Posts with tag vanilla

We hate the bother of applying moisturizer after the shower. It's messy, cold, and time consuming, the three horsemen of "Next time."

Our skin is saved by the one million moisturizing body washes with magic ingredients ranging from shea butter to glitter oil. They'll never take the place of real moisturizers, but sure do buy some time before your elbows get red and cracked.

Neutrogena Comforting Butter Body Wash is our current favorite, although for non-moisturizer related reasons. Oh, it's got shea butter, and mango and cocoa butter, so it makes you plenty soft. But we'd use it if it gave us green scales just to get a whiff of the addictive, faintly tropical, vanilla scent.

Seriously, go down to the drugstore and smell it. You will be powerless to resist the comfort of this body wash!

I'm a big fan of all of the amazing independent designers out there. In an effort to get inside the mind of the indie designer and find out just what makes all of these creative types tick, I present to you an ongoing segment I call Indie Designer Interviews.

Fragrance designer Diane Fisher is a woman obsessed. Obsessed with one singular scent: vanilla. Only she's come up with a variety of ways to make boring old vanilla seem...well, not so vanilla. Diane recently launched a new line of perfumes called Vmagique, all based around this common scent. I interviewed her to find out more about this new project.

How did you get started creating perfumes? Several years ago I started out with my own bath and body company but I quickly realized that my passion and strength was in the creation of unusual scents. I had more and more customers requesting signature scents. Before I knew it I was creating one of a kind perfumes for my clients. It was this very passion that led me to experiment and research with new raw materials including but not limited to plant extracts, absolutes, and distillates. I became fascinated with the the various aromas I could create. I have been on a fragrance journey ever since constantly creating and reworking scent compositions. After years of working on my formulas, the Vmagique line of perfume oils was born.