I am of the belief that good-smelling-things are one of life’s greatest pleasures.
Clean sheets. A baby’s neck. Rain on hot pavement. A black permanent marker. Petro… nevermind.
I could spend hours in the perfume section of a department store, and know immediately if I’ve jumped in a lift with someone wearing Chance by Chanel.
Recently, I came across a hand cream by Crabtree and Evelyn that is hands down one of the best things I have ever smelt.
It’s called ‘Lavender ultra moisturising hand therapy’ and it will get you multiple hand-related compliments.
But there was just one problem.
It retails at $46. And given my status as a Person With Not A Lot of Money, I walked away from the hand cream with a tear falling from the corner of my left eye.
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My skin erupts with scented creams and soaps.
Nope, nope, nope. Lavender has to be the second worst body product scent you can get, after rose. There's this woman on my bus that slathers on nasty rose scented hand cream every afternoon as soon as she takes her seat and I've taken to sitting as far away from her as I can because the smell gives me a headache. Floral scents are almost always terrible, unless they're made with really, really high quality ingredients.
I much prefer something with as little scent as possible, such as L'occitane's shea butter hand cream.
Love the L'Occitane hand creams, I've got a lime one and a violet one. They are so rich, but not overpowering.
No wonder it's half price when it smells on lavender!
Agreed, I can't stand the smell of lavender!
Yes! Shea butter > lavender every day of the week