Lavender scented skincare

What the lavender smells like here

Lavender is the dry, herbal note in Neoporto and the one holding the other two together. It is not the purple, soapy lavender you know from a dried bunch, but something more subdued, because it sits under the jasmine and the citrus rather than on top of them. What you notice first is rarely the lavender itself. It is that the fragrance has a floor: something grassy and slightly bitter that keeps the citrus from flying off and the flower from turning sweet.

Where lavender sits among the other fragrances

Neoporto is the only fragrance with lavender in it. The others go elsewhere. Lemon Fields is green lemon, fresh rather than sweet. Mintcalypto Energize is mint and eucalyptus. Coco Vanilla is coconut and vanilla, warm and sweet. Pineapple Blizz is pineapple. That makes Neoporto the herbal option in the range, and the fragrance we describe as the calmest and the one that lingers longest. If lavender is specifically what you want, the whole range narrows to a single fragrance.

Lavender in the shower and after it

In a hot shower the lavender is the part of Neoporto you notice last. The steam lifts the citrus first and the jasmine shortly after, and the herbal note comes through towards the end, once the scrub has been rinsed off and the skin patted dry. That is why lavender is easier to catch after a shower than during one.

On dry skin the note gets time. The body lotion sinks in quickly and leaves no film, and the body oil is smoothed on while the skin is still warm, which is the step that gives the lavender the most room. Read the fragrance backwards, from the last hours upwards, and lavender is what is left.

What lavender goes with

Lavender and citrus already sit together inside Neoporto, so the easiest way to build on it is to keep one fragrance through the whole routine: the scrub, the gel, the lotion and the oil all come in Neoporto. If you want more edge around the herbal note, take the salt scrub in Mintcalypto Energize in the shower and keep Neoporto on the skin afterwards, so eucalyptus and lavender meet without being mixed in the same product. The sets further down gather the Neoporto steps into one box.