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Scented body Products: Trilogy Body Wash

Posted by Jessica on 11 February 2007 4 Comments

Trilogy Body WashThe New Zealand-based company Trilogy and its line of plant-based skincare products, including Botanical Body Wash, are the creations of sisters Sarah Gibbs and Catherine Wells. Gibbs and Wells define the threefold philosophy of their products as “Simplicity, Vitality and Purity”, and the company’s broader “trilogy” of values is a balance of ethics, aesthetics, and environmentalism. I have already tried and enjoyed Trilogy’s facial exfoliant and eye cream in the past, so I was looking forward to using the new Botanical Body Wash.

This shower gel is packaged in a generously large bottle that invites you to use it with abandon, although two or three pumps of the gel are enough to produce abundant lather. In addition to a dose of nourishing rosehip oil, the signature ingredient of the Trilogy line…

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L’Occitane Honey Foaming Jelly for Body & Hair

Posted by Jessica on 28 January 2007 9 Comments

L'Occitane Honey Foaming Jelly for Body and HairHoney Foaming Jelly for Body and Hair, a combination shower gel and shampoo, is one of the products in L'Occitane's Honey Harvest line. Its label is illustrated with charming, colorful images of bees flanked by clover blossoms, and in the L'Occitane shops, it stands amidst a series of related products, including bars of soap shaped like honeybees.

The familiar symbolism of bees and honey is both practical and indulgent. Bees are traditionally associated with industriousness to the point of compulsion: you can be “busy as a bee” or find yourself preoccupied by a “bee in your bonnet”. The bees' nectar-like output, on the other hand, is the epitome of sweetness: you can address your lover with the endearment “honey” during your “honeymoon”, and you can always “catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”…

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Holiday fragrance gifts 2006, part 3

Posted by Robin on 25 November 2006 7 Comments

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We did some serious eating, and I am still in a kind of food-induced coma. But the fragrance shopping must go on…

At formaggio-kitchen, Rose Petal Jam from the Languedoc region of France. This sounds fabulous; please comment if you’ve ever tried rose petal jam! $9.95…

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Holiday fragrance gifts 2006, part 2

Posted by Robin on 24 November 2006 2 Comments

At imaginationperfumery, the Hermes Eau des Merveilles gift set, with Eau de Toilette spray, Body Lotion and Bath & Shower Gel. $46.99…

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Holiday fragrance gifts 2006, part 1

Posted by Robin on 22 November 2006 15 Comments

Well, here we are again, very nearly at the start of the mad holiday rush, although it doesn’t officially start until Friday. Are you ready? For anyone else trying to avoid entering an actual brick and mortar store between now and January, here are some ideas for fragrance gifts you can find online:

From Aedes, the Agraria Nob Hill Petit Essence set, with 4 miniature fragrance diffusers in Bitter Orange, Lemon Verbena, Lavender & Rosemary and Balsam. $125…

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