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Ginza Body Lotion 200ml
Shiseido Ginza Body Lotion 200ml is skincare that happens to smell of a perfume, and it is worth buying for either reason.
The scent opens on pomegranate, tart and faintly juicy rather than sweet, with pink pepper adding a rosy prickle over the top of it. The middle is a full bouquet: orchid soft, freesia transparent and slightly peppery, magnolia creamy with a lemony edge, jasmine warm and heady. Then it settles onto patchouli, earthy and dark, sandalwood, milky and smooth, and hinoki, which is the interesting one, a Japanese cypress that smells clean, dry and resinous, faintly like new timber in a bath house.
In a lotion all of that arrives softer and lives shorter than it would from a bottle of perfume. Expect an hour or two of scent and very little reach, and treat it either as a base layer under the eau de parfum or as a gentler way of carrying the smell on a day when perfume would be too much. The 200ml size is right for daily use after a bath, and the formula absorbs without leaving the skin tacky.
Karine Dubreuil-Sereni and Maïa Lernout composed the fragrance. It reads as feminine and suits most of the year, though the hinoki and patchouli between them give it enough weight to carry through cold weather as well.
Shiseido is a Japanese beauty company that dates itself to 1872, when Arinobu Fukuhara opened what it calls Japan's first private Western style pharmacy in Ginza, the Tokyo district this range is named for. It moved into beauty in 1897 with a skin lotion of its own and into perfume in 1917, with a fragrance the company treats as the origin of everything it has made since.
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