The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Quasar Next Divertida-Mente 2 arrived in 2024 as part of O Boticário's partnership with Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2, translating the emotional world of Riley's teenage years into scent. The Quasar line draws on an exploration of the elements, and this particular release bends the formula toward a younger audience, composed and presented for kids aged 7 and up. The fragrance captures a feeling of transformation, the rush of new emotions flooding in, packaged in interactive materials that invite discovery beyond the bottle itself. It's fragrance as character study, the moment before Riley's control room reorganizes for who she's becoming.
What's interesting here is the choice of notes for a children's cologne that doesn't talk down. Plum and bergamot open with adult-leaning fruit and citrus, not the syrupy sweetness that usually defines kid-targeted launches. The plum carries a contained, almost chilled sweetness, more orchard than candy aisle, while bergamot lifts the opening with a clean citrus brightness that keeps the fruit from tipping into jam territory. Lavender does real work in the heart, lending a clean herbaceousness rather than a candied lavender association.
The evolution
Quasar Next Divertida-Mente 2 opens with the sharp snap of bergamot and plum, where citrus peel meets ripe fruit flesh in the early moments of wear. The plum's sweetness is immediate but contained, almost like the fruit has been chilled before it's cut. The bergamot cuts in alongside it, tart and slightly bitter, lifting the fruit into something brighter and more citric, preventing the opening from collapsing into pure sugar. As the top notes settle, lavender steps forward not as an herbal wall but as something cleaner, more transparent, suggesting linen rather than field. The lavender here is pale and cool, not the dark, syrupy lavender of bedtime sachets but the greener, almost watery lavender that you'd find in a high-end aromatic composition. Freesia adds a faint green floral whisper that keeps the heart from turning too soapy.
Cultural impact
Quasar Next Divertida-Mente 2 arrived in 2024 as part of O Boticário's collaboration with Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2, anchoring a fragrance to one of the year's biggest animated properties. By tying a scent to characters tied to specific emotions, the brand invited younger wearers, aged 7 and older, into their first proper fragrance ritual rather than handing them a downsized adult juice.













