If Zazzle Booms are ever available again I'll buy enough to fill a dry bathtub (that many in action in water would be quite a sight too). I liked it. I liked it a lot. This is the first boom I have tried and after waiting a long time for this scent happily it lived up to my hopes. While the lab's chocolate perfumes don't seem to do anything for me despite many attempts, this one was different perhaps because it is not on me the same way perfumes are so not body interaction to skew the scent. It is also because Zazzle was an experience more than a scent for me.
First in the bag it was dreamy. I'm not much for describing scents and can't even recall what it was like other than good, really really good. While it arrived in ball form the boom was slightly soft and I had the pleasure of squishing it to powder again in the bag (kinda like stirring ice cream into soup undoing all the work someone went to to get it into the solid form). I'd buy booms as powder too but the mushing is fun and not just for the side benefit of making it easy to use in partial amounts. When the bag was eventually opened there was powder in the air that went in my nose just like when hot cocoa packets are opened and perhaps because of that similarity it smelled like hot chocolate mix.
I began with a low amount of water in the tub and poured in half the bag of powder to see what the scent is like as it dilutes. I couldn't find much scent once the powder was wet but I should add my nose misses a lot and the bathroom fan is always on when the light switch is thrown so I imagine some of the scent was being stolen up to the roof. The water bubbled impressively as the powder spread out. It wasn't like soda carbonation under the water but dry powder covered bubbles all over the surface instead, like when mixing the dry and wet ingredients for chocolate cake or brownies. Again, it was more a suggestion of chocolate by association than a scent at this point.
More water was added to see the powder dissolve and the water went from watery hot cocoa to just brown water. If I didn't have the positive memories of tubbing in rusty water at a summer home over the years the water color might have been off putting since brownish water is not usually associated with being clean or relaxing. Bathtubs mean play for me so I sloshed the water around and had fun noticing the color vary as the depth in different areas changed. I decided to use the other half of the bag but wasn't going to make it go fast. I put a handful of water into the plastic bag and held the top closed as the gas quickly inflated it. The Zazzle label was pulled apart as the bag wrinkles were expanding. I held the whole bag underwater and eventually the gas stretched the bag so thin in spots that it began leaking gas bubbles into the water. This was fun.
I added more water to the bag of Zazzle powder and shook it up after letting the new gas escape. Now the bag had moist Zazzle mud. Reaching in to pull the blob out I played with it in my hands and I had what looked and smelled like chocolate mousse! The bubbling gas fluffed up the damp powder to the exact consistency of mousse. This was a very cool surprise. Pretty soon I dropped my Zazzle paste hands into the water to finish fizzing. The rest of the bath was uneventful after washing out the inside of the bag to get every last drop of Zazzle goodness, fishing the dissolving paper label out from the tub in pieces, and relaxing once I realized there wouldn't be a brown ring around the tub's highest water level to have to clean up when the bath ended. Only after reading other reviews did I go back to the tub today, the day after, and see that yes indeed there is a draining water shaped line of cocoa powder that needs to be swished out of the tub or easily swiped up with a moist tissue.
Zazzle was a tub toy for me, and I need more toys like that.
