To make your skin shine from head to toe, dermatologists recommend moisturizing right after showering. And if you’re a scented demon like me, the best scented body lotion is the perfect product for your job. While scents are not all skin types, those who tolerate it have a olfactory playground with body care options that envelop the skin in a soft, bright, and attractive fragrance. To help you make your choice, we do legwork for you, test dozens of options at any price, and bring you this definitive list of the best scented body lotions to enhance the health and smell of your skin.
Our Best Sumel Body Lotion
Whether you prefer to nourish your skin with drugstore Isle’s gems with fluffy texture and vanilla scent, or if you want to exude a skincare routine with a gorgeous French body balm that smells like spicy leather, there’s the body lotion that calls your name in the edit below. Happy moisturizing!
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Overall Best: Josie Maran Whip Argan Oil Body Butter from Top Lestan Gerine
Why We Love It: From the perfume perfume behind byredo’s Balda Frique and Gypsy waters, Josie Maran’s oil body butter scent is a tangerine scent with hints of pink grapefruit and brown sugar. I smelled as I sipped my rum cocktail under a canopy of citrus fruit. Made with argan oil, its famous lightweight formula is airy and airy as its cocktail foam, and also features seater butter and avocado oil to moisten your shining body. Combining this with a bikini and some SPF will be a dream beachside ensemble, but you’ll also find Allure Editors to pair deliciously with your daily body care routine.
“I whipped Argan oil body butter with topless tangerine on my hands and feet (my ass) every morning. Whenever I reach for a bohemian, it’s always one or the other. Not vanilla beans. Your favourite scents like Bailedo, Prule, Victoria Beckham and more. – Jenny Bailey, Executive Beauty Director
Best budget: Vanilla Cashmere EOS Cashmere Whipped Oil Body Butter
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Vanilla Cashmere Cashmere Whipped Oil Body Butter
Why We Love It: EOS Vanilla Cashmere Whipped Oil Body Butter is a much richer treatment than you negotiated in the best possible way. Drugstore Isle’s gems have a silky whipped cream-like texture on every limb. Once it sinks, the body butter nourishes the skin with a patented blend of shea butter, cocoa butter and argan oil. As for the aroma, the seemingly affordable salve combines vanilla, soft musk and caramel notes to give it a luxurious, warm, sweet aroma.
Tester feedback from Senior Director of Audience Development Lexi Herrick
“I’m an absolute sucker for whipped vanilla body butter, I learned, and this is amazing. I love the soft, fluffy texture and it glides smoothly on my skin. – Lexi Herrick, senior director of viewer development
Best Sprage: Diptyque Eau Rihla Body Balm
Diptyk
eau rihla body balm
Why we love it: More luxurious than typical body lotions, the diptyk body balm has a melting texture that slowly sinks into the skin, transforming it into a self-care moment that you don’t look forward to moisturizing. (Moisturizing never charges again.) Formula, a blend of mango butter and Cameria wax, confuses and softens the skin, and the perfume plays a starring role throughout the sensory experience. The rihula scent is a rustic, spicy and warm scent inspired by traveling the Middle East, with a pair of leather, iris and cedarwood notes.
“In my time as a new mom, there are few moments of self-care. Make them even more precious. I make Diptyk’s Audrihula body balm a bit more luxurious every night. The wafting out of the woody scent is no longer negotiable in my bedtime routine.” – Kassidy Silva, Director of Social Media
Best Flowers: Saltair Santal Bloom Body Butter
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Santal Bloom Body Butter
Why We Love It: Fusing Sandalwood, Rose and Jasmine notes, Saltau’s body butter smells like a free-ho-free retreat with a massage on the beach. And like these hypothetical spa services, we pump and grow the skin. The fluffy butter is made with ceramide complexes that pack a moisturizing punch and sea buckthorn oil. It also has a carefully balanced ratio of phospholipids, fatty acids, and phytosterols, supporting skin barriers and trapping hydration.
“This smells flashy spa, but only costs $20. It starts strong (sniffically) on a coconut butter base. It creates a slightly sweet foundation over the sitting sounds of sandalwood, roses and jasmine. – Kara McGrath, Content Director
Perfect for subtle sparkles: Fenty Skin Butta Drop Whipped Oil Body Cream Fenty Fresh Glitter
Fenty Beauty
Butta Drop Whipped Oil Body Cream from Fenty Fresh Shimmering
Why We Love It: Fenty’s Whip Oil Body Cream is not only approved by Lili and Editors, but also approved by dermatologists. “This is a light formulation with powerful natural moisturizing oils such as Kalahari melon, sunflower, and jojoba. These have proven beneficial to nourish the skin and maintain the proper hydration they need.” “And with the powerful antioxidant effects of mango butter, this product has helped my patients achieve much softer and supple skin.” The silky body treatment then expands to include a soft gold shimmer version of Fenty Fresh (Bergamot, Jasmine, and White Orchid), adding an extra sheen to the hands and feet.
Perfect for layers: Don’t know DS & DURGA body lotion
DS & Durga
I don’t know what kind of body lotion
Why We Love It: With the same immeasurable scent as Body Wash, DS&Durga body wash, which won the 2024 Best of Beauty Award, I don’t know what the body lotion smells like, but it’s impossible to resist. A central note from ISO E Super – Synthetic molecules that are wheeled near the skin and wear the body’s chemicals also layer the scent of Woody Vetiver and Ambrox Super. Lotions are designed as fragrance enhancers, so from body oils to perfumes, anything layered over them will take on a brighter fragrance quality. The lotion itself contains moisturizing glycerin, coconut oil and shea butter, and has a cushioning texture that is the dream of dry skin.
Perfect for sensitive skin: Sidia soaked cream
Why We Love It: With the same soaked scent that helped Sidia’s hand serum land the Best of Beauty Award, the cream soaks hints like the scent of juniper and Cypress forests. The woody scent is just one of the fascinating aspects of body lotions. Antioxidants such as Vitamin E, shea, avocado butter, spiny pears, hyaluronic acid, and aloe vera calm and smooth the skin. Vegan, abuse-free, and paraben-free, the cream is also suitable for pampering sensitive skin.
PS Shopping Director Shanna Shipin has extremely dry skin that is prone to eczema, but he worships the Braless Serum if he is caught up in the situation of a lightweight Spritz. “You’re done in just a few seconds, smells amazing, and primes your skin with moisture before you dry out completely. I love it as a hydrator all day long.
Best Fiming: Laura Mercier Umbrella Bunille Serum Body Cream
Laura Mercier
Ambre Vanille Serum Body Cream
Why We Love It: Laura Mercier’s Umbre Bunir Serum Body Cream has a rich, non-slow texture that blends into the skin, leaving a path of vanilla spiked with sandalwood and amber. The formula is injected with serum with a vortex of ingredients that calm and recover damaged skin. Star Flower Oil is packed with antioxidants. French plum oil plumps the skin and lends a touch of glow, while French algae replenishes moisture. The gourmand cream also contains tapioca starch, giving it a velvety, blurry look while smoothing the skin.
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Best Sumel’s Body Lotion List examined the performance of each product across five main categories: product ingredients and effectiveness, packaging, fragrance, texture and product wear. All products were judged to be superior in each category by an editorial team made up of in-house authors, editors and contributors, with special considerations from dermatologists. Read our complete review process and methodology page for more information about the reporting and testing process.
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