Love potion: Bench x Marian Rivera

MANILA, Philippines - Fragrances are a lot like accessories. They complement your outfit and give you more character. As it is with accessories, fragrances also evoke different personalities and should therefore vary depending on the occasion—from sweet to playful to edgy, options abound.

Thanks to local retail giant Bench, consumers’ fondness for scents is perennially indulged with the brand’s continuously growing array of fragrances from celebrity and designer scents to Bench eau de toilettes and body sprays. Bench’s collaborations with different celebrities and designers give their fragrance collection that welcome diversity, to appeal to more consumers of different styles and preferences.

The latest celebrity to collaborate with Bench on a collection of scents is Marian Rivera, whose sweet, unpretentious, candid and compassionate image and character people find endearing. It was around second quarter of last year when she joined the brand’s roster of celebrity endorsers with the much-talked about “Her Royal Beauty” ad campaign for Bench Body. After which, she was hailed as the Queen at the brand’s “Naked Truth” grand fashion show as she took the spotlight for the finale. Now, the spotlight is back on Marian as she launches her collection of Bench eau de toilette and body sprays.

Marian’s fragrances are romantic, refreshing and relaxing—a real picker-upper! The collection includes one eau de toilette and three body sprays whose feel-good scents can instantly make one feel the love in the air.

Reflective of Marian’s beautiful-from-within personality, the Inner Beauty EDT (P368/50ml) has a light, layered combination of citrus, aromatic and floral scents. It is essentially a citrus fragrance that starts off with bergamot and mandarin top notes, followed by lavender and neroli and ends up on a musky dry-down note.

The Perfect Kiss Body Spray features a floriental fruity scent that comes from the mixture of rose, orange flower, patchouli, moss and vanilla. The Perfect Love Body Spray is crafted with a fruity floral rose scent that features top notes of lychee, blackcurrant berries, mango and pineapple; middle notes of red-hearted jasmine, dama da noite and lily of the valley; and base notes of honey musk, cedarwood and amber. The Perfect Moment Body Spray is a fruity floral perfume that has bergamot and blackcurrant top notes, rose and jasmin middle notes, and cedarwood and musk base notes. All the body sprays are P128 for an 80ml bottle.

Inner Beauty EDT, Perfect Kiss Body Spray, Perfect Love Body Spray and Perfect Moment Body Spray are now available this love month and throughout the year as well in all Bench, HerBench, Superbench, Bench to Go stores and at the Bench Online Shop.