Glossier You is a personal fragrance that is formulated to be a skin-scent enhancer, primarily made up of base notes to let more of you shine through. The scent is described as woodsy, slightly sweet, and creamy fresh, with sparkling pink pepper as the top note, ambrette seeds and warm, ambery ambrox as the heart of the scent, and iris as the white floral. The fragrance is designed to smell perfectly different on everyone, and it is more "you smell good" than "your perfume smells good". The bottle is an objet d’art in its own right, created in-house with a real thumbprint indent, and it comes packaged in a recyclable, molded paper carton and secured with a reusable rubber band for safe transit.
The Glossier You perfume is cruelty-free and vegan. The raw materials used to make the perfume are unique since it is a different scent for each person. The other materials that are also formulated into Glossier You Perfume are alcohol denat., fragrance/parfum, water/aqua/eau, hydroxycitronellal, farnesol, and limonene. Alcohol denat is used in perfumes to dilute and merge oils and aromas, and also to help the fragrance last longer on your skin. Farnesol is a naturally-derived ingredient that may have health benefits, but there are a few ingredients in Glossier You that are considered questionable from a health perspective, such as fragrance, which is the number one cause of contact allergy to cosmetics.
The Glossier You perfume has many raw materials and manufacturing steps to form the raw materials into its very own product to last its lifetime. The majority of wastes emitted throughout the lifecycle of Glossier’s You perfume come from the raw materials acquisition, manufacturing and production, and transportation and distribution phases. Glossier You perfume’s lifecycle starts with raw material acquisition, which includes alcohol denatured, water, and fragrance.
Positive aspects of Glossier You perfume include its unique scent that is designed to smell different on everyone, its cruelty-free and vegan status, and its recyclable packaging. Negative aspects include the questionable health effects of some of its ingredients, such as fragrance, and the waste emitted throughout its lifecycle.
Overall, Glossier You is a personal fragrance that is designed to enhance your skin scent and let more of you shine through. It has a unique scent that is different for each person, and it is cruelty-free and vegan. However, some of its ingredients may have questionable health effects, and waste is emitted throughout its lifecycle.
