A refreshing spray of Le Voyage eau de toilette will take you on a journey. Float away on a cloud of citrus and revel in the white rose heart. Start your creative juices with the pink lotus hydro distilled essential oil…and dive deep. Frolic in the jasmine sambac and linden blossom. Play all out and then go inside yourself…with the frankincense and vintage Mysore sandalwood powder…softening. You will be transported!

Do you love the smell of orange blossoms? ?Walking under the trees when the sun is shining bright and the breeze picks up? It is heavenly. My Opulence parfum feels like that to me. Take the dauber and anoint yourself with a drop of this parfum… your reward is the immediate blossom of the neroli and orange blossom absolute. ?It quickly morphs into a plethora of soft roses, moving through a distinct note of ambergris. The powdery dry down of the vintage Mysore sandalwood make you want to swoon. Be prepared to smile and melt into its floral goodness.

Floral ? A beautiful floral?created from neroli, Vintage Bulgarian white rose otto -?the flower of light?, vintage Mysore sandalwood, orange blossom absolute, Bulgarian rose damask concrete, rare ambergris, and others.

If the parfum in organic jojoba oil is not your style…a spray of the Opulence eau de parfum will create a light cloud around you that will uplift you. ?Enjoy!

Walk through fields of flowers with JoAnne’s 100% natural perfumes. ?You will be glad you did!

Warm for Winter Discovery Set

Put away?your hot weather citrus and floral scents. ?Bring out your heavy scents with oud, amber, woods, resins and floral orientals for those crisp?days and nights. ?After?the?Winter Solstice we have short days and cold nights?revel in the woods and deep parfums.

Try these winter scents in a 8 piece sample pack. It includes 1 ml glass vials of eau de parfums of Camille, Colette, Italian Smoke, Vert, Intimacy, Timeless, Venus Amber, and Sensual Embrace.the woods and deep parfums.

1. Camille ??An earthy, iris aroma which turns quickly into a fruity, leathery osmanthus. The jasmine and tuberose are sheer and not too exotic with an amber base. It is a great floral and friendly for work environments.?A Chypre?style. Notes: Osmanthus, Iris Root from Italy, Mimosa, Tuberose, vintage Jasmine sambac, Lavender Seville, Galbanum, Ginger, Bergamot, and others

To purchase.

Spring Sample Sets will be coming soon! ?Spring Equinox is March 20.

When you purchase fragrances on JoAnne Bassett:

Purchase $10.00 you get 1 free sample, spend $25.00 you get 2 free samples, spend $50.00 you get 3 free samples.

Temptress Parfum – Limited Edition?Collection

Valentine’s Day speaks to me of love….romantic love, self love …indulging in your parfum, and self care …anointing yourself with parfum ..putting rose otto on?your heart to open and heal it.

These beautiful hand blown glass bottles are the perfect shape to hold in your hand for your self care. ?Do you want to feel more beautiful, more sexy, more alive? ?Try on some Temptress parfum.

Do you want to feel love so deeply within yourself that you want to kiss everyone? You can bring about massive self love using my Luscious Roses parfum with 6 real roses ottos from 4 countries. ?We are talking about expensive rose oil created from live rose petals. ?Very indulgent and wonderful to adorn yourself with.

If you want to imagine yourself in your own Queen’s?palace I suggest wearing Opulence parfum. It doesn’t get any better than this. With Neroli oil from orange blossoms for self esteem…it will raise you up and surround you with pleasure.

Do something special for yourself and your loved ones today! ?Splurge on a bottle of natural perfume that makes you feel like the Queen you are!

If you prefer an eau de parfum in a spray bottle they are available also. ?Go here to find your next high vibration fix. ?www.JoAnneBassett.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

From the CaFleurebon blog:

Photo courtesy of JoAnne Bassett

California luxury botanical perfumer, JoAnne Bassett has created an ultimatum; the aroma of a sybarite. The word is defined as, ?someone dedicated to luxury and pleasure.?? Somewhat of an anthem for any perfume, JoAnne follows through in her work, using a stock of oils she collected in her global travels in the 80’s and 90’s. The name Sybarite arrived by coming across the term in Conde Nast magazine, and finding it fitting for herself, JoAnne naturally turned this term into an olfactory concept. While available in many options, JoAnne works with a local glass blower who makes artisan bottles for her collections, in this case a blue bottle the color of churning, bubbling seawater encased inside a book box complete with hand sewn pillow, involving yet another local artisan.

Icon of Style Audrey Hepburn wearing a floral Hermes Scarf and carrying vintage Louis Vuitton bag and luggage

Not that I am overly familiar with such things, but somehow Sybarite is the inside of a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk- bought for Audrey Hepburn and ready to be filled for the voyage across the sea. There is a self-proclaiming sophistication about Sybarite’s opening, a body of Bulgarian rosa damascena v. alba purchased in 1999 (white rose otto-? JoAnne refers to this as the ?flower of Light?) and Egyptian rose otto hobnob with neroli, orange blossom and osmanthus.? A botanical Hermes scarf with apricot osmanthus jam criss-crossing and encircling orange blossoms. Already, there can be no mistake- this is an aroma of refinement. While mellow and approachable- nothing has been spared Sybarite’s gilded presence.

Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face (r) and wearing? golden gown by Ceil Chapman photo by Richard Avedon 1952 for Harper’s Bazaar

Sybarites find ways to support their indulgences and the perfume supports itself upon, what else? More luxury. Poised upon botanical musk and oud, finally it’s revealed where the steam trunk illusion came from and it makes for a not quite leather but born to be spilled into fine leather handbags aroma. Oud is certainly carrying the osmanthus fruit hint and the musk is proof positive of worn clothes tossed casually for the jaunt. This expensive base accord gives Sybarite longevity and projection with a ?look but don’t touch? perimeter. Cistus has been added to keep anything musk well-groomed and frankincense to remind one of good manners and a lightness which Sybarite carries.

Sybarite natural perfume

A collection of notes which calls for beauty, Sybarite is the classic refinement which fulfills the homage of it’s name. Notes: Bulgarian white rose otto, orange blossom absolute, osmanthus absolute, neroli oil, Damask rose absolute (Egypt), hydro-distilled frankincense, oud-agarwood, natural musk, and cistus.

-Einsof, Natural Perfume Editor

disclosure: my sample was received from JoAnne Bassett for review.

Thanks to the kind generosity of JoAnne Bassett, we have a one ounce bottle of Sybarite?valued at $190 for one US reader. To be eligible please leave a comment?with what appeals to you about Sybarite and ?what true luxury and indulgence?means to you. ?Draw closes 2/14/2015

Today I reduced the prices on all individual perfume samples, sample collections, and discovery kits. ?Why did I do that? ?I am selling 1 ml glass perfume vials and not the glass or plastic perfume sprayers. ?This keeps the sample costs lower and I can pass that savings on to you.

If I were to package everything in a deluxe sprayer or deluxe sprayer sets you would pay much more. ?Does it make sense to you to spend more for a sprayer?

If you think you may want a larger sprayer size I have 5 ml travel sprayers available. ?They have a glass refillable insert. ?These sprayers are housed in a metal shell and can go anywhere and not break.

With a ?new year comes a new attitude…and a new season. ?What do you choose to smell like in the new year?

What are you fond of? ?Fragrances with floral notes? ?Fragrances that smell of wood, incense, or amber notes?

How about forest and fir needles, juniper, pine or more? Oakmoss and deep green notes are popular in the winter and cooler weather. ?What do you want to revel in?

The best way to find a new fragrance is with a Discovery Kit or individual samples.

JoAnne Bassett offers ?samples in eau de toilettes, ?eau de parfums and parfums.

Find your new love today…and receive a discount on a full bottle!

Happy New Year!

Agarwood and oud fragrances have been all the rage for years. ?A lot of people assume the oud being used in the niche brand is real and authentic oud from a tree. ?That is not always the case. ?Grant you some of the oud fragrances coming from the Middle East do contain real oud oil.

I sell oud oil and create my natural perfumes with oud oil. ?And do you know what? ?I have customers in Dubai and Oman and the region who purchase my oud natural perfumes?with my authentic oud. ?They are looking for high quality oud oil within a complex natural perfume. ?Sounds like it should be easy to find…but it is not.

So why do you go looking for real oud in the designer brands when an artisan boutique company like myself has the real thing.

Please go now to my website oud page to see the oud for sale and the fragrances I offer with the real deal. ?My 100% real oud perfumes come in eau de parfums and perfumes in organic jojoba oil.

The Limited Edition Collection Bottles

?Sacred Frankincense 3 from the Royal Alchemy Collection