ActiveScent™ ENERGY

⚡ Energy - Naturally more focus and energy

A pick-me-up for your senses. Without caffeine or artificial stimulants.

ActiveScent™ Energy is an invigorating perfume with citrus, herbs and wood tones that stimulate your alertness, clear your head and positively influence your mood. Feels like a splash of cold water against your face in the morning.

ActiveScent™ only uses scents that make a functional contribution to the pure function of this product. Energy. No other unnecessary additions. The scents are based on scientific studies.

With 11 premium essential oils and packed with upcycled and natural ingredients, designed to activate you naturally, without caffeine or artificial stimulants.

⚙️ How it works for energy
• Lemon & Orange give a direct energy boost and make you more alert
• Eucalyptus opens breathing and stimulates focus
• Sage reduces mental fatigue and supports concentration
• Vetiver & Patchouli provide mental resilience and grounding
• Cedarwood helps maintain focus and calm for longer periods
• Terpinyl Acetate enhances the fresh citrus energy for a clear, uplifted feeling

🍋 What you smell
• Top: Fresh lemon & eucalyptus for mental clarity
• Heart: Spicy sage and sunny orange bring focus and positivity
• Base: Earthy cedarwood, vetiver and patchouli provide strength and stability

🧠 Why scent is so powerful: the science
• Scent goes directly into the limbic system, the oldest part of our brain, where emotions, memories and survival reactions are processed.
• Unlike other senses (like sight or hearing), scent doesn't need to take a detour through the 'rational' cerebral cortex. So it has a direct line to our subconscious.

That's why scents can:
• Evoke a feeling of safety or relaxation
• Influence your mood within seconds
• Trigger memories (think of the smell of your grandmother's house or vacation)

🫁 Comparison with Air up & scent that simulates taste
With air up you just drink water, but through a scent pod you smell peach or cola, for example. This scent goes via the retronasal route (back of your nose while drinking) to your brain, which interprets the signal as "taste".

👉 Your brain distorts reality: it turns scent into a taste experience, that's how powerful scent is in your perception.

Just as air up uses scent to influence taste, we use perfume scents to influence mood, focus, sleep, hormonal balance or energy.

🌿 1. Direct emotional effect
Scents like lavender, cedarwood, citrus or rosemary are linked in studies to sleep, alertness or stress reduction.

By combining these purposefully in our ActiveScent™ formula, we steer the emotional system through scent, aiming for a specific effect (like calming or energizing).

🧠 2. No detour, straight to the core
Functional perfumes don't work through placebo or suggestion, but via biochemical triggers in the brain. For example: lavender increases alpha waves in the brain → these are connected to relaxation.

💨 3. Scent as 'mental prompt'
By linking scent to a repeated action (like applying your perfume before bedtime), it becomes a conditioned signal for your body: "It's time to settle down."

🎯 Why this works
• No supplement needed: You don't need to take anything. Just smelling is enough.
• Quick effect: Noticeable within seconds.
• 100% natural activation: The scent does the work, without side effects.
• Functional and sensual: It smells wonderful and supports your wellbeing.

🌱 Clean scent. Clear conscience.

💚 Without hormone-disrupting substances at oil level
✔️ 98% biodegradable
♻️ 8 upcycled ingredients
🌿 71% from renewable sources
🌍 Reduced water and CO₂ consumption
✅ Vegan & 100% Yuka Green-score
🇳🇱 Manufactured in our own factory in Velsen-Noord

The scents are developed in collaboration with our scent partners. Specially for application between nose and lips. A special scent, with special requirements and safe for you. Just like every other scent from Cosmeau, without carcinogenic substances at ingredient level.

Use
Apply between nose and lips via the stick or with your finger, before bedtime to prepare your mental state for sleep. Not suitable for on the lips. Roll up your upper lip, breathe deeply through your nose, for an extra dose.

Apply this rhythm every day in the morning and/or when you could use an energy boost. Your brain will link the scent to performance and focus making you feel more energetic and alert.

You need a minimal amount so with the stick you can go 6-12 months, depending on frequency and quantity.

The refills are plastic free and you can use the refill in our universal patent-pending holder. The holder is also suitable for our deodorant refill, and our perfume line refill.

In the box
- Solid stick 15ml refill, holder sold separately

Allergens: Linalool, limonene

🌿 Ingredients & Their Benefits
1. Shea Butter
Skin benefits:
• Hydrates and nourishes the skin intensively.
• Contains natural antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.
• Softens dry or sensitive skin.
Environmental benefits:
• Natural and plant-based, derived from the nuts of the shea tree.
• Usually manually harvested and processed, often in small-scale cooperatives.
• Biodegradable.

2. Parfum (fragrances)
Benefits:
• Provides the functional scent experience (aromatherapy effect).
• Depending on the composition, scents can calm, refresh or stimulate.

Environmental benefits:
• Combination of natural and synthetic fragrances. With the "right" synthetic substances you have fewer allergens, they are biodegradable, and are molecularly identical to natural fragrances.
• Biodegradable

3. Coconut Oil
Skin benefits:
• Rich in fatty acids, helps restore the skin barrier.
• Antibacterial and moisturizing effect.
• Gives a smooth and soft skin feel.
Environmental benefits:
• Natural and plant-based.
• Biodegradable.
• Unlike some other tropical oils (like palm oil), cultivation is less environmentally damaging and sustainably produced.

4. Candelilla Wax
Skin benefits:
• Creates a protective layer on the skin without clogging.
• Provides a firm, balm-like texture to the perfume.
Environmental benefits:
• Plant-based alternative to beeswax.
• Vegan and biodegradable.
• Harvested from the candelilla plant, grows in dry areas with low water needs.

5. Tocopherol (Vitamin E)
Skin benefits:
• Natural antioxidant: protects the skin against free radicals.
• Nourishing and soothing.
• Improves the shelf life of oil components.
Environmental benefits:
• Derived from plant oils (like sunflower or soy).
• Biodegradable.