Peaceful Progression Aromatherapy And Nature Sounds Wake-Up Alarm Clock

by Hammacher Schlemmer

Product Features

• An impressive alarm clock that naturally awakens you with gradual, increasing light, aromatherapy scents and nature sounds
• At 30 minutes before wake-up time, the clock's light begins to glow softly and brightens over the next half-hour
• At the same time, the warmth from the lamp releases faint aromatherapy scents into the air to stimulate the olfactory senses
• With 15 minutes left before the alarm time, this nature sounds clock plays your choice of six soft sounds such as ocean surf or songbirds
• We offer generous guarantees on everything we sell - up to 365 days on select items! If you need to make a return, you'll receive 100% of everything you paid.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• ASIN: B001SJ9MWY
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,306 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Peaceful Alarm Clock Awakes You from Sleep with Gradual Light and Aromatherapy Scents to Leave You Feeling Rested! - Now, you'll feel better when waking up in the morning with this peaceful alarm clock. It uses gradual light cycles, stimulating aromatherapy and nature sounds to naturally bring you out of sleep. At 30 minutes before the set alarm time, the clock's light glows softly and brightens over the next half hour. At the same time, the warmth from the lamp releases faint aromatherapy scents into the air to stimulate the olfactory senses.Even better, this nature sounds clock generates your choice of six soft sounds fifteen minutes before the alarm time. You can choose from ocean surf, songbirds and four others. At the end of the cycle, a beeper sounds to ensure you wake up on time. Your clock also includes four packets of aroma beads, 10 felt disks for aromatherapy oils, a snooze button, headphone jack and volume control. Don't wait to try this peaceful alarm clock tonight. Order now!

• A beeper sounds at the end of the cycle to ensure you wake up on time - your clock can also be used with sound or beeper only
• Included with your peaceful alarm clock are 4 packets of aroma beads (coffee, lavender, energy and stress relief scents in .85-oz. jars), plus 10 felt disks for your own aromatherapy oils
• Complete with snooze button, headphone jack and volume control
• Alarm clock is black with a metallic silver finish
• Plugs into AC adapter and requires 2 "AA" batteries (not included) for backup power
• Measures 7-1/2" H x 5-1/4" W x 6-1/4" D; 19.1 cm H x 13.3 cm W x 15.9 cm D

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty cool, August 18, 2009

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Kel (FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peaceful Progression Aromatherapy And Nature Sounds Wake-Up Alarm Clock

Well this clock is definitely peaceful, especially if you use it at night to wind down. The nature sounds are realistic and the "Zen Melody" makes you feel like you're in a Japanese garden. I don't think the aromatherapy is worth it because you can smell it without heating it, so the room smells like coffee when you go to bed as well as when you wake up. Also, the scents that come with it just don't smell very good...I definitely recommend using your own aromatherapy oil. If the light and nature sounds don't wake you up, the alarm definitely will. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!! So loud it nearly gives me a heart attack! All-in-all a cool device, but the cost is probably double what it's worth.

85 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely Peaceful, March 24, 2008

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T. Reynolds "BeautifulAngel2k" (Maple Shade, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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I've only had it for 2 days. I tested it on Sunday to see how it would work. Unfortunately I set my alarm clock for 8am in the morning when the sun is shining brightly and did not use the aromatherapy because it is very strong. The minute I opened the box it was all you could smell ... so I tossed them and will be replacing it with Bath & Body Works Tranquil Mint Oil. So Sunday was not a good day because the Sun was brighter than the light.

But Monday I wake up at 5:30am ... and sure enough around 5:15 I noticed the room growing brighter which caused me to awake pleasantly. It is definitely like the sun rising. I actually thought I had slept through my alarm until I turned and looked out my window to discover it was still dark out. Then the birds started chirping (nature sounds) and they mixed in with the natural birds.

Since I went to bed after 12 and I'm baby sitting my sister's cat ... who kept meowing and crying around 3am ... I decided to hit the snooze button just to get some extra sleep. Then sure enough on cue at 5:30am the buzzer sound went off ... lol.

This is definitely a wonderful clock ... and I'm definitely anticipating the wonderful peaceful progression called waking up :)

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not bright, features can't be changed, September 21, 2010

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Kaitlyn M. Duncan - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Peaceful Progression Aromatherapy And Nature Sounds Wake-Up Alarm Clock

I chose this one over some of the other sunrise clocks like the BioBrite because it was cheaper and seemed to have more options with a better user interface, but I wound up returning it after trying it for a few weeks because the options are limited and I didn't like the extra features.

The first thing I noticed when I opened the box was that the scent beads are really horrible. Gave me a headache...I immediately put them back in the box and closed it to get the smell away. You can just use your own scents so that's not a big deal, but be prepared for it. The brightness wasn't enough to wake me up in the morning...actually, it wasn't really even enough to read by at night. I tried falling asleep to the nature sounds, but they're on such a short loop that I had to turn them off in less than a minute...much more annoying than relaxing.

All these things were disappointing, but the reason I ended up returning the clock in the end was the alarm/snooze operation. When the light reaches brightness, the buzzer goes off (there's no way to disable the sounds) and the light never woke me up so when I woke up to the buzzer, I automatically hit snooze. The snooze turns off both the buzzer AND the light, so for me that was basically starting over with a dark room and a sudden buzzer when the alarm went off five minutes later. The light comes back on with the buzzer after the snooze but its just a light, not a "peaceful progression" at that point. Once I realized this I thought about using my regular alarm clock and just using the light feature on this clock to make the morning a little gentler, but there's no way to use the light without the sound.

There's some good potential features on this clock, but they just don't work well, so it was not worth it for me. That being said, Collectibles Today was very easy to work with and I was able to return it with no problems and at no cost to me.