Garnet Hand and Body Lotion

[doomsday_disco]

Delightfully moisturizing and fragranced to charm, not overpower. Treat your skin to a touch of luxury with this sumptuous, softening blend. 

 

13-year aged red patchouli, Damascus rose resin tar, blackcurrant syrup, Egyptian myrrh, and crimson musk seed.

 

Ingredients: Water, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Stearic Acid, Emulsifying Wax, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Optiphen Plus, and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab perfume blends. 

[Poenari]

This arrived on Friday and this is my first wearing. I'm reviewing for lotion info over scent. But the scent is true to the hair gloss and perfume and this is highly scented. This is another beautiful red musk/red patchouli blend, with a hint of myrrh on my skin. A little more powdery from the myrrh than the hair gloss and perfume, which are very red musk on me. 🥰

 

The lotion is thick and creamy, easy to spread and soaks in without leaving my skin feel oily, but definitely moisturized. I had to take the entire cap off to get enough squeezed out of the bottle for my lizard skin. The bottle is similar to the ones the Lab uses for bath oils and massage oils. I would prefer it to have a pump top, and am going to see if I can find any to purchase that will fit it. I think it will be more functional with a pump applicator. 

 

As for scent, it's highly scented with Garnet and since I'm also wearing the hair gloss today, I don't feel the need to add the perfume. But I'm also a slatherer so sometimes I know I'll wear the perfume too, like on a date night when I want to be smelled before being seen. 🥰

[Andalei]

I'm incredibly picky about lotions and find most of them too sticky or greasy but I took a chance with this and it's fantastic! On my skin, it's much more floral than the perfume is but it compliments the perfume perfectly.

 

As Poenari said, the lotion is decadently thick and creamy and absorbed quickly with no stickiness or greasiness. I could not squeeze anything out of the bottle though and had to scoop a little bit out of the neck to apply. I have bad arthritis in my hands and the bottle is fairly thick. I think the texture of this lotion would work better in a tub or a tube.

[ghoulnextdoor]

Rare book dust mingling with desiccated roses pressed between spiral-bound grimoires hidden beneath honors English textbooks. Velvet chokers and silver rings stained dark from handling mineral-rich crystals, dark and humming. The earthy chaos of bedroom altars with black candles melted onto windowsills. Berry-bruised lip prints marking forbidden invitations, invocations, intimations passed during third period. Thrift store incense burning in brass holders stolen from church, sweet smoke curling around cassette cases stacked by candlelight. Resin-infused attar dabbed on pulse points before midnight gatherings in empty football fields and abandoned playgrounds. A single blackened bloom pressed flat between The Crucible and Wuthering Heights, its dried petals holding blood oath secrets of late-night college radio frequency mix tape confessions and cut-up fevered, foreboding Sylvia Plath poems, falling, fading, drowning, until out of the ash I rise with my red hair. The cult of the outsider tracing salt circles on bedroom floors while parents work late. Doc Martens tracking red-black droplets across scuffed linoleum kitchen floors. Flannel shirts concealing greasy vials of aromatic oils that mark the difference between playing at magic and knowing certain shadows respond only to your voice. The scent of skipping homeroom to mix potions in the back of someone’s older brother’s car, parking lot witchcraft with pilfered herbs and resins from that shop at the edge of town where the owner with kohl-shadowed eyes watches but never says a word about the small things that disappear from lower shelves.