Victoria’s Secret Beauty Rush
I had a mission to check out the new Beauty Rush bodycare stuff at Victoria’s Secret. I was pleased to find the entire collection at my local (tiny) VS store. The lotions seemed decent - not too runny, but not super moisturizing. A pleasant surprise was the Body Double Mist, which was a light oil or silicone-base instead of the VS Secret Garden -type alcohol mists. The scents in the mists were also stronger than I’d expected. My favorite was probably Grapesicle, although Strawberry Fizz was a close second. The “Slice of Heaven” scent didn’t really seem to belong in this collection of fun, fruit-scented products.
My one complaint was the lotion tubes have a slightly different mechanism to open/close - as you push one side down, the open side pops up. But unlike most tubes, you push straight down, and the other side comes straight up rather than the usual angle/pivot type opening you’re used to. I like the brightly-colored packaging and the silver accents, but I resisted even at the 2/$18 sale price, hoping they’ll be cheaper sometime in the future. 
Also at VS I checked out the “Exotic Nectars” new line of products. I was instantly drawn to the packaging, and the body butters were FAR better than the VS Garden Body butters. There are three scents - Tahitian Vanilla Flower, Moorea Passion Fruit, and Bali Orchid. I feel these are an answer to Bath and Body Works new Tahitian-inspired line, and the scents were interesting but WAY different than what I expected to find at Victoria’s Secret.
Moorean Passion Fruit had the following notes:
Top notes: kumquat, lemongrass
Middle notes: Moorean passionfruit, pomegranate, ginger flower
Low notes: fresh ginger root, bamboo
I found it to be very floral, with the ginger flower and bamboo notes predominant. I really expected a ‘fruity-floral’ in the vein of Escada but this had a much more “perfumey” quality and is very grown-up, floral, and not particularly my taste.
Tahitian Vanilla Flower is described as:
Top notes: sweet orange, pitahaya fruit
Middle notes: Tahitian vanilla flower, tuberose
Low notes: black coconut, santal, tonka bean
I liked this a lot, although the tuberose was (and is still, an hour later) unexpectedly predominant. The black coconut note is warm and inviting.
Bali Orchid:
Top notes: orange blossom, lemon blossom
Middle notes: night-blooming jasmine, wild orchid, peach blossom, chamomile flower
Low notes: Mediterranean honey, amber, musk
Whew! Floral and musk. A nice scent, but again, not really my scene.
Each scent comes in the following products:
Body Lotion, $16
Body Mist, $18.
Body Butter, $18.
Body Wash, $14.
Exfoliating Body Polish, $18.
Perfume Rollerball, $16.
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