Fab Find of the Week: Jo Malone Care Collection

We may never emerge from the bathroom… because Jo Malone London have launched an utterly blissful bodycare collection which is encouraging us to lavish much-needed TLC on areas of our bodies which have been hidden under layers for too, too long.

For this sublime seven-piece line-up, they took inspiration from the rituals enjoyed at Britain’s Roman baths. (Indeed, from next month, there will be treatments at London’s AIRE Ancient Baths, a spa which takes its inspiration from Roman, Greek and Ottoman bathing rituals. And we can’t wait for that.)

As you might expect, everything smells amazing. It feels properly ‘therapeutic’ – but it’s not technically aromatherapy. Céline Roux, Jo Malone London’s very clever Head of Global Fragrance, buried herself in books about essential oils as inspiration, incorporating fragrant botanicals in the range – but bringing another level of olfactory expertise to the collection.

There are different fragrant ‘threads’ working through the line. So, taking it from the top, you have the following (all of which can be found online by clicking on the name – exclusive to Selfridges, NB).

Purify Shower Gel/£25 for 200ml – this is really stimulating and fresh, with herby hyssop, juniper and myrtle. Lightly foaming – but we don’t find it drying.

Revitalising Exfoliating Soap/£16 for 100g – gently skin-buffing, deliciously citrusy and aromatic, with bay, lemon peel and verbena.

Enrich Shower Cream/£25 for 200ml – this, alternatively, is deliciously floral, lusciously skin-conditioning, leaving it veiled in cedarwood, rose and chamomile. (If you’re not a shower person – and we’re not – then it’s great on a big, fluffy sponge.)

Restore Body Treatment Scrub/£50 for 200g – rejoice, lovers of Jo Malone London’s long-lost vitamin E-based scrub – because it’s found a new home in this collection. Based around gentle sugar, it smells honeyed and spicy – and you wouldn’t need a moisturiser to follow… but that would be a shame.

Revitalise Body Gel-Cream/£34 for 200ml – this would be great in a gym kit, since it sinks in straight away, leaving skin velvety but good- to-go. Scent here is refreshing, citrusy, aromatic. (And again, lovely.)

Restore Body Oil/£64 for 150ml – wow, another favourite product, revived in this collection! This is the skincare brand Rodin’s fabulous, late-lamented body oil, given the Jo Malone London treatment. It is utterly heavenly, fragrant with neroli, jasmine and rosehip essential oils, in a base of evening primrose and sweet almond oils. If we could have just one treat from this Care Collection, this would be it.

Enrich Body Balm/£64 for 200ml – oh, heavens. This is heaven. It ties with the Body Oil as our favourite in the range: rich, luscious, indulgent, and very delectably moisturising, with tons of shea butter and hyaluronic acid. The scent, for us, is roses, roses all the way.

Gorgeous minimalist, clean packaging – which would go with any bathroom décor – for the range. And wlightly unconventionally, we are suggesting that you start a ‘Dear Santa’ list now, and put these on it, if the collection is a little ‘luxe’ for an eveyday indulgence.

And yes, we know it is March.

Find the collection online at Selfridges – here