From the Vintage Vault

 Thanks to so many of you for requesting that I bring back this series. I love the fact that you enjoy looking at old makeup and beauty products as much as I do, so I'm thrilled to let you know that I still have a few gems in my stash to show you over the next several months!

For new readers, my Vintage Vault series was born after I discovered a long-lost box of my own personal makeup and beauty products from the late 1980s through the earlier 2000s. One day I was cleaning out some boxes in my spare bedroom and stumbled across a box that I had managed to take with me from home to home over the years, never to open. When I opened the box, much to my surprise, it contained beauty products that I must have coveted back in the day (you know, products you love but don't want to use because, well, you just love them so much?). I figured I'd share a few of these little gems with you, so I created my Vintage Vault series.

If you would like to check out my previous Vintage Vault posts, click here 

(be sure click "older posts" when you get to the end of the page or you'll miss my post featuring the original Sinful Colors, Wet n Wild and Zoya bottles!)

Today I've got some fragrance gems from Bath & Body Works, The Body Shop and Yves Rocher to share with you, so let's get started.

Bath & Body Works Cool Citrus Lily Body Lotion

(circa 2003?)

Per the bottle:  

"A hint of key lime mixes perfectly with clementine, coriander and water lily in this unmistakably summer scent"

I'm guessing on the age of this one, but I THINK it was right around 2003. Cool Citrus Lily was part of BBW's LE Summer Collection for that year (I can't recall the names of the other fragrances) and the price of this lotion, per the bottle, was $9 (Limited Edition lotions from BBW are now $11).

When this LE Summer collection released, I remember that I just fell in LOVE with the groovy 70s design of the packaging (remember, this was when most BBW products still had the "country" theme to them, so this was quite a departure). I'm a sucker for anything with a brown/orange/lime green color scheme, so I just remember freaking out when I first saw this collection at my local BBW.

As for the scent, this  remains one of my very  favorites from BBW, to this day. I LOVE the key lime notes in this fragrance (it's not heavy on lily as you might think) and I really wish they'd bring it back.

Citrus Rush and Cosmic Candy Body Sprays from The Body Shop

(circa 1998?)

I am totally guessing on the age of these body sprays from The Body Shop, but I'm pretty confident they're from the late 1990s. I think there was a green body spray and also a blue body spray in this collection, which I believe I owned as well.

I just loved the space theme of this collection and anything named "Cosmic Candy" is an immediate must-have in my book! 

Cosmic Candy was kind of like the predecessor to all of the "sugar" and "candy" fragrances that are so commonplace today. I remember seeing the word "candy" in the title and being in absolute awe--you just didn't see things like this in the 90s! I think this explains why these bottles are still quite full--I remember that I absolutely coveted them back in the day and never wanted to actually use them.

I took a quick sniff of both Cosmic Candy and Citrus Rush and they actually smell exactly as I remember them from back in the day. Cosmic Candy is a sweet, candy-like fragrance mixed with a little bit of white floral and I also pick up a distinctive black tea note. Citrus Rush smells sort of like an orange-vanilla-ice-cream popscicle but not as sugary-sweet as you'd expect. They're something else going on there that I can't quite put my finger on.

Yves Rocher Vanille Pistache Eau de Toilette

(circa 2000?)

Speaking of predecessors, Vanilla Pistache from Yves Rocher was the VERY FIRST FRAGRANCE I ever saw with the word "pistachio" in the title. Until then, pistachio just wasn't a note you saw in fragrances, body lotions, soaps, etc., even though today it's quite commomplace. It was so intriguing to me that I remember placing an online order the moment I saw it on the Yves Rocher website.

Sadly, this fragrance "turned" in the years since I purchased it, and now it has a sharp scent to it that is not like my original memories of the fragrance. Waaah! I remember it being rich, creamy, nutty and sweet--exactly as you'd expect for a vanilla and pistachio fragrance.

Thanks for taking this trip down memory lane with me! If you remember (or owned) any of the above fragrances, I would LOVE to hear from you!