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[trinityvixen]

Update of absolutely no substance whatsoever:

Over the holiday break, I picked up some new scents from Bath and Body Works. I grabbed some more Tropical Passionfruit lotion (why can I only ever find the lotion in the store? It's so fragrant, I don't like mixing it on top of shower gel of a different scent!). It's still good, but I've had two breakthrough favorites so far: Magnolia Blossom and White Tea & Ginger.

The White Tea & Ginger makes me physically ACHE for the whole line of tea-accented lotions and body washes they put out about five years ago. I still have a little left of my Red Currant and Thyme Tea lotion/shower gel, and I'm going to cry when it's gone. However, White Tea & Ginger is a worthy successor; the scent is so clean, which is as good as I can describe it. I need to go and buy some more online (they only had the one bottle in the store or I'd have bought them out of it.

Magnolia Blossom is subtle in the same way as the White Tea & Ginger, but whereas the latter smells almost tasty, Magnolia Blossom is much more earthy. Not bad BO-and-dirty earthy, like you would describe people when you call them earthy, but sort of fresh-air outdoors-y earthy. I used up half of the one bottle I had before I switched to a different one so I can savor that some more.

Haven't opened the Sheer Freesia or Night Blooming Jasmine that I bought yet. I must have been wowed by Night Blooming Jasmine, as I seem to have three bottles of shower gel and two things of the lotion, but I am saving opening that until I use up the shower gel I already have in the bathroom. I'm surprised I bought a Freesia-scented lotion; usually, I don't care for Freesia. I'd go smell it except that I am currently still sniffing my hands for that intoxicating White Tea & Ginger scent. Wouldn't be able to smell it all.

Nothing to see here, I guess. Unless you, too, are a total girl about scented lotions and want to girly-chat about it. Do, let's!

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

GASP. I had no idea you liked White Tea and Ginger. I've got like six backup bottles of it. Which reminds me, I need to get some more. It's sadly discontinued, but I love it. If you can find Green Tea and Cucumber, it's really good, too.

Sheer Freesia is nice; original old-style Freesia in the blue bottles smells like pepper, FYI. Night Blooming Jasmine used to be an old favorite of mine, til I found out that really good jasmine smells fantastic on me, which for some reason made Bath and Body Works jasmine smell horrid in comparison. The scent I wore to the wedding? A jasmine-based perfume oil.

And I've got a mini bottle of magnolia blossom here for you - I can't wear it, it smells "dusty" on me.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Also, they've got White Tea and Ginger up here at the Westchester. Come up one night before the sale ends and we'll raid the store.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

MUST. Maybe if you guys have a party, we can sneak out to get it. Only at the Westchester or the Galleria as well? Not that I wouldn't go to either for it, just FYI. I should look and see if the one by Grand Central has it.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if the Galleria had it. I also don't remember if the sale ends before then. It usually ends somewhere around the 15th. I don't think we're really having a party, it was more just a suggestion that people come hang out. Low key and such.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::giggles:: I could bribe you in return with some Tropical Passionfruit, if you like that one. VERY FRUITY, but I love that.

White Tea & Ginger was part of the three that were the tea-scented ones, if I remember correctly. When I spotted it at the B&BW upstate, I just had to grab it, and I did without even half smelling it. Now I have, I'm like, "I know I have thirty bottles of other lotions around, BUT I MUST PURCHASE MORE OF THIS ONE."

And ditto Magnolia Blossom, though that one makes me less rabid. What I like about it is how soft the smell is. Compared to things like Plumeria and Juniper Breeze (my old staples), that and White Tea & Ginger are so mild and vaguely spiced, I just love them to pieces.

I wonder if I'll still like the Night Blooming Jasmine then? Perhaps I should switch it into my shower rotation and see.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I think, based on the fact that we can wear vaaaaaaaaaguely the same scents, that you'll like Night Blooming Jasmine as shower gel, because it won't have time to get cloying. I liked it for a good two years before I got sick of it.

I keep picking up and putting down Tropical Passionfruit in the store. One of these days I'll actually buy some, perhaps. Apparently they discontinued PINK GRAPEFRUIT, which made me sad, but since I can still get the knockoff stuff at Wal-Mart, that's fine.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Shame on me, but I like the knock-off version I got at Wal-Mart better. It ran out at work, and I replaced it with the B&BW version, and that one just isn't as heavily scented. The knock-off is more fragrant and smells more like the fruit. I bought another bottle of it!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

You are a consumer whore!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

And HOW! I should have put that tag on that post ::goes to fix::

[shell524.livejournal.com]

Alas, scented lotions are wonderful, but they make my allergies flare up, so I avoid Bath and Body Works. Sad, because they have some awesome stuff.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You're not even the first, second, or third person to have this problem that I know, so you're not alone. Might I suggest scented soaps? They seem to be less irritating.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

Hand soap is about all the special soap I can handle. I have to be careful with shampoos and body soaps, because they can irritate my skin! I love allergies. :/

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

White Tea and Ginger is one of my favorites (and is my hand soap right now). Strictly speaking, I am slightly allergic to the scented stuff. But as soap, rather than lotion, I can get away with it. I'm willing to put up with some sneezing to not have to be stuck with Dial soap forever.

I like to rotate the smells, because every time I switch, the smell evokes whatever I was doing the last time I used that scent. More often and not, that's the fanfic I was reading at the time. White Tea and Ginger is a particular epic Hercules fic...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I remembered that you were allergic (especially after I inadvertently sent you into fits by recycling packaging to you from LUSH), but I'd forgotten your sense-memory with the scent of your soap (hur hur, scent-memory). That's both awesome and a little frightening.

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

Not my sort of topic, but cool that you found stuff you like. Jendaby goes nuts over them as well. Right now she has some sort of chocolate thing in the shower--I forget its exact name but it smells good!