Worth stocking up? CO Bigelow's No. 122 Cold and Flu Soak Herbal Formula: "Breathe easy with our herbal formula cold and flu soak. We blend pure revitalizing essential oils, including eucalyptus and peppermint, with immune-supporting extracts of willow bark, echinacea and ginger to create a comforting therapeutic soak. This cure-all soothes the discomfort associated with body aches, pains and congested nasal passages." 195 ml for $18.
Ed Hardy will launch the Hearts & Daggers duo in early 2010:
Ed Hardy Hearts & Daggers for Women (shown above left) features blood orange, violet leaf, apple, mango, apple blossoms, pink jasmine, cashmere musk, amber, benzoin and blond wood…
CO Bigelow has launched three new fragrances, Winter Lemon, Ginger Mentha and Elixir White:
Winter Lemon (above left) ~ “C.O. Bigelow’s delightful new winter fragrance combines sparkling lemon notes, velvety winter fig…
Citrus scents can be such cheerful, uncomplicated fragrances, and they can brighten up a gloomy day with their connotations of sunshine, cleanliness, and good health. I particularly like to layer citrus-fragranced shower gels and lotions under my favorite summer perfumes, to boost their bright-and-crisp qualities.
However, the available range of lemon-, lime-, and orange-scented products is occasionally disappointing — especially at the higher end of the price spectrum, for some reason. One example is Strange Invisible Perfumes Wild Orange Invisible Body Lotion. I’m assuming it’s intended to be layered under Strange Invisible Perfumes’ citrus-accented perfume oils, such as L’Invisible or Fair Verona. It’s a nice enough medium-weight lotion, packaged in a bottle that suggests a fancy hair mousse. It’s all-natural, with aloe vera and olive oil for moisture. It smells like, well, sweet orange oil. But for this price, I was expecting to be amazed, and I just wasn’t. ($40 for 8 fl. oz.; for buying information see the listing for Strange Invisible Perfumes under Perfume Houses.)
NARS is best known as a creator of trend-setting color cosmetics, so I was surprised to learn that the company also sells a line of body products. Its Ginger Grapefruit Body Lotion promises a fragrance that “fuses the vibrant essence of grapefruit and cassis with the romantic floral touches of sweet peony and violet flower.” This sounds like something I’d love…
French lingerie line Chantal Thomass will launch Osez-moi! (shown above left), a new fragrance “reserved for very sexy women”, this coming May.
Osez-moi! features notes of frangipani, rose, chamomile, peony and vanilla…