That Brunette Beauty Girl

by Stephanie Sklar Green leaves, clear vase, and lemons on white tablecloth by Elle Hughes Attribution link: https://www.pexels.com/photo/sliced-lemon-and-basil-leaves-on-glass-1585849/ The Scottish Fine Soaps Company’s Citrus Verbena Refreshing Body Wash is easily a dupe for L’Occitane’s Verbena Shower Gel. This is a bright, cheerful, and citrusy lemon scent. Although it’s impossible to beat L’Occitane’s beautiful packaging with an etched-in leaf and a charming chrome silver snap-off top, this shower gel is 25 ounces, which is a lot more than L’Occitane’s 8.4 ounces. So, not only will you get more bang for your buck, but you’ll have it for forever. This is much-appreciated in this terrible economy, in which nearly everything is so expensive due to inflation being so out of control. The only drawback of both of these shower gels is their runny, watery consistency, which is especially evident in The Scottish Fine Soaps Company’s body wash. You can purchase it here:  The Scottish Fine So

by Stephanie Sklar Female hand holding chopped pomegranate by Any Lane Attribution link: https://www.pexels.com/photo/crop-woman-demonstrating-ripe-pomegranate-5946075/ Bath & Body Works’ Wild Sand Shower Gel is in the same scent family as Crabtree & Evelyn’s Pomegranate & Argan Oil Shower Gel, which I like better. This superior body wash basically smells like a spicy and ripe pomegranate and the argan oil in the formulation feels divine on the skin. Don’t get me wrong, the aloe in Bath & Body Works’ Wild Sand Shower Gel feels wonderful on the skin. It’s just that the argan oil in Crabtree & Evelyn’s Pomegranate Shower Gel feels silkier on the skin and thus helps create more of a spa-like experience when using it in the shower.  Although pomegranate isn’t present in Wild Sand, that’s mainly the scent I get. I do get a bit of a putrid smell of spoiled pears until it settles into the actual scent and then it smells like a pomegranate. While there’s no musk in this

by Stephanie Sklar Woman spraying perfume in black and white by Sandro Tavares. Attribution link:  https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-spraying-perfume-in-black-and-white-17837242/ Bath & Body Works’ Midnight Spell Diamond Shimmer Mist smells a lot like a greener and woodier version of both of the eau de parfums of Christian Siriano’s Ooh La Rouge and Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Baccarat Rouge 540. It’s a very present scent: With merely a few sprays of it and, like the two eau de parfums I just mentioned, there is a strong whiff of the warm, powdery, and sweet-smelling amber note. A lot of wealthy women live in my apartment complex and this swanky smell lingers in the hallways long after they have left. I usually can’t stand fragrance mists due to the alcoholic and watered-down nature of the scents in this form, but Bath & Body Works does a great job with it here overall. It can be purchased here:  Bath & Body Works’ Midnight Spell Diamond Shimmer Mist , 1.7 oz, $11.99 on e

by Stephanie Sklar Title: Bath and Body Works Author: Mike Mozart:  https://www.flickr.com/people/39160147@N03   Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/17398525361/ License: CC-BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en Bath & Body Works has really upped their game and I’m falling in love with them and their products all over again. Their wallflowers fragrance refill bulb in the scent Midnight Cocktails smells like a sweeter and less cologne-y version of one of the brand’s signature scents, Black Tie. It’s also in the same scent family of Davines main and unisex spicy, cardamom scent, Davines OI https://thatbrunettebeautygirl.blogspot.com/best-summer-body-washes . Because my fiancé loves Midnight Cocktails so much, I stocked up on two more during one of Bath & Body Works’ sales. Here is the purchasing information for it: Bath & Body Works’ Midnight Cocktails Wallflowers Fragrance Refill Bulb , $7.99 on ebay. (aka evilbay). Bath & Body Wo

by Stephanie Sklar Title: English: Bath and Body Works at the mall in Bristol, Tennessee. Author: Spidy0329: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spidy0329 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bath_and_Body_Works.jpg#/media/File:Bath_and_Body_Works.jpg License: CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ When I started rediscovering Bath & Body Works’ products more recent than not and came across one of their newer scents, Chasing Fireflies, I was inundated with a barrage of unpleasant imagery. I imagined the pungent odor of insect repellant as bugs were zapped to death in the dark by one of those weird outdoor bug-zapping lights. The “zzzz-zzzz” buzzing of the bugs before they met their fate was almost making me shiver in disgust. Instead, when I opened the body wash to sniff it, I quickly fell in love. This was new and different. It was unlike anything that Bath & Body Works had ever made. While it was unfamiliar, for the most part, ther