Peach and Red Bean Paste Hair Gloss

[Jenjin]

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Edited September 17, 2024 by Jenjin

[VioletChaos]

I. Am. SMITTEN.

I kept my D-Con order much more limited this year due to an immanent relocation, but even though I've never encountered a Red Bean Paste note personally before, I figured this would be one of my three splurged items since the note sounded intriguing and since I've had very good luck with Peach HG's in previous years.

This? Blows them ALL out of the water.

In the bottle, the bean paste note is SO deep and rich, it almost comes across like cacao, if cacao somehow wasn't chocolatey. That might hurt your brain, but I assure you, when you smell this? You will understand. It's the rich-paste thing. There's nothing "creamy" about it, but it had that level of richness.

I sprayed a little on my hand (which is what I do with the Hair Glosses: I spray them into my hand, lightly rub my hands together, then run my hands though my hair, focusing on the bottom two thirds of length).  Once warmed up, the richness mellows, but only a bit. This allows the tendrils of peach to find their way in. 

Side note about the peach: I got three Pit items this year and all three share the experience of a greatly understated Peach note as compared to previous years. But take my advice- do NOT let that be a deterrent! Whereas previous Peach Pit iterations have caused me to rave about the "juiciness" and the "fresh", "ripe" qualities, this year's Peach is a study in what a "quiet" peach can be. It's not food or gourmand- it's a dry, delicate scent that removes the edible aspects, so that it comes across like a skin musk that happens to be extracted from a peach- or the pith near the stone at the center. What it loses in the kind of brash immediacy of previous years, it gains in being subtle, adult, and frankly gorgeous. And in a 3-out-of-3 tries, it elevates the scent and the experience each time.

After settling in, this scent, in this hair gloss, is something that I didn't even know I was missing from my (frankly? VAST) collection of BPALs. 

I could not be happier that after almost two solid decades of rabidly following this company that the always-masterful Beth can still surprise me and leave me in awe. ❤️

Final thoughts: low throw, brilliant on its own, but if you felt like layering or pairing, I'd recommend any of the bone-dry sandalwood or cacao-forward scents to add even more depth.


 

[topazphoenix]

Peach and red bean paste?? I had to try this.

 

Suave Clarifying Shampoo once a day and 2-3 sprays of BPAL Hair Gloss on wet hair are all the products my hair gets these days. I have short curly hair. The oil works really well for my curls. 

 

The red bean paste is earthy and warm. I don't know how you would know to pair red bean and peach, but it's an amazing combo.

[doomsday_disco]

I grabbed a decant of this in a decant circle last year and am only getting around to testing and reviewing it now. 

 

This is indeed peach and red bean paste, and I swear there's like... the buttery, yeasty bun of a red bean bun along with the red bean, too. I get it when I first spray the hair gloss and can also smell it in my hair. I have had daifukus and doriyakis and can say that the red bean paste note is on point, and I think the peach may be a yellow peach, but I'm not totally sure -- in any case, I can say that it's definitely stronger on the peach than Peach Glazed Honey Cake Hair Gloss, which was also released last Dragoncon and which I also grabbed a decant of last year. I applied this to wet hair yesterday and dry hair today and found that I could smell it with both ways (huzzah! some hair glosses just seem to disappear when applied to wet hair), but it has better longevity in dry hair, where I can still smell it in my hair after eight hours (I can't smell it without holding my hair up to my nose, though, so even though it has good longevity, it doesn't have a ton of throw).

 

I will be keeping my decant and will reach for it when pairing it with peach scents, or when I want a fix of that red bean paste (such a unique note, and so well done!  ).

Edited 15 hours ago by doomsday_disco