08/24/2012
Sherapop
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Sherapop
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Gorilla memories light the corners of my mind...
I guess, to be perfectly frank, I'm really not feeling the Lush love. All of these extremely potent perfumes have a very hardline edge of essential oils--often citrus, spices and herbs--which makes them come out on my skin more as pre-bath concoctions than as perfumes. They really are rough-hewn, it seems to me, and part of what I am perceiving, what carries over from fragrance to fragrance, appears to be the Lush house base. It is so much more powerful than any of the delicate flowers with which it is combined, that it comes through no matter what, even in a jasmine bomb such as LUST.
I'll keep trying, but it's going to be a hard sell. I keep donning these "made in the kitchen" perfumes (which I do believe!) in the hopes of seeing the light--or rather sniffing the magic, but in the end they always make me feel as though I need a bath. B SCENT opens like a punch in the face with a citrus accord which appears to feature lemongrass--or has some of that essence absorbed permanently into my fat cells from my testing of other creations from this house? Then it just takes time for it to settle down to an acceptable level of nasal assault, but honestly I cannot understand how anyone could consider this a rose perfume! Really?
Ultimately, this all boils down to a matter of taste, it seems to me. If your idea of a pleasurable olfactory experience is to spend an afternoon at the Lush store, then you may love everything in this line! Do you find Keiko Mecheri "boring"? Well, you may be the perfect Lush customer, my fragrant friend. When I went to the store in Harvard Square to purchase a bottle of LUST, the SA gave me a complimentary slab of LUST soap, the scent of which is so powerful that every time I enter my bathroom I cannot help but remember my visit to the kaleidoscopically colored land of Lush. Maybe that's the point?
I'll keep trying, but it's going to be a hard sell. I keep donning these "made in the kitchen" perfumes (which I do believe!) in the hopes of seeing the light--or rather sniffing the magic, but in the end they always make me feel as though I need a bath. B SCENT opens like a punch in the face with a citrus accord which appears to feature lemongrass--or has some of that essence absorbed permanently into my fat cells from my testing of other creations from this house? Then it just takes time for it to settle down to an acceptable level of nasal assault, but honestly I cannot understand how anyone could consider this a rose perfume! Really?
Ultimately, this all boils down to a matter of taste, it seems to me. If your idea of a pleasurable olfactory experience is to spend an afternoon at the Lush store, then you may love everything in this line! Do you find Keiko Mecheri "boring"? Well, you may be the perfect Lush customer, my fragrant friend. When I went to the store in Harvard Square to purchase a bottle of LUST, the SA gave me a complimentary slab of LUST soap, the scent of which is so powerful that every time I enter my bathroom I cannot help but remember my visit to the kaleidoscopically colored land of Lush. Maybe that's the point?
