Salty Sea Air (3): This is a very fresh scent. It's also a component of several other scents from CBV. I do get the salty breeze note from it but I wouldn't say it's dead on for being on the beach. It's a little bit too clean smelling for that. If you like strong clean scents then you would really like this one!
Barbados (5): This one really surprised me because it has Mulberry in it. It smells fan-damn-tastic. I'm usually not a fan of Mulberry but mixed with tropical fruits it is super good.
Caribbean Coconut (3): This is a Bath and Body Works dupe. It's not just coconut though that is the strongest note. The coconut does not smell like sun tan lotion though - it's almost like a toasted coconut.
Tropic Wind (4): This is a very fruity scent with melon, peach, apple, orange, and coconut. It has a bit of clean notes in it due to the crispness of the apple and the orange. I don't get much coconut from it.
Island Serenade (2): This is a fruity floral, but the floral note is rose which is super strong in here. I'm not really a fan of this one because of the rose. It also has apple, citrus, and papaya but the rose really over powers those.
Bahama Breeze (4): I believe this is a Yankee dupe and it smells very similar to the yankee fragrance. It's a fruity floral, but it's stronger on the mango and lime as opposed to the jasmine and tiare. It's a really nice blend of the fruity and floral but I wouldn't say it screams tropical to me.
Hawaiian Tropics (3): This is supposed to be a dupe of the Hawaiian Tropic sun tan lotion. It is a very good dupe of it. A nice fruity sun tan lotion - not sun screen.
Montego Bay (3): This is a fruity/floral. It has passion fruit and guava with some jasmine and a few other things added. The floral note is a little bit sharp so it isn't one of my favorites.
Koko Aloalo (2): This is a tropical floral type of scent. I definitely get hibiscus from it and plumeria. It has more of the hibiscus so it's a very powdery, perfumey type of floral scent. I tend to lean more toward sweeter florals than this kind.
Exotic Coconut (4): This is very much a suntan lotion type of coconut. It does have a little something extra, but it's mostly coconut. Maybe a slight perfume/woodsy type of scent in the background.
Sun & Sand (2): This is a Yankee dupe. It's a suntan lotion type of scent. From what I remember it's pretty close to the Yankee fragrance so if you like that one then you will probably like this one!
Emerald Sea (4): This one is a nice green fruity scent. It has tropical fruits, but mostly what I get is a very clean, green type of scent. It's in the same vein as Breath of Ireland but more green and ocean breezy.
I made my first CBVBB order since June! I was really excited to try some of these that I've been wanting for awhile :)
To start off, I got a back up of Berry Me Alive. I adore Melissa's version of this scent and I knew that I had to pick up another since my first bar is almost gone! This smells like a really creamy orange with some cotton candy mixed in. CBV Berry Me Alive smells mostly like cherry.
Melissa sent me a sample of Love Potion No. 9
I also got a full size bar of LP#9. I really like this one, but it doesn't smell dead on for the CBV scent. It smells a lot like the Bella Swan soap as opposed to LP#9. Of course, I think that LP#9 smells like a combo of Bella Swan and Best Friends so that might be why lol.
Next, I picked up a DKNY Delicious bar. This is a dupe for the DKNY Be Delicious perfume and smells like a perfumy apple type scent. I do think that this one is good for girls and guys though because it's heavier on the apple than the perfume note.
I've been curious about Tiffany-D for awhile. I had the scent shot a long time ago, but didn't really care for it because I'm not big on Honeydew Melon. It's a combo of vanilla, honeydew, watermelon, and cotton candy. This is really nice! I got the bar because I tend to like that a little better than the rounds, but Melissa offers it in both sizes :)
Blackberry Amber is one that I had never tried from CBV before. I'm not really a fan of this one right now. It's a dupe for a BBW fragrance and smells like amber and musk. I don't really get any blackberry out of it.
Lemon Meringue is another one that I had not tried from CBV before, but I love this one! It's a really nice lemon with a good pie crust type note in the background. Most bakery scents haven't transferred well to soap form for me, but this one is awesome!
Melissa wanted to do a Mango Sorbett soap, but the oil was too expensive so she went with the next best option, Mango Smoothie. I LOVE this one!! The strongest note I get is orange, but it has a really juicy mango and some other fruits in there as well. This one is going to be AMAZING in the shower!
Barefoot in Blue Jeans was a customer creation by Deb and it's a combo of Blue Sugar Cotton Candy and Sexy in Stilettos. This one smells predominantly of BSCC but I do get some Lovespell as well! It's awesome and I love both scents individually so I knew I would love this one. It's a little smaller than I thought it was going to be, but the little yellow feet are too cute!
Faerie Ring is another customer creation by Jandre. It's a combo of Apples & Oaks and Raspberry Violet. Another one that I love the two scents individually, but together it's amazing!!! Plus this one is too adorable with the little psychedelic mushrooms on top. Love it!
The last one I picked up is the one that I was most excited for because it is one of my top 5 scents. Banana Coconut Cream Pie did not disappoint!! When I first got it, it had kind of the same funky note that the other bakery ones have had, but smelling it a couple days later and that scent was gone!!! I love BCCP but I just wish the candle was stronger. Now I can smell like it in the shower!
Here's the video to go along with the written review :)
Now onto the daily review!
Tropical Temptation (3): This is a pretty good tropical scent. It smells like a lot of really sweet fruits with some pineapple and coconut. It's good, but really similar to a lot of the other tropicals.
