Monday, July 9, 2012

Review for Love, Love, Love-new scent from Bath and Body Works

This weekend I wanted to stop by BBW and check out their sale but suprise, suprise, they had the full line of Love, Love, Love out. Of course, I sampled it and my verdict is ..as I predicted, not "love".

I tried ear de toilette and sprayed a couple of good sized sprayes on my hand. At first sniff, I was thinking "hmm, this is nice" because the plum note is very prominent and it smelled like fresh plums not sweet, just lovely. However, within few seconds that dissappeared and you were left with something very simular to Pink Chiffon. The only difference was that Love, Love, Love had a slight powdery note in the base. But that's it. If you looking for something different, Love, Love, Love is not. And lasting power blows-these two sprays of edt didn't even last an hour.

 I feel like BBW keep "recycling" the same fragrances over and over again and some of the more "different ones"-Forever Sunshine, Dark Kiss and Dark Amethyst, to name a few are being discountinued and you are left with bunch of very generic stuff.
I haven't been happy with BBW for at least 6 months because their creativity took a major nosedive and it seem to continue. Whoever is creating their fragrances needs some new ideas, pronto

Monday, July 2, 2012

New scent from Bath and Body Works called-Love, Love, Love

I just heard that this is their new and latest scent that will be coming out this month. Not sure when because noone at my store seem to know the release date. I will be of course, sniffing it as I do all their scents but I don't think its going to be "Love, Love, Love". I was really dissapointed with BBW  lately because after few years producing good and distictive scents that were as good as many department stores offerings, they backslid into forgettable and generic territory.
Love, Love, Love has a notes of:  berries, white plum, juicy pear mid notes: peony petals, lily of the valley, freesia bottom notes: blonde woods, glittering vanilla musk.

I am withholding judgement at this point but their latest and much hyped up offerings were extremely bland and generic so I guess I am not holding my breath.

And on the subject of Malibu Beach-I was looking very much forward to trying this scent because it was supposed to be "beachy" with fruit and coconut notes but despite trying this scent half a dozen times since its arrival, this is very meh. Anyone remember limited edition Vanillatini scent from few months ago? I still have a bottle and Malibu Heat is its slightly fruitier twin.  This is not the first time BBW had repackaged almost identical fragrance and I am sure it won't be the last. I remain their customer because I do LOVE a lot of their products but I really wish they would be a bit more creative with their offerings.

And on another note-as you all know, I am a fragrance fanatic but just recently I made a resolution to myself. Because I have so many fragrances, I will NOT buy anything anymore unless I am madly in love with it and can't stop smelling it. Its going to be hard..