Generally we are against oily things. We want to extend that to include some sort of anti-BP rhetoric, but that’s nothing anyone hasn’t heard already, so we will restrict ourselves to oily skincare products: We are, generally, equally anti. This is our one exception: Bobbi Brown’s Beach Body Oil. We don’t know how they came up with the fragrance, but it’s literally—literally!—the smell on your skin after you spent the whole day at the beach, and your sunscreen’s sort of mixed with salt in the water, and there’s this crazy alchemy and it smells awesome. This is more or less exactly that smell.

The BB Beach fragrance, which is similar, says that it has the fragrance of “a lightly intoxicating blend of sand jasmine, sea spray, and mandarin.” This seems impossible to us: How could it be possible that anything could smell like sea spray? It’s like smelling like hope, or a bad day. And yet it is so. This smells pretty much the same, and in the oil formulation, stays on the skin for ages. Our number one irritation with fragrance is that you walk out the store (er, because you tried it on at Sephora, rather than purchase it) and five minutes later it’s completely gone. Not so, Bobbi Brown Beach Body Oil: We kept smelling our upper arm on the 90-minute drive from IKEA to Brooklyn this weekend (that’s 15 miles in 90 minutes, for the record) and it stayed strong.

Also, it makes your skin shiny. This, we realize, could be a plus or a minus, but we’re going with the former, at least for summer. Love. Bobbi Brown Beach Body Oil, $28

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