The Body Shop has launched White Musk Breeze, a new musky floral flanker to their best-selling White Musk fragrance:
A fresh, sparkling take on our most popular fragrance…
The Body Shop White Musk Midnight Iris ~ perfume review
When The Body Shop launched White Musk Midnight Iris last month, I was intrigued — not because of the white musk, which isn’t of much interest to me, but because of the iris, which is. So eventually I made my way to The Body Shop to try it.
I’ll start with the verdict: I was pleasantly surprised, but largely because my expectations were not especially high. When Angie reviewed the original White Musk, she noted that “someone wanting a sweet, warm musk could do a lot worse”, but also that it was “compressed and dull” (although in all fairness I should point out that the latter comment was elicited by an on-skin comparison to Serge Lutens Clair de Musc, a considerably more expensive fragrance). That would be about my take on it too: nice enough, not terribly interesting…
There ain’t a cloud in sight
The advert for The Body Shop's new Love Etc fragrance.
The music is Lily Allen covering Electric Light Orchestra's Mr Blue Sky.
The Body Shop Love Etc ~ new perfume
The Body Shop has launched Love Etc, a new fragrance for women:
The perfume of love as a universal force…the first ever emotional-led fragrance at The Body Shop. A highly addictive, warm and radiant fragrance…
When life gives you lemons ~ scented body products
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…