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Scented body products: Monyette Paris Cashmere Body Mist

Posted by Anjali on 24 February 2007 6 Comments

Monyette Paris Cashmere Body Mist fragranceThe creamy gardenia, lily, vanilla and Nag Champa fragrance of Monyette Paris has become a favorite of both floral and non-floral lovers alike, making Style Magazines's illustrious 5 Great Cult Perfumes list and even winning the hearts of Hollywood stars from Oprah to Cameron Diaz and Gwen Stefani. It's the only gardenia scent I can bring myself to wear (besides Chanel Gardenia, which I maintain is a jasmine fragrance in disguise): normally I find white florals too sharp and angular on me, but Monyette is a pleasantly “round” floral, lush and creamy to the extreme.

Nonetheless, I rarely reach for Monyette, because not only is it a perfume oil roll-on…

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Santa Maria Novella Melograno ~ bath & body products

Posted by Jessica on 18 February 2007 6 Comments

Santa Maria Novella Melograno soapSanta Maria Novella’s Melograno soap (Sapone al Melograno) is available in two sizes, a neat square or a larger rectangle, and its old-fashioned label is decorated with a design of a pomegranate garland. Like all the soaps from Santa Maria Novella, it is manufactured by hand, in a time-consuming but time-tested manner. Each piece is molded with antique soap-making equipment and set aside to cure for two months before it is hand-wrapped, and the soap is triple-milled, resulting in a dense, smoothly textured bar that produces a fine lather and lasts a long time.

The Melograno fragrance is unlike any other I know; while it doesn't come across as particularly complex, it somehow manages be soft and lively, warm and fresh all at once…

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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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Scented bath & body products from Eau d'Italie

Posted by Anjali on 4 February 2007 4 Comments

Eau d'Italie Shower GelEau d'Italie, the debut perfume release from the Eau d'Italie line of Le Sirenuse Hotel in Positano, Italy, is an elegant composition of bergamot, magnolia, honey, amber, resin, incense, musk, blackcurrant, tuberose and clover, directly inspired by the mythological sirens who lived off Italy's Amalfi coast and gave the hotel its name. Based on the notes, I was never tempted to try the Eau de Toilette and repeatedly passed on sampling it. Recently however, I've had the opportunity to try some of the products in the matching body line and I've been kicking myself for not having experienced this lovely scent sooner.

On my skin, Eau d'Italie is a soapy-clean magnolia and white pepper scent, with a hint of honey and bergamot and the barest smoky edge of incense…

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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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