Lush's Lust Perfume Review

What Lush says:

It's a very heady perfume that's not for the shy and retiring. It starts off as strong, pure jasmine and warms on the skin to a seductive floral scent. It lasts for hours and hours. Unlike some other things we could mention. Mark firmly believes that the problem with jasmine fragrances is the temptation to dress them up in a frock and take away the power. With Lust, he went all the way and created a powerfully sensual, dirty jasmine perfume that stirs a primal yearning.

Main notes of....Jasmine, ylang ylang, rose, vanilla, sandalwood

Ingredients:
DRF Alcohol, Perfume, Jasmine Absolute (Jasminum grandiflorum), Ylang Ylang Oil (Cananga odorata), Rose Absolute (Rosa damascena), Vanilla Absolute (Vanilla planifolia), Sandalwood Oil (Santalum austro-caledonicum vieill), *Benzyl Alcohol, *Benzyl Salicylate, *Citral, *Eugenol, *Geraniol, *Benzyl Benzoate, *Citronellol, *Farnesol, *Limonene, *Linalool

My Review:

So my local Lush is pretty fantastically awesome. I actually won this bottle of Lust in a drawing a few months ago. :)

The bottle is small, but the scent is very strong and concentrated, so you really need only one or two spritzes of this to last all night, which is great because it means this perfume will definitely last you a while. Be careful though, because it's super easy to go overboard and use too much. Also, because the main perfume is alcohol, it will sting your nose if you inhale a lot of it when you spray. I think this is normal for most perfumes though.

The scent is really described quite well in what Lush says. The jasmine is really strong and what really stands out in the perfume, so DO NOT get this if you aren't a fan of jasmine. For Lush fans, if you've tried Youki-Hi, Flying Fox, or Godiva, Lust smells close to those. I imagine if you layered Godiva and Flying Fox with Lust, you'd smell like a garden of jasmine.

The jasmine in Lust does mellow out eventually to a more woody, earthy scent, but the jasmine note will still be there. Lush says there's vanilla in there too, but I can only smell the vanilla faintly. It's funny; Lust to me smells a lot like tea. I think it's because I'm Chinese, and Chinese use jasmine in a lot of teas, so yeah... XD

I'd recommend Lust to everyone who's a fan of jasmine. It's a nice, really feminine, and ultimately a sexy perfume, and the price isn't so bad for the staying power and strength of Gorilla perfumes.

USA: $32.95
UK: 20 Euros

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