Molton Brown TSV 18/12/24

[Jazzydrury]

I will buy a option, as I don’t want to give my mum the stuff IW sent

 

[SisterBliss]

MB do last a very long time though so maybe that's a bit better value for money? She says - talking herself into buying some

I just spent a ridiculous amount of money on a Kong small football sized ball for Bry's Christmas (so no money for MB) and I have just this minute noticed that it is out of its wrapping. Who, me?? The photo is not Bry but he has a similar look on his face. I've no idea what he's done with the paper.

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Who's dog is this, Candy?

We haven't had presents under a tree for many years as Obie opens them all!
Awkward when he was at someone else's house who did have a tree with wrapped presents....until..........

 

[candycane]

It was just a photo of a random dog off the net but Bry had that look on his face. The ball has now been re-hidden, along with the chocolates and the dog treats.

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[donna255]

I always go for the matching body lotion.

 

[SUPERCOOLWILLOW]

if you dont want rose dunes id happily buy it

 

[Battiola73]

Likewise and I also wear the matching fragrance.

I have a large stash of MB so won’t be buying this TSV, which is just as well because I don’t like any of those fragrances.

I try and do this too. I went on a day’s beauty course many years ago. We were taught that it’s best to layer your fragrance. Bath product, then body lotion, then a dab of perfume behind ears and on your wrists, plus a small dab on cotton wool to stick down your bra. That way you had a delicate fragrance that lasted all day. This was in the days when the majority of expensive perfumes were sold in a small bottle and not a spray.

We also learnt that a perfume should not proceed a lady into a room.

 

[donna255]

But most perfume is spray only, parfum which is £££ is dabbed now.

You are supposed to apply on your pulse points and that is not behind your ears. But about half an inch below your ears.

Coco Chanel famously said perfume should be applied where you want to be kissed.

 

[madaunty]

It was just a photo of a random dog off the net but Bry had that look on his face. The ball has now been re-hidden, along with the chocolates and the dog treats.

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Talking of balls and dogs.
We paid our Christmas visit to my mum at the weekend and took the mutt with us.
She’s missed the last few visits as while there we’d had outings etc planned, so she stayed with Mr MA’s parents.
She charged in, made herself known and then disappeared behind the sofa, where my mum keeps toys etc for when her great grandchildren visit and refused to come out.
On investigation, Mr MA found in a drawer a tennis ball she must have left behind on her last visit 2 years ago.
Once retrieved she didn’t go behind the sofa again. Bonkers.

 

[candycane]

Dogs don't forget. Perry once found a half eaten sausage roll under a car (which was scoffed before I saw him do it). Every day for the rest of his life he checked under that car - just in case Bryan could walk past a line up of 100 people and he would very easily remember and pick out the random stranger who once gave him a biscuit at the bus stop. They know you know.

Won't be going for this MB. I'm going to hold on for the sales. It's a shame Jazzy has to buy another set because the first lot from IW wasn't up to scratch - I'm assuming that couldn't be returned?

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[Jazzydrury]

Dogs don't forget. Perry once found a half eaten sausage roll under a car (which was scoffed before I saw him do it). Every day for the rest of his life he checked under that car - just in case Bryan could walk past a line up of 100 people and he would very easily remember and pick out the random stranger who once gave him a biscuit at the bus stop. They know you know.

Won't be going for this MB. I'm going to hold on for the sales. It's a shame Jazzy has to buy another set because the first lot from IW wasn't up to scratch - I'm assuming that couldn't be returned?

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I will use it myself, as it doesn’t worry me, But it’s not something I want to give as a present

 

[fulhamphil]

I've got the top-up tsv for the past few years but not getting this one. Don't like the configurations/flavours. Glad I got the BF trio deal a few weeks back.

 

[mal73]

It really seems to me that MB like to offload the poor sellers on the TSV. They always chuck in the odd "best seller" but the vast majority are the rubbish you see in outlet that nobody wants. How many times are they gonna try to offload that flame tree and pimento? Stop messing about and bring back Japanese Orange already.

 

[donna255]

I have said this before, when sets appear on QVC at great prices they always include items which have sometimes been discontinued 2 years before. I know SCW always insists that they make they, especially for QVC. My answer is always no, old stock they want rid of.

The Elderflower one I remember appearing at Xmas could be 4 or 5 years back. Now, they did appear at Xmas a few years, but not in recent times.

I always love the Sea Moss one and the Grapeseed set.

 

[SUPERCOOLWILLOW]

I have said this before, when sets appear on QVC at great prices they always include items which have sometimes been discontinued 2 years before. I know SCW always insists that they make they, especially for QVC. My answer is always no, old stock they want rid of.

The Elderflower one I remember appearing at Xmas could be 4 or 5 years back. Now, they did appear at Xmas a few years, but not in recent times.

I always love the Sea Moss one and the Grapeseed set.

well MB were selling vintage in store & online every year (inc last yeara as i remember seeing it in store) & i always check my dates on the QVC ones & find they were acutally made that year & ive had this reported from a lot of others who buy a lot of MB from QVC over anywhere else

 

[donna255]

well MB were selling vintage in store & online every year (inc last yeara as i remember seeing it in store) & i always check my dates on the QVC ones & find they were acutally made that year & ive had this reported from a lot of others who buy a lot of MB from QVC over anywhere else

Yes, but it is an Xmas special product. So push it into a QVC TSV to get rid of rather than have loads left over in the after Xmas sales and then onto the outlet shops.

 

[Sazza]

I have said this before, when sets appear on QVC at great prices they always include items which have sometimes been discontinued 2 years before. I know SCW always insists that they make they, especially for QVC. My answer is always no, old stock they want rid of.

The Elderflower one I remember appearing at Xmas could be 4 or 5 years back. Now, they did appear at Xmas a few years, but not in recent times.

I always love the Sea Moss one and the Grapeseed set.

They are selling Elderflower one in store, think they do most years.

The discontinued ones in this TSV are Cardamon & Cedarwood, Coconut & Sandalwood and Flame Tree & Pimento.

 

[ClaireKelly]

They are selling Elderflower one in store, think they do most years.

The discontinued ones in this TSV are Cardamon & Cedarwood, Coconut & Sandalwood and Flame Tree & Pimento.

Cardamom and cedar wood and coco and sandlewood are two of my favourites… but I’m not getting this as don’t like the others

 

[mal73]

They have included the Elderflower and Rose Dunes as main options because some bright spark thinks they sound like party fragrances for Christmas. Elderflower will be marketed as a champagne fragrance and Rose Dunes highlighted for its shimmer.

I the real world most of us will be using these items for the most part in January when all the partying is over.

 

[donna255]

I like the Cardamom and Cedar bought with the body lotion in the MB summer sale.

Rosa Abs is the one I was really thinking about when it suddenly appeared in sets on QVC. I bought it when it was first released, and it was discontinued and then suddenly about 2 years later popped up on QVC. That is the one SCW said MB had made more especially for QVC. MB are no different from Elemis, Estée Lauder, L'Occitane and all the rest, they shift older stock onto QVC to get a quick sale and not have it hanging around in their outlets.

 

[candycane]

I like the flame tree, I'm using it at the moment but there's loads left. I'll probably get a lot of supermarket stuff for Christmas so I'll hold off buying shower products until I see what I get (which will probably be none now I've mentioned it!). There'll be plenty in the MB sale on Boxing Day so I'm not panicking yet.

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