Petrichor Beauty - reviews, style and overthinking

I just recently rediscovered  Yves Rocher.  It used to be one of my favorites a few years ago, but then they closed their physical stores in my area and somehow I chose other brands instead…  Anyway, I saw the ad for their new festive collection and just had to buy it. One of the lines contains oranges and chocolate and that was loudly screaming my name. If you may not know by now, I’ve been recently obsessed with oranges in cosmetics and perfumery, but still, almost hate to eat them. So I got myself a festive gift set –  Melting orange . It contains a large-sized shower gel, oil-based body scrub, and mini hand cream. I haven’t tried everything yet, but so far I am very happy. I am impressed with this little hand cream because it absorbs really fast and it’s not greasy. I can’t stand greasy hands. The smell is very pleasant, not too strong, and not fake, which is always crucial to me, I love when something smells great. As I can remember from the past seasons, they o...

Ok, I never owned anything from Lancome before, not even a perfume sample. I hate most of their bestsellers, so I tend to avoid this brand. But then I read about their rose face mask and I somehow had weeks when I was obsessed with roses (probably lockdown blues), so I had to try this. And yes, I always complain that my skincare stuff is too big to carry around and neglect my face if I travel.  Cleansers & Masks Gift Set by Lancôme contains five skincare products: Lait Lalatee Confort (cleansing milk) – 50ml Tonique Confort (toner) – 50ml Advanced Genifique Concentre (serum) – 7ml Hydra Zen Gel Creme – 15ml Hydra Zen Jelly Mask – 50ml  Cleansing milk – I find this one most useful for cleaning my eye makeup. It is very gentle to my eyes, but also effective enough. For removing a full face of makeup, it would not be enough, you would need an extra step. It has a very pleasant creamy/rosy smell, the whole set smell very similar basically, I enjoy it, but for some could be ov...

Another day, another travel set to talk about, so let’s get straight to business! Rituals were always a fancy, mostly body care brand to me, which I was always religiously avoiding to try. “Shower gel is a shower gel, how can it be special?” True and not so true. Some of the products are special enough and worth a bit higher price because they are gentle and effective at the same time and most of all they smell like heaven. Ritual od Sakura surely represents that piece of magic for me – it smells like cherry blossom and rice milk, a dreamy and soft combination. I actually hate anything cherry-like in perfumes, but here it is composed so well that it gives a different feeling. The smell is soft and not too strong. This is one of their smallest gift sets, it contains four body care products and comes in a gorgeous gift box. It makes it very suitable for a present. My box includes: Sensational foaming shower gel – 50ml Softening rice scrub – 70ml Magic touch body cream – 70ml Blossoming h...