A five minute video from Lush on the Australian sandalwood trade. (And you can find prior Lush videos on the subject of sandalwood here)
Fragrance gifts for Mother’s Day 2012, part 2
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13th. If you missed it, check out part 1 of our gift series for 2012.
From Juliska, the Honeysuckle & Jasmine Candle: “Floral notes of jasmine, gardenia, magnolia and honeysuckle are accented with a touch of rhubarb and black fig in this intoxicating candle. Made with premium wax and a luxurious 14% fragrance concentration, it is opulently housed in a frosted glass container with a fringed, ceramic top.” $59 at Bloomingdales…
Flying Fox and It’s Raining Men ~ shower gels from Lush
When I reviewed Lush’s powdery jasmine fragrance, Silky Underwear, I mentioned that I had once splurged on their Flying Fox shower gel in the small size (100 ml, which looks sooo much smaller in shower gel than it does in perfume). I didn’t think I’d ever spend that much on shower gel again, but then I started to miss it. Lo and behold, now I have another bottle, along with a small bottle of It’s Raining Men.
Flying Fox is yet another one of Lush’s many jasmine bombs. I’m all out of their Jasmine & Henna Fluff Ease at the moment, so I can’t compare the fragrance, but Flying Fox is a big sweet honeyed jasmine with ylang ylang, and is probably at least vaguely related to their Lust perfume. The smell is strong and rich — really, almost too strong and rich — and so is the gel itself…
Farmacia SS. Annunziata Perla and Lush 25:43 ~ fragrance reviews
Around the time I became a regular browser on the fragrance board at Makeup Alley, nearly a decade ago, there was plenty of discussion about gourmand fragrances. One board favorite, the sort of thing you only heard about on Makeup Alley or other fragrance chat sites in those days, was La Perla Eclix, a musky-sweet blend of citrus and vanilla. I swapped for a sample of Eclix and enjoyed it, and whenever I spotted its metallic alien-eye bottle in a store, I’d give it a spritz. Eclix was discontinued sometime around 2007, however, and I gradually forgot about it.
I happened to try two new citrus-gourmand fragrances within the past month; neither of them is an Eclix-alike, but if you’ve been craving something along those general lemon-vanilla lines, you might want to try Perla from Farmacia SS. Annunziata or 25:43 from Lush’s Gorilla Perfumes. The former line is a bit of mystery to me. It seems to be associated with the church of Santissima Annunziata in Bologna, or rather with the pharmacy originally affiliated with the church, which now exists as a separate business and storefront. (I’m piecing this together on my own, so I hope I’m correct; and I’m reminded of Santa Maria Novella, of course.)
Perla includes notes of lemon, osmanthus, amber and vanilla. It begins like a lemon drop, slightly sour but dusted with sugar…
And the winner is…
...Ellaella, who takes the 4 Lush products from our last giveaway. Congratulations!