How Do You Store Your Scentsy Fragrance Bars?

By: Alena Shea
The more I learn about fragrance, the more I realize just how many factors can have an effect on fragrance character, duration and performance.  One factor that affects Scentsy bar fragrance is storage.

Here are a few tips on how to properly store your Scentsy bars:

·         Cool & Dark

o   Keep your bars in a cooler area of your home that doesn’t experience heat fluctuation or is exposed to direct sunlight. If you keep your bars in a drawer next to your stove, top notes are at risk of flashing off through residual heat from the stove. If you like to store your bars in a cute basket on a bookshelf that gets direct sunlight for a majority of the day, you risk top notes flashing off from the heat of the sunlight.

o   If you like to stock up on your favorite fragrance, consider the refrigerator or even freezer! I recommend using a zip lock bag for each bar to protect the clamshell from cracking. The cold temperature makes the plastic brittle.

·         First In First Out (FIFO)

o   FIFO is a method used by many companies to manage inventory. If you’re a Consultant who likes to have inventory on hand, or an avid customer who buys bars faster than you can use them, the first bars you purchase should be the first sold or used.  This will help ensure the bar inventory you have doesn’t get old and lose fragrance.  Shelf life on Scentsy bars (that have been stored properly) is 12 months.

·         Vehicles

o   Avoid keeping your Scentsy bars on your car seats with access to sunlight for long periods of time. A car sitting in 70+ degree weather with Scentsy bars and/or testers exposed on the seat is a disaster waiting to happen!

·         **Bonus tip for Consultants:

• o   Many Consultants have outdoor booths at fairs & shows. When the temperatures are warm, treat your testers like you treat your bars! I recommend using two sets of testers & bringing a cooler. Keep one set of testers in a cooler & rotate every hour or so to keep the testers nice & cool – keeping those top notes in! And remember, warmer testers have a stronger scent so give them time to acclimate to the temperature when rotating. If your testers are too cold, you will have a hard time smelling the fragrance.

How do you store your Scentsy fragrance bars? Share other tips below!

Some of the World’s Most Inspirational Entrepreneurs

Like all great success stories, Scentsy’s has a humble beginning. True entrepreneurs tend to be cut from the same cloth – often taking risks and running with haphazard opportunities the rest of us would hesitate to try. The founders of Scentsy are no exception and their modest beginning is about as inspiring as it gets. Let’s set the stage…

No, really. That’s the stage, right there! See that big white ocean container on the far left? That is where Scentsy first began its magic. Back in 2004, Orville and Heidi Thompson purchased Scentsy and used this ocean container and small office (the white building hidden behind two trailers) to manufacture and ship Scentsy orders. Not only were Orville (Scentsy CEO) and his wife, Heidi (President), tending to the future of an incredible company that would soon reach a global audience and boast over a billion dollars in revenue in less than ten years, they were also tending livestock on the same land. Those two know how to juggle!

Because Orville and Heidi were also using the land to pasture sheep and other animals, Consultants who visited Scentsy’s first office were sometimes accosted by chickens and other aspects of farm life. The make-shift office was furnished with items incomprehensible to most people – bench seats ripped from an old van and a variety of other discarded furniture. But, like so many diamonds in the rough, Scentsy’s owners were content to bootstrap while they put profits back into their growing company.

By October of 2004, Scentsy had outgrown the farm space and moved the operation to a small office building down the street. Orville continued to use the land for his sheep and the buildings for storage. Today, Consultants visiting Scentsy’s home office can now tour the site and even take pictures in Orville’s office chair!

Nine years later, Scentsy will soon be moving to another new home. Our new headquarters in Meridian, Idaho will be housed in a brand-new, state-of-the-art campus setting - complete with walking paths, a cafeteria, outdoor amphitheater and gym. A far cry from the sweet little ocean container surrounded by sheep, this campus will house all of Scentsy’s Idaho-based employees and operations.

This rags-to-riches story is one that never gets old to hear. It’s inspiring to witness people with such tenacity and faith that they can take the most humble beginning and literally turn it into a piece of history. At Scentsy, we absolutely love hearing about how everyday people turn their lives around with just one opportunity…

Check out some of our other favorite legendary entrepreneurial stories:

-       Anyone a fan of Paul Mitchell shampoo? Founder, John Paul DeJoria first sold his shampoo door-to-door while living out of his car before his company took off!

-       Who hasn’t heard of Ray-Bans and Oakley sunglasses these days? Bet you didn’t know that the billionaire behind those shades, Leonardo Del Vecchio, is a former auto factory worker who grew up in a European orphanage!

-       Ever heard the saying, “Everything Oprah touches turns to gold?” She didn’t have that power until well into her career. Oprah Winfrey actually overcame a childhood of extreme poverty before finding her success.

-       Harry Potter is a household name, right? But, not everyone knows that JK Rowling was recently divorced and on welfare with a dependent child while dreaming up those fabulous stories that would eventually change her life.

What about you? What are some of your favorite rags-to-riches stories? What inspires you when deciding to make that leap toward a better life?