The num­ber one com­ment I hear when rhap­sodiz­ing about  La Dolce Diva’s line of Dolce Div­ina scents is, ” I don’t want to smell like food.” Oh, my good­ness, is that what you think? Do you really think I would let you walk around smelling like a bak­ery? And would that be so bad, anyway?

Just as many peo­ple close their eyes and sigh when I tell them about our col­lec­tion of scents inspired by  dessert — obvi­ously, they are enlightened!

Dolce Div­ina is a col­lec­tion of scents inspired by the desserts of Italy. Yes. The scents have names like, Almond Bis­cotti, Gelato, Straw­berry di Choco­lata and Tiramisu. True. Are the scents the actual by-products of these delec­table desserts? No. They are care­fully for­mu­lated fra­grance oils meant to tease your senses into think­ing they smell these items. The oh-so-clever names are sim­ply there to lead the way.

These type of “foodie” scents are actu­ally called Gour­mand Fra­grances. Doesn’t that sound classier than “foodie?” Well it should. These scents are meant to trig­ger your olfac­tory mem­ory, one of the  most pow­er­ful parts of our brain that  con­nects mem­o­ries to smells. Have you ever smelled fresh baked apple-pie and had a sud­den flash of a hol­i­day mem­ory or feel the warmth of a fam­ily gath­er­ing?  The smell of vanilla waft­ing through the air brings an image of your mother bak­ing a birth­day cake and you smile think­ing about it today? It could be some­thing that hap­pened long ago and you had “for­got­ten” all about it, but a sin­gle whiff brings it all back.

Gour­mand scents have become so pop­u­lar because they have been found to , more often than not, pro­duce a feel­ing of com­fort, joy and happy mem­o­ries. It is not to say that only dessert scents trig­ger these feel­ings, steak and baked pota­toes are pretty yummy smelling too…but we are talk­ing about bath and body prod­ucts here, I am con­fi­dent that I would not find joy in spread­ing on Steak de la Grille in the morn­ing. We will leave that to the La Dolce Dude Col­lec­tion. Not.

Gour­mand scents are not just meant to take you back, they are also a fab­u­lous way to let your mind escape to a Roman piazza nib­bling on an almond bis­cotti, or lick­ing that last drip of gelato off the spoon.

Vanilla, choco­late, straw­berry, cit­rus, almond, spices, etc. have all been in our bath, body & per­fume lives for years, even decades, and you were totally unaware. Jergen’s clas­sic scent is a light cherry-almond. Lit­er­ally hun­dreds of per­fumes use vanilla as a base note, for exam­ple; Coco, Allure, Shal­i­mar & Angel. And the omnipresent cit­rus; lemon ver­bena, orange ver­bena, lime, grape­fruit etc. You prob­a­bly didn’t even think of these fruity-citrus scents as foods, did you? Well, think again.

Indulge your senses by giv­ing one of these lus­cious dessert scents a try…they are meant to trans­port you, if just for moment, then the scrump­tious scent will sink into your skin and remind you all day what a SWEET Diva you are!