Mother Earth (The Body Shop: Woody Sandalwood, Eau De Toilette)

Member Name: ninacolada86

Product:	The Body Shop: Woody Sandalwood, Eau De Toilette
Date:	09/02/09 (105 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Natural and Warm smell

Disadvantages: None

Rich, warm intoxicating, earthy, crude but never common. All these things describe what I consider the heart of perfume, some may go for the smell of the ocean others for the sweet freshness of the air in a flower garden, but I prefer both feet firmly on the ground with this scent that puts us back where we belong, in the good old mother earth.

Although not for all, this is the scent that reminds me of home, of log cabins and freshly cut wood, of glowing embers and bear skin rugs. Of mountains glistening with snow and skis drying by the fire but most of all of wood.

Sandal wood is originally from Asia, but apart from the color of the oil it is in many ways similar to other wood scents, while none can mistake its sweet fragrance it still undeniably reminds me of home in Norway.

The Body Shop version of Woody Sandalwood comes in a small half ounce glass container with a plastic top. This unscrews to allow you to use its stick to spread the amber oil on your skin.

It is not pure sandalwood oil as that is an expense few of us could afford, but the enticing blend is a perfect base for most popular perfumes that I dare say find themselves on your vanity table. While more then able to hold its own as a purfume I enjoy experimenting with different scents, and have found Burberry Touch (By Burberry), Far Away (By Avon), Pure Poison (By Christian Dior) and several floral scents by various brands like Pupa, Amor Amor, and Elizabeth Arden to compliment it as well.

The Sandalwood perfume lasts quite long and since it is a oil will linger on your skin so that you almost forget that it isnt a part of you. It has a crude down to earth feel to it, like you have reached down into the core of your essence and let it out for all to partake of. It is honest and unpretentious without the lush decadence of L'instant by Guerlain, or the freshly scrubbed smell of Coolwater by Davidoff. It is just "you", plain and simple. Dress it up with a dash of the other high riders but don't forget your roots and that we all will one day return to our mother earth.

Price: Costs 6.50 pounds on Body Shop website, but can be got cheaper on Ebay or Amazon.

Top notes: - Cedarwood, sandalwood, chypre and clove.
Middle & Base notes: - Sandalwood, cedarwood, patchouli, amber, labdanum, tonka, musk, balsams and vanilla.

INGREDIENTS: Parfum (Fragrance), Coumarin (Fragrance Ingredient), Benzyl Benzoate (Solvent), Eugenol (Fragrance Ingredient), Limonene (Fragrance Ingredient).

Summary: If you perfer tried and proven over new and flashy then give this a go.