Freshbet.com Home Fragrance

Several years ago, a Marketing friend of mine encouraged me to start this blog site. She said it was a great way to connect with our customers and add a personal touch. After all, we are a small business that is run by real people; not a big corporation with hundreds of folks just going thru the motions.

After a bit of getting used to writing the blogs, I find I really love this format. Lately all the media folks keep saying everyone with a business should have a Facebook page and Twitter page. I wasn’t convinced that I had time for a FaceBook page. However, a few days ago, I thought I should have a look at Twitter and I found it’s very easy to “tweet” whatever we’re doing.

So, Freshbet Home Fragrances (aka Freshbet.com) and my other website: HomeAndBathScents.com are now on Twitter! I have asked Jenn to fix us a nice little logo icon to add. In the meantime, you can follow our “tweets” on Twitter by searching for Freshbetcom (no dot) after you login to create a user account.

Now whenever we get new arrivals or we do markdowns for clearance sales, coupons, etc, I will Tweet the news!

Click here to find us on Twitter

Greenleaf is a wonderful home fragrance company. They still produce paper drawer sachets and their pricing is always value-oriented. As usual, they sent me sachet samples of their 2 new scents for Fall 09. They are Sycamore Fig and West Indies Clove.

I was so impressed with Sycamore Fig, that I have decided to bring it in next month. This smells like an awesome summer scent to me, even though the Factory has released it for Fall. Sandy, our Greenleaf Rep, dropped by the store yesterday and we have asked them to ship the new Sycamore Fig to us for mid-July.

We will have: Room Spray, Home Decor Candle, Lamp Oil, Reed Diffuser Oil, Sachet, Bath Salts & Hand Creme. YUM!

Their other new scent is called West Indies Clove and it’s a great spicy blend. These items will be arriving in October when the weather turns cool. Fresh Bet will also be bringing in Greenleaf’s classic winter scents and more Aroma Decor Diffusers.

Click here for Greenleaf at 10% off everyday.

Ah, the dog days of summer are upon us here in the Carolinas. Being in retail for the past 11 years, that makes me think of Christmas merchandise. We have lots of new items being planned now for upcoming Fall & Winter/Holiday 2009. So this is the perfect time to mark down these seasonal items that are now on deep discount closeout:

* Claire Burke Christmas Memories, Oh Christmas Tree, The Haunted Home & Pomegranate Plum – Now 60% off
* Aromatique Smell of Christmas, Smell of the Tree, Orange & Evergreen, Pumpkin Spice, Creme Caramel – Now 60% off
* Aromatique Smell of Spring, Peppercorn, – Now 20% off
* Baekgaard Colorful Leather Purses & Accesories – all 20% off
* Hillhouse Pomegranate Frost, Log Cabin Potpourri – Now 75% off
* Greenleaf – Fresh Blossoms, Citrus Verbena, Mulberry & Johnson Reed Diffuser – 30% off
* Greenleaf Hand Sanitizers – 75% off
* Greenleaf Bath Collection – 30% off
* Greenleaf Potpourris – 40% off
* Greenleaf American Harvest – 60% off
* Punch Studio Scented Drawer Liners – 20% off
* WoodWick Fusion Candles & Reed Diffusers – 40% off
* WoodWick Wax Melts – 40% off
* All WoodWick Home Fragrance Oils – Now $3.50/each
* WoodWick Signature Candles – 30% off
* Vitabath Travel Sets – 20% off
* Vitabath Gift Value Sets – 10% off
* All Finders KeyPurse Key Hooks, down from $6.75 to $5.00/ea
* Childrens Bath – 75% off
* PeaceKeepers Organic Nail Paints, Lip Paints – all 30% off

Dawn is busily marking these items down on both of our websites. For best selection, call us asap as quantities are limited to stock on hand. Toll-Free: 1-800-322-0525 Open: 10am-6pm EST Mon-Fri, 10am-2pm Saturdays.

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If you take our newsletter, you already know about the 5% off Coupon Code FBGL609 for Greenleaf good thru June 7th. Fresh Bet sells Greenleaf everyday at 10% off suggested retail. Now you can stock up on Greenleaf and save 15% for the next week.

The folks at Greenleaf have notified us they are discontinuing these scents: Fresh Blossoms, Citrus & Verbena, Mulberry. Stock is already limited, so if any of these are your favorites, grab them now before they are gone!

We have also found out they are releasing 2 new scents for Fall 2009: West Indies Clove and Sycamore Fig. They were kind enough to send me sachets of both these new scents and they are fabulous! The Clove is for all spice lovers and it is powerful! The new Sycamore Fig is wonderfully fresh and clean – a real winner!

Deb & I will be attending July Market in Atlanta and placing orders for Fall delivery of both these new scents.
Click here for Greenleaf.

Our local customers are loving these beautiful Lamp Paradise effusion style oil-burning lampes. These are similar to Lampeberger but without the prestigious high price.

We started out a few months ago with about 4 styles along with their wonderful lamp oils. (Folks in the business call this type of lamp oil “Juice”.) When we sold out, we decided to offer several new styles which have just recently arrived:
We now offer 9 different styles/colors/sizes.

Effusion lampes are wonderful odor neutralizers that add beautiful fragrance to any room. I personally use mine in the kitchen almost every night after cooking supper. Many ladies use them in the bedroom and they will work wonderfully in any room. The concept is from the late 1800’s when Parisian Hospitals used these to disinfect the air in hospital rooms. The catalytic stone & wick burner somehow neutralizes odors while the scented oil adds great fragrance.

Once you purchase a lamp, the oil will last quite a while depending upon how long and often you burn the lamp. The most important thing with these lamps is to light the stone and let the open flame burn for 2 minutes. (I set my stove timer.) Then blow out the flame and replace the slotted top cap. When you’ve had enough, you remove the slotted cap and replace it with the solid snuffer cap. When refilling, you must let the wick soak up oil for 15-20 minutes before attempting to light.

We offer replacement wick & stone assemblies along with Purifier oil by Greenleaf that will clean your stone or dilute scents that you may find to be too strong.

Click here for Effusion Lampes & Oils.

Last month we started our monthly Fragrance of the Month with Aromatique’s Fresh Fig being 20% off for the month of May. Our customers loved this, so we are going to continue this program.

For the month of June, enjoy 20% off on Claire Burke’s The Sea. This classic scent is perfect for the guest bath and what’s not to love about the beautiful powder blue color?

Dawn has now marked down The Sea on our Fresh Bet website by 20%. The price will go back up around the 1st of July so don’t delay!

Click here for Claire Burke’s The Sea.

Fresh Bet offered the Australian Simple Scents Skin Care line several years ago. For some reason we dropped the line, but now it’s back. These all-natural, mostly organic skin care products are imported from Australia and are made of wonderful natural botanicals. The best part is they are value-priced and have fabulous scent!

We are now offering bodywash at $8.00 for an 8.4 oz bottle. Available in: Coconut Lime, Tasmanian Lavender, Ocean Beach and Wild Honeysuckle. We also have a wonderful Country Milk & Oatmeal soap at only $3.50/bar.

Simple Scents has just released a new line of organic facial care. These are reasonably priced at only $8.00 each and include: Deodorant, Face Moisturizer, Face Scrub, Face Wash, Rosewater Toner Spray and Aloe Vera Lotion.

Click here to learn more.

If you live in the Upstate of South Carolina and you are able to stop by our Retail Store in Central, we are giving away a lovely Fathers Day Gift Basket via drawing to be held on June 19th.

Stop by our new retail store soon at 200 Bank Street in Central. Meet Deb & Dawn! Shop our clearance section for fall and winter scents that will soon be coming round again.

We have wonderful new ladies tops by Gourmet Popcorn that are perfect for summer travel season.

We are open Mon-Fri from 10am-6pm EST and Saturdays from 10am – 2pm. Reach us by phone: 864-639-7773.