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Yankee Candlewants to inspire you this year.
On Wednesday, the beloved fragrance company revealed its 2022 Scent of the Year: Inspire.
What does inspiration smell like? The carefully crafted scent has notes of lime, verbena, bamboo and cedar. But it’s not simply a pleasing combination. It’s based on the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai, which is intended to help guide you to find your passion and reason for being. Ikigai’s 10 rules of happiness, including instructions like, “take it slow and live in the moment,” “reconnect with nature” and “give thanks.”
“All of these principles and Ikigai and really living your best life really inspired our team to create an uplifting and radiant fragrant for 2022,” Yankee Candle fragrance expert Taylor Perlis tells PEOPLE.
Yankee Candle Rewards members can purchase Inspire on Wednesday, March 16, and customers worldwide can buy it starting next Monday, which also happens to be National Fragrance Day.
Inspire joins previous Scents of the Year: One Together (2019), Awaken (2020) and Discovery (2021).
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Perlis, who holds a degree in cosmetics and fragrance marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology, says Inspire’s lime and verbena top notes aim to be “happy and bright and can really help you find joy in a happy life.”
“We’re really seeing citrus fragrances trending right now because they have that added wellness benefit and can help bring joy and happiness into consumers' lives,” she adds.
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The bamboo middle note adds a touch of woodiness and “azonic naturality.” And the cedar base note delivers a soft, an earthy element that is fresh and resinous. “It does add a touch of depth and comfort to this fragrance and really just grounds it in optimism and happiness,” Perlis explains.
Inspire’s other notes include ginger, freesia, ocean breeze accord, seaside driftwood and sun musks. The candle builds upon Yankee Candle’s Signature Spring fragrance line, the Sakura Blossom Festival Collection, which draws on Japanese culture and the traditional Sakura (or cherry blossom) festival.
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source: people.com
