Lush Lord of Misrule Shower Gel Review

I got my first bottle of this recently and loved it so much I went back for the perfume!

It’s warm, it’s woodsy, it smells mysterious and the colour of it just makes me smile. If you like fresh, fruity or floral scents, this is not the one for you. But if you like The Olive Branch I’d say give this a try. My new favourite, I think I need to stock up.

Let me get this straight to start off with: I absolutely haaaaaaate the smell of patchouli. Loathe the stuff! It's one of those smells you either love or hate. To me it smells like unwashed hippies. So I should hate this as well, as it is patchouli based. But somehow I don't. Lord of Misrule is indeed mischievous and mysterious. To my nose, the patchouli is balanced out by the black pepper which rounds it out and warms it, with vanilla adding sweetness.

This is a Halloween release, hence it is a shower "scream" (Lush do love their puns!) It's is also bight emerald green in colour. This may be off putting to some but not this (almost) Halloween baby. It comes in the usual Lush bottle and I just got the smallest 100ml size. I find I tend to go off a lot of Lush smells when I get the larger bottles so I stick to the small size for ones I'm a bit unsure of. This has lasted me nearly two years as I have to be in the mood to use it. My bottle is past the expiry date but I find Lush shower gels last way past this, so long as you store them out of direct sunlight. It still works as well and smells the same as when I purchased it. LOM is due to be released again for this Halloween and I will be grabbing some more, so long as it can get it in the smaller bottle.

Lord of Misrule scent or LOR is no doubt one of Lush's scents that you either L.O.V.E or hate. One bathbomb in a Christmas gift pack (although part of their Halloween line) and I was hooked (I just want aware of its name or cult following). The scent is of (in my opinion) intense spice and pepper and very warming.

The shower cream is packaged in clear flip top bottle. It is also a handmade product in batches and they tell and show you who made it.

Product itself is thicker than other shower gels in the range and a deep green. I found it non drying and scent lingered for hours on my skin. It does lather fairly well so does last pretty well which is great as Lush isnt exactly cheap or overly accessable for a lot of people.

This product for me due to its release and smell is all things Xmas and I cant get enough. #❤LOR

So I don't get this. I think it'd smell amazing on guys, and would happily buy it for a partner (if i had one), but on me it smells all wrong.

Lord of Misrule (or LOM) is an on and off LE shower gel from Lush. Consequently, as a Lush gel, it lathers into a creamy foam, cleans beautifully, and leaves skin soft, scented and silky.

It comes in a range of sizes, each in the brand-typical clear bottle with graphic white font on a black background. The clear bottles enable you to see the colour of the shower gel - in this case a SUPER bright emerald green. It takes a bit of bravery to actually apply this the first time, it feels like it'll stain skin and you'll be walking around looking like a wee froggy all day. This is an unfounded fear, though :P

The intense colour puts me off using this on myself, but more than that it's the scent. I find this a really masculine scent - musky, herby, slightly sharp but still warm, and without any trace of sweetness. I honestly think it'd be delicious on men. On me, it just doesn't work.

Luckily Lush have eleventy million other gels and I don't need to go back to this one, but as always, i'm glad i tried it.

Okay, I'm still actually surprised that I'm writing a 5/5 review for Lord of Misrule, because up until very recently I thought it had the most disgusting scent and I didn't understand why it has such a cult following. Every time I sniffed it at Lush my reaction was basically disgust! BUT, that was before a sales assistant convinced me to try a demo of it on my skin. This product is super gentle and moisturising on the skin, and once it is washed off the fragrance which remains is a STUNNER. I absolutely adore the Lord of Misrule herbal, musky scent which is left behind on the skin. It somehow has that quintessential Lush smell, and it lingers on the skin for hours and makes the bathroom smell incredible. My advice would be if you hate the smell of it from the bottle, try some on your skin. You might be super surprised like me!

I don't know alot about Lord Of Misrule..... I know it comes in a bath bomb and a shower gel and I believe it is a seasonal product??

I purchased a bath bomb from trademe after hearing the hype....It soon become easily one of my favourite scents that I have come across from Lush.

I purchased 100g for $8 from a buy sell page on fb. Which i thought wasn't to badly priced...I'm unaware what they go for normaly.

Man am I glad I glad i bought this shower gel! It's earthy, spice infused scent is sooooo beautiful, I love it! It's like taking a shower in the middle of the woods without actually taking a shower in the middle of the woods lol

Quite surprisngly this I thought was quite grainy feeling, and I did check to see if maybe it was the glitter in the gel that gave it this texture, but it wasn't (side note, the glitter doesn't stick to you, it washes away) It's not a harsh grainy texture you can barely feel it but it is noticeable, maybe it's not and I'm just mad lol

the liquid it self Isn't really a gel its quite runny! so be careful. I like to squirt 2 quick squirts onto my loofah and wash away. Lets talk lather, its green and it creates the most amazing moisturising foam bubbles.

After hoping out of the shower i find the smell lingers for a long time, I have smelt it the very next day on my skin still. this product is also very moisturising.

If you like not so sweet scents then yes i recommend you try this......bring on the day this product comes back out (if it does) I will be buying a stock pile.

I brought this from the Christmas range. For $35.90 for 500 ml is a bit hefty on the wallet. I have been using this product for about 2 weeks now. It's a shower cream not gel which I like because it lathers on nicely and keeps my skin a little bit moisturised. The smell is absolutely amazing. The only way I can describe it is that it's like a musk scent. The great part about this product is that it stays on my skin all day! Literally I'm smelling my arm every few hours

I'm currently using a 100g bottle of this. I bought it kind of impulsively when I went in store last year. I had gone in to get rose jam, which I did get, but the lush lady told me to have a whiff of this one. I immediately liked the scent so decided to get a little bottle as well.

This is just in the typical lush shower gel bottle with the black cap. It has the made on and use by dates as well as the name of the person that made it. I like how this is also called a 'shower scream' instead of a cream as it is a Halloween product. Sadly this does me you can not purchase this all year round. What is slightly off putting about this, is the color. It is a very bright Green! Not just a hint of green but very in your face. It is nice to have something different but I did have my fingers crossed the first time I used it, that it wouldn't stain my skin (it didn't, phew!).

The scent of this is very strong of patchouli, it also smells very warm and has a hint of spice to it as well. Mine is very runny, I'm not sure why but it lathers up really good and makes me feel clean. The scent lasts on my body a little while, I do use scented lotions and perfume so they probably mask most of the scent. My bathroom always smells good for quite a while after too.

I ended up buying a 250g bottle in the lush boxing day sale and I'm so glad I did. This little bottle won't last long and I don't want to wait months to be able to purchase it again. I definitely recommend having a sniff if you see this in store over Halloween!

Big sad that this is only available at select times of year! It should be available year round. I love this one because it's still sweet but in a more mature grown up way. It's a green shower gel- but it has more of a fresh cream texture. I use it on a pouffe and it spends easily over my body, with only a small amount of bubbles. I mainly use this after yoga - I've sweat out a heap of toxins so I don't want to drench my skin in more chemicals straight after so this is a perfect option. My skin is smooth, clean, soft and gently scented all day after using. I definitely have to give the shower a quick splash of water to remove any green smears after showering- but it just makes me more aware of what a messy showerer I am! It's one of my top 3 lush products.

As always, Lush bring out a delightful selection for Halloween, and this was among the few new things. This also stuck around until Christmas and in the sales, so I assume it will be out again in their mid year Christmas online and in store.

I bought the Lush WOW gift box and this was inside, as I had looked at the ingredients and decided it wasn't for me. I still stick by that, but that's simply because it's not my scent range. This is quite earthy but not in a mushroom kind of way. You definitely get the hit of spicy, but it's also slightly floral and there is a slight hint of the delicious fair trade vanilla when you're in the shower.

The shower 'scream' is bright green, and that pigment carries all the way to washing it off, where your feet will be surrounded by a lovely green tinged water. I both like and dislike that - I like the color but I dislike how pigmented it is, but I am yet to see it stain anything. It also contains a slight lustre but I haven't seen it transfer onto my own skin, so I guess it's there just for looks. (And it looks nice!)

The difference between a cream and a gel is often one is slightly more potent than the other, as well as how well they lather. A cream is obviously creamier, and I find they are also runnier so depending on how you look at it, you need more or less product. I found this lathered alright with gloves and barely at all without them, but I always felt clean regardless of how I used this.

I thought the scent lasted a good while on the skin, and thankfully it wasn't nearly as overpowering as it is in the shower. I wouldn't purchase this again, simply for the fact that it's not my scent type and smelling it again has induced a headache!