Blending Essential Oils may not be easy, but it isn't if you have the knowledge. Like cooking, blending essential oils follows a sequence. But if you practice blending essential oils over time, you will be able to master the art of blending essential oils.
Top Notes are light essential oils that evaporate quickly; they have a fresh, light quality. Tea Tree, lemon, eucalyptus, and basil are well-known top notes.
Middle Notes are essential oils that help balance the overall scent; they usually have a brighter scent, such as oregano, lavender, geranium, rosewood, and rosemary, and form the heart of the blend.
Fixing Oils/base Notes are rich and heavy essential oils such as Sandalwood, Myrrh, Ylang-Ylang, Cedarwood, Vetiver, or Frankincense. These essential oils act to stabilise the lighter essential oils. They help the overall blend have different textures and last longer.
Therapeutic or Aesthetic Properties
Essential oils are blended principally for 2 reasons: for medical effects or to create a perfume. When using pure essential oil, keep in mind that it is often better to use a remedy that smells attractive to the individual than a blended essential oil that smells bad when applied.
Some essential oils blend together to get the best synergy, when the blended oils are working harmoniously together. For example, when chamomile anti-inflammatory is supported by mixing lavender essential oil, the blend creates a good synergy.
The importance of keeping a Journal of Records
I have been in the industry of essential oils for many years; sometimes some blends are made with the passion of interest (which means I did not record any of the ingredients, with the percentage of the different essential oils used), and when I have finished blending the essential oils, it did not smell like the ones I intended. After a few months, the scent changed due to the chemical bonding it had created over time, that's when my regret set in that i did not record, therefore below are the habits I had formed to record the process of my blend.
Based on my experience, remember to:
- Record the oil names;
- Its botanical essential oil names;
- The Essential oil suppliers;
- The Essential Oil batch numbers;
- The number of essential oil drops;
- or the percentages of the essential oil in the blend;
- When it was created (the date, season: Spring, Autumn, Winter or Summer, the humidity of the weather);
- The purpose of the essential oil blend;
- The colour on the date it was created;
- And write what you have observed in the beginning;
- and the final changes it became (the scent and colour).
The Aroma Evolution
Many may ask, how long it takes to finalised the final smell of the essential oil blend. It really depends, most essential oil blend would continue to change, as the different essential oils chemical are active. I have known that some essential oil blend could have lasted 20 years, the scent is just not the same as the blend that is 1 month old.
So the answer for this is genuinely unknown, only time and persistent proper storage could tell.
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