Freshbet.com Home Fragrance

Recently we’ve had several blog comments inquiring about the availability of Claire Burke’s The Haunted Home. Many of you are looking forward to having more products available in this wonderful fall fragrance. Sadly, the Factory has discontinued the scent entirely and it will not be available this Fall.

Freshbet still has a few Haunted Home candles available from Fall 2008. They are marked down by 60% and quantities are limited. We just recently sold out of the warmer refills.

Click here for The Haunted Home.

Personally I love decorating with table runners, placemats and fabric napkins. We already offer the Bella Taylor line of quilted purses in great fabric prints that are similar to Vera Bradley. The same company who makes Bella Taylor also offers quilted and woven table linens by Nancy’s Nook from Victorian Heart.

This year we are trying to diversify outside of my home fragrance comfort zone. I do tend to offer products that I myself would personally buy; so it wasn’t much of a stretch for us to try adding a few new table linens to see if our customers like them as much as I do.

In keeping with an eye toward value for 2009, I have chosen items that are reasonably priced. We now have available: Table Runners, Placemats, Napkins and Aprons in gorgeous traditional prints. There are also some gorgeous new quilted fabric tote bags and cute Faith Backpacks for students.

Click here for new Kitchen Linens.
Click here for new Totes and Backpacks.

Because so many of our customers are mature women, we know you love to pick up a little gift now and then for the grandchildren. When I saw this great line of beautifully painted childrens home decor accessories by Tatutina, I knew our customers would love them!

We are starting out with wastebasket, picture frames, wind chimes, medals and melamine dish sets. There is a precious little art caddy, some storage mini-bins, pegboards, wall accents, recipe box and removable/temporary kids tattoos.

These are primarily made of MDF board with white paint and brightly colored animals.

Tatutina is based in Attleboro, Mass and is a family-run business. They also make a wicked cute Menu Box for storing all those take out menus in one handy place.

Click here to see our Childrens Gifts.

Friday 10 July 2009 16:14

Audrey Bodnarek

Hi Deb: I just received my order (in excellent condition) and wanted to thank you. I just love this stuff.

Thanks again for my order,
Audrey

The folks at WoodWick are true innovators of new concepts in home fragrance. After all, they gave us wood wicked candles that sound like a crackling fire and they never skimp on the new scent introductions.

WoodWick has worked hard to introduce new green candles that are eco-friendly. They spend alot of time researching different soy and veggie wax combinations for their candles.

This year WoodWick is introducing their new “Spill-Proof” Reed Diffuser that has NO reeds or open top. It’s quite stylish in appearance and utilizes a wood insert and cap to dissipate the oil scent. There are no reeds to flip and they have applied for a patent to protect their new design. Freshbet will be offering these in 6 top-selling scents.

Discontinued Scents: Brown Sugar, Citrus Vanilla, Cucumber, Lemon Sage, Mojito, Peppercorn, Snowflake, Spiced Eggnog, Spiced Plum and Tuberose.

New scents: Peppermint Cocoa, Poinsettia, Frasier Fir, Holiday Glow, Buttered Rum, Cider, Cranberry Fig & Hollyberry.

There will be a new car scent in Pumpkin Butter. For their plug-in warmers, there will be several new refill scents: Frasier Fir & Pumpkin Butter.

Because the mini-reeds are so popular, they have created 2 new mini-reed trio gift sets: Fall Favorites, Seasons Greetings.

We will have more reed diffuser refills available in: Frasier Fir, Balsam Berry and Cinnamon Berry. There will be a new Cinnamon Chai gift set that includes a mini-reed, mini-jar candle & Car Scent that sells for only $20.

Also, they have reduced the price of their home fragrance oil warmer gift set, so we will have these available for just $20. If you love WoodWick Home Fragrance Oils, stock up as they are planning to discontinue these.

Click here for WoodWick.

Greenleaf is another company that does a beautiful job with home fragrances. Their prices are always reasonable, the scents are strong and they still make paper drawer sachets which seem to be gaining in popularity this year.

Greenleaf has discontinued:
* Mulberry
* Citrus Verbena
* Fresh Blossoms

For Fall/Winter 09, they have released 2 new scents:
* Sycamore Fig
* West Indies Clove

Both of these are delightful and Freshbet is planning to bring in Sycamore Fig in July since it’s such a fresh, clean scent. The West Indies Clove is super spicy - just love it!

* In September we will have American Harvest and West Indies Clove available.
* In October we will have Christmas Traditions, Frosty, Timberleaf and Holiday Fruit.

Greenleaf makes wonderful effusion lampe oils, paper sachets, reed diffuser oil refills, potpourri, room spray & soy candles. They have also released more new Aroma Decor Lampes and a new line called “Top-It” which includes oil burners and reed diffusers.

Click here for Greenleaf.

We simply adore Claire Burke, it’s a very personal product line to me having grown up in the 60’s with a Mom who loved her Original. Recently we had a customer who found us on-line and visited our store. She told me the big department store in her town had told her that Claire Burke was no longer in business. HA! Wrong!

Here’s what we look forward to offering you for Fall & Winter 2009:
* New Slice of Spice – available in September
* More Mini-Reed Diffusers available in Christmas Memories, Oh Christmas Tree, Pomegranate Plum & new Slice of Spice.

Naturally we will have Christmas Memories and Oh Christmas Tree. These will start arriving in early October. There will be Vapourri, Votives, Tealights, Shimmer Candle, Plug-in Warmer Refills, and a new Potpourri in acetate box instead of bag.

We will again be offering the Ceramic Simmer Oil Fireplace set and Ceramic Tree Tealight Holder. There will be simmering oil in Christmas Memories, but none produced by the factory in Oh Christmas Tree. For our simmering oil fans, you may want to stock up this year. It seems that Simmering Oils may soon be discontinued as they are no longer selling well. So sad, but I suppose they have been replaced by warmer refills and reed diffusers; which take less effort to use.

Click here for Claire Burke.

I always look forward to receiving the newest Aromatique catalog. This is a wonderful company based in Arkansas that produces fine quality products that are always elegant and reasonably priced.

While perusing the new catalog, I realized these scents have been dropped and will not be available this year:
* Creme Caramel
* Peppercorn
* Amaretto Nog
* Effusion Lampe Oils

Freshbet will be offering:
* Cinnamon Cider
* Pumpkin Spice
* Orange & Evergreen
* Smell of the Tree
* Smell of Christmas

New arrivals are scheduled for September and October, so stay tuned! There will be a new Peppermint Reed Diffuser Oil and a lovely boxed gift set of Glass Votive Candles in 4 scents.

Click here for Aromatique.

Our June scent of the month special was well received by our customers. Last month we offered Claire Burke’s The Sea for 20% off, and lots of you stocked up!

Our July scent of the month will be Aromatique’s Grapefruit Fandango. Now Dawn has marked this scent collection down by 20% and this will go thru the month of July.

If you’re looking for a bright and fresh summer color with awesome citrus scent, this is the one!
Click here for Aromatique.