LUSH Christmas Cake Soap Reviews

LUSH Christmas Cake Soap was part of the company's 2008 holiday collection.  I saw the whole rounds of it in the Atlantic City store and thought the fruitcake resemblance was impressive.  I picked up a chunk of it to smell... and promptly put it back, dismissing any idea of buying a piece.  The spicy scent didn't do it for me.  A month later, I had a coupon code for several free holiday products.  I added one Christmas Cake to the list because I was sure the scent couldn't possibly be as bad as I remembered.  It was.

The piece of soap that I received was an unattractive block of translucent...

Yep, you too can smell like a burnt Christmas fruitcake!  All you need to do is wash with LUSH'S Christmas Cake Soap.  I purchased this soap as part of a mixed set of LUSH Christmas items.  I was pretty excited about the soap after reading the description.  It even looked pretty and smelled great in the packaging!  However once I got it wet in the shower the fragrance became horrible and almost unbearable due the amount of burnt wood essence -aka vertivert essential oil. Luckily the scent did not linger on my skin after my shower.  Also I did not think Christmas Cake Soap was very moisturizing...