Our Story

Our Story:  Intriguing Scents began before REMAIN ever existed. I started the brand from a desire to create fragrance experiences that felt intentional, personal, and connected to something deeper than simply selling candles.

At that point, I could not have known everything the brand would eventually come to carry—or what God would later work out in my own life.

My Story: My relationship with God didn't begin with certainty. I was not always a woman who knew Him. There was a time when I was living in the world and did not have the relationship with God that I have today.

When I began making the decision to come out of that life and know Him for myself, I did not suddenly become a person who never struggled again.

Following God did not make me emotionless. It did not remove difficult circumstances, family responsibilities, disappointment, anger, fear, or the tendency to fall back into old ways of surviving.

That truth matters to me because I never want Intriguing Scents to speak only to the woman who already knows how to pray, quote Scripture, or appear spiritually put together.

I remember the woman who did not know God yet because I was once that woman too. 

There was a time when I did not believe in God at all. Then, in the middle of a crisis, I began to encounter Him. Even then, I was not completely sure about Him.

I had questions. I had doubts. I was trying to understand whether what I was experiencing was real and what it meant for my life.

I did not go from unbelief to unwavering faith overnight.

I began seeking. I began learning. I began coming out of the life I had been living and slowly came to know God for myself.

That part of my story matters because I never want Intriguing Scents to speak only to women who already have strong faith or know exactly what they believe.

I remember the woman who did not believe. I remember the woman in crisis. And I remember the woman who had begun to encounter God but still was not completely sure.

I was all three.

I am not sharing this story because I have mastered the journey.

I am still living it.

There are still moments when I have to pause. There are still times when I recognize an old pattern and have to correct it. There are still responsibilities, emotions, relationships, and circumstances that require me to choose whether I am going to react from what I feel or return to what I know.

That is why the products and resources I create cannot come from pretending.

If I have not lived it, wrestled with it, learned through it, or can responsibly stand behind it, I do not want to build a product around it.

REMAIN grew from something real.

The candle is not God. The fragrance does not create peace. A devotional cannot replace Scripture, prayer, obedience, wise counsel, or professional care when it is needed.

God is the source.

The candle can simply become a cue: slow down.

The devotional can provide structure: open the Word.

The prayer can help give language to what is difficult to say.

And the rhythm can remind us:

Pause before you proceed.

Breathe before you respond.

Pray honestly.

Remain before you return.

Why Intriguing Scents Exists Today:  As Intriguing Scents has grown; its purpose has become clearer.

It is for the woman who loves God.

It is for the woman finding her way back to Him.

And it is also for the woman who has never known Him and may be encountering Him for the first time.

You do not have to arrive polished.

You do not have to pretend everything is fine.

You do not have to know all the right words.

You can come honestly.

Intriguing Scents exists to create thoughtful fragrance experiences and Scripture-rooted resources that make room for that encounter—while always remembering that the product is never the Source.

Faith — Fragrance — Restoration.

A quiet return to God.