Lush Rose Jam Line Up Review, Kind Of

When I was on vacation, I did devote a day to the Lush Rose Jam line up. It was either late last year or early this year, Ulta had some of those gift set minis of Lush products and I had gotten both the Sleepy and the That's My Jam gift set. I did develop a liking for Sleepy and it has taken me forever to get around to the Rose Jam stuff. A few days ago, I gave the Rose Jam another go.

The first go around, I fell in love with the body wash. The body was is a huge jam like rose with some lemon. The body wash is just like Sleepy and Sleepy Bear. Thick, cleansing and none too drying. So I fell in love with the body wash. When I get matching bath and body stuff, I can still smell the soap when I dry off. With the Rose Jam body wash, there was no lingering scent and I was and am, a little miffed about that. Maybe because I am used to the Chanel and Amouage bath and body stuff and it is probably an unfair comparison of even the soaps lasting well after I got out of the shower.

The body conditioner was what I really struggled. I have never used a body conditioner before and probably didn't use it right or maybe because I take showers and not baths. When I put it on my legs, it seemed to just slide right off, no matter how I moved the shower head. But my second go around was a little different. I moved the shower head to where it wasn't being rinsed off right away and used a little more. The first time, no scent seemed to have been left behind. So the second shower with the body conditioner was way different. My legs and arms felt really greasy when I rinsed off the conditioner and took a little of the body wash to see what I could get off but I was still left with a greasy feeling. I did enjoy the smell of the body conditioner because it was rich, it was heady but it was just a hot mess on me. I think that Lush should have just stuck with having a regular lotion. So the body conditioner is going to be regulated for when I shave my legs.

Then came the travel spray of perfume. For a while, I was thinking of what Rose Jam reminded me of. Then I remembered what it reminded me of. I was reminded of Guerlain Nahema and PHI Une Rose de Kandahar. Now, I love Rose de Kandahar and have a travel spray of it but no full bottle. Andy Taker and Lush are using the same roses from the same region. So I am viewing the Rose Jam perfume as a dupe for Rose de Kandahar.

Would buy any of the Rose Jam stuff again? No, even though I love the body wash. I didn't think that Lush is my thing and I have heard people on the Perfume Posse rave about Lush and I wanted and tried to give Lush a fair shake. So I will probably gift what I have and use up what is already opened and what hasn't been opened, I will just gift.

Lush Dream Cream and Stuff

It seems like I can't get through two or three months without spending money at Bath and Body Works. It seems like ever since Bath and Body Works did the Bridgerton collaboration, I have always taken a look but didn't buy. I did spend and got the Queen Charlotte's Tea candles and a couple hand washes but that was it. I had no interest in the Stranger Things collab or the Disney Princess one. But stupid me, I had to check last week and there it was, a Star Wars collaboration. I do love Star Wars and I did cave in. The damage was 3 hand soaps and a three wick candle. Two of the hand soaps will be gifts but the rest will be used up. It just seems like when I seem to make any kind of progress, I seem to back slide. I just have to get back on the bandwagon and keep moving.

I kept meaning to do another Lush review but kept forgetting to actually sit down and do it. The products that I did test out was the Sleepy Bear body wash and the Dream Cream body lotion. I honestly thing that the Sleepy Bear body was smells similar to the Sleepy but is toned down. What bothered me was the chamomile, I think because I can be a little iffy on chamomile. But the scent didn't linger past me stepping out of the tub. So Sleepy Bear isn't my thing scent wise. But Sleepy Bear body wash does have that lather that Sleepy does and it does take a little bit longer to rinse off. Sleepy Bear will be regulated to shaving.

Dream Cream, I thought would be something I did like, in spite of having chamomile. Turns out, the answer is nope, I don't like this one bit. The lavender and chamomile are faint but the lavender is even fainter than the chamomile. All that would have been fine because I could douse myself in Jicky and things would be fine. There is a huge oat note that is incredibly big and doesn't seem to calm down let alone fade away. The oat just sits there. There is no development or anything.  But what annoys me so much is that Dream Cream is so greasy. My skin might be dry but this was too much. The two small unopened containers of Dream cream will go for birthdays an Christmas.
 

I Tried and Failed

You know how I said that I wouldn't imbibe in getting anything new in terms of perfume? Yeah, four days in, I caved and ordered a Rose Jam shower and body kit. It was the debate of a one ounce bottle of Narciso Rodriguez for her bottle or the That's My Jam kit. I could have used my $25 credit on Fragrance net and gotten the Narciso Rodriguez for just about free. I also was starting to use the justification of if I want to start reclaiming my diamond status at Ulta, I needed to get a move on. After I made the purchase, I called myself a dumbass and said I have all damn year to level up with Ulta rewards. So now it's back to square one. Now I have to make a bigger and better effort into achieving the no new perfume for at least 6 months. It is going to be tough to do. The only thing that I am holding firm on is my breakup with Bath and Body Works. I guess I have to take my wins where I can since it's been a month or a little over since I made a Bath and Body Works purchase.

I already have some Rose Jam body wash and some of that "conditioner" but haven't given it a try yet. But when I smell the conditioner, I am reminded of Andy Tauer's  Rose de Kandahar perfume. So I am thinking that I am going to see if I can layer the Rose Jam body stuff and Rose de Kandahar. But I want to give the Rose Jam stuff a go before I go layering stuff. But let's hope that I can keep my resolutions for right now.
 

Lush Sleepy Review

 

Since I have used up my Lyric hand lotion and shower gel, I decided to start something new in terms of body stuff. I still have the Lyric body butter and even though I don't have a lot left, I am hoarding it. Right now it's the Lush Sleepy shower gel and body lotion.

I do have the Lush Rose Jam body wash but not the lotion of Rose Jam. I think that Rose Jam has a gift set on ULTA and I will eventually check it out but right this second.

I had a dentist appointment on Monday and wanted something a little more calming. Going to the dentist is always rough for me because it never seems to be good news when I go.

Sleepy is a lavender dominant line up but it's nothing to loud. Sometimes lavender can be loud but Sleepy is not loud in anyway shape or form, it is soothing. I can't say that it made me sleepy but made.me feel calmer. I did find that the body lotion felt a little greasy on me for a good long while. The greasy aspect took me by surprise because my skin is really dry and sucks up lotion like it is going out of fashion. Sleepy is a little loud when I first apply it but quickly calms down. 

For a while after my dentist appointment, I had the bright idea or remembered the bright idea of layering Sleepy with Jicky. Jicky is a slutty lavender bomb. I couldn't find my spray bottle of the edp but found some last dregs of a Jicky extrait that I had gotten at Saks Fifth when I was first starting out in my perfume journey 15 years ago. Granted that this was a sample of what was the current extrait at the time.  I don't even know if Guerlain still makes the extrait of anything anymore. Let's just say that the Jicky extrait that I had and Sleepy play together beautifully. This combo is something that I would do again when I find my full spray bottle of Jicky or just say to hell with it and pull out my monster bottle of vintage Jicky. My monster bottle of vintage Jicky is probably the last time that Guerlain had the tear drop bottle of anything. Now I am wondering if Iris Silver Mist would play nicely with Sleepy.

Many Things and Some of it Bad

It's been a rough few days in my neck of the woods. On Thursday, we got a phone call from my grandmother's memory care letting us know that she did pass between 6am and 7am. We are just waiting for the doctor to sign off on the death certificate before we finish planning the funeral. Her death wasn't really a surprise between her dementia and her kidney disease. 

But this got me to starting think about what I need to wear in terms of clothing but I started to mostly about which perfume to wear. I have more of what I want to wear in terms of clothing. The choices are Jicky, Infusion d'Iris or De Profundis. Even though I have a mini of Calvin Klein Euphoria but I think is inappropriate even though it was my grandmother's signature perfume. 

Since I have a dentist appointment today, I decided to give Lush's Sleepy body products a go. Wanted something a little more soothing for today. With the whopping dose of lavender, I am thinking that this one can be layered with Jicky since Jicky has a huge lavender note. I figured that why not give layering a go. I haven't applied Jicky yet so I can't tell if that combo is any good. When I get around to using some Rose Jam, I can probably get away with layering it with Lyric. Eventually I will report back and see how it goes.
 

Vacation and Technology

       Right now, my internet connection is being a jerk along with this huge computer update. It was decided that we needed to switch to Windows 11 since apparently Windows 10 won't be supported too much longer. So it's been a rough few days trying to get things to work let alone properly. Having a hard time trying to upload pictures to stick on here but I am not going to worry about that right this second. Then I am trying to get used to the Samsung Galaxy update and I am not liking it too much. I just don't like slow internet along with system updates. I am just sick and tired of things getting "timed out".

     So far I am day 6 of my first vacation of the year. Yesterday was my mother's birthday and we went out to dinner. Wednesday was marked by one doctor's appointment and I had another one today. But I did manage to go to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This was the first time that I have been in there since before the pandemic. It took them 4 years to remodel the whole thing. It looks nice enough but there seems to be less stuff on display. No Balto display, no shrunken head display and there seemed to be much less. But then again, I didn't spend a whole lot of time there. There were too many schools trying to get one last field trip in before summer vacation. It seemed that nobody was paying a whole lot of attention to these kids and I was constantly tripping over groups of 10 year olds with no situational awareness. I am hoping that I will be able to go back with far fewer people and more time on my hands. That pesky doctor's appointment said that I couldn't spend a whole lot of time there. In a way, I was a little more hoping that I would go to the art museum and I think that it might have been a little quieter with less kids running around. With every field trip that I ever took as a kid, nobody was turned loose, we all had to stay with our group. Maybe standards have been relaxed.

     Right now, I seem to be beefing with Ulta right now. A couple years ago, I had ordered a bigger bottle of Chanel no 5 edp or Eau Premiere and was sent some kind of celebrity scent. I was not thrilled with that one and it was a massive pain in the ass to fix. And I thought that that was going to be a simple mistake. A month ago I had placed an order and when it showed up, I was missing a couple lip liners and I just decided that I was just going to be refunded. I just didn't want the hassle. On Sunday, I had placed an order for smaller bottle of Coco Mademoiselle Intense and some Lush bath and body stuff and paid with a good chunk of points that I have accumulated. When I got my order, I was a little surprised to find that I was missing the Rose Jam body wash and somehow ended up with a purple eyeliner. I was a whole lot less amused this time around. I don't wear eyeliner and if I did, it wouldn't purple and it was a NYX eyeliner. Since when does a NYX eyeliner cost a shade over $12? And how can one confuse eyeliner and bodywash? For a while the Ulta reps couldn't find my order and when they did, I had said that I have been a loyal customer for 8 years and I have noticed a decline in getting what I have ordered and when I get it. I hate complaining about stuff like this but when these mistakes are becoming more frequent, I think that this is a training problem. And the training problem rests at the feet of corporate suits as I always think it does and some of the blame rests at the manager's feet. I had the choice of either getting my points back or they send me the bottle of Rose Jam and I chose the Rose Jam. After all is said and done, I still have $80 in rewards points but I will wait for when Ulta has a really good point multiplier going on before I go and make another order since I will probably need more lotion and face cream.