ActiveScent™ SLEEP

🌙 Sleep - Naturally fall asleep

Fall asleep faster and sleep more deeply. Without supplements.

ActiveScent™ Sleep is a functional scent ritual, developed to naturally calm your body and mind and prepare you for a deep, undisturbed night's rest.

ActiveScent™ uses only scents that functionally contribute to the pure purpose of this product. Sleep. No unnecessary additives. The scents are based on scientific studies.

With 11 premium essential oils and upcycled botanical ingredients, this soft, earthy fragrance combines powerful aromatherapy with proven calming scents like lavender, sage, and cedarwood.

💤 How it helps you sleep better
• Lavender soothes the nervous system and slows your heart rate
• Clary Sage reduces stress and hormonal tension
• Clearwood® brings deep relaxation
• Eucalyptus opens your breathing for a smoother transition to rest
• Neryl Acetate adds a soft floral note that eases emotional unrest

💫 What you smell
• Top: Fresh lavender & gentle eucalyptus clear your mind
• Heart: Earthy sage and soft neroli surround you with calm
• Base: Warm cedarwood and Clean Clearwood® bring you into balance

🧠 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 pass through the ‘rational’ cortex. 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 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 (the 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 direct the emotional system through scent, aiming for a specific effect (such as calming or energising).

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

💨 3. Scent as a ‘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 relax.”

🎯 Why this works
• No supplements 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 the oil level
✔️ 94% biodegradable
♻️ 6 upcycled ingredients
🌿 Made with renewable & responsibly sourced plants
🌍 Reduced water and CO₂ usage
✅ Vegan & 100% Yuka Green-score

🇳🇱 Manufactured in our own factory in Velsen-Noord

The scents were developed in collaboration with our scent partners. Specially designed 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 the 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.

Apply this routine daily and you will sleep better and better. Avoid mobile/blue and bright light, don’t drink anything 2 hours before sleeping, and try to let go of your thoughts and focus on your breathing. All this helps improve your sleep routine and your brain will associate the scent with your wind-down ritual.

You need only 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: Linalyl acetate, linalool

🌿 Ingredients & Their Benefits
1. Shea Butter
Skin benefits:
• Deeply 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 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 molecularly identical to natural fragrances.
• Biodegradable

3. Coconut Oil
Skin benefits:
• Rich in fatty acids, helps restore the skin barrier.
• Antibacterial and moisturizing.
• Leaves 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 impactful 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 skin from free radicals.
• Nourishing and soothing.
• Improves shelf life of oil components.
Environmental benefits:
• Derived from plant oils (such as sunflower or soy).
• Biodegradable.