Auntie Pamela bubble bar from Retro Lush.
Deep rose colored bubble bar with a bit of golden glitter pressed into the center on top. Rose petals are listed in the ingredients but they must be crushed to a very fine consistency because I didn’t have any “floaties” in my bath water.
The bar is scented with rose absolute, ylang ylang oil, vanilla absolute, and chamomile.
This is another one of those Lush products that has a heavy perfume fragrance and will be described as “old lady” by some people (the name doesn’t help lol.) Indeed, it does have that “perfumy” quality but I think it’s lovely. It conjures up images of another time. But I don’t get visions of little old ladies in church. I get a deeply romantic, Victorian feeling.
The rose and ylang ylang are lovely as those two scents play nicely together but the fragrance becomes something special with the addition of the vanilla, chamomile, and gardenia. It is a shamelessly feminine scent. Not candy, girly, sweet feminine but beautifully floral and grown up feminine. It is very powdery. It reminds me a bit of a powder my mother used to wear when I was little. It was on her dresser in a white ceramic, abstract “box.” I used to lift the lid to peek at the fluffy powder puff inside and the scent would instantly float through the room. This fragrance is quite strong in that way as well but because of the “powdery” tone, I don’t find it particularly cloying or aggressive. It’s strong and soft at the same time. It is also expensive at $9.95. For both of those reasons, I only used about 1/3 of the bar – crushed. I didn’t need more than that.
It reminds me of the way The Victorian Trading Co catalog would smell if it did – well – smell. And I know this is odd….but smells are layered and complicated and my olfactory memory is sharp….it instantly took me back to childhood and reminded me of the “smell the flowers” page in the book PAT THE BUNNY. I always loved that book and would always sniff that page. (I was a scentdork at an early age 
) If you are familiar with that scent in the book, it will give you an idea of the soft, tender, perfumy fragrance.
I let it sit out in my bathroom for a few days before actually using it and the fragrance wafted through into my bedroom but the scent blooms into something even more beautiful in the water. Any sharpness fades away and just a gorgeous perfume remains. My bathroom smelled wonderful both times I used it.
Tinted the water a rusty rose color. Made great bubbles and softened my skin.
The really wonderful thing about this bar is that the fragrance left my skin highly perfumed and lingered on me until the next morning. I woke up smelling it on me and I only used 1/3 of the bar for each bath. It is a pricey bar but it is beautifully fragranced, makes fluffy bubbles, leaves me perfumed for hours, and can be split into several pieces without weakening the experience. For me – worth the price.
Similar in scent to Absolute Delight but smells more…. expensive….lol
Not my everyday or signature scent but really, really beautiful.
Now I have to go smell that page in PAT THE BUNNY……..
Music – The Weepies
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