The Body Shop: White Musk, Eau de Toilette

I remember many years ago the hype that The Body Shop received. It seemed an entirely new concept in buying (no idea why now looking back lol) and I like every other teenager at my school started to buy a fragrance from there. I remember being knocked sick by the smell of Dewberry in my all girls school and by the time I left school I vowed when I got a job to sniff the air first. I simply couldn't bear it any longer. Me, I loved White Musk. I don't remember 'designer fragrances' being about as they are now. My Mum wore Tweed 18 years ago and my Dad was a fan of Brut and Old Spice on special occasions lol To me The Body Shop fragrances were bought for me as a ...  Read the complete review

First Impression Sadly when buying a perfume what the thing actually smells like is only half of what we search for. Women tend to use fragrance to make themselves feel beautiful, sophisticated and alluring. As a little girl a bottle of perfume looked ridiculously glamorous sitting on a dressing table and was always a must-have during dressing up games. It is unsurprising then that I spent so much of my youth mercilessly squishing rose petals and mixing the pulp with water before placing the bowl in the airing cupboard as this was obviously how it miraculously turned into real perfume. The air surrounding perfume is that of glamour and this is what we buy ...  Read the complete review

The Body Shop's "White Musk" Body Lotion is one of the staples in my self-pampering arsenal. I began by using it on it's own, because it's soft, delicate smell complemented the perfume sprays that I tended to wear all the time. It rubbed into my skin beautifully, was absorbed easily and there was no stickiness or greasy residue - important when you have clothes touching your skin , and don't want to ruin the fabric. Ah, but then I began to experiment, using it as a base, a part it lends itself to, extremely well. I mixed fragrant oils, ottar of roses, lilac, jasmine and honeysuckle, and shook them up in that White Musk base. It emulsified without any ...  Read the complete review

I will be honest I bought this as a trip down memory lane also my husband said that he loves the smell. Hmm where to start, the thing is that if you were buying this as a proper perfume you would not be attracted to it from the start. It is a small child-like "lets play dress up" kind of bottle and am slightly begrudged to call it a perfume it feels too unsophisticated to be called such. The bottle is fairly standard nothing to sing about, clear bottle, white writing and a silver top with a squirter. The smell well surprise, surprise its musk! A very light smell and I think because of this it doesn't seem to last very long a couple of ...  Read the complete review

I remember loving this as a teenager, my mother HATED it, maybe that has more to do with why I insisted on wearing it?! Yes I was a rebellious teen but have since grown out of that but not my love of this scent. Ever since I was a teenager I have been a perfume junkie! I like to know I smell nice and worry a lot that I smell, for no real reason I should point out, just my own paranoia. I have always had loads of different bottles of perfumes to chose from, and am often given them at Christmas and for birthdays. Like with my body products I chop and change depending on my mood, where I am going and who I am likely to see (I know some people don't like heavier ...  Read the complete review