3 1/2 out of 5 rating. See my review video of this perfume below.
This smells like a tart, green apple. It’s actually made with rose and orange flower surprisingly.
I like the scent more in the bath bomb. The perfume isnt bad its just nit my favorite way of enjoying this scent.
Here’s a review and demo video I recorded of Lush Uk exclusive so White perfume.
These in my photo above are the perfumes- i bought from the Gorilla III series on the Lush UK website in 2014.
I didnt get Hellstone (didnt buy because erveryone who did buy it said it smelled lightly of sulphur, yuk)
nor The Smell of Freedom
nor Stayin Alive.
Nor Princess Cotton Grass It was available only in the Oxford Street store for one day, and not living in England i wasnt able to buy it, however Lush made a Princess Cotton Grass body dusting powder that i was able to purchase thanks to a lovely Lushie.
Lush wrote about this perfume series;
“Death and decay may seem like strange words to describe a range of perfumes, but step inside the minds of Gorilla perfumers Mark and Simon Constantine and you’ll understand that there’s much more to fragrance than, well, fragrance.
Perfumery is an art form, and deserves recognition as such. That means giving each scent the space to be explored and enjoyed properly using music, light sound and smell.
Rudyard Kipling once said that “Smells are surer than sounds or sights to make your heart-strings crack” meaning they have the power to evoke memories and emotional responses in ways taste, touch, sound and vision can’t. Just a whiff of freshly baked bread can transport you to your grandmother’s kitchen, a french bakery or the supermarket you worked at when you were seventeen. Scent has the power to simultaneously evoke different emotions in all of us with just one note, which is what makes it such a phenomenal medium for expression.
For perfumers Simon and Mark Constantine this couldn’t be more true. Volume III is their way of exploring their personal experiences of death and mourning, and accordingly each perfume has a story behind it.
When the perfumes were first launched guests were able to explore each perfume and the story behind them in an immersive experience at a bespoke pop-up gallery in London. Now the gallery is closed you can discover the Volume’s inspirations below;”
All Good Things
Succumb to this rich, sensual and smokey blend of all good things. Both bitter and sweet, representing a parting of ways and celebrating new beginnings. A sweet, boozy stumble down a dark basement staircase will leave you in a blissed out cloud of candyfloss and black pepper.
(Lush made a bubble bottle bar in this fragrance)
Death and Decay
Granted, it’s not the prettiest of names for a perfume. Those two words, death and decay, evoke macabre, even grotesque responses, but, when coupled with the floral, almost sweet scent of lilies, the meaning behind the perfume suddenly becomes clear. It’s fresh and beautiful, and as Mark points out, it reminds you of the prosaic side of death; the funereal silences, the reverence of remembering those who have passed.
How it was visualised in the Gorilla Gallery space:
The first perfume audience were met with, Death and Decay sets the tone of the exhibition. The floral fragrance is at odds with the harsh, deathly words, which emphasises the bitter-sweet nature of life.
The pure scent of lily mingles with over-ripe tones of indole to give this fragrance a pungent, narcotic headiness. Let it transport you to a serene space where the fullness of beauty and its inevitable decay can be contemplated without fear. The message is one of meditation, acceptance and optimism delivered in a glorious, floral flourish.
Dad’s Garden – Lemon Tree
Dad’s Garden is inspired by a walk Mark took in his father’s garden in South Africa following his death. Mark realised that it was possible to miss someone you never really knew, and created a perfume that encapsulated this unfamiliar familiarity using leaves from a lemon tree he collected during the walk.
Capturing Mark’s father’s verdant South African garden, full of light and bright colours, experience a rush of sunny lemon and juicy lime. This uplifting, tribute fragrance exudes sweet citrus with a sharp twist that lingers on the skin and in the mind. Linger under the Lemon Tree and luxuriate in the warmth of the sun on the nape of your neck.
How it was visualised in the Gorilla Gallery space:
A garden shed hung with men’s suit jackets. Each one is scented with Dear John – a fragrance Mark made as an ode in perfume to a man he hadn’t yet met. Beside the jackets, in a scene reminiscent of of Alice in Wonderland, are three perfume bottles labelled ‘Jo’ ‘Sari’ and “Laura’ – each scent is a portrait in perfume of the three sisters he met after his father’s death.
Dad’s Garden – Lemon and Chamomile
Symbolic of the passing of tradition from generation to generation, this perfume is Simon Constantine’s own homage to his father’s garden. Inspired by the floral, herbal scents in Mark’s garden, the scent of chamomile and honeysuckle create a warm, comforting fragrance that is reassuringly optimistic. This fragrance tackles the more positive elements of mourning, and signals the process of renewal and moving forwards.
Simon created this sweet, green perfume in homage of his father’s garden, and the result is a fragrance landscape of honeysuckle. Lush orange flower is calm rather than zesty in this perfume rich in Roman chamomile and lavender, but the resulting bouquet is stirring rather than dreamy. Wear to be reminded of long gone summer evenings in shades of gold.
How it was visualised in the Gorilla Gallery space:
This fragrance is purposely exhibited close to Mark’s Dad’s Garden fragrance in order to demonstrate how the two pieces work together. The warm and comforting embrace of Simon’s fragrance hits the audience as they leave the more sorrowful atmosphere of Mark’s father’s shed. The two pieces poignantly encompass the mourning process – loss, sadness, comfort, remembrance and renewal.
Kerbside Violet
Elusive and evocative, sweet violet is captured here in its dimunitive glory. Kerbside Violet is inspired by chance encounters and fleeting moments. A breath of serenity allowing you to slow down and notice the tiny revolution growing through the cracks of a concrete jungle near you.
(Lush made the ‘Ultra Violet’ bubble bar in this scent.)
List of ingredients
Princess Cottongrass
A secretive scent inspired by the Swedish tale of a lost princess who waits by a lake in the forest, hoping to reclaim the golden heart necklace she lost to the depths. Walk along the lakeside where you may see the slender cottongrass plants watching over the water and you will know she is still waiting. A delicate alien floral, both sweet and distant as it blossoms on your skin.
List of ingredients
List of ingredients
List of ingredients
⭐️Lush made bath oils of the same names in all of these scents. Some other products that lush made in *some* of these fragrances are in parantheses below.⭐️
Furze (lush made 3 items with this scent)
Flowers Barrow
The Voice
The Bug (lush made Bug Splat bath bomb with this scent)
Euphoria
Sikkim Girls
The Sun (cologne not perfume)
The Smell of Weather Turning
The Smell of Freedom
Hellstone
Devil’s Nightcap (lush made a soap of this)
6 out of 5 lol
It’s a very thin gel which you have to shake up. I put mine in the fridge so when shaken it gets thicker. I love it.I have to admit to needing to have it around at all times. I love spicy/foody smells and Skinny Dip is THE spicy and softening shower gel/bath foam I’ve tried to date from Lush. This gel was rabidly popular in it’s day and I don’t know why Lush disconinued this.
Initially Lush titled this a “body conditioner” in their catolog because it was different than the other shower gels. It was used somewhat differently than the shower gels, and looked different. Then later lush just decided to list it under shower gels.
I used it in the bath and i even washed my hair with it at times. Ohhh what fabulous things it did for my skin.
This smells like very strong cloves. there’s a creamy, buttery-rich bakery smell too, lightly. Skinny Dip kind of smells like an uber strong ‘Phoenix Rising/Bathos’ but with even more notes and more ingredients.
The gel needed to be shaken up though or it will seperate. When it does seperate (like oil and water) the top will be more of a off white creamy thick consistency and the bottom half a thin watery dark golden mixture as you can see in the photo i took of mine above. It’s got white chocolate bits, coconut, cocoa butter bits, almond oil, clary sage, ylang ylang, cedarwood, clove, Vetivert Oil, Palmarossa Oil and then some skin softening goodies like cocoa butter, almond oil.
I have dry skin and I love how this makes my skin so soft as well as fragrant. The scent lasts on the skin longer than most so that’s great. I also used it on my hair.
There was a learning curve to this scent for me. The first time I tried it I did’t like it. I thought it was waaay too strong and it didn’t smell like chocolate to me, which i mistakenly thought it would. Later after learning how to read the ingredients listing, I realized it was full of clove oil, cedarwood and Ylang Ylang.
i put some in a ramekin to take a pic to show you all what it looks like. Its not a very good picture, I didnt know what i was doing back then camera-wise. 😄
Here’s a demo video i made of using the Lush skinny Dip Buttercream at the sink.
Ingredients: Creamed Coconut, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Water, Glycerine, Aloe Vera Gel, Almond Oil, Cocoa Butter, Perfume, Clove Bud Oil, Cedarwood Oil, Clary Sage Oil, Ylang Ylang Oil, Vetivert Oil, Palmarossa Oil, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Editronate, *Linalool, Geraniol
Size: 7.0 oz $11.60 Skinny Dip – 3.5 oz $5.80
NOTE: This buttercream product may melt and is NOT guaranteed to arrive solid during the summer months!
Here are some photos i took of other Lush products with the same scent.
Lush 2006 description: As a shower gel Skinny Dip was one of those products which people loved or hated; now that it has metamorphosed into a Butter Cream we hope that even more people will love it (the ones who didn’t like having to shake the bottle to mix up the cocoa butter, for example). Now, Lush’s gorgeous, violet and clove scented shower extravagance comes in solid form with softening cocoa butter, soothing aloe vera and our ever popular infusion of creamed coconut. Washing your body with Skinny Dip Butter Cream feels like a soothing massage with relaxing tropical oils.
This is Skinny Dip but in buttercream form. While it doesn’t begin to have the creamy goodness and originality of it’s predecessor shower gel, Skinny Dip buttercream is a nice, medium consistency and smells of that clove and white chocolate aroma of Skinny Dip. Its not as complex of a scent as the body conditioner/shower gel. And while I give Skinny Dip buttercream three stars, It’s not the same Lush as the “Skinny Dip” original body conditioning gel, it’s just not the same.
Below is another product; the Skinny Dip body lotion. I liked it more than the buttercream but still not quite like the shower gel.
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in my picture below is the Skinny Dip bubble bars. They were AWESOME.
There is a Skinny Dip spray perfume too.
5 out of 5 rating
My Fever spray perfume, massage bar and Date night bar
All of the different Lush products on this page are made with the Fever scent.
Mirror Mirror neck cream is anothet prpduct but i dont have the picture.
Ingredients: Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, Perfume, Rose Absolute, Jasmine Absolute, Sandalwood Oil, Gardenia Extract.
Fever massage bar
Fever bubble bar
Holoywood bubble bar
Mirror Mirror neck cream
Fever perfume
Fever soap (i won a contest so they created this and gave it to me)
Review:The original bar was two toned. Later lush changed it’s appearance to be round and having red lips on top of the bar. Fever smells strongly of rose absolute, but it smells like real roses, as if from a rose bush, or the rose smell of a florist shop. It also has beautiful Jasmine and calming sandalwood. I think it smells like 1950’s lipstick in a good way. In a wonderfulyl heady but addictive way. When I first sniffed this, I didn’t like it. It was waaay too strong for me. I think it was in the 2nd order I made with Lush and I was not used to Lush’s real, non-synthetic fragrances. Now it is one of my favorite bars ever. Later on, Lush made “Hollywood” Christmas bubble bar in the Fever scent by the way and Lush’s “Mirror Mirror” neck cream has the Fever scent also. Fever is absolutely intoxicating. And for you BPAL lovers, Beth’s Tarot: “The Empress” is a dead on ringer for Fever. Both have jasmine, rose and sandalwood.
Fever Bubble bar
Lush Times 2005 description: In the 1950s some new aromas were invented which changed the olfactory shape of perfume for ever. In Fever we’ve used one of them, with some of our favourite floras to produce a fragrance that epitomizes the scent for the 1950s independent women, shaking off traditions and exploring the brave new world. Picture yourself in dark sunglasses, pink lipstick and fitted sweater, scented with rose, warming sandalwood and sensual jasmine, ready to defy convention and enjoy life to the full. Fever is the massage bar to use on the sweet new guy in town to help him to cut loose and get hip.
Hollywood bubble bar
Here’s a video review of my piece of my Fever.
Original style and newer style Fever massage bars/solid lotion
5 out of 5 rating
Lush Uk made these perfumes for forum members only in 2010, give or take a year. It came before ‘Calacas’. This Day of the Dead perfume was one of the first lush products with this lime and neroli scent, and the name changed to ‘Calacas’.
Its citrussy, i smell lime and the Frankincense the most. I love it!
4 out of 4
This is what the solid version looked like. Lush made it this way for some years, and then they went back to the liquid kind in the black pot again.
I love the scrub. It’s one of Lush’ prettier square body scrubs. It has the mimosa flower, Cherry Blossom scent of their popular ‘Sakura’ bath bomb. A feminine scent. The exfoliating is enhanced by the moisturizing Cocoa butter which leaves skin sooo soft afterwards.
You just wash in the shower as usual, with soap or shower gel, then rinse off. Then you scrub the rough parts of your body like knees, elbows, legs, etc. Then simply rinse off in the shower and dry yourself off, that’s it. The lovely and natural floral scent lingers on my skin for a couple hours. I would suggest this.
Mimosa flowers. I knew this smell right away, I used to walk around these trees at my fathers house that had the fuzzy lavender colored flowers on it and the smell was heavenly. A sweet yet powdery flower the mimosa. It is lavender in color and fuzzy like a soft pink brush. Sometimes it smells like a light melon scent too. Mimosa is what the “Sakura” and “Rub Rub Rub” is scented with.
Lush made this shower gel alooooong time ago for users on their customer forum website. The bottles were extra large. Im glad i bought a couple of bottles.
Such a pretty color
Mother Superior bubble bar, Sakura bath bomb,
I took a photo of these rub rub rub/sakura scented products below. There are a couple of other products that lush released a few years after this photo was taken such as the ‘naked version of the scrub’
Kerbside Violet Gorilla Perfume
5 out of 5 rating
Kerbside violet is my favorite violet perfume of all the violet things lush has made. It’s violet which also has a fresh, green note. So it’s a fresh violet, the green note makes it less sweet, which is good because it would be to sweet if that green wasn’t in
Made with Neroli Oil, Jasmine Absolute, Violet Leaf Absolute, Ylang Ylang Oil, and Rosewood.
The perfume liquid is a bright green color.
Lush made a bubble bar called UltraViolet which is in the same scent as Kerbside Violet.
Lush also made an anti static chair spray called ‘Sunny Day’ which had the Kerbside Violet scent
Kerbside Violet was part of the Lush Gorilla Perfume III series, shown in my pic below. Kerbside is on the extreme right end. I eventually bought all of them over the span of a year. I really liked them. This might be my favorite of the Lush Gorilla series’.
i recorded a review of Kerbside Violet on my youtube lush channel below. .
Here’s my pic of Kerbside violet with ultraviolet bubble bar.
Here are some of my Lush Violet products.
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