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Natural Perfumes For Fall and Winter!

September 22nd, 2015 by

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The Autumnal Equinox is happening tomorrow September 23. This signals the end of summer and the end of citrus and light scents. The Northern Hemisphere will soon turn into cooler days and nights that turn the leaves into beautiful brilliant colors. We will reach for sweaters and jackets and heavier fragrances.

I love fall. The crisp, cool morning air. The delightful warm afternoons. The Indian summer sunset evenings.

The beaches are almost deserted and life slows down here in Southern California.

The other aspects of fall I love are the leathery, woodsy, sultry, smoky scents that I associate with fall bonfires, crispy leaves, and cinnamon and spicy, warm apple cider. We wear eau de parfums in the day and also reach for rich and heavier parfums for evening. It is a delight to surround ourselves with natural perfumes.

Leather Collection

Leather Collection

Some of my JoAnne Bassett Natural Perfumes I offer for fall and winter are:

Floral Family romantic, and typically not too heavy

Floral Woody Musk  Sybarite,

Oriental Family exotic, sensual earthy, sometimes heavy

Sacred Incense, Sacred Frankincense 1, Sacred Frankincense 4, Sacred Frankincense 6

Oriental Floral  Contessa, Sacred Frankincense 2, Marie Antoinette

1 oz bottles

Oriental Spicy  Madame Pompadour

Oriental Woody  Venus Amber, Sacred Frankincense 3, Sacred Frankincense 5

Chypre Family  forest, mossy notes with citrus an outdoorsy smell

Chypre Floral  Intimacy

Intimacy Parfum

Fougere (Green) Family  green, grassy, herbal

Vert Also Aromatic)

Leather Family  sexy, dirty, woodsy, animalic

The Leather Collection Arabian, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish

Woody Family

Woody Aromatic  Italian Smoke

Aromatic Family

Aromatic  Napoleon
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Review of Italian Smoke, Italian Leather and Sacred Frankincense 3 Scents

September 9th, 2015 by
Leather Collection Bottle

Leather Collection Bottle

Tom Pease at Perfume Posse wrote this wonderful review of my natural perfumes.

JoAnne Bassett Italian Smoke, Italian Leather and Sacred Frankincense 3

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about JoAnne Bassett?s Call to Prayer, which I was loving so much I didn?t have a chance to test the three samples she included, Italian Smoke, Italian Leather and Sacred Frankincense 3. Well, I?ve tested all three, so here?s the scoop.

Sacred Frankincense 3 is written of as ?A sultry tuberose walk in the woods after dark with orange blossoms caressing your nose.? It?s very lovely, but I think the orange blossom is far more the star than the tuberose, which frankly I think is no bad thing.

Italian Smoke is ?Italian Smoke has uplifting sweet orange essence and orange blossoms, the sensuous heart of vintage jasmine grandifolium, the smoky, sexiness of tobacco absolute, the sweetness of vanilla, and the vintage Mysore sandalwood.? It?s very interesting- I don?t get smoke at all, but a winning combination of orange and tobacco.

Italian Leather is ?This sensuous leather is like a summer evening?s drive in a Bugatti with leather seats and jasmine and orange blossoms in the air?cistus, wild orange, vintage jasmine grandifolium, Bulgarian tobacco, light patchouli.? It?s far and away my favorite of the bunch- the ?leather? is in no way overpowering with a lovely hit of jasmine and tobacco.

All 0f them have excellent lasting power- I could smell them on my skin after sleeping. Also, they are super concentrated- you might at first balk at the price, but it?s clear that the ingredients are the best and you really only need to use the tiniest drop.

All of these are available at her website, and she does sell samples of her works for a nominal amount- less than $10. She also offers sample sets; My samples were given to me by JoAnne. Image: Her website.

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Choosing a Natural Fragrance – Fragrance Classifications

August 21st, 2015 by

There are Fragrance Classifications that can help you choose what fragrance may be right for you. There are six distinct families for fragrance and then there are subcategories within the fragrant families. I added a few categories at the end. I have composed a listing of JoAnne Bassett Natural Perfumes within the categories.

Citrus Family – light, refreshing, uplifting

Sparkling Citrus

Citrus Aromatic – Collette, Reveiller, Versailles

Floral Family romantic, and typically not too heavy

Ecstasy, I Love You, Opulence, Camille, Chantelle, Luscious Roses, Le Voyage, Sensual Embrace, Magie D Or, Malmaison

Floral Fruity – Temptress

Floral Green – Josephine, Petit Trianon

Floral Woody Musk – Sybarite, Rose Smoke

Oriental Family exotic, sensual earthy, sometimes heavy

Sacred Incense, Sacred Frankincense 1, Sacred Frankincense 4, Sacred Frankincense 6

Oriental Floral – Amazing, Rose Kiss, Serendipity, Contessa, Enchant, Esoterica, Reflections, Indulgence, Tetu, Sacred Frankincense 2, Marie Antoinette

Oriental Spicy – Madame Pompadour

Oriental Woody – Venus Amber, Timeless, Dark Mistress, Sacred Frankincense 3, Sacred Frankincense 5

Chypre Family – forest, mossy notes with citrus an outdoorsy smell

Chypre Floral – Intimacy

Fougere (Green) Family – green, grassy, herbal

Vert (Also Aromatic)

Leather Family – sexy, dirty, woodsy, animalic

The Leather Collection – Arabian, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish

Other Categories

Aromatic – Vert, Napoleon

Gourmand – Collette

Woody

Woody Aromatic – Italian Smoke

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Natural Perfume Review of Call To Prayer Perfume

August 21st, 2015 by

Tom Pease wrote this lovely review for Perfume Posse.

Call to Prayer Perfume by JoAnne Bassett

August 21, 2015 ?Posted by Tom on August 21, 2015 ?

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California has always been a state with an embarrassment of riches, whether it be gold deposits, fruits and vegetables,?cutting edge foods, or cutting edge perfumers. Dotting the state are many talents, each with their own personal style.

JoAnne Bassett is one of those people. Committed to making the must luxurious natural perfumes, hers alma?s make me think of classic French compositions: deceptively simple but with many depths to them.

Call to Prayer is the latest one. From her website:

?My Call To Prayer Perfume was birthed this Ramadan on July 8, 2015. ?This precious perfume is a high vibration perfume with rose, ?frankincense and oud ? agarwood in a base of organic jojoba oil.

Vintage Bulgarian white rose (alba) otto the ?flower of light?,?Vintage?Rare Frankincense Oman, hydro distilled, and a combination of Cambodia and Thai wild oud ? agarwood.

The general feeling is peace, meditation and reverence when applied.?

I am remedied by it of the (admittedly few) times we went to church in the summer. Raised catholic, I was at the tail end of the?incense and Latin services, before they went to English and nuns with guitars. The rose is the entry from the street, the frankincense is the smell of the altar, the agar wood the smell of the walls absorbing those previous scents for a century. It is a peaceful and very meditative scent that needs only a touch of it to work.

The lasting power is excellent, especially for a natural scent. I get 5 or 6 hours of ?lean in and smell me? beauty.

Call to Prayer is sold at her website, in a?3 ml glass bottle in an ivory?satin bag?for?$108.00. I won mine in a give-a-way. Image is from her website.

 

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Custom Bespoke Perfume Just For You!

August 13th, 2015 by

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One of my most favorite things I love to do as a Couture Perfumer is create Custom Bespoke Perfume. ?I love helping people and this is one of the ways I give back. ?I feel this is one of my greatest gifts and people find me from all over the world. My perfumes are 100% natural using only the finest essential oils and absolutes. No synthetics and cheap fragrance oils are used.

The most optimum day I love to create on is a New Moon day. ?Tomorrow August 14 is a New Moon and I will be busy in my perfume studio. ?Have you ordered your bespoke perfume?

Right now until August 15 at midnight Pacific time I am offering a rare discount of 15% off my entire website. It is my New Moon Special Sale. ?Please email me what you would like to order and I will send a paypal invoice or go online?and order what you want. ?I will then refund your 15% on paypal.

Please go here to learn more about my energetic, life changing and transformational bespoke perfumes.

If you have any questions feel free to call me at 760.309.2571 or send an email on my contact page.

You can also order your custom perfume in eau de perfume, and organic body care products. ?Refills of your perfume are also available.

 

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What is in the smell of luxury?

July 14th, 2015 by

What is in the smell of luxury?

 

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JoAnne Bassett a Couture Natural Perfumer creates masterpieces from exotic oils and essences. Some of the magnificent raw materials she uses are 20 years old and are mellow and beautiful like vintage fine wine. Her style of perfumery and high quality natural oils is unheard of in mainstream and niche fragrance lines. In the late 1800’s synthetic fragrance oils were introduced that reduced the cost to produce fragrances. Most of the niche fragrance houses are using synthetic aroma chemicals that are created from petroleum and other laboratory chemicals. These inexpensive chemicals comprise 90% of the perfume ingredients in a fragrance bottle available for sale today. Even the most expensive French houses use the chemical soup they call fine fragrance. The packaging is more costly than the ingredients and the juice inside of the bottle. This is a secret most of them do not want you to know. When the advertising lists ingredients like rose, sandalwood, jasmine, etc. they are really referring to synthetic aroma molecules. The rose they refer to is a chemical mixture created in the laboratory: ROSALVA (I) (9,DECEN-1-0L) – Floral, Aldehydic, Rose, Waxy Fresh, dewy rose note that sells for $9.50 for one ounce. Bulgarian Rose otto or oil that is steam distilled from the rosa damascena rose petals costs $500.00 for one ounce. This is a good illustration of the actual ingredient costs of the well known perfume houses. JoAnne uses real rose otto and only natural essences in her fine creations.

Natural perfume raw materials are created from live plants, flowers, trees, herbs, and grasses. They have the live plant energy and the deep complex smell of the essential oils and absolutes. These intense and absolutely stunning oils create exotic and amazing natural perfumes that really need to be experienced to understand them fully. When they are applied to the skin they blossom like the flowers they were created from. There is no comparison to a laboratory created oil and an oil or essence created from nature.

To put this into perspective, in the times of Catherine de’ Medici, an Italian noblewoman and Queen of France, some of the finest materials were used to create her luxury all natural perfumes. Orange blossoms, rose petals, jasmine flowers, all were picked by hand and processed for her use. She demanded the most elegant perfumes and her private perfumer spared no costs in procuring the materials needed. Royal perfume ingredients create perfumes for royalty or wealthy patrons. She would not have been happy with synthetic, cheap materials and why would you? This natural trend continued and the French royal court of Marie Antoinette also were endowed with exclusive natural perfumes. Others including noble men enjoyed this extreme luxury. No costs were spared and they had a large assortment of perfumes created just for them.

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JoAnne continues this tradition with using rare and precious oils from nature in her Custom Bespoke Perfumes and in her Collections. These custom one of a kind creations are enjoyed by women and men with impeccable taste. For 22 years she has created these gems and has clients from all over the world. People with discerning taste seek her out and have bespoke perfumes created for their families. She is able to do this without meeting individuals in person. A phone consultation and her ability to read people has resulted in marvelous custom perfumes. People return to her year after year and commission her to create a new one and to also reorder previous formulas. An in person consultation with an Aromatic Journey is available by appointment.

JoAnne is meticulous in her ability to create complex 100% natural perfumes. Her perfumes have the ability to uplift and support with the aromatherapy benefits the natural oils are known for. These unique combinations of essences are created in her perfume room one at a time. Her collections are born with her ability to turn an idea or experience into scented form. The whole process from the idea, to the actual mixing of the natural essential oils and absolutes to create formulas, the dermal testing, the evaluation, the alchemy that she performs, the maturing of the bases, and the bottling and labeling take place in her perfume room.

The artisan process also may include tinctures and macerations of raw materials such as live gardenias, heliotrope, roses, jasmine and uncommon flowers such as Parma violets that you would not normally be able to experience in their natural state. Today’s niche fragrances are created with chemicals that imitate the actual flower using head space technology. The whole purpose of the use of these chemicals is to reduce the costs. Unfortunately the actual juice may be worth 25 cents and the remaining expense of the fragrance consists of the bottle, box and advertising costs. Millions of dollars are spent on promotion of the fragrance during the launch and afterward to keep the inventory moving.

JoAnne spares no costs in her juice which is the actual fragrance. She uses vintage oils and essences that are difficult to procure and are often no longer available. Bulgarian white rose otto is an extremely gorgeous and precious material and is used is some of her floral perfumes. They call it the flower of light for the ecstatic energy it provides in the perfume. This very costly vintage material is priceless. Her gold bespoke perfumes are created with her top of the line oils and are the creme de la creme!

Her Custom Bespoke Perfumes are available in a very special hand blown glass bottle that is complete with a dauber to apply it. The bottle can be ordered in your favorite color choice. Men and women indulge in a custom for themselves. Couture gowns, bespoke suits and shoes, and custom jewelry are available. There is no reason you need to smell like 90% of the population. Why not order your own signature scent? Your very own scent is one that really speaks to you and is your essence. Wear it with confidence. I personally have tried her luxurious creations. I think it is a wonderful personal branding opportunity, where we can embrace the traditions of an ancient art form.

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JoAnne resides in Orange County in sunny Southern California near the ocean. The Gold Coast sparks her creativity and she is surrounded with lush raw materials to pique her curiosity for new scents. Experiencing the intoxicating jasmine and rose flowers that bloom locally help her with new exquisite combinations for her fragrance collections. The opulent and decadent oils she immaculately and masterfully blends together are pure luxury and one not to be missed. Her natural fragrance collections are remarkably elegant with classic nuances and are extravagantly irresistible.

Visit her online at www.JoAnneBassett.com and peruse her collections. Send an inquiry email to receive Custom Bespoke Perfume information and to receive a discovery session regarding your fragrance preferences.
Contact: JoAnne Bassett, P O Box 10352, Newport Beach, California 92658   Phone 760.309.2571

 

This blog post is taken from Lorre White – the Luxury Guru

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Natural Perfume Gifts for Weddings, Gay Weddings and Partnerships

July 7th, 2015 by

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“Imagine having your very own Custom Bespoke?Perfume – that’s one of kind, created just for you to EMPOWER, SUPPORT and potentially transform your life? That’s what I do – I am a Custom Bespoke Perfumer, I create one of a kind natural perfumes for celebrities, royalty, and anyone who wants positive change in their life!

Are you needing change and transformation in your business? Perhaps more LOVE, more CONFIDENCE, more ABUNDANCE in your life? I would love to create the perfect perfume for you. Connect with me and let’s explore the possibilities! I would love to get to know you.?Luxurious hand blown perfume bottles at the More Life Collection and Limited Edition Collection. Rose Duo Coffret is another perfect gift. Custom Couture Perfumes are also available.

Watch this You Tube video for more information!

 

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Absolutes for Your Perfume Kit

June 10th, 2015 by

1/8 oz – 3.75 ml bottle

I sell a Perfume Kit that contains essential oils to create perfumes. ?It is a starter kit with 36 different oils.

You will need Absolutes and other oils to create more well rounded and upscale perfumes.

This is a list of absolutes I sell. ?If you want something not on the list please email.

I also sell Rose otto (oil) and others. Go to the bottom of the list.

After purchasing the Perfume Kit I also offer a Natural Perfume Workshop on Skype. ?People from around the world have taken this course.

Absolutes: 1/4 oz – 7.5 mls or 1/8 oz 3.75 mls – amber bottles

The first price is 1/4 oz and the 2nd is 1/8 oz or priced as marked – some are 1/2 oz or 1 0z bottles

Black Currant Bud Absolute $100.00 or $55.00

Carnation Absolute 100.00 or 55.00

Cassie Absolute 120.00 or 65.00

Cocoa Absolute 1 oz is $30.00

Fir, Balsam Absolute 30.00 or 15.00

Geranium Absolute 30.00 or 15.00

Hay Absolute 60.00 or 30.00

Immortelle Absolute 60.00 or 30.00

Jasmine grand Absolute, Egypt 120.00 or 60.00

Jasmine grand Absolute, India 60.00 or 30.00

Jasmine grand premium Absolute, India 120.00 or 60.00

Jasmine Sambac Absolute, India 120.00 or 60.00

Jasmine Sambac premium Absolute, India 140.00 or 70.00

Labdanum Absolute 20.00

Lavender Absolute 1/2 oz 30.00

Lotus Absolute, Pink 150.00 or 80.00

Lotus Absolute, White 150.00 or 80.00

Mimosa Absolute 1/2 oz 50.00

Oakmoss Absolute France 1/2 oz 50.00

Orange Blossom Absolute Egypt 110.00 or 60.00

Orange Blossom Absolute – Fine ?Morocco 210.00 or 110.00

Osmanthus Absolute 150.00 or 80.00

Petitgrain Absolute 60.00 or 30.00

Rose Absolute, Bulgaria damask 150.00 or 80.00

Rose Absolute damask, Egypt 85.00 or 50.00

Rose Absolute centifolia- cabbage rose, Morocco 60.00 or 30.00

Rose de Mai centifolia Absolute 140.00 or 75.00

Sandalwood Absolute, New Caledonia 60.00 or 30.00

Seaweed Absolute 120.00 or 60.00

Tobacco Absolute 30.00 or 15.00

Tonka Bean Absolute 150.00 or 80.00

Tuberose Absolute 150.00 or 80.00

Vanilla Absolute france 60.00 or 30.00

Violet Leaf Absolute 60.00 or 30.00

Ylang Ylang Absolute 45.00 or 25.00

Prices and availability are subject to change without notice.
These are also sold in 1/2 and 1 oz sizes.

 

Email?to order these and I will send a paypal invoice. I ship worldwide so tell me where it will be shipping to.

 

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