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Natural

Benefit 1

Fragrancing

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Sweet aroma

Benefit 3

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Blackcurrant shrubs, also called cassis, give a lot. From their juicy fruits to their fragrant flower buds and leaves, it’s more generous than you’d think!

Grapes? Who said grapes? <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/currant-infusion">Currants can be a type of grape</a>, that’s true, but blackcurrants aren’t. They’re delicious berries that look like glossy black pearls filled with tasty dark red juice. They grow on a shrub called <i>Ribes nigrum</i>, native to the Northern Hemisphere and from which syrups, liqueurs, leaf infusions, aromatic extracts, and all sorts of tasty goods are produced.

Where can I find blackcurrants in Lush products?

Although we sometimes use a vitamin-rich blackcurrant juice or a pigment-full blackcurrant powder, it is the absolute that we seek most. Interestingly, this fragrancing ingredient is extracted from the plant's buds and not the fruits.

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/blackcurrant-absolute">Blackcurrant absolute</a> has always been at the heart of our iconic fragrance, The Comforter. Alina Gliwinska, one of Lush's perfumers, love this extract: “It has a powerful, deep, fruity, black currant aroma, but it also can be slightly sulphurous and animalic. That is why just a very small amount is needed to bring a natural fruity feel to all fragrances with berries notes.”

We purchase this rare perfume ingredient from a distiller in France.

<b>Get a grasp of the sweet, fruity side of blackcurrants with The Comforter fragrance. <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/p/the-comforter-bubble-bar">Dive in a bubbly bath</a>, <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/p/the-comforter-shower-gel">hop in a shower</a> and <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/p/the-comforter-body-spray">get compliments on your fabulous scent</a>.</b>

Ingredient

Blackcurrants are delicious berries that look like glossy black pearls filled with tasty dark red juice. The absolute has a powerful, deep, fruity aroma.

Cassis