This cream smells amazing! It smells mostly of the sweet almond oil and slightly of the shea butter. I mostly use it overnight because I do find that, on occasion, it leaves a very slightly oily feel. My hands are dry, but not so much that they crack. I suspect that with lotion gloves and on someone with very dry skin this would be a god send. On the days that my hands feel especially dry I don't get that oily feel. When I wake up my hands are soft, supple and smell great. I even find that when I use the cream at night, after the second time I wash my hands during the morning they don't feel too dry or tight.