There is a certain kind of afternoon that deserves a drink with a tiny umbrella in it. The problem is that most of us are at home on a Tuesday with a load of washing on and no cocktail shaker in sight. Good news: you can get the holiday feeling without the blender. Jaspa has a little lineup of drinks-inspired scents, and lined up together they look suspiciously like a bar menu.
So consider this your cocktail list. Four scents, no hangover, and one of them is strictly for the under-tens. Let's pour.
A quick note before we start: three of these live in Jaspa's liquid wax melt range. If you have not tried a liquid melt yet, it is the easy-pour cousin of the classic melt. A quick squeeze into your warmer, the scent builds fast, and when you are done the wax pops out in one piece so you can switch to the next one on the menu. Very handy when you are running a bar, so to speak.
Pina Colada: the classic
If you like pina coladas (and getting caught in the rain), this is where you start. Creamy, tropical and sweet in the best beach-bar way, it smells like the drink they hand you the moment you check into the resort. Warm it in the loungeroom on a grey day and watch the whole house cheer up. This one lives in the liquid melt range, so it is squeeze, warm, and off you go.
Mint Mojito: the fresh one
Where Pina Colada is a deck chair, Mint Mojito is a cold glass with condensation running down the side. Fresh mint and lime, crisp and clean, the scent equivalent of that first icy sip. It is brilliant for kitchens and bathrooms, anywhere you want the air to feel scrubbed and bright rather than sweet. Also a liquid melt, so it slots straight into the same warmer as the rest of the menu.
Coconut & Lime: the crowd pleaser
Every good bar has the drink everyone can agree on, and in this lineup it is Coconut & Lime. Creamy coconut with a squeeze of sharp lime over the top, sweet but never sickly. It is the one scent here that comes in more than one format, so you can pick your serve: the liquid melt for the warmer, the diffuser oil for your burner or electric diffuser, or the room spray for an instant hit before people arrive.
And if sprays are more your speed, the Coconut & Lime room spray goes by the name You Go Glen Coco!, which is reason enough to own it. Two pumps in the air and the room smells like a beach bar just opened. As with all sprays, keep it away from eyes and skin, and spray into the air rather than at anyone's face, no matter how much they deserve it.
Which brings us, responsibly, to the kids' end of the bar.
Splice: the mocktail on the menu
Every cocktail list needs a mocktail, and here is the fun part: Splice is a kids room spray. Yes, really. The pine-lime paddle pop of your childhood, the green one that dripped down your arm at the school fete, now scenting your kid's bedroom instead of staining their shirt. It is called Splice & Easy, and it is the only drink on this menu you should be handing to a child.
Like all the kids sprays, it is made for little rooms and big opinions. Let them pick it, let them love it, but keep the actual spraying supervised for the littlies, and store the bottle up out of reach of young children between spritzes.
Running your liquid melts in a tea light burner? Never leave the flame unattended, and keep it well out of reach of kids and pets. For bedrooms, especially kids' rooms, an electric warmer is the safer pick because there is no open flame to mind.
How to run your own happy hour
The lovely thing about the liquid melts is how easy it is to change your order. Start the afternoon with Mint Mojito while the house is getting tidied, then switch to Pina Colada once the couch beckons. The cooled wax pops out in one piece, so swapping scents takes seconds and there is no scraping involved.
If you cannot pick just one, the Liquid Melt 3 Pack Bundle lets you choose three from the range, which happens to be exactly the number of grown-up drinks on this menu. Funny, that.
Liquid Melt 3 Pack Bundle
Pick three liquid melts and set up the whole cocktail menu in one order. Pina Colada, Mint Mojito, Coconut & Lime. Done.
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So there is your list. The classic, the fresh one, the crowd pleaser and the mocktail. No shaker, no sticky bench, no queue at the bar. Happy hour starts whenever you flick the warmer on.
