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

The Body Shop: Wildest Christmas for the Wildest Campaign!

Good evening ladies,

Yesterday, The Body Shop Philippines introduced their WILDEST CHRISTMAS with the their WILDEST CAMPAIGN at SM Mall Of Asia.

A wild jungle out-camp was set up near the entrance of the mall filled with their latest holiday collection offers. As customary of TBS, during the holidays they release limited edition products that remind which are reminiscent of the season. This year was a bit of a surprise since their recurring scents have gotten an upgrade.

Three new line were released mainly:

Frosted Berries

This is the update on my holiday favorite, Cranberry Joy. The scent is a lighter, and sweeter than Cranberry Joy. Personally, I prefer the scent of Cranberry Joy, something about it makes me feel a little bit more mature whereas this new scent reminds me of teen years.

Spiced Apple

I love the apple fragrances and the blend of the scent of this just had me grinning from ear to ear. It's not the usual apple scent that I am used to but the combination warming combination of the cinnamon and the ever so slight hint of orange just imparts such a refreshing feeling that it got me at the first sniff. :)

Vanilla Chai

The warming scent of vanilla is just a holiday staple for many reasons and I would have been more surprised if it did not make any appearance this year. There is so little you can do to add more appeal to vanilla; it is such an addictive scent that even as an additive in other products, people would prefer buying products harboring the scent.

The day also officially kicked off their holiday offers for all their customers but most especially to their loyal Love Your Body Members, as well as SM Advantage Card holders.

There are the usual holiday gift bundles which you can get with great discounts,

other discounted favorites, which we take full advantage of, and member-exclusive offers like:

I know the matte lipstick and liquid matte were released a few weeks prior but it was my first time seeing and trying them for myself. I just had to share my swatches and excitement.

Liquid Matte is originally worth Php 495 but for LYB and SM Advantage card holders, you can get them at a discounted price of Php 350. The collection consists of 11 shades.

Testers

Swatch (arranged according to tester order)

They are quite silky and smooth. They glide easily over the lips. They are quite pigmented but the color will not start out super pigmented (so no need to shy away from the darker colored ones). It does not feel as dry though it is quite matte when it settles. I will still have to buy and give it a go to compare it with the dark matte lip stain I have now.

But if you're a little scared of the vibrancy of the color, or simply not a stain or gloss type person, they also have the lipstick matte on a Php 200 discount. The lipsticks cost Php 795 but if you present your LYB or SM Advantage card, you will get a Php 200 off.

The color is build-able and seems easier to control than the previous one.

There are many other LYB and SM Advantage Card holder exclusive offers especially around the make-up stations. Visit a TBS branch near your area or any Watsons inside SM Department stores to find out all their member exclusive deals.

And of course, they also introduced their latest campaign effort: protection of the rainforests.

Unfortunately, I was late during the event so I missed out on a lot of other things that happened during the launch, but Emily was kind enough to still fill me in on the details even though they were busy with the clean up. Thank you so much.

They gave me my personalized body butter.

I'm super excited to give these things a try - especially the body butter :).

I was happy to have visited The Body Shop again and to attend another of their event, even though I was late. Anyway, I hope this has gotten you psyched up for a visit to their stores. Holiday deals are always one of the best, especially deals from TBS.

Let us know what you thought about the launch and their new campaign as well as the three limited edition scents this holiday!

Cheers,

LIZ