When I visited Glam Lounge for the weekly What’s in Store feature last month, owner Diane Aiello let me browse the inventory of everything from spray tans to candles. As I finished up and was getting ready to step out of the store, she thrust a tub into my hands and said, “Here, you’ve got to smell this.” My reward: The rush of freshly ground coffee beans — and a hint of chocolate, maybe? — that springs from every jar of Invigorating Coffee Scrub ($37) by Juara, an Indonesian-inspired skin care line. A handful in the shower helps exfoliate body skin with ground coffee and walnut shells, and the scent invigorates as only coffee can. (Warning: Since coffee grounds and walnut shells, unlike salt and sugar, don’t disintegrate with water contact, this requires vigilance in the rinse cycle, lest stubborn little brown flecks remain attached to your bits and pieces. Especially your bits.) Thus began this week’s obsession with scrubs.

Scent-sational: In the True Blue Spa line at Bath & Body Works I found There’s the Rub Salt Glow ($24), a frosting-light cream with a eucalyptus scent that uses sea salt as an exfoliant. If you’re envisioning jagged shards of kosher salt, relax: The grains are small and gentle to skin. Find it at any of the dozen-plus Bath & Body Works stores in the East Valley. And remember: Whenever you use a salt scrub on your legs and plan to shave them, always scrub first, then shave. Otherwise you’re literally rubbing salt into wounds: razors work by cutting hairs (and some rough skin) off the surface. (Plus, it helps with a smoother shave — the exfoliant scrubs away dead skin first.)

It’s all new, honey: How about a sweet scent instead? L’Occitane sells a spate of products in a new Honey & Lemon scent: everything from Foaming Jelly to Delightful Cream and — ta-da! — Sweet Sugar Scrub ($34). The scent is more miel than citron, as the French would say. … There are L’Occitane stores at Chandler Fashion Center, Scottsdale Fashion Square and Biltmore Fashion Park. Another hint: To prolong the use of a limited-edition scrub I got him last Christmas, my friend, Greg, used it only as a hand scrub in the kitchen. Pretty smart, if you just like the scent and don’t really need to exfoliate.

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