There is always something rather satisfying about a new product coming out that showcases a scent in a different light. That's the beauty of Lush sometimes: each of their renditions tend to be very slightly different to what came out before, and while one fragrance might not have worked for you as a bath bomb or a shower jelly, might very well hit the spot as body lotion or bubble bar.
Such is the case with Prince Body Spray: a brand new release that sees the company offering fans of the discontinued Prince Shower Gel a chance to experience their much-loved smell all over again. Someone such as myself, who wasn't ever enamoured with the original scent anyway, this new body spray has allowed me appreciate an aroma that I had previously written off as being rather boring.
Much like the aforementioned shower gel, a spray of this body spray unleashes a collaboration of different smells to contend with. Firstly, there's the zestiness of both the orange and neroli oils. These two combined offer a bitter, green-like fruity smell, that reminds me very much of the smell you get when peeling a fresh satsuma - that sweet citrus aroma with a slight tartness from the peel.
Next up, is the wonderful layer of vetivert that gives this scent a woody base to work from: offering a complexity that is somewhat lost in the shower gel format; and helping to ground this perfume enough so that it remains on the skin for a lot longer than it would if it was just the fruity components by themselves. Alongside this, the orange flower absolute adds a refreshing, crisp floral note that elevates all of the key components and helps Prince Body Spray to remain on the skin for a good couple of hours after application.
Unlike the shower gel, you can actually smell the richness of the ingredients present here, and there is something far more alluring and beautiful about this aroma in a body spray format. While the shower gel is rather flat and two dimensional, this latest release offers far more complexity on the skin.
While all of Lush's are unisex fragrances, this one would definitely appeal to men who like more masculine smells. As far as being a signature scent, I still think this would equate to being too 'boring' to grab anyone's attention in that manner. However, it's definitely both interesting and refreshing enough to use on a regular basis, and I am looking forward to using this during the hottest months of the year.
Quantitative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Perfume, *Limonene, Benzyl Alcohol, Orange Oil, Neroli Oil, Orange Flower Absolute, Vetivert Oil, Sicilian Red Mandarin Oil, *Citral, *Farnesol, *Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2019 Price: £20 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2019.
Scent Family:
Prince Body Spray
Prince Shower Gel
Over the years, Calacas is one of those scents that has completely taken over the Lush community. Product after product has come out sharing the same fragrance, and each and every time has been met with nothing but praise, adoration, and a long list of demands for other formats in the same aroma. Furthermore, this particular smell holds a place dear in my heart because my first ever purchase was the Calacas Shower Jelly, so you can imagine my excitement when a new release is announced.
While Lush are known more for their complex smells than their simplistic ones, Calacas definitely falls in the latter bracket. Although I would normally be a little hesitant to gush over something as simplistic as this smell, there is just something special about this one that holds a dear place in my heart. Who doesn't love the smell of zesty lime sweets to bathe in, lather up in or spray themselves with?
Calacas Body Spray is probably going to be the most popular out of the four limited editions this year. Not to take away from the merits of the other three aromas, but there are fans that span across the last twenty years that simply adore this scent in every which way. I am one of those people.
As I'll repeat in this review, the immediate smell to come from the first spray of this, and the other body sprays, is one of alcohol. Sometimes body sprays need a few days/weeks to settle in their format before this element goes away: it's perfectly natural. With this in mind, you might also experience the body spray maturing over time, so the aroma is deepened in the bottle, and therefore on your skin. This is the great thing about Lush's perfumes and sprays: they get better with age.
This aside, the experience after this is nothing but pure perfection. As the fragrance settles on your skin, so the lime oil makes its presence well and truly known. The notes you experience from this body spray are fresh, fruity and very zesty, and alongside the neroli, which offers a subtle note of green to give Calacas that tangy-ness, the body spray is on par with the likes of the liquid perfume and the shower gel and jelly.
To smell this is to salivate as, if you're like me, Calacas will make you think of soured lime fruit pastilles or lime sorbet. The fragrance is bright and crisp and yet slightly warming at the same time. It's heavy in fragrance yet light in regards to how the key components breeze around your skin like a thin, wispy cloud. What I also loved about Calacas is that the warmth of your skin melts the sharpness of the lime over time, and you're left with something far more warm and fruity during its wear.
While you'd usually expect fragrances of this kind to disperse fairly quickly (as citrus oils have some of the shortest shelf-lifes going) I found that I could still smell this on my skin two hours after initial application. Despite lasting less time than the other three body spray, Calacas can be forgiven because its comprised of oils that don't like to stick around for too long. It does a good job with what its got and this should be what's praised.
If you love this fragrance family, you are going to welcome this body spray into your life with open arms. However, if you're expecting something complex, you're most likely going to be disappointed. This is yet another example of why Lush are amazing with their array of body sprays and perfumes, and why I cannot imagine wearing anything else aside from their products.
Quantitative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Perfume, Lime Oil, Olibanum Oil, Neroli Oil, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Salicylate, *Citral, *Farnesol, *Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, *Isoeugenol, *Limonene, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £20 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Calacas Shower Gel
Calacas Shower Jelly
Calacas/Day of The Dead Perfume
Lady Catrina Soap
Man In The Moon Bubble Bar
Monsters' Ball Bath Bomb
Skullduggery Ballistic
I wish for a second that every Lush fan who appreciates the Big scent, could climb into my head and remember how amazing the liquid perfume was, just as I do time and time again. While I am no longer the proud owner of the rare perfume, there isn't day when I don't remember with fondness how incredible it was; how well it replicated the smell of the shampoo; and how long it lasted on the skin. Okay, so maybe that last part wasn't quite true: I honestly don't think about it every day. However, if it ever comes up in conversation, I always remember how much of an impression it left on me.
Earlier this year, during the Lush Showcase event, the company released a limited amount of bath bombs that shared the same scent as Big Shampoo. As this fragrance hadn't been talked about or really showcased across any other products aside from the shampoo and solid conditioner, I was both surprised and excited that I would be able to experience one of my favourite Lush scents in a different format. To say the bath bomb was incredible, would be an understatement.
When Lush announced that Big would be one of the four limited edition body sprays coming out this month, I couldn't contain my excitement. Rather than question why the fragrance has become a focus for the company once again, I instead relished in the thought that I would finally have one of my favourite smells in a bottled format once again. And it didn't disappoint.
Straight out of the bottle, a beautiful wave of orange flower absolute greets your nose like a warm blanket on a cold, winter's evening. There is something so comforting about how fresh and sweet this note is, while also remaining very natural and wholesome as well. Alongside this, a gentle touch of mandarin laces itself around the orange flower, complimenting and uplifting the floral properties while also adding a gentle fruitiness underneath.
To round this wonderful fragrance off, the vanilla absolute adds a comforting hand filled with both muskiness and warmth. Instead of adding its own blend of sweetness, it merely blankets the other components and signs off with a little extra sweetness. Even if I feel as if I've managed to describe this aroma even slightly, I still know that no amount of words will do the aroma justice. This is a smell that you need to experience, in order to understand how incredible it is.
As if the initial smell wasn't stunning enough, this body spray just keeps on giving and giving. Over time, the scent stays just as robust and yet as complex as it does the moment that the spray hits your skin. While it may be a detriment to other fragrances when the aroma doesn't evolve over time, Big offers something unique in the fact that the smell comes together as a whole package. And fans are grateful for this fact.
As to be expected, the warmth of your skin allows Big Body Spray to latch its arms around your body and offer respite for a good part of six hours, at the very least. While I found the scent faded a little quicker than the perfume did, I was still able to detect this on my clothes hours after the initial spray. Coupled with the shampoo, and you could make this fragrance last all day.
Fans of the hair care will most likely agree that Lush have done an amazing job with this fragrance, and I can guarantee that it will inspire many people to reinvest in the shampoo. I for one will be buying a new tub, once I can sort myself out financially. This is easily my favourite of the four limited edition body sprays, and I only wish that more products would come out in their scent.
Quantitative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Perfume, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Neroli Oil, Sicilian Red Mandarin Oil, Vanilla Absolute, Orange Flower Absolute, *Anise Alcohol, *Citral, *Coumarin, *Farnesol, Geraniol, *Hydroxycitronellal, *Limonene, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £25 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Big Perfume
Big Shampoo
Seaweed Giant Bombshell
I think it's been quite a year for Avocado Co-Wash, and I say this with happiness. Back when Lush first revealed the cheese-looking slab of hair treatment during their opening of the Oxford Street store, nobody expected it to become one of the community's favourite scents. Even when I attempted to eat it on camera a few years ago, I had no idea that I would see such a large family of products come forward with the same smell.
This year we have been privileged to see both a bath bomb and a body lotion come out with the same fragrance: both of which were superior to many of their peers released at the same time. The release of the body spray this week only goes to show that Lush have once again created a fragrance worth investing in.
While this may disappoint a few fans, I will start by saying that the fragrance of this limited edition body spray is more in-keeping with the original hair treatment. Since the release of both Meluzine Bath Bomb and the body lotion of the same scent, fans have probably been enjoying the extra fruitiness that has been featured in both. This is not present in the body spray format.
As I have said in my reviews of the other limited edition body sprays, the immediate smell to come from the first spray is one of alcohol. Sometimes body sprays need a few days/weeks to settle in their format before this element goes away: it's perfectly natural. With this in mind, you might also experience the body spray maturing over time, so the aroma is deepened in the bottle, and therefore on your skin. This is the great thing about Lush's perfumes and sprays: they get better with age.
When it comes to Avocado Co-Wash Body Spray, the inclusion of the lime-esque note that most fans have come to expect, is slightly dampened in the overall aroma. That's not to say that this fragrance is in any way weak, or indeed a terrible replica. It's just that the fruity smell you get from this is much more rounded and warmer on the skin.
After allowing the spray to settle on my body, the litsea cubeba oil comes forward immediately and offers the juicy, fruity smell that fans of this aroma love. As I have stated in nearly all of my reviews of the products that harvest this scent, the smell of this is like a bright, mildly zesty lime cheesecake, but without the citrusy note you would normally expect from the inclusion of lime oil.
Alongside this, the olibanum oil adds a rich, sultry base that keeps on giving and giving. In fact, I think it is this latter ingredient that allows the body spray to remain on your skin for a good four to five hours, before you need to re-apply. This wonderful oil lifts up the fruity components whilst also adding its own, mildly resinous does of sweetness.
Over the few hours that it sits on your skin, the warmth of your body allows the litsea cubeba oil to keep on giving and giving. I found that if a breeze flittered past me, or I waved my arms in such a way, I was reintroduced to the smell once again. After a night out, in which I sprayed myself with this before leaving the house, I could still detect a lingering fruity note on my wrists and my clothes the following morning.
How it's like the original hair treatment is that the aroma feels slightly more compact, and very slightly subtler than the body lotion and bath bomb formats. That's not to say that this is a bad thing at all. In fact, I found that this body spray presented itself as slightly mildly creamier than other members of the fragrance family. As the scent of this is going to dance with the warmth of your skin, this creamy element makes it much more appealing.
Overall, this is yet another great release from Lush. Fans of the fragrance family will definitely appreciate this new format, and I feel as if it does the scent much more justice than perhaps a perfume would. As a body spray, it's less compacted and therefore able to spread its wings far more on your skin and clothes.
Quantitative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Perfume, Litsea Cubeba Oil, Bergamot Oil, Olibanum Oil, Amyl Cinnamal, *Benzyl Cinnamate, *Cinnamal, *Cinnamyl Alcohol, *Citral, *Citronellol, *Geraniol, *Limonene, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £20 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Avocado Cowash Body Spray
Avocado Cowash
Avocado No Wash Body Lotion
Avocado Wash Shower Gel
Don't Touch My Hair Hair Marshmallow
Melusine Bath Bomb
Minamisoma Shower Oil
Why I've chosen to start reviewing this one, I don't know. But there's just something rather wonderful about a body spray called Golden Pear. A fairly new fragrance from Lush, this scent family only started last year - when Lush introduced a beautiful little soap of the same name, as part of their 2017 Christmas range.
What started out as a few whispers, quickly transpired into a full movement of Lush fans gushing over the scent of this limited edition soap. It wasn't at all surprising then when Lush brought out the soap again this year, followed by the Golden Pear Bath Bomb during the community release last month. It makes sense then that this fragrance is featured as part of their exclusive body spray release.
What I should start out by saying is that I was personally a little disappointed with the initial smell of the bath bomb. Whereas the soap offered multiple layers and complexity that made me fall in love with it, the bath bomb wasn't quite as pronounced. It was a relief then when I discovered that the body spray is more in-keeping with the soap than it is the bomb. That's not to say that there isn't a few mild differences.
At the risk of paraphrasing myself, to describe this fragrance is like trying to explain what it must smell like to walk through Wonka's chocolate factory. For such a gentle fragrance, there are so many elements that tantalise the senses at every turn. Don't expect this body spray to be 'in your face' as some of the others have demonstrated. Instead, you'll get gentle waves of fruity goodness but in a much more grounded manner.
I should probably warn you that the immediate smell I got from this body spray was one of alcohol, so don't be alarmed if this is the case with you. Sometimes body sprays need a few days/weeks to settle in their format before this element goes away: it's perfectly natural. With this in mind, you might also experience the body spray maturing over time, so the aroma is deepened in the bottle, and therefore on your skin. This is the great thing about Lush's perfumes and sprays: they get better with age.
Within a matter of seconds, a warming fruity smell comes forward and engulfs your senses. My nose tells me that the initial spray offers a note that reminds me a little of raspberry bubblegum, but this element is shortly lived. Once it settles on the skin, you realise that component is actually coming from the pears.
If I'm honest, I was a little worried that the scent of this wouldn't replicate the soap well, only because the soap features a tonne of pear puree that gives it its fruity base. Yet somehow Lush have managed to produce the same fragrance but in a body spray. I say this because on the skin, you then get a wonderfully rich smell of pears, which reminds me slightly of what they smell like when they've been stewed and very delicately caramelised.
Alongside this, the sandalwood begins to seep through - adding a richness to the fruitiness at first, and then grounding the pear smell so that it stays on your skin for longer. Over time, the sandalwood projects itself from the heat of your skin, and I found that it was slightly stronger than the pear itself - although that's not to say that the pear wasn't still there until the very end.
As well as this, let's not forget that there is also a layer of cardamom. This works alongside the sandalwood to ground the fragrance, whilst also offering something very subtle spicy and warming. You can smell that the cardamom is there, but it's not so strong that it overpowers the other elements.
Much like the soap, the scent is what I would call 'subtle', so once it's settled, it's not the strongest fragrance that Lush have ever produced. However, this is something that replicates what both the bath bomb and the soap do as well: fans love the scent of this because it's subtle yet complex. This is what helps it to stay in-keeping with the original soap.
As it's in a body spray format, Golden Pear lasts quite long on the skin. I was still able to smell it nearly three hours after I had sprayed it on myself, and the life of this would have probably been prolonged even further had the fragrance itself not been as subtle as it was originally designed to be.
What differs to my nose is the level of sandalwood featured in the fragrance. I felt as if it damped slightly the level of fruitiness that perhaps some fans would expect. However, I actually want to celebrate this because what you get is a perfume that is even richer and more mature than the soap itself. Fans of the soap will not doubt love this rendition of their favourite scent, and I think Lush have done well to replicate this so that it's strong enough to enjoy as a body spray, yet subtle enough to say true to the original scent.
Quantitative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Perfume, Cardamom Oil, Brazilian Orange Oil, Sandalwood Oil, *Benzyl Cinnamate, *Cinnamal, *Cinnamyl Alcohol, *Citral Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, *Farnesol, *Limonene, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £20 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Golden Pear Bath Bomb
Golden Pear Body Spray
Golden Pear Soap
Open Your Heart Bubble Bar
As Lush have so many different fragrances, I often get caught up with the most recent ones, or the ones featured in the limited edition ranges on offer. This means that some of my all time favourite smells often get forgotten about until a new product rekindles my love for the scent - something that happened tenfold upon sniffing Honey I Washed The Kids Body Spray for the first time.
As I have said many a time, shower gels and perfumes are my most favourite format, and after selling my HIwTK liquid perfume to raise money for my travelling, I did miss being able to spray myself with a fragrance so decadently rich and beautiful. Almost as if they read my mind, the release of the body spray was an opportunity for me to experience the rich and very exquisite smell once again, albeit in a format that would outlast a 30ml bottle of perfume any day.
And what can I say without gushing profusely? Very little, so I’ll just go ahead and state that this body spray is easily one of the company’s most successful releases to date. It’s an example of a perfect replica in every way and is easily one of, if not THE number one product with this scent. Yes, it’s that good.
In all fairness, this body spray is almost identical to the liquid perfume - offering a beautifully sweet, buttery toffee-esque aroma that gets your mouth watering and your senses tingling from the get go. This spray smells like all of the above elements have been melted together into a large pot and turned into a dessert syrup, with a note of orange threaded throughout to give a uniquely fruity top note.
You only have to spray this on your skin once for the body spray to come alive and flood your senses with a beautifully bright and uplifting aroma. There's a note of sugary, sticky toffee laced with a sweet, fruity orange top note. As the perfume dampens slightly, the buttery vanilla absolute comes through on your skin and gives a wonderful honeyed, caramel scent. It's decadent yet very youthful at the same time.
What makes this body spray work so well is that it’s just as intense as the perfume but the format gives it much more space to breathe as it’s being sprayed, and this works in its favour when it’s on the skin. I was blown away by how strong it was on the skin, yet it wasn’t at all overwhelming despite how sickly sweet it can be in other formats. HIWTK Body Spray lingers on your skin and clothes all day: I could still smell it some twelve hours after initial application as well as the next morning on my bed sheets and pillow. This is a fragment that wants to stick around, and stick around it does.
You only need to spray it on one wrist and then transfer to the other, or use a single squirt on your clothes to reap the benefits across the whole day. While the scent does have many layers to it, I found that this one tends to offer a single note when it’s on your skin. This would normally be to the detriment of a fragrance as I like to experience a journey with my perfumes. However, this one is so lovely that every wave of scent you experience is a blessing.
If you love this scent family, you’ll no doubt fall in love with this body spray straight away, and may need to grab a couple of bottles until it next makes an appearance. Having said that, you need only spray it once with each use so a single bottle will last you much longer than many of the other perfumes/body sprays.
My only qualms with Honey I Washed The Kids is that I have to be in the mood to use this scent. In stifling hot weather, this may be rather cloying on the senses and appear too heavy. This is perhaps the very reason that I live in London, as the prospect of having too many hot days is unlikely so I can enjoy wearing this regularly.
Quantitative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Water (Aqua), Perfume, Glycerine, Bergamot Oil, Brazilian Orange Oil, Amyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, *Limonene, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £15 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Golden Egg Bath Bomb
Gold FUN
Honey I Washed The Kids Bath Bomb
Honey I Washed The Kids Body Spray
Honey I Washed The Kids Liquid Perfume
Honey I Washed The Kids Solid Perfume
Honey I Washed The Kids Soap
Humpy Dumpty Bath Bomb
Ma Bar Bubble Bar
Noni I Washed The Kids Body Lotion
Santasaurus Reusable Bubble Bar
Shoot For The Stars Bath Bomb (2013)
Shoot For The Stars Bath Bomb (2016)
Sugar Mama Sugar Scrub
The Mum Reusable Bubble Bar
While I may not be in possession of many Lush perfumes nowadays, I can still appreciate some of the rare gems that I collected and enjoyed over the years. Out of the hundred or so bottles that I managed to accumulate, The Olive Branch Liquid Perfume was easily one of my favourites. So when Lush announced they were releasing a body spray with the same scent, my heart began to race.
While The Olive Branch Body Spray varies slightly with my experience of both the Shower Gel and the liquid perfume, fans of the fragrance will be pleased to learn that the limited edition is very close to the popular scent, and it should easily become a staple.
For those who have had the opportunity to try out the rare perfume from 2005, you’ll recognise that the body spray has many more layers on offer here than the perfume, which to my nose gives it much more character. Yet at the same time, it is perhaps not as rich nor as sultry as the original fragrance was. That’s not to say it is any less appealing by any means, merely that it offers a different experience for anyone unsure whether it’s worth an investment.
Most reading this will no doubt only have the shower Gel to compare with and this is where I shall base my review on.
Firstly, I should point out that this body spray improves when left to age for a few weeks before being used. When the essential oils have had a chance to merge together, you get a fragrance far stronger, more rounded and definitely better developed than it initially presents itself as in the beginning.
Secondly, this body spray is definitely closer to the shower gel than the Liquid Perfume and body lotion. You can smell the different layers that are present here, which is part of the reason why I fell in love with this sent to begin with. The mandarin offers a light, sweet note that intertwines with the smell of the olive oil to give that gentle nuttiness that we all know and love. Gentle floral notes infuse with these layers to offer a delicate balance of smells, while there is also something subtly herbal about the fragrance as well.
What is great about this body spray is that each layer makes itself knowing during he experience of wearing it. An initial spray offers a fresh, uplifting collaboration of different layers that give off bursts of scent while it warms on your skin. You’ll find that you’ll detect different notes throughout the day, which is something I didn’t find the liquid perfume did. The perfume was far more compact, although this could have been due to it aging over a number of years.
My only negative point about this body spray is that it does lack that rich, warming nuttiness that I loved so much in the perfume. However, given that it does noticeably change over the first few weeks, I wonder this element would come with time. I guess there’s only one way to find out...
Overall, this is another successful release for Lush and is the perfect companion for those wanting to extend the experience of their favourite shower gel across the day. This is definitely one that I would buy again.
Quantitiative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Water (Aqua), Perfume, Glycerine, Bergamot Oil, Lemon Oil, Orange Flower Absolute, Sicilian Red Mandarin Oil, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Coumarin, Oak Moss Extract, Hexyl Cinnamal, Hydroxycitronellal, *Limonene, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £20 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
The Christmas Penguin bubble Bar
Happy Pill Ballistic
The Olive Branch Bath Bomb
The Olive Branch Body Lotion
The Olive Branch Body Spray
The Olive Branch Liquid Perfume
The Olive Branch Naked Shower Gel
The Olive Branch Shower Gel
Pop In The Bath Bubble Bar
Wash You Were Here Wash Card
What would be your Self Esteem Machine, I was once asked: a question that took me a little while to process and an even longer amount of time to answer. While I don't wish to share my answer at this moment in time, it was one that made sense when it finally popped into my head.
Self Esteem Machine Body Spray was not a product that I planned to rush out and buy when it made itself known. While I really enjoyed the experience of using the Liquid Perfume, I wouldn't say that it was one that stood out as a personal favourite, and until recently had been sat on my shelf untouched. However, after my visit to Lush's pop-up Volume 4 gallery in Edinburgh, my opinion as well as my excitement for the fragrance changed dramatically, and the body spray has now become a staple.
Made from a collaboration of mandarin and grapefruit oils, you'd be mistaken for thinking that this one is in any way citrusy. Not only would I never describe Self Esteem Machine as being particularly fruity, it is also certainly not anywhere near as juicy as I was originally expecting it to be.
Firstly, what made me fall in love with the body spray even more than the liquid perfume is that it is less compact and therefore less intense on the skin. While I normally expect and want my fragrances to be both strong and withstanding, the reservation of this one allows the scent to breathe a little when in use. This makes it far more refreshing and helps the key ingredients to pronounce themselves a little better, which only better the experience in my eyes.
On the skin, both the mandarin and grapefruit oils dance beautifully in unison to create a light, fruity fragrance. The grapefruit loses its tart, citrusy element and instead offers a crisp burst of flavour that reminds me a little of tinned fruit you can buy in the supermarket. The mandarin wraps itself around these notes and thickens the fragrance: adding an almost syrupy element to the perfume, whilst still holding back some of the sweetness you find in the likes of 1000 Kisses Deep.
Together, there is a level of sophistication that you wouldn't necessarily expect from this combination. There is something rather mature about this pairing - something that I think is helped by the inclusion of the vanillary note. While I wouldn't say that there is a strong note of vanilla in the overall smell, the inclusion of this ingredient does have an impact, and gives the scent a gentle dusting of sweetness, which I'd compare to that of a cloud of icing sugar, albeit not as sweet.
Self Esteem Machine is a crisp, refreshing blend of smells - one that is far more sophisticated than you would expect from the ingredients used to create it. It would be complimentary to wearers of all ages, as it is both light and airy for the younger users, while also being strangely complex for the older consumers. This one is perfect for those of you who like reserved fruity smells but are looking for something a little 'more'.
What is great about this body spray is that it's longevity is just as impressive as the perfume variation. While it is not as intense as the Liquid fragrance, it lingers on the skin for the same length of time. In fact, I could still smell it on my skin and clothes 4-5 hours after it had been initially sprayed.
Self Esteem Machine is a great perfume to wear during the change of seasons. Although it compliments the warmer weather as there is something quite cooling about the smell, it's also light and complex enough to suit those damp and slightly less pleasant days.
Overall, this body spray has become one of those products that I use multiple times per week, and I cannot see that changing any time soon. My bottle will no doubt need to be replaced far sooner than most of the other body sprays I own, but it's worth it, knowing how good I smell.
Quantitative Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Water (Aqua), Perfume, Glycerine, Sicilian Mandarin Oil, Grapefruit Oil, Vanilla Absolute, *Benzyl Benzoate, *Cinnamal, *Citral, *Coumarin, *Geraniol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone Butylphenyl, Methylpropional Hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde.
Vegan?: Yes.
2017 Price: £29 for 200ml.
Year Of Original Release: 2017.
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