Sunshine Bouquet
Based on your responses to our LavenderandSpice.com Quiz, you are most likely to find a fragrance that matches your personality and desires from the relaxed, joyful scent of a sunshine bouquet.
What is Sunshine Bouquet?
Floral notes are a core part of most fragrance categories, so it can be challenging to define floral as a category in modern perfumery. The soliflore, or single flower, focus of perfumery in the mid-to-late 19th century shifted to the narrative fantasies of the damp, dark forest and later the sunny Mediterranean coast. These perfumes included either green floral (geranium, rose) or powdery narcotic (jasmine, orris) hearts, but were anchored by either heavily mossed or more complexly-spiced bases. Other floral developments, such as Chanel No. 5, retain the complex woody and animalic bases of the chypre, but add a new twist, heavy use of aldehydes in this case.
In modern perfumery, floral refers to either a soliflore or a bouquet in which the floral notes are the featured element of the perfume. The most iconic floral in this sense for us is Clinique’s Happy (1997). A blast of sweet, tart citrus and light aromatics, a heart of lighter white florals dropping into a base of heavier white florals.
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Why Sunshine Bouquet Is the Scent for You
Aquarius, Aries, Gemini. Aries, sign of the beginning spring, is often seen as youthful and exhuberant, celebrating the blooming spring flowers, perfectly met with this light floral and citrus scent category. Aquarius, water bearer, lends a naturally cheery disposition to those born under the sign, but due to the influence of Saturn, they may need to guard against melancholy. Known for abstract thinking and problem-solving, those under Aquarius can benefit from a straightforward blast of citrus and light florals to bring them back to the moment. Those born under Gemini have a reputation as easy-going social butterflies. Sunshine bouquet is a scent that will adapt to each new situation, rarely offending a new connection.
Sunshine bouquet is a third data in which you are relaxed and bursting with a smile at finding a person with whom to share your joy. There is no agenda, just connection and happiness. Sorbet also sounds good to you, or even just straight to the whole ripe strawberries.
You are just as happy going on a family vacation with bike rides, hikes, and lots of fresh air as you are to stay home and work in your garden. Happiness smells like sunflowers (a powdery, herbal, waxy, floral if you were wondering) and jasmine. Sexy smells like clean sheets (can we send the kids on their own vacation?). You would be Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada, nice and earnest, not all the time.
You enjoy a daily cup of green tea (not too fancy) and would rather always be drinking sparkling water than anything else.