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

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

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

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

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 ?

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.

 

Do you have a Mother you would love to honor on this special Mother’s Day? ?Do you know a Mother or do you have a daughter or daughter in law that you would like to honor? Perhaps you have a pet cat, dog, bird or other?pet…(gold fish count) so you are in fact a Mother or caregiver.

Looking at some of my?best selling botanical fragrances I am making a special offer.

My coffret boxes with 2 ml perfumes in organic jojoba oil will be $50.00. ?These glorious boxes have a silk pillow for the precious bottle to rest on. ?They are available in these 4 scents and more. The photo shows 4 mls in the bottle.

Indulgence – A?one of a kind experience you give yourself. It opens your heart chakra and restores confidence.

Indulgence eau de perfume is a beautiful, feminine floral with subtle spicy overtones. A complex fragrance that has character and sophistication.

Oriental Floral ? Top Notes: citrus notes of lime, blood orange, clementine, and high altitude French lavender Middle Notes: floral notes of cabbage rose otto, tuberose, neroli ? orange blossoms, ylang ylang, palmarosa and spicy notes of nutmeg and cardamom Base Notes: frankincense, vintage Mysore sandalwood, and vanilla absolute

Josephine – a Spring and Summer scent just chosen one of ten fragrances for Spring by CaFleurebon.

A fresh, green light fragrance. Very joyful and uplifting.

Floral Green ? Notes: Verbena, Lavender vera, Litsea, Green Mandarin, Bergamot, Cardamon, Star Aniseed, Ylang Ylang, rare Bulgarian Alba Rose Otto, Galbanum and others

Le Voyage -?This delightful citrus burst will uplift and soothe. The rare, vintage Bulgarian alba (white) rose otto (the flower of light), vintage jasmine, linden blossom and vintage Mysore sandalwood accord will take you to a place of no return. Enjoy the journey.

A gorgeous floral. Le Voyage? means the journey in French. The journey begins with a citrus burst and then warms into a lovely, vintage jasmine sambac,?rare, vintage Bulgarian white rose otto, and vintage pink lotus hydro distilled oil heart. The dry down has a frankincense and rare, vintage Mysore sandalwood warmth.

Sensual Embrace -?We all long for a sensual embrace. We yearn for a lover to hold us, to love us, and to accept us. This musky, sexy juice will fire up the lover within you. Sensual Embrace eau de perfume is a sultry, sexy musk 100% natural fragrance that sizzles with intrigue. This stunning, mysterious, seductive blend captures the essence of a sensuous embrace. A unisex parfum.

Floral ? Notes: citrus notes clementine, floral notes of Rose de Mai oil ? the May rose of France, vintage 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.

Make your selection in the comments section. This is also available in the French Collection, Royal Collection ?and Natural Parfums

Price $50.00

Spring?Discovery Set

Put away your heavy scents with oud, amber, woods, resins and floral orientals. ?After the Spring Equinox?we have longer?days and we can lighten up our fragrances. ?A citrus, light floral or floral oriental for evening?is what we want to reach for.

8 Spring Discovery Set?sample pack??$30.00 ? ?

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One of my best sellers are my?travel sprayers. ?They are available in eau de parfums. They are $30 and $40.

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.

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!

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

Natural Perfume Stocking Stuffers from JoAnne Bassett come in all shapes and sizes. A wonderful present for men and women is a package of eau de parfum samples that you can choose just for them. Individual natural perfume samples of the More Life Collection?and the Limited Edition Collection?are some of my favorites.

On the Samples page you can find all of the Collection Discovery Sets?that are another great idea.

I have created Custom Bespoke Perfumes for over 21 years. People are always asking me ?How did you know that I love gardenia?? How did you know that I like ?.fill in the blank. It is because I can tap into your energy field and receive the information I need to make your perfume that you will love! This is true for men and women.

There are two ways I work : The first is I create a perfume that is purely for your enjoyment! You love to wear it and feel very special doing so. It is your signature scent?no one else on the planet has one like this. It makes you feel confident and beautiful. The second is I create a bespoke perfume that will help you raise your vibration or energy, it helps removes the blocks that hold you stuck where you are, that can potentially ease any physical or emotional problems. It can potentially remove all blocks to your success! It may not smell perfect to you but you are able to wear it?and it will do what your body needs. It may have more resins or woody smells than what you are used to. This perfume can be worn at night or under clothes and be working with your chemistry. I don?t know anyone making natural perfumes with life changing properties!

So Unique Parfums? are uniquely for you!