By Terry Baume de Rose Flaconnette with a personal twist.
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By Terry Baume de Rose Flaconnette
7 ml
54 USD
Ingredients
Bis-Diglyceryl Polyacyladipate-2, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Synthetic Wax, Diisostearyl Malate, Tridecyl Trimellitate, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Methyl Hydrogenated Rosinate, Polyethylene, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Stearalkonium Hectorite, Rosa Centifolia Flower Cera / Rosa Centifolia Flower Wax, Rosa Damascena Flower Cera / Rosa Damascena Flower Wax, Parfum / Fragrance, C20-40 Acid, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Titanium Dioxide [Nano], Tocopherol, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Propylene Carbonate, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Geraniol, Trihydroxypalmitamidohydroxypropyl Myristyl Ether, Citronellol, Alumina, Aluminum Stearate, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, Mica, Ci 77891 / Titanium Dioxide, Linalool, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Benzyl Benzoate, Butylene Glycol, Caprylyl Glycol, Citral, Ci 75470 / Carmine, Eugenol, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hexylene Glycol, Citric Acid. (T0539B1)
My thoughts on By Terry Baume de Rose Flaconnette
This is one of those product who has really high rating on almost every site I could find it on so my hopes are set high for this.
I received this in a subscription box and my first thought was that it looked more like a lip-gloss than a balm. But I am not judging an outside packaging from its inside.
The packaging is really nice and it really does look and feel like a more expensive product. It has a doe foot applicator which is expected. Since I received this in one of my subscription boxes I only got a smaller version of it. The smaller version has 2.3 g in it and retails for about 20 USD. This is one of By Terrys best selling products. So I really should like it, shouldn’t I?
When reading on By Terrys website about this cult product (according to them) this is a product with multi purposes. It can be used as a lip treatment over night. Simply by adding a thicker layer on your lips. Or it can be used as a cuticle treatment for your nails.
So what is my verdict?
If you are a person that loves the smell of Roses, you will not like what I have to say. I simply cant stand it. To me the smell doesn’t remind me of fresh Roses. More Roses that has been dried and kept for a really long time.
Going down the memory lane
It does remind me of when I was a teenager and received 50 roses from a guy. And I felt the need to dry them and keep them. Probably just to show everybody who came to my home that I was popular or something. One Rose of that size cost about 2 USD. So I really felt special. Swedish people are not used to that kind of attention and I still feel awkward when my husband tries to be romantic and buy me flowers. I am more of a practical woman and prefer something I can use over flowers. A few years ago he actually bought me a hammer instead. Which was so much more appreciated by me (yes I am really practical and we are renovating out home, so the hammer was needed).
I do feel that after keeping all those dried roses my nose started hating that smell. I later ended up suing the guy who gave me them for harassments and bullying (and winning). And winning in Sweden is like winning a million dollar lottery. So I threw out the roses faster than fast. So the hate for rose scent might be really psychological for me.
I do feel that I got lost there for a while, so back to the topic (sorry for that).
By Terry Baume de Rose Flaconnette is really easy to apply, it glides on smoothly. But here comes the but. I still don’t think that this is a balm. I would not use it at a balm at all and I don’t feel that it is super moisturizing on my lips either.
The consistency is a little bit sticky, and the scent is super strong (according to me it smells like molded roses, but that is probably wrong). I am a frequent lip balm user, I have dry skin all over so I love using lip balms everyday. This will not be what I reach for.
When you lick your lips with this product on you get a taste in your mouth that isn’t very pleasant and that taste seems to stay on my lips. So every time I lick my lips I get the taste. So I think you know what I am going for here..
As for using it over night, that is simply not going to happen. Because I cant sleep with that taste in my mouth. And I do feel that I eat more of the product by licking my lips than it penetrates. But that still might be only me since I do lick my lips a lot.
I do have another positive thing to say and that is that it is moisturizing. As for long lasting moisture, I really don’t think so, but the feeling on my lips (when I don’t breath to my nose, sadly the mouth and the nose are too close together sometimes) is nice, but a little sticky.
As for using it for my nail and cuticles, well just no. I wont be doing that since I don’t think it penetrates very well there either.
So I hopes that sums up my thoughts on this product. But I do think that the psychological aspect of the smell of roses is clouding my judgement a bit. So if you can afford this rather expensive product I do recommend you to try it out yourself. But if you don’t like the smell of roses from the beginning I would stay away.
I am too cheap to throw it away, and since I have been using it I cant give it away.. so right now I am thinking of other ways to use a lip balm/gloss.
If you like this product, don’t hate me. It is simply my opinion and my own psychological memories.
Do you have any ideas?
I give this product 0/7
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