Every girl likes flowers! (Lush Flowers to The People Soap Stack)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Flowers to The People Soap Stack
Date:	24/06/09 (41 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: 3 Lovely soaps

Disadvantages: No longer available

Out of all the "stack" style gifts I think I like Flowers to the People the most. Apart from it being incredibly girly, the scents tend to be more floral and light rather than the Sweetie stack where the scent is sweet and heavy. Flowers to the People is just like all the other stack gifts, three pieces of soap stacked on top of one another! Simple! If you are lucky you can get the soaps individually wrapped in clear cellophane rather than leaving them naked! Your stack is then tied up and a tag placed on it and it's ready to sell! This really is a no frills gift!

Flowers to the People contains 100g each of: - 17 Cherry Tree Lane, Gratuitous Violets and Oh La La.

17 Cherry Tree Lane:-

This ultra-smooth soap with a silken lather has a rather complex scent that first greets you with the brightness of fresh lemon and reviving orange blossom. But a moment before you label this soap a citrus, you are approached by woodsy, sweet mimosa and the even sweeter, ultra feminine jasmine. This combination of fruits and fountain-of-youth floras in itself oft reminds you of fragrant, mid-May afternoons spent sitting under cherry blossom trees in a quietly secluded, wooded park.

However, on top of this aromatic imagery, I find there's an additional powdery, slightly sickly sweetness that doesn't quite seem to fit into this painted picture. In the shower, I've never been able to quite put my finger on it. Three bars later, my nose gave up on solving the riddle, finally checking out the ingredients to see what it could find. As expected, I found the unexpected: brown sugar and cocoa powder, the former quite likely being the primary supplier of that strange top note.

Gratuitous Violets:-

If you like Bathos Bubble Bar, you'll love this even more intense concoction of Napoleon's (and Lush founder Mark Constantine's) favourite floral fragrance. Gratuitous Violets is indeed gratuitously packed with violets, in addition to Bathos' usual violet leaf absolute, Gratuitous Violets raises the bar by doubling the usual dosage with a sweet violet leaf infusion.

Calling forth violet's sweeter character, ylang ylang offers a fresh floral backnote to both products (though it's simply listed as "cananga oil" in this soap's list of ingredients).
But instead of Bathos' heavier rose and jasmine flora, this soap instead opts for cedarwood oil to lend an earthier, balsamic aroma. I like to say that while a Bathos bath reminds you of being handed a bouquet of violets, a Gratuitous Violets shower is like running through the woods until you find yourself coming upon a clearing filled with wild violets, surrounded by breathtaking, velveteen shades of green and purple.

Certain to perfume your skin with its intoxicating forest fairy in the flowers fragrance for the remainder of the day, Gratuitous Violets safely houses you in these gloriously calming surroundings for hours on end, leaving you wishing you could remain
there for a lifetime.

Oh La La:-

A stimulating cleanser for both body and mind, Ooh La La doesn't quite smell as it appears, it's purple on the outside, but actually quite green at heart. When dry, restorative lavender oil is the most prominent note, with detoxifying grape juice giving it a sweetened lift, not to mention the bulk of this soap's bright colouring. However, once you wet Ooh La La, earthier shades of blemish-clearing rosemary and tonic thyme altogether upstage lavender, thereby turning Lush's so-called "lavender soap" into a provincial picnic basket.

Yet unlike the similarly scented French Kiss bubble bar (which actually contains far less lavender than does Ooh La La), thyme gradually begins to dominate not only the clarity of lavender and grape, but also the spryness of rosemary, resulting not only in a foody, spicy herbal fragrance, but also a denser, smokier.

Grape juice remains bold in other ways, though what becomes a soft pink lather on your sponge starts out as puddles of vin rouge on everything your slice of Ooh La La
happens to directly (or indirectly) touch, making it more than a tad messy. (But the good news is that it doesn't leave the kinds of permanent stains that panicky red wine aficionados might otherwise expect.)

What Lush says:-

"Ideal for velvet revolutionaries. You'd have to be British and over thirty to remember Robert Lindsey playing Wolfie in Citizen Smith, founder (and 50%) of the Tooting Popular Front. This unsuccessful revolutionary shouted, "Power to the People" at the end of the credits. When we think of Flowers to the People it's always in Wolfie Smith's voice. In honour of Wolfie then, three fragrant, soaps to start a floral revolution in the bathroom"

Flowers to the People seems to have suddenly vanished off the shelves recently, probably due to Gratuitous Violets not being available anymore! I think when it was available it was one of Lush's cheaper gifts coming in at just under £7.00.

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Summary: A perfect little gift