Having been subscribed to Fortune Cookie Soap for the last two season’s boxes, I knew I would be the most excited for the fall soap box. Fall scents are what I lean towards the most, likely because everything tends to smell like the woods and pumpkins (yep, I’m one those pumpkin spice latte women).
One thing that I need to point out is just how much I enjoy their design work. Their logos and designs are always eye-catching and I find myself in awe of what they produce from a visual perspective. The colours are always enticing and the graphics are beautiful. I love that they put so much work into the visuals.
Fortune Cookie Soap‘s Fall Soap Box is very clearly Wizard of Oz/Wicked influenced. While I’ve seen the musical, I’m not fanatical about it like most people are, so a lot of these products names may be totally lost on me.
Awwwww yisssssss. Pumpkin goodness right off the bat! Their Wicked, Good scent is basically pumpkin, vanilla and dried fruits rolled up into one amazing scent. I *love* this. I’d prefer it in candle format since smearing it over my body makes me feel like I’m rubbing a Bath & Body Works candle on me, but I still love it. Their Whipped Cream formula is wonderful, as per usual. Highly recommended.
I’m so over hand sanitizer. This is my third FCS Soap Box, and my third OCD Hand Sanitizer packed within. I’m not even halfway through the first one they sent me, never mind the second one. The Roy G. Biv name is cute and clever though.
Oooohh noooooo. This one is not for me! This smelled way too flowery. I dumped it in the bathtub and had the quickest dip of my life (and I’m not much of a long soaker to begin with) because I couldn’t stand the smell. This may work for other people, but the scent was just not up my alley at all.
I had good experiences with their previous perfume oil, and The Shiz turned out to be just as good. This one is pretty musky and deep. It leans heavily towards the more masculine side of scents, but it definitely has a sweet side to it. I like the longevity of their perfume oils – it will last me through an entire day without issue.
Ehhhhhhhh I’m kind of so-so on this one. Flying Monkeys smells vaguely like fruits rolled through laundry detergent. It’s more of a clean scent, so it smells nice, but it doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of lingering power. This is a room air freshener, but I didn’t find it had particularly good lasting power. Even using about ten sprays didn’t seem to make the scent stick in the room very much.
At first I thought this was the same as their microdermabrasion scrub that they included in last month’s box, but the granules were slightly larger. On second look, I realized this was actually just a scrub. No objections to this one. Swankified cleans my face and smells nice doing it.
This is another new product from the company – hair oil. I’ve little-to-no experience with hair oils so I can’t really say much about this other than what I noticed from using it once. I applied Hair Flip to the ends of my hair before blowing drying and it left the tips of my hair smelling like hazelnut and vanilla without leaving behind any greasy residue (which is much appreciated).
Oh this one is coooool! It’s a semi-transparent red soap completely shot-through with red glitter. This soap is BEAUTIFUL, even moreso when it’s a little bit wet and the translucency shows through a bit more (see picture below).
One thing I’ll say though is that this *will* leave glitter behind on your counter over time as they flake off from washing your hands. To me, it smells like cinnamon hearts mixed with apples. Surprisingly, this turned out to be my favourite scent in the whole box.
That’s it for the fall soap box! If you’re interested in their fall scent online launch party, it’s today, August 29, 2014 @ 6:30 p.m. CST. Their new launch scents do tend to sell out pretty fast so be quick if you want anything! (They do re-stock in a few weeks if you’re desperate to get your hands on one particular scent.)