Sunday, October 23, 2011


~New!~
No more spraying your favorite Scentsy Room Spray all over your clothes!  Although, Scentsy has some wonderful scents for use in your home, Scentsy products are not created to make contact with your skin, hair or clothing. 

Good News!  Scentsy has now designed a new plan for providing a more personal way to deliver Scentsy fragrance.
Fine Fragrance:
Scentsy is launching a refreshing new twist on fine fragrance.  Five of their most magnificent scents have been reformulated as fine-fragrance perfume.  These scents work with body chemistry to generate an enthralling Scentsy feel that becomes truly your own.
Scentsy Solid Perfume is wearable and designed with your skin in mind (cosmetic grade).  It is a natural mixture and the best part is that you will have a unique experience wearing it because your skin will modify the scent in a personal and individual way.
Rub on the silky-smooth Scentsy Perfume to pulse points and take pleasure in a fragrance that will last for hours leaving people to wonder about what you’re wearing.
The Scents are subtle and careful research was done to make sure they were the best smelling scents for the body.
Love Story ~ Innocent pink jasmine and sensual amber embraced by luscious dark chocolate. You wouldn’t settle for anything less than a film-worthy romance.  Love story is like the perfect movie kiss.
Enchanted Mist ~ Romantic blend of juicy apples, enhanced and sweetened by rose petals and rich jasmine.  From love at first sight to the clever, handsome prince – you believe in fairytales!
Simply Irresistible ~ Lavender with a strong, woody background of amber, moss and musk. You are at your best when you can be yourself. No one can resist.
My Wish ~ A confection of earthy fig, sweet violet, and playful marshmallow will have you wishing for more. Genuine and sweet, you can always see the best in others. Treat yourself to My Wish.
Satin Sheets ~ Sensual and earthy sandalwood perfectly paired with rich, warm vanilla.  You aren’t even slightly tempted by the status quo. 
Perfume tells a story all its own:
People love perfumes.  People have used perfumes for thousands of years for a variety of different reasons- to attract and seduce the opposite sex; to improve one’s mood or state of mind; to boost one’s level of self - confidence; to refresh and energize, and so on. 
The aim is always to choose a fragrance that suits your individual persona.  To put it another way, look for a scent that will enhance your aura, not take away from it by overpowering you (and others)! 
Fragrances react when applied to the skin.  As your body heat rises, the perfume starts its magic.  Perfumes smell differently on each person because of a difference in body chemistry. 
The biggest factor in how a scent will smell on you is the result of your body’s PH balance (acidity vs. alkalinity) interaction with the fragrance.  Ideal PH is alkaline – but stress and poor nutrition will turn your balance to acid, and that will affect fragrance.
Several factors can play a role in how a scent interacts with your unique body chemistry:
Stress: If you are feeling a large amount of anxiety it will often affect your heart rate and cause your hands to become clammy and you might start to sweat.  This will change your body chemistry and the scent of your perfume.
Diet: What you eat can radically change the smell of fragrances on your skin.  For an extreme example, too much garlic or onion consumption can cause these aromas to permeate your skin when your body temperature rises.    Also, if you were on a high fat diet the scents placed on your skin would be more powerful than someone who was on a low fat diet.  Dramatic changes in your diet can change the way your favorite fragrances smell.
Age: There are a number of significant hormonal changes for men and women at different stages of life; for instance, puberty, pregnancy and menopause can all wreck havoc on your hormonal levels and change the way your fragrance smells when applied.
Medications and Medical Conditions: For example, people with Diabetes will have a harder time finding fragrances that work for them due to the fluctuations in their blood sugar levels.  As their sugar levels change, so does the scent of the fragrance they are wearing.
Fragrance Personality:
Inside each of us lies our own “fragrance personality”.  The choice of one’s perfume says a lot about one’s personality, lifestyle and way of thinking.  It also makes an impact on other people as well.  Long after you leave a room your fragrance will linger on, as if in rememberance of you and your presence.  Perfume is the most intense form of memory. 
This helps explain why some individuals are drawn to fruity scents, others to florals, others to musky and others to oriental spices.
 It has been hypothesized by perfume retailers that the kind of music a person enjoys, their favorite colors and what activities they enjoy all play a role in with regard to their fragrance preference.
Classical music lovers who vacation in the country and adore the color pink tend to be drawn to the most feminine of all scents – the floral ones.
Rock & Roll: Rollers who also favor the color yellow and enjoy indulging in spa treatments tend to lean toward fruity fragrances.
R&B enthusiasts that like to down-to-earth color green and believe that a dream vacation would be a lakeside resort enjoy crisp scents deriving from the stem and leaves.
Jazz lovers, who enjoy visiting exotic places, such as, island getaways and profess to love the color purple, tend to go for more oriental scents that contain ingredients that exude sensuality such as heavy flowers, musk and vanilla.  Oriental scents (also known as ambers) are sexy, intense and full of energy.
Some scientists believe perfume preferences are directly linked to favorite colors.  People who are fond of light, bright colors such as pink, orange & yellow would be more inclined to gravitate toward fruity or floral scents while individuals who favored darker, richer colors such red, green or purple would be more likely to be interested in warm, oriental fragrances.
People who enjoy hanging out at the beach, devouring sushi and are true blue for the color “blue” have a tendency to go for ocean scents that remind them of the fresh salty air and the warmth of the sun. 
Sophisticated jet-setters who enjoy retiring at night on red hot satin sheets and also enjoy the taste of spicy food usually reach for a woody scents that calls up thoughts of earthly elements.
Sporty people often prefer clean, light and fresh scents that are very subtle.
Upbeat, optimistic, energetic types who always have a ready smile for everyone often enjoy fruity scents.
Sexy personalities, like sexy scents that make a bold proclamation about who they are.  These people go for musky fragrances, which leave a lasting impression (especially on the opposite sex).
Some perfume experts believe introverted people have a much keener awareness of scents and smells than extroverted people and for that reason tend to be more inclined to be drawn to the intensity of oriental scents as opposed to the lighter fruity and floral scents.
Beauty is in the ‘nose’ of the beholder:
Major Histo-compatibility Complex(MHC): The MHC consists of a set of genes that capture a person’s unique immunogenetic profile/signature.  As such, the MHC is a disassortative mating trait .  (i.e., people choose individuals who are the most dissimilar to them on this trait as a means of providing the greatest immunological defenses for their prospective offspring).  It was found that people prefer perfumes that seemed best suited for their unique MHC profile. In this case, this means that preferred perfumes are those that are most likely to augment an individual’s body fragrances as a means of advertising his/her MHC signature. 
Dr Wedekind recruited female volunteers to sniff men's three-day-old T-shirts and rate them for attractiveness. He then analyzed the men's and women's DNA, looking in particular at the genes that build a part of the immune system known as the Major Histocompatability Complex (MHC). Dr Wedekind knew, from studies on mice, that besides fending off infection, the MHC has a role in sexual attractiveness. It changes odors in ways the mice can detect, and that detection is translated into preferences for particular mates. What is true for mice is often true for men, so he had an idea that the MHC might affect the smell of human sweat, as well.
It did. Women preferred T-shirts from men whose MHC was most different from their own. What was more, women with similar MHCs favored the use of similar commercial perfumes. This suggests that the role of such perfumes may be to enhance the underlying body scent rather than mask it, as a more traditional view of the aesthetics of body odor might suggest.
That makes evolutionary sense. The children of couples with a wide range of MHC genes, and thus of immune responses, will be better protected from disease.
Indeed, the only people for whom MHC matching might not be expected to work are women on the Pill. Chemical contraception, which mimics pregnancy, messes up the system because of an intriguing twist. When women are pregnant, they prefer the smell of MHCs that are similar to their own. This means they are happier in the company of their relatives, which may, bring evolutionary benefits of its own.
Bottom line: Our perfume preferences are part of a wide range of signals that we use to attract prospective mates.
How to make your fragrance last: 
The best places to apply fragrance are the inside of the ankles, behind your knees, the wrists, the crook of the elbows, the sides of the neck and behind your ears as these are your pulse points (areas on your skin where blood flow is strongest and the skin is the warmest).
Fragrance lasts longer when applied on damp skin right after a shower or bath.
Wear stronger scents in cold weather. Cold reduces a scent’s intensity.  So you may want to change your scents according to the seasons.
Fragrance rises.  Apply onto skin from the feet up.  If you only apply behind your ears, it will eventually rise and disappear.
People with dry skin will need to reapply often and oily combination skin less often.  Dry skin doesn’t retain scents as well as skin higher in oil content.
Another thing to consider when applying perfume is that each person has an approximate circle around their body where people should be able to smell your scent.  Hold your arm out directly in front of you.  If people can smell your scent from further away than that, you are either using the wrong perfume (it is having poor reaction to your body chemistry) or you are using it the wrong way.
Fragrance is supposed to be a personal message, not an announcement or broadcast over the public address system!
Scentsy Solid Perfume is designed to be nourishing and moisturizing to your skin. 
1.       Paraben-free
2.       Sulphate-free
3.       Phthalate-free
4.       Benzene-free
5.       Silicone-free
6.       GMO-free
7.       Propylene glycol-free
8.       Dye-free (no added colorants)
9.       Never tested on animals
A fragrance is so many things. 
 It is art, it is emotion, it is romance, it is energy, it is intimacy and it is empowerment.

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