The Library of Fragrance Egg Nog

I am a MASSIVE Library of Fragrance fan ever since discovering them last year.

Created in 1996, they set out to create fragrances that captured all the wonderful smells that surround us every day, but are too often under appreciated, with their first three scents being Dirt, Grass and Tomato.

Now they have over 300 unique fragrances with 101 available in the UK including such scents as Gin and Tonic, Play Doh, Pizza, Grass and Pina Colada which I reviewed here.

They actually also have several festive themed scents too and Egg Nog is one of my favourites.

I wasn’t actually all that familiar with Egg Nog as I gather it’s more of an American thing, but Egg Nog is actually a drink consisting of rum, brandy, or other alcohol mixed with beaten egg, milk, sugar and spices.

It’s a rich, creamy, warm beverage and the fragrance smells EXACTLY like the ingredients!

Its undeniable festive scent come from a sprinkling of cinnamon and nutmeg, while a dash of bourbon gives it a real punch! Vanilla, cream and sugar round the fragrance off and together create a sweet, warm, rich, creamy scent.

For lovers of all things sweet smelling this is a dream fragrance for me but if it’s a bit too much you can actually mix and layer the scent with other Library Of Fragrance colognes. For example, add a clean note and layer with Musk #7, or a fresh note with Snow or how about adding a woody note with Amber?

Each fragrance costs £15 so you can certainly afford to grab a few and experiment.

Personally, I’m going to enjoy wearing this bad boy alone in all its sweet, warm, festive goodness!

You can check out all of The Library of Fragrance Scents along with Egg Nog from Boots where they are currentluy on offer for 2 for £25.

The Library of Fragrance

From September 2014 you may have noticed a new product range available from 400 Boots stores around the UK.

You may not have seen them yet and you may not be familiar with the brand, so allow me to introduce you to the hugely popular US Fragrance brand, The Library of Fragrance.

 

This is no ordinary fragrance brand let me tell you, oh no. Established in 1996 it launced with an iconic capsule of just three scents. These scents were ‘Grass’, ‘Tomato’ and ‘dirt’.

 

Yep, really.

Their mission is to capture the scents that surround us in the everyday, and they truly smell spot on!

Today, they boast over 300 scents, ranging from fairly typical fragrances such as ‘Jasmine’ or ‘Freesia, to the far more unique and unusual, such a ‘Baby Powder’, ‘Gin and Tonic’, ‘Fireplace’, ‘Pizza’, ‘Play Doh’ and the one I tried, ‘Pina Colada’!

Before you all shout at me ‘But who wants to smell like an alcoholic beverage or dirt?’ allow me to explain further.

The idea is that you can create your own signature scent from their vast range of smells.

The Library of Fragrance enables its wearers to ‘layer’ the scents and wear them together to create new and unique iterations. The most basic rule of thumb is that if things smell good together in real life, they will smell good on you.

For example, ‘Grass’ + ‘Sunshine’ + ‘Vanilla Ice Cream’ smell incredible worn together, whilst ‘Gingerbread’ + ‘Marshmallow’ is a comforting duo that gourmand fragrance fans will fall for.

It gives you the opportunity to customise your own scent and indeed the company and Boots encourages you to do so with its ‘2 for £25’ promotion (Each fragrance costs £15 alone.)

You all know how much I love sweet scents so I gave Pina Colada a try and boy does it smell like it! Its amazing and so realistic smelling, I adore it! I would say that on its own, it is VERY sweet smelling, but if combined with a more subtle, musky scent such as vanilla or even peach, would be much more wearable.

A capsule collection of 28 of the brand’s best-selling scents are available at Boots stores and a more extensive collection of 101 fragrances are available from the brand’s UK website.