A necessary point to make now - every one of these categories need to be YOUR classification. This method of designation is for your own personal benefit permit you to not just identify your purchased oils immediately, but additionally give you a high-quality classification of aromatherapy oil combination - combining an aromatherapy oil which you classify as ‘woody’ should compliment an oil
classification of ’spicy’ or ‘floral’ really in a good way,
what effect you are attempting to produce. While combining
bottled oils both out of your ‘floral’ group may develop a blend in which qualities of the particular oil may be gone - and bearing in mind the price tag of essential oils you want to be sure to optimize their effect.

In my next blog in this run Ill speak more about breaking down the personal components of the smell and so getting ideas for routes of utilising and combining your Essential Oil

As with wines, remembering clear short cuts - identifying key identifiers - can allow you to get an extremely bright sense of the ‘identity’ of your bottled oils. For instance in the wine world the aroma of crushed blackcurrent foliage is a defined indicator that the grape used for the wine is completely or partly cabernet sauvignon. That mental memorandum makes it possible to cut through the heap of possibilities when attempting to identify a grape in a blind tasting.

With essential oils there are similar short routes we might take to allow us to spot different Essential Oil in blind tests!

Plants have a number of naturally occurring chemicals which have been used commonly as medication for hundreds of years. In fact humanity has made use of the aromatic characteristics of plants for over 4000 years. These compounds are still used today.

Aromatherapy uses the medicinal qualities of plants through essential oils. Essential oils are derived from the leaves, roots, flowers, wood and peel of plants. The benefits of aromatherapy and essential oils are so well known that in many countries some essential oils are regulated just like pharmaceutical medications. Essential oils are even prescribed by physicians. So although essential oils are more well known for their pleasant aromas they also have qualities such as antibacterial,antiviral, antiseptic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, anti-neuralgic, anti depressant and antioxidant.