Sol de Janeiro

This goes on nicely. It's light and really just melts into the skin. My hands are always just a bit sticky after using this, but it goes away pretty quickly. It leaves my skin soft and moisturized and never leaves me feeling greasy. However, I can't get past the scent. It has a sweet sort of vanilla coconut-ish scent in the tub, but once I put it on my skin it really does smell like a sweet buttery popcorn. It's strange, and not how I want to smell. It dulls down and isn't nearly as sweet and popcorn-like after just a little while. But even then I don't find this to be a flattering scent. It's not bad, but not for me. It's described as smelling like "coconut cream from young green coconuts, tropical orchid, and toasted praline." The top note is coconut cream with mid notes of warm vanilla and tropical orchid, and the base notes are sandalwood and toasted praline. I wouldn't buy this again. It's too expensive for what it is and not my favorite scent.

Rich moisturising, slightly stick body cream loaded with intense scent. I find it a different texture to the original Bum Bum cream, which was more plush and less sticky. Scent is a powdery sweet bakery scent with a beachy floral note. I get powdery vanilla, toasted coconut, coconut milk, waxy jasmine flowers. Smells to me like milk bottle sweets, with toasted, almost burnt shredded coconut flesh, or burnt buttery popcorn, real coconut milk from a can, and slightly rotting jasmine flowers. I like the scent but sometimes the burnt sugar, or the rotting floral note gets a bit intense in the summer heat. I wouldn't go out of my way to repurchase, but might if it was on sale and I was running out of body cream.

Love this creme better than the yellow one. Good for hot weather since my skin drinks it up and not greasy. Scent is buttery coconut and fades out which is fine with me since I don‘t like strong scented cremes.