Breathing in the Essence of Purity

The first time I smelled lavender swaying in the summer breeze, it wasn’t just a scent—it was a memory. A moment frozen in time, simple and untainted. That’s the power of nature’s fragrances. They don’t just linger in the air; they tell stories, evoke emotions, and transport you to places untouched by artificiality. Yet, in a world saturated with synthetic perfumes, one might wonder: Why choose natural fragrances? The answer lies not only in their purity but in their ability to reconnect us with something raw and real.

The Allure of Nature Bottled: What Makes Natural Fragrances Special?

Imagine walking through a forest after rain. The earthy aroma of wet soil mingles with the crisp scent of pine needles. Now, contrast that with an air freshener trying to mimic “forest rain.” It’s like comparing a handwritten love letter to a mass-printed card—one feels authentic, the other doesn’t.

Natural botanical fragrances come from flowers, herbs, spices, and resins harvested directly from nature. Unlike synthetic scents concocted in laboratories, they carry the essence of their origins. When you spritz on a natural perfume or light a candle infused with essential oils, you’re embracing the earth’s bounty—not chemicals engineered to trick your senses.

But there’s more to this choice than authenticity. Let me take you back to my grandmother’s garden.

She grew roses—not for show—but for their scent. Every evening, she’d pick petals and steep them into water to create her own rosewater mist. She believed that what you breathe in becomes part of you. And she was right.

Why Choose Natural Fragrances Over Synthetic Ones?

Today, we live among invisible toxins. Many commercial perfumes and air fresheners contain phthalates, parabens, and synthetic musks—ingredients that sound as foreign as they feel on your skin. These compounds don’t just smell strong; they can disrupt hormones and trigger allergies.

Natural fragrances offer an antidote—a breath of fresh air when your lungs crave clarity. Here’s why:

1. Healthier for Your Body: When you choose natural fragrances made from essential oils or botanical extracts, you’re avoiding harmful chemicals that can irritate skin or harm your respiratory system.

2. Eco-Friendly: Synthetic perfumes often rely on petrochemicals derived from non-renewable resources. On the other hand, natural fragrances support sustainable farming practices and biodegrade without polluting waterways.

3. Aromatherapy Benefits: Beyond smelling good, natural scents like lavender calm anxiety; citrus energizes; sandalwood grounds you. Each note isn’t just a smell—it’s therapy bottled.

4. Connection to Nature: Inhaling these scents is like stepping into a meadow or orchard—even if you’re stuck in traffic.

Take my friend Anna as an example. She used to wear commercial perfumes religiously until migraines became her frequent companion. After switching to natural fragrances—wearing a natural perfume created with jasmine dabbed on her wrists—her headaches faded like fog under morning sun.

Breathing in Purity: How Natural Fragrances Transform Your Life

When you choose natural fragrances, you’re doing more than swapping one product for another—you’re making a lifestyle shift. You’re choosing simplicity over complexity, authenticity over imitation.

Let me tell you about a personal ritual I’ve adopted since discovering natural scents years ago. Every morning starts with bergamot oil diffused into my office space—a citrusy embrace that wakes up my mind without overwhelming it. At night? A touch of cedarwood and lavender natural perfume behind my ears lulls me into restful sleep.

These aren’t just habits—they’ve become anchors in my day-to-day life.

And here’s where it gets even more meaningful: gifting someone a bottle of natural perfume created from pure essential oils isn’t just giving them something pretty—it’s sharing wellness wrapped in scent.

How to Start Your Journey with Natural Perfumes

If you’re wondering how to make the switch but feel overwhelmed by choices, start small:

Opt for perfumes labeled “100% natural” or “organic.” Do not buy into the “green marketing” where they tell you this is clean and natural with ingredients like strawberries, melon, lily of the valley.  You cannot make essential oils from fruit and a flower tincture of a very small flower would take a truck full of blossoms to make it. Do not believe the hype.

Remember—your sense of smell is deeply personal. What reminds one person of home might remind another of adventure.

So next time someone asks “Why choose natural fragrances?”, think beyond words; think about moments—the ones where scent isn’t just something passing by but something that stays with you long after it fades.

In choosing natural fragrances, you’re not merely picking a product—you’re breathing in purity itself—a reminder that sometimes life smells sweetest when it comes straight from the earth beneath our feet.

When I decided to open a Etsy store it was a way to offer sales, offer supplies and essential oils that I do not sell on my JoAnne Bassett website. The Etsy site with a couple of clicks can put your whole store on sale or just a few items.  My JoAnne Bassett website does not have that capability and I have to manually change all of the coding. After the sale you then have to change all of the prices back.

I opened the Etsy store JoAnne Bassett in 2009 to offer close out sales of product and draw new clients to my store. A new venue to ship worldwide and to be found for handmade, small batch perfume. There were years I did not add any products..sell much of anything …or focus on updates, tags, titles, photos or all of the Etsy SEO and learn the new rules they have.

As the years have gone by the Etsy site has grown with lots of new stores.. new rules… and difficult search engines…Their fees of 10% just to sell a product is not bad but if you sell on offsite ads the add 12% fee to that to make 22% off.  You cannot opt out of offsite ads if you have sold a lot of product. So the total fee of a sale becomes 22% off. Now to draw attention to your store.. or even be found in search I started offering free shipping and or a sale of 20 to 25% off once in a while.  It helps to bring visitors to your store and can motivate people to try your perfumes.  So if you look at all of these fees together 10 + 12+ 20= 42% off.. or at 25% off it becomes 47% off.  Add on free shipping to the US and the profit goes down even more.

Offering free shipping is a Amazon idea that Etsy also copied.  The jury is still out if it is a deciding factor in a purchase or not.  I have tried to keep my shipping the same on both stores.

Etsy has been changing the rules and policies lately that has affected my store. Metaphysical services may not be sold on Etsy. Examples of prohibited metaphysical services include: Items with a metaphysical outcome (e.g. attracting wealth, love, etc.)

I saw how they were removing items from and closing stores that they deemed were claiming a metaphysical outcome.  My natural perfumes have all received Divine and Royal Alchemy and Divine Light downloaded into them.  This postive energy is not a claim..it just is.  Like adding love to your meal you are cooking for loved ones.. it is intention.

Yesterday I began to change and delete some descriptions of my store announcement and my natural perfumes.  Today I again see my products removed for these claims.

My purpose in posting this is please go to my JoAnne Bassett website to read the full descriptions and purchase whenever possible.  The idea of me putting my energetic perfumes on Etsy where they are not valued rubs me the wrong way.  I am not making medical claims with my essential oils or perfumes made with essential oils. Aromatherapy text books have shown research for the last 30 years or more listing the health and emotional benefits of lavender, citrus oils, and many others.  When you list St. John’s essential oil helps with depression. you are not saying it will cure it.. merely that it will help alleviate the symptons.

The items on my website are many and I continue to add more.  If you find a shopping cart malfunction please email me at joanne@joannebassett.com  The work of starting a new Shopify site is something I have done recently. There is too much to do with it and I do not have time to remake what I already have. My website is also in search engines for many years so I must consider that.

Again I thank you for your business and support with this. I appologize if you have trouble with my website.

My focus these days is selling my Perfume Formulas and/ or selling my company JoAnne Bassett and leave my legacy.  No one is promised tomorrow.

The definition of an all natural perfume is a botanical perfume that has only essential oils and absolutes for ingredients.  Artisan all natural perfumes may also contain handcrafted tinctures of flowers, herbs and spices.

I am having a small sale of 9 Items on my Etsy store. Some of my best sellers are included like my Perfume Kit and my Natural Perfume First Aid Kit.

Go there and check it out!

I have 36 roses growing in pots now.  It is so much fun getting back to growing more roses… of different types.

This year I am also experimenting with growing vegetables from seed in pots also.  There is hard red clay in North Carolina and pots are much easier for now.

There are many flowering trees, red bud trees, bulbs blooming, and forsythia blooms in my neighborhood.  Also the pine pollen is covering everything. Welcome to Spring!

Isis – Goddess of magic and wisdom 

Isis was known for her magical power, which enabled her to revive Osiris and to protect and heal Horus, and for her cunning.

By virtue of her magical knowledge, she was said to be “more clever than a million gods”.  Notice the throne headdress. 

I remember being a High Priestess at the Isis Temple. I have so many memories there.

While in Egypt I purchased a special desert rose otto that I have used in this perfume.  Wear this perfume and feel the power of the Goddess Isis.

Bastet – Goddess of protection, cats, perfume/ointments, fertility, pregnancy, children, music, the arts, and warfare.

Bastet in her late form of a cat-headed woman, rather than a lioness. Also known as Bast or Baset. 

I have always loved cats and had over 20 of them growing up as a child. My birth name Bassett is so much like Baset I feel like this is a part of me.

She is a Goddess of perfume and ointments and that is part of my Divine Work.

Wear this magnificent perfume and feel the energy of protection and more from Bastet.

The Isis and Bastet perfumes are the latest perfumes in the Goddess Collection.  Go there to purchase them now.

The 8/8 portal is energetically significant as it allows us to actively receive downloads of cosmic energies that support the earth’s overall renovation and transformation. The Lion’s Gate is given this name because it occurs in the sign of Leo, and is the mid-point of the sign at 15/16 degrees. The number 8 is associated with mastery, reward, success, abundance, and manifestation, making this an auspicious energy field for intentions and creation.

Three stars in Orion constellation match up with the three pyramids in Giza, Egypt during this 8/8 portal, further amplifying cosmic energies flowing onto the planet through pyramid energy receptors. Sirius is commonly associated with the Lion’s Gate, but it’s important to note that Sirius is a fixed star located at 14 degrees Cancer. It is the brightest star in the sky; Sirius is 26 times brighter, and twice the size, of our solar system’s Sun. Sirius was viewed in the sky above the pyramids by ancient Egyptians during this time of the year, and it was commonly interpreted as a sign of prosperity, harvest, success and abundance.

I wrote a post earlier regarding this amazing energy and some of you have already purchased my Lions Gate Portal Perfumes…

When you purchase the 8-8 – Lion’s Gate Portal Perfume it will signal your intention and you will start the process to open to these new powerful energies  that started on July 26.

I will be creating  8-8 Lions Gate Portal Perfume on August 8, 2020.  It will integrate the Cosmic Light codes of Awakening with this 8-8 Gateway!  It will activate and anchor the ascension codes.  Moving into higher consciousness.

I will channel the Portal Perfume, encode it with intentions, Quantum energy coding, download the Higher Dimensional energy and Divine Light, and  perform Divine and Royal Alchemy on it on August 8th peak.  I will mail them asap and you will be able to wear them.

You will receive a 5 ml royal blue travel sprayer of eau de parfum in a royal blue organdy bag. 

You will receive a 4 ml perfume in an ivory satin bag. 

Here is the link to my Facebook Live I did for this 8-8 Lions Gate Perfume.

Some of you also are taking the opportunity to purchase Free Will Eau de Perfume that is also a magical perfume for this time…you can find this also under The Magical Perfumes

This weekend’s Portal is the strongest we’ll have in the next 18 years.  We have Solstice, a Solar Eclipse & New Moon all happening together giving off extremely powerful energy. It gives us a big boost of energy to cleanse & manifest with even more effortless ability.  A new moon opens a path for weeks and months.

I am creating a Solstice and New Moon Perfume on Saturday to capture this powerful energy. This perfume will be encoded and I will perform Divine Alchemy on it. Order as many as you want as this will not be available again.

You will receive a 5 ml royal blue travel sprayer of eau de parfum in a royal blue organdy bag. 

Price $50.00   Expired….

I will also be creating Custom Perfume Potions and Custom Perfumes this weekend.  Get your orders in now.  I will create these in the order they are received…

In these times of Global Pandemic Corona Viruses and travel bans…stock market crashes, etc…

I turn to my natural perfumes created with essential oils with aromatherapy healing properties combined with my alchemy…The powerful combination makes me feel good.. centered, grounded peaceful… less stress… know the facts… make choices and wear perfume!

I created this page to help you find what your body needs the most.. your whole body…your Spiritual, emotional and physical body…go read the listings to see what speaks to you!

Benefits of My Natural Perfumes

When you wear these natural perfumes you will receive these benefits. You will be attracting abundance or love for example. Wearing these botanical fragrances with intention you are drawing these aspects to you and becoming the intention you have set. The magical perfumes have been encoded using Royal Alchemy. Using my Aromatherapy education I am able to create perfumes for various conditions of the physical body, and the emotional body. Every natural perfume I offer has the intentions of raising consciousness and vibrations, and empowerment when worn.

I also created this page to help you find the fragrance classification of scents you like.. florals.. and also the ingredients you like most.. like vanilla.

Choosing A Scent

Go there now and discover a new scent for the new season.  Spring Equinox happens soon in the US…

My Healer synergy is still available .. it is a powerful germ killer and more.. it can be mixed in water.. almond oil.. etc. to make mixtures to clean hands.. wear on your chest or tops of your feet.. however you choose.

Also I will be taking some time off for my birthday April 1.  I will not be shipping any orders from March 20 to April 6.  Please plan accordingly!