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Scents and Hypertension

Scents and Hypertension

Can essential oils help lower hypertension? They are known for their calming and hormone-balancing effects. Since stress has a direct or indirect influence on developing high blood pressure, essential oils can benefit hypertension by reducing stress and balancing associated hormones such as cortisol and others. Multiple clinical studies have substantiated the beneficial effects of essential oils in managing hypertension.
Perfume and Happiness

Perfume and Happiness

The right perfume can have a huge impact on a person’s mental well-being beyond just simply smelling attractive. There is a close link between perfume and happiness as the sense of smell has a direct impact on parts of the brain that control…
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For Men, for Women, and Unisex Perfumes

Today, perfumes are not just mixtures to provide pleasant scents, over time they have become a subtle part of the identity, personality, and even aristocracy and royalty. Currently, three major categories of perfumes are widely available in…
Essential Oils and Emotional Health -

Essential Oils and Emotional Health

There is a subtle but strong connection between essential oils and emotional health. This is the reason why essential oils have historically been used to promote mood and emotional well-being for thousands of years - yay, you probably have…
Aromatherapy for Mental Self-Improvement

Aromatherapy for Mental Self-Improvement

A healthy mental state is critical for all aspects of life including health, happiness, and finance. In today’s overwhelming complex lifestyle, our mind is getting enormously hampered by a whole range of varying factors ranging from unhealthy…
Perfumes in Personal Growth

The Role of Perfume in Personal Growth

Have you ever guessed the perfumes you wear regularly have a great impact on your personal and professional life? – Yes, the role of perfume in personal growth and development is huge. It’s not merely the scent you wear, perfume says a lot about your individuality and personality including your sense of affection, self-esteem, and confidence.
What is Aromatherapy

What is Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy refers to the use of aroma from plant compounds, essential oils in particular, for promoting health and well-being, which has been around for millennia. It encompasses several traditional complementary and alternative therapies…
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Narcissus Perfume

Although the term narcissus originated from the same Greek word that roots the term narcotic, narke, which means “to be numb”, it’s not the narcotic properties that brought such fame for narcissus perfume, but rather the powerful mesmerizing…
Essential Oils for Colds and Flu

Essential Oils for Flu

Getting the flu or its symptoms every so often isn’t uncommon, particularly during seasonal changes. Flu viruses are continuously evolving, making it harder to treat them at home, and sometimes could be life-threatening. The use of essential…
Side Effects of Chemical Perfumes

Side Effects of Chemical Perfumes

Perfumes have historically been used for distinctive pleasant smells that make us feel relaxed and rejuvenated. But the side effects of chemical perfumes have become a major concern nowadays since the vast majority of perfumes are made from hazardous chemicals. Therefore, they are found to be associated with various health complications ranging from asthma to skin allergies to even cancer. 
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Gourmand Perfumes

Gourmand perfumes are relatively new in the entire fragrance world, they have become the primary choice in the cooler seasons, especially when we want to snuggle up to autumn fragrances during the transition from summer to fall. They are delicious, seductive, as well as warm, and may come in various facets ranging from foodies to spices to florals. Just like a well-equipped kitchen, the composition range is not limited.
Aromatherapy and Homeopathy

Can Homeopathy and Aromatherapy Be Used Together?

The basic principle in homeopathy is that “like cures like”, which is a concept that the ingredients that cause similar symptoms in healthy people can cure the symptoms in diseased people. This is the reason why, homeopathic practitioners use an ingredient, in tiny doses, which usually causes very similar symptoms in healthy people.
Do essential oils raise your frequency?

Do essential oils raise your frequency?

Raising vibrational frequency in the body has been believed to have various benefits ranging from preventing viruses, bacteria, and fungi to improving physical, mental, and emotional well-being to protecting against serious diseases like cancers.…
Natural isolates in perfumery

Natural isolates in perfumery

While isolates provide huge opportunities for perfumers to show up their creativity in an extreme extended manner, they might be a concern for perfume users if not created following really natural means. The term “natural isolates” became…
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Ayurveda and Aromatherapy

Ayurveda and aromatherapy are closely correlated and are very complementary to each other in terms of healing the body, mind, and soul in a holistic manner. While Ayurveda aims to address the imbalances of energetic dispositions in the body…
Perfume Allergy: Symptoms, Causes, and Cure

Perfume Allergy: Symptoms, Causes, and Cure

Allergies are considered one of the most common as well as fastest growing chronic conditions worldwide nowadays. A wide variety of symptoms are associated with allergic reactions that may range from simply making you miserable which is easy…
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Which Fragrance is Good for Meditation?

The practice of meditation needs to have an atmosphere that can promote a feeling of calmness and relaxation. Certain scents have an incredible ability to enhance the sense of relaxation and serenity that can help transform the body and mind during meditation. For this reason, regular meditators are looking for fragrances that can help enhance their meditative experience. But with the overwhelming availability of fragrances in the market, it’s challenging to determine which fragrance is good for meditation.
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Oud Attar

The exquisite and complex scent of oud is intriguing and rare, and certainly, a precious gift of nature that is able to create a unique olfactory experience that evokes a sense of majesty, opulence, and supreme luxury. Oud is derived from agarwood, the resinous dark heartwood of a rare tropical tree called aquilaria native to the dense forest areas of India and some other parts of Southeast Asia.
Effects of Scents on Emotions

Effects of Scents on Emotions

Scents are closely intertwined with emotions, moods, memories, and perceptions. They have a great ability to influence both positive as well as negative emotions and may alter your moods either by enhancing or hindering them in certain circumstances. Therefore,…
autism and perfume

Autism and Perfume

Autism and perfume have been found closely linked. While certain synthetic perfumes and the ingredients they contain may play an important role in the development of autism, some natural perfumes have been described to have noticeable positive effects in the treatment and management of autism.
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Ylang-ylang – Properties, Distillation, and History

Ylang-ylang oil has strong anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antibacterial properties. These actions help alleviate fungal infections and symptoms of malaria. Ylang-ylang has long been used for a range of therapeutic purposes. Modern scientific research has also substantiated many traditional benefits.
Reasons to Switch to Natural Perfumes

9 Reasons to Switch to Natural Perfumes

Scents are directly linked to our emotions and wellnesses. They have been found to be closely associated with our history and cultures for thousands of years. With the growing consequences of the health hazards of synthetic ingredients globally,…
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Custom Perfume – Your signature scent

Have you ever dreamt of wearing a perfume that is composed only for you entirely on your bespoke request and nobody else wears? If yes, then a custom perfume is the only solution that provides you advantages to compose your distinct signature…
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The Art of Perfumery – History and spirituality

Perfumes have been closely linked with human civilizations for thousands of years and the art of perfumery is continuously evolving over time since its origin. In ancient times they were associated with various aspects of life including spiritual,…
Oud Perfumes (Agarwood)

How Oud Perfume is made

Only a mature fungal infection can produce high-quality agarwood and trees that are more than 50 years old have the desirable ability to produce superior quality agarwood. Even though the infection occurs in a tree as early as 5 to 6 years of age, it takes around 10 years in total to produce good quality agarwood. Besides, many countries consider these old wild trees as threatened species.
Olfactory Psychology

Olfactory Psychology

Olfactory psychology refers to the science that describes the effects of smells on the human psyche and nervous system, playing an important role in activating the endocrine system. It involves multiple psychological factors such as emotion, mood, memory, and behavior. Scents have been found closely intertwined with emotion and memory.
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Botanical Perfumery

Botanical perfumery is the art of blending fragrance ingredients of botanical origin such as roots, flowers, seeds, resins, and gums to prepare aesthetically pleasing herbal fragrances. In Medieval Europe, fragrant botanical oils became popular for wellbeing and healing, which meant that the professions of physicians or apothecaries and perfumers became closely intertwined.
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Essential Oils for Headaches

Essential oils offer a more effective and safer way to get rid of headaches without using medicines that often come with many unpleasant side effects. The best part of essential oils is that they not only reduce the symptoms of headaches but also help to address the underlying root of the issues causing the headache.
Antibacterial Essential Oils

Antibacterial Essential Oils

The concept of using essential oils to combat infections isn’t anything new. Besides, modern studies found that certain essential oils can effectively kill micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, and fungi without becoming resistant, making these essential oils great antimicrobial resources in modern medical science.
Essential Oils for Infections

Essential Oils for Infections

Some essential oils have tremendous anti-microbial properties that can heal a large number of infective conditions including ear infections, sinus infections, bladder infections, skin infections, kidney infections, and urinary tract infections among others.
Jasmine Perfume

Jasmine Perfume – Properties, Distillation, and History

Jasmine perfume oil has diverse uses and benefits, making it one of the most expensive natural oils in the world. About 1 million flowers are required to produce 1 kg of jasmine absolute. Jasmine, popularly known as "the Queen of the night", helps to maintain emotional balance by promoting euphoric and peaceful feelings. Jasmine helps to alleviate stress and anxiety without producing any sedative effects. Therefore, it’s also useful in reducing inflammatory conditions caused by emotional stress.
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Natural White Musk – Ambrette

 Aromatherapy uses: Essential oils derived from the ambrette seeds emanate a wonderful soft musky smell, making it very beneficial in aromatherapy. The white musk scent of ambrette essential oil has been widely used in aromatherapy for treating anxiety, nervousness, and depression among other emotional imbalances.
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Australian Sandalwood – Properties, Distillation, and History

The Australian Sandalwood is just a little bit wilder and stronger than the Mysore, which is a plus point because the Mysore qualities are fully there. The Australian Sandalwood reflects the smells of Australia's harsher and wilder land, while the Mysore exposes the softness of ancient Indian civilization. However, Australian Sandalwood is an extremely valid choice for the extinct Mysore Sandalwood, a real revivification of the unforgettable bewitching scents.