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Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Price range: $5.45 through $50.00Eucalyptus globulus Labill., fam. Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus is probably one of the top five familiar aromas in aromatherapy. Countless people share the childhood scent memory of medicinal rubs being used on them during childhood respiratory infections. That familiar aroma comes from eucalyptus which is listed among the active ingredients in the drug facts of Vicks® VapoRub®.
Our Australian Eucalyptus globulus oil has a fresh, camphoraceous, earthy aroma, and pleasantly medicinal nasal opening intensity.
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Frankincense Essential Oil
Price range: $30.00 through $395.00Boswellia carterii Birdwood, fam. Burseraceae
Most people’s first thought of frankincense includes myrrh and the Bible. Frankincense is referenced in the Bible twenty-four times. It is cited twenty-two times in the Old Testament, but it is most famous for being brought to the baby Jesus by the Magi in the New Testament. “Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.” Matthew 2:11. Our Frankincense has a concentrated aroma.
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Ginger Essential Oil
Price range: $37.00 through $375.00Zingiber officinale Roscoe, fam. Zingiberaceae
Not all ginger essential oils have the same aroma. Many have an earthy, almost musky aroma, but with the top down hyro-diffusion method used to distill ours the characteristic spicy scent of fresh ginger survives the distillation process. This high quality ginger essential oil is as close to cutting a fresh piece of ginger as it comes.
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Himalayan Cedarwood Essential Oil
Price range: $5.45 through $52.00Cedrus deodara
Himalayan Cedarwood essential oil has a light, powdery, sweet, and balsamic aroma. Cedarwood is an excellent example of why you should choose your essential oils by Latin name and not by common name.
Cedarwood atlas (Cedrus atlantica) has a completely different scent profile than Himalayan cedarwood (Cedrus deodora). Other very common “so called ” cedars are Virginian cedar (Juniperus virginiana) and Texas (Juniperus mexicana), which are actually juniper. Other mistaken “cedars” are white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) and red cedar (Thuja plicata), which are both arborvitae from the cypress family and not cedar.
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Laurel Leaf Essential Oil
Price range: $26.00 through $299.00Laurus nobilis L., fam. Lauraceae
Laurel Leaf oil, also known as Bay Laurel, has a sweet, fresh, and camphoraceous aroma. Laurel Leaf is one of Kayla’s (our Chief Formulator and Aromatherapist) go-to essential oils. It is one of her personal favorites, even though it isn’t as commonly used as many popular essential oils.
That is why she was surprised to smell Laurel Leaf being diffused at a tiny airport in Alabama when she arrived to speak at a conference. As she walked throughout the airport she grew more and more impressed with the forward thinking of the airport until she realized the aroma had followed her outside and was emanating from her suitcase!
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Lavender Essential Oil
Price range: $11.00 through $130.00Lavender Essential Oil – High Altitude French Fine
Lavandula angustifolia Mill. (L. officinalis Chaix) (Compacta cultivar)
Lavender is one of the most popular essential oils on the market. We chose high altitude French lavender essential oil because it is one of the best sources for the characteristic, sweet, and floral aroma of lavender. The growing conditions in France are optimal for this fan favorite.
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Patchouli Essential Oil
Price range: $7.16 through $77.00Pogostemon cablin Benth. (P. patchouli Pellet), fam. Lamiaceae (Labiatae)
Our dark Indonesian patchouli essential oil has a woody, smoky, and characteristic earthy aroma.
Fun fact, Patchouli actually belongs to the mint (Lamiaceae) family, but there is nothing minty about the aroma! In fact, Patchouli tends to be one of those essential oils that people either love or hate, with only a handful of people being indifferent about the aroma.
Being in the aromatherapy world since 1998, Kayla (our Chief Formulator & Aromatherapist) has noticed, in her informal non-scientific observation, how people feel about patchouli essential oil is directly related to their scent-memory. She found that those who responded positively to the aroma had a good to great scent-memory and those that responded very negatively to it had bad scent-memories associated with patchouli. Those with no scent memory of it, tend to be indifferent. Hades softened his wife’s curse and gave the Minthe, as a weed, a sweet scent with cooling and calming effects.
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Peppermint Essential Oil
Price range: $8.20 through $94.00Mentha piperita
Our American grown variety of peppermint oil has a strong minty, sweet, and refreshing aroma.
Fun fact, according to Greek mythology, peppermint came about when the goddess Persephone, wife of Hades, discovered that he was having an affair with a nymph by the name of Minthe. Hades’ wife cursed the nymph and turned her into a plant that would grow like a weed that would be stepped on. Hades softened his wife’s curse and gave the Minthe, as a weed, a sweet scent with cooling and calming effects.
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Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil
Price range: $7.20 through $84.00Citrus paradisi Macfayden, fam. Rutaceae
Pink Grapefruit oil has a fresh, light, citrus, sweet, aroma. Pink Grapefruit oil has a milder, less sharp aroma than other grapefruits. Fun fact, according to a study by Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell and Taste Institute the aroma of grapefruit makes men perceive women as almost five years younger (Hirsch). That is reason enough to love grapefruit! Over years of watching the reaction people have when they smell essential oils, we have found that grapefruit brings a smile to the faces of the majority of the people who smell it.
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Rosemary Essential Oil
Price range: $7.50 through $83.00Rosmarinus officinalis L., fam. Lamiaceae (Labiatae)
This Moroccan variety of Rosemary essential oil has a fresh, camphoraceous, balsamic, and herbal aroma. The citation ct. Cineol refers to the rosemary having the chemotype cineol with a high level of 1,8-Cineole. Rosemary can be found in literature in Ophelia’s Act IV speech in Hamlet, “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”
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Sweet Basil Essential Oil
Price range: $12.50 through $164.00Ocimum basilicum L, variety, fam. Lamiaceae (Labiatae)
Sweet Basil ct. Linalool has a sweet, strong, fresh herbaceous, and spicy aroma. The citation ct. Linalool refers to the basil having the chemotype linalool. According to Dr. Robert Pappas, “An essential oil chemotype refers to variability in chemistry that can occur in oils coming from the same genus and species. The primary factor for the difference in chemistry in most chemotypes is due to genetic variability within the plant species of interest. Other factors can include geographic location, climate, altitude, insect interactions and other environmental aspects”
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Sweet Orange Essential Oil
Price range: $4.10 through $34.00Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck, fam. Rutaceae
This Italian Orange oil has an enticing sweet, citrus, and fresh, and aromatic profile that is deeper than most citrus aromas. Sweet orange essential oil comes from cold pressing of the peels of oranges. When you peel an orange that tiny spritz that comes from the rind is the essential oil of the orange. The majority component of sweet orange is d-limonene.
