If you're a Lush fan at all, you'll know that Lush have recently introduced a new range of perfumes, Gorilla Perfumes, which even have their own website. The range includes some brand new scents, a couple of perfumes which were originally part of the Retro range, reincarnations of perfumes from B Never Too Busy to be Beautiful (Lush's now-defunct sister cosmetics company) and the longstanding Lush perfumes Karma and Vanillary. I received Karma in the form of a sample, when I ordered the special promotional set of 7 sample perfumes for £7 from the Lush site. Sadly prices have now increased. Like the other perfumes in the range, Karma comes in four ...  Read the complete review

Lush launched Karma perfume in 1995. I discovered Lush four years later at Covent Garden when the wonderful 'Lush aroma' enticed me into the store. I bought my first bottle of Karma fragrance that day and have loved it ever since. Karma is the creation of Mark Constantine, founder of Lush. According to Lush it is Mark's "ode to hippies". Karma has a unmistakable undertone of patchouli and the first thing to say here is if you don't like patchouli, Karma is probably not for you. It does seem to be a love it or hate it kind of perfume. I love Karma, to me it is earthy, warm and sensual. I find it calming and uplifting at the same time and it ...  Read the complete review

Continuing in my series of “Ode to Lush” reviews comes this review of Lush’s delightful perfume, Karma. One of the sucky things about being vegetarian is that most fragrances are off limits, either because of ingredients tested on animals, or possibly even containing bits of animal, although many of these ingredients have artificial versions available these days, a lot of more expensive perfumes still do contain this stuff. This is where good ol’ Lush comes in. Karma is their original and best fragrance. The ingredients DRF alcohol, perfume, patchouli oil, orange oil, lavendin oil, pine oil, lemongrass oil, Elemi oil, ...  Read the complete review

This is a product that I actuallly bought for my granny before splashing out and getting myself some. If you could imagine would heaven might smell like, bottled then this is probably it. Karma is a fragrance and can be bought in a bottle for about twenty pounds, making one of Lush's dearer items. It is worth the price tag though. For your money you get 30g of the most infuriatingly aromatic scent you will ever step across. My first impression of this was one of a shocked nature. I was genuinely amazed at how strong the smell was and how intoxicating it was. The nose becomes enveloped by eastern spices and you feel like you being transported to the ...  Read the complete review

This is one of those perfumes that makes me wonder how many testers Lush must go through, with people wandering in and sneakily spraying themselves before a day or a night out. It's over £20, which might be a little bit out of the price range of some of Lush's demographic, although it does make the perfect gift for the older relatives of that demographic and Christmas is only four months away.... The bottle is a half-moon shape with a long gold-coloured top and an orange label. It's lighthearted and pretty, and although it looks a bit incongruous next to my Prada and Chanel No. 5 bottles it definitely fits in with that sort of scent - powdery and complex ...  Read the complete review