We all have our favourite scent, but is it a designer perfume, a functional fragrance or blends from the farm? Created as scents to influence your mood, fragrances are diversifying from Chanel No 5 scenting the air, to functional fragrances aimed to relax and cauliflower and sweet potato spritzers to bring you down to earth.
Functional Fragrances:
These are scientifically designed with one purpose – to alter your mood. Maybe a perfume to energize, boost confidence, to calm or an all-out stress buster. Neuroscientists have been tasked to make blends that us olfactory molecules to affect our brain cells. These include mixtures of rose and patchouli to make us feel good and balanced while amber, nutmeg and frankincense will help relaxation. For that feeling of joy, sunshine comes to mind bringing turmeric, lemon, ginger and bergamot together into a bottle.
Farm Sourced Spritzes:
With images of farmhouse kitchen tables laden with vegetables, imagine these ingredients bottled as an “eau de cologne” or rather “eau de beetroot”. A new crop is trending on vegetable spritzing. Earthy aromas are concocted from blends of fig, pepper, basil and carrot with the addition of vetiver. How about cauliflower, almond, herbs and pink pepper? Examples include L’Artisan Parfumeur Le Potager Collection who have a garden-themed collection of five fragrances.
A Word On Seasonal Scents
Heavy fragrances may work in winter but are too heavy in summer due to the humidity. Summer times call for fresh effervescent blends of magnolia and dewberry, zingy citrus aromas or even fennel, carrot and cauliflower.
Scents to influence your mood? Which are they?
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