Hello, Hex Squad! Today I’m sharing 5 indie bath and body brands you need to know. Technically, I mention a few extras because one brand is currently closed. These indie brands carry perfume, candles, body lotion, dry oil spray, as well as hair care products, skin care, and other cool items.
I’m a gourmand scent lover. I prefer sexy foodie scents or vanilla scents for layering. On occasion, I shake things up with a more masculine scent that includes teakwood and leather, or a smoky note. Those can be very overpowering to some people though, so I tend to break those out in the Fall.
Cocoa Pink
Cocoa Pink is my favorite of these indie bath and body brands. They offer a wide array of amazing perfume scents, and you can select any scent for their products. Their offerings are divided into a general catalogue, along with seasonal Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer scents. This year, the transition from Summer to Fall scents occurs on September 2, 2024.
Products Offered
Cocoa Pink boasts a delightful range of products, including perfume sprays, rollerballs, and atomizers. Their body care line features voluptuous and coco mango body butters, goat milk and honey lotions, and various scrubs and oils. They also offer deodorant, linen spray, multiple shampoos, and conditioners like Shine+ silicone-free and Shine Sweetie. For specialized hair care, their Argan Therapy Creme conditioner, replenishing serum, and Ends with Argan Benefits are standout choices. They even provide Glissade and sample vials for those wanting to explore their scents.
My Favorite Cocoa Pink Scents
My current favorite scents from Cocoa Pink are:
- Black Cherry Upside Down Cake – White cake, pound cake batter, mounds of marshmallow fluff frosting and finished off with juicy wild black cherries.
- Cinderella’s Carriage – Coconut Cream Pie with Marshmallow Meringue, Sweet Pumpkin, Spiritueuse Double Vanilla, and Vanilla Bean Noel.
- Bonfire Pumpkins – Pumpkin porridge with Marshmallow Fireside and created a sensational creamy bonfire scent with notes of maple oats drizzled with pure golden clover honey, a pinch of muscovado sugar, sugared pumpkin puree, toasted vanilla marshmallows over a roaring fire. This is a smoky scent.
- Pina Colada Cotton Candy – Cotton candy with coconut and pineapple blended in rich cream and sugar.
- Hawaiian Cake – Three tiered wedding cake topped with buttercream frosting, crushed pineapple and flaky coconut.
- Poison Caramel Apple – Toasted caramel sugar and juicy red apples slapped with a naughty helping of dreamy vanilla musk. (discontinued)
I primarily use Cocoa Pink perfume sprays, perfume rollerballs, perfume atomizers, dry oil spray, and Ends with Argan Benefits.
Right now, I’m waiting on an order of Ends with Argan Benefits in the following scents:
- Black Cherry Upside Down Cake – delicious cherries, cake and marshmallows, yum
- Blood Orange Cotton Candy – 100% real Blood Orange EO mixed with sweet sugar spun cotton candy.
- Thai Rolled Iced Cream – Madagascar vanilla beans, sweet cream, golden honeycomb, delicate hints of cardamom topped with sugared pralines, drizzled with warm sea salt caramel.
- Tokyo Market – spun strawberry sugar, Japanese plum, blood orange, white cake and black vanilla bean infused buttercream icing.
I’m hoping to love the new scents I ordered with blood orange.
My Favorite Products from Cocoa Pink
It’s hard to chose favorites from Cocoa Pink because I love so many things but especially their perfumes, dry oil body spray, and Ends with Argan Benefits hair oil spray.
What I love about the Cocoa Pink dry oil body spray is that it immediately hydrates my skin and absorbs quickly. There’s no residue left of any sort, just silky smooth skin and a lovely soft scent. As someone with tactile issues, this dry oil body spray is a skin saver!
I love the perfumes because you can customize the strength of the scent you want. I typically choose smell me from across town.
And I adore the hair oil spray because it adds moisture and shine, while detangling my hair.
As a small indie bath and body brand, they state their turn around time on their webpage. It can take a while but they always deliver. Cocoa Pink often has an early Black Friday sale too.
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A Girl’s Gotta Spa!
A Girl’s Gotta Spa! is an indie bath and body brand by my friend Shannon. She started out as a blogger, just like me, and went on to create her own products. I love supporting my friends and seeing them succeed at their passion projects.
Products Offered
A Girl’s Gotta Spa! offers a delightful array of self-care products. Their lineup includes rollerball perfumes, Energizing Citrus body lotion, and lavender hydrosol mist. They also feature Synergy Himalayan salt scrub, body lotion, and an Energizing Citrus body wash. For aromatherapy lovers, they provide essential oil bracelets, Eucalyptus and Spearmint aromatherapy spray, and candles. Additionally, they offer a Be Well Relaxation Box to help you unwind and rejuvenate.
My Favorite A Girl’s Gotta Spa! scents
A Girl’s Gotta Spa! scents I adore are:
- Energizing Citrus – pink grapefruit, orange, lemon, and lime
- Resilient – cashmere woods, sandalwood, vanilla
My Favorite Products from A Girl’s Gotta Spa!
The Energizing Citrus body lotion and rollerball perfumes are my favorite products by A Girl’s Gotta Spa!.
The Energizing Citrus body lotion works to heal my dry feet and help them stay nice and smooth.
I’m planning to snag one of A Girl’s Gotta Spa!’s essential oil bracelets soon. What’s even more fantastic is that this brand supports survivors—10% from the sale of their products goes to the Victims’ Intervention Program (VIP) in Honesdale, PA. VIP provides essential services and education for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and other serious crimes. It’s truly inspiring when indie bath and body brands give back to help their local communities.
Additionally, I love that all of the A Girl’s Gotta Spa! perfume names are uplifting and empowering.
You can find A Girl’s Gotta Spa! on their website and Amazon. If you shop their website, you can use the code CORDELIA15 to save 15%.
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Bohemian Rêves
Bohemian Rêves is one of my local indie bath and body brands that makes a wide variety of products locatedin St. Pete.
Products Offered
Bohemian Rêves crafts an array of enchanting products including parfum, candles, and Palo Santo smudge sprays and bundles. They also offer incense sticks, white sage, parfum rollers, skincare items, hair mist, body oil, lip balm, and dry body brushes. It’s a treasure trove for anyone seeking to enrich their sensory experience!
My Favorite Bohemian Rêves Scents
Bohemian Rêves scents that I adore are:
- Mary Jane Fever – blood orange, tangerine, aromatique greens and sandalwood.
- Pumpkin Kush – spiced pumpkin, black pepper, tonka bean, cardamom and smoke.
- Cardamom + Tobacco – tonka bean, cardamom, warm amber, tobacco leaf and vanilla
My Favorite Products from Bohemian Rêves
Bohemian Rêves makes so many products that I love including their parfum rollers, incense sticks, and candles. Their store in St. Pete has the best vibes.
The incense sticks burn around an hour and fifteen minutes, making them ideal for yoga, rituals, or meditation.
The parfum rollers are very subtle and don’t have a strong throw, so you can only smell them on me if you give me a hug. Their candles are fantastic.
I plan to buy the Bohemian Rêves Palo Santo smudge spray, Cardamom + Tobacco parfum rollerball, and Mary Jane Fever and Cardamom + Tobacco hand rolled botanical incense sticks next time I visit their store.
Burke & Hare Co
Burke & Hare Co was one of the first gothic themed indie bath and body brands started in 2011. I adore their candles and perfumes. I fell in love with Nevermore and kept coming back to try more. They seldom disappoint!
Products Offered
Burke & Hare Co makes rollerball perfumes, candles, room + linen mists, wax melts and stickers.
My Favorite Burke & Hare Co Scents
Burke & Hare Co make these three scents that I adore:
- Nevermore – teakwood and black pepper over a masculine base of leather and tobacco
- Pumpkin Carving – hot cider, autumn spices, pumpkin pie and whipped cream
- Eros – dark chocolate, almond, clove
My Favorite Products from Burke & Hare Co
Rollerball perfumes and candles are my favorite products from from Burke & Hare Co.
Nevermore is the most masculine scent I can wear and still enjoy with my personal body chemistry. I’m obsessed over the teakwood and leather combination. I love the smell of teakwood, but it can be very hard to find, in my experience.
I’m very curious to try the following scents:
- Wednesday – tart citrus and fresh ginger before revealing a more sophisticated base of tonka bean, temple incense and just a slight touch of amber.
- Midnight – green apple and fig followed by ginger and a base of crisp leaves, citrus rind and pine needle.
- Cloves – the beloved scent of cloves.
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Dreaming Tree Workshop
Dreaming Tree Workshop is one of my favorite indie bath and body brands! They opened in 2009 and make delightful candles, perfumes, soap and more. Currently the store is closed, but I had to include them because of my love for their products. They will hopefully reopen for Fall 2024.
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Siren Song Elixirs
Siren Song Elixirs is one of the most lovely indie bath and body brands you’ll ever encounter. I love that they offer custom perfume blends and that they’re so creative with their collections.
Products Offered
Siren Song Elixirs offers a mesmerizing array of products, including body custard, lotion, and body wash, alongside a Turbinado sugar scrub and body frosting. Their hair care line features shampoo, conditioner, dry hair and body oil, and a detangling spray. Additionally, they create space mists, Himalayan salt diffusers, and both ready-made and custom perfumes. This brand truly encapsulates the essence of luxury in every product!
My Favorite Siren Song Elixirs Scents
I’m sure my favorite Siren Song Elixirs scents are not a surprise if you’ve been around my blog for any amount of time:
- Bite Me – Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, red raspberry, toasted coconut, creamy cheesecake, almonds, maraschino cherry
- Dark Desires – Red cherries, Milk Chocolate, Whipped Cream, Devil’s food cake
My Favorite Products from Siren Song Elixirs
Perfumes are my favorite Siren Song Elixirs product. Although I am very curious to try their space mists and body wash.
I’m curious about the following scents:
- Vamp – Bourbon, Scotch, Aged vanilla, Tobacco, Dark cocoa, Coffee, Rum, Patchouli, Labdanum, Amber, Woods accord
- Hecate – coconut milk, nightshade, bergamot, white pumpkin, black pepper, cinnamon leaf, jasmine, lilac, tonka bean, tobacco leaf, cypress, cedarwood, musk
I tend to avoid honey and patchouli notes in perfume, and often lavender as well. It’s a personal preference and I don’t feel those notes work well with my body chemistry.
Dossier
I also want to highlight the brand Dossier as a bonus brand. Based in New York, Dossier offers luxury fragrances at affordable prices. Their scents are clean, ethically sourced, long-lasting, and simply smell fantastic. Plus, all their products are cruelty-free and vegan. They even use recyclable, environmentally friendly materials for their packaging. I’ve purchased from Dossier several times and have loved gifting their fragrances too!
Products Offered
Dossier sells perfumes, candles, and room diffusers. I’ve purchased their perfumes and room diffusers.
My Favorite Dossier Scents
- Ambery Saffron – saffron, orange blossom, jasmine, plum, cedarwood, oakmoss, fir balsam, and amber. Dare to compare it to MFK’s Baccarat Rouge 540.
- Ambery Cherry – cherry, almond, cinnamon, cloves, rose, jasmine, plum, peru balsam, tonka bean, and vanilla. Inspired by Tom Ford’s Lost Cherry.
- Ambery Vanilla – mandarin, pear, pink pepper, liquorice, tuberose, daffodil, cedarwood, patchouli, vanilla, and coffee. Influenced by YSL’s Black Opium.
My Favorite Products from Dossier
I absolutely adore their perfumes as well as their room diffusers. I always get compliments on both. I’ve purchased Ambery Cherry room diffuser the most and Ambery Saffron perfume multiple times.
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How to Store Perfume to Help it Last
I store all my perfumes in a cool, dark closet on a shelf untouched by light to ensure they last as long as possible. My olfactory expert friends have always emphasized the importance of keeping perfumes in the dark and away from extreme temperature changes to preserve their quality. Some of my friends opt to keep their fragrances in a nightstand drawer or a box under the bed. Protecting your perfumes from direct light is key to extending their lifespan.
Final Thoughts
If you’ve ever been tempted to try some awesome handmade brands, I recommend trying one of these indie bath and body brands. I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with them. They’re great for building gift baskets for loved ones for birthdays, Christmas, or any other occasion you want to celebrate. I love that I can pick out specific, unique scents for hair, body wash, dry oil sprays and more.
What do you think of my top indie bath and body brands?
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