Israel-based bath & beauty company Sabon has launched a new range of fragrances under the name Essence of Pleasure. There are six “daily perfumes” and two “boutique perfumes”. The daily perfumes are:
Aviv (shown above left) ~ “spring, the reawakening of life from a sleepy winter…”
One litmus test of a store’s success in New York City is the frequency with which its logo shopping bags are spotted on the street and on the subway. I’ve noticed quite a few Sabon bags being carried and reused for other purposes by my fellow commuters, so I decided it was time for me to revisit one of this company’s local boutiques. I’ve visited Sabon a few times before, but I usually left empty-handed. Some of the products and scents just didn’t appeal to me, and others bothered me slightly by looking too similar to items from other brands (Agraria, Côté Bastide, Lush…).
On my latest trip to a Sabon shop, however, I ended up purchasing a bottle of Patchouli Lavender Body Oil. I liked its antique-looking, ribbed-glass bottle, the idea of concentrated, oil-based moisture for my dry elbows and legs, and oh yes, the scent. I surprised myself by being drawn to this fragrance, because it doesn’t smell like lavender essential oil, vanilla absolute, or actual patchouli; in other words, it’s definitely a synthetic scent…