Patisserie De Bain - Sugared Violet

I found these two products in TK Maxx, when I saw the name sugared violet there was no way on earth that they were not going into my basket. Immediately I assumed they would smell like Parma Violets, one of my all time favourite scents! 
They were £3.99 each and I picked up the Moisturising Lotion (350ml) and the Bath & Shower Creme (500ml) and much to my delight, they do smell like Parma Violets!

I'll start off with my least favourite of the two, the Bath & Shower Creme. The smell of this product is nowhere near as strong as the body lotion, that may be good for some but for me I like my bath products to be quite scented so it lingers on my skin when I get out.

The back of the bottle advises you to either add to running bath water to create sweetly scented bubbles or use in the shower on a natural sponge or loofah for a non-drying body wash. I used it in my bath water and as a body wash whilst in the bath. It didn't create many bubbles nor where they 'sweetly scented'. Not impressed on that side. 
As for using it as a body wash, I found the texture quite strange. A little like lumpy jelly... that sounds disgusting but I really can't describe it any other way.It didn't really foam up and I didn't feel particularly clean after using it. It did leave a slight scent on my skin after but this faded after about 20 minutes. Basically by the time I had dried myself off. 

So next up we have the body lotion. If you are looking for something super moisturising  I really wouldn't recommend this. It has quite a thin, watery consistency that really doesn't do much in terms of adding any moisture to the skin. It just smells really bloody lovely! I use it just before bed and it just smells amazing, my husband loves it too. As with the bath creme, it doesn't stay for very long, you won't smell it the following morning but I do enjoy going to sleep with the delicious scent of Parma Violets around me. 

Although they were £3.99 in TK Maxx you can pick them up online from Rose & Co Apothecary directly and a few other online retailers they are around £9.00 for the bath creme and £10.00 for the body lotion.

I personally think that is way overpriced for these products, you can find much better for the same price or less elsewhere but for under £4.00 I may pick up the lotion again, purely for the scent.

They do offer a few different scents like lemon bon-bon and strawberry shortcake, if I ever see the body lotion of either of these at this price I may have to give them a go.