Purchasing bottles of beautiful scents isn’t the whole story of building a fragrance collection. It’s a personal journey that speaks your style, your memories, and your experiences. Creating a fragrance collection journal is one of the best ways to capture the essence of your fragrance adventure. This will enable you to watch as your scent preferences change, explore the power of essential oils, and reflect on the powerful memory each fragrance holds. With this blog we’ll show how to make your fragrance journal of sorts, a thing to help you collect your scents and turn them into something meaningful, keeping a record of your journey with scents, but with an HBNO nod along the way!
What is a Fragrance Collection Journal?
If you’ve got it, a fragrance collection journal is where you write down what you have in your collection – whether you’re wearing perfumes or have made up your blends out of essential oils. Tracking names, though that’s important, also helps you remember new notes to try, the perfect blends, and old memories. The great thing about products like eucalyptus essential oil, chamomile essential oil, or frankincense is that you can track how they work. You can see the nuances of these natural scents. As time passes you’ll start realizing how your fragrance preferences change and how a smell corresponds to (or doesn’t correspond to!) a certain moment in your life.
Why Start a Fragrance Collection Journal?
Your fragrance collection journal helps you to keep track of the scents you like, try out new essential oils, and think about how your tastes change. It also lets you remember what each fragrance reminds you of. Or perhaps you had a sweet orange essential oil from HBNO on a day trip or a little sandalwood essential oil during a relaxing evening. Recording the moments when you first come across each scent has the power to make your experience of every fragrance deeply personal and meaningful, and doing so in journal form is a wonderful way to store your memories. But just the act of journaling itself is addictive and makes the journey more worthwhile, increasing your sense of the art of smell.
The Basics of Your Fragrance Collection Journal
First, use a notebook, or a digital document, or create one. Here’s what to include:
- Fragrance Name & Type: The name of the fragrance, a perfume or an essential oil, is the place to start. Let’s say you get document peppermint essential oil, frankincense essential oil, or lime essential oil from HBNO, for example. Think about whether it’s a perfume you bought or an oil you’ve made yourself.
- Notes & Ingredients: What are the minty freshness of peppermint, or the floral sweetness of chamomile, the keynotes or key ingredients? It helps you understand which notes you really like the most. If you love essential oils, check out what each oil has to offer, such as calming or energizing effects.
- Scent Impressions: Tell us how you feel when you smell the fragrance. Does it relax you or energize you? Sandalwood from HBNO may help to calm you after a stressful day but lime essential oil will help to give you an uplifting boost of energy. That way, when you want to pick the right scent for any occasion, you can document these sensations.
- Occasions & Experiences: Maybe link scents to memories, and although HBNO is a natural brand, wear HBNO’s sweet orange essential oil on a sunny day or a cozy evening with lavender. As we have mentioned, there is no better way to remember the scent of something other than fragrance, and writing your associations with these odors will make your journal into a timeline of your experiences.
- Longevity & Sillage: Keep track of how long it takes for a fragrance to wear off, and of how far the scent travels. Thus, cedarwood essential oil provides a grounding base note that lingers, whereas citruses like lime or lemon will fade more quickly. Keeping a note of these things will help you curate a fragrance wardrobe that works for your needs, whether you love the long-lasting base notes of covetable scents, or if you’re looking for something fleeting that you can dip in and out of that smells like your skin.
- Seasonality: Allow yourself to have fun finding out what season each fragrance works best in. For example, the fresh and uplifting orange essential oil from HBNO is great for the summer months, and frankincense is excellent for the winter months. Having this seasonal map in your journal makes it easy to organize your fragrances by the season.
Make Your Journal Fun and Personal
Your fragrance collection journal is just that, unique to you; make it fun and engaging! Here are a few ideas to personalize your journal:
- Add Photos or Drawings: Add or sketch photos of the bottles in your journal to make them more visually appealing. If you are so inclined you can even have artistic depictions of the scent—images of flowers, fruits, or trees that are included in the oils.
- Create Scent Blends: Experiment with how the essential oils lavender and chamomile smell blended together to make new fragrances. Put your favorite combos down about how you feel. In time you’ll refine your ‘signature’ blend, just as HHNO’s meticulously put together products have.
- Include Scented Pages: Glug some HBNO oils over pages for more multisensory pleasure. Let’s take an example of a page with cinnamon leaf essential oil, but as soon as you read this, you can fill your journal with the warm scent of the holidays. It’s this added touch that essentially transforms your journal into a sensory experience.
- Track Limited Editions: If you’ve been lucky enough to try out HBNO’s seasonal scents that come around, highlight them as they are rare or limited edition scents. They make your collection feel exclusive.
Using Your Journal for Future Purchases
Your journal will also act as a guide to future purchases. Perhaps you loved sweet orange essential oil, then check out other citrus smells or try cedarwood for depth. Your journal is a map of your fragrance journey to make sure that you always know what scents you love and which ones you want to give a shot next.
Digital Version: Going Paperless
If you’re a fan of digital, there are apps like Evernote or you can just keep a simple spreadsheet to track your collection. Using these tools can help you record your fragrances even on the run. Your digital journal can be as organized and visually appealing as its physical version by even taking pictures of your collection and attaching them to each entry.
Conclusion: A Personal Scent Journey
A fragrance collection journal is a fun and educational way to explore your love of scents. Whether capturing your scent memories in your journal to record, play on, or experiment with essential oils or simply tracking HBNO products like tea tree essential oil and cinnamon leaf essential oil, your journal will be a keepsake of your fragrance journey.
Be present during this adventure of your scent and enjoy it all the way from step to step; your journal will be the mirroring of your personal fragrance tastes and experiences!
