As one of the bottles of detangling spray was leaking when I got it, I can already tell you that the stuff smells great!
The Fragrance Collection offers six different scents, three with over 90% natural ingredients: Earthly Awakening, McIntosh Apple and Orange Vanilla and the other three: Sheer White Cotton, Currants & Acai and Lotus and Bamboo.
I received the Currants & Acai soy-based candle, which is described as “tart red currants, tangy acai berries and red fruit accents” which literally sounds good enough to eat. I can tell you that from the moment I opened the box, the candle’s pleasantly fruity scent hit my nose immediately. On first impression, I really like how the candle is packaged as well, with a solid glass jar and simple but colorful label. You get the impression that this is a solid, quality candle that will last a long time!
More importantly, the candles in this line:
Immediately, this made me think of a coworker of mine who’s into natural and organic materials for things like her makeup, vitamins and food so I brought in the candle for her.
If you’re interested in buying a candle yourself, I still have the $3 off coupons that came with the Bzz kit. I may end up using one of the coupons to buy the McIntosh Apple scent, which sounds heavenly and the perfect scent to drive the winter stuffiness out of my place.
I also signed up for the Diet Mountain Dew campaign and was laughing at the fact that I was sent two actual cans of it (along with a coupon for a free 12-pack of it, plus coupons to hand out).
Anyone who knows me know that I don’t drink coffee or most teas, which means I get my daily dose of caffeine from diet sodas. I’ve always enjoyed diet Mountain Dew because it’s one of the diet sodas that tastes almost like the real thing. In fact, it’s tough for me to drink most “regular” sodas these days since to me, they taste worse than diet sodas! Diet Mountain Dew has the same shocking yellow color as the original, and a decent citrus taste to accompany the caffeine kick. Most days, I try to hold off until lunch time to have my daily soda but on the days when I really need energy in the morning, Diet Mountain Dew works great as a morning drink. I think of it as my caffeinated orange juice (how great would that be?) since its citrus flavor is milder than your typical dark soda. So the next time you see me, if I’m bouncing off the walls, it’s because I’ve made inroads into my free case of Diet Mountain Dew from BzzAgent.
It's supposed to have an anti-static formula, which will be good for cleaning electronics and most importantly, it won't leave a residue.
And the best part is that I scored the Rainshower scent rather than Lavendar, which is a scent I tend to dislike since it smells too musky to me.
(In case you're wondering, yes, I'm using this post as a Bzz report.)
What exactly is Fruits & Passion? It's a chain of stores that began in Canada and have now expanded globally to locations like Japan. I think of them kind of like The Body Shop or Bath and Body Works as they sell a variety of lotions, soaps, aromatherapy products, candles, perfume and all sorts of nicely scented products. There's five locations in the US, and I happen to live very close to the Fruits & Passion store in the Natick Collection, the fancy new mall that just opened up 20 minutes away from me.
Although I had never heard of them before, I'm excited to check out the store and put those gift cards to use. From their website, the store layout look colorful, light and airy and they have colorful packaging and bags that prominetly feature the color green, yay! At first glance, I'm eager to check these products out:
As a member of the site, you're asked to fill out a few surveys to create a profile. And when a campaign opens up for a product or service and you match the demographics that the site is looking for, you are offered the chance to participate in a campaign.
Basically, you're given the chance to get a bunch of cool stuff for free, often before it hits the market, with no obligation to do anything but try it out and give your honest opinion about it to as many people you feel like.
Even better, if you post a Bzz report detailing how you talked about a product or what you said, someone from Bzz agent will read it, rate it on how thorough it was in terms of including quotes of people said, whether you disclosed you're a BzzAgent, etc, write a comment back about your post and award you points that can be used to get a giftcard for a store of your choice (there used to be actual prizes tailored for each campaign but they just revamped the reward process earlier this year).
So it's a win-win situation. You get free stuff with no obligation. Some campaigns I've been motivated to write 3 -4 reports. Some I've written nothing at all. But this is a sampling of what I've gotten free over the years:
It's a pretty sweet deal, huh? I just got offered two new campaigns this week. One for Fruits & Passion and one for Boston Market. More to come on these later.
