Oui Juicy Couture

This vibrantly rich women's perfume will have you saying Oui! to a burst of nostalgic pops providing mouthwatering freshness. Whether you're looking for your new signature scent or the perfect gift, Oui Juicy Couture will captivate and fascinate with its exclusive fragrance. -juicycouturebeauty.com

This scent is definitely more mature than the Bowdacous or any of the Viva La Juicy scents I have previously smelt (which is most likely why it isn't a Viva La Juicy scent). That being said it also isn't too mature, it is a great blend of floral and fruit that is just complex enough, making it a great scent for anyone looking for something fruity but a bit more or something floral but with a hint of fruit to it.

It has a crisp fruity and floral scent that lingers all day while not being over the top. The watermelon gives it a nice fruity summer lightness while the tea and florals make it more complex and intriguing. I have a hard time differentiating within it, it just smells like a really nice blend. All I know is that I really like it.

Overall I really am enjoying both Oui and Bowdacious, they are fun and really suit my perfume styles while being completely different. Bowdacious suits my more fun and fruity days while still being complex and bit more age-appropriate for me. While Oui is a bit more floral while still retaining a fruity essence to it, all the while being a scent I have no problem wearing day in and day out.

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 When I think of Demeter I think of fun fragrances that smell exactly like what their unique names say they are (Rain, actually smells like rain). What is better then all the fun and unique scents that they already offer? How about custom blending kits? If you're like me this may have just peeked your interest.

I am often that person who puts on a body spray and then a completely different perfume to create my own blend, so Demeter's Foolproof Blending Tool Kit really spoke to me.
The kit consists of an Empty bottle with a blank label on it, a lid and pump, 6 eyedroppers, a funnel, and a lot of fragrance testing strips. The idea is that you pick three scents you like and blend them together to make your own signature scent. You can try layering on yourself or on the strips until you get it just right. Then just use the eyedroppers to move the scents into your own bottle. You can make as little or as much as you like and continue to refill the bottle to your hearts content.

I got to choose my scents from their Classic Catalog (Baby Powder, Pure Soap, Sunshine, Gin & Tonic, Laundromat, Clean Skin, Wet Garden, Salt Air, Lavender and Jasmine) and ultimately chosen Sunshine, Salt Air and Clean Skin. I was aiming for a really fresh and clean scent and with these three by my side I knew I could get it just right.


So how did I go about getting my custom scent down just right? First sprayed each one around pointlessly to get the idea of the scents. Then my co-workers started to do the same. Then I had no clue what anything smelt like anymore and put a stop to all the madness, boxed it up and took it home.

Once at home I could control things and smell again I decided that Clean Skin was the most bold smelling of all of them and the most 'perfumy' while still being clean clean clean. I also decided that Sunshine and Salt Air were about the same in strength and I liked them both equally. This is where I started to just spray strips. I decided at this point that a 2:2:1 ratio of sunshine:salt air:clean skin is what I wanted for my own blend.

Using the eyedroppers I added 12 of each the Sunshine and Salt Air scents and 6 of the Clean Skin, closed the lid, shook it up and sprayed it right on my skin and fell in love.

Now the only thing left to do was to name my custom scent, I chose Sun by the Sea. I love that I got the change to write my own custom label, it's fun to come up with something as unique as you scent, but I'm just not that creative.
Overall I had a fun time creating my own scent. It was exactly what I had wanted, fresh and clean without being one bit heavy. I chose not to make too much of my scent so that I could adjust it in the fall or winter if I wanted to and also so that I can enjoy the individual scents on their own whenever I want too. 
One of the joys of Demeter's fragrance library is the vastness of it. I highly recommend you look at their site and take a peek at some of their unique and spot on fragrances. They do sell trios and duos for customizing , but you can always just mix whatever you want together to make your perfect scent. I really enjoyed this process and would love to make some more in the near future (Mahogany, Mountain Air and Thunderstorm sound like a great mix to me).

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Seems like yesterday that I got a little bottle of Givenchy Very Irrésisitble as a gift, at the time I was flooded with gorgeous images of Liv Tyler in ads for it. I saw it grow from a Eau de Toilette to Eau de Parfum to finally the latest incarnation in 2011, Intense. Well now the original turns 10 years old and the iconic fragrance is celebrating with a new spokesperson, Amanda Seyfried.
As if that wasn't excitement enough, there is a new collectors edition of the fragrance celebrating this milestone. The gorgeous bottle is adorned with 10 roses that represent the 10 roses used in its creation. These 10 roses are the most sought after and praised in perfumery, making this one fantastic collectors edition fragrance.

The perfect fragrance can make our great rooms even greater. Glade^® Wax Melts Warmers fill even the largest rooms with fragrance with a stylish, electric table-top warming dish. Available in a wide variety of your favorite Glade^® scents, Glade^® Wax Melt cubes deliver up to 96 hours of fragrance per pack. -glade.com

wax melts packaging

I definitely like the melter. I like that it doesn't need a light bulb, and that the plate is removable for cleaning. Plus, I think it looks quite nice. I have heard (but I am not sure) that you can put a candle on it and use it as a candle warmer (all the scent of a candle but no dangerous flame).

melter without the dish

melter with dish

As for the wax, I really like the fall scent I chose, the apple and cinnamon make my place smell amazing and they seem to last a very long time. If the 96 hour claim is true is another story, any way the price is good and I can surly use other waxes in it if I do not end up loving them ( I personally love putting the last bits of candles into melters).

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