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Rebottling an iconic fragrance isn’t exactly huge news, but there’s some activity going on around the new glass bottle inspired by the Place Vendome in Paris, that is something quite exciting. If you’re in and around London at Chanel in Covent Garden or at Bluewater, Birmingham Bullring or Westfield London, then you might spot an enticing installation.

I popped along to a Chanel tea-party in Covent Garden, and to enter the store you go through a Chanel No.5 Eau Premiere shaped gateway that gives you a little waft of the scent as you pass through. These bottle shaped installations, called The Mystery Bottle, are at all the above mentioned locations and well worth a little walk-through just for the experience. Like The Fragrance Lab in Selfridges, it’s another sign that fragrance is becoming as much about the experience as the perfume.

It’s wrong, isn’t it, that I love the little ceramic blotter above more than the actual perfume? It’s going straight in my Chanel collections box as soon as I can stop looking at it! The Mystery Bottles are around until 5th May.

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Since the launch of roller lash, we’ve been in mascara heaven. As if our lash game wasn’t already strong enough, we’ve now got THREE amazing choices to satiate our lash-lust, no matter what look we’re after. But now that we’ve got all this ah-mazing mascara, we find ourselves struggling to choose just ONE.

Do we want super voluminous BADgal lashes? Or is it a maaay-jor drama, they’re real kinda day? But how can we ignore the eye-opening curling power of roller lash? (hello, instant eye lift!) We’ve got SO MUCH amazing mascara that it’s near impossible to choose just one look, so we’ve decided to lay out the BENEFITs (lol) of each!

BADgal is our classic lash bestie. For full, voluminous, sexy lashes, we always know where to turn. The famously big brush coats our lashes for clump-free volume, instantly filling out any gaps, & makes us look like we have twice the lashes. Every gal has days where her lashes are looking a little sparse, and that’s when it’s time to get BAD 😉

They’re real is for big, bold, beyond belief lashes. Let’s get real, here—fake lashes are fantastic, but we just don’t have it in us to glue something to our eyelids every morning. We want dramatic lashes without the #struggle, and that’s where they’re real comes in. It has an innovative brush that grabs even the teeniest, saddest lashes & lengthens them for major drama—no more falsies for us. Upward & onward, gorgeous!

Roller lash is the one for you if your struggle is straight lashes. Despite our incredible mascara choices, we had still been feeling the lash curler pain. We hate, hate, HATE those things (medieval torture devices, amirite?) & roller lash has finally eliminated the need. The innovative combo of the 12-hour formula & hook ‘n’ roll brush lifts & curls lashes to heights we didn’t know were possible, without the curler. The result? Wide open eyes & the fresh look of 9 hours of beauty sleep—instantly!

The real secret for us though? Mixing & matching. One of our current faves is roller lash with they’re real on top, a little trick we like to call the real high roller, for super lengthened AND lifted lashes. We thought we had #realsies with they’re real—let’s just say roller lash has taken us to new heights. This is our go-to when we need limitless drama & curl.

For something a little bit more every day—but still absolutely incredible and totally lush—we go for BADgal with roller lash on top. We love the full-lash look that BADgal gives us, and it’s the perfect base for layering roller lash on top for full, gorgeous, natural-looking lashes with amazing curl.

So, Benebabes, which lash look is the one for you?

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I tested Chanel Le Jour, La Nuit, Le Weekend last year and was very impressed with it as a skin care regime. The thought behind it is that your skin needs different things at different times – the key product is Le Weekend as it has a boost of glycolic (high tolerance) that wouldn’t be tolerable every day, so it’s a ‘refresh’ for the weekend only. How much of the ‘resynchronization of natural rhythms’ I’m buying, I’m not sure, but it did perk my skin up, there’s no doubt of that.

The three products within the trio, at full size, are a massive £60 each but the travel set is £60 for the three which means that you can trial the system without the huge outlay. I’m aware that £60 is a lot of money but when I posted about the full size products, I got a lot of emails and comments, which is why I’m flagging up the travel set now. I really struggle to recommend a skin care routine that’s going to cost you £180 as a ‘must have’ but everyone’s budgets are different, and I did feel it made a difference in texture, radiance and plumping when I tried it myself. I’d love to get a BBB Chanel Beauty Box out there because this is exactly the kind of thing that I think you need to try first before you commit – I have asked them! Let’s just say they didn’t bite my arm off at the opportunity ;-)).

Chanel Le Jour, La Nuit, Le Weekend Travel Set is a limited edition and launches on 6th June.

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Wood Sage & Sea Salt

I was so sure I wouldn’t like this fragrance! But, as it turns out Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is a new favourite. I don’t like green, herby scents because I always think they are best left in the kitchen – I didn’t like Lime, Basil & Mandarin very much at all so I’m wary of any fragrance that has a herb as a headline.

However, the inspiration for Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is a windswept shore and woody earth (there’s loads more but my eyes are rolling) and I can really get that from this. It’s got that fresh air ozonic, mineral scent and gentle, green florals. It’s not, to my nose, herby at all and I pick up woody-floral notes even though there aren’t any flowers in the composition that I can see.

Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt settled into my skin very quickly – so there isn’t a lot of difference to the scent I sprayed over three hours ago. It stays pretty much as it arrives, after the alcohol disappears. I think if you want a scent that isn’t typical and sends you back to in time to a British summer beach and all the memory bank triggers this might have, it’s a beautiful autumn fragrance that will remind you of so many good things.

Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt launches in September from £40 for a 30ml cologne.

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