Be Glamouros (for women)

Miss_Nightingale

This is a story of forbidden love at first sniff...

I was given a sample of Mojo's Be Glamorous when purchasing a necklace at a boutique in Hamburg on a recent holiday. I had espied the bottles on the shelf behind the counter and thought they looked cheap, tacky and nothing more than a marketing gimmick to reel in desperate teenagers.

Imagine my surprise when, on the last day of our holiday, I decided to at least give the sample a try. It was glorious!

The osmanthus hit me with a wave of sensuality - a refined floral muskiness entwined with wild, rambling roses. The bergamot freshens the elixir and prevents it being an obvious mass-market appeal yawn-fest.

Jasmine makes a subtle entrance, nestled securely in a bed of very slightly soapy sandalwood, with a gentle infusion of patchouli drying to a vintage powdery scent with remarkable staying power.

This is a very cleverly blended perfume that, by all rights, should be in a designer bottle and costing ten times the price. I noticed in Hamburg that there were many German makes of perfumes that I had never seen before - mostly in somewhat garish packaging aimed, it seemed to me, at the teen market. This is a highly charged sex bomb masquerading as a young person's throwaway spritzer. An absolute outrage!

Know what else is outrageous? I didn't have time on that last day of the holiday to go and buy myself a bottle. And now I can't find it anywhere but on websites all in German. I could kick myself. Ah well, another excuse to visit Hamburg again - it's a truly beautiful city so I wont be much of hardship to force myself to go soon... ;)