My apologies for 4 months of inactivity. The excuses: We changed
webhosts, work is extremely busy, the
holidays occurred, and various
family crises interfered. I'm sure this is the story of the lives of many. The webhost change in particular ruined all the pictures, forcing a Great Graphics Safari to rediscover each one.
To get back in the habit of snarky reviewing, I wrote several small quickies about various scents I received over the holidays. A few sentences each, not too in-depth, suitable for scents without much. Please enjoy.
Pink Sugar by Aquolina
Surprisingly not that bad. It's obviously cotton candy, but it has a slightly musky undernote and a bit of white flowers which saves it from being this generation's
Love's Baby Soft. Lacks the dumpster-diver, trailer-sleaze "bad girl" smell of Chinatown, this is its "good girl" sister. A grown woman can actually wear this, to many different settings, no less. Knock me over with a feather!
inner grace by
Philosophy
Light woodsy scent like every other one out there.
Ellen Tracy comes to mind, as do many many many others. Perfect for the over-50 middle management office slave. If you're not (and don't want to be mistaken for one), stay away from this. Bor-ing!
Juicy Couture
Mix
Happy by Clinique with
Agree shampoo, the green kind, from the '70s. Got it? Now add some generic "expensive" smelling wood-musk bottom note that won't go away. Again, surprisingly not that bad, smells better on skin, but nothing unique about it. If you want to be invisible at a hip nightclub, (or just like wearing sweats with "Juicy" embroidered across the butt) wear this. It's scent camo at only $300/oz.!
Hard Candy by
Urban Decay
Another sugary scent! Remember when
Madonna was first famous? Yes yes, the 1980s. Remember her tween fans were called Wannabees? Right. See Pink Sugar & Chinatown above. Not as nice as the former, not as nasty as the latter, trying desperately to act grown-up but has to go to bed early (it's a school night). Grown women should
not try to wear this.
My Insolence by
Guerlain
I'll say! I washed the sweater I wore it with and it
still didn't come out. Now I can't wear any other perfume with this sweater. Washing, drying, and hanging in the closet for 2 weeks, still there! It'd be fine if it didn't smell like my grandma's coat closet.. Damn! Insolent little b...... of a scent! The
original's probably worse...
Body Lotion Sampler Signature Collection by
Bath & Body Works
Mine has Japanese Cherry Blossom, Sensual Amber, Warm Vanilla Sugar, Sea Island Cotton, Sparkling Peach, and Sweet Pea Blossom. I have a problem with most B&BW scents. They're chemically and smell better as candles or air-freshener than on people, for the most part. The ones that work: Sensual Amber (one of their real winners, vanilla & orange & amber, oh my!), Sparkling Peach (like Hi-C peach drink), and Sweet Pea Blossom (innocuous). The ones that stink: Japanese Cherry Blossom (real cherry blossoms have almost no scent, this is masking chemicals for "unscented" products), Warm Vanilla Sugar (it's everywhere! on everyone!), and Sea Island Cotton (cucumber face mask mutated into Godzilla). After I tore up the packaging, I discovered the return slip taped to the bottom. Oy...
