This sounded very interesting. I love coffee, and I like the smell of pumpkin spice things. When I opened this up, the seal thing that says "sealed for your protection wasn't attached. It's Styrofoam though so I figured it detached when I unscrewed the top as it didn't feel like it would have had a solid grip in the container. Perhaps the seal is supposed to unseal when you unscrew it though, I know some chicken broth boxes alarmed me at first because when I opened them every tin foil seal was broken (and then I found out that that was supposed to happen when you untwist the top, so perhaps this is the same way. When you open it up you get a smell of coffee and sort of a pumpkiny, cinnamony smell, though it didn't quite smell like the pumpkin spice scents I'm used to smelling. It's still nice though. I gently rubbed my wet face, using only a little bit, perhaps about a pinch. It gave good coverage all over my face so this canister, though small, should last a while. I left it on for about five minutes and then rinsed it off. The coffee smell sort of stays with you afterward. This has Avocado oil, cocoanut oil and shea butter and other things, so I think that fact that one's face still smells of it shows that the scrub's oils really sunk into the skin, including the coffee. I used it again some days later. After both times of using it, when I would wash my face again later that day or the next morning with my regular cleanser, the smell would appear again, showing it's still there. Practically speaking, I don't love how the smell lingers on/in my skin, though I think it does show it's working. If it smelled a little more....I'm not sure how to describe it...if it smelled a little more like the coffee aisle when you walk down it, I wouldn't really mind it. Or even if it smelled more like it smells dry in the canister, it wouldn't bother me so much. But it reminds me of a smell I've sometimes noticed after drinking coffee, a smell that kind of reminds me of the smell of cigarettes . But again that's just me, and how I perceive certain smells. I'm not sure I'd recommend using this if you have cystic acne. I have cystic acne and it really seemed to aggravate it. At first I was thinking it was because of it being too abrasive for it, so the next time I didn't rub it into the cysts that were on my face, I just plopped it on, but the pain still increased afterward. This type of thing has happened to me with other products, even makeup, so it's not anything wrong with the product, I just have very picky acne. When I use it again I'll try to just place it on the places on my face without acne.
