Hello there people of the internet! I’m Ross - obvs - and I’m here to give you an actual business email! Fuck me, right? Like this is gonna be all sleek and professional and I’m gonna talk about products and all that shit. BANGING. Anyway… let’s talk some shit.
Restock Preview
Right, so since the restock is on Friday I thought I’d do a little bit of a preview of what’s going to be available. You know… like the title of the email suggests.
First things first, I’ll talk about how the listings will change…
Clamshell changes
So here’s a little peak behind the curtain. I basically wanted to get a new clamshell that could kinda meet in the middle of the current normal one and the XL one that we do. This one then ended up in the sub boxes as we never intended on running with the XL ones in there, it just had to happen.
Our issue now is that technically we have three sizes. One that’s 60-65g, one that’s 85-90g, and then the XL which is 100-110g.
We’re not pouring any new normal size Teddy Clamshells for this restock. Although we will still be using them for certain ideas. Like when we did the Ross from Friends inspired one it was perfect to be able to separate the two scents. But we will still have some already poured on the website.
Basically, Teddy Clamshells will now be a single listing with a dropdown option. So no more looking through normal ones or XL ones. You’ll just go through the clamshells and then pick from the dropdown box what size you want.
It’ll basically be:
60-65g = £4.49
85-90g = £4.99
100-110g = £5.49
We do have around 6000 empty XL clams left at the unit. So we’re slowly going to deplete those over the coming months/year/however long they last, and then that’s it. We’ll basically run with Teddy Pots or the 85-90g Teddy Clamshell.
Moving on…
GIFT BOXES
So for this restock we’re actually going to be putting up at least FIVE different gift boxes. Some are going to simply be returning ones like the Mystery box and the Sweet Shop Box.
Then we’ll actually have a Mini Wizards Box! The reason being is that we couldn’t get hold of all the oil we need to make all the houses - it’s coming late Feb - so we thought let’s give a mini one a crack. No word of a lie, we haven’t fully made it yet so I can’t be 100% accurate to all of is. But I think it’ll have two HP related clamshells - one house, one other - and then two teddy pots; one being a sorting hat one and one being another HP inspired one. Then you’ll get either a chocolate frog or an owl, and then a HP notebook.
I think that’s it. And then we’ll return with the proper Wizards box in March I guess.
Princess Box
So the new one we’re doing this month is the Princess box! So far we’ve poured Jasmine, Cinderella and Snow White and later on today we should be pouring “Snow Queen” followed by Beauty and the Beast and finally The Little Mermaid.
So this box will have 6 clamshells, a princess notebook, a princess keyring, some sort of little pen set thing… umm… what the hell else are we adding? Ohhh… a chocolate bar, just because… and then… Ooooo a chocolate rose thing, you know, because Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, I think that’s all of it.
But yeah, it’s been a fun box to put together. I did wanna do an Alice in Wonderland box but we ended up going with the princess one as everything came together a bit easier.
Friends Boxes
And we’re back with Friends inspired gift boxes!
They won’t be cool bags this time, but they’ll be in the usual white boxes we use. I think the bags were just a one-off as we happened to come across the bags in B&M, but you’ll basically get the same sort of thing. Six clamshells inspired by the six Friends, and then a Central Perk inspired Teddy Pot. Follow that up with some Friends biscuits and… a Friends notebook and jobs a good ‘un.
We will make some changes to the scents. Joey is no long shortbread and instead we have an aftershave scent for How you Doin’ then Phoebe will be “Nestle Toll House”, Monica will be Fresh Linen for the “Monica’s Cupboard” scent - she’ll probably be cleaning related each time - and then we still have Rachel to sort out, but she won’t be trifle this time as we don’t have the oil, she’ll be perfume based. Besides, it’s fun to mix it up.
I think that’s it with gift boxes… we might end up making up more naughty boxes, but that might be time dependant. BUT we will have more in this section soon as I have a couple of ideas, one of which being a “Naughty Bunny” box to ruin Easter for everyone.
What about NEW scents!?
I’ll be honest, we haven’t made a lot of actual new scents this month. We do have some we haven’t done for a while like Lavender, Lemon & Lavender, Battenberg, Damson Plum, Mint Chocolate, Hungry Herbivore and ones like that. But as for actual new ones we have:
Home Sweet Home
Banana Foam Sweets (Also in Sweet Shop Box)
Raspberry Coconut
Apricot
And that’s it!
We do still have Monday and Tuesday pouring so I dare say we might make one or two more new ones on top of that. But we’ll see…
Room Sprays!
We REALLY have to finish making the room sprays as we want to eventually get new bottles and designs for the room sprays so we’re hoping to finish the bottles off that we currently have, and then drop the price on the current ones as it’ll be the last time we run with the black bottles and “home” printed labels.
Basically, we just want them to be sleeker and nicer. So nicer bottles and more “professional” glossier labels. I’ll hold my hand up and say our room sprays at the moment look a bit shit. I REALLY like the actual room spray, just not the naff labels. But we still have to find the time to trial bottles and styles etc.
To be fair, we should get more time for this sort of stuff too as we have decided to go with someone via the Kickstart scheme and she should be starting with us soon. More on that another time I guess.
Cockshells
Yeah… this is the most amount of Cockshells we’ve ever poured for a restock.
Altogether, we currently have 26 scents that have Cockshells. I know… that’s a lot.
Basically we’ve just poured cocks for most of the regular scents we’ve poured, which then leaves numbnuts here - me - to come up with a design for them. As of this writing, there are 11 that remain undesigned. It’s one thing coming up with a name, and another thing entirely coming up with an ACTUAL DESIGN. Take Apricot for example. I’m gonna go with Apri-cock. Now I have to someone work a cock into an apricot in a classy sophisticated publicly acceptable manner.
If they don’t get done, then they simply sit on the shelf until inspiration hits me.
Other than that, I think that’s it…
We’re hoping to be able to keep the website open from now on, although either way, it’ll close towards the end of Feb as Feb 28th marks the end of the financial year for Teddy Eva Scents and to make my job easier I don’t want sales/money to float between the two financial years. I doubt it makes any difference, but it just makes my job easier when it comes to the accounts so I know where we are before the year end.
Then I have to do a full year of limited company books + the next VAT return!
I know… sexy shit…
So yeah… I think I covered most of it. You might be sat there going “ah cool, Ross, thanks for describing the scents for me once again!” Ah I know… but it’s not really my thing to talk about what stuff smells like. Why the fuck would someone who runs a SCENT BASED BUSINESS want to sit here and talk about scents. Besides, I ain’t describing BANANA to you am I?
“This one smells like banana. Durrrrr.”
That’ll probably be the listing.
I think I’ve already done the Apricot one and I spent most of my time slagging off the Apricot as a fruit. No word of a lie though, it’s a shit fruit. If it didn’t smell alright then absolutely no one would grow them to eat them.
Anyway…
That’ll do! Thank you for reading and maybe I’ll see some of you on Friday.
Much love,
Ross & Rachel x
You could always get name ideas from tiktok comments or an insta poll 💡
I loved reading this in my email 🤣loved it I can't wait to finally be able to place my first order I've been waiting so long!!!