Napol?on

To be a leader takes a special person. To be strong, dedicated, and?? ready to risk everything for the cause. Napoleon is a rebel who says yes?? and takes action. He seeks to understand and in doing so adds his?? meaningful touch that changes everything. Take the leap!

This fragrance is tenacious. It is lively, deep, and sensuous as was the man.
Notes: Juniper Berry and Helichrysum from Corsica, Bulgarian tobacco absolute, Rosemary Verbenon, Lime essence, and others

JoAnne Bassett Perfumes Launches Enchant Parfum

Cardiff by the Sea Perfumery Launches the Limited Edition Enchant Parfum

CARDIFF BY THE SEA, CA?October, 2011?JoAnne Bassett Perfumes, an independent perfume house providing 100% natural perfumes, has officially launched its Enchant Parfum.

Exclusive, mysterious Enchant Parfum is the perfect gift. An exquisite, hand blown glass perfume bottle with the beautiful teal color of the ocean, houses this enchanting complex perfume. This parfum bottle has a similar color as the Reflections and Esoterica parfum bottles and are beautiful when displayed as a collection.

Enchant is a 100% natural perfume and is created from the finest materials available.

Fabulous Rose de Mai absolute – the May Rose, expensive and rare oud or agarwood, sandalwood, exotic and costly osmanthus, sacred champaca and holy basil, yuzu, orange esences, butter co2, musky ambrette seed, davana, pink pepper tree, and high altitude lavender, the green note of galbanum, sensual jasmine auriculatum, copaiba balsam, vanilla tincture, and the dark and rich ruh khus vetiver, and dark patchouli in an organic jojoba oil base.

This natural perfume is 36% fragrance strength in an organic base of jojoba oil.

This precious hand blown glass bottle includes a lovely dauber to apply the perfume. This fabulous bottle holds 1/2 ounce – 15 mls of natural perfume.

No synthetics or man made fragrance oils in this exotic perfume.

This is an exclusive and limited edition. This precious bottle holds 1/2 ounce of parfum.

1/2 oz Enchant Perfume – $350.00??? ?1 ml Enchant Perfume Sample – $35.00

JoAnne Bassett provides hand blended artisanal fragrances and naturalperfume classes and workshops. She is a Natural Couture Perfumer creating one of a kind Custom Bespoke Perfumes.

Our goal is to provide exclusive natural perfume using the classic French methods as an artisan perfume house with hand blended fragrance as in the days of old. My purpose is to Uplift Humanity’s Consciousness Through Botanical Fragrances?.

Her wish for her clients when purchasing JoAnne Bassett products:

In my everyday life I am in service to others, but this, I do for me!

Her perfumes awaken the beauty within.

To purchase Enchant please visit http://www.JoAnneBassett.com or call
760.309.2571.

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JoAnne Bassett, Couture Natural Perfumer

Enchant? Parfum

In the Brave New Scents project, the Guild perfumers are likened to the members of Huxley?s novel.

With my list of Brave New Scents, that is aromatics introduced after the year 2000, I sat down to create.

My inspiration for my parfum came from this quote:

Brave New World

I want God, I want poetry,
I want danger, I want freedom,
I want goodness, I want sin.?? ~Aldous Huxley

Looking at this quote and my list of ingredients I began to choose the natural oils.? I read the quote over a few times…seeing what resonated with me.? Magically I connected the oils to the lines.? The process began to flow.

My first oil that wanted to jump into the bottle was oud.? Oud or agarwood oil is an unusual one and it sets the tone for the rest of the parfum.? Sandalwood was my next choice and to my dismay it was not on the list.? Ok.

So I already had my one wild card.? No worries.? In the next moment I was putting drops of Rose de Mai absolute into the bottle.? Oh how beautiful that was. Just those three made a mysterious scent that I sighed with pleasure.? Keeping with the spiritual aspect I chose champaca next.? When I was in India the sacred trees were outside of the temples.? I will never forget the fragrance of it in the evening.? It was mesmerizing, just like my new fragrance.

The next few oils to come to mind were yuzu, a citrus and butter co2.? That was quite an exit from the lovely sacred theme I had started with.? The list had oils that I said no to.? They did not feel right.? So continuing with this ?brave? formulating session I began to choose very odd oils. I had no idea what they were going to do to this formula but I said yes and included them.? So ambrette seed, holy basil, davana, pink pepper tree, and high altitude lavender went into the bottle.? Wow what a strange combination!

Reading the quote for more inspiration I added two orange essences, galbanum, jasmine auriculatum,? copaiba balsam, osmanthus, ruh khus vetiver, vanilla tincture, and the final one dark patchouli.? It was almost

effortless.? Everything came together and it felt right.? Smelling the parfum at various stages was an interesting experience in itself.? I formulated Enchant in one afternoon on August 9.? I received another email about the project so I made it.

I am not sure what to classify this unique perfume. Such diverse oils – from oud and incense to a floral gourmand.? It is a temptress.? With 19 different essences the numerology adds up to 1 which is new beginnings.? The number of dropsI used also added up to 1. That confirmed to me that it is a brave new scent. It is resting in organic jojoba oil. It took a while to come up with the name of Enchant.? I wore it and smelled it and one day it became Enchant.

The oils that correspond to the quote are:

I want God: holy basil, oud, champaca,

I want poetry: osmanthus,

I want danger: vetiver, patchouli,

I want freedom: orange essences, yuzu,

I want goodness: rose, jasmine,

I want sin: ambrette seed

Enchant parfum is available at: http://www.joannebassett.com/limited.htm

Copyright 2011?? All rights reserved?? JoAnne Bassett, Couture Natural Perfumer

website: www.JoAnneBassett.com??????????? blog:? www.joannebassett.com/natural_perfumes

JoAnne Bassett, P O Box 932, Cardiff by the Sea, CA? 92007?? 760.309.2571

The participating perfumers are:

Adam Gottshalk of Lord Jester
Ambrosia Jones of Perfume by Nature
Anya McCoy of Anya’s Garden
Charna Ethier of Providence Perfume
Christi Meshell of Matriarch
Elise Pearlstine of Belly Flowers
Jane Cate of Wing and a Prayer Perfume
JoAnne Bassett of JoAnne Bassett Perfumes
Liz Cook of One Seed Company
Rohanna Goodwin Smith of A Scent Natural Perfumes

Participating Bloggers are:

Cafleurebon

The Perfume Critic

Feminine Things

The Portland Examiner

Perfume Shrine

All I Am A Redhead

CaFleureBon perfume blog has interviewed moi and you can read it here:

http://www.cafleurebon.com/cafleurebon-profiles-in-american-perfumery-joanne-bassett-of-joanne-bassett-fragrances-royalty-draw

http://www.organicnaturalperfumes.com

Colette eau de parfum is a wild thing…she is a tigress that teases.? Her
Gypsy soul is playful and independent.? She knows how to whirl in a circle
and when to vanish leaving you spent.? Her Gypsy roots lead to adventure and
a nomad lifestyle.? She is not faithful.? Her wanderlust beckons and she
cannot be controlled. She is the darkest of the dark with the hidden nuances
of a fine brandy.? Come and play with her but be aware you will be wanting
for more.? Get caught up in her spell!

Notes:? Cepes absolute from France – the dark, earthy richness is created from the cepes mushroom, white cognac from France – the fine brandy from the Cognac region of France that has a honey aspect, and an accord of citrus to lighten and brighten? – red mandarin, bergamot, yuzu, and clementine

http://www.joannebassett.com/frenchcollection.htm

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Tetu eau de parfum was created for the Summer of Love Patchouli Project 2011.? Monica Miller at the Perfume Pharmer created this fun project.

I began to assemble my 25% patchouli requirement in a bottle.? I had some awesome vintage dark patchouli and also some light patchouli that play well together so I put them in the bottle to take a twirl…interesting. ? So what next?

I began to pick up bottle after bottle, a drop here a drop there…smoky, sensuous rose, sultry jasmine, sexy misc. amber notes, and then morph..Oh gourmand notes…cocoas absolute, vanilla absolute, wild orange, sweet orange, butter, bergamot, nutmeg, and star anise.

Then it felt done…24 essential oils and absolutes in all.? It has quite a journey through smoke, floral, sexy, and gourmand to a powdery amber drydown…on my skin that is.

Tetu means stubborn in French.? With 9 base notes she does persist..she lasts and lasts.? What a headstrong passionate thing she is!? Get your Tetu at my Etsy site at this link. http://www.etsy.com/shop/joannebassett

Patchouli

T?tu Eau de Parfum was created for the Summer of Patchouli Love Project 2011 – Peace, Love, and Patchouli

We were to create an eau de parfum with 25% patchouli and 15%
concentration in alcohol.

I named my perfume Exotic Nights. I shared it with Ida Meister and she
thought it should be T?tu. Because I have French heritage and it means
stubborn. Thank you Ida Meister for the name and thank you Monica Miller
for helping me change the name before it was published…

T?tu means stubborn in French. T?tu is a headstrong and passionate
fragrance. This aphrodisiac is created with patchouli, sultry vintage
jasmine, sensual rose centifolia, amber, and smoky notes. It is a musky,
spicy, and sexy number that is absolutely brilliant and outrageous.

Notes: Vintage Patchouli, vintage jasmine, sensual rose centifolia, amber,
and smoky notes with a citrus lift. Vanilla absolute and cocoa absolute
add to the gourmand quality. With nine base notes this fragrance lasts all
day and into your exotic night. 24 natural botanicals in all.

You can purchase it here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/joannebassett?ref=si_shop

I have recently created a patchouli perfume for Perfume Pharmer’s project Summer of Patchouli Love.? Looking in my files today I decided to see how many perfumes in my collections contain patchouli.

They are:

Magie D’ Or eau de parfum is a spicy oriental parfum that has lovely citrus notes to give it lift and sparkle just like fine champagne. It has notes of pink pepper, patchouli, cinnamon bark, cistus, clementine, rose otto, jasmine absolute and others.

Sensual Embrace eau de parfum is a musky, sexy fragrance with citrus notes clementine, floral notes of Rose de Mai oil – the May rose of France, jasmine, tuberose, orange blossoms, musky notes of ambrette seed, amber accord, smoky notes of tobacco, sensuous woody notes of smooth vintage Mysore sandalwood,dark patchouli,and others.

Versailles eau de parfum is a gorgeous, sparkling bottle of citrus delight and spices that add a special touch. Men and women love this fantastic fragrance. It has notes of neroli, tangerine, lime essence, frankincense, patchouli, pink pepper tree, cinnamon bark, and others.

To purchase these: www.JoAnneBassett.com