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We continue the Week of Giveaways with Maoli Perfumes, a company developed by two homeschool boys and run by their family. It’s cool already, huh?
Maoli is a family affair, dedicated to honoring and respecting the art of natural perfumery while providing fragrant sweetness to kids and kids at heart. The dreaded day arrived, when the boys and their family had to trade turquoise beaches and juicy mangoes for evergreens and sweet plums. Afraid to forget all their sweet and warm island memories, they asked their mom if they could make “their own cologne that smells like sunshine.”
Since mom loves to transform the kids’ requests into learning experiences, she prepared a unit study on natural perfumery in which making an eau de cologne was the final project. Little did she know what the kids were about to create would fill the gap between baby products and pheromone sprays, not to mention a breath of fresh air for those allergic to synthetic scents found everywhere today.
Maoli is giving two Simple Mom readers a full-size bottle of their Colonia Dulce Natural Eau de Cologne!
Inspired by childhood memories of warm sand, sunshine and cool, fragrant tradewinds, Colonia Dulce is a joyful blend of sweet wild lime, juicy Ka’u Gold oranges, pink grapefruit, pikake and orange blossoms. Balmy notes of vanilla, nuances of cacao, caramel and coconut milk comfort with their delicate sweetness.
To win, here’s how to enter:
Leave a comment at this post, answering the following question: What’s your favorite natural scent?
The giveaway is open worldwide, and it lasts until this Friday, May 29. I’ll draw the two winners this weekend.
I hope you win! Check back in a few hours for today’s last giveaway.
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Orange blossoms, definitely orange blossoms. It is amazing what memories can be brought to mind because of a certain scent.
Citrus in any form – it is so happy, bright and crisp!
I was just blogging about my love for sweetpeas — definitely a favorite natural scent!
Allegra´s last blog post…Awesome Item of the Day
I have so many favorites, but it’s May and the peonies are in bloom and I LOVE the way they smell. They were the main flowers in my wedding bouquet, and now I have a row of them bursting into bloom along my picket fence.
Wisteria. I love, love, love wisteria. Takes me back to my childhood home on the lake.
Lavender and the beach (but not together!).
My husband thinks the beach smells like dead fish, but I LOVE it!
I love so many! Right now my gardenias are in bloom, so I’ll go with those.
I love vanilla and anything citrus.
I have two, Lavender and vanilla.
Fresh baked bread. If someone could bottle this, I would be all over it!
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Lavender, for sure. I also love rose incense and essential oil, but I’m not sure if that qualifies as natural.
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I love the smell of hyacinths!
What a cool story for the start of the perfume!!! I like patchoulli – most people think I’m crazy – including my husband – but I love the earthy scent.
Cinnamon!
I love the combination of orange and ginger.
my baby’s neck has the most warm and cozy scent. i could snuggle with him all day.
cinnamon, lemon, honeysuckle, magnolia,sauteing onion!:-),rosemary,lavender and vanilla,coconut,the ocean, in the winter evergreens, all this for starters
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I love honeysuckle! This is a great giveaway!
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oooh lavender
I Love lavender
Very cool story!
I love the green, earthy scents, but also the smell of chocolate, good wine, babies, etc. etc.
Alison
I love citrus, and vanilla, and roses and cucumbers… I have lots of favorite smells!
Blessed´s last blog post…What a week.
My favorite scent is lilac–so subtle and so fleeting. It brings back such strong memories of early childhood.
I love the smell of the Vibernum when it’s blooming outside my back door.
Gardenia, desert after rain, citrus blossoms, garlic and onion sauteing in butter and olive oil, coffee in the morning, cut grass, lilac blooms and the top of a baby’s head. Mmmmm!
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i love citrus fruits!
brandiandboys´s last blog post…Sheila’s Story…
Gardenias!
Coconut. It all started with a shampoo that dh used when we were first dating.
Jasmine.
Lavendar. I just love how it makes me feel relaxed.
Lilac, the smell of aspen trees in the fall, and the smell of our family cottage.
Cilantro and lemon.
I’ve always been fond of lavender. It must be heavenly in Provence.
New snow, evergreens and the mountains.
I usually wear vanilla and sometimes citrus scents, depending on my mood.
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The seashore!
Citrus, vanilla, lavender and fresh cut grass…I can’t choose between them
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Summer is on my brain right now, so I will say the smell you get when first cutting into a watermelon or a cucumber. Mmmmmm…
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Baby breath – mmmm….
Lilac is my top floral smell. We had lilac bushes when I was growing up, and I could spend all day with my nose in the blossoms! Lily of the valley or honeysuckle are close runners-up. And the wafting smell of baking chocolate chip cookies gets an honorable mention.
I love orange blossoms and grapefruit!
I love the smell of lilac when it first blooms. Too bad my favorite lilac bush didn’t survive the winter!
lavender. so fresh and clean.
Vanilla. Orange. Fresh carrots from the garden. Herbs in my garden.
I love cedarwood and clove together. I also love the smell of bergamot
My favorite scent is lavender. It’s both fresh and peaceful!
What an amazing story! Love it!
I love the smell of lilacs.
Jamie
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I have two favorites – I love lemon and the lilac bush right outside our backdoor.
I love citrus and vanilla.
mmm, so many! i love the smell of the ocean, and also freshly mowed grass, although i don’t think i’d wear it
Beth@RedandHoney´s last blog post…Fiddleheads
my favorite natural scent is COFFEE
I think lemons are my favorite natural scent. I’m always looking for the perfect way to smell like lemons. Perhaps I just need to make my own!
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Pine trees!
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cedar forests, vetiver, thyme, sunshine (it DOES have a smell), and campfires
shannon´s last blog post…my kiddo’s room on ohdeedoh!
My favorite natural scent is probably lavendar…but this time of year I LOVE the smell of tomato plants–I wish someone could make that into a perfume!
Honeysuckle all the way. I know it’s a weed, but I can’t bring myself to destroy it. Just one whiff sends me back to sweet summer evenings chasing fireflies.
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I love any citrus scents…orange, grapefruit, lemon, etc.
I have a hard time deciding between vanilla and honeysuckle. I love the smell of vanilla, but the smell of honeysuckle reminds me of the house I grew up in.
The first things that popped into my mind – almond and ginger – though I do love lavender, too.
Jennifer´s last blog post…Goin’ to get new keys
lilacs or vanilla I guess would be my top pics, but I love almost all scents natural…*GRIN*
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Lemon
Apparently I am not original at all… citrus!
Lemon balm.
I love anything citrus, but I had a huge patch of lemon balm in my first herb garden and the scent always enchanted me.
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Vanilla is my favorite.
I have always loved lavender – very calming. I have been on the hunt for a fresh but natural perfume – this sounds great. I live to use orange essential oils for an energy lift.
I love lavender.
I love the smell of coconut milk, it always reminds me of summer and being on the beach!
Mmmm, I love citrus– clean and fresh and zippy!
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The scent of my babies the day they were born.
Lilacs and vanilla!
Lavendar
what go get em kids. My favourite natural scent might just be orange blossoms
Honeysuckles. Yum!
Cedar
I love the natural scent of lavendar. I bought me a live lavendar plant last year just so I could walk outside and smell if anytime I wanted.
campfires, lilacs, sheets after being hung out to dry
I love lemon smells – meyer lemon, lemon verbena, etc.
lilacs smell amazing.
Rain, carnations, lilacs
lemon, bergamot, really anything citrusy – and oange blossoms smell so much like home I can only handle it occasionally. It makes me weep.
Peppermint! It’s clean and refreshing.
I love the fresh cotton clean laundry smell. Nothing smells better than the smell of clean without any additives.
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Oh, I LOVE fragrances. My favorites are mountain laurel (which bloom all over Austin in the spring), lavender, cinnamon and lemon.
Vanilla! I have a natural vanilla perfume oil that I love to wear!
My favorite smell to smell in nature is fresh-cut grass. My favorite natural fragrance to wear is somewhere around Jasmine, gardenia, honeysuckle, freesia… My favorite smell to have in my house is cinnamon.
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Lemongrass is my favorite. Love the inspiring story!
Absolute vanilla!
Vanilla, year round. It always puts a smile on my face. Followed closely by lavendar, lilac, and sweetpea. And during the winter? Pumpkin Pie…Okay, maybe it’s the nutmeg and cinnamon but you know!
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I love the smell of honeysuckle and orange blossoms!
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Hmmm…definitely jasmine. Love being somewhere and smelling the jasmine hiding around me.
I don’t know how to describe it. I guess, a cool summer morning, before the sun heats everything back up again.
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Lavender is very relaxing, I love it!
I love the smell of dirt, freshly cut wood & the way it smells when you are picking blueberries in the sandy, jack pine forest on a hot summer day near our families camp.
depends on my mood, but i really love fresh-cut grass, vanilla, honeysuckles & gardenias!
I lovc love love floral scents. Though I do like a little sweet now and then.
Citrus, honeysuckle, the ocean, fresh foods,
…And all the smells of fall
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I love the smell of ginger!
Do cookies count? There’s just something special about the smell of anything sweet and freshly baked. . .
Lilacs, wisteria and lavender (not necessarily together)!
Kelli´s last blog post…What a week
Lilacs – they’re gorgeous!
lavender- hands down!
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