want to smell like that. Then I thought about it and realized it's kind of genius to wrest those beautiful aromas back from their usurpers and make a deep, elegant fragrance from them. It has a little "fuck you" in it, which I love. Norne is now one of my favorites from this line.
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post #385 of 785
1/31/13 at 8:30am
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Originally Posted by Brian Chambers View Post

I would encourage you to try P+O. It is thoroughly unisex. In fact, the drydown is like a beautiful caramelized cognac with some very intricate herbaceous and floral underpinnings. It works superbly as a masculine.

I think the rest of your assessment was arrived at fairly. I love this line, but I am definitely what you call "a serious fraghead," and I love to treat my nose to things that it hasn't known before.

My initial reaction to Norne was the same as yours. Fir smells have been appropriated my air fresheners and Christmas crap, and I thought I didn't want to smell like that. Then I thought about it and realized it's kind of genius to wrest those beautiful aromas back from their usurpers and make a deep, elegant fragrance from them. It has a little "fuck you" in it, which I love. Norne is now one of my favorites from this line.

To be fair, Norne is probably my favorite scent from the line based on my initial impressions. I just don't know when/where I'd wear it. It evokes a misty forest really well, so I could see putting it on while reading on a cold winter morning or something.

I'd say I'm a serious fragrance guy but I need utility out of my scents. I will never open Rume or Grev again, that's for sure. I'll ship them off to someone to try.
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post #386 of 785
2/15/13 at 9:21am
Has anybody else noticed the removal of Grev, Rume, and Vikt from Josh's website?
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post #387 of 785
2/15/13 at 9:39am
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Originally Posted by Tonyprince View Post

Has anybody else noticed the removal of Grev, Rume, and Vikt from Josh's website?

Yeah, that's pretty strange. The only listed fragrances are now Norne and Jeke in the original line, as well as Pear + Olive and Sova. Very interesting, I wonder what's going on over there...
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post #388 of 785
2/15/13 at 9:41am
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Originally Posted by hobbes22 View Post

Yeah, that's pretty strange. The only listed fragrances are now Norne and Jeke in the original line, as well as Pear + Olive and Sova. Very interesting, I wonder what's going on over there...

I'm pretty sure I know :P. Just be on the lookout.
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post #389 of 785
2/15/13 at 9:45am
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Originally Posted by OctaVariuM View Post

I'm pretty sure I know :P. Just be on the lookout.

Now aren't you the coy one?
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post #390 of 785
2/15/13 at 10:56am
So according to Slumberhouse's twitter feed, Grev, Rume and Vikt have been discontinued.

There will also be a price increase (don't know how much, but I think it will still be worth the price if you love their scents, as I do).

Also, I noticed that the one picture they have on the twitter feed has "Ore" and "Kere" in engraved bottles, which probably means that these unavailable fragrances have been retooled and will be re-released at the somewhat higher price.
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post #391 of 785
2/15/13 at 12:16pm
Parfum1 has also been removed from the Stocklists...leaving Indiescents as the sole web purveyor for now, other than Josh, of course!
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post #392 of 785
2/15/13 at 12:54pm
You guys don't miss anything
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post #393 of 785
2/15/13 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by Fhaoilgeal View Post

Parfum1 has also been removed from the Stocklists...leaving Indiescents as the sole web purveyor for now, other than Josh, of course!

Parfum1 also has all of the remaining bottles of the discontinued fragrances.
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post #394 of 785
2/15/13 at 6:17pm
I got my 7 piece sampler set from him. It came super fast and in a nice velvet pouch.


Unfortunately I don't like any of them. I like pear and olive as maybe a room scent spray, but I wouldn't want to smell like it. My fiancé liked Grev. She says it smells fresh. I offered to buy her a bottle, but she declined, saying that she wouldn't want to actually smell like it.

The rest I didn't like whatsoever. In fact, there's one that reminded me of spoiled cabbage. I'll have to look at my notes for the name.

I was pretty disappointed with the scents. But wouldn't mind trying some more stuff in the future!
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post #395 of 785
2/15/13 at 7:09pm
For those who missed it:

http://slumberhou.us2.list-manage.co...e&e=c07a1fe970
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post #396 of 785
2/15/13 at 7:53pm
^^^ Yep, there's the dope on the Slumberhouse shakeup.

While Josh's scents may be unconventional, considering his integrity and the sort of success he's has been having, along with the admirable approach he takes with all his customers, I sure can't fault the guy for wanting to put some groceries on the table.
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post #397 of 785
2/15/13 at 8:29pm
I actually really appreciate the way he is doing this price increase.

Instead of jacking up the price of a 50ml bottle to 150 (or more), he is just increasing the price / ml but lowering the amount of ml in a bottle, which means, for example, that those looking to buy Pear + Olive as a scent will actually pay less for a bottle ($125 vs $150). This amounts, in price per bottle, to a rather modest, $10 increase in most cases, and to a decrease for Pear + Olive. Classy move.

I don't know about the rest of you, but for scents as rich as these, 30ml will probably last me a LONG time... Also he is making them all extraits, and so upping the quality in the process!

I just ordered Jeke a couple days ago and wonder if I got the "new" reformulation (extrait) or the older one. I sure would like to try the more concentrated versions (and actually by the look of the rich, almost black juice, I think he might have even given me the extrait)!

The only thing I am disappointed by is that I thought he was going to re-release Ore (which I have been looking to get a hold of since I tried a sample), but so far, no news on that front. Oh well!
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post #398 of 785
2/15/13 at 8:54pm
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Originally Posted by gtsb View Post

So according to Slumberhouse's twitter feed, Grev, Rume and Vikt have been discontinued.

There will also be a price increase (don't know how much, but I think it will still be worth the price if you love their scents, as I do).

Also, I noticed that the one picture they have on the twitter feed has "Ore" and "Kere" in engraved bottles, which probably means that these unavailable fragrances have been retooled and will be re-released at the somewhat higher price.

Personally, I'm al little disappointed by this. A few days ago Norne was 50ml for $115, now it's 30ml for $125 ? I don't mind small price increases for the same quantity, but a price increase for less quantity ? Hmmmm.......

Bad move Josh !!
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post #399 of 785
2/15/13 at 9:06pm
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Originally Posted by gtsb View Post

The only thing I am disappointed by is that I thought he was going to re-release Ore (which I have been looking to get a hold of since I tried a sample), but so far, no news on that front. Oh well!


He mentions we keep "an eye on the ltd. page" in his most recent update. So if you're interested in Ore (as am I), try doing that.


BTW, what do you guys think of all the bottles now containing those little marbles? Personally, I'm not crazy about the idea and think the novelty will wear off eventually. But of course that doesn't change my opinion on this exceptional house.

I'm thinking of placing an order for SOVA very soon.
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post #400 of 785
2/15/13 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by Buysblind View Post

BTW, what do you guys think of all the bottles now containing those little marbles?

I don't like the marbles personally either. I know that technically they shouldn't effect the quality of the juice, but it's just weird to have them rattling around in the bottle. I wonder if we couldn't buy a 50 ml bottle without the marbles for the same price per ml.
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post #401 of 785
2/15/13 at 10:18pm
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Originally Posted by Paul P View Post

Personally, I'm al little disappointed by this. A few days ago Norne was 50ml for $115, now it's 30ml for $125 ? I don't mind small price increases for the same quantity, but a price increase for less quantity ? Hmmmm.......

Bad move Josh !!

He changed the strength to extrait though, so while you are getting less juice, it should last you longer. I'm okay with the move. I wrote out a long email and sent it to him, but the gist of it is that I hope he gets to make more great stuff for us, and that, if you look at it like Nassomato, you still get 30mL for something like $40 less than you do from them, and this is a guy using super high quality ingredients and doing it all himself.

In short, I'd much rather give a little more money to Josh than I would buy some other fragrance if I know I like his.
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post #402 of 785
2/15/13 at 10:31pm
Yeah, the way I look at it, a perfume (or anything really) is worth what you will pay for it... these prices are personally not dealbreakers for me, though I could understand how they could be for some people. I find these prices still reasonable for extraits personally--like octavarium says, compare these extraits to those from other houses. And I do think that the increased prices will enable him to source some interesting materials and put together some new stuff.
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post #403 of 785
2/16/13 at 4:05am
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Originally Posted by gtsb View Post

I don't like the marbles personally either. I know that technically they shouldn't effect the quality of the juice, but it's just weird to have them rattling around in the bottle. I wonder if we couldn't buy a 50 ml bottle without the marbles for the same price per ml.

They don't rattle around. They stay perfectly quiet (and still, I think, at least I've never seen them move). I like the way they look and I also appreciate that I can continue to buy bottles that will look nice with the ones I already have.

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Originally Posted by Paul P View Post

Personally, I'm al little disappointed by this. A few days ago Norne was 50ml for $115, now it's 30ml for $125 ? I don't mind small price increases for the same quantity, but a price increase for less quantity ? Hmmmm.......

Bad move Josh !!

I don't get this. I'm sure he'd sell you a 50ml bottle at the same price per ml if you feel strongly about having the larger quantity. I appreciate that he's trying to keep the price point accessible.
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post #404 of 785
2/16/13 at 7:20am
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They don't rattle around. They stay perfectly quiet (and still, I think, at least I've never seen them move).

Yeah I was being totally nitpicky. The only thing is that I have to travel back and forth a lot since my wife lives separately from me, so when I took Sova once on the plane in a ziploc bag, it was rattling in my backpack--but under normal conditions, if it were just staying put where it is, you are right, the marbles are not self-agitating or anything like that.

Honestly it doesn't really matter, the art is what counts and the stuff inside is amazing.
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post #405 of 785
2/16/13 at 8:30am
So my guess is that hes still using the same 50ml bottle but hes adding marbles and only 30ml content inside? My bottle of Jeke is in the same bottle design without the marbles!

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post #406 of 785
2/16/13 at 8:32am
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Originally Posted by Oupavoc View Post

So my guess is that hes still using the same 50ml bottle but hes adding marbles and only 30ml content inside? My bottle of Jeke is in the same bottle design without the marbles!


Correct. He mentions that in the blog post.

Oh, and by the way, I think when he starts shipping in a week or so I'm going to finally buy Norne. It's now extrait strength, and he said he's going to do something very special for me (it's a secret).
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post #407 of 785
2/16/13 at 8:51am
Here's a little bottle porn. I wasn't going to post this, but I think it lends some support to keeping the same bottle for the new 30ml offerings. Esp. for those of you who are kind of OCD about their collection.

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post #408 of 785
2/16/13 at 8:54am
I cannot imagine a stronger Sova...and to be honest Slumberhouse never lacked in strength for me, but I can always appreciate a stronger formula, especially with my skin.

I'll have to wait until another new release before I purchase one of these new bottles though...I can't just have one along with my others of the old style. I've been wanting Norne for a while though.

I really think this was a smart move and I can completely understand his intentions from his post. He definitely deserves to make money on his creations.
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post #409 of 785
2/16/13 at 9:08am
I don't think Sova is getting stronger. It's already sold in the 30ml size.
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post #410 of 785
2/16/13 at 9:09am
Rume is totally gone from both Parfum1 and Indiescents. Parfum1 still has some Vikt and small bottles of Grev. Indiescents still has some 50 ml bottles of Grev.
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post #411 of 785
2/16/13 at 9:11am
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Here's a little bottle porn. I wasn't going to post this, but I think it lends some support to keeping the same bottle for the new 30ml offerings. Esp. for those of you who are kind of OCD about their collection.



Nice pic!
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post #412 of 785
2/16/13 at 9:14am
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I don't think Sova is getting stronger. It's already sold in the 30ml size.

well...

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These are all being concentrated slightly stronger than before, moving all of my releases from esprit de parfum to true parfum extrait. Norne and Sova were already quite strong, but both are even stronger. You’ll notice Jeke is now almost pitch black like Norne.

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post #413 of 785
2/16/13 at 9:52am
I stand corrected.
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post #414 of 785
2/16/13 at 10:25am
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I stand corrected.

Yeah, I have the newest, stronger version and it is indeed stronger. I get 24+ hours easily.
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post #415 of 785
2/16/13 at 10:35am
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Thanks for the picture, it is beautiful indeed!
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post #416 of 785
2/16/13 at 10:45am
Great pic Brian...when it comes to bottle design from a particular house...I don't like it when each bottle is different. Here where my ocd kicks in and I'm pleased he's keeping the same bottles
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post #417 of 785
2/16/13 at 1:42pm
Don't mind the price increase, don't mind eliminating some of the less popular options and I don't even mind the marbles...

BUT

Eliminating bottle caps?!?!? I'm not really OCD or anything, but why would Josh do that, I associate bottles without caps to be testers. I know Josh thinks its a waste to have bottle caps, but its a pretty big deal to me and I assume to others as well who like the uniform look of the entire line when put next to each other. Bottles without caps just look weird to me.
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post #418 of 785
2/16/13 at 2:20pm
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Don't mind the price increase, don't mind eliminating some of the less popular options and I don't even mind the marbles...

BUT

Eliminating bottle caps?!?!? I'm not really OCD or anything, but why would Josh do that, I associate bottles without caps to be testers. I know Josh thinks its a waste to have bottle caps, but its a pretty big deal to me and I assume to others as well who like the uniform look of the entire line when put next to each other. Bottles without caps just look weird to me.

I totally agree with your statement and I hope he changes his mind.
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post #419 of 785
2/16/13 at 2:31pm
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Don't mind the price increase, don't mind eliminating some of the less popular options and I don't even mind the marbles...

BUT

Eliminating bottle caps?!?!? I'm not really OCD or anything, but why would Josh do that, I associate bottles without caps to be testers. I know Josh thinks its a waste to have bottle caps, but its a pretty big deal to me and I assume to others as well who like the uniform look of the entire line when put next to each other. Bottles without caps just look weird to me.

From what I know, it's because the new sprayers don't have caps that come with them. He changed them so they are much better apparently.
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post #420 of 785
2/18/13 at 6:29pm
I tested Vikt this weekend. I loved it so much, I wore it ALL DAY yesterday (at home, to the gym, after the gym/shower, etc). Those black liquorice top notes are addictive, part of the reason why I wanted to reapply it was to replay that wonderful dry/sweet anisic/dark texture. Love! Still, I can see how the scent sort of disintegrates an hour or so into wearing it into a more Slumberhouse-house-note that made it difficult for me to differentiate it in my mind from Sova, Jeke and Ore - the other Slumberhouse scents I've tested numerously.

I have a little bit left, perhaps for one more full wearing and I can't wait to wear it again.

To say the least it is sad that I'm hearing this one is officially discontinued.

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Brian, the second one (from the left) is Sova? The third one (from the left) which one is that? Norne?
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