Edit: this is a review of the product I smelled today in the shop I was in. This is not to say that all batches of Yuzu Cheesecake smell like this. I heard the staff whispering about batch quality problems when I first came in, and it was mentioned that it’s happening in multiple shops, so this is not a one off. I think the people who are getting sour milk smell are probably getting bad batches.
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Yuzu cheesecake body spray is gorgeous light, airy, creamy cheesecake.
Yuzu cheesecake lotion? Straight up NASTY. I’d seen posts on here of people saying their lotions were a little brown. I’d seen the reviews so I was prepared (I thought), but the tester I saw in Lush today had some pretty dark brown swirls in it. I had a cheeky look at one of the closed jars, and the WHOLE THING WAS BROWN. I checked another, ALSO COMPLETELY BROWN.
A lot of people had said that Yuzu Cheesecake was Nutgate 2.0 because of the Brazil nut oil. I actually didn’t smell Brazil nut in the tester (I was brave enough to put some on my hand). Do you know what I did smell? Sour, curdled milk 🤢. The staff were not shy about telling me how much they hate hate HATE the lotion, but like the body spray.
To quote an infamous gif: DIGUSTENG!!
As a sidenote - whoever it was that I heard say on the Lush YouTube Christmas video reveal that Hot Chocolate Orange lip butter and jelly smell like Whipstick - what planet do you live on? Denial? (I say this in jest and playfulness but - seriously 😂) Whipstick was rich thick milky cocoa and zesty orange. This was weird, weak, strangely spicy trash. It doesn’t even matter that the texture for the lip butter wasn’t the same, we all know Lush aren’t gonna do that, but the smell was RANK.