Eau de Peanut Butter Cookie?

I'm involved with two charitable organizations - a large day shelter, and an organization that helps families in need around the holidays - that get tons of donations. Literally tons. 

And over the many years I'vebeen involved with these outfits, I've seen a lot of wacky donations come through the doors.

A pair of red velvet loafers with the Harvard crest on it. (Fight fiercely, Harvard homeless person, wearing those suckers on the street.) An ugly-ass pair of jeans with a dragon appliqued on them that turned out to cost $800. (I googled.) An office golf putting set - cup, club, balls. (So on point for an unhoused golfer, or a kid living with their mom and sibs in a single room in an emergency shelter.)

Then there was the five-gallon bucket full of concrete mix. (This was a gift intended for a kiddo who wanted a construction-related toy. It was so heavy, we figured out something was wrong, so we swapped this donation - which came from someone mean and/or crazy - out for a toy dump truck.)

A giant trash bag filled with clean but used thongs. (Yes, you read that right.) Some Independent Pleasure Club of NJ gear. (Turns out, it was part of an all-Black men's basketball league of the early 20th century.) Etc.

Recently, one of "my" organizations received a donation of several thousand 18 oz. bottles of Girl Scount branded NATIVE body wash, Peanut Butter Cookie flavored scented. 

I've never heard of NATIVE brand, but I understand from a member of the fam who has two teenage daughters that it's a thing with the youngs. (NATIVE is owned by P&G, but its brand is "clean:" natural ingredients, no bad chemicals, no animal cruelty involved.)

I did see NATIVE products at CVS the other day, and some of the fragrances sounded fine. I like anything cucumbur or lemon scented. But they were under lock and key, so I took a pass on purchase. 

But peanut butter scented???

I can see why someone might want G.S. Thin Mint. Or Samoas, for the cocoanut fragrance. Or plain vanilla Trefoils. But Peanut Butter cookies? Who wants to smell like a peanut butter cookie.

I grabbed a couple for my niece Caroline, who is going to try to use it to lure her doggo into the shower. (Nora, like most pups, loves peanut butter. Just hope she doesn't try to lick it off herself.)

But, seriously, who, other than perhaps a dog, wants to smell like peanut butter.

Not that there's anything wrong with PB. I love peanut butter and it is one food item that, guaranteed, I will always have on my shelves. With ample backup. 

But as a body wash?

Apparently, the market on this product has spoken. Which is why we now have ton of NATIVE Girl Scout Peanut Butter body wash - and no Thin Mint, no Samoa, no nothing else...

We will, of course, use it. Make that we both will. For the last few years, "my" two groups have done some cross donations. The day shelter got a donation of good-brand sneakers in kid sizes. The holiday charity got a donation of very high end fleeces in 3x and 4x. So we trade back and forth. 

The shelter will give it out to those of our guests who are in permanent housing. (Homeless people aren't going to drag around an 18 oz. bottle of body wash, even if they like the smell of it.) And the holiday-related charity, which mostly gives out toys, always gives out hygiene products as well. (When families come in to sign up, a lot of them will be happy to have it.)

The Girl Scouts aren't the only outfit that NATIVE is in a collab with. There are Dunkin' versions as well: Blueberry Cobbler, Strawberry Frosted, Boston Kreme.

Both the Dunkin' and the Girl Scout NATIVE products sound awful to me. Way too sweet smelling, I'm guessing - even the Thin Mint ones. 

Give me a Dunkin' chocolate honey dip donut p, a Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie (mine are on order) any old day.

But, hey, we never look a gift horse in the mouth. (Unless the gift horse is donating a trash bag full of clean but used thongs.) Someone will be happy to have that body wash.

Thanks for thinking of us!