Summer Fruits

Juicy products for grown ups

by Rebecca

I always think of fruity things as being for children. Sun lollies, Fruit Pastilles, Chupa Chups. Fruity beauty too, feels a bit tweeny right? A gateway drug into the harder stuff (floral, woody, oriental). My feelings on this are likely down to the 90s Body Shop fruit soaps, followed by of course Lancome Juicy tubes, which once I could afford aged 14, coated both my lips and the inside of my school bag for a good couple of years.

However, last year I was invited to the Chelsea Flower show, where I was given the best goody bag I’ve ever received. It contained the Diptyque Citronelle candle and body spray, which both smelled like a lemonade lolly for adults. Worth throwing it that on the website it states the body spray ‘heightens the experience of the season', which I don’t think I need to say is nonsense, however it does heighten the experience of using the bathroom which is where it has sat impressing guests for the past year.

This entire post is actually inspired by a recent trip to Diptyque, where I was lured in by an abundant display of porcelain lemons and came across perhaps one of the most swoon worthy collaborations of our time, Diptyque and Susanne Kaufman. I haven’t been so excited since the 2010s when Beyoncé met Topshop. Anyway look they’ve done this lip oil which gives the sensation of having just eaten a sherbet lemon. I love it because it’s an oil in the truest sense, not at all sticky, truly nourishing. I still think £36 is a lot but I think everything is extortionate, I’m afraid it’s in my genes.

On the subject of lemons, my village of Nailsworth has the most fabulous shop that sells bowlfuls of these lemon soaps, an elevated throwback to aforementioned Body Shop fruit ones. I love soaps, I’ve written about my love for soaps, and the lemon one looks so charming in the kitchen (unrelated: I also like these napkins).

My love of Korean skincare knows no bounds and the latest is this Yuzu Erborian double lotion. What’s quite strange about it is there’s no clear indication what it is. A toner? A serum? I think it’s a bit of both, and so slap it on post cleanse and before a stronger serum. Another step to add to an already comprehensive routine, but too much of a good thing can be delish.