While almost all of our products contain some, this is pure, undiluted essential oil and nothing but. To get one ounce of pure essential oil, you start with pounds and pounds and pounds of flowers or herbs or fruit or leaves or bark and then go through an arduous, time-consuming practice of steam distillation to extract the precious oils. When we started the company years ago, we did our own distillation and extraction but now we source our oils from every continent on the globe.
As with anything, there are huge variations in quality; while it’s possible to purchase, say, Bergamot oil from countries other than Italy, we won’t buy it from anywhere else because the character isn’t right. Essential oil is like wine in that way—the cheap stuff’s always available but only the best vintages deliver depth, character and subtle gradations of aroma that unfold over time. And even though our oils are the highest grade available, our price isn’t. Compare to Plantlife, available on Amazon at $10.00 for .30 ounce (or more than $30 per ounce) and L’Occitane’s Revitalizing Essential Oil Blend at $18 for .33 ounce (or $54 per ounce).
From an aromatherapeutic standpoint, we developed each blend after countless hours spent in our Wonka-like scent lab. For us, the most critical aspect of scent development was arriving at a harmonious balance for each custom blend. With essential oils, because of their unique and volatile plant-based properties, that’s accomplished by complementing each oil’s traditional healing properties while also ensuring that brighter (top and middle) notes are balanced with deeper (bottom) ones. When you consider that once you finally find the right oils to pair, it’s then necessary to determine what ratios to use, it’s sort of like playing with a Rubik’s cube. The cool thing is that dogs, bees and children follow you around when you’re done every day.
The term "aromatherapy" refers to the reputed effect these oils have on our physical, emotional and mental well-being. We don't go into that a lot, because we figure you will be the best judge of whether or how they work. What we can say definitively is that working with these oils on a daily basis has had a profound effect on our dispositions, especially for those of us who struggle with depression.
Most of our customers who buy this oil use it in warmers to scent their home. We do that, but also put about ten drops on an old cloth and hang it in our closets. Here in Northern California, closets can get musty because of the fog and this treatment completely zaps the not-so-fresh feeling, while also subtly scenting the bedroom. After a few weeks when we notice the scent is gone we do it again, switching among the scents depending on what our mood demands. I suppose we could invent some adorable little closet receptacle for essential oil but who doesn’t have an old cotton cloth lying around?
1oz/30ml
SIGNATURE is our most popular home scent. French lavender makes it calming and restorative, but the Washington peppermint and Tunisian rosemary give it clean, fresh, bracing notes to which both men and women are drawn.
CITRUS is our rarest, most subtle home scent, composed of California pink grapefruit, and lemon and bergamot from Italy. Most citrus scents are too bright and sweet; by adding bergamot, the scarce citrus fruit that flavors Earl Grey tea, we’ve achieved a fragrant, harmonious balance that citrus aficionados adore.
SWEETGRASS is our most complex home scent, in which we balance the springlike freshness of Italian lemon and Indian lemongrass with the woodsiness of Moroccan cedar and finish with a note of rose geranium from China. It’s an aromatic scent that recalls the perfect warm summer evening—lush, romantic, enveloping.
BLOSSOMWOOD is composed of floral and citrus top notes with a woodsy bottom note for balance and staying power. The "magic ingredient" in this blend is called Petitgrain, steam-distilled from the leaves and bark rather than the blossoms of the orange tree. The overall blend, unlike anything else available, is redolent of plum blossoms, Neroli and jacaranda wood.
SPA is composed of Australian eucalyptus, California lemon and Washington mint, redolent of our favorite (oh so decadent) Napa Valley spa. It is clean, fresh and slightly astringent, so it perks up even the most dismal day—or surroundings.
USAGE INSTRUCTIONS: Use as above, or put a few drops on an old cloth and place in your drawers, like a sachet. Note that essential oil is extremely strong and is not meant to be applied to the skin.
INGREDIENTS: essential oil.
PEOPLE WHO LIKE IT say they’ve tried other oils at higher and lower price points and these are superior, that the custom blends are “heavenly.”
PEOPLE WHO DIDN”T LIKE IT there weren’t any people who tried it who didn’t like it.
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