Thursday, March 2, 2017

Band of Bloggers: March 2017, Volume 15


Welcome to the March edition of Band of Bloggers!  Hopefully this month begins to bring more temperate weather and the first signs of spring! In my neck of the woods, conditions have been alternating between crazy heavy rain/high winds and beautiful sunshine and blooming flowers. I hope the weather will stabilize a bit this month. Since the month of March usually holds the first signs of spring, that begs the question:

What scent are your favorite scents to melt and wear for spring?
Are you a fan of traditional spring scents such as florals, fresh/clean, earthy, herbal, etc?
Do you consider yourself a seasonal melter (melting scents traditionally associated with a particular season in that season?)

Yes. Yes I am a fan of those types of scents. The fresh and clean ones can be touch and go but if well done and not overly chemical or detergent then I am on board. In spring I do like sweet and soft florals and herbs. I tend to start getting into more fruits and less bakery about then. Sometimes woodsy scents and vanillas ring my chimes about then too. 

As you can probably tell I am a seasonal melter. I do save my pumpkins for fall and pomander scents for Christmas. Fruits and florals come out to play in summer and spring. I will melt cinnamon all year though. It is my comfort scent.

In the spring I start reaching for my fig centric scents and roses when it comes to perfumes. Violets, lilacs, lavender and iris also really hit the sweet spot too this time of year. Herbal fragrances and lighter citrus colognes start to trickle in as well, though those get heavier play in the summer. This spring I think I will buy the new travel size of Voile de Violette from Sonoma Scent Studio.

What about you? Are you craving anything in particular this spring? Anything you are excited to melt or wear?

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14 comments:

  1. Spring scents are my least favorite because it's usually all about florals. I had hubby's little stash out the other day and it's mainly florals and scents I don't care for. It was refreshingly springlike! lol

    ~Deb

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    1. Your hubby has quite the tidy floral stash, has he melted any?

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  2. Sounds like we have very similar preferences! I love all seasons, although fall's probably my favorite. But I do love to start melting refreshing, fruity and floral scents this time of year.

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    1. Yes we do! I love them all too. I think saving certain scents for certain times of year builds my anticipation and appreciation of them when I do get around to melting them. Right now I am looking forward to my beachy scent for summer. The heat is really starting to crank out so my "spring" melting will be brief.

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  3. Oh man, I'd love to know what's actually going on with my hooter from a scientific, biological perspective, because real florals? Love 'em. Roses smell like candy to me, and I think freesia is just the most gorgeous scent ever (love the peppery white ones.) But rose scent, freesia scent? You'll never see me, I'm running away SO fast. I wish I could find one that smells like the really real deal. What's up with that anyways? I'm curious, but how do you determine if a floral is for real, or as real as you'd like it to be? Or is it a close-enough thing?

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    1. LOL! Real florals are very hard to capture, especially in wax. Well established perfume houses have a hard enough time capturing them too but there are some really nice ones out there.

      For me, it is really hard to pin point one scent that smells like a true rose. Because roses have various iterations: there are green sappy roses like cabbage roses, there are plush plummy bordeaux roses, Bulgarian, Turkish, rose hips, they all have various notes and leans. Some are powdery, some woody, fruity or clean, some smell like a young rose bud, a mature bloom or a decaying rose. So yeah... there really isn't one scent for me that smells like a perfect rose in either perfume or wax, because I have many perfect roses. <3

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    2. It's a bit of an interesting concept from a fragrance perspective, but is the thing that's missing for me in interpretations of a scent the actual scent of LIFE? I think I just created a new hybrid area of study for mixed majors - existential botany.

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    3. I am totally down with existential botany. You are absolutely on to something. There will always be that je ne sais quoi to life and the effluvia it offers. I do think there is truth to that. Just take gardenia. It is one of those flowers that cannot be distilled down due to its delicacy. Enfleurage is used but it still does not encompass the multi-dimensional scent of the flower itself. I love gardenias but finding the perfect gardenia perfume is a trial and a half.

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  4. Woodsy and vanilla chiming loud and clear for me too. My comfort scent is amber and love that it can be added to any season. You know, I've never been gaga over cinnamon, I enjoy a cinnamon chai though, sipped or melted.
    FIG-centric perfume sounds sweet and sensual. Girl, you're going to get me into perfumery yet;)
    ~Jay

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    1. Yes!!! If I was only allowed to melt or burn woods, vanilla or ambers the rest of my lift I would be just fine.

      There are so many great fig scents, you should sample: Diptyque Philosykos, L'Artisan Caligna (I can just send you that one!), Sonoma Scent Studio Fig Tree.

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  5. It's interesting that you melt fig in spring. For me it leans more Fall/Winter, so I keep those scents for the colder months.
    I'm slowly warming up to Rose as a scent as my nose becomes skilled at picking out more than just "powdery," but other florals have never been anything but cheap/powdery/overbearing to me. That's why I prefer to blend my florals. I was so psyched that sugared violets from SMT turned out so lovely!
    Woody vanilla scents are an all-the-time kind of scent for me. That and vanilla lavender remain comfort scents for me.
    It's time to bring out my Rose Mallow Cream with the rising temps! YAY!!!

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    1. That is interesting! I am not sure when figs grow around here, but I always associate the green coconut creaminess with spring for some reason. But I could see it being beautiful in the fall or winter too.

      I am excited that your SMT Sugared Violets turned out too! I cannot wait to make some blends with it at the next opening. <3

      YES!!! Rose Mallow Cream is the bomb. Enjoy smelling smoking hot!

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  6. I agree about getting into sweet and soft florals, fruits, and herbs in the spring! Perfect scents for the changing weather. Vanilla is nice in the spring, too! :) You know you and I feel the same about cinnamon, all year round, baby!

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    1. Between Celtic Moonspice, Pink Peppermint and Apple Clove Butter, I think you have gifted me the holy trinity of wax scents. I can never thank you enough for that. xoxo

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