Spring 2025 Newsletter
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Welcome to our Spring 2025 newsletter of the social scent company.
We welcome our new subscribers and it is nice to have you as part of our scent and floral community!
In typical spring fashion, we started the new season with beautiful sunny weather only to find ourselves with some unpredictable days of wind, rain and more rain and then some sprinkles of sunshine. We are looking forward to summer being around the corner though!
Despite the weather our gardens have burst into flower and we have loved having the annual display of tulips, cherry blossom and gorgeous fluffy ranunculus with all of their ruffles to be picking and filling our vases. We are trialing air drying some of the ranunculus to hopefully be able to use these in our wreath workshops coming up.
💐 A Little About Us
For those of you who are new to our community—welcome! We’re so glad you’re here.
Last newsletter we let you know a little about the three of us who make up the social scent company. This month a little more detail focusing on our very talented Helen.
Helen is the creative part of the team who produces all of our lovely art work for our products - from the drawings featured on our candle labels, the beautiful wedding stationery and wedding maps, through to the hand painted cards for our gift boxes.
Helen is also a wonder at sourcing all of the gorgeous sustainable packing we use across our range of products and for those special occasions like Easter and Mothers Day products. Keep an eye out on our social media for updates on her Christmas 2025 options.
In amongst all of this, Helen loves to discover new candle options, scents and making up your wonderful orders.
🌼Flower Highlight: Peonies
Mid- Spring sees the arrival of the much anticipated lush and showy peony bloom. We love the peony flowers in their lovely blush and coral shades, even though it is such a short season.
The fleeting season is part of the charm of peonies and why there is such excitement when they finally arrive. We are fortunate to have the right growing conditions in our Martinborough garden for peonies.
In the Language of Flowers, peonies represent love, romance, honour and devotion, with a belief they are an omen of good fortune and a happy marriage.
Check out our Peony scented Jardiniere Ceramic Teacup Spring special - $25 for a small teacup and $35.00 for a large teacup (shipping costs additional).
🕯️Workshops and Products for Every Occasion
We offer both scheduled and private group workshops—perfect for hens parties, baby showers, birthdays, or just a weekend with friends. Our workshops are mobile, child-friendly, and we can come to your place or a venue of your choice.
We also sell a range of 100% soy wax candles, accessories, and gift boxes through our website. Every purchase helps us give back—funding free workshops and products for community groups. If you know of a group that could benefit, please reach out!
🌿 Upcoming Workshops
We’re excited to return to our Martinborough garden workshops this spring and summer! Here are the upcoming remaining 2025 dates:
Saturday 8 November 2025 - Candle making and Wreath making options
Sunday 14 December 2025 - Christmas Candle making and Wreath making options.
Special offer for subscribers: Bring a friend along to one of the above Martinborough workshops and enjoy the workshop together for just $135 for two ($65 each). Just email us or message us on social media to book this special offer.
We’re also planning evening/weekend workshops in Wellington—keep an eye on our website for updates and message us if you might be interested in a candle or wreath workshop.
We have a number of private group workshops also booked- gathering of friends, social club groups and end of the year Christmas celebrations planned and still have some limited capacity. If you are keen to set up a private workshop email us at info@socialscent.co.nz
🌼New Scent
With the season of Spring being a time to celebrate new arrivals and a fresh outlook, it is the perfect opportunity to introduce you to a new lovely fragrance we have added to our signature scent range ’Kōwhai’.
The vibrant yellow bell-shaped kōwhai flower, in the Language of Flowers, symbolises New Beginnings - signifying strength and resilience and we love that the flower is from the iconic native tree, blooming in springtime.
The kōwhai fragrance has:
top notes of orange zest, lemon grass and citron.
mid notes of neroli and cinnamon leaf
dry notes of sandalwood, amber, white cedar and patchouli.
This fragrance is available across our product range and just select ‘Kōwhai’ as your chosen scent.
📖 Book Profile
If you are wanting to understand more about the Language of Flowers or looking for a gorgeous gift - ‘The Language of Flowers , A Miscellany’, by Mandy Kirby, is a perfect option.
In her book, Mandy Kirby has compiled a beautifully illustrated miscellany containing fifty profiled flowers, a dictionary searchable by emotion and ideas for creating arrangements for specific occasions.
We have copies of this book available on our website for purchase.
🛍️Market shopping dates
We have a couple of Christmas markets planned where you can pop in to see us and enjoy a market special! We can’t confirm some of these dates until closer to the time, as market stalls are at a premium this time of year, so look out for our social media posts to confirm we will be there, or message us to double check.
Saturday 1 November @ St Peter’s Village Hall, Paekākāriki 10am-2pm
Sunday 7 December @ Brewtown Farmers Market 8am-2pm
Saturday 13 December @ St Peter’s Village Hall, Paekākāriki 10am-2pm
Sunday 14 December @ Brewtown Farmers Market 8am-2pm.
✨ Product Spotlight: Hanging Wax Scents
Our divine hanging wax scents can be placed in drawers or in a room to provide a scented ambience. The fragrance remains true for approximately three months and will have a greater impact in closed and smaller spaces.
You can choose from our signature floral scents, or let us surprise you!
These hanging wax scents come packaged in a pouch and make the perfect small gift or a lovely treat for yourself and cost $20.00 for two (shipping costs additional).
Visit the Products page on our website to explore the full range.
We look forward to hearing from you, if you have any queries and maybe seeing some of you at workshops or our markets. Please feel free to share our newsletter and let others know they can subscribe to our newsletters.
Warmest wishes
Helen, Kate and Megan
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