Favorite Holiday Scents for 2016

Hey dears!

I love it when I enter a room and it smells so good. It instantly uplifts my mood. I appreciate mostly vanilla, floral, and musky scents, while I am not a fan of citrusy scents. Anyway, I'll just be sharing the products that I own that I love to use and smell during the past few days...

Issey Miyake Pleats Please Eau de Parfum

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I unintentionally bumped into this while browsing a warehouse sale of different brands. I had no idea what it would smell like but my brother has a perfume from this brand that I like so I gave it a shot and sniffed the tester on the counter. I completely fell in love with the scent. It's light and refreshing—perfect for a day out!

 Lanvin Marry Me! Eau de Parfum

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This is also an unplanned purchase. It just smells amazing. It's a very romantic scent and perfect for evening events.

Calvin Klein Endless Euphoria Eau de Parum

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This scent is like the middle ground of the two fragrances I've shared before. It's floral, light, and sexy! 

And those are the perfumes that I like to interchange every other day. 

Now, let here's a product that I enjoy when I get home...

The Body Shop Vanilla Chai Shower Gel

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This is the scent that combines two things I love—tea and vanilla! 

I'm so happy that The Body Shop created this scent. Unfortunately, this is a limited edition product for the holidays so I better stock up so that I won't miss it too much. 

Ellana Mineral Cosmetics Lip in Luxe in Love is True 

I already made a review on this. Check it out here.

I love applying it not just because of the matte finish and the lovely shade, I enjoy the sweet  vanilla or butterscotch (I can't pinpoint which exactly) scent as well! The smell doesn't stay too long but the experience of smelling it while creating that perfect red pout is just wonderful. 

 Alice Blue Ionizer Oil in Vanilla

We usually turn on our air revitalizer every morning and every day feels better whenever I smell vanilla early in the morning. We use this Alice Blue Ionizer Oil. You can check out their other scent on their scent guide.

Ilog Maria Fresh Rose Oil

Info from the website:

Calming & Energizing
Our aromatherapy oils can be used as cloth and room fragrance.
For use in a diffuser: place 1-4 drops in a few tablespoons of water and light tea light

Luxe Parfum and Scents Fresh Bamboo/ Bamboo Fields Water-Soluble Aroma Concentrate

Info from their Facebook Page:Best seller! 
Fresh. Clean. Strong. An aroma that brings you the relaxing and refreshing scent of fresh and damp green bamboo leaves. Just like the scent you've been loving to sniff in your favorite hotel, or spa 😉

For use in Air Humidifiers, Air Revitalisors, Oil Burners.

All our fragrance oils are imported from Grasse, France. Water-soluble formulation is proudly concocted locally for Xiamed Trading.

These two I interchange depending on my mood. They smell completely different but I love them both! :D

 Nuxe Dry Oil Huile Prodigieuse

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Last but not the least, the dry oil that I use all over my body. I just love this dry oil and my skin, especially my face, feels so soft the next day whenever I have it on. The experience gets better when applying it because of the warm, floral scent. I can't describe it well so I'll advise you to smell it when you see the Nuxe counters at Watsons or the Beauty sections of department stores. It really is captivating!

And those are the products that I enjoy ummm... sniffing. HAHA! What are the scents that you currently like?

Cheers,

DAWN

Tagaytay Trip : Ilog Maria and Antonio's Grill

 Hey everyone!

Since my sister is back here in Manila for a vacation, our family decided to go on a quick road trip to Tagaytay.

We planned to visit the Ilog Maria Honeybee Farm since my sis used to buy products from them before. Those products just smell heavenly and we can't wait to buy from them again. Afterwards, we plan to eat at a restaurant overlooking the Taal lake and volcano.

So after an hour and a half of travel from Manila (yayyy for light traffic!), we arrived at our first destination...

Ilog Maria Honeybee Farm

It wasn't difficult to get to. We just googled for instructions and asked directions from the residents. :P

We weren't able to go during the times where there is a group tour but they let us explore the area on our own. The owner's sister was there to answer some of our questions I wasn't the one asking stuff since I was busy taking the pictures. Haha. :P

There were lots of bee equipments and loads of bees flying around. It was safe to walk around as long as you are calm since the bees can sense if you are stressed.

There were also ducks, geese, cats and dogs around. It's a pleasant place to spend the time especially if you want to escape the cars, heavy traffic and pollution in the metro.

The store is filled with many products from bees.

 My sis and I went crazy looking around the beauty products!

The place just smells magnificent - sweet, floral, fruity, you name it!

 

From bath soaps, face scrubs and lip balms to throat sprays and massage oils, they have products that will surely give your body sweet indulgence that is rich with all natural honey!

They also have items made from beeswax!

 

 

The candles are beautifully carved.

Maybe I should have bought me some Bee Pollen. It looks really interesting, don't you think?

They also have gift sets available if you plan on giving them as presents! :)

Oh and what is also interesting about the farm is that it is solar powered.

It's so bright and colourful! So nature-friendly too!

And one of the spots that impressed us...

The comfort room!

We described it as the comfort room we might see in Rivendell (LOTR)!

We bought a few items, mostly bath products.

These smell so good that once you enter the bathroom, you'd smell the fragrance already!

If you're interested to know more about Ilog Maria and their products,

visit their 

website!

Afterwards, LUNCH TIMEEE!!

We were supposed to eaut at Bags of Beans but the place was full so we ended up eating at Antonio's Grill.

The place looks good and they serve Filipino food which my sis misses a lot! Just look how happy she was when the foods were served!

We ordered...

Ginataang Munggo

Squid Sisig

Beef Bulalo

and not included in the pictures were Chicken Inasal, Dulce Gatas, Mango Sago and some Fried rice! For drinks, we had tea, strawberry shake and bottomless lemonade.

I'm no food blogger but for me the meal was pretty decent. The food didn't take too long and the meal was good. Not the best we've tried but we enjoyed it. Only thing we didn't like is it was hard to get the attention of the waiters. :P

Of course we wouldn't forget to take vain pics, here are samples:

Yayyy for family bonding!! 

 It was a great day. The weather was good, the flowers were nice, the view was fantastic and we enjoyed a lot!

 We look forward to our next visit. It's only around 2 hours away anyway. Haha!

Cheers! 

DAWN