I love creating with essential oils and beeswax. I love the tactile and sensuous nature of solid perfumes. I worked more than a year on creating our first of many to follow solid perfumes.

A well-made natural perfume strikes the perfect balance between top notes, heart notes, and base notes. Those who are unfamiliar with 100 percent natural perfumes will be amazed at the complex “story” each perfume relates. The top notes are the first ones to “speak,” and are usually most exuberant. When the top notes have calmed down a bit, the heart notes kick in to continue telling the bulk of the story. The base notes are heard from last, but once they are noticed, the realization hits that they have been there all along. The base notes are the workhorses of the perfume and are responsible for its overall character and staying power. Solid perfumes are to be applied to pulse prints and, unlike their spray counterparts, are intended for a discreet audience.

Creating a perfume is not a leisurely afternoon’s activity. Perfumes need time to marry and meld and sometimes take a year or more to finish its magic. We are proud to have launched our first three solid perfumes at Simply Bee, called Pure, Freedom and Aware.

Another plus of Simply Bee solid beeswax perfumes is that it contains no alcohol and therefore does not cause skin pigmentation marks and it works with your emotions and senses.