ActiveScent™ ENERGY

⚡ Energy - Naturally more focus and energy

A boost for your senses. Without caffeine or artificial stimulants.

ActiveScent™ Energy is an invigorating fragrance with citrus, herbs and woody notes that stimulate your alertness, clear your mind and positively influence your mood. Feels like a splash of cold water on your face in the morning.

ActiveScent™ uses only scents that make a functional contribution to the pure purpose 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 provide an immediate energy boost and increase alertness
• Eucalyptus opens breathing and stimulates focus
• Sage reduces mental fatigue and supports concentration
• Vetiver & Patchouli provide mental resilience and grounding
• Cedarwood helps you stay focused and calm for longer
• Terpinyl Acetate enhances the fresh citrus energy for a clear, cheerful 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 to the limbic system, the oldest part of our brain, where emotions, memories and survival responses are processed.
• Unlike other senses (such as sight or hearing), scent does not need to detour via the ‘rational’ cerebral cortex. It has a direct line to our subconscious.

That’s why scents can:
• Evoke a sense of safety or relaxation
• Influence your mood within seconds
• Trigger memories (think of the smell of your grandma’s house or a holiday)

🫁 Comparison with Air up & scent that simulates taste
With air up you just drink water, but through a scent pod you smell, for example, peach or cola. This scent travels 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 have been linked in studies to sleep, alertness or stress reduction.

By purposefully combining these in our ActiveScent™ formula, we steer the emotional system via scent, aiming for a specific effect (such as calming or energising).

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

💨 3. Scent as a ‘mental prompt’
By linking scent to a repeated action (such as applying your perfume before bedtime), it becomes a conditioned signal for your body: “It’s time to relax.”

🎯 Why this works
• No supplement needed: You don’t have to ingest anything. Just smelling is enough.
• Fast 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.

💚 Free from 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
🇳🇱 Made in our own factory in Velsen-Noord

The scents were 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 Cosmeau scent, free from carcinogenic substances at raw material level.

Usage
Apply between nose and lips using the stick or your finger, before bedtime to prepare your mental state for sleep. Not suitable for lips. Roll your upper lip up, take a deep breath through your nose, for an extra dose.

Use this routine daily in the morning and/or when you need an energy boost. Your brain will associate the scent with performance and focus, making you feel more energetic and alert.

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

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:
• Intensively hydrates and nourishes the skin.
• Contains natural antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.
• Soothes dry or sensitive skin.
Environmental benefits:
• Natural and plant-based, derived from the nuts of the shea tree.
• Mostly hand-harvested and processed, often in small-scale cooperatives.
• Biodegradable.

2. Perfume (fragrances)
Benefits:
• Provides the functional scent experience (aromatherapy effect).
• Depending on 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 have the same molecular structure as natural fragrances.
• Biodegradable

3. Coconut Oil
Skin benefits:
• Rich in fatty acids, helps restore the skin barrier.
• Antibacterial and moisturizing effect.
• Leaves a smooth and soft skin feel.
Environmental benefits:
• Natural and plant-based.
• Biodegradable.
• Unlike some other tropical oils (such as 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, which grows in dry areas with low water needs.

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