White Tea Body Cream 400ml

Elizabeth Arden White Tea Pure Indulgence Body Cream 400ml is a body cream first and a scented product second, and it is worth reading it in that order. What it smells of is cool and herbal rather than sweet. Italian mandarin gives a soft citrus brightness, clary sage essence brings a nutty, hay dry herbal quality, japanese white fern adds a damp green coolness, and a sea breeze accord lifts the whole thing with that clean saline airiness that works better in a cream than it ever does in a perfume. The middle is the most interesting part. Mate absolute is bitter and faintly smoky, the roughness of dried leaves rather than a drink, a white iris accord lends a cool powderiness, and turkish rose absolute gives a proper rose depth, jammy and slightly spiced, which is unusually good material for a body product. Underneath, madras wood supplies a dry warm wood, ambrette seed absolute a nutty musk, tonka bean absolute a soft powdered sweetness, and ambermax a smooth resinous warmth that holds the scent on the skin for an hour or two after the cream has sunk in. As a cream it is rich without being greasy, and a 400ml tub is a generous amount: enough for daily use on arms and legs rather than something to ration. Apply it after a shower while the skin is still warm. It is also the sensible way to wear this scent in situations where a spray would be too much, since what is left on the skin is faint and close. Men and women both use it. An American beauty business with salon origins, Elizabeth Arden sells creams, cosmetics and scent in roughly equal measure. Blue Grass is the fragrance the name rests on. Since September 2016 the company has belonged to Revlon, which makes its perfumes rather than licensing them out.