With all the Christmas things making the store smell beautiful, I feel it's only right to write a post about one of the most popular Christmas products: Snow Fairy!
This bright pink, sparkly shower gel returns to the shelves every year, and for good reason: people ask for it all year round, and buy it by the ton in the few months that it's around. This year she even has a pretty pink label, setting her apart from all the other gels with their standard black labels - very fancy! I like to buy a big bottle and hope it lasts - I don't stock up anymore, since one year I bought one myself and received 2 more for Christmas!
As I'm sure most of you know, it smells of sweeties - in my opinion, like a mix of candyfloss, jelly beans and those banana foam sweets you can often find in pick 'n' mix. And it's bright pink. And contains iridescent glitter. It's so girly, and yet somehow it draws in a lot of men too - I suspect that mine goes rather more on the hubby than on me! I like to shake up the bottle before he uses it - only right he gets his fair share of the glitter, right?
And what gives it this scent? Well, it's closely guarded secret, with most of the fragrancing ingredients being listed under the single ingredient of 'Perfume'. This is, of course, to prevent the recipe from being copied, which is always a risk with such a successful product.
One fragrant ingredient is listed on its own though - synthetic musk. And it does need to be synthetic, natural musk is an animal product, and the animals are killed in order to gather it. It's a common fixative in perfumes, helping the scents to linger longer on the skin, and adding a subtle aroma of its own. Unsurprisingly, it smells, well, musky.
A couple of other ingredients have been revealed over the years too - synthetic banana is in there, giving that scent of banana sweeties. I suspect it's synthetic for preservation reasons, as bananas do seem to go off fairly quickly, and it's only there for scent rather than any skincare reasons (unlike in Sympathy for the Skin, Oatifix and a bunch of other super moisturising products, where they give some serious nourishing to dry skin). I also heard that it contains bergamot - it certainly makes sense. The light, fruity fragrance would slot into the overall scent very well, and it would help to explain why Snow Fairy makes so many people so very happy, as it's a natural anti-depressant!
There's a range of products featuring the Snow Fairy fragrance these days. Magic Wand reusable bubble bar is another Christmas special, invented last year and returning this year, much to its fans' delight. There's The Godmother soap all year round, too, if you run out of Snow Fairy mid-year and can't wait for your next fix, and Bubblegum lip scrub if you're one of the many people who have wanted to eat Snow Fairy (I know I have, and even took an ill-advised lick of last year's Magic Wand - yuck!).
Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, get down to your local shop and take a good sniff as soon as possible - the Snow Fairy demands it!
Lots of Lush,
Coralie
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