First Glance: I know, I know – at first glance, this one looks shockingly similar to one of those bottles of hand soaps that I reviewed last fall, and I suppose if you base your intuition solely on the name, then that would technically be correct!  However upon closer inspection, you’ll note that this jack o’lantern-donning variety lacks those same weird exfoliating spheres that yours truly found kind of annoying in the previous offering, so frankly, I kind of like this year’s model better!

Also: Yes, that is very much an Octopus Dish Scrubber there accompanying our cheery bottle of hand soap by my kitchen sink.  Stay tuned for my next goofy blog, Love Me Some Cephalopods!, and I’ll be happy to tell you all about him…

Disclaimer: What can I say?  My wife likes this store for obvious girly reasons, so whenever I find myself wandering its aisles while she’s looking for some new lotion or whatever, I do what I can to entertain myself!  Often times that results in me taking funny pictures of the various scents until the stores employees with their creepy headsets tell me to stop, but in this case, believe it or not I was an actual customer, too!

Taste Scents: Oddly enough, it’s actually the Creamy Pumpkin variety that has more pumpkin spice smell to it; if anything, the Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin scent reminds me of most other random fruity lotions that they sell at that place.  This kind of surprised me because I have a candle of the latter I got last year and I really enjoy that … I was sort of expecting the soap to have a similar fragrance.
Texture: They’ve also both got those weird, little “exfoliating microspheres” in them like you sometimes find in body wash, which I’m not particularly a fan of because it always feels like I’m washing myself with sand, but who am I to fight a trend in anti-bacterial cleansing technologies?
Happy Ending: Although ultimately I actually prefer Creamy Pumpkin myself, I also pride myself as being an equal opportunity host, so please note that you will find both varieties at your disposal in my guest bathroom going forward, should you be visiting and find yourself needing to tidy up a bit!  That is, at least until my wife finds them and swaps them out for cherry or watermelon or some other traditional hand soap nonsense…

Awesomeness: Seriously, what better Christmas gift could a pumpkin-fan get than the opportunity to lather himself with pumpkin each and every morning?!
Caveat: Just as the picture shows, this delectable scent actually came as part of a set of several different food-scented shampoos, but which one do you think yours truly cracked open first?
Showery Aroma: like taking a bath in a pumpkin pie … without all of the uncleanliness
After-Smell?: Surprisingly, shortly after leaving the shower the pumpkin scent had pretty much dissipated, which was probably a good thing because although I loved the smells filling the shower during my morning rituals, I’m not so sure that reeking of pumpkin would be the best impression to make upon everyone who I encountered throughout the rest of the day!
Gratitude Due: A special thanks to my loving wife for finding such an awesomely pumpkin-i-fied Christmas gift.  May all of our Christmases together be merry and orange…