Same Product, Different Scent - The Body Shop - Smoky Poppy - Eau de Toilette
This is a lovely incense and red floral scent!
Fragrantica lists the notes as poppy (duh), floral notes (kind of a given), woody notes (incense), and spices (yeah).
Price: 4/5 ($19.95 for 30mL)
Effectiveness: 5/5
Strength: Medium
Longevity: Moderate
Time: Night Time
Season: Autumn and Winter
Showing posts with label incense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incense. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Monday, 7 August 2017
The Body Shop - White Musk - Smoky Rose - Eau de Toilette
This smells like musk, rose and a hint on incense.
It is a really nice floral smell without being overbearingly floral (a concept I don't personally understand).
Fragantica lists the notes as
Top Notes: bergamot (nope), pink pepper (maybe), black currant (nope)
Middle Notes: tobacco blossom (no idea), black rose (yes), immortelle (yes), orange blossom (nope)
Base Notes: olibanum (frankincense, yes), white musk (yes)
Price: 4/5 ($28.95 for 30mL)
Effectiveness: 5/5
Lifetime: Moderate
Strength: Medium
Time: Afternoon
Season: Autumn
This smells like musk, rose and a hint on incense.
It is a really nice floral smell without being overbearingly floral (a concept I don't personally understand).
Fragantica lists the notes as
Top Notes: bergamot (nope), pink pepper (maybe), black currant (nope)
Middle Notes: tobacco blossom (no idea), black rose (yes), immortelle (yes), orange blossom (nope)
Base Notes: olibanum (frankincense, yes), white musk (yes)
Price: 4/5 ($28.95 for 30mL)
Effectiveness: 5/5
Lifetime: Moderate
Strength: Medium
Time: Afternoon
Season: Autumn
Friday, 10 March 2017
Versace - Crystal Noir - Eau de Toilette
This is quite a unisex scent!
It is very heavy in green notes, with green florals, musk, incense, sap, some spice, and lavender.
This is a Autumn night in a well-cared for garden.
This is moths dancing around a street lamp as you move from one great party (for +25 year olds) to the next.
This is that spark of electricity in the air when the weather turns.
It is a strong scent as well.
Fragrantica lists the notes as
Top Notes: ginger, cardamon, pepper. (agree with all of these)
Middle Notes: orange blossom, peony, gardenia, coconut. (agree)
Base Notes: sandalwood, amber, musk. (agree, but it has smokiness)
Price: 1/5 ($140 for 90mL, I have a tiny sample bottle!)
Scent: 5/5
Season: Autumn
Strength: Strong
Time: Nighttime
This is quite a unisex scent!
It is very heavy in green notes, with green florals, musk, incense, sap, some spice, and lavender.
This is a Autumn night in a well-cared for garden.
This is moths dancing around a street lamp as you move from one great party (for +25 year olds) to the next.
This is that spark of electricity in the air when the weather turns.
It is a strong scent as well.
Fragrantica lists the notes as
Top Notes: ginger, cardamon, pepper. (agree with all of these)
Middle Notes: orange blossom, peony, gardenia, coconut. (agree)
Base Notes: sandalwood, amber, musk. (agree, but it has smokiness)
Price: 1/5 ($140 for 90mL, I have a tiny sample bottle!)
Scent: 5/5
Season: Autumn
Strength: Strong
Time: Nighttime
Labels:
autumn,
coconut,
Crystal Noir,
eau de toilette,
great,
great packaging,
green,
green florals,
incense,
lavender,
musk,
Night Time,
pricey,
sap,
spice,
strong scent,
Versace
Monday, 18 April 2016
Grace Cole - Boutique - Softening Hand & Nail Cream - Orchid, Amber & Incense
This smells so lovely! Incense is such a great addition to any scent combo.
As a hand cream, I found this to be too thin.
It is a lotion not a cream.
I ended up using it as a body lotion instead.
As a body lotion, the results were great, very hydrating.
A better hand lotion is the hand therapy from Crabtree & Evelyn.
Price: 5/5 ($5.99 for 500mL)
Scent: 5/5
Effectiveness: 1/5
This smells so lovely! Incense is such a great addition to any scent combo.
As a hand cream, I found this to be too thin.
It is a lotion not a cream.
I ended up using it as a body lotion instead.
As a body lotion, the results were great, very hydrating.
A better hand lotion is the hand therapy from Crabtree & Evelyn.
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| In a range of scents! |
Price: 5/5 ($5.99 for 500mL)
Scent: 5/5
Effectiveness: 1/5
Monday, 21 December 2015
Skin Physics - Dragon's Blood Sculpting Gel
Fun fact: my favourite incense scent is dragon's blood. I just love how it smells and it just instantly transports me to covens and Spellbox.
So I had to try this face cream.
It smelled faintly of dragon's blood and had a soft red tinge to it.
As for hydration, it was pretty good and it soaked in relatively quickly.
Unfortunately, it had a weird texture to it. Almost like it was rough, gritty on a chemical component level, and it upset my skin a little because of this.
"I just pissed off my skin" Solution:
"I'm sorry, face!" in a bottle :)
Price: 1/5 (~$50 for 50mL)
Scent: 4/5
Effectiveness: 2/5
Fun fact: my favourite incense scent is dragon's blood. I just love how it smells and it just instantly transports me to covens and Spellbox.
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| Even my mum likes dragon's blood incense, and she hates almost everything! |
So I had to try this face cream.
It smelled faintly of dragon's blood and had a soft red tinge to it.
As for hydration, it was pretty good and it soaked in relatively quickly.
Unfortunately, it had a weird texture to it. Almost like it was rough, gritty on a chemical component level, and it upset my skin a little because of this.
"I just pissed off my skin" Solution:
"I'm sorry, face!" in a bottle :)
Price: 1/5 (~$50 for 50mL)
Scent: 4/5
Effectiveness: 2/5
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
The Body Shop - Smoky Poppy - Body Butter
I love the body butters from The Body Shop... but this scent is the business!
It smells SOOOOOOOOOOOO good!
This was a limited edition scent (I think for Valentine's day) and is so sensual!
To me, I detect notes of incense and red flowers.
As far as formula, it contains shea butter, soybean oil, cocoa butter, sunflower oil, brazil nut oil and poppy flower extract.
I loved this so much, I went out and bought two more containers the day after the first one!
The usual Body Shop body butter rules apply as well; rich, thick, soaks in well, leaves your skin feeling great.
Price: 2/5 (rrp $23.95 for 200mL)
Scent: 5/5
Effectiveness: 5/5
I love the body butters from The Body Shop... but this scent is the business!
It smells SOOOOOOOOOOOO good!
This was a limited edition scent (I think for Valentine's day) and is so sensual!
To me, I detect notes of incense and red flowers.
As far as formula, it contains shea butter, soybean oil, cocoa butter, sunflower oil, brazil nut oil and poppy flower extract.
I loved this so much, I went out and bought two more containers the day after the first one!
The usual Body Shop body butter rules apply as well; rich, thick, soaks in well, leaves your skin feeling great.
Price: 2/5 (rrp $23.95 for 200mL)
Scent: 5/5
Effectiveness: 5/5
Monday, 20 April 2015
Grace Cole England - Boutique - Orchid, Amber & Incense - Cleansing Hand Wash
This very affordable hand wash could be easily mistaken for a more expensive product.
Unlike some hand soaps, this isn't an offensive or strong singular scent, but rather a lovely blend of incense, floral and amber notes.
It doesn't upset my wimpy skin and does the job you want soap to do (i.e. clean).
However, if you can't be arsed buying this very reasonable hand soap, but what to feel more fancy with the current soap you are using, let me present my "solution":
You're welcome.
Price: 5/5 (rrp $5.99 for 500mL)
Scent: 5/5 (beautiful!)
Effectiveness: 4.5/5
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