Fresh Bet Bits, Claire Burke Original Memories, Home Fragrance Product Updates and Commentary

Diffusing oil burners are incredibly popular because they have three distinct benefits: (1) they neutralize odors, (2) add wonderful fragrance to your room and (3) they are pretty chic looking additions to your decor and style. Several years ago, Claire Burke released their Lampourri Oil Fragrancer as an alternative to the well-known Lampeberger that has been in use since the late 1800’s.

The Lampourri is a pretty little white frosted glass bottle and we have sold quite a few. However, the Claire Burke Factory has decided to retire this version and release a whole new line called I.Decor later this year. There will be 6 new glass bottle styles that are quite pretty in various color combinations.

Claire Burke has also developed 4 new Aromatherapy scent blends of oil refills: Green Tea Ginger & Pear, Lily Jasmine & Musk, Lime Verbena & Bay, Lavender Vanilla & Wood. These will retail for $18.00 and are presented as complex and unique fragrances developed with the sophistication that has become the hallmark of Claire Burke.

Our existing Lampourri is now on 10% off Clearance Sale. Apparently the Factory will continue to offer the current Lampourri Oils; so no worries there. The new version is expected to be available in late 2007 before Christmas.

The Claire Burke Factory has notified us of two fragrances that have been discontinued. Simply Jasmine and Mocha Silk are now officially retired and stock is limited. Once existing inventory is gone, there will be no more.

Because we only offer current products that are fresh and fragrant, we are placing all items in these scent groups on sale at www.Freshbet.com. All Simply Jasmine is now 10% off and Mocha Silk is now 20% off.

Click here to shop our Claire Burke page.

Father’s Day only comes around once a year; so in honor of all the great Dad’s out there, we are offering FREE Gift Wrap (a $5.00 value) with any $40.00 purchase.

Simply select this sophisticated Chocolate Brown w/Copper Dots Gift Wrap and add it to your basket prior to checkout. The gift wrap is shown at no charge. Then be sure to add $40 in merchandise to your shopping cart. We can place one or two items in a box that can be gift wrapped as one package.

This offer expires: June 9th, 2007.

Orders entered by June 9th will arrive in time via regular ground shipping.

You may need to select 3-day shipping for orders placed after June 11th to ensure arrival prior to June 17th.

Father’s Day is June 17th and this is the perfect time to place your order for Dad. We have lots of great goodies that any gent would enjoy:

• Zen For Men in Chai, Figleaf & Lime or Cypress Yuzu.
• Vitabath Original Green Gelee, Travel Set.
• WoodWick candles and Reed Diffuser Sets.
• Kama Sutra Massage Oils, Love Oil.
• Hillhouse Room Sprays: Log Cabin, The Lodge & The Woods.
• Enchanted Meadow Apres Jardin for the Gardener.
• Archipelago Botanicals Milk footcare set and Milk Shave.
• Beautiful custom-made Gift Baskets !
• Pre de Provence Soaps in great masculine scents: Pecan, Sage, Brazilnut, Patchouli & Sandalwood.

Click here to visit our Father’s Day Gift Suggestion page. Simply call us toll-free or order on-line and let us do the rest! We will be delighted to gift wrap his order and ship it directly to Dad’s house.

Let us save you time and energy (not to mention those high gas prices) by shipping your order direct to Dad’s house.

My Dad passed away in 1997; so don’t miss out on these precious times to show Dad how much you love him!

Those of you who take our Newsletter have already had a chance to grab up some of these great clearance savings on our Fall/Winter/Seasonal merchandise:

* Claire Burke Oh Christmas Tree/Christmas Memories now 40% off! New inventory due September or October 07.
* Claire Burke Blackberry Cassis/Pumpkin Strudel now 50% off! Both of these are discontinued forever and no more is available.
* Selected Claire Burke Mocha Silk, Wisteria and Simply Jasmine now 10% off. We think the Factory may be going to discontinue Mocha Silk, but no official word just yet.
* Claire Burke plug-in warmers now 10% off. These are being discontinued by the Factory. There will be a new generic base unit without oil refill. All refills will remain as-is.
Click here for all Claire Burke on Clearance Sale!

* Enchanted Meadow Candles - selected styles now 40-75% off.
* Enchanted Meadow Potpourri Cubes and Sand Potpourri - 50% off.
* Selected Enchanted Meadow Foot Spa Sets - perfect for Summer Sandal season - now 10% off.

* Hillhouse Naturals Farm Seasonal Fall/Winter scents now 50% off. That’s like buying them at wholesale cost!
* Selected Isola Luce Palm Wax Candles now 10% off and the Gift Trio is 30% off.
* Selected Sonoma Lavender now 10% off.
* Handheld Ozium Air Sanitizer sprays now 10% off.
* All Terra Nova bodycare now 10% off except perfume essences. This a great way to try these fresh and clean scents: Rain, Water Petals and Gardenia.
* CandleTini and CandleRita Soy Candles now 60% off - this is below our cost! Quantities are limited. Makes a fun Wedding or Graduation Gift!

Click here for our Clearance Page.
Remember we love to gift-wrap and make gift baskets; so give Leia a call when you need a special gift for upcoming Weddings, Fathers Day and Graduations.

This is a quick update to let our customers know of some new changes to our shipping carriers:

1. The US Postal Service will no longer allow us to ship sprays or perfumes to Canada. They have discontinued the ground service; and these items are prohibited for air shipment. This means we must ship by UPS Ground which is more expensive and may require Canadian customers to pay incoming duties.
2. FedEx Ground shipments will all be sent with a required signature due to unpaid claims for non-received shipments. This means you must be home to sign for your package or they will not leave it on the porch or doorstep. We have experienced losses when we do not require a signature and sadly this is increasing your delivery time as FedEx must now obtain your signature.
3. The result is that we will start using UPS more because of these new ‘issues’ with USPS and FEDEX. In certain rural areas, UPS is quite costly. We will do our best not to increase your shipping fees, but UPS levies more fuel surcharges, etc. so we will watch these charges carefully before determining if our shipping charges to our customers must be raised.

I understand this is a very sensitive area; especially with so many websites offering free and discounted shipping rates. Please know that we utilize as many recycled packing materials as possible and DO NOT charge Handling Fees at Freshbet in an attempt to keep our costs as reasonable as possible. We appreciate your patience as we strive to maintain shipping costs which are continually being increased by the carriers. As always, email Bet if you have comments or suggestions.

Mother’s Day is May 13th this year. My mom passed away 4 years ago on April 11, 2003 and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t still miss her dearly. Don’t let this holiday pass without honoring your mother with a lovely gift to thank her for all she has done.

I have just added a few special items to a new page called Mother’s Day Gift Suggestions. Remember we have many lovely gift baskets that can be custom made per your specifications. There are several pretty gift wraps available and if you say you read about it here, the gift wrap will be FREE!

Our new Greenleaf Aroma Decor Diffusers are perfect for Mom’s kitchen. Be sure to include several bottles of diffuser oil so she can decide which scent she likes best. We also have many beautiful reed diffusers, candles and bath & body treats that Mom would be delighted to enjoy!

Click here for Mother’s Day Gift Suggestions!

Almost a year ago, Amazon approached me about starting a new website through their IWS program. At the time I thought “what would I need another website for?”. However, I gave it some thought and decided it was a good idea. I felt fortunate to find a great new domain name: HomeAndBathScents.com.

Well we waited month after month for Amazon to get their new program running. I finally ran out of patience and decided we would build the site ourselves. After all, I had done it once, so we could do it again! First I thought we’d try a new program and then I realized this was like re-inventing the wheel. So after discussing the new site with Cliff, our webmaster, we decided to work with he and Tamara on the new project.

Cliff and Tamara are wonderful resources for us in our little town of Central. They are actually located in Atlanta and they were already familiar with our present website. They started in October and by December they had most of the hard stuff done. During the winter we are so busy with new products and orders that I had to put this project on the back burner. In February, we were ready to start fine-tuning the new site. After several months of tweaking and cleaning data, I am pleased to announce that our new site was launched last week.

Home And Bath Scents is designed for a younger clientele. The Fresh Bet site is a bit more elegant and mature. Jenn was very instrumental in our new site and I really relied upon her younger eyes to give the new site a fun young feel. She accomplished this with a cute clawfoot tub, butterflies and bubbles. Just too fun!

This site is designed to specialize in home and bath fragrances, thus we have intentionally omitted all TC Business Hygiene products. We are also pleased to offer Google Checkout on our new site as an added benefit.

When you get a few minutes, be sure to checkout our new site: Home And Bath Scents.com.