Renuzit Aroma: Natural Crystals With Premium Fragrances

To buy or not to buy: Not to buy.

For me, this was the typical impulse buy. It is a new product. I had seen a coupon for it – I actually had it in my coupon box. Then, I noticed it on the shelf – there were only two left and it was easy to notice because of the unusual almost empty spot on the shelf. And it was on sale. I didn’t think twice before picking it up.

Through a window in the box you can see a glass jar containing a bag of crystals. I quickly sniffed at the box with the red crystals. No smell. I sniffed at the box with the green crystals. Nothing. Couldn’t the manufacturers put a scratch and sniff patch on the box? They could have, but they didn’t – they didn’t lose anything so far as I still purchased the product. I put the red crystals in my basket.

I cut the bag and poured its contents in the glass jar. They are very pretty. The smell, however, was very strong and extremely fake. The kind that gives you a headache. I wouldn’t say the smell was berries, but I couldn’t tell what it was. I had to hold my breath and go in another room to read the instructions.

Oh, you can adjust the amount of crystals to pour in the jar. Maybe I wouldn’t have destroyed the bag during opening, had I seen a zipper on it. But the bag is not reusable in any way. So now here I was intoxicated by the strong, fake smell, needing to get a zipper bag to store some of the crystals.

Then I thought, wait, there has to be a lid for this jar! Guess what, there isn’t. Why isn’t there a lid? Mystery. Not to mention that the smell causing stuff is dyed juice on the surface of the crystals, that wipes off everything and stains. Do not purchase if you have chidren, they will want to taste the “candy”! Do not accidentally spill the crystals or touch them when pouring into a zipper bag.

How could this product be improved? Keep the jar, keep the crystals, keep the non-reusable bag and keep the coupon inside the box. Add a pretty lid with a vent on it, that can be opened or closed depending on the desired strenght. And add a scratch patch on the box so people know what they’re bringing home.

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