Round two... [reviewing Cosmic 2.0 edp, by Kylie Jenner]

 

The floral amber scent is officially described as being a “soft, clean” fragrance, that was inspired by the first light breaking through the horizon...

Similar to the original Cosmic, Cosmic 2.0 is housed in a sculptural bottle, designed to look like a piece of art from another world. However this flanker comes in a reflective, mirrored finish, developed to represent self-reflection and personal growth.

I don't follow Kylie Cosmetics or Kylie herself on any social media platforms, so this release [like the original] was a surprise for me that I only heard about the day before the launch. I do really enjoy the original Cosmic much more than I expected that I would [I actually do genuinely plan to buy a refill container for my almost empty bottle in the near-future], so obviously I was immediately interested by the new release and I was ready to pounce on it immediately from the Kylie Cosmetics site.

However my lingering issues from multiple Covid exposures include my sense of smell randomly coming & going, and the initial release of Cosmic 2.0 coincided with a 'off' period for me, so I've instead waited for Cosmic 2.0 to recieve a wider launch. I've been avoiding all reviews for Cosmic 2.0 in the meantime, whilst I was waiting for my nose to play ball, and I was excited to head to Boots as soon as my sense of smell returned. 

Can Cosmic 2.0 stand tall next to the original Cosmic? A bit of a tall order, considering how highly I hold Cosmic...

Getting Lippie; Coffee Shimmer Lasting Finish lipstick, by Rimmel

Coffee Shimmer Lasting Finish lipstick is the first makeup item I have clear memories of picking out & buying for myself, way back in the early 1990s, and I still continue to buy and wear it today.  

I'm honestly quite surprised that I've never shouted this lipstick out before, or have included this in one of my spotlighted looks in this blog, back when I focused more on makeup. 

Beyond time for me to fix that...

You're not like the others: Alien edp [reviewing Alien edp, by Mugler]

Alien spreads an aura, and it claims the right to do that by its very name...

Alien is a magic elixir captured in a bottle of deep and mysterious purple with the shape of a talisman, reminiscent of a philosopher's stone or some warlock object.

The creators of Alien based the composition on three main lines: warm, white amber in the base, woodsy notes in the heart, and sunny Indian jasmine in the top.

I bought Alien Goddess last year and really enjoy it, so I wanted to give the original Alien perfume more attention since I appreciate a jasmine-focused fragrance nowadays. Alien is a fragrance that I've tried many times since it's original release, but my opinion on it always changed - sometimes I'd love it, sometimes it was just okay, sometimes it was a nose-crinkler.

I'd avoided the majority of the post-Christmas sales everywhere, but when I popped into a Boots store in mid January there it was; a Alien perfume giftset, sat on the bottom shelf of the 98% empty perfume giftset display. I had a gift card to spend, the set had a third off, and I'd had the urge to really get reacquainted with Alien for a while, so here we are after wearing it almost daily since I bought it, to get a concrete feel for it...